Updating my posts from 1/7/24 and 1/5/25 . . .
- - I think you hear many respected cappers saying the last weekend of the NFL season is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for making wagers, even more often than they say much the same thing about the first weekend of the season. But I have never really found the last week or the first week to be that way at all, and I went back to check my recent records for the last weekend, and found the following: 2024 season = 2-3; 2023 season = 6-3; 2022 season = 5-2; 2021 season = 7-6; 2020 season = 6-6; 2019 season = 5-4-1; 2018 season = 10-2. 41-26 over 7 seasons (61%). I doubt my record for any other week is that solid. Maybe this year will be different, but I doubt you will ever catch me saying that the last weekend or the first weekend of the NFL season is a week for running scared for making wagers if you find INFORMATION or ANGLES you like to support your plays.
-- So . . . this final weekend, I think I find myself liking a fair number of plays, much more so than just 5 plays last year. But as always with me, making and posting any plays waits until game day (unless I plan on being away from a computer). And I don’t like either of these Saturday plays nearly as much as multiple plays I am liking for Sunday. But today there are two pretty big games, and my bankroll for my recreational wagering is always ready to make plays on virtually all of the biggest late season games when the end of the football season arrives, with so few opportunities left to lean on whatever ANGLES or INFORMATION I think I’ve built up while giving the entire season my full attention.
Carolina(+3) over Tampa Bay (1*)
- - Three weeks ago I was absolutely loving Carolina to beat Tampa two weeks ago, but I wimped out on a play after Carolina lost to New Orleans. This week I just expect Carolina to be feisty as hell, but sadly I say I don’t deserve to win this week after wimping out two weeks ago.
Seattle(-2') over San Francisco (1*)
- - For the #1 vs. #5 or #6 NFC seed is a Big Game.
GL