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The Prez cashed his first 2017 NLFX Best Bet with an Over-Under recommendtion in Philadelphia on Thursday night and followed it up with a pointspread winner on Friday night with the Seattle Seahawks in a win over the Minnesota Vikings.

Prez is now a perfect 2-0 this NFLX August.

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• SportGame SelectionGame Time

  NFL(461) Arizona Cardinals at (462) Detroit Lions1:00pm EDT - Sep 10/2017
  THE PLAY: Detroit Lions -2.5 (-105)

  Two NFC foes take the 2017 opener in Detroit on Ford Field when the Lions (-2.5, 50) host the Arizona Cardinals in the Week #1 event. Detroit scuffled in the latter portion of the 2016 season. After a 9-4 start to the campaign the team lost their final three games to finish 9-7 and earn an NFC Wild Card berth. Arizona missed the postseason for the first time in three season finishing second in the NFC West with a 7-8-1 mark.

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  Arizona Cardinals
  The Cardinals were a major disappointment last season. Head coach Bruce Arians and the front office didn’t believe the squad and units had personnel holes and during the offseason spoke openly about the results of the 2016 campaign being “one of those seasons.” Hence, the team was relatively quiet during the offseason concerning free agents.

  While the front office and the coaching staff were satisfied to hold serve with last year’s roster they enter the 2017 season opener against the Lions in Detroit with a number of question marks.  Given the struggles from last season and the players they lost, their 2017 results will be dictated by a 37 year-old quarterback, Carson Palmer, that waited until February after his body healed to announce he would return for another season.

   

  

  
  Detroit Lions
  Matthew Stafford led a 2016 Detroit offense to the largest number of fourth quarter comebacks in a single season. Stafford threw for more than 4,200 yards for the sixth straight season. Stafford and offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter clicked big time in 2016.

  Running back Ameer Abdullah enters the Week #1 affair healthy. He was lost for the 2016 campaign to injured reserve due to a foot injury.  Stafford will have the veteran presence of Golden Tate and Marvin Jones to throw to again this season.

  The Lions upgraded the offensive line by adding 2016 Pro Bowl guard T.J. Lang and tackle Rick Wagner who departed Baltimore after starting 47 career games for the Ravens.

  The Lions team liability a season ago was their defense. The secondary, most concerning their cover corners, surrendered 16 touchdowns and intercepted a mere three passes in 2016. Detroit also fell short in pressuring opposing quarterbacks.

  The stop-unit lost safety Rafael Bush to the New Orleans Saints as well as defensive end Devin Taylor to free agency. The team cut linebacker DeAndre Levy.

  The Lions did add defensive tackle Jordan Hill, linebackers Nick Bellore and Paul Worrilow, and added depth to the cover-corner position by signing D.J. Hayden.

  The Lions host an aging and less talented Arizona Cardinals troupe that will have traveled three time zones for this 2017 opener. The Cardinals receivers will be the primary focus for head coach Jim Caldwell’s defensive staff.

  Defensively the Cardinals are well-rounded and balanced but the personnel they lost this offseason wasn’t adequately replaced. Arizona’s Week #1 matchup versus Stafford and company will be difficult test.

  I fully expect Teryl Austin’s secondary to do just enough to assist the Lions’ high powered offense under the guidance of Stafford to outscore Palmer and the Cardinals while covering the field goal handicap, as well.

  2017 NFL Season Opener Free Pick is a play on the Detroit Lions minus the points.

   

   

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• SportGame SelectionGame Time

  CFBMichigan Wolverines Regular Season Win Total3:00am EDT - Sep 5/2017
  THE PLAY: Michigan Wolverines UNDER 9 Season Wins (-110)

  As the Michigan Wolverines fall football camp approaches it isn't a difficult evaluation to realistically access that the oddsmakers Michigan win total and their projected success this season, in relation to the squad's 2017 Regular Season Wins Total that WestGate has published, is over-valued.
   
  Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh said that redshirt senior QB Wilton Speight has not yet earned the starting quarterback job for the 2017 season.
  Is this just coach-speak?
  
  There are a large number of College Football pundits that believe Speight is NFL ready. The competition is legitimately tight according to the Wolverines' head coach. Harbaugh told the local media recently that Speight "went through competition throughout the spring, went through 15 practices and it [competition] was a dead heat." He went on in the interview to verbalize that it would take around 8-15 practices in camp before the competition has a name at the top of the depth chart." Speight is competing against John O'Korn and Brandon Peters.
  
  There is little doubt that Harbaugh has numerous talent and it is a given that he and his staff can recruit as effectively as any school in the college ranks. However, there is a total of just six starters back from last year's team with only one of those being on defense.
  
  Michigan lost 10 starters from last season's No #1 ranked defensive unit, including Heisman finalist Jabrill Peppers, captain Chris Wormley, cover corner Jourdan Lewis and defensive line stalwart Taco Charlton. Defensive coordinator Don Brown has his work cut out for him if he plans on equaling last year's season ending statistics yet alone improving on the unit’s 2016 performance.
  
  Can Brown's heavy blitzing scheme succeed with so many inexperienced starters in 2017?
  
  Offensively, Michigan is in a better equipped to succeed than the defense, when comparing the two units to the 2017 player personnel. While the offense lost five starters from the 2016 unit Harbaugh and his coaching staff offered a large number of snaps to the young player core a year ago. However, one should expect that the offense will experience their share of high's and low's this season. The only significant skilled players to return on offense are Speight and running back Chris Evans. All things being equal Speight hasn't even been named the starter, yet, and whomever is the starting signal caller in Week #1 versus Florida will have all new receivers as Amara Darboh, Jehu Chesson and Jake Butt departed for the NFL.
  
  Michigan boasts plenty of young talent but with arguably their most important season defining game coming in Week #1 against the Florida Gators at Texas Stadium it isn't a stretch to foresee growing pains on both sides of the ball in the team's campaign opener. Road exams for the Wolverines this season, Florida in Texas and Penn State at Happy Valley are twp events in which Michigan should be underdogs. This 2017 Harbaugh squad does get Ohio State at home but the Big House alone won't be enough to make Michigan the oddsmakers choice in this contest if Ohio State is who they are projected to be in late November.
  
  With 2017 affairs against quality opponents in Florida, Penn State and Wisconsin away from home and Cincinnati, Michigan State and Ohio State at the Big House, each and every Saturday game will be mission critical to where Michigan is playing in January.
  
  Beat the Gators in Arlington on the first Saturday of September and this team has a chance to win nine games this season, which would currently be a push on the SuperBook College Football 2017 Regular Season Wins chart. Fail to earn a "W" in the season opener versus a good Florida defense and winning nine game in 2017 is a long shot.

  At best, this 2017 Michigan group looks like a team that will finish 8–4.
  
  PREZ' FREE COLLEGE FOOTBALL REGULAR SEASON TEAM WIN TOTAL is an investment on UNDER 9 Wins for the Michigan Wolverines.

• SportGame SelectionGame Time

  NFL(427) Atlanta Falcons at (428) Pittsburgh Steelers4:00pm EDT - Aug 20/2017
  THE PLAY: Total Under 39.5 (-110)

  Prez' Sunday Funday NFLX Free Pick: Atlanta at Pittsburgh
  

  The Super Bowl runners-up travel to the Ketchup Bottle with kickoff scheduled for 4:00 p.m. ET at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Falcons and the Steelers are the first of a Sunday doubleheader that positions the Steelers in a precarious situation playing their second and third teams for the majority of today's game due to a plethora of injuries and missing player personnel.
  
  With Major League Baseball becoming stale until the October postseason begins it isn't a stretch to state that preseason football is better than no football and while the Steelers won’t have their primary positional players dressing today it is still Sunday football.
  
  Without going into in-depth detail and game analysis it is noteworthy to mention that the Steelers and head coach Mike Tomlin are not playing to win in the August glorified practice games.  Pittsburgh starters that have been ruled out are quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and wide receiver Antonio Brown.
  
  Date/Time: Sunday, August 20, 4:00 p.m. ET
  Venue: Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA
  Odds: Atlanta Falcons (-3, 39) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
  Broadcast: NFL Network
  
  Atlanta was on the short end of a 23-20 score in the first preseason event versus the Miami Dolphins. However, the evaluations by head coach Dan Quinn explained his staff's priorities during the preseason. Like the Steelers coaches there is little priority to play the projected starters in this second exhibition matchup.
  
  “The most important thing for us, right now, is to find out (about) the players (rookies and backups),” Quinn told NFL.com. “And to not inhibit them from – especially a young player – of things that could jam them up where we don’t see them at their very best. For us to see the best version of themselves, we want them to be really clean-thinking, really straightforward. I’m not even concerned about a disguise on defense or particularly a motion or a concept offensively. It’s how hard do they play?”
  
  The key figures from the Atlanta roster that will not see action are wide outs Julio Jones and Taylor Gabriel There is a slight chance that Gabriel could dress and see a series but he is questionable until game time.
  
  Falcons fans may get their first opportunity to see first-round draft pick Takkarist McKinley in action but he won't see extended snaps. The pass rusher is still coming back from offseason shoulder surgery.
  
  Atlanta starting running back Devonta Freeman will not play in Sunday’s game. The Pro Bowler left Atlanta’s final training camp practice with what were believe to be “heat-related” issues, but it was determined that he showed symptoms of a concussion and was subsequently placed into the league’s concussion protocol according to NFL.com
  
  “He reportedly had some concussion symptoms so we put him in the protocol for that and he’ll be out this week,” Quinn was quoted after Monday’s practice. “He may start practicing as we go but we’ll rule him out now for the game as more of a precautionary note.”
  
  Running back Tevin Coleman and newly signed backs Kelvin Taylor and Jhurell Pressley will see the majority of the tailback touches today.
  
  While this is the Sunday afternoon primetime NFL event it won't sport most of the primetime players that we will see on Sunday during the regular season and defense, or lack of offensive execution, rules the contest. The Free Pick today is a double-down.
  
  Prez' NFLX Free Pick is a play on the Atlanta Falcons -2.5 points and UNDER the TOTAL of 39.5 points
   

• SportGame SelectionGame Time

  NFL(427) Atlanta Falcons at (428) Pittsburgh Steelers4:00pm EDT - Aug 20/2017
  THE PLAY: Atlanta Falcons -2.5 (-110)

  Prez' Sunday Funday NFLX Free Pick: Atlanta at Pittsburgh
  

  The Super Bowl runners-up travel to the Ketchup Bottle with kickoff scheduled for 4:00 p.m. ET at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Falcons and the Steelers are the first of a Sunday doubleheader that positions the Steelers in a precarious situation playing their second and third teams for the majority of today's game due to a plethora of injuries and missing player personnel.
  
  With Major League Baseball becoming stale until the October postseason begins it isn't a stretch to state that preseason football is better than no football and while the Steelers won’t have their primary positional players dressing today it is still Sunday football.
  
  Without going into in-depth detail and game analysis it is noteworthy to mention that the Steelers and head coach Mike Tomlin are not playing to win in the August glorified practice games.  Pittsburgh starters that have been ruled out are quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and wide receiver Antonio Brown.
  
  Date/Time: Sunday, August 20, 4:00 p.m. ET
  Venue: Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA
  Odds: Atlanta Falcons (-3, 39) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
  Broadcast: NFL Network
  
  Atlanta was on the short end of a 23-20 score in the first preseason event versus the Miami Dolphins. However, the evaluations by head coach Dan Quinn explained his staff's priorities during the preseason. Like the Steelers coaches there is little priority to play the projected starters in this second exhibition matchup.
  
  “The most important thing for us, right now, is to find out (about) the players (rookies and backups),” Quinn told NFL.com. “And to not inhibit them from – especially a young player – of things that could jam them up where we don’t see them at their very best. For us to see the best version of themselves, we want them to be really clean-thinking, really straightforward. I’m not even concerned about a disguise on defense or particularly a motion or a concept offensively. It’s how hard do they play?”
  
  The key figures from the Atlanta roster that will not see action are wide outs Julio Jones and Taylor Gabriel There is a slight chance that Gabriel could dress and see a series but he is questionable until game time.
  
  Falcons fans may get their first opportunity to see first-round draft pick Takkarist McKinley in action but he won't see extended snaps. The pass rusher is still coming back from offseason shoulder surgery.
  
  Atlanta starting running back Devonta Freeman will not play in Sunday’s game. The Pro Bowler left Atlanta’s final training camp practice with what were believe to be “heat-related” issues, but it was determined that he showed symptoms of a concussion and was subsequently placed into the league’s concussion protocol according to NFL.com
  
  “He reportedly had some concussion symptoms so we put him in the protocol for that and he’ll be out this week,” Quinn was quoted after Monday’s practice. “He may start practicing as we go but we’ll rule him out now for the game as more of a precautionary note.”
  
  Running back Tevin Coleman and newly signed backs Kelvin Taylor and Jhurell Pressley will see the majority of the tailback touches today.
  
  While this is the Sunday afternoon primetime NFL event it won't sport most of the primetime players that we will see on Sunday during the regular season and defense, or lack of offensive execution, rules the contest. The Free Pick today is a double-down.
  
  Prez' NFLX Free Pick is a play on the Atlanta Falcons -2.5 points and UNDER the TOTAL of 39.5 points
   

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