The NFL regular season gets underway this week on Thursday night when the reigning Super Bowl champs – the Seattle Seahawks taking on the Green Bay Packers. As always keep checking in with Cappers Picks. We’ll be providing 4* free plays on the blog all season long, and check out our EXPERTS for guaranteed premium football plays!
Belichick and Co. set their sights on a sixth-straight division title
You have to go all the way back to the 2000 season to find the last time New England posted a losing record (5-11) and was out of the division title race. That was Bill Belichick’s first year as head coach and since that point his teams have won the AFC East in 11 of the next 13 seasons.
2014 NFC East – Chip Kelly’s high-flying Eagles poised to soar to even greater heights in 2014
The betting odds remain tight to win the NFC East this season for all four teams, but the clear edge lies with Philadelphia repeating as champions after winning the division last year at 10-6.
The Steelers are poised to get back to a long tradition of winning seasons.
Ever since the NFL realigned its divisions in 2002, the Bengals have won three AFC North titles, the Steelers come into the new season with five division crowns and the third-favorite Ravens have claimed the division title four times.
Aaron Rodgers keeps the Packers the team to beat in the NFL’s Black and Blue Division
Green Bay has once again been opened as a heavy favorite to win the NFC North this season and they are one of the top favorites to win the conference. Despite the posted odds, do not count Chicago or Detroit out of this race after battling the Packers to the bitter end for last season’s title.
The NFC East was once one of the elite divisions in football, but it has fallen on some hard times of late. That isn’t to say that the division hasn’t offered some exciting football, with the division winner settled in a head-to-head matchup on the final day of the regular season four of the last five times.
The AFC East has belonged to the New England Patriots ever since Drew Bledsoe was knocked out of a game against the New York Jets and replaced by a young Tom Brady. Since then, the Patriots have failed to win the division only once in a span of 11 seasons from 2003 through 2013.
The Carolina Panthers took their turn at winning the NFC South title in 2013 with 12 wins, but heading into the new season the Oddsmakers like the Saints’ chances to capture their fourth division title since 2006.
Luck has everything to do with the Colts odds. Indianapolis took a brief hiatus from dominating the AFC South in 2011 with Peyton Manning lost for the season, but they are back on top under the guidance of his replacement Andrew Luck.
2014 NFC South Division Preview
The unpredictable NFC South looks to be a crapshoot again in 2014 – no team has repeated as champion in this division since 2002 – bad luck for Carolina who went 12-4 last year and claimed the crown. The Saints will be better and will be looking to knock off the Panthers who again have a solid lineup – top to bottom.
2014 AFC South Division Preview – A Slam Dunk for the Colts?
The AFC South belonged to the Indianapolis Colts last year and a look at the division reveals that it will be theirs to lose once again this upcoming season. On paper the AFC South looks like the Colts and only the Colts – the rest of the division will be lucky just to get to the .500 mark.
2014 AFC West Preview – There’s Denver and Everyone Else
With the NFL draft a distant memory and mandatory mini-camps underway, it is time to get down to some business and start talking about the teams that will emerge this year and challenge for the Super Bowl when the weather turns cold and we are all longing for the weather that we are having now.
The Most Interesting Division in the World
The 2014 NFL season is just around the corner and the NFC West promised to be the toughest division in the game once again with the Hawks and the 49ers among the two or three betting favorites to win the Super Bowl and the Cards and the Rams making giant strides toward legitimacy the last couple of years.
The good folks at Sportsbook.ag were first to market with win totals for the 2014 NFL season, and it’s these initial odds that give us a good idea of what oddsmakers think of each of the teams entering the season.
The 1984 Bears these teams ain’t. Nor are they the 1972 Dolphins.
They are 12 teams that all feel they can win the Super Bowl about a month from now, if for no other reasons than the other 11 are so eminently capable of not winning it.
There will be no Super Bowl winner this year.
Because no teams appear capable of winning it.
The Broncos are at 3/1 in the latest odds offered by Bovada, but Denver has already lost (big) to the Patriots, who in their last two games were beaten at home and should have lost on the road to the worst team in the AFC (Jacksonville).
