The New York Giants head to La-La Land for a date with the Los Angeles Chargers. However, with a spread this big, bookies don’t expect a Hollywood ending. The Giants could be forced to start third-string quarterback Jake Fromm – a downtick for an offense that just can’t produce points.

Los Angeles, on the other hand, is coming off an impressive road win at Cincinnati but is one of the league’s most two-faced teams and runs the risk of a lookahead spot with a rivalry game against Kansas City looming next Thursday.

Here are our free NFL betting picks and predictions for Giants at Chargers on December 12.

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Smart football bettors don’t have just one way to handicap the NFL Week 8 odds. They layer in a number of angles and information to leave no edge unaccounted for.

Situational handicapping — also known as spot bets — is an effective way to unearth an impactful angle that advanced metrics and analytics just don’t measure. I run down the NFL Week 8 schedule and pick out the spots to watch.

Here are my best NFL spot bets: letdown, look-ahead, and schedule spots in Week 8.

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Milestone and Alt Overs are a great way to find big plus-money plays. bet365 has Milestone markets for basically every prop so bettors can look into different markets other than the standard yardage NFL player props. They also have markets for more players.

For the Week 15 odds slate, I’m picking on the Washington Commanders and their league-worst pass defense, looking for garbage-time passing from the Arizona Cardinals, and buying the dip on a running back who still dominates the carries in the Jacksonville Jaguars’ backfield. 

Before making your NFL picks, be sure to also check out Jared Hochman’s best NFL player prop bets for the action ahead.

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With the real business of Week 1 football just over 20 days away, the Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans continue their preparation with a showdown at Nissan Stadium on Saturday.

Both teams are 1-0 this preseason, as Seattle picked up a win over the Chargers last weekend and Tennessee held off the 49ers. My Seahawks vs. Titans predictions and NFL picks center around a top tip for this weekend’s game.

Seahawks vs Titans prediction

My best betSeahawks -1 (-110 at bet365)

My analysisFrom all accounts, it’s going to be backups against backups in Nashville on Saturday night, with the starters seeing plenty of snaps during the teams’ joint practices this week. That mak…

It is the calm after the storm, a few days on from Brentford’s breathless draw at home to Liverpool. The ground is empty, lighting rigs occupy the pitch and a couple of blocks behind the dugouts, Christian Nørgaard raises one of the challenges of such memorable occasions under the lights: the insomnia that invariably follows.

“I slept around 2.30am or 3am,” he says. “For a new stadium, it already has a lot of great memories, with the win against Arsenal and the draw against Liverpool – two amazing games. Liverpool was a late game, a crazy game and that makes it harder to fall asleep at night. The Ryder Cup was on so that made it a bit easier – I could watch a bit of that.”

Nørgaard grins but, as well…

Manchester United s Paul Pogba has devised a cunning plan to beat three-time 100 metre Olympic champion Usain Bolt in a race a motorbike!

Bolt cemented his place in the history books in Rio on Sunday as he claimed a third successive gold medal in the 100m final, beating rival Justin Gatlin by eight hundredths of a second.

The victory is the first rung on the ladder towards an unprecedented triple triple of sprint titles for the Jamaican, with the 200m and 4x100m relay still to come.

Bolt s rivals on the track have been unable to beat him on the world s biggest stage for the past three Games but Pogba the world s most expensive footballer believes he can do it.

The Frenchman took to Twitter to congratulate Bolt, and posted a picture of his plan to end the …

Germany manager Oliver Bierhoff says the Euro 2008 side can emulate their Euro 1996-winning predecessors after finally breaking their 12-year winless streak in the competition.

When Bierhoff scored the golden goal which won the Euro 1996 final, giving Germany their third European title, few Germans imagined it would be another 12 years before their side would again win another Euro championship game.

But having returned home early and winless from both Euro 2000 and 2004, the German public was restless for victory before Sunday s Group B win over Poland in Klagenfurt, but their team delivered an impressive 2-0 victory.

I am happy we have broken the jinx and all the preparation work has paid off, said a relieved Bierhoff on Monday.

We can be happy we …

Versatile Bayern Munich player Joshua Kimmich has been named Germany s Player of the Year for 2017.

The 22-year-old had a breakthrough year, forcing his way into the Bayern team and helping a young Germany squad to glory at the Confederations Cup.

Kimmich s emergence for club and country has helped to fill the gaping void left by the surprise early retirement of Philipp Lahm at the end of last season.

And Kimmich s reward was top spot in the supporter poll for Germany s Player of the Year for 2017, having received more than 20,000 votes.

The fans have voted for Joshua as the Player of the Year 2017 

He was followed by Julian and .

— Germany (@DFB_Team_EN)

Kimmich played 1,260 minutes for Germany in 2017 and only mi…

England s team in Russia are similar to Spain s World Cup winners of 2010, according to Luis Garcia.

Gareth Southgate s men overcame Colombia in the last 16 to move into a quarter-final clash against Sweden Saturday.

Garcia, who played 20 games for Spain, feels there are similarities between England and his nation s successful 2010 outfit.

At least they are here. They are continuing in this World Cup which is something many people probably wouldn t say at the beginning of this competition, he said Wednesday.

What I see different, and I can compare them to the Spanish team of 2010, they are young, they are young players in that team, they want to do something big for their country.

They showed [against Colombia] that in the end, even though the…

Monday Night Football is normally the Grand Finale of the week. But with COVID wreaking havoc on the Week 15 slate, this Monday matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears is one of four final games.

If you can’t lock down a wager on the side or the total for this NFC North rivalry, bookies offer plenty of alternative options. We scour the massive betting menu and give our free NFL prop picks and predictions for Monday Night Football in Week 15.

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