While the offense continually sputtered all year long (22.2 PPG), it was a stellar defense that kept the team in games. All four home teams in the second round are favored, according to vegasinsider.com, and history indicates that most of the higher seeds will advance to the conference championship games.
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Without further ado, here are your Saturday and Sunday matchups with predictions. Here is the schedule, brackets, odds, and early predictions for next week’s divisional playoff round.
The Seahawks have been all over the place, getting incredibly lucky in Sunday’s win over the Minnesota Vikings.
If we’re truly searching for the flawless lineup, you’ll want to get all facets of the Patriots passing game to pair with Brady.
WR – Larry Fitzgerald – $6500 – After a great first three quarters of the season, Fitzgerald slowed down a little bit near the end of the year but I feel that was by design. He is also a favorite red zone target for Palmer.
New England went on to win last season’s Super Bowl, and are back with the AFC’s No. 2 seed. I don’t think we’ll put ourselves in that situation. He started the season off with an injury and missed some time, but still had 5 games with 20 or more DraftKings points, including a game with 33 DK points. How will game plans change the second time around? Playing without wide receiver Julian Edelman, the Patriots offense has been stagnant. As talented and balanced as any team in the playoffs, the Cardinals are hard to stop when they’re on their game, but have struggled with inconsistencies at times during the regular season.
Pittsburgh is 4-2 ATS (3-3 straight-up) all-time vs. Denver in the playoffs, though the last they met Tim Tebow beat the Steelers with an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first play in overtime.
Wild Card weekend was definitely wild as not a single home team won, which was an National Football League first for the wild card round. He’s fairly cheap at DraftKings and my top play at the position for this weekend. Seattle played very well in the second half of the season and will feel confident going to Charlotte. Leading up to that game he had scored 20 or more DraftKings points in 6 of his past 8 games, which included games of 32 and 41 DraftKings points.
Winds will be from the west to northwest at 5-12 miles per hour during the game. The defense is full of stars too, like linebacker Luke Kuechly and cornerback Josh Norman.
Not to worry, though – we’ve asked our experienced group of gambling experts to give their picks for each of the games this weekend. Alex Smith and company looked crisp and efficient in their 30-0 shutout of the Houston Texans in Houston last Saturday, pushing their win streak to 11 consecutive games. Founded in 2009, its advanced statistical technology is able to hypothetically play a game 50,000 times before it’s actually been played and after each and every play during the live game (Live ScoreCaster).
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D/ST – Cardinals – $3800 – Surprisingly to me the Cardinals are the fourth priced defense this week (I figured they would be 2nd or maybe 3rd). Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers have not been consistent from week to week in 2015, however they know how to win in the playoffs. Temperatures will be near 40 F at kickoff but then dip into the 20s by the end of the game, he added.
