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NFL Betting Online: The Arizona Cardinals won a franchise-record 13 games in 2015 and advanced to the NFC Championship game before falling to the Carolina Panthers. They return the core of that team and have brought in Pro Bowl outside linebacker Chandler Jones in a trade with the New England Patriots. While the Cardinals will have to battle the Seattle Seahawks for NFC West supremacy, the second place team still has a pretty good chance at claiming one of the two Wild Card spots. The Cardinals’... 

NFL Betting Online: Few would argue the Jacksonville Jaguars are on the right path back to respectability, but the jury’s out if it will happen this season. The Jaguars are coming off a 5-11 season but had some bright spots offensively and have added several key pieces through the draft and free agency. Oddsmakers don’t envision such a stark turnaround that Jacksonville advances to the postseason, although it’s not totally out of the realm of possibility. The Jaguars are listed at +175 to make t... 

NFL Betting Online: The New England Patriots suffered a big loss when quarterback Tom Brady accepted his four-game suspension to start the season resulting from the Deflategate controversy. Even though the team’s star quarterback will be out, the Patriots are expected to stay afloat for the first quarter of the season. Once Brady returns, New England should once again ascend to one of the best teams in the NFL and challenge for the Super Bowl crown. With a team talented on both sides of the ball... 

NFL Betting Online: The Philadelphia Eagles may have drafted their expected quarterback of the future after trading up for the No. 2 overall pick in the 2016 draft, but they are still hoping to make a playoff push behind a different on this year. Carson Wentz may have a lot of potential, but he may not see the field at all this year as a rookie. Instead, veteran quarterback Sam Bradford will hold on to the reins as he hopes to lead the Eagles on a bounce-back campaign following a turbulent final season under coach Chip Kelly in 2015. The Eagles won 10 games in both 2013 and 2014 but oddsmakers believe this year’s team will more closely resemble the 2015 team as they have been given +215 odds to return to the playoffs. The team’s chances of missing the playoffs are listed at -275 in NFL odds.... 

NFL Betting Online: The Carolina Panthers had a spectacular season in 2015 and came a game shy of winning the franchise’s first ever Super Bowl. But, the wheels came off in San Francisco. This year, the Super Bowl runners-up still have all the pieces including one of the most dynamic and athletic quarterbacks in the league in Cam Newton and the Panthers comes into the 2016 season with -450 odds to make the playoffs and +325 odds to miss the playoffs in NFL betting.... 

NFL Betting Online: The defending champion Denver Broncos bring back a good chunk of the team’s star-studded defense this season but will need to find a new identity on offense with a new quarterback at the helm. The Broncos have -150 odds to make the playoffs and +125 odds to miss the playoffs in NFL gambling.... 

Offensive Player of the Year is one of the premier awards the NFL has to offer, and every year, there are tons of wagers on this proposition. Even though this is an award which is generally reserved for a quarterback, of late, running backs have been getting a bunch of run as the Offensive Player of the Year, and this year, the top rusher in the NFL Draft is the overwhelming favorite to capture the award.... 

The headline of the 2016 NFL Draft was clearly the two quarterbacks being taken first and second overall after the Rams and Eagles traded up to get Jared Goff and Carson Wentz respectively. After that though, seven of the next nine picks were all spent on defensive players, and perhaps more than ever before, there's a huge logjam at the top of the Defensive Rookie of the Year odds.... 

NFL Betting Online: The Buffalo Bills were pretty much the definition of a .500 team in 2015, finishing 8-8 and finishing in the middle of the pack both on offense and defense. Most of the key players are back as the team aims to take another step forward. That fate could depend on quarterback Tyrod Taylor, who was a Pro Bowler a year ago and has room to grow. While the Bills have some bright spots, they are underdogs to make the playoffs this year, listed at +200. Buffalo’s chances at missing t... 

NFL Betting Online: The Dallas Cowboys had hopes of returning to the playoffs in 2015 and making a Super Bowl run. It all fell apart because of injuries to quarterback Tony Romo and wide receiver Dez Bryant, and Dallas finished a very disappointing 4-12. However, with the return to health of those two stars along with the addition of first round draft pick Ezekiel Elliott, the Cowboys’ goals have once again been set high. The oddsmakers agree, as Dallas is a -140 favorite to make the playoffs th... 

NFL Betting Online: The Indianapolis Colts struggled through a down 2015 season, as injuries and ineffectiveness plagued star quarterback Andrew Luck. Luck’s issues helped lead to an 8-8 season in which the Colts actually outperformed their projected win total based on score differential but still failed to make the playoffs. Even though last year didn’t turn out very well, expectations are higher in 2016. The Colts are listed as -165 favorites to make the playoffs, while their odds of missing t... 

NFL Betting Online: The Minnesota Vikings have some very talented players returning from last year’s NFC North titlists. Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater will aim to make more progress in becoming a top-level signal-caller while running back Adrian Peterson remains to be the star on offense. The defense is young and talented, so there are ample reasons to believe Minnesota will once again be making a return trip to the postseason. Oddsmakers agree, as the Vikings are -200 favorites to qualify for t... 

NFL Betting Online: The Oakland Raiders are an up-and-coming team with playoff aspirations in 2016. The team had an encouraging run in 2015 with three key pieces to build around: quarterback Derek Carr, wide receiver Amari Cooper and outside linebacker Khalil Mack. With oodles of cap space, the Raiders added several prominent free agents to the fold and now could push for either the AFC West crown or a wild card berth into the playoffs. The Raiders are slight +110 underdogs to make the postseaso... 

Over the course of the last four seasons, J.J. Watt has dominated on the defensive side of the ball. He still hasn't been honored with an MVP award, but he has won Defensive Player of the Year three times in the last four years for his awesome play on the Houston Texans. Will Watt become the first man ever to win the award three times in a row in 2016? He's certainly the favorite to do so.... 

NFL Betting Online: The Miami Dolphins will have several new faces in the starting lineup on both sides of the ball, but the oddsmakers don’t believe it will increase the team’s chances of making the postseason. The Dolphins went 6-10 a season ago, and both lost and gained some potential impact starters. When it’s all said and done, Miami is expected to miss the postseason once again. The team’s odds of making it are set at +225, with their chances of missing it set at -285 in NFL odds.... 

The 2016 NFL season is still several weeks away from kicking off, but already, there are several coaches which find themselves on the chopping block, many of which avoided the fate of getting their pink slips at the end of last season.... 

The mass majority of the time, the NFL MVP award is given to the league's best quarterback. Last year wasn't an exception when Cam Newton won the award, and he's a relatively heavy favorite to repeat that honor in 2016.... 

Each year since 1972, the AP has picked out its Offensive Player of the Year. Generally speaking, the award goes to a quarterback, but it isn't as obviously a quarterback award as say, the MVP award is. The favorites are all going to be quarterbacks, but if there's a man who has an exceptional year as a running back or a wide receiver, that man certainly could be up for consideration for the honor in 2016.... 

San Francisco 49ers Playoff Odds at BookMaker.euYes +600No -900... 

Seattle Seahawks Playoff Odds at BookMaker.euYes -400No +320... 

NFL Betting Online: The New York Jets needed a win in the final game of the 2015 regular season to qualify for the playoffs but couldn’t get done. They are expected to be in the playoff mix once again in 2016, although oddsmakers aren’t too optimistic about their chances. With a quarterback situation in flux, it’s tough to know how well the Jets will play this season. They are +200 underdogs to make it to the playoffs, with missing the postseason the favored wager, set at -260 in NFL betting.... 

It’s not easy to win games in the NFL, but the Panthers made it look easy last year, on their way to a 15-win regular season. Behind NFL MVP Cam Newton, they clinched their third straight NFC South title in the first week of December and ran away with the division by seven games a year ago.... 

Has a defending Super Bowl champion ever been so overlooked in their own division than the Denver Broncos? They saw future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning ride off into the sunset after leading them to a win last February.... 

The Jaguars have been a laughingstock for most of this decade – five straight years with at least 11 losses. But maybe a turnaround is imminent. The Jaguars could have as many as six new starters on defense and have several foundational players on offense.... 

If at first you don’t succeed, Roger Goodell will try, try again. And once again, the NFL Commish got what he wanted. Thanks to a recent court ruling, the Patriots face the real prospect of playing their first quarter of 2016 without starting quarterback Tom Brady as the Deflategate soap opera just won’t go away....