{"id":5415,"date":"2009-08-28T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nfl-game-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T02:27:00","slug":"nfl-game-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nfl-game-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Game of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The NFL Network has an early start as the Colts take on the Lions in <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. The biggest story in this contest is that the single greatest NFL handicapper off all-time GodsTips has the NFL Preseason Game of the Year on this game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> has the point spread <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> -3 with a total of 40. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The QB battle for the Lions is still up in the air. It is between veteran <span class=SpellE>Daunte<\/span> Culpepper and top overall pick Matt Stafford. Culpepper gets the start and will play until midway through the second quarter. <\/span><\/font><st1:place>Stafford<\/st1:place> will play through the third quarter and Drew Stanton plays in the fourth. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Last week <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> was minus each of their four top receivers: Calvin Johnson, Bryant Johnson, Dennis Northcutt, and Brandon Pettigrew. All four were originally expected to play, but now it looks like Northcutt is out.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/\">NFL professional bettors<\/a> will note that the Lions will be without starting <span class=SpellE>QBs<\/span> Phillip <span class=SpellE>Buchanon<\/span>, Anthony Henry, and as mentioned, Northcutt.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Starting <span class=SpellE>LG<\/span> Ryan <span class=SpellE>Lilja<\/span> is out for <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. Colts QB Jim <span class=SpellE>Sorgi<\/span> is doubtful, but has not been ruled out. Curtis Painter is the only other quarterback on the roster. Peyton Manning is expected to play until early in the third quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Five front line players are among 11 Indy guys who are out. In addition to the above, their best defensive player Bob Sanders remains out. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Top expert pick on this game: <\/span><\/font><\/b>The top handicapper in the land has the NFL Game of the Year going for day action among five NFL winners. GodsTips has an additional Wise Guy in the NFL. So far, there have been four Wise Guys in the NFL. Three have won. Two more go today including the Preseason Game of the Year, which is <st1:date Month=\"5\" Day=\"16\" Year=\"2001\">16-5-1<\/st1:date> the last 22 going back to our scorephone days. MLB is coming. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a> at OffshoreInsiders.com <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL Network has an early start as the Colts take on the Lions in Detroit. The biggest story in this contest is that the single greatest NFL handicapper off all-time GodsTips has the NFL Preseason Game of the Year on this game. BetUs Sportsbook has the point spread Indianapolis -3 with a total of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/nfl-game-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Game of the Year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}