{"id":1424,"date":"2008-06-16T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/sportsbook-posts-lines-on-who-will-hold-out-in-the-nfl\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:21:06","slug":"sportsbook-posts-lines-on-who-will-hold-out-in-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/sportsbook-posts-lines-on-who-will-hold-out-in-the-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsbook Posts Lines on Who Will Hold Out in the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=\"#2BA100\" vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>June 16, 2008 New York:&nbsp; With some of the NFL\u2019s teams<br \/>\nstarting <span class=SpellE>minicamps<\/span> and training camps and pre-season<br \/>\na little more than a month away, grumblings have already begun on behalf of<br \/>\nsome the league\u2019s players about potential hold-outs during pre-season.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Additionally, some disgruntled stars have been talking<br \/>\nabout sitting out training camp for one reason or another.&nbsp; Most notably<br \/>\nthis season complaints have come from Chad Johnson, Plaxico Burress and a few<br \/>\nothers.&nbsp; The possibility for hold-outs and trained player-front office<br \/>\nrelations during the pre-season seems to be at an all time high as the summer<br \/>\nrolls toward the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>\nThat said, and with fan speculation growing at a fever pitch regarding whether<br \/>\nor not their teams will see pre-season strife, <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span>posted odds on which NFL player is most likely<br \/>\nto hold out or sit out prior to the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dPassion for the NFL, teams, and players on the part of fans is always high,\u201d<br \/>\nstated BetUS.com spokesman Reed Richards.&nbsp; \u201cWhat doesn\u2019t seem to be such a<br \/>\nconstant is a return of the adoration and respect on the part of players.&nbsp;<br \/>\nFans are extremely intuitive when it comes to their favorite players and teams<br \/>\nand they can sense when something is amiss.&nbsp; As such, we saw it as our<br \/>\nduty to provide them answers and relieve some of their speculative angst<br \/>\nregarding any pre-season blow-ups between players and their team\u2019s front<br \/>\noffice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Analysts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/default.aspx\">BetUs<\/a><br \/>\nposted the following odds on player who might sit-out or hold out:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>\nTitans DT Albert <span class=SpellE>Haynesworth<\/span> 3\/1<br \/>\nRavens <span class=SpellE>OLB<\/span> Terrell Suggs<span class=GramE>&nbsp; 2<\/span>\/1<br \/>\nLions <span class=SpellE>WR<\/span> Roy Williams&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n10\/1<br \/>\nCardinals <span class=SpellE>WR<\/span> <span class=SpellE>Anquan<\/span> <span\nclass=SpellE>Boldin<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp; 5\/1<br \/>\nGiants TE Jeremy Shockey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1\/1<br \/>\nDolphins DE Jason Taylor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2\/1<br \/>\nEagles CB <span class=SpellE>Lito<\/span><br \/>\nSheppard&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 10\/1<br \/>\nRams <span class=SpellE>RB<\/span> Steven<br \/>\nJackson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15\/1<br \/>\nBears LB Brian Urlacher&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15\/1<br \/>\nBucs QB Jeff<br \/>\nGarcia&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 7\/1<\/p>\n<p>Additional sports and newsworthy odds can be found at:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 16, 2008 New York:&nbsp; With some of the NFL\u2019s teams starting minicamps and training camps and pre-season a little more than a month away, grumblings have already begun on behalf of some the league\u2019s players about potential hold-outs during pre-season.&nbsp; Additionally, some disgruntled stars have been talking about sitting out training camp for one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/sportsbook-posts-lines-on-who-will-hold-out-in-the-nfl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sportsbook Posts Lines on Who Will Hold Out in the NFL<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}