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NFL Preview: New England Patriots

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 24, 2011

Frank Doyle looks at the New England Patriots – will the smooth-running offense get derailed by a suspect defense? New England’s 28-21 loss to the Jets in last year’s playoffs was over-shadowed only by 8-8 Seattle’s win over New Orleans in terms of shock value. New England dominated the league with a 14-2 record, Tom...

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NFL Preview: Buffalo Bills

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 24, 2011

Frank Doyle looks ahead to what the coming season has in store for Buffalo. Heartache seems high on the menu. Buffalo went 4-12 last season. If the Bills can find four wins again this year, they’ll be doing well. The NFL Betting, as ever, tells no lies. Buffalo is a huge +3300 longshot to win...

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NFL Preview: Minnesota Vikings

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 19, 2011

Frank Doyle doesn’t see an easy road ahead for the Minnesota Vikings now that You Know Who has finally hung up his helmet. Love him or hate him, Brett Favre brought the Minnesota Vikings as close as they’re likely to get to that elusive first Super Bowl title two years ago. Even now, Vikings fans...

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NFL Preview: Green Bay Packers

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 18, 2011

Frank Doyle looks at the Green Bay Packers, and wonders if the Super Bowl Champions can repeat this year. One of the biggest challenges in NFL betting is handicapping the Champion. Once a team has won the Super Bowl it looks invincible, and that aura of invincibility is resting easy on the Packers’ shoulders right...

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NFL Preview: Detroit Lions

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 16, 2011

Frank Doyle wonders if the Lions’ time has arrived at last. Detroit has played football in the National Football League since 1930. In those eighty-one years, who’s their winningest coach? Wayne Fontes. 67-71-0, from 1988-1996. There are many ways to measure the misery that Lions fans have had to endure over the years but there’s...

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NFL Preview: Chicago Bears

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 15, 2011

The spotlight remains firmly on Jay Cutler and his knee as the Bears get ready to defend their NFC North title. Frank Doyle assesses their chances. Maurice Jones-Drew’s tweet might follow Jay Cutler all his career. Fair or not, Jones-Drew zeroed in on the DNA of a football player, the very thing that defines him....

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NFL Preview: Pittsburgh Steelers

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 12, 2011

Frank Doyle reckons the path to the Lamar Hunt trophy goes through Pittsburgh. Just like always. It’s hard to conceive of now, but for the first forty odd years of their existence the Steelers couldn’t win a ham at a Christmas raffle. They were lousy. Year in, year out. And then Franco Harris scooped up...

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NFL Preview: Baltimore Ravens

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 11, 2011

Frank Doyle looks at the Baltimore Ravens, the nearly men of the AFC North. It’s not easy being a Baltimore Raven. Baltimore is the team that’s always nearly there, but just falls short. The Ravens don’t find new ways to fail, like San Diego in the regular season or Indianapolis in the playoffs. They always...

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Steep Learning Curve for Harbaugh, 49ers

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: July 15, 2011

Frank Doyle thinks rookie head coach Jim Harbaugh will face a baptism of fire in San Francisco. After the Mike Singletary era ended in tears for all concerned, Jim Harbaugh was named 18th head coach and given the mantle of the Next Savior of the San Francisco 49ers. It was never going to be easy...

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Terrell Owens Undergoes Surgery – What will His NFL Legacy Be?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: June 27, 2011

Frank Doyle looks back on Terrell Owens’ career and wonders: any regrets, TO? There are reports that Terrell Owens has had surgery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament. If so, Owens is  probably out for the year and if he’s out for the year, he’s almost certainly gone for good and always. Football players are...

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Super Bowl Betting – No Holds Barred for End of Season Extraganza

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 5, 2011

No single football game has as many bet types available as the Super Bowl – Frank Doyle takes you through the mega-mall of Super Bowl bets. Not only is the Super Bowl the biggest game of the season, it’s also the last football we’ll see until the Hall of Fame game in Canton. That’s a...

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Super Bowl Proposition for BEP's Fergie?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: February 4, 2011

Will it be a case of he’s got a feeling, she’s got a can of mace for Ben Roethlisberger at the Super Bowl? The Pittsburgh quarterback’s path to redemption is one of the stories of Super Bowl XLV but one online sportsbook isn’t quite sure if Big Ben won’t try to start some drama with...