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NFL Week 6: Win, Spread, Over/Under and Game Score Predictions

Welcome to another week of The Sports Savant NFL Picks, Week 6 Edition! After a sluggish first few weeks(thanks mostly to the unpredictability of the replacement referee debacle), the Sports Savant...
It’s Do or Die Time for the Bills D-Line

It is “do or die” time for the Buffalo Bills and their defensive line. We know the story of the highly-rated defensive tackles, the pass rush specialist and the highest paid...
NFL Week 6 Lecture Notes

Five full weeks have now been completed in the NFL season and I would like everyone who thought the Minnesota Vikings would be 4-1 at this point in the season to...
Riding the NFL Fantasy Waiver Wire Week 6

Another great weekend of football saw some injuries to key players and the return of some familiar faces. It’s getting harder and harder to find good pick-ups on the waivers, but...
NFL Week 5: Win, Spread and Over/Under Predictions

Welcome to another week of The Sports Savant NFL Picks, Week 5 Edition! With the return of the real referees, the games in Week 4 we’re a little easier to predict. ...
Riding the NFL Waiver Wire Week 5

Another crazy week has come and gone in the NFL with some no-name players appearing on the stat sheets league-wide. I’m starting to think I spent too much time over the...
Gamechangers: Big Plays You Won’t See on the Highlights, Week 4

Momentum is huge in football, and often effects the outcome of games. There are key plays that change momentum that are very subtle and may not make the highlight package on...
NFL Week 4: Savant Picks to Win, Versus the Spread and the Over/Under

Just when we thought the NFL couldn’t have gotten any more unpredictable the advent of the replacement referees gave us more unpredictability than we’ve ever seen in a single week in the NFL. The...
Grant’s Rants: NFL Replacement Refs – Bad or Biased?

It appears that enough is finally enough in the NFL. Replacement officials have officially be handing their walking papers, and the world of American football should soon be back to status...
NFL Week 3: Reaction and Analysis

It was an interesting week in the NFL Week 3, especially with the influence of the replacement officials and their sometimes stupefying calls and penalties. Here’s a look at the games...
The NFL Presents: “Ref-capades”

Imagine you have a beat-up old car, and it works for you, but the problem is you have a full-time job over an hour away from your house. The old powerless...
Savant Fantasy Analysis: NFL Week 3 ‘Bulls’

Welcome to The Sports Savant’s ‘Bulls’ fantasy football stock watch! Each week of the NFL season I try to provide some clarity on the week’s most crucial fantasy matchups and player...
The Sports Savant’s NFL Picks: Week 3

Editor’s Note: We here at Last Word on Sports are happy and proud to welcome Forrest Dolan to the writing team. Forrest has been writing at http://therealsportssavant.blogspot.ca for several years. Forrest...
Savant Fantasy Analysis: RGIII Could Be Your ‘Royal Flush’

When Robert Griffin III became a Heisman trophy winner at Baylor, a numerically proven hype machine in the NFL scouting combine, and a 2nd overall draft selection by the Redskins in...
Hakeem Nicks’ Absence Means a Giants Win vs. Panthers?

Hakeem Nicks was a late scratch Wednesday from Thursday’s game against the Panthers in Charlotte. Nicks suffered a broken bone in his foot in the off-season for which he had surgery,...
Riding the Fantasy Wire – Week Two

How things change from week to week in the NFL. This past weekend some fantasy owners are starting to see who is producing and who isn’t producing. It still might be...
NFL Gamechangers: Big Plays you won’t see on the highlights

Momentum is huge in football, and often effects the outcome of games. There are key plays that change momentum that are very subtle and may not make the highlight package on...
Announcement: Last Word Radio Launch

The team at LastWordOnSports is pleased to announce that we have expanded to include a series of radio shows. These sport-specific shows will be slowly introduced in the coming weeks. Each...
Fighting for Scraps in the NFC West

We have already looked at the two teams which will be fighting to win the division in San Francisco and Seattle, so where does that leave Arizona and St. Louis? Glad...
The Best of the NFC West: The Niners and Hawks

You can point to all the advanced stats you like when it comes to the San Francisco 49ers when trying to prove how they will certainly regress in Jim Harbaugh’s second...