Monday 25 January 2016

The Next NFL Predictions Against The Spread

By Rebecca Ellis


With the second round of the NFL divisional playoffs just around the corner, speculations have dominated the mouths of fans. They have a lot of zeal and anxiety in light of what they expect will prevail during the contestations. It is fun to speculate and remain optimistic for best outcomes of the spreads of the weekends Divisional games. My view on the NFL predictions against the spread is discussed below.

The first game is whereby Kansas City Chiefs meet New England Patriots.it is worth noting that the Chiefs are boasting of having an incredible ten game winning trend, heading into Foxboro. On the other hand, the Patriots have a worrying number of questionable players, who have disturbing data on their injury report. Among them, is Rob Gronkowski. The Patriots also, may lack the services of Jeremy Maclin, an offensive player, who has elicited mixed speculation for not practicing for all week. Though this will be a tough tussle, am tempted to preempt that the Chiefs can at least contain the game within a fields goal.

Green Bay Packers versus Arizona Cardinals is also another matched slotted for the weekend. In my unsolicited opinion, though the Packers tried their level best to outshine the overrated Washington by a ruthless seventeen last week, they are not as good.

With recognition of the fact that the Cardinals have not had an encounter for the past week, they obviously have reserved all their energies for this tussle. This is in addition to their recent sterling form, including hammering the same Packers with an unprecedented 38-8, a month ago. My view on this game is that the Cardinals will comfortably take the day.

Another game that will be of keen interest will be Seattle Seahawks, who will be off to weigh on Carolina Panthers. The Seahawks are lucky to be still in the playoffs. Though many would laugh away the probability that the Seahawks will be at a position of containing the ruthless Panthers, I presume they will. I hold the opinion that the Seahawks will outsmart the Panthers, outright.

However, in my view, they overshadow the Panthers, in retaliation and revenge of their thin loss against the Panthers last month, of a meager four points. This happened before the Seahawks reorganized themselves and got back to their winning ways, which propelled them to the topmost position in DVOA.

Pittsburgh Steelers will be interacting with Denver Broncos. The Steelers have struggled their way to the playoffs, and will be without the vital services of Antonio Brown, their best receiver, and DeAngelo Williams, their leading rusher.

Though Pittsburgh Steelers managed to thrush the Broncos at Pittsburgh a month ago, that will be put to greater test in this game, and will be a strenuous challenge this time round. The Denver Broncos defense, in my view, will be very hard to crack. On this, my bet is on Broncos.




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