I so often hear chic sports fans and handicappers talk about games being won “at the point of attack”.
I know of one handicapper who constantly screams he doesn’t care about the skilled
position players; he loves the “lunch pail” guys.
If it were only...
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I so often hear chic sports fans and handicappers talk about games being won “at the point of attack”.
I know of one handicapper who constantly screams he doesn’t care about the skilled
position players; he loves the “lunch pail” guys.
If it were only true handicapping would be so easy because all we’d do is bet injury information line moves.
When was the last time you saw an injury to an offensive lineman take a game off the board, circled or have the line significantly
adjusted? Still thinking of one, eh? On the other hand, when was the last time a major change in
regards to a 1,500 yard rusher did not have a huge effect on a line?
So if the “lunch pail” banalities were true, any time a line is adjusted to compensate for a
quarterback’s injury all we’d have to do is bet with the effected team because a line move of major
proportions would be unjustified.
Conversely any time an All-SEC offensive lineman was out, we
would bet the other team because the linesmakers did no
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