Jerry Bo

Bookie Busters: Break the bank

Bookie Busters: Break the bank
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After coming off a sad few days last article and our first losing NFL weekend, we bounced back in prime fashion.

The game gives and takes, this time we were on the receiving side of the fortune, and we hope to continue the trend heading into the weekend. Let's eat! Good luck.

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Blazers vs. Lakers
Over 226.6    1U +1
Spain/Croatia  BTTS 3U +3
TNF   6:46 CST
Ohio TT O 40.5 Live +5
Ohio TT over 13.5 second half +5
Lakers' Blazers under 101.5 +2

GB/Sea Over 49 5U MAX  +5
Seattle TT over 26 5U MAX   +5
Seattle TT first half over 13.5 2U   +2
J.Graham pass receptions over 3½ 2U   -2.6
scores TD 1U +170  -1
Wilson over 225.5 Passing yards 5U  -5.5
Durant Over 30 points 5U MAX  -5.5
Seattle 2nd half TT over 13.5 -120  5U MAX -5.5
3rd Q over 9.5  5U MAX -5.5
Seattle ml 2nd half -122   ( so +4 for game) 2U +5

+7.4

The last article read +209.7U        209.7+ 7.4= 217.1

Let's have a weekend, the chase for 300 is on!

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Jazz vs 76ers
76ers -3    1U

 

International Friendly 

Brazil vs Uruguay Over 2.5 5U MAX

Saturday

Minnesota ML 3U

Maryland +14 3U

Live Under 17.5 Neb first half 5U

Under 60.5 2U

Syracuse +10.5 5U MAX

 

 

UPDATE  7:51 CST

Wast St -10  5U MAx

 

UPDATE 1:34 CST

Ravens/Bengals 2nd half under 20.5 2U

UPDATED

1:35 CST

Colts TT 2nd half over 10.5 2U

UPDATED 1:44

Pitt/Jax Under 21.5 2nd half 2U

 

UPDATED

Michael Thomas scored TD -140   5U MAX

Kamara scores a receiving TD  1U

 

 David Johnson pass receptions over 3½ 5U MAX

 

L.Fitzgerald pass receptions over 4½  5U MAX

TD 1U

 

UPDATED 5:02

Saints 3rd Q ML  5U

 

UPDATED

8:45 CST

Vikings 2nd Half ML 5U

 

UPDATED  1:25

Germany   ML  3U

 

UPDATE   5:53 CST

Northern Illinois -6 (buy the hook if need be ) -117 

 

UPDATE  10:30 CST

Zona TT over 83.5 game   2U

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After the beating C.J. Stroud took in Houston’s divisional playoff loss to Kansas City it was clear the team’s top offseason priority should be upgrading its offensive line.

Instead, the Texans traded five-time Pro Bowl left tackle Laremy Tunsil and 2022 first-round pick left guard Kenyon Green and released right guard Shaq Mason.

They added tackle Cam Robinson and guards Ed Ingram and Laken Tomlinson, but as the NFL draft approaches their porous offensive line remains the most glaring weakness of the team.

Though the Texans won’t say that they plan to use their first-round pick (No. 25) on an offensive lineman, they’ve said plenty about the need to better protect Stroud this upcoming season. Stroud led Houston to its second straight AFC South title last season despite being sacked 52 times, which was the second most in the NFL.

“Getting better protection for C.J. is definitely a main point of emphasis for us,” coach DeMeco Ryans said. “We know when C.J. is protected, he has a clean pocket, he’s a pretty good quarterback. ... He’s capable of making any throw on the football field. But it’s just a matter of protecting him and giving him that comfort when he’s in the pocket.”

General manager Nick Caserio said he doesn’t believe they have to draft an offensive lineman next week.

“We feel like we have to add good football players to our football team,” he said. “That’s what we’re focused on. Whatever those positions entail, that’s what’s going to work. That’s how we’re going to approach it and handle it.”

Houston’s pick in the first round is one of seven selections it has in this year’s draft. The Texans return to the first round this season after not having a pick in the opening round last season because of trades, including the one to move up to get defensive end Will Anderson with the third overall pick in the 2023 draft.

Though the offensive line has several holes, Houston’s top priority should be drafting the left tackle of the future.

Robinson could protect Stroud’s blind side this season to give whichever player they draft a season to develop and learn behind him.

A couple of players who could be available when the Texans pick are Kelvin Banks from Texas and Oregon’s Josh Conerly. Banks was a three-year starter for the Longhorns and won the Outland Trophy as the nation’s best interior lineman last season. Conerly started 28 games at left tackle in the past two seasons for the Ducks and was a finalist for the Joe Moore Award given to the nation’s best offensive lineman.

Pick ’em

The Texans have two picks in the third round and two in the seventh this year after receiving the 79th and 236th overall picks from the Commanders as part of the trade for Tunsil.

Needs

Along with the offensive line, the Texans could use some help at receiver. Nico Collins, who has had consecutive 1,000-yard seasons, has developed into an elite option. But the Texans need a solid second option after they moved on from Stefon Diggs after one disappointing season that ended in a season-ending injury in Week 8.

They traded for Christian Kirk, but he’s coming off a tough season where he had a career-low 379 yards before breaking his collarbone in October. The Texans also don’t know when they’ll get Tank Dell back, with the receiver still recovering from a serious knee injury he sustained in December.

Don’t need

The Texans are set at running back after signing Joe Mixon before last season and having a reliable backup in Dameon Pierce.

Draft success

While Caserio has added some stars to the team with first-round draft picks including Stroud, Anderson and cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., he’s also had a knack for finding starters beyond the first round since joining the Texans.

Caserio nabbed Collins in the third round in his first draft with Houston in 2021 and added safety Jalen Pitre in the second round in 2022. He also found starting linebackers Christian Harris in the third in 2022 and Henry To’oTo’o in the fifth in 2023.

Last year he drafted cornerback Kamari Lassiter in the second round and safety Calen Bullock in the third. In their rookie seasons, Lassiter started 14 games while Bullock started 13.

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