It will be a windy, rainy, hot and sticky, and possibly snowy Halloween Weekend across the NFL… with several matchups on the Week 8 odds board impacted by the elements.
While it’s just Tuesday, I get ahead of the extended forecast and highlight how the potential gameday weather will alter the results and how to bet the NFL odds accordingly before making any NFL picks.
We look to the skies of the NFL Week 8 Weather Report.
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The Detroit Lions are set to host their first playoff game in *checks almanac* 30 years as they welcome the Los Angeles Rams to Ford Field tonight, kicking off their road to Super Bowl LVIII.
This is an intriguing matchup between a pair of teams that swapped starting quarterbacks three years ago. And even though former Lions play-caller Matthew Stafford led Los Angeles to a Super Bowl in 2022, counterpart Jared Goff sparked Detroit to a long-awaited NFC North title this season.
NFL odds have the Lions as 3-point favorites, and the O/U of 51.5 is the highest total of all the Wild Card odds. Here are my best free NFL picks and predictions for the Rams vs. Lions on Sunday, January 14.
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It’s Patrick Mahomes indoors in prime time. How can you not be excited for Sunday Night Football?
The Kansas City Chiefs are fresh off dispatching the Bengals in Week 2 and travel to Atlanta as 3-point favorites to take on Kirk Cousins and the Falcons, who are also coming off a big comeback win in Week 2. It’s back-to-back weeks of Cousins under the lights!
With the Chiefs’ running game in flux thanks to the Isiah Pacheco injury, Mahomes could be airing it out a lot indoors. That has me reaching for any props tied to the visitor’s passing game.
It’s going to be a big night for the MVP frontrunner, and I dig deeper into Mahomes’ passing output in my Chiefs vs. Falcons predictions and NFL picks for September 22.
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Pascal Gross believes he has room for improvement despite starting his Borussia Dortmund career with two assists in Saturday s routine DFB-Pokal win over Phonix Lubeck.
Gross teed up first-half goals for fellow new signing Waldemar Anton and Julian Brandt as Dortmund advanced to the competition s second round with a 4-1 win over their fourth-tier hosts.
He is the first player on record (since the 2008-09 season) to record two assists on his first Pokal appearance for BVB.
He also created the joint-most chances of any player on the pitch (three, alongside Brandt), while his 154 accurate passes were only bettered by Niklas Sule (191).
As Nuri Sahin s side prepare for their Bundesliga opener against Eintracht Frankfurt next week, the former Brighton and Hove…
Alex Sandro has signed a new Juventus contract running to 2023, ending speculation he could leave the Serie A champions for a Premier League club.
Brazil international Alex Sandro has been linked to sides including Chelsea and Manchester United, but instead confirmed he will be staying in Turin.
The 27-year-old has developed into one of the world s top left-backs since joining Juve from Porto in 2015 and he will now spend the foreseeable future with Massimiliano Allegri s side.
Alex Sandro has won domestic doubles in each of his three seasons at Juve, who are on track to defend their Serie A crown for the eighth year in a row.
His skills on the pitch are undeniable, but Alex Sandro has always stood out for his great professionalism, a club statement read…
Cristiano Ronaldo has another accolade to add to his collection at the end of a remarkably successful year for club and country.
The 31-year-old won the Champions League and Club World Cup with Real Madrid and ended Portugal s wait for a major trophy by helping them to a Euro 2016 triumph.
If that was not enough, it appears that Ronaldo has also conquered the world of social media at least when it comes to high-profile athletes.
Out of all professional sportspeople across the globe, the former Manchester United forward produced the top three posts on Facebook and the top five on Instagram, according to social analytics tool CrowdTangle. His best-performing posts generated a staggering total of 34 million user interactions.
Ronaldo s Facebook posts inclu…
Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels has urged his team-mates to go on a good run in the second half of the season.
The defending champions sit a disappointing 12 points behind league leaders Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga table, but the Germany international remains fairly happy with their performances so date.
We ve got 30 points, but we have played under ourselves quite often, he told Sky after the 3-1 win over Hoffenheim.
That s why 30 is good, but we have to collect more next year.
Looking back on the Rhein Neckar Arena Arena clash, Hummels said that the match went according to plan for his side, who were wary of the threat Hoffenheim posed.
This was how I wanted the match to be without the goal we conceded, of course, he said.
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With Manchester City’s success last weekend officially drawing in the summer break, all of the attention will now fall on the 2023 Ballon d’Or and an all-star crew who are looking to lift football’s most iconic individual award.
While the likes of Kylian Mbappe and reigning champion might be included in the Ballon d’Or’s superstar shortlist, it appears that we face a two-horse race to claim this year’s award.
Although the annual ceremony pencilled in to take place on October 30th, it is Erling Haaland and who are comfortably tipped as the runaway contenders this year.
Both enjoying their own respective history-making campaigns this season, the two modern-day icons have both staked their claim over the past six months.
In what promises to b…
Everton striker Oumar Niasse became the first Premier League player to be hit with a retrospective suspension for diving on this day in 2017.
The Senegal international was handed a two-match ban by the Football Association after winning a controversial penalty, under pressure from Scott Dann, in a 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
Niasse’s punishment came six months after the FA voted in favour of introducing new laws in an attempt to clamp down on players diving or feigning injury.
Everton’s Oumar Niasse to serve two-match suspension after ‘Successful Deception of a Match Official’ charge found proven. Full statement:
— FA Spokesperson (@FAspokesperson)
Everton caretaker boss David Unsworth felt a “dangerous precedent�…
The Dallas Cowboys hit the road for the first time since mid-September when they visit the New England Patriots in Week 6.
With Dallas at 4-1, and that lone loss coming against the defending Super Bowl champs, the NFL betting odds opened as low as Cowboys -3 and were bombarded with action on the road team, moving this spread as high as -4.5. New England captured its second win of the season in Houston last Sunday but needed to dig itself out of a 22-9 second-half hole to do so.
Get our free NFL picks and predictions for Cowboys at Patriots on Sunday, October 17.
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