Thursday Night Football Preview: Week 1
Welcome to the 2022 NFL season! We’ve got quite a debut game as the Rams host the Bills. Our Thursday Night Football Preview: Week 1 covers all the fantasy football and DFS info you’ll need. Also, we will present our
The inaugural game of the 2022 NFL season is sure to be a good one as the defending champion Rams host a Buffalo Bills squad that is favored to be their top challengers this season. With an opening over/under of 52.5, there should be plenty of fireworks in the first game of the season.
Here is our Thursday Night Football Preview: Week 1 with fantasy tips, DFS picks, and our best bet.
Matchup
| TEAM | OFFENSE | PASS | RUSH | YDS/PLAY | POINTS |
| Buffalo Bills | 5 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| Los Angeles Rams | 9 | 5 | 25 | 3 | 7 |
* above ranks are from the 2021 season
Too often we have subpar Thursday night matchups worsened by teams playing on a short week. That won’t be the case in the season opener. Both teams are prohibitive Super Bowl favorites and boasted top-1o offenses last season. Both squads also have deep and talented defenses, which will make every drive crucial.
Sean McVay, fresh off his first Lombardi Trophy, is one of the most innovative and intelligent coaches in the league. In McVay’s first five seasons at the helm, the Rams have made the playoffs four times and boast a 55-26 regular-season record. All of his teams have finished 11th or better in offense and 16th or better…
How will tonight’s Rams vs. Bills game go?
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Super Bowl Preview: Betting & DFS Tips
Although this wasn’t the outcome most of us expected back in August, we have finally reached the final NFL game of the season and Super Bowl LVI is shaping up to be an exciting contest. The NFC is represented by
The NFC is represented by Sean McVay‘s Los Angeles Rams, who last won a title back in the 1999 season and last appeared two seasons later losing Super Bowl XXXVI 20-17. This is the Rams’ fifth overall appearance.
Making their third overall appearance, the AFC’s Cincinnati Bengals have never won an NFL championship and this is their time playing in the Super Bowl in 40 years. The Bengals are 0-2 in their previous Super Bowls.
Both teams were the respective conference’s 4-seeds, making this the first game since 1975 without at least one team being a top-3 playoff entrant.
As with any NFL finale, Sunday will be treated as a national holiday with plenty of daily fantasy and betting action taking place.
Our Conference Championships bets went a perfect 4-0, so Let’s break down how the game might go and pick our best bets for Super Bowl LVI.
Los Angeles Rams vs. Cincinnati Bengals
Current Line: Cincinnati +4; over/under 48.5
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NFL Playoff Preview: Conference Championship Betting & DFS Tips
We are down to the NFL’s final four teams after a wild Divisional round that saw all four games decided on the final play- an NFL first. Football fans are now just one afternoon away from knowing which two teams
Both conference championship tilts this week feature rematches from the 2021 regular season, which can complicate matters from a betting and fantasy perspective.
Let’s break down the 49ers/Rams and Bengals/Chiefs games on Sunday and see how sports betting and NFL DFS fans should approach the penultimate week of football.
Cincinnati Bengals at Kansas City Chiefs
Current line: Cincinnati +7; over/under 54.5
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NFL Playoff Preview: Divisional Round Betting & DFS Tips
We’re down to the elite eight of NFL teams still alive and in just over one week, we will know who is going to be playing in Super Bowl LVI. Before we get there, we have two games each on Saturday and Sunday to determine what four teams will advance to the Conference finals next Sunday. Let’s preview this weekend’s four games and see what we can expect from a fantasy football perspective. Cincinnati Bengals at Tennessee Titans Current line: Cincinnati +3.5; over/under 47.5 This will be the first postseason tilt for the Titans, the AFC’s top overall seed. The extra week of rest afforded to the team should allow star RB Derrick Henry to return, which is huge for the offense. In his eight games of action, Henry led all fantasy running backs with 23.4 fantasy points per game. D’Onta Foreman had done a tremendous job filling in and should stay involved as a change-of-pace option. QB Ryan Tannehill had a disappointing overall season but his numbers were vastly better when he had the luxury of playing with Herny, A.J. Brown, and Julio Jones. Cincinnati’s much-improved secondary allowed the 12th-fewest fantasy points to opposing wideouts, but Brown remains an elite, but pricey DFS play. The Bengals will have a fairly significant edge through the air, where QB Joe Burrow threw for 4,611 yards and 34 touchdowns in 16 games. In the regular season, the Titans surrendered the 10th-most fantasy points to quarterbacks, so Burrow remains a strong play in Week 20. Only the Vikings allowed more fantasy points to wide receivers than the Titans, so expect another huge outing out of All-World rookie WR JaMarr Chase, who has gone for 116-plus receiving yards in three of his last four games. Opposite of Chase, Tee Higgins also has a tremendous matchup and is firmly in our top-10 weekly fantasy projections. Slot receiver Tyler Boyd and TE C.J. Uzomah should also be on the radar. Best Bet: OVER 47.5 San Francisco 49ers at Green Bay Packers Current line: San Francisco +5.5; over/under 47.5 These two rivals had some storied postseason matchups in the mid-to-late 90s and the latest matchup should be just as exciting. Both squads have high-octane offenses and enough defensive playmakers to contest every yard. The biggest question is how will Kyle Shanahan‘s squad adjust to game time temperatures currently projected to be a frigid 9 degrees? Those kinds of conditions could impact the game immediately, as San Francisco QB Jimmy Garoppolo has never started a game where the temperature was below 40 degrees. The wind isn’t expected to be too much of a factor but Garoppolo is also dealing with a thumb injury that could further hamper San Francisco’s passing game in those conditions. Fortunately for the Niners, their offense is predicated on the rushing attack. Led by sixth-round rookie RB Elijah Mitchell, who has averaged 97 rushing yards per game over his past nine outings. In addition to Mitchell, WR Deebo Samuel has blossomed into a dangerous dual-threat option who doesn’t even need targets to make an impact on the field and in fantasy lineups. Expect Shanahan to challenge a Green Bay run defense that allowed the third-most yards per attempt in the regular season. Outside of Samuel, the only other relevant fantasy option in San Francisco’s passing attack is TE George Kittle, but Kittle has been held under 30 receiving yards in his last four games. The auxiliary wideouts in Shanahan’s attack are little more than boom-or-bust NFL DFS options that can be squeezed in cheaply. For the NFC’s top overall seed, this is a statement game for Matt LaFleur, who was in this same position a year ago but lost the NFC Championship at home to Tampa Bay after easily dispatching the Rams in the Divisional round. The adverse weather shouldn’t affect Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers at all. The Packers boast the league’s top wideout in Davante Adams and will be further reinforced by the return of slot receiver Randall Cobb. Green Bay also has two excellent running backs in Aaron Jones and A.J. Dillon, who emerged during the season’s second half. While San Francisco’s defense was solid against the run and pass, they could be without elite pass-rusher Nick Bosa. Meanwhile, Green Bay’s own stop unit should be bolstered by the return of LB Za’Darius Smith and CB Jaire Alexander. Best Bet: Green Bay -5.5 Los Angeles Rams at Tampa Bay Buccaneers Current line: Los Angeles +3; over/under 48.5 This is a rematch of a Week 3 game played in LA in which the Rams prevailed over the Buccaneers 34-24. However, with this game taking place in Tampa, it will be a much more difficult task for Sean McVay and company to sweep Tom Brady, who has won an NFL-record nine consecutive games in the Divisional round. Speaking of Brady, he lit up a solid LA secondary in that September meeting. In that game, Brady threw for a season-high 432 yards and scored two total TDs. We can’t expect that kind of producing again against a Rams’ secondary that allowed the fifth-fewest fantasy points to quarterbacks in 2021, but backing Brady in a revenge scenario is generally a solid strategy. Tampa Bay’s offense could also be bolstered by the return of RB Leonard Fournette, who has missed a month with a hamstring injury. Fournette can make an impact as both a runner and receiver and those pass-catching skills should benefit an offense that is thin at wideout. Mike Evans ranked 2nd among all wideouts with 14 touchdowns but failed to score in Week 3. He still managed to put up a solid 8/106/0 line in that matchup, however, so we’re expecting another strong performance against an excellent LA secondary. Tyler Johnson played only three fewer snaps than Evans last week but only had an 8.3% target share, the same as Breshad Perriman, who was in on less than half of Tampa’s snaps. With Perriman ruled out, Scotty Miller makes an appealing low-cost dart throw. Since losing Chris Godwin, Bruce Arians has called more ’12’ sets. Rob Gronkowski has been heavily-featured and remains an elite fantasy option this week. Keep Cameron Brate in mind as a
Thursday Night Football Preview, Fantasy Tips, DFS & Best Bets
There isn’t much of a break to get over what was a devastating Week 15 that dragged on for what felt like six weeks but was actually just six days. Still, for those of us still playing, we must move
Still, for those of us still playing, we must move on and Thursday Night Football offers an intriguing intra-conference battle between the red-hot San Francisco 49ers and AFC South-leading Tennessee Titans.
With plenty of fantasy-relevant players on both sides of the ball, this game should have a ton of ramifications on season-long and best-ball lineups as well as DFS.
Here is what we can expect from Week 16’s Thursday night showdown…
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Thursday Night Football Preview, Fantasy Tips, DFS & Best Bets
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Traditionally the Week 12 slate has always been one of the most anticipated of the season. In many leagues, Week 12 marks the trade deadline, but normally falling on Thanksgiving, it also means an entire Thursday filled with food, family,
With three games filling up the entire day, we must take a different approach in our usual Thursday Night Football preview. For this week, I’ll take a broad look at all three games and make my favorite picks for each game.
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Chicago Bears (-3) at Detroit Lions; over/under 41
The opening game of the slate isn’t exactly the most desirable, but there’s still plenty of fantasy ramifications on the line. Rumors are swirling that this could be Matt Nagy’s last game of the helm for Chicago, but it seems odd to let a coach prepare a team to play if his fate’s already decided and the team is still technically in the playoff hunt. It would also go against the 100-plus year history of the franchise never dismissing a coach mid-season.
Detroit won’t part ways with Dan Campbell this week but the league’s only winless team still has plenty of questions- like who will be under center?
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Thursday Night Football Preview, Fantasy Tips, DFS & Best Bets
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The red-hot 6-4 New England Patriots, winners of four straight and 5-of-6 overall, have surged right back into AFC playoff contention, while the 4-5 Falcons look to regroup after a 40-point dismemberment at the hands of the Cowboys in Dallas last Sunday.
This is a rematch from Super Bowl LI, so get ready for lots of 28-3 references. Aside from that, there are plenty of sports betting, fantasy football, and DFS implications at play, so let’s preview the game…