Month: October 2024

Everything is on the line again this weekend as we inch closer to the Super Bowl odds. With injuries and the game script affecting a lot of possible production, it’s important to take some time with your anytime TD bets. It’s not just about finding the highest probable plane-breakers, it’s also about finding what’s not priced in and getting the best NFL odds week after week.

For the Divisional Round odds, I’m taking some big swings on a pair of QBs at +1,000, hitting a hopeful No.2 WR in Houston, and getting a running back who has an elite matchup.

Here are my three best NFL picks for the Divisional Round TD market. For more TD prop picks, check out Sam Farley’s Divisional Round First TD prop picks!

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The NFC East rivalry between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys always finds its way to the prime-time lights. This season, the classic divisional grudge match heads to Thursday Night Football in Week 4. 

Which players will shine brightest on the big stage? 

I dig into the touchdown anytime markets and pick a potential TD scorer holding value for each team, giving my best NFL picks and Cowboys vs. Giants predictions on September 26.

Dallas Cowboys anytime touchdown pick

My best bet: Jalen Tolbert anytime touchdown (+400 at FanDuel)

My analysis:

The Dallas Cowboys’ scoring is spotty and if not for a late surge against the Ravens last Sunday, this offense would be ra…

As the 2024 major league season gets underway in earnest on Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers are already one game toward their projected total of 103.5 wins for the regular season. That's courtesy of a split of their two-game, season-opening Seoul Series against the San Diego Padres. The Dodgers lead the 30 major league teams with an over/under win total of 103.5 games at both BetMGM and DraftKings. By contrast, the Oakland A's open the season at 57.5 at both books. That represents a 46-game differential — or 28 percent of an entire 162-game schedule. While the Dodgers spent the offseason adding stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to an already loaded roster, the A's have spent the past several months mired in limbo about where the franchise will even be pl…

Ronald Koeman wants to capitalise on the contract impasse between Georginio Wijnaldum and Liverpool by signing the midfielder for Barcelona.

Wijnaldum has entered the final year of his deal with the Premier League champions and is yet to agree an extension despite several months of negotiations. Liverpool are reluctant to sell the 29-year-old, who made more Premier League appearances for Jürgen Klopp’s team last season than any other midfielder, but their position could change should a sizeable offer arrive for a player who will be out of contract next summer.

Lionel Messi: Barcelona future ‘difficult’, admits player’s father and agentRead more

No bid has been received from Barcelona but the Dutch newspaper De Tel…

Pre-season tours are back next month, with Liverpool and Manchester United bringing a taste of north-west England to south-east Asia. “For this part of the world, these are the two single biggest football clubs – we couldn’t get anything bigger,” Marcus Luer, the CEO of Total Sports Asia, who brokered the deal to bring the teams to Thailand, says. “This is the biggest match ever in Asia – the revenue will be the highest in Asia.”

The rivals meet in ‘The Match: Bangkok Century Cup’ on 12 July at the Rajamangala Stadium, one of Asia’s iconic arenas, where the best way to arrive is to take a motorbike taxi from the closest station and weave in and out of the traffic in the Thai capital with thousands of fellow fans. If that …

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Zvonimir Boban isn’t known for kowtowing in the face of despotic authority, as Football Daily readers of a certain age will remember all too well. In 1990, as the 21-year-old skipper of Dinamo Zagreb, he infamously got involved in a pre-match riot between supporters of his own team and those of Red Star Belgrade, after spotting a policeman getting heavy-handed with a Dinamo fan on the pitch. In full kit and on live TV, Boban flattened the officer with a flying kick in an act of violence that is credited as a spark that would light the fire of Croatian independence, declared just over a year later. “I don’t regret it at all,” Boban said in an interview with the Financial Times in 2021. “It was a fight f…

For every NFL player who breaks through this season, there is another who will break apart.There’s only one ball to go around. Only one team that can win each game. Only one locker where all the cameras will be set up first to interview the most impactful player.Somewhere, some other player will wonder why they are slumping instead of surging.Here are five players who could underachieve in 2024.Stefon Diggs, Houston Texans Stefon Diggs has a lot to live up to after being traded from the Buffalo Bills to the Houston Texans. Photo source: Getty Images It all looks so attractive on paper. Diggs is with the Houston Texans now, where he will team up with stellar second-year quarterback C.J. Stroud. But there is a reason why the Buffalo Bills traded Diggs, along with a 2024 sixth-round pic…

It’s day two of the NFL triple header. Have you left your couch? No. Do you have your bets in order? Probably not. Luckily, Deadspin’s got you covered. Unfortunately, Saturday’s home teams didn’t cover their spreads and my picks are off to a shitty start. I’m 0-2-1 with three more games to go. Fade us if you hate us, but a winning week is still possible. Here’s who I like today. All times listed are Eastern Ravens at Titans (+3) source: Getty Images The road Ravens are favored in Nashville. Why? Maybe because they’re one of the hottest teams in the NFL. Since their COVID outbreak, Baltimore has gone 5-1, winning five straight and covering their final six games. The Ravens are also 10-5-1 ATS on the season. The Titans? 7-9. Tennessee is also really good at beating bad …