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NFL Playoffs
After a wicked and wild season, the NFL playoffs are finally here and if you like rematches, then you’re definitely going to love what the NFL has in store for Super Wild Card Weekend beginning on Saturday.
Last season, the higher seed finished 5-1. In 2020, the higher seed was 2-4. This year, the NFL is rolling with a three-day format that will set up the divisional round.
Bills vs Dolphins – 6.05pm GMT
Over 43.5 Points @10/11
Dog Of The Day – Dolphins ML @6/1 (but over points safest bet)
The Bills are heavy favorites, and that is due in large because of Miami’s quarterback situation. Will it be Tua Tagovailoa – who has missed the last two games because of a second concussion? Teddy Bridgewater also was injured, and it could be Skylar Thompson – who has a 57.1% completion percentage in limited action. That is asking a lot on the road against Buffalo, which was 7-1 at home in the regular season, also boasting one of the best defence’s. But this is the wild card round and if we saw an outsider winning its here.
Until there injury woes took over the Dolphins were flying, they have had struggles over recent years and really looked like they had turned the corner, so as our Dog pick were going for the upset.
New York Giants vs Minnesota Vikings – 9.40pm GMT
New York Giants +3 @5/6
The Vikings have a bunch of numbers that point to them not being as quality as a 13-4 team. They have a negative point differential on the season and if you look at teams with similar point differential, most teams have between 7 and 9 wins. The Vikings went 11-0 in one-score games, which we will always believe is more luck than some intangible, repeatable clutch team ability. Vikings’ right tackle Brian O’Neill tore his Achilles last week and is out, which presents a matchup nightmare against the Giants’ emerging star Thibodeaux. The Vikings already took a ton of sacks and Cousins threw a lot of picks this year, so this would worry the Vikes fans.
The Giants got positive signs from both centre Jon Feliciano and tackle Evan Neal that they will be fully available to play. We think if Daniel Jones doesn’t turn the ball over, the Giants will be able to run the ball, control the clock, and then use their blitz-heavy style on defense to force Cousins into some mistakes. The Giants win outright, but will be cautious and take the 3 points and a bit worse odds.
Bengals vs Ravens – 1.15am GMT
Bengals -8.5 @10/11
The Bengals are the hottest team in the AFC, winning their last 8 games of the season. During that span, they are 5th in in points per drive (2.47) and 9th in yards per play (5.6). The Ravens come into the postseason having lost losing 3 of their last 4 games. Baltimore has one of the league’s worst scoring offenses over the last half of the season. Since their Week 10 bye, they have scored a touchdown on just 9.4% of their drives, 31st in the league over that span. Only the Jets (9.0%) were worse. During that period, they only averaged 1.35 points per drive, 29th in the league. Lamar Jackson has not played since Week 13 and for the second straight season, the Ravens offense has been exposed for the lack of talent and creativity with him off of the field. It appears Tylen Huntley will start, in his four starts the Ravens scored a grand total of 49 points for an average of just over 12 points per game. In that same span, the Bengals have averaged nearly 27 points per game.
Only way the Ravens win this game if they have a successful ground game, and lets be honest we don’t see it happening.
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