Super Bowl Poker Game

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Category : Free Picks, The Lighter Side

Super Bowl Poker Game

Are you hosting a Super Bowl Party? Want to put a little money on the game with your friends, but tired of the traditional “Super Bowl Squares”? Gridiron Experts has a poker game that is fun for all that we’d love to share with you. This game can be customized to playing for fun, drinks, or some big bucks.

What you’ll need: a deck of cards (maybe two decks if you have more than 9 people playing)

Object of the Game: To score the most points from kickoff to the last play of the game.

Prep work: You’ll need to do a little work before you can play, but it’s worth it. Find a deck of cards that has room to write on each card (or write on paper then tape them to the cards). Then assign each card with a different situation that could happen in the game. This game is totally customizable but we made it for you….

Money Where Your Mouth Is

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Category : Free Picks, Money Where Your Mouth Is

Money Where Your Mouth Is Super Bowl 

This a column that puts our expertise to the test, as we show a couple of the bets that we are placing on specific games, or prop bets offered by the many sports books and casinos. Of course we are a fantasy football advisory, but we also take pride in our pick’em pool strategies. Our goal is to help you win pools & money, but if you can’t afford to place bets…don’t

Colts/Saints Over “56.5″ points

In our Super Bowl pick article we got into the fact that the Saints have the type of offense that can run up the score and could catch the Indianapolis Colts off guard. What we forgot to mention was the fact that there is a guy named Courtney Roby returning punts.

Special teams are always over looked in huge games like these, but each Super Bowl team has excellent kickers, punters and return specialists. While Peyton Manning and Drew Brees get all the glory (as they should), games can and will be won on reliable people like Garrett Hartley, Thomas Morstead, Matt Stover or Adam Vinatieri and Pat McAfee. It sounds kind of stupid to recommend Super Bowl Prop Bets on something as simple as the feet of kickers and return men, but field position will play a major role in the outcome of this years game.

Gridiron Experts is expecting a shoot out, mainly from obtaining excellent offensive starting positions from special teamers. These offenses don’t need a lot of help, but that doesn’t mean they won’t take it.

Super Bowl Odds have the over/under at 56.5 points for the Super Bowl, but we feel that the score could go as high as 63. Teams that pass the ball as frequently as the Colts and Saints use up less clock with a 3 and out opposed to a running team. With incomplete passes stopping the clock these two teams will have scoring drives in much shorter time periods.  In other words drives will be all or nothing. We believe that this game should allow each team more offensive drives than a normal NFL game. Take the over and enjoy a shoot out.

Gridiron Experts Money Where Your Mouth Is Playoff Record: 5-0

Gridiron Experts Super Bowl Pick

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Category : Around the League, Free Picks, Indianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints

Gridiron Experts Super Bowl Pick

Gridiron Experts has been on a hot streak with our free picks for the playoffs in our weekly article Money Where Your Mouth Is, but this game is a lot closer and harder to predict. While many watched a nail biter with the luck of a coin flip to decide the outcome of the New Orleans Saints stamped ticket to the Super Bowl, the Colts won with ease. Does that mean that the Colts are a better team? No, in fact all we really know for sure is that the Colts are favored to win.

5 points is the spread in which the Indianapolis Colts are favored to win Super Bowl XLIV. Are they really deserving of such a large margin? Bookies may think so, but those who love sports betting aren’t sold on any kind of a  sure thing.

The fact that The Who are the halftime show is almost fitting under these circumstances, and we are going to break down why.

The Indianapolis Colts had an amazing season. They were working on a perfect record right up until they pulled their starters against the Jets, allowing New York into the playoffs and setting up the AFC Championship. But the result of laying down the last couple games of the season didn’t

Hilarious Super Bowl Bets

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Category : Around the League, Strategies & Tips, The Lighter Side

Hilarious Super Bowl Bets

Las Vegas and Sportsbooks dig deep for the Super Bowl. It’s the biggest sporting event of the year, and millions upon millions of people get together to not only watch the game, but bet on it.

Most people can barely wrap their brains around the spread, but prop bets are as easy as a bold statement spouted by your buddy on the couch that ends in someone saying “you wanna bet?”  Things like “Colston is going to rack up at least 100 yards on the Colts”, or “Peyton Manning is going to throw for 5 touchdowns on Sunday”.

While these are very likely statements or prop bets, Sportsmakers and Vegas bookies have to prepare for everything that could happen on Super Bowl Sunday…so they did.

Probably the most ridiculous bet you can place is on the coin toss. Yes, the coin toss at the start of the game…you can bet on it. Every year I hear someone in the bar yell out what they want it to be, as flashes of National Lampoons Vegas Vacation pops into my head where Chevy Chase is playing rock-paper-scissors, or pick a number for a pay out-”Rock pays”

If you are one of these coin flip people (you know who you are) please bet on a spin of the roulette wheel

Money Where Your Mouth Is Playoff Edition

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Category : Money Where Your Mouth Is

Money Where Your Mouth Is Playoff Edition part 2

This a column that puts our expertise to the test, as we show a couple of the bets that we are placing on specific games, or prop bets offered by the many sports books and casinos. Of course we are a fantasy football advisory, but we also take pride in our pick’em pool strategies. Our goal is to help you win pools & money, but if you can’t afford to place bets…don’t!

Last week we nailed all three picks going 3-0! We took the Jets and Vikings with the points, and the Over in the Saints Cardinals game = easy money, we should be in the Betus Review

“Over 39.5″ in the Jets/Colts

I don’t want to take anything away from the Jets or their fans, but this game is going to get ugly. The Colts are not about to choke like the Bengals and Chargers under pressure. Peyton Manning is too good of a quarterback to worry about a hot DB, no matter how great he’s playing. Manning is probably one of the leagues smartest coordinators too, having him look over defensive schemes is just as good as any coach on the sidelines throughout the game. The over is going to be tight, we see a close first half opened up by a small lead by the Colts that will force Sanchez to make mistakes. The patience by the Jets on offense is almost Zen-like, waiting and punting, playing the field position game until their defense can make a strike, but this week will be different. Manning will expose the Jets for a big play, which will force the Jets to play from behind. At that point Freeney & Mathis lick their lips with the chance to put pressure on a rookie QB. The Colts will put it away in the fourth quarter and the score will be over 40.

Minnesota Vikings +3.5

While you may think we are big on the Vikings, it’s the 3.5 that really catches our eye. That .5 is the difference in winning and losing this bet. A field goal game is very likely, and having a small edge along with the veteran quarterback is good enough in our eyes. This game should be the best game of the NFL playoffs thus far. Each team is stacked with talent and experience, with good coaching staff to ensure a tight chess match. Those who are Saints fans are probably not liking this pick, but you need to realize that even a Saints field goal win is not a winning bet. Be careful if you think a blowout is in the making. Favre never dies! He is this terminator that wrecks point spreads with his 4th quarter comebacks; a betting man would never go against that. Take the Vikings  and the points at 3.5

Last weeks picks 3-0

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ESPN SportsNation: Gridiron Experts Thumbs Up

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Category : Around the League, Expert Predictions, Fantasy Football

ESPN SportsNation Gives Gridiron Experts Thumbs Up
Short and sweet, a lot like Michelle Beadle, ESPN SportsNation just gave Gridiron Experts a shout out as their site of the day on Thursday. Sports Nation airs Monday-Friday at 4 p.m. and midnight ET on ESPN2, you guys should check it out. We also got mentioned in their daily tweets seen here

This has been a great year so far for our site, and the best is yet to come…expect big things in the upcoming year Grid-X fans!

Gridiron Experts Playoff Picks

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Category : Free Picks

For the entire regular season, Mike & Diesel teamed up to decide on our weekly NFL picks, which included scores and predictions against the spread (final results). But for the NFL playoffs we’ve decided to let some of our writers take a crack at picking winners. So our writers are competing amongst themselves for the playoffs, here are their picks. Play along if you want!

New York Jets at Indianapolis Colts -7.5

Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints -3.5

Mike Rodriguez      Diesel       Matty the Bulldog       DC         Kevin Roberts     Daniel Phillips

30-20                    30-24                 23-20                  17-16                  31-16              24-18

35-29                    24-23                 31-21                  24-20                  34-27               34-24


Overall:
Matty the Bulldog 7-1 | ATS: 5-3
Mike Rodriguez: 4-4 | ATS: 4-4
DC 4-4 | ATS: 4-4
Kevin Roberts 4-4 | ATS 4-4
Daniel Phillips 4-4 | ATS 4-4
Diesel 3-5 | ATS: 1-7…WTF I school all your asses regular season

Props To Prop Bets

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Category : Previews & Forecasts, Strategies & Tips

Props To Prop Bets

This weekends Sunday action is the last slice of football you’re going to see until the Super Bowl on February 7th. Gridiron Experts, along with many (many) of you are definitely going to go through NFL withdrawals, but until then check out these prop bets that you may find interesting (or insulting if you’re a New York Jets fan).

For those who don’t know, these are bets you can place in Vegas or with online sportsbooks on individual player achievements. You can get everything from the coin toss to Superbowl Odds. Most of the time these bets are based on an average of a team or players numbers throughout the year, making the bet not worth a second look, but this week a couple bets caught my eye, in kind of a humorous fashion. (The .5 is so there are no ties)

Prop Bet #1]  Over/Under Mark Sanchez will complete 13 passes. 13…that’s it? I understand the Jets have gotten to where they are now with their top defense and power running game, but 13 passes? Wow! So if you were to lose this bet, Sanchez would only average 3 completed passes per quarter. Not a lot of faith for a guy who is one game away from going to the Super Bowl.

Money Where Your Mouth Is Playoff Edition

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Category : Free Picks, Minnesota Vikings, Money Where Your Mouth Is, New York Jets

Money Where Your Mouth Is Playoff Edition

This a column that puts our expertise to the test, as we show a couple of the bets that we are placing on specific games, or prop bets offered by the many sports books and casinos. Of course we are a fantasy football advisory, but we also take pride in our pick’em pool strategies. Our goal is to help you win pools & money, but if you can’t afford to place bets…don’t!

Over “57″ points

This is the playoffs, and regardless of the outcome of the score in the fourth quarter, these teams will be firing. The Saints have not been the type of team to sit on a lead and drain the clock, so expect Drew Brees to continue hitting his team of receivers until the clock reads zero. As for the Cardinals, they have never relied on a running game and love to throw the ball. This game is being played in a dome, and thanks to a heavy passing offensive game plan by both teams the clock will barely move on plays that don’t work. I mean, if you’re talking about a three and out with the Jets or Ravens you get a couple running plays and maybe a short pass, which will chew away at the clock and make guessing the over/under that much harder. But with these teams, and the home run big play potential, it’s either going to be incomplete or a score.

The way I think about over/under scores is based on a break down of points per quarter. 57 points with the spread favoring the Saints by 7 means that Vegas and sportsbooks think this game will be 32-25 (Saints by 7, and adds to 57), which is about an average of 14 points total per quarter. With the explosive play ability of both teams it seems very reasonable that 2 touchdowns could happen in each quarter, throw in the odd turnover or special teams return and 57 points doesn’t seem too high.

Minnesota Vikings -2.5

Brett Favre has more playoff experience in his pinky finger than Tony Romo and half of the Dallas Cowboys do combined. Dallas is the hot team after working their divisional rivals the Eagles in back to back weeks, but we’re starting to think the Cowboys aren’t as great as the Eagles were bad. After the dust has settled in Philly, the team that played in both those final games was made up of a lot of the bench warmers. The Eagles had 4 rookies starting last week, along with a back-up center and a decrepit linebacking core.

This week the Cowboys will face one of the most fierce defensive front four in the NFL. Jared Allen alone is a nightmare, and with a jumpy offensive line in a noisy stadium we see a self destruct button on the big Dallas O-line. Some of our experts have picked the Cowboys as an upset, but as far as safe bets go, you have to like the fact that a field goal at home with a week off is all you’ll need to win this one.

New York Jets+ 7.5

Many sportsbooks are offering 7 points in this game, but we have seen 7.5. That half point is worth more than you think in this tight AFC battle. The Chargers are geared up for an offensive challenge, while the Jets know that if they can keep the game close, this one is very winnable. The x-factor in this game might be the fact that Rex Ryan is very familiar with the Chargers from his time in Baltimore, but the chess match of “I know he knows I know he knows” may result in overthinking everything to a point where a simple game of not turning the ball over and relying on the Jets run game to pick up yards might be good enough. We like the Jets and the points at 7.5