Price Per Head Football Betting - Today, It's All About the Quarterbacks
If you are any kind of football fan, much less a Price Per Head football bettor, you had to appreciate the quarterback duel that took place in the NFL's showcase game on Sunday, which took place between the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos. Bot teams showed tremendous heart by coming back after double-digit deficits, but we thought we would show our WagerHome.com customers the raw numbers, because they are certainly something to behold:
* Peyton Manning and Tony Romo combined for 58 pass attempts, 920 yards and nine touchdowns.
* Both teams attained 20 first downs through the air.
* The 99 points was the sixth highest total in league history.
* The Broncos actually showed some balance, with 42 passes and 31 runs. The Dallas offense was more unbalanced, with 36 attempts by Romo but only fourteen rushes.
* Manning now has 20 touchdown passes on the year, with only one interception. Yes, he threw his first pick of the year on Sunday. But Romo is 72% accurate on the season, with 13 touchdowns and only two INT's. Unfortunately for him, his INT came at a very inopportune time in the fourth quarter.
* Romo's quarterback rating (114.3) is now second to Manning (136.4) among NFL starting quarterbacks. Philip Rivers had been second to Manning, but he threw three interceptions in the late late game on Sunday.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick stepped in for the injured Jake Locker for the Tennessee Titans on Sunday and for a while he was showing PPH bettors some of the productivity they weren't seeing from Locker, as the team was trying to cover as a three-point home dog at WagerHome.com. But he wound up being intercepted twice and going 21 for 41 as his team fell by nine points. On the bright side, Fitzpatrick ran for 50 yards and a TD, making him Tennessee's top rusher on the day. Chris Johnson, who at his peak was a 2000-yard rusher, had 17 yards on ten carries.
Josh Freeman wasn't out of work for very long. The man who was Tampa Bay's starting quarterback up until a couple of years ago, then was demoted and released, has been signed by the Minnesota Vikings, thus creating a real three-ring circus at the position.
The Vikings, as most Price Per Head bettors know, had a bye this past Sunday, and Christian Ponder, who had thrown five interceptions, went out of the last game with a rib injury. Matt Cassel came in to play against Pittsburgh in the London game, and went without an interception, completing his last eleven passes in Minnesota's first winning effort. So the move was somewhat surprising, although former NFL general manager Charley Casserly applauded it.
"When Freeman is ready, the Vikings should start him," Casserly stated in a column at NFL.com. " As for Cassel and Ponder, Minnesota should put one on the trading block; given the potential for injuries, a market might develop." Freeman will not start this week, when the Vikings lay 2.5 points at home to the Carolina Panthers in the pro football odds.
Greg Schiano, the coach who released Freeman in Tampa Bay, basically said good riddance, and muttered something about his team "moving on." Freeman must have done very nasty stuff to get ridden out of town like that.
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Pro football bettors at WagerHome.com had seen Matt Flynn parlay a couple of starts in the NFL into many millions of dollars. Perhaps that's how desperate teams are to find someone who can actually run an offense, but Flynn had gotten a big free agent contract from Seattle, after which he lost the job to a rookie (Russell Wilson); then, running out of options, was brought aboard by the Oakland Raiders, who wanted him to be their starter. Well, that hasn't worked out. Flynn was beaten out again by a mobile signal-caller (Terrelle Pryor), and when he had a chance to make a start and seize the job last week against Washington (with Pryor sidelined with a concussion), he committed two fumbles, threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown and was sacked seven times.
The Raiders had seen enough, so they released the guy who had been guaranteed $6.5 million this season but had been demoted to the third team (behind so-so rookie Matt McGloin). Freeman was a possibility for them, but Oakland, which beat San Diego Sunday night in a game many people were not awake to see, will stick with Pryor.
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