As we slowly make our way into the 2022 to 2023 regular season, we start thinking about the Super Bowl odds for this coming postseason. But, we are still a fair way off yet, and at this point it is still anybody’s game.
So, rather than make ourselves tense and anxious by hypothetically speaking about who could be at the next Super Bowl, let’s reminisce for a bit, and think about what happened last year.
Matthew Stafford did well in last year’s Super Bowl, he was popular from the get go, as soon as we knew he would be going to the Super Bowl.
We can’t help but wonder what he will do this coming year. Maybe he will see another Super Bowl this year. Might history repeat itself with Stafford?
We want to take a proper look into Stafford as a Super Bowl favorite, and take a moment to relive the excitement we all felt last year.
Climb in our time machine, and jump into the past, as we look to the future!
Last year we were edging towards the Super Bowl, it was the end of January, and we knew who was going to be playing off in the biggest game of the year. We say Stafford on the field, and we knew Joe Burrow was going to be just as big.
Of course, we could never have anticipated what was going to go down. We made educated guesses and bets, but no one guessed exactly what would happen.
Early on, both Stafford and Barrow were favorites for Super Bowl MVPs. NFL betting markets were rocking it sky high for these two, with good bets across the board.
Quarterbacks always dominated the MVP race of glory, with 9 claiming MVP titles in the previous 12 Super Bowls.
The only differences were Edelman in Super Bowl LIII and Miller in Super Bowl 50. Brady has taken the honors a few times too. This year had Stafford and Burrow both up to be a possibility.
Odds on Stafford were at -105, all knew it was likely, and Burrow has +220 odds for an MVP title. But, we all knew that the odds for Stafford were good, and they were top tier early on. He was expecting glory.
Part of the reason for this was his stats. Sure, he had never won a postseason game, but he had wins over the 49ers, Cardinals, and the Buccaneers to have him creeping towards his first championship title.
Everyone knew he would be playing a part in a win for LA. And so, people started looking at prop bets for Stafford, and they were pretty juicy, and those who made some of those bets fared pretty well from doing so.
The first area in which prop bets were viewed was in his passing yards. It was anticipated he would make over 279.5, and so the bets were set.
He did look to tweak his knee in the first half of the NFC game, but he still gave 337 passing yards, and in the whole season he averaged at 287.4 yards per game, with 7 of those games being at 300 or more yards.
In the postseason he was gaining over 300 yards per game, so to make a prop bet that he would go over 279.5 was a pretty solid bet. Since he actually got 283 yards, anyone who bet over was probably very happy!
Bettors also looked at his completions. The over marker was 24.5 completions, and with 8 games of 25 or higher that season, it was a solid number. And it was no shock to see how well Stafford performed in the game with a high completion rate and with many TDs and more.
Stafford had a solid 41 touchdown passes in this year which matched up with a career-high that he set back in 2011. He had 9 games in which he gained 3 or more touchdowns during the regular season. He also had many scores in 9 out of 10 of his past games as well.
So he set a 1.5 rate for over/under bettors. Anyone who bet over was happy, but his no-look touchdown pass was undoubtedly the highlight of the game!
Obviously, we cannot forget that he was not just a favorite to be Super Bowl MVP last year, but he was more.
Stafford saw his first Super Bowl appearance that year, he took it home and became a well-known legend for how he slayed in the game.
He played most of his career with the Lions, which was less than successful for the enthusiastic quarterback. He switched to the Rams, and things changed for him.
He performed well, and helped make it, so the Rams took home a Super Bowl.
However, in spite of this, it was not Stafford who took home the MVP title. Kupp got it instead, granted Kupp made one hell of a tackle which just about saved the game, but Stafford should be remembered for epic play too!
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