CRAZY NFL PARLAY: WEEK 17

BY ADAM GREENE

We’re down to our last two chances to cash in the big Publisher’s Clearing House check we’ve been scanning the horizon for all season. Yes. It’s the penultimate Crazy NFL Parlay and we have some solid contender with which to wager our Alexander Hamilton upon this week.

If this is your first time with the Crazy NFL Parlay, here’s how it works. I’m not just blindly picking plus moneylines here. Oh no. I am carefully perusing the odds, lines and totals every week to hand select the most probable upsets for us to pile together and turn the cash you’d drop in a trip to Starbucks into a Harley Davidson Nightster Motorcycle. That midlife crisis isn’t going to start all by itself.

Here’s what I’ve picked out for you this week;

Detroit Lions +200

Miami Dolphins +152

Atlanta Falcons +115

Tennessee Titans +175

Las Vegas Raiders +160

New Orleans Saints +125

Pittsburgh Steelers +155

Green Bay Packers +103

If you’ve read my Saturday NFL Preview, Sunday Night Football preview and Friday Afternoon Quarterback picks articles, then you know I only really like one of these upsets. I think the Steelers will go into Lumen Field and ruin the Seattle Seahawks’ afternoon as Mike Tomlin once again secures another season without posting a losing record.

All the rest? Well, let’s talk ourselves into them.

The Dallas Cowboys have lost two in a row and are still coached by Mike McCarthy. Detroit has the offense and the horses to knock them off in Arlington.

While the Dolphins have only one victory over a club with a winning record, the aforementioned Cowboys, they too have the talent, especially on offense, to go toe-to-toe with the Baltimore Ravens, especially a week after Baltimore shocked the world by blowing out the San Francisco 49ers.

Are the Falcons better than the Chicago Bears? Probably not, but this game is basically a coin flip in a battle between two of the worst head coaches in the NFL.

The Titans have hung around with pretty much every team they’ve played this season. CJ Stroud has been sitting for weeks for the Houston Texans and the rust on his arm could cost them in what really should be a pretty evenly matched game.

There seems to be a lot of mumbling that Antonio Pierce can keep the head coaching job in Vegas, especially if he wins out and makes the playoffs. For a team that beat the Kansas City Chiefs last week, facing off against Gardner Minshew II and the Indianapolis Colts could feel like a vacation.

Finally, we have the Packers playing a playoff elimination game at the Minnesota Vikings, a team starting a rookie quarterback that could be without one of its best offensive weapons, rookie Jordan Addison.

A wining $10 parley bet on these eight moneylines pays $13,525.83.

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