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Behind the Bets: The early plays

By Chad Millman
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, April 16, 2009

There are moneymaking opportunities, and there is what the bookmakers at the Vegas Hilton have done, which is hand out an invitation to steal. They haven't seen an NFL team's full roster, don't know what kind of schemes a lot of franchises are running and can't even tell you if TO is going to beat out Chad Johnson for AFC's most disruptive receiver. But they are posting lines like it's the Monday before Week 12, not the Wednesday before just another April Thursday. As I said to the Hilton's boss ...

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