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If you are looking for NFL predictions for the 2008-09 football season there are various options available to you. We review our suggestions for the top choices to help you bet with confidence this year in the NFL. They one thing we want to point out is that you should never limit yourself to one choice and make sure to use all the valuable resources available to the modern day bettor to assist in making NFL predictions. In past years, the local newspaper was all the information that a handicapper could use to try and get an edge on their bookmaker. This is no longer the case and we will review some of our choices to help beat "the man" this year:

Lines Service: Making sure to have the best line available is the best advice we can give. This is especially the case in football where NFL key numbers play such an important role in making NFL predictions. Besides the ability to shop around for the best lines, you can stay on top of the latest injuries or roster changes. Knowing a starting offensive lineman might not play before anyone else is very important when handicapping the NFL. The other important aspect is the fact you can monitor big line moves before many of the bookmakers react. For example, say the Chicago Bears are +7.0, than drop all of a sudden  to +5.5. You can jump on a +7.0 and either ride the line move or turn around and buy the wager back at -5.5 and go for the middle, thus winning both bets.

Consensus Site: There are endless handicappers out there charging money for their NFL predictions. The sad part about this is that the industry is filled with too many scamsters or "squares" who are lucky to hit 50%. So not only are you running a good chance of losing money on betting football, you also footed the bill for the handicapper himself! A consensus site is a place that provides selections from tons of paid handicappers for pennies on the dollar. The best consensus site in the business is The Premium Consensus Report. They provide close to 100 paid handicappers selections on any given football day for one low price. The best part is they also track records and streaks so you know how to follow. Just tell them you are from NFL Expert Picks and get a free trial!

Paid Handicapper: As mentioned above, there so many people trying to sell their NFL predictions in this industry it is nearly impossible to keep track. Our advice is to always check a monitoring service to see how a service performs. This will not only help you find a proven winner, but 99% of the time the scammers would never participate in a monitoring service and allow themselves to be tracked and show their pitiful numbers. We suggest either the Sports Monitor of Oklahoma or the National Sports Monitor. If you are looking for some private handicappers who are the best at what they do, feel free to shoot us an email and we can get you in touch with our endorsed list of professional gamblers.

Forums: There are many good handicappers at forums around the internet. The problem is that usually by the time  you can jump on board, the hot streak has already peaked. Our advice on following forum handicappers for NFL predictions is to try and stick with people it seems the forum respects when they post. You can notice this by either a large view count or the general replies when this person posts. We would also like to point out to stay away from any forum poster who uses a "chase system". There has never been a "chase system" that has not failed eventually and busted out the people following it.

Public Patterns: The latest thing in the handicapping business is the advent of people being able to track betting patterns from sportsbooks. There are many people who use this information to make NFL predictions by trying to either go against what the public is betting or try and figure out where the "sharp" money is going. Despite what people think, the public is not that bad. When it is all said and done, the sportsbook will on average hold 4.5% of every wager placed. The bad rep the public has held historically about "losing" tends to come from the "chasing" or "doubling up" when down. The second factor, the trying to figure out the "sharp money" is also something people have claimed to have success with. The truth is, the majority of the people over the years who have used these systems have seen the wins and losses swing so much they stopped using it. There is no way for someone to no exactly what the professional gamblers are betting just by using betting patterns.