Re: NFL > 2014-2015 Matches
2014 regular season stats: 0w-0v-0lTitans@ChiefsThis season, Chiefs are expectedly one of the main candidates to regress, mainly due to their incompetent offense on paper. Coach Reid can eventually find the answers, but for now, Chiefs have a quite limited and one-dimensional QB and a sole true star, J.Charles. They lost both impressive return men D.McCluster, Q.Demps and with D.Bowe being suspended, noodle-armed A.Smith doesn't have a convincing supporting cast. D.Avery's crossing routes were x-factor for Chiefs' offense, but teams will definitely mark that with top priority in their game plans, this season. If those are not enough, they lost the three best offensive line men from last season and one of projected starters, D.Stephenson will miss the first month of the season.Titans must improve this season and I liked their offseason transactions, but there are still tons of things to be sorted out. Their running game personnel is not convincing for me and with couple new starters, offensive line will need time to get sharpened. Their receiving corpse is quite underrated, but with his injury background, J.Locker still has much to do for impressing. This is an offensive personnel, which should get better as the season progresses, as long as they keep J.Locker on field. But at first week, against a team which has one of the league's best pass rushers crew, a solid first line and secondary, I expect Titans to struggle, especially since they'll play on the road, as well. All in all, I expect Chiefs to have a one-dimensional and clock eating offense, but will have its struggles because of a newly established and vastly regressed offensive line, whereas Titans to struggle at the offensive end, due to a shaky line and a probably non existent running game. I rate both defensive units to be above average, overall. Transitioning to a new scheme will be an issue for Titans, but newcoming DC Horton is a capable guy and has a successful road track. Chiefs' limited offense will provide him adequate number of areas to exploit defensively. Titans will eventually start missing A.Verner in the secondary, but I don't expect current Chiefs team to get the best out of that departure.Chiefs to win 21-18. under 44 1.943 3/1049ers@Cowboys49ers were terrible at preseason, but I like their chances to make a good start against one of the worst defensive personnel of the league. Cowboys lost key players in every area of defensive team, except the already awful secondary. They were already susceptible to contain dual threat QB's, but with current personnel, I hardly believe their chances to contain even third string signal callers. Despite all those worrysome preseason outings, I have my faith on 49ers' coaching staff to make things clicking, when it really matters.On the other end, 49ers have tons of problems with the defensive personnel, A.Smith and N.Bowman are gone for now, Moreover, C.Rogers and T.Brown are not with the secondary, anymore. Cowboys' offensive line is the best department of the team and even though T.Romo had an another worrysome surgery prior to off season, he has a quite talented supporting cast to work with. With Cowboys' incompetent front seven and 49ers' missings, I expect both signal callers to have more than enough time to enjoy effective drives. Cowboys should end up having one of the worst defensive stats when the season gets wrapped up and I expect 49ers to exploit that, after a disappointing 2013 campaign, at season debut of bounce back season. Whereas Romo is talented enough and will have more than enough opportunities to move the chains and keep his team close. I expect a scoring bonanza. 49ers to win 34-27.over 51 1.934 5/10Raiders@JetsJets have a good defensive front seven and a coach who can get best out of subpar personnel. But, as D.Milliner will miss some time, I struggle to come up with a scenario how will R.Ryan establish a not stinky secondary out of current personnel. On the other side of the pitch, things are not shinier as well. G.Smith is a one incredibly inconsistent play caller, who should start feeling the pressure of being backed up by M.Vick, starting from first week. Raiders have their own share of problems, but the process of erasing the wreckage keeps evolving and I expect to see a more competitive team this season. They lost couple good players, but brought also couple good players and rookie signal caller D.Carr seemed promising at preseason. Preseason is meaningless for sure, but to see a rookie QB finding his way against the first string players of Seahawks' mighty defense is something to note down, even though the game was meaningless. Jets will follow this game with a mighty schedule: Packers, Bears, Lions, Chargers, Broncos and Patriots...So, it's not that speculative to expect them to loose a little bit, despite this being their season home opener. And at the end of the day, I rate those teams quite even in my pre season power rankings. I don't have any problem with Jets being favorites at home, but my fair line is them being favored by a field goal, not an almost TD. I expect to see struggling offenses all over the pitch and a close game. It hadn't been a wise thing to back Oakland at the other coast in afternoon games, but this is the first game of the season and they managed to cover the spreads in such situations, last season. Jets to win 19-17.Raiders +5 1.934 3/10Bills@BearsBills had a silent, but quite effective defense team last season. But, they'll not have arguably best three pieces of that unit, as J.Byrd is gone, K.Alonso is done for the season and M.Dareus had showed up to camp totally out of shape and should need more time to get back to game shape. Besides, stud DC M.Pettine left the team and newcomer DC J.Schwartz arrived with his new scheme. There's no reason for not to believe Bills to regress at the defensive end, as they couldn't bring any decent replacements throughout free agency, as well. On the other hand, giving a decent contract to back up QB D.Orton just a week before season start, not promoting EJ.Manuel as captain and numerous fights in dressing room during camp and preseason are not good signs for Bills' offense, as well. Bears have their own problems at the defensive end, but they brought some high profile names and I expect them to improve slightly. Their main problem will be stopping the run and this will be an issue against Bills, who will feature arguably the league's most run-heavy offense. But Bills being one dimensional and Bears' offense to prevail at numerous drives will make the life easier for Bears' defensive unit, as well. J.Cutler has one of the best supporting crew around him and should have an easy game without immense pressure, considering the strength of his offensive line and Bills' defensive woes. I believe the dressing room atmosphere at Bills is discouraging and that will not help against a team on the road, which is eager to start a highly ambitious campaign. Also, Bears have the much better personnel on the paper overall, their defense still lacks the balanced quality, which should eventually prevent them becoming a contender, but for this particular match up, it shouldn't be such a big concern. Only thing I don't like is this being a public bet, but I can't see any other possible outcome.Bears to win 34-23.Bears -7 2.08 5/10All bets are taken from pinnacle.
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Re: NFL > 2014-2015 Matches 2014 regular season stats: 0w-0v-0l Titans@Chiefs This season, Chiefs are expectedly one of the main candidates to regress, mainly due to their incompetent offense on paper. Coach Reid can eventually find the answers, but for now, Chiefs have a quite limited and one-dimensional QB and a sole true star, J.Charles. They lost both impressive return men D.McCluster, Q.Demps and with D.Bowe being suspended, noodle-armed A.Smith doesn't have a convincing supporting cast. D.Avery's crossing routes were x-factor for Chiefs' offense, but teams will definitely mark that with top priority in their game plans, this season. If those are not enough, they lost the three best offensive line men from last season and one of projected starters, D.Stephenson will miss the first month of the season. Titans must improve this season and I liked their offseason transactions, but there are still tons of things to be sorted out. Their running game personnel is not convincing for me and with couple new starters, offensive line will need time to get sharpened. Their receiving corpse is quite underrated, but with his injury background, J.Locker still has much to do for impressing. This is an offensive personnel, which should get better as the season progresses, as long as they keep J.Locker on field. But at first week, against a team which has one of the league's best pass rushers crew, a solid first line and secondary, I expect Titans to struggle, especially since they'll play on the road, as well. All in all, I expect Chiefs to have a one-dimensional and clock eating offense, but will have its struggles because of a newly established and vastly regressed offensive line, whereas Titans to struggle at the offensive end, due to a shaky line and a probably non existent running game. I rate both defensive units to be above average, overall. Transitioning to a new scheme will be an issue for Titans, but newcoming DC Horton is a capable guy and has a successful road track. Chiefs' limited offense will provide him adequate number of areas to exploit defensively. Titans will eventually start missing A.Verner in the secondary, but I don't expect current Chiefs team to get the best out of that departure. Chiefs to win 21-18. under 44 1.943 3/10 49ers@Cowboys 49ers were terrible at preseason, but I like their chances to make a good start against one of the worst defensive personnel of the league. Cowboys lost key players in every area of defensive team, except the already awful secondary. They were already susceptible to contain dual threat QB's, but with current personnel, I hardly believe their chances to contain even third string signal callers. Despite all those worrysome preseason outings, I have my faith on 49ers' coaching staff to make things clicking, when it really matters. On the other end, 49ers have tons of problems with the defensive personnel, A.Smith and N.Bowman are gone for now, Moreover, C.Rogers and T.Brown are not with the secondary, anymore. Cowboys' offensive line is the best department of the team and even though T.Romo had an another worrysome surgery prior to off season, he has a quite talented supporting cast to work with. With Cowboys' incompetent front seven and 49ers' missings, I expect both signal callers to have more than enough time to enjoy effective drives. Cowboys should end up having one of the worst defensive stats when the season gets wrapped up and I expect 49ers to exploit that, after a disappointing 2013 campaign, at season debut of bounce back season. Whereas Romo is talented enough and will have more than enough opportunities to move the chains and keep his team close. I expect a scoring bonanza. 49ers to win 34-27. over 51 1.934 5/10 Raiders@Jets Jets have a good defensive front seven and a coach who can get best out of subpar personnel. But, as D.Milliner will miss some time, I struggle to come up with a scenario how will R.Ryan establish a not stinky secondary out of current personnel. On the other side of the pitch, things are not shinier as well. G.Smith is a one incredibly inconsistent play caller, who should start feeling the pressure of being backed up by M.Vick, starting from first week. Raiders have their own share of problems, but the process of erasing the wreckage keeps evolving and I expect to see a more competitive team this season. They lost couple good players, but brought also couple good players and rookie signal caller D.Carr seemed promising at preseason. Preseason is meaningless for sure, but to see a rookie QB finding his way against the first string players of Seahawks' mighty defense is something to note down, even though the game was meaningless. Jets will follow this game with a mighty schedule: Packers, Bears, Lions, Chargers, Broncos and Patriots...So, it's not that speculative to expect them to loose a little bit, despite this being their season home opener. And at the end of the day, I rate those teams quite even in my pre season power rankings. I don't have any problem with Jets being favorites at home, but my fair line is them being favored by a field goal, not an almost TD. I expect to see struggling offenses all over the pitch and a close game. It hadn't been a wise thing to back Oakland at the other coast in afternoon games, but this is the first game of the season and they managed to cover the spreads in such situations, last season. Jets to win 19-17. Raiders +5 1.934 3/10 Bills@Bears Bills had a silent, but quite effective defense team last season. But, they'll not have arguably best three pieces of that unit, as J.Byrd is gone, K.Alonso is done for the season and M.Dareus had showed up to camp totally out of shape and should need more time to get back to game shape. Besides, stud DC M.Pettine left the team and newcomer DC J.Schwartz arrived with his new scheme. There's no reason for not to believe Bills to regress at the defensive end, as they couldn't bring any decent replacements throughout free agency, as well. On the other hand, giving a decent contract to back up QB D.Orton just a week before season start, not promoting EJ.Manuel as captain and numerous fights in dressing room during camp and preseason are not good signs for Bills' offense, as well. Bears have their own problems at the defensive end, but they brought some high profile names and I expect them to improve slightly. Their main problem will be stopping the run and this will be an issue against Bills, who will feature arguably the league's most run-heavy offense. But Bills being one dimensional and Bears' offense to prevail at numerous drives will make the life easier for Bears' defensive unit, as well. J.Cutler has one of the best supporting crew around him and should have an easy game without immense pressure, considering the strength of his offensive line and Bills' defensive woes. I believe the dressing room atmosphere at Bills is discouraging and that will not help against a team on the road, which is eager to start a highly ambitious campaign. Also, Bears have the much better personnel on the paper overall, their defense still lacks the balanced quality, which should eventually prevent them becoming a contender, but for this particular match up, it shouldn't be such a big concern. Only thing I don't like is this being a public bet, but I can't see any other possible outcome. Bears to win 34-23. Bears -7 2.08 5/10 All bets are taken from pinnacle. GL!