Browns vs Packers Week 16 Picks and Predictions: Holiday of Horrors Continues for Cleveland

It’s been nothing but coal in the stocking for the Cleveland Browns. After losing on Monday with a ridiculously depleted roster mostly comprised of practice-squad players, they now travel to Lambeau (on a short week) to face the Green Bay Packers on Christmas Day.

The Packers, who have the league’s best record at 11-3, are unsurprisingly NFL betting favorites at home, laying a touchdown against a 7-7 Cleveland team that is clinging to fleeting playoff hopes.

Here are our best free NFL picks and predictions for Browns vs. Packers on Saturday, December 25.

NFL Week 13 Bet Now, Bet Later: Grab AFC Championship Rematch to Hit the Over

Thanksgiving is a pile of leftovers in the fridge, which means we’re hitting the home stretch of the NFL schedule. 

With the calendar flipping to December in NFL Week 13, the pressure is mounting. Not just on teams pushing for the postseason but also on NFL bettors. Beating the bookie gets harder every week, but as long as you’re getting the best of the number to back up your wagers, you’ve got a fighting chance.

We help you do just that, highlighting the best NFL Week 13 spreads and totals to bet right now and which one you may want to wait for adjustments to bet later.

Matthew Stafford Odds and TNF Props: Stafford Slings It Against the Saints

In a wide open NFC playoff race, the Los Angeles Rams have been surging in recent weeks and since the return of Matthew Stafford from injury, Sean McVay’s team has gone 4-1 in its last five heading into the Week 16 odds opener.

However, now Stafford & Co. will have to deal with a New Orleans Saints defense that’s been one of the best in the league this season and is equally hungry for a playoff berth.

You can see how I’m betting on Matthew Stafford’s odds as I dive into the TNF odds to bring you my free NFL picks below.

For more TNF coverage, check our Saints vs. Rams predictions and our best TNF prop bets! 

New York Jets Predictions, Picks, Odds & Season Preview for 2024-25: Take Flight

Joni Mitchell taught us that, “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”. 

In the case of Aaron Rodgers, the New York Jets only got four snaps with the veteran quarterback but now know what they’ve got: an elite defense, a bruising rushing attack, and a passing game ready to pop after being held back by rotten QB play in 2023.

The promise of Rodgers carried weight with the betting markets last summer and the bar is even higher in 2024. Gang Green lays points in 14 games, according to look-ahead lines, and their win total is at 10.5. New York is -175 to make the playoffs, a co-fave to win the AFC East, and among the second tier of Super Bowl contenders.

This is the Jets we’re talking about, however. So,…

Marcelo Bielsa’s first signs of Leeds fallibility is a test for fans’ devotion

The problem with any discussion of Marcelo Bielsa is the tendency immediately to speak in grand broadbrush terms; everybody already knows what they think about him. It’s the curse of our age that positions so rapidly become entrenched, even when it comes to the ostensibly trivial issue of how football should be played.

Nobody can ever simply question the way Ole Gunnar Solskjær structures a midfield or his organisation of the press or ask whether the inclusion of Cristiano Ronaldo might have made those issues worse, without immediately being cast as anti-Ole or anti-Manchester United, revelling in every goal conceded.

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Strength and power of Manchester City can reinforce Premier League dominance

The Premier League is the dominant force in the Champions League: Saturday’s final will be the fifth in six years to feature at least one English team. Football generally works in cycles, though, and the rest of the continent will be plotting to take over again.

In the five finals before 2018, there was not an English side in sight and Spain was lording it over its rivals. Real Madrid won four out of five from 2013 in their dominant cycle, but they have been overtaken. Manchester City enter their second Champions League final in three years against Internazionale, who are the first Italian team since 2017 to reach this stage of a competition Serie A has dominated in the past. In the 10 seasons starting in 1988-89 an Italian club reached ni…

Simone Biles Is Now The Most Decorated Female Gymnast In World Championships History

Another day, another record for Simone Biles. Her record-breaking run at the 2018 worlds championships in Doha started with the all-around final on Thursday where she picked up her fourth all-around gold, making her the first woman to do so. She also tied Vitaly Scherbo for most world championship gold medals won at 12. The following day, she won the women’s vault gold to break out of the tie and own the gold medal record outright. She also won her first world medal on bars, making her the first American to win a world championships medal on all four apparatuses. And today, Biles picked up the bronze on the balance beam and the gold on the floor exercise. The gold on floor was her 20th world championship medal, which ties her for the record with former Russian star Svetlana Khorkina, …

Drunkspin's Best Beers of 2014

Presented below, you will find a list of beers that I like. Lists of these sort tend to be taken more seriously when they have authoritative names, so my working title for this one was The Definitive Drunkspin Compilation Of The 18 Beers In The Universe That Are Perfect; All Other Beers Are Horrible. But that didn't fit, and/or my editor had some other dumb idea.
Would you believe that I put a lot of thought into the beer-selection methodology for this list? If you believe that, then you, my dear friend, are a rube—but also, in this one isolated instance, a correct rube, for I did approach this list with something very closely approximating a responsible plan of action. Dig this:
A lot of year-end lists concern themselves strictly with newly released beers, and there are in…