Culpepper signs with UFL's Sacramento club
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06/07/2010 - Sacramento, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former NFL quarterback Daunte Culpepper has signed with the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions.
The move will re-unite Culpepper with Dennis Green, who was Culpepper's head coach with the Minnesota Vikings. Green is now the head coach of the Mountain Lions, who are headed into the second UFL season this fall.
Culpepper, 33, played in eight games (five starts) for the Detroit Lions during the 2009 NFL season, completing 89-of-157 passes for 945 yards, with three touchdowns and six interceptions.
"My goal for this year was to get on the field and play football," said Culpepper. "When the opportunity came for me to sign with the UFL and play for coach Green in Sacramento I could not resist. I am impressed with his approach to the game and to his players."
The Vikings selected Culpepper with the 11th overall pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, and he spent his first seven seasons with Minnesota. He was a three- time Pro Bowl selection in his time with the Vikings, but bounced around the NFL after leaving the Vikings as he struggled with injuries.
In 105 career NFL games with the Vikings, Dolphins, Raiders and Lions, Culpepper threw for 24,153 yards and 149 touchdowns while completing 63 percent of his passes. Culpepper also ran for 2,652 yards and 34 touchdowns.
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2007 NFL Football Betting Preview
“You play to win the game!”
Those are the words of notoriously intense head coach Herman Edwards. Unfortunately, from a bettors’ perspective, most coaches don’t feel that way about the NFL preseason. August is a time to evaluate young players, finalize the depth chart and pray your star players stay healthy.
The trick to making money during the exhibition schedule is identifying coaches – like Edwards – who can’t stand losing even when there's nothing on the line.
The New York Jets betting won 15 of 21 preseason games and went 14-7 against the spread (ATS) during Edwards’s five-year tenure with the club. In his first season as the Kansas City Chiefs field boss, the team improved from 0-4 to 2-2.
Identifying win-a-holics like Edwards is a good start if you plan betting the preseason – even though most say you shouldn’t ... but what the hell do they know anyway?
Here’s a brief rundown of two teams that have a habit of winning during the second-stringers’ season, and another club that has a good chance of exceeding this year.
Playing in the media hub of North America can be stressful but the press can’t write anything negative about the way Tom Coughlin’s boys play in the preseason. The Giants won and covered all four games last summer, improving their record to 7-1 both straight up (SU) and against the spread over the last two years.
Coughlin has shown he’s not afraid to give his starters more time in the second preseason game than most of his colleagues, no doubt one of the reasons his team has been so dominant.
Bettors can count on America’s team early on. The Cowboys are 14-6 both SU and ATS since 2002 in warm-up contests. Former coach Bill Parcells, the coach of the team the last four years, has an intimidating, in-your-face presence – surely a reason Dallas has had so much early success.
The Big Tuna won’t be strolling the sidelines with looks of disgust, but new coach Wade Phillips will be anxious to make a good first impression for owner Jerry Jones.
Dallas plays the Indianapolis Colts and the Denver Broncos before things get serious. They then face the Houston Texans in their third contest (the game starters see most game time) and finish off with the Minnesota Vikings.
Expect a Dallas team able to walk away with another 3-1 preseason record.
This team scored a league-worst 12 offensive touchdowns last season, so the rookies and veterans each have something to prove. There’s a bounty of first-unit jobs up for grabs and plenty of bodies competing for those slots.
First-time head coach Lane Kiffin will be eager to impress an owner who employs the philosophy, “Just win, baby!”
The 32-year-old Kiffin has to command respect from a locker room full of players older than him. All of these factors should lead to purpose in preseason.
Don’t forget: before playing like a team that belonged in NFL Europe, Oakland went 4-1 (both SU and ATS) in exhibition games.
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