NFL Divisional Playoff Weekend - Hop on the P4P bandwagon as we continue down the Road to the Super Bowl with more FREE winners

Greetings to all of our loyal P4Peeps.  While life continuously tries to throw us distractions,  curve balls if you will, your partners here at Picks4Players remain locked in to the pulse of the National Football League and the playoffs.    P4P went 2-1 last weekend in our 5 star selections against the spread (ATS) and would have been perfect were it not for Aaron Rodgers historiCALly typiCAL OT blunder that ruined an otherwise exceptional day by the Chico, CA native.  It also ended the season for a dangerous Packers team and ultimately cost P4P the up to the minute, year-to-date lead in the 30th Annual National Handicapper’s Bowl, as featured in Pro Football Weekly.  Otherwise, your handicapping consultants, your partners here at Picks4Players were right on target.  As predicted, the J.E.T.S. JETS! JETS! JETS! rolled over Cincy and while most services told you that New England was a lock, we correctly told you that not only wouldn’t the PATS cover, but their season would end.  We told you that nobody feared the Patriots around the NFL and if you research some of the Ravens post game comments, that is exactly what was said.  The Mystique has turned into a mistake.  Belichick, the fourth best Head Coach in NFL History named Bill is sounding much like the guy who got run out of Cleveland by the Browns, S.O.U.R.  The fake dynasty of the Patriots, as previously told to you on this very site, is O.V.E.R, OVER.  

Speaking of OVER, let’s get to this week’s action.  This weekend’s four playoff match-ups leave the P4P team with some very strong opinions about who will advance, who will go home, and who will cover the point spread.  Saturday’s Games feature Arizona at New Orleans and a night-cap of the Baltimore Ravens visiting the Indianapolis Colts.  New Orleans is a 7 point favorite with a point TOTAL of 57 in game 1 and Indianapolis is a 6 1/2 point favorite with a point TOTAL of 44 in game 2.

Starting with game 2 tonight, we fully expect this battle to be an all out brawl.  Ray Lewis will be at his entertaining, intimidating, passionate, insane best tonight.  He will be playing with a passion similar to the hatred the Raven fans have for their former beloved COLTS and the Irsay family who bailed on Baltimore several decades ago under the cover of darkness.  The Ravens will leave it all on the field, as they say, but will it be enough against Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts?  We don’t think so.  Manning will have a little early rust but will maximize the Colts offensive possessions with pretty high efficiency.  We expect the Colts to score.  We expect Baltimore to grind the clock with Ray Rice and limit Manning’s touches.  What does it all mean?  We expect Indy to shake off the early rust and ultimately win this game.  They may in fact cover the spread, but with the line @ - 6 1/2, we’d recommend buying it down to 6.  With the wackiness of the NFL, the half-point hook bothers us.  OUR Recommendation for this game: Indy-Baltimore  OVER 44 

The first game of the day should be an old fashioned barnburner.  The scoreboard should be rolling like a pinball machine similar to last week’s game between the Packers and Cardinals.  The game should be wildly entertaining, high scoring, and should come down to one of these defenses finally stopping the other teams offense.  I don’t think we’ll see 96 points like we did last weekend, but the Saints and Cardinals will light up the Super Dome which will be electric.  Who Dat?  The Cardinals, Dat Who.  We don’t know if Kurt Warner and the Cards will pull off the win in the Big Easy, but we do know that the reigning NFC champs won’t go out like punks.  OUR Recommendations:  Arizona +7 and OVER 57

Enjoy the entertainment that is the NFL.  These guys, our modern day gladiators laying it all on the line.  Play wise, play smart, play on, PLAYERS!!!

P4P on an NCAA Roll-More Free Winners Today!!! Don’t miss out!

After a strong 3-1 performance ATS (Against the Spread) on Thursday and Friday in College Football, your partners here at Picks4Players see some great opportunities on the Saturday slate.  We encourage you to play smart and, of course, for entertainment purposes only.  With that being said;

Here are PICKS4PLAYERS BEST BETS in College Football for November 28^th.

Again, after going 3-1 over the past 2 days, we have now gone 13-5 over the past 16 days in our college picks.  Our advice continues to be absolutely “FREE,” so come ride this hot streak with us as there is always room on the P4P bandwagon.

 

Our pick in BOLD

 

SATURDAY’s SELECTIONS

 

Arkansas @ LSU (-3 ½)

Fans of the Bayou Bengals will have all day to get liquored up for this one, and the moonshine will be flowing.  The key to this game is that LSU can stop what the Razorbacks can do best which is pass the ball.  Look for an LSU double digit victory.  Geaux Tigers!!!!!!!!

 

Notre Dame @ Stanford (-10)

This will be Charlie Weis’ swan song for the Fighting Irish.  Toby Gerhart and company will use their dominating ground game to wear out a weak Irish defense and get the bad taste out of their mouths from the Big Game defeat against Cal.  Look for Irish QB Jimmy ‘Punching Bag’ Clausen to have a nice statistical day against Stanford as he returns to his Northern California home turf, but even his intimidating new Darth Vader mask won’t be enough.  Stanford cruises late.

 

UCLA @ USC (-13)

USC had 2 weeks to prepare for this one and we expect to play this game as if its for a national championship.  The weak UCLA offense won’t be able to exploit the Trojan defense like some other offenses have.  The USC defense will create some short fields to help Matt Barkley and company.  We also like under 47 1/2.

 

Syracuse (+12 ½) @ U Conn

Coming off the big emotional win at Notre Dame, we see a letdown for the Huskies as they play the Orange.  This will be a tight one all they way and it wouldn’t shock us to see the Orange pull it out.  Syracuse QB and former Duke point guard Greg Paulus will be talking smack to UConn all day about the a$$ kicking Duke delivered to UConn last night in Basketball,and it will carry over to the gridiron today.

 

Georgia (+7) @ Georgia Tech

The Bulldogs might be the one team that has the speed in the front 7 to contain the potent Yellow Jacket running attack.  Georgia’s disappointing season could be washed away with a victory here so look for them to fight hard all the way.

 

Check back Sunday for our NFl picks as we look to move up in the National Handicappers Bowl as seen in Pro Football Weekly.

Enjoy the Day Players and get revved up for the NFL tomorrow and Monday!

Monday Night Football Wild West Blockbuster Tonight- FREE WINNING PICKS

Picks4Players remains hot picking winners ATS (against the spread).  While one of our 5 star plays tanked (Philadelphia and who in their right mind would’ve put money on the Raiders) we were solid in putting our necks on the line and taking Kansas City and accurately predicting the Ravens to cover at Minnesota.  In fact our prediction of Baltimore winning outright was set to happen but the Ravens’ field goal attempt sailed wide left as time expired.  

With another solid weekend ATS (against the spread) your partners here at P4P continue to climb in the standings of Pro Football Weekly’s National Handicapper’s Bowl.  Picks4Players is currently in 2nd place for the season and closing fast on the top spot  picking games against the spread in the wild, wacky, and highly unpredictable National Football League.  To follow our progress in the NHB please click on the link www.nhbowl.com/Games.php

In tonight’s Monday Night match-up, the 5-0 Denver Broncos, with their recently vacated Bandwagon completely refilled, roll into Southern California to face a desperate and explosive San Diego Charger team.  The Broncos bandwagon has swayed the number tonight from San Diego -4 at the start of the week to -3 at the time of publishing this post.  The TOTAL point number for the games is 44.

We’ve had consistent and unified thoughts on this game since we first saw the line early in the week; a Charger blowout.  I’m sorry, but despite the heavy money being laid on Denver this week we just see it as fuel to Philip Rivers always irrational emotions.  It goes without saying that any Monday night crowd will be electric, but this crowd will be ’superCharged’.  Tonight will bring all of us back to the days of ‘Air Coryell’ and Dan Fouts to JJ.  Look for the notoriously slow starting Chargers to come out on fire and take it to the Broncos early and often.  We see a final score of 38-17.

OUR PICKS tonight for you The Players:  CHARGERS -3 and OVER 44

Enjoy the game.

NFL Week # 4 - We’re just getting warmed up. P4P = picks for FREE

Here are PICKS4PLAYERS BEST BETS for NFL week 4.

 

Tennessee @ Jacksonville , 1pm est

Current Line: Tennessee -3 

The 0-3 Tennessee Titans are desperate as they travel to Jacksonville and try to right their ship, but they will have to do it without starting CB Cortland Finnegan.  This is a Tennessee defense that has struggled against the pass all season, so far giving up over 275 yards a game through the air.  Jacksonville is a home underdog that must be taken seriously and we like them here, getting a field goal.

Our Pick: Jacksonville +3

 

Cincinnati @ Cleveland , 1pm est

Current Line: Cincinnati -5  

Cleveland is changing QB’s, going with Mr. Turnover, Derek Anderson.  That’s the least of their problems.  The organization is in shambles. The Jets, the Patriots, Bill Belichik, and many others around the league continue to laugh out loud at the Browns’ and their coaching ‘search’ and hiring ‘process’ that landed Eric Mangini the gig as Browns’ head coach.  Nothing screams ‘I’m a putz’ more than Mangini himself walking the sidelines acting like he’s in charge and in control while the rest of us know that nobody in that locker room respects their pudgy tool of a leader.  He hasn’t earned the nickname Mangina for nothing.  Strictly speaking football, Cincy’s defense is very underrated and should force a few turnovers, giving Carson Palmer & co. some short fields.  We think Cincy wins going away and look for an enormous chorus of booooooooooos to rain down on the Browns from the booooooooooooooooooooooozed up Dawg Pound.

Our Pick: Cincinnati -5

 

Baltimore @ New England, 1pm est

Current Line: New England -1 ½    

Other than the Monday night game, this is probably the marquee game of the week.  New England comes into this one with both banged up offensive and defensive lines.  At this time of year though, who isn’t a little banged up? We’re all a little banged up.  Baltimore has the best run defense and one of the top running attacks through 3 weeks.  Better run D and better run game…time for Baltimore to make a statement.  New England is hard to figure.  They were extremely fortunate to pull out their opener against Buffalo.  The Jets beat them soundly in week 2 and their win last week against the Falcons was solid, but less than impressive. One thing is for certain about the Patriots, they are not the dominant team that they were for the first 2/3 of the 2007 season.  That ship sailed long ago and in the final analysis, the Patriots legacy during their first 50 years as a franchise is 43 years of being one of the laughing-stocks of football and seven seasons of documented cheating.  Happy anniversary. We’ll take the Ravens. 

Our Pick: Baltimore ON THE MONEY LINE at +105

 

NY Jets @ New Orleans, 4:05pm est

Current Line: New Orleans -7

The Jets will be without both starting CB’s which must have New Orleans QB, Drew Brees, licking his chops.  Brees and his quick release along with Sean Payton’s maniacal offensive mind should capitalize early and often against the blitzing J.E.T.S. JETS, JETS, JETS. No doubt Mark Sanchez has been very good in the early going but he has never played in a place like the Superdome.  Expect the ‘Dirty Sanchise’ to receive a rude welcome to the dirty South.  This one will be an easy double-digit win for New Orleans.

Our Pick: New Orleans -7

 

Dallas @ Denver, 4:15pm est

Current Line: Dallas -3

Dallas is very thin at RB but Marion Barber might play and if he does then Dallas will finally expose the Broncos for what they really are….the worst 3-0 team in football.  Tashard Choice will get the bulk of the carries, Barber will be used in spots, Romo will have a solid day. The Dallas’ defense should pressure Denver QB Kyle Orton all day and should force some bad throws and short fields for Tony Romo. We may even see a pick 6 for the Cowboys.  Welcome back to Earth Josh McDaniels.

Our Pick: Dallas -3

 

OVER/UNDER Selections

 

NY Giants-KC Chiefs…We like UNDER 42.  Giants are a great road team and we doubt KC will score 10 points.  Brandon Jacobs, Brandon Jacobs, Ahmad Bradshaw.  Rinse and repeat.  The G-Men will get physical today.

 

Washington-Tampa Bay…We like UNDER 37.  Both these offenses have been bad.  Clinton Portis might not play for Washington and Tampa’s QB situation is a mess.  Welcome to being a Head Coach in the league Raheem Morris.

 

Have a great Sunday.  Enjoy the action.  Play wise and play smart Player!!!

 

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Fall is here! The ‘Smell of Football’ is in the air.

NCAA College Football picks for Saturday, September 26^th

 

Stanford -8 over Washington

Washington coming off a huge win, must now travel on the road to face a very underrated Stanford Cardinal.  Look for Stanford to take it to the Huskies using a potent ground game for their 8th straight cover at home.  Did you know that teams who beat USC are 2-14 against the spread in their next game?  Coach Jim Harbaugh, like his brother Baltimore Raven head coach John, are proving to be outstanding head coaches and leaders.  Both of their teams are solid and don’t really beat themselves too frequently with stupid penalties.  While U-Dub has competed well all year and is a huge improvement from recent seasons, they are due for a let down.

 

TCU +3 over Clemson

TCU, giving up just 1.5 yards per rush, will completely shut down Clemson’s ground attack while the Horned Frogs offense should have their way on the ground against the Clemson defense.  TCU has covered the spread in 18 of their last 23 games. 

 

Kansas -13 ½ over Southern Miss

Although Southern Miss has won 8 in a row, Kansas’ passing attack led by Todd Reesing should dominate this game.  Kansas is a money making machine right now as they come under valued every week.  Forget about the on-campus in-fighting about who is more popular with the ladies. The Jayhawk Football and Basketball squads had multiple altercations this past week that apparently have been brewing for years.  The hoopers will continue to pull the ladies because as they say ‘a team is a direct reflection of its’ head coach’ and while these Football Jayhawks and Head Coach ‘Slim’ Mangino have looked good on the field, ‘Slim’ actually looks like he swallowed basketball coach Bill Self whole during one of the altercations.  Yes they may have been distracted all week, but look for KU to crush Southern Miss.

 

Alabama -17 ½ over Arkansas

Alabama beat this same Arkansas team last year 49-14.  Look for more of the same today as the Alabama defense should dominate and rattle the Arkansas QB, Ryan Mallett, making his first road start.

 

Georgia -12 over Arizona State

Georgia dominated this matchup last year with the only change being that the ASU QB will be making his first road start “between the hedges”.  Not an easy task for anyone.

 

Florida State -14 ½ over South Florida

Coming off last weeks big win over BYU, Florida State looks to keep it rolling against a South Florida team who will have a new QB at the helm this week.

 

North Carolina +2 over Georgia Tech

It seems that teams are starting to catch up with Paul Johnson’s running schemes and this week they face a very fast North Carolina defense.  Butch Davis is 7-2 as a road underdog.

 

Purdue +7over Notre Dame

Purdue is all offense and no defense but Notre Dame will be missing their star wide receiver, Michael Floyd and might be without Jimmy Clausen who is hobbling with turf toe.  We expect Clausen to be ineffective which will keep this game close to the wire.

 

Oregon State -3 over Arizona

There are not too many places that are tougher to play than Corvallis especially if you are making your first road start which Nick Foles the AZ QB will be doing.  Arizona was less than stellar last week against a solid Iowa team that clearly was looking ahead to this week’s match-up at Penn State.  The Beavers has covered 9 of 10 in Corvallis under Coach Mike Riley.

 

With one eye on 6 television screens and the other eye focussed on the future, your team here at P4P will continue to solidify our research and information all day Saturday for tonight’s Penn State-Iowa game as well as preparing for a full day of NFL action tomorrow. 

Check back around 7 pm EST for our selection on tonight’s 8 pm EST kick-off between the Penn State Nitany-Lions and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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That’s all for now.  Good luck players.