NFL teams that fancy themselves as contenders in what for 14 weeks looked like a wide-open Super Bowl race are like Transylvanian villagers today, seeing a light on again in Dracula\u2019s castle after New England\u2019s staggering 42-14 smackdown of the Houston Texans on Monday night. <\/p>\n
The Patriots\u2019 take-no-prisoners victory has scrambled the futures odds as well. At William Hill New England has moved from 9\/2 to win it all into a 3-1 favorite to be the last team standing in early February.<\/p>\n
So thorough was New England\u2019s prime-time victory that the 49ers, who on Monday morning were 4\/1 favorites, slipped to 6\/1 by the time the dust had settled on NE\u2019s win.<\/p>\n
It appears that the 49ers, who are in Foxboro on Sunday night, are catching the Patriots at just the wrong time. San Francisco is transitioning to new QB Colin Kaepernick, and New England coach Bill Belichick wouldn\u2019t take his foot off the accelerator even if he was hit with a subpoena.<\/p>\n
As a national team, the Patriots will still draw money. But at 3\/1 there\u2019s not much meat left on the bone, so we\u2019ll have to look elsewhere for money-making opportunities.<\/p>\n
BRONCOS (7\/1)<\/strong> \u2013 Denver sits at 10-3, and if the Colts can get past Baltimore this week it has a weak landing (Cleveland, KC) in weeks 16 and 17. At 13-3 they might get a playoff bye. With Peyton Manning playing at a high level, all things are possible \u2013 including a four-game playoff run.<\/p>\n GIANTS (14\/1)<\/strong> \u2013 How about back-to-back Patriots-Giants Super Bowls? It\u2019s not good for Tom Coughlin\u2019s stomach, but he gets them to play through regular-season problems and has them primed for the playoffs.[soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n The next two weeks (at Atlanta, at Baltimore) will force the Giants to march through thick brush, but it\u2019s not hard to envision NY taking advantage of late-season turmoil in the NFC and at least getting to the conference championship.<\/p>\n PACKERS (7\/1)<\/strong> \u2013 Would it surprise you to learn that the Packers have just the 17th-best offense in the league? And that the only thing keeping them in the Super Bowl discussion is that the defense is improved (also 17th) from last season? Yet GB (8-5) has a chance to put away the division this Sunday at Chicago, then might get a first-round bye with wins over the Titans and Viklings.<\/p>\n With that momentum and home playoff game(s) at Lambeau, who knows?<\/p>\n TEXANS (6\/1)<\/strong> \u2013 The Patriots e-mailed the blueprint for beating Houston to every team last Monday night: Bottle up Foster as best you can and put your best DB on Johnson. Force Schaub to go short. Still could make a run, but at only 6\/1 it\u2019s not worth finding out.<\/p>\n FALCONS (9\/1)<\/strong> \u2013 Ok, so they can win at home in the regular season. As Shania Twain says, \u201cThat don\u2019t impress me much.\u201d The Falcons haven\u2019t had an impressive wins since \u2026 come to think of it, they don\u2019t have any eye-openers this year. They might get some action this coming week if things go well at home against the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2013 Super Bowl Betting Futures NFL teams that fancy themselves as contenders in what for 14 weeks looked like a wide-open Super Bowl race are like Transylvanian villagers today, seeing a light on again in Dracula\u2019s castle after New England\u2019s staggering 42-14 smackdown of the Houston Texans on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":33075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39626,53103,57282,13937,57283,53843,55357,66502,802,1618,55726,834,840,869,7477],"class_list":["post-58228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-39626","tag-53103","tag-2013-super-bowl-gambling","tag-best-bets","tag-bet-on-superbowl-futures","tag-bovada","tag-bovada-sportsbook","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-futures","tag-nfl-futures-gambling","tag-nfl-lines","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-sportsbooks","tag-superbowl-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58398,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58228\/revisions\/58398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}OVERVALUED:<\/h3>\n