NFL Football Odds

A month ago this game would have been a double-digit point spread in favor of the home team Steelers.

But much has changed for the defending Super Bowl champs in that time frame and after dropping three straight NFL football odds contests the home steam Steelers would be happy just to stop the losing.

With QB Ben Roethlisberger’s status unknown the betting line on this game will be up in the air.   If Big Ben is unable to play second-year man Dennis Dixon, coming off his first career NFL start, will get the game duties again versus the Raiders. Dixon was adequate –no Big Ben- in the Steelers recent loss to the Ravens. Read more…

At first glance the NFL football odds aficionado might be confused when he or she takes a look at the NFL odds for the Jacksonville Jaguars at the San Francisco Forty-Niners in week 12.  The Jags (6-4) are 3 underdogs to the host Niners who at 4-6 have struggled all year.

But wins and losses in the NFL football odds don’t always tell the whole story and the jags are the softest 6-4 team in football odds history.  Perhaps that’s a bit of hyperbole but when you take a look at the teams that the Jags have played and a decent team would probably 8-2 against the pushover opponents.
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In most years this would be a typical punishing NFC East rivalry fraught with big hits, big plays and an interesting story line. And it still may be but the big plays are likely only to come from one team and it’s not likely to be all that competitive.

The Redskins, for whatever reason, are simply not a good team. They have been given the benefit of the doubt one too many times and with a 3-7 record against a mediocre schedule this team has proven, definitively that it is among the poorer teams in the NFL football odds. Read more…

In an NFL football odds season where we’ve seen the disparity between the league’s ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ widen to previously unseen levels. This match up is a perfect illustration between the gulf of talent that now exists between the NFL football odds’ best and worst teams.

The Seattle Seahawks are an awful team and the Minnesota Vikings are perhaps the best in the NFL odds. When these two teams meet in week 11 in the Metrodome the result should hardly be in doubt.

The Vikings will this game because they’re simply a much better team. The only question is how bad will the damage be?

The early football odds on this game favor the home team by 11 points. That’s a big spread, but it might not be big enough to accurately reflect the talent disparity between the two teams.
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Is there anyone left in Buffalo who is still excited by the signing of Terrell Owens in the NFL football odds offseason? Probably not after Sunday’s sideline meltdown and another terrible performance against Tennessee.

Owens hasn’t caught a TD pass –or much of anything except negative public sentiment- in the past seven weeks and that’s likely to continue in Jacksonville. Read more…