He's Back! Favre returns for 20th season
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08/18/2010 -
Minneapolis, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Brett Favre officially announced his return
to the Minnesota Vikings for the 2010 season, his 20th as a professional in
the NFL.
Favre has been on the brink of retirement for several years, but has chosen
to return to Minnesota a season after leading the team to an overtime loss in
the NFC Championship Game against the New Orleans Saints. It was initially
reported that he was set to finally call it a career, but eventually decided
to give it another go.
"It was very tough, obviously. I can make a case for both playing/not
playing," Favre said at Wednesday's press conference. "It was really about the
team. Believe me, when I left New Orleans, a big part of me was -- I don't
want to say done, but the fact that we lost that game -- it's hard to make
people understand."
In each of the last two offseasons, a major injury nearly forced Favre to
retire. After 2008 with the Jets, Favre needed surgery on the biceps of his
throwing arm, but came back to throw for 4,202 yards with 33 touchdowns for
the Vikings last season. He needed surgery to remove scar tissue and bone
spurs in his ankle this offseason, and, although the surgery wasn't as
successful, he decided it was healthy enough to play.
"I needed surgery three years ago on my ankle. It's a chronic ankle," Favre
said. "I had a visit with Dr. (James) Andrews last Thursday. Surprisingly, a
new spur had already surfaced in the new X-ray. Fact is, it's just something I
have to deal with. There is a little bit more range of motion since the
surgery, but we're not talking about a lot."
Favre practiced for the first time on Wednesday and said he hopes to play in
Minnesota's next preseason game against San Francisco on Sunday.
"I would like to (play Sunday). I took a lot of reps today," Favre said. "I'm
not real excited about getting hit anytime soon, but that's part of it. I
think there's no substitute for calling plays in the huddle in a real game
environment, and the only way I'm going to get the speed of the game down is
being in games."
Head coach Brad Childress was non-committal on whether or not Favre would play
Sunday, but he was excited to have him back in the fold.
"(Favre) said, 'It's taken me 19 years to get to this point,' and I said,
'Maybe you finally got it.' I think the sky's the limit," Childress said.
"Everybody always has to play around a quarterback, but he's got a good team
around him, and he doesn't have to do it himself."
Additionally, the chance to win was something Favre couldn't pass up.
"The expectations are high here, as they should be," Favre said. "From my
standpoint, I can't make any guarantees. I'm going to do everything I can.
Whatever it takes for us to win. The bottom line -- I'm not here to set any
records -- I've done it all, there's nothing left to prove. So, once again,
it's really about these guys.
"I don't want to fail. I'm just being honest."
He also added that this year, the last of his contract, will be the final year
of his professional career.
"After this year, I'm done. This is the last year of my contract," Favre said.
"It was obviously a tough decision to come back. I can't say I'm going to do
anything different than I did last year. I'd love to think that I'll play
better. I'll do everything I can to help this team win."
The long-time Packers great who holds the NFL record for touchdown passes with
497, Favre has been the lone mainstay at signal-caller over the last 1 1/2
decades. Since the 1993 season, Favre has been under center for all 16 games
every year, leading his teams to 10 seasons of 10 wins or more, including a
Super Bowl title with Green Bay in 1996. Including playoffs, Favre has started
309 consecutive games, by far a record.
In what has surely been a Hall of Fame career up to this point, Favre has a
181-104 regular season record as a starter. The 181 wins are an NFL record, as
are his 69,329 regular season passing yards and 5,855 playoff passing yards.
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Betting the NFL preseason
Rule No. 1 in the gamblers' handbook states, "Avoid sports betting on meaningless games."
When you're drowning in a sea of baseball monotony, however, things change. Even a hint of pro football betting can persuade the most disciplined bettor to break a few rules.
The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night.
The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine.
“I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.”
The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark.
“We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.”
The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long.
“It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.”
Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play.
“You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt."
So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps?
“Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says.
Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins.
Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet.
Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter.
“If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says.
Even in the third week of the preseason when starters generally play the most, the final outcome of the game is in the hands of fringe players. A team's talent, all the way down to the last man on the roster, is something to consider.
The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason.
“We want to have the team ready to play a tough, physical game and preparation has to go into that and I imagine a certain amount of injuries go with it,” Belichick told the Providence Journal in August 2003.
Bettors can only hope to find more teams that share the Pats' business-like approach to the preseason (New England is 17-9-3 against the spread since 2000) and take advantage of teams who detest the exhibition schedule.
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