It's been a long, treacherous month without professional football, but congratulations folks -- WE MADE IT!
The Indoor Football League season is upon, opening up their season with a 2-game weekend featuring the Arizona Rattlers taking on the Northern Arizona Wranglers, and the Massachusetts Pirates heading to Wisconsin to take on the Green Bay Blizzard.
The good news: everyone is undefeated so far in picks this year.
The bad news: nobody has a win so far in picks this year.
Let's find some winners:
Arizona Rattlers-Northern Arizona Wranglers
These teams faced off against each 4 times in 2023, 3 times in the regular season and once in the playoffs. The combined points in each of those games was:
94, 125, 94 & 115 -- with the Rattlers averaging 57.8 points per game.
The Rattlers will have a new QB this year in Dalton Snead, who was the 2023 IFL National Championship game MVP, but he should fit in beautifully with Kevin Guy's offense. Last year Snead was versatile in the running game and made minimal mistakes in the passing game -- throwing 49 TDs to just 3 INTs.
Week One resulted of last season resulted in offensive explosions as teams went through adjusting phases on defnese, and I'd expect more of the same in this game.
The pick: Over 98.5
Massachusetts Pirates-Green Bay Blizzard
I dug into the stat bag for this game, and I found this DOOZY:
The Green Bay Blizzard have NEVER won a home opener in their entire team history — losing by an average of 20 points!
- 2023 - L 30-76 - 46
- 2022 - L 23-26 - 3
- 2021 - L 35-41 - 6
- 2019 - L 21-51 - 30
- 2018 - L 20-41 - 21
- 2017 - L 30-49 - 19
- 2016 - L 31-49 - 18
- 2015 - L 32-57 - 25
- 2014 - L 39-58 - 19
In fact, the last time Green Bay start their season with a win was 2017.
Massachusetts is returning many key players from last season's team, and will be getting a fully healthy Alejandro Bennifield back at QB. Green Bay will have a lot of new players on this year's team, and lost their top WR Marquise Irvin to the Nashville Kats of the AFL. It's going to take some time for them to gel.
The Massachusetts Pirates opened 2023 at home vs Green Bay, and won that game comfortably 55-41. Hammer the Pirates spread.
The pick: Pirates -4.5
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