2009 NFL Week 3 Betting Picks and Tips
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
What happens when the two best running backs in football face-off in one field?
That’s exactly what we’ll find out when the 2009 NFL football season resumes at the Metrodome where the Minnesota Vikings play hosts to the San Francisco 49ers.
You read it, the season continues with the Minnesota Vikings hosting the San Francisco 49ers in a game of two undefeated teams. Both teams are looking for their 3rd straight win in as many games and in a face-off between the two best running backs in the league, something’s gotta give.
The San Francisco 49ers will bring their monster back Frank Gore to the Metrodome to do battle with Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson, currently the league’s leading rusher. In a game like this, the X-Factor may decide the outcome and as far as that is concerned, obviously, the X-Factor is Vikings quarterback Brett Favre.
Brett Favre currently is doing a solid job in his first two outings with the Vikings. The NFL’s all-time leader in touchdown passes and interceptions, Favre ranks first in the league in completion percentage (77.1) and second in passer rating (110.2) through Sunday. He has thrown three touchdown passes and no interceptions.
Shaun Hill better come up with his A-game for the San Francisco 49ers because once both teams’ running game cancel each other out, this game will be won in the air.
This is definitely THE game to watch this weekend. Our pick? Vikes by a touchdown.
On Sunday Night Football, the Indianapolis Colts will gun for their 3rd straight win against the Arizona Cardinals who have limped to a 1-1 start out of the gate.
The Indianapolis Colts are now relying on…
Still betting on a QB named Manning?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
The Manning brothers have become two of the best quarterbacks in the game and yet, they don’t have anyone to throw the football to this year.
You read it, Peyton and Eli Manning have quite a dilemma coming to the 2009 NFL football season. Both of these guys lost their primary receivers and without that playmaker to throw the football to, they better learn some pointers from Peterson and start running for TDs.
However, if there’s anyone in the league who can win games without a decent wide receiver, a Manning can. And as far as both Peyton Manning and Eli Manning are concerned, the 2009 season will definitely bring both of these guys new challenges but I expect both of them to persevere.
And since Peyton Manning is the older brother, we’ll start with him. The Indianapolis Colts will be missing some very familiar faces for the 2009 NFL season. The most glaring of which is the departure of premiere wide receiver Marvin Harrison.
However, as unfortunate as the absence of Marvin Harrison will be on the Colts’ playbook, many probably saw this one coming as early as last season and even the season before that. You see, Harrison has struggled to stay on the field with health issues the last few years. And although he was able to come back from it time and time again, he was simply never the same guy the Colts knew to be.
Fortunately for the Colts, they still have guys like Reggie Wayne and Anthony Gonzalez to keep the passing game going. Let’s see how will it all work.
Meanwhile, his brother Eli Manning also lost his favorite target with Plaxico Burress set to do time in prison for a couple of years. To make matters worse, Eli also lost his no.2 guy when the Giants chose not to re-sign 13-year veteran Amani Toomer.
Of course, New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese tried to compensate by using two of the Giants’ first five picks in April’s draft to fill the open receiver positions. Reese took UNC’s Hakeem Nicks in the first round before drafting Ramses Barden in the third.
Only time will tell if both guys can make…
Will Marvin Harrison play this season?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
It’s shocking really how one of the premiere wide receivers in the game still doesn’t have a team to play for.
Now former Indianapolis Colts wideout Marvin Harrison, now a free agent, said he has no plans to retire and that he wants to play in the 2009 NFL football season, according to his agent, Tom Condon.
Condon said the problematic knee that has limited some of the speed and overall effectiveness we usually see from Marvin Harrison hasn’t been an issue either. Harrison, who is now 37, was released by the Indianapolis Colts after the 2008 season, in large part for salary-cap relief. Harrison, who didn’t agree to a restructured contract, 
was scheduled to count more than $13 million against the Colts’ 2009 cap.
”I played in 15 games last year and a playoff game, and I intend to play again this season,” Marvin Harrison said in an interview.
Marvin Harrison and Indianapolis parting ways in the offseason ended Harrison’s 13-year run with the Colts, with whom he established himself as one of the top receivers in NFL history and built up likely Hall of Fame credentials that include 1,102 receptions for 14,580 yards and 128 touchdowns.
Last season, Harrison had just 60 catches for 636 yards and five touchdowns, the lowest full single season totals of his career. That’s after he missed 11 games in 2007 because of a knee injury, catching just 20 passes and scoring one touchdown.
There hasn’t been much interest in Harrison at this point, but Condon said he expects his client to sign with a team soon before the season begins.
Harrison was selected by the Colts with the 19th selection in the 1996 NFL Draft, a selection which was obtained in a trade that sent Jeff George to the Atlanta Falcons. Harrison has gone on to become one of the more productive receivers from that draft class, surpassing fellow wide receivers Keyshawn Johnson, Terry Glenn, Eddie Kennison, Eric Moulds, Amani Toomer, Muhsin Muhammad, Terrell Owens and…
Marvin Harrison won’t play for the Colts
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
We may have probably seen the end of the great era of Colts football.
Indianapolis’ second most popular football star (next to Peyton Manning of course…) is parting ways with the Colts, creating a lot of buzz in the process even before the 2009-10 NFL football season kicks off.
Yes, Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison has been having his problems with the Colts front office lately after team executives asked the veteran to take a pay cut. For a guy who has been one of the Colts’ most identifiable players, who ranks second in the league in career receptions and holds all of Indianapolis’ major career and season receiving records, it was understandable why the veteran isn’t too fond of the situation.
Understandably still, Marvin Harrison has already asked the Indianapolis Colts for his release even before the team decided to part ways with the star. What was the reason for the team to ask their premiere receiver to take a pay cut? Read on.
Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian told reporters Sunday at the NFL annual scouting combine that the team was trying to rework Harrison’s deal to lower the receiver’s salary cap number from approximately $13.4 million, the highest number of any wideout in the NFL.
Harrison is scheduled to make $9 million in 2009.
The AFC powerhouse is in the middle of a salary cap crunch of sorts as of late. Next year’s cap is expected to be $123 million and Polian won’t be able to keep his prized wideout at his current price, leaving him no choice but to release him.
‘’The new cap rules, that’s not something we planned for,’’ Polian said before releasing Harrison. ‘’As a result, we have some issues with veterans, including Marvin. Hopefully, we’ll find a way to work through that. I don’t know if…”
Chargers in AFC Divisional Round
Monday, January 5th, 2009
It was a disappointing last hurrah for this year’s NFL Most Valuable Player.
In case you haven’t heard, the 2009 NFL playoffs kicked off this weekend as league MVP Peyton Manning saw his Indianapolis Colts lose to the San Diego Chargers while Chad Pennington’s Cinderella season was cut short for him by the Baltimore Ravens when his Miami Dolphins could only muster nine points to Baltimore’s 27.
Of course, Pennington’s mishap was nothing compared to what Peyton Manning had to endure.
He was coming into this AFC wild card game with the San Diego Chargers only a day after he was proclaimed as the 2008 NFL Most Valuable Player. To see him go out like that again to the same team was just unfair.
Darren Sproles scooted 22 yards for the winning score 6:20 into overtime and the San Diego Chargers beat the Colts 23-17 in an AFC wild-card game Saturday night, ending Indianapolis’ nine-game winning streak a day after Manning won his third Associated Press NFL MVP award.
Sproles came up big on a night when the Chargers played the final 2 ½ quarters without LaDainian Tomlinson, who stood on the sideline in obvious discomfort from what appears to be a serious groin injury.
Fifty years after the Baltimore Colts won the first overtime game in league history by the same score over the New York Giants for the NFL title, the Indianapolis Colts were not as fortunate. The Colts were victimized by Sproles, who rushed 23 times for 105 yards, caught five passes for 45 yards, had 106 yards on four kickoff returns and…
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