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The modern NFL is a game of matchups. Since the salary cap and the spread of strategic concepts throughout the league prevent a team from dominating the way that the 1980s Niners or the early-'90s Cowboys did, just about every team in football has on...

It's that time of year again, when Bill Barnwell puts his money where his preseason mouth is.

In mid-April, sportsbooks around Las Vegas started to post their lines for the opening weekend of NFL action. It was exciting to see what the market feels about those Week 1 contests (apparently, they're for the Raiders and against the Chargers, for ...

Part 3 of our team-by-team breakdown of this weekend's NFL playoff action.

On Tuesday, I got to partake in one of the most satisfying experiences anyone can enjoy in Vegas: Cashing out your futures bets. After waiting five months for the bets I placed in August to play themselves out to a conclusion, I got to drive around t...

With three-quarters of the NFL season in the books, now is the perfect time to catch up with some of the prop bets that were out before the NFL season, since we're beginning to get an idea of how this action is actually going to play out. In fact, 11...

In this week's "The Fabulous & the Flops," we mine the annals of futility to find comparable games for some of the week's worst performances. Which quarterback nearly beat out Blaine Gabbert for the least accurate game of the season? Which pair of el...

In this week's edition of "The Fabulous and the Flops," we identify the player who needs to accompany Ndamukong Suh to image-revamping school, show some love to the young talent who is making the absence of a major star seem like nothing, and basical...

In this week's "The Fabulous and the Flops," we've got our usual mix of praise and scorn. In our look at the numbers and storylines coming out of this weekend's game, we find a coach who's messing around like he wants to be fired, a group of overmatc...

We've got a lot to talk about in this week's Fabulous and the Flops. In going through the numbers and our notes for each game from Sunday, we discovered a pair of unexpected heroes who were really goats, a previously unreported curse, and a stunning ...

Part one of a two-part series previewing the second half of the NFL season.

In last week's treatise on early NFL line movements, we broke down the vaunted "middle" bet. This week, we're going to focus on another bet that can represent value when employed properly: the teaser. With a teaser bet, a bettor is placing money o...

Don't believe everything the scoreboard tells you during the opening week of the National Football League.

Our Vegas correspondent's betting strategies and tips.

Who has a shot at the Lombardi Trophy?

A look at the NFL players whom front offices should avoid.