It’s a moment we’ve all experienced. You meet up with an old friend a few years after graduation, only to realize that while you have your life fairly put together, they are yet to grow up. That’s the situation we have in the Meadowlands on Sunday, as two perennial poster boys for NFL dysfunction meet, with one of the two having finally grown up.
The 5-2, AFC-leading Cincinnati Bengals visit the 1-5 New York Jets who, despite hitting the reset button, appear more adrift than ever. NFL betting lines have Cincinnati as a 10.5-point favorite but is that still giving New York too much credit?
Find out with our best free picks and predictions for Bengals vs. Jets.
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The now-infamous overtime loss to Las Vegas in Week 18 can serve as a stepping stone for the Los Angeles Chargers, entering Year 2 under head coach Brandon Staley.
It was a massively missed opportunity and has the potential to be a chip on the shoulder of this young and exciting team. That said, the Bolts’ floundering in the finale wasn’t a one-off. The Chargers botched spots against Houston and Denver and lost in OT to Kansas City in the weeks leading up to that season-ending result, perpetuating the culture of collapsing that has hung over this franchise for years.
The talent is there to flip the script in L.A. and get the Chargers to the postseason. Los Angeles’ stars rival those shining on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with Justin Herbert a…
The Green Bay Packers will get their first chance to play at Lambeau Field this summer as they host the New England Patriots tonight in preseason action.
Green Bay (1-0) opened its preseason schedule with a 36-19 win against the Cincinnati Bengals last weekend. New England (0-1) lost its exhibition opener 20-9 at home against the Houston Texans last Thursday.
The Patriots appear likely to give their first-team offense a bit more run in the second game of the preseason, which could improve upon their anemic production against the Texans. We’ll break down the game in our free NFL picks and predictions for Patriots vs Packers on August 19.
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Few players has been under more scrutiny this season than Bryce Young, whose early season failures have mirrored those of the Carolina Panthers. The No. 1 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft has already been picked off seven times during his rookie campaign and his QBR of 29.5 is the worst among all starting quarterbacks in the NFL. If ever there was a time for him to break loose, it’s on Thursday Night Football against the woebegone Chicago Bears.
Chicago has lost its last two games and has given up the second most points of any team in the NFC. The bruised and battered Bears are ripe for the taking, and Young could just be the QB to bring them down.
While there are a number of different subscription-based TV channels and streaming services available to watch this gam…
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs successfully held off Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills for the third straight time in the playoffs, and now will travel to take on the presumed MVP in Lamar Jackson and the rest of the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens in an AFC Conference Championship odds battle.
Can Mahomes lift the Chiefs among the Super Bowl odds once again? Or will Lamar Jackson prove the NFL odds right and punch his first ticket to the big game?
Continue reading for free NFL picks and predictions for the Chiefs vs Ravens conference championship game on Sunday, January 28th.
For more great AFC Championship game content, be sure to check out our Chiefs vs. Ravens predictions and our Lamar Jackson prop picks
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The Miami Dolphins quarterback situation leaves a lot to be desired and with Tyler Huntley getting the start under center, we look to the Dolphins running back to lead the way.
De’Von Achane has been reliable on the ground, and my Titans vs. Dolphins predictions explain why betting on the RB to exceed his rushing yard total is the way to go. Read all about it in my NFL picks for September 30.
Titans vs Dolphins MNF prediction
My best betDevon Achane Over 56.5 rushing yards (-113 at FanDuel)
My analysisMike McDaniel’s offense is a mess, with the Miami Dolphins down their top two quarterbacks and leaning on recently signed Tyler Huntley under center on Monday night.
Huntley has proven to be a capable Plan B (…
The NBA complaint department has been hard at work this season. If someone prompted ChatGPT to write a report for the 2022-23 product it would be titled “The National Load Management Association: How street clothes became more noticeable than basketball uniforms.” Throw in an All-Star Game with the intensity of a shootaround, and the pre-playoff NBA product was giving serious clearance rack vibes. People who have paid for regular-season games in which stars were resting, and for an all-star event that was a game in title only won’t get refunds for those tickets, but NBA fans across the nation received restitution from the players with an outstanding weekend of action. It started with a Thirsty Thursday teaser, with the Boston Celtics defeating the Indiana Pacers in overtime, and…
Gareth Southgate believes England are blessed with their current crop of attacking full-backs or wing-backs, going as far as to argue that the right side is possibly the strongest area of the squad.
The England manager denied favouring attacking qualities over defensive ones when Manchester United’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka was left out of the squad and Chelsea’s Reece James included despite having to serve a suspension in the Nations League, explaining that on present form it was impossible to leave out James and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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“It’s an area of the pitch where we are blessed,” he says. “Reece and Trent have both played as…
Scientists can’t quite agree on how long it will be until the universe ends. The most trigger-happy astrophysicists have it at around 22bn years, but if we’re lucky it could keep chugging away for 200bn. Earth has slightly less time – becoming a burnt-out lifeless rock in about 5bn, after the sun runs out of fuel and enters what’s known as its “red giant phase”.
Which brings us to Manchester United – who appeared to run out of fuel in 2013. As a gaunt, expressionless Erik ten Hag stood in his technical area at Old Trafford on Sunday, it was hard not to feel that this Groundhog Day paint-by-numbers crisis might be put out of its misery only by the demise of the entire planet.
What can Ten Hag do about the sorry decline of Man…
Police have arrested at least six people and raided the headquarters of the Spanish Football Federation and a residence belonging to its former president, Luis Rubiales, as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering.
Spanish police told the Associated Press that Rubiales, who made headlines around the world after an unsolicited kiss and defiant refusal to step down, was not among those arrested on Wednesday. However, a source connected to the operation said Rubiales was among five additional people officially put under investigation.
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Police said they raided the federation’s base in Las Rozas on t…