2024 NFL Season - Week 1

Finally the season gets underway this week and the excitement is building. As always if you are a South African NFL fan, Supersport (ESPN 218 and 219) will be showing the games. Only problem is the late/early start times (02:20am), but the Sunday 7pm games are not so bad.

Just a quick heads up, if anyone is new to the NFL and following the topics suggested bets throughout the season, please stake wisely. Unlike other sports like Rugby or Soccer, the NFL is much harder to predict.

For money line bets, remember a team has 3 different set of players (offense, defense and special teams). All it takes is one set of players to have a bad game and you are in trouble, irrespective of how good the other set of players do. Main reason why you see even 2/10 prematch teams struggling and games running close.

Also for player props, keep in mind that if a player goes off injured your bet will lose, doesn't matter its early in the game or not. Also, these NFL teams and management are crazy at times, one game a player can get targeted 10+ times while the next game he doesn't get the ball at all.

Anyway, enough of the ramblings, good luck to everyone betting this season and please share whatever bets you have for Week 1.

NFL Week 1 Schedule (SA time in brackets)

Thursday Night Football (Friday 02:20am)
Ravens @ Chiefs

Friday Night Football (Saturday 02:15am)
Eagles vs Packers - International game in Brazil

Sunday Games (7pm kick offs)
Steelers @ Falcons
Cardinals @ Bills
Titans @ Bears
Patriots @ Bengals
Texans @ Colts
Jaguars @ Dolphins
Panthers @ Saints
Vikings @ Giants

Sunday Games (10pm kick offs)
Raiders @ Chargers
Broncos @ Seahawks
Cowboys @ Browns
Commanders @ Bucs

Sunday Night Football (Monday 02:20am)
Rams @ Lions

Monday Night Football (Tuesday 02:20am)
Jets @ 49ers

Thanks for starting up the thread Naidoo. NFL and College football are one of my favourite sports to bet on. Unfortunately there are so many CFB games to pick from compounded by the fact that NFL games are in between , 1 on the Friday and a whole slate on Sunday, sandwitching over 40+ CFB games on the Saturday.

My strategy in CFB has been to follow about 15 teams and delve abit more into conference rivalries, seedings (as this plays a big part towards the end of the season in terms of playoffs eligibility) and obviously the marquee games every week. In NFL I get involved in every game, I like the player props as I've noticed they can be very profitable.

First bet that I have placed so far is in the game between Minnesota Vikings and NY Giants:
Will Reichard (Vikings kicker) over 6.5 kicking points @1.9 on bet 365

Expecting a defensive game between these two, hence the low point total and the Vikings kicker has a pretty good range, they use him alot when they can't get the necessary downs to try for a touchdown. Asking for two field goals to make it six and a converted touchdown here. I wouldn't be surprised if they go for alot of field goals as both teams cannot 'move the chains' alot.

Hope to get some CFB and more NFL bets and looking forward to a profitable season for those that bet the sport.

Thanks Doubler and good luck for this season.

Thursday Night Football (Fri 02:20am)
Chiefs vs Ravens

Revenge game for Ravens after Chiefs knocked them out in the AFC Championship game last season.

Ravens made a big RB signing in Derrick Henry but I still expect QB Lamar Jackson to use his legs. Chiefs have been vulnerable against opposing QBs who can run and I expect Jackson to have a big game tonight with big plays on the ground and in the air.

Taking an alt line bet builder at Sunbet:
Lamar Jackson 200+ Passing Yards & 40+ Rushing Yards @ 13/10

Nice work with the Lamar double Naidoo:

Friday night/Saturday morning game in Brazil
Philadelphia Eagles vs Green Bay Packers

Eagles completely fell off towards the end of the season losing 5/6 last games after a convincing run. For the first time in a while Eagles now have an offensive line that can actually block and they are ranked 2nd in the league, they acquired Saquon Barkley from the Giants, where the offensive line was bottom 5 in the league. Packers struggled against the rush last year and the defensive line is not good. Eagles paid a boat load of money to acquire him and he will be the number 2 option after the QB who can also rush.

My best bet on this game :
Saquon Barkley over 63.5 rushing yards @1.9 on bet365

doubler wrote: Nice work with the Lamar double Naidoo:

Friday night/Saturday morning game in Brazil
Philadelphia Eagles vs Green Bay Packers

Eagles completely fell off towards the end of the season losing 5/6 last games after a convincing run. For the first time in a while Eagles now have an offensive line that can actually block and they are ranked 2nd in the league, they acquired Saquon Barkley from the Giants, where the offensive line was bottom 5 in the league. Packers struggled against the rush last year and the defensive line is not good. Eagles paid a boat load of money to acquire him and he will be the number 2 option after the QB who can also rush.

My best bet on this game :
Saquon Barkley over 63.5 rushing yards @1.9 on bet365

Thanks Doubler, nice to start the season with such an easy winner.

Nothing for me in tonight's game, so goodluck with your bet and will post my Sunday fancies over the weekend.

doubler wrote: Nice work with the Lamar double Naidoo:

Friday night/Saturday morning game in Brazil
Philadelphia Eagles vs Green Bay Packers

Eagles completely fell off towards the end of the season losing 5/6 last games after a convincing run. For the first time in a while Eagles now have an offensive line that can actually block and they are ranked 2nd in the league, they acquired Saquon Barkley from the Giants, where the offensive line was bottom 5 in the league. Packers struggled against the rush last year and the defensive line is not good. Eagles paid a boat load of money to acquire him and he will be the number 2 option after the QB who can also rush.

My best bet on this game :
Saquon Barkley over 63.5 rushing yards @1.9 on bet365

Lovely work Doubler - some performance by Barkley:beer onwards we go

Thanks Mark. Let's get some more winners, starting with College Football tomorrow

CFB Sunday

Shedeur Sanders (Colorado) over 314.5 passing yards @1.86 on bet 365:

Son of the legendary cornerback Deion Sanders, arguably the best ever in his position, playing at Quaterback against a very porous team in Nebraska that cant cover the pass. And the Dad is the coach who knows all about defense. I can see him getting over 350 passing yards here.

Ashton Jeanty (Boise State) Any time touchdown @1.9 on bet365

Boise state has no QB/passing offense, they will run the ball the whole game and their best opportunity to get a touchdown is through their running back

Back with NFL bets later. If you don't have college football props let me know, I'll try and get better bets.

1-1 on CFB . Saunders proved me wrong on the passing yards but Jeanty had 6 touchdowns. Keeping the units down in week one of NFL, afew bets I have on

NFLSunday/ Monday

Bo Nix (Denver Broncos QB) over 18.5 pass completions @1.9
Minnesota Vikings +1.5 @1.9
Parlay: Bengals +Bills +Seahawks @2.3

doubler wrote: Thanks Mark. Let's get some more winners, starting with College Football tomorrow

CFB Sunday

Shedeur Sanders (Colorado) over 314.5 passing yards @1.86 on bet 365:

Son of the legendary cornerback Deion Sanders, arguably the best ever in his position, playing at Quaterback against a very porous team in Nebraska that cant cover the pass. And the Dad is the coach who knows all about defense. I can see him getting over 350 passing yards here.

Ashton Jeanty (Boise State) Any time touchdown @1.9 on bet365

Boise state has no QB/passing offense, they will run the ball the whole game and their best opportunity to get a touchdown is through their running back

Back with NFL bets later. If you don't have college football props let me know, I'll try and get better bets.

Thanks Doubler, and in SA, guys can find CFB prop bets at Sportingbet and Hollywoodbets (same match bet builder).

As Doubler mentioned it's the first week, so alot of unknowns with teams and especially for player props. Instead of taking normal stake bets on 9/10 shots, I am going with lower stakes and bigger odds for this week.

Just for a watching brief for week 1, I am taking a 4-fold acca (games are across today and includes Monday Night Football(7pm,10pm,2am,2am(Tues)).

Bills/Seahawks/Lions/49ers all to win @ 3.5/1

Also taking three singles for Sunday games, combination of team wins and a TD scorer:

Bills Win & Dalton Kincaid TD @ 3/1
Seahawks Win & DK Metcalf TD @ 3/1
Lions Win & St Brown TD @ 2/1