Free Betting Tips – How To Play Detroit Lions With Matthew Stafford

Believe it or not, the game that you need free betting tips the most on is the tilt between the Washington Redskins and the one-win Detroit Lions. Former first overall pick Matthew Stafford is back from his shoulder injury, and ready to put Detroit back in winning form. The question is whether or not he’ll last, or if his mere presence makes the Lions a winning team.

In Stafford’s first and only game for the Detroit Lions, he hit 11-of-15 passes for 83 yards and set up two touchdowns before being ousted with his injury. The Bears were so focused on Stafford in Week 1 that they left Jahvid Best wide open for dump passes and running routes.

While carving up the underneath routes against the Bears, Stafford also connected on back-to-back passes of 15-yards and 19-yards to receivers to put Jahvid Best in position to score on a 3-yard run. In short, the easiest free NFL betting tip to hand out is this: he simply makes the Detroit Lions a much more balanced offense.

In terms of betting this season, the Lions have gone 5-1 ATS and the good times have rolled on for their betting investors even though the only win they earned was at home against St. Louis. Hurting Stafford’s value is Detroit’s 6-13 ATS in their last 19 home games and just 1-11 SU in their past 12 games overall.

On top of that, everything may some rosy with Stafford coming back, but any free betting tips on this game will have to factor in DeAngelo Hall and the turnover happy defense of the Washington Redskins as well.

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Washington Redskins (4-3) vs. Detroit Lions (1-5)

Sunday, October 31st — Ford Field — 1:00pm EST

NFL Betting Line: Detroit -3.0 (45)

One of the bigger free betting tips I could ever give you is to look at a team’s giveaway/takeaway ratio. The Redskins are tied with the New York Giants for the most fumbles recovered (9) and have another 8 interceptions to give them the most turnovers in NFC at 17 total.

Detroit doesn’t turn the ball over that much, giving the ball away mostly on interceptions that Stafford hasn’t been responsible for. And you can’t look for the offense to expect the world out of Stafford – Detroit will be rightfully conservative, especially given that nobody is taking Washington lightly anymore.

Even more astounding than the Lions going 5-1 ATS this season is that Washington has gone 5-1-1 ATS in their past 7 games on the road. Perennially, the Redskins have been a team nobody trusts away from home, but McNabb has made them a pretty damn good offense in terms of putting up points and yards.

Washington is just 3-11 SU in their past 14 road games and are 2-3-1 ATS in their past 6 road games against Detroit.

That’s ultimately the rub in free betting tips for Week 8 in the NFL. Washington is just as scrappy as Detroit, which is why I encourage the TOTAL more than anything. Also, in Washington’s last game they should’ve blown Chicago out of the water in. A 17-14 win when you the defense generates 6 turnovers is proof that either side of the ball relies too much on the other.

Detroit is where they should be had Stafford played the entire season: favored at home, dangerous and garnering tons of NFL betting action. I could dispense free tipping tips to fill up many more pages of conjecture on this game, but the simple truth is that Detroit finally has a quarterback teams will be scared of and that opens up the offense en route to a win over Washington.

Furious Free Betting Tip – Detroit -3.0 (OVER)

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