The NFL returns to Estadio Azteca in Mexico City on Monday night, as the San Francisco 49ers battle the Arizona Cardinals.
The 49ers appear to be in prime position to take advantage of a Cardinals team in disarray, as Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins are both listed as questionable with hamstring injuries. This figures to put a burden on Arizona’sf shaky defense.
San Francisco’s offense is as healthy as it’s been all year, and that includes quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who’s been the starter since Week 3. With an eye on a potentially strong performance, here are my three favorite Jimmy Garoppolo prop picks for Monday Night Football.
You can also read our 49ers vs. Cardinals picks and predictions in addition to our bes…
There I was, minding my own business, laying on my couch thinking that my teaser cold streak was about to come to an end… but there Tommy DeVito was, charging the Giants up the field on the way to a game-winning field goal, breaking my heart and I’m sure the heart of countless others who teased the Packers down to 0.5 in the NFL odds.
To make matters worse, at right around the same time, I was on another emotional roller coaster of watching my Miami Dolphins choke away a win against the Tennessee Titans in what was the most humiliating loss in franchise history. How ridiculous of a comeback was it by the Titans? Well, over the last 20 seasons, teams who were down by 14 or more points inside of the final three minutes had a record of 3-2074!
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It’s official, Gardner Minshew is the Las Vegas Raiders’ starting quarterback, but he won’t be taking the field against the San Francisco 49ers. Will that deter our 49ers vs. Raiders predictions from backing the hosts?
Find out why my NFL picks are siding with Las Vegas on Friday, August 23.
49ers vs Raiders prediction
My best betRaiders +7.5 (-110 at bet365)
My analysis
Nobody is overly confident in a QB combo of Carter Bradley and Nathan Peterman, however, the San Francisco 49ers aren’t expected to play any of their key players either.
Winning by more than 7.5 points in a battle of backup players fighting to make the 53-man roster is a tall task, even for the defending …
It is likely that if most managers found themselves in charge at Vicarage Road at this moment they would glance at Watford’s fixture list – which in their next eight games includes encounters with both Merseyside teams and both Manchester sides as well as Chelsea, Arsenal and Leicester – look at the average lifespan of their recent head coaches and then book in a removals company and a flight home.
But to arrive at this moment, with Xisco Muñoz having been sacked for collecting seven points from seven relatively gentle opening games, something of an injury crisis brewing in central defence and the gates about to open on the raging fires of footballing hell, takes an unusual level of optimism. The kind of optimism generally found eithe…
Manchester City spend most of their time in the Premier League playing against low blocks where lines of four and five do their best to slow down the leaders in the desperate hope that they can keep them out. Because of this it is very important what happens in between the lines, the small gaps where midfielders are allowed to operate. Ilkay Gündogan is the master of finding the gaps and settling tight matches but how much longer he will be doing it in blue is unknown.
Everton operated as one would expect considering their precarious league position and the fact Sean Dyche is resident in the technical area. There was a back four, which often became a back five when auxiliary left‑back Dwight McNeil dropped back to help the unfortunate Mas…
Kristaps Porzingis just began his third season, and somehow it feels like we’ve waited a decade for him to have a competent point guard. This is a more Knicks-wide crisis, decades in the making, involving a procession of washed, deluded, or otherwise bleak names: Stephon Marbury, (old) Baron Davis, (old sad) Steve Francis, (sad) Derrick Rose, Raymond Felton, Pablo Prigioni, Jose Calderon, to name just a few. So yes, the issue precedes him—but Zinger is the type of player who makes that absence really felt, the voracious son who deserves to be fed. Someone, anyone, just feed this boy, he’s so slender. Already it was heartening to see Jarrett Jack—yet another old point guard, an easy signing to mock, but a good one—deliver Porzingis 12 assists in their first 28 minutes together…
Early this morning, a cargo truck overturned on a Detroit highway, scattering boxes of frozen chicken wings across the asphalt, capping off what has been a remarkable year for highway-spill enthusiasts. Let us now stroll down food-spill memory lane. Watch your footing, it might be slippery. The year started off slowly, but finally in March, there was a corndog spill near Shreveport, La. The spills started picking up steam in the summer. There were two separate Bud Light spills in 2014: The first, in June, happened in North Dakota, and was followed by a September spill in the Houston area. A massive Red Bull spill menaced I-95 in Florida in early July. In August, a fish spill took place in Thailand. Woof. Closer to home, a " cranberry sludge" spill marred a Massachusetts…