Week 7 of the 2012 AFL season is upon us, and here at Cappers Info, we are taking a look at all of the games that are on the AFL betting lines and making our Arena Football predictions for the week ahead!

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Georgia Force @ Orlando Predators
Date: Friday, April 20th, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: Orlando Pick ‘Em (98)

It’s really difficult to be able to come back from the type of loss that Orlando had last week in Pittsburgh. The team dropped a 48-17 lead and ended up losing in overtime, and now it has to come back home and take on a divisional rival. Still, we think that going with Justin Roper is the right call to make, and we think that he’ll get back on track with another week of practice with his new offensive coordinator, Ben Bennett. Take your chances with Orlando to win this game SU on Friday night.

AFL Week 7 Pick: Orlando Predators Pick ‘Em

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Tampa Bay Storm @ Philadelphia Soul
Date: Friday, April 20th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: Philadelphia -14 (124)

The Storm have played terrible ball on the road this year, and the oddsmakers have caught onto that, making us lay two TDs if we want the Soul on our side. That being said, we have seen chinks in the armor in Philadelphia in recent weeks, and asking a team to win a game by two TDs is always a bit of a stretch, especially when the team has proven to be competent over the course of the season for the most part.

AFL Week 7 Pick: Tampa Bay Storm +14

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Pittsburgh Power @ New Orleans VooDoo
Date: Friday. April 20th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: New Orleans -6 (110)

Easiest game of the weekend, and it’s not even funny. There’s just no way that Pittsburgh is going to beat New Orleans the same way that it did to Orlando. The VooDoo are clearly the better team, and they are the better team by at least two TDs in this game. Especially after last week’s blown game at San Antonio, look for the Doo to get back on track and pummel the Power by at least 20.

AFL Week 7 Pick: New Orleans VooDoo -6

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Iowa Barnstormers @ Utah Blaze
Date: Friday, April 20th, 9:00 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: Utah -4.5 (120)

Iowa and Utah are quietly two of the better teams in the league this year, though both have had their flaws for sure. The Barnstormers are coming off of a huge win over Arizona at home, and that could prove to be great moment. We want the points on our side in this game.

AFL Week 7 Pick: Iowa Barnstormers +4.5

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Jacksonville Sharks @ Cleveland Gladiators
Date: Saturday, April 21st, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: Cleveland -6 (110)

Omar Jacobs played well for the Sharks last week, throwing nine TD passes, but we have some real questions here with the Jacksonville defense. This unit has been just downright bad, the opposite of what it was last season when the team won the ArenaBowl. Cleveland isn’t the greatest team known to man by any stretch of the imagination though, and we still think the Head Coach Les Moss and the Sharks are going to at least be able to hang in this game.

AFL Week 7 Pick: Jacksonville Sharks +6

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Milwaukee Mustangs @ Chicago Rush
Date: Saturday, April 21st, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: Chicago -5 (109)

Teams have bad games from time to time. It happens. We think that’s all that happened to the Rush last week when they were absolutely clocked at Georgia. Milwaukee has proven to play well this year on the road, but this isn’t enough points to make us want to take it in a rivalry game that is starting to bud in this league. Russ Michna and the Rush will get back in the win column with a win of at least a TD.

AFL Week 7 Pick: Chicago Rush -5

Week 7 AFL Matchup: Kansas City Command @ San Jose SaberCats
Date: Saturday, April 21st, 10:30 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: San Jose -20 (109)

Yeah, you’re reading that right. San Jose is favored by 20. Get used to seeing this with Kansas City games. The Command just can’t get the ball in the end zone, and Head Coach Danton Barto is clearly the worst coach in the league. San Jose is a significantly better team, needless to say, and there is no reason to think that, more often than not, the SaberCats aren’t winning this game by at least three TDs. It is really, really painful to lay that chalk in this league, but we feel that we have to do it until KC proves that it can play with anyone in the AFL.

AFL Week 7 Pick: San Jose SaberCats -20

Week 7 AFL Matchup: San Antonio Talons @ Arizona Rattlers
Date: Sunday, April 22nd, 6:00 ET
Arena Football Week 7 Odds: Arizona -9.5 (114)

This is the toughest game of the weekend, and it is a game that is brutally difficult to handicap. We don’t like either of these teams. There is clearly something wrong with the Talons, who go on stretches offensively where they just don’t look good at all. However, there is clearly something wrong with the Rattlers as well. They just aren’t playing well, especially on the road, and they are giving up just gobs of points. In the lesser of two evils, we’d really rather have Aaron Garcia sticking within double digits in this one, knowing that it is his return to the place that he finally won his elusive championship last season.

AFL Week 7 Pick: San Antonio Talons +9.5

Week 6 of the 2012 AFL season is upon us, and here at Cappers Info, we are taking a look at all of the games that are on the AFL betting lines and making our Arena Football predictions for the week ahead!

Week 6 AFL Matchup: Cleveland Gladiators @ Tampa Bay Storm
Date: Friday, April 13th, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Cleveland -3.5 (105.5)

The wrong team is favored in this one in our eyes. Cleveland really hasn’t done all that much to make us think that it can get the job done in this one on the road against a Tampa Bay team that really has played quite well at home this year. It could be an ugly, low scoring affair though, as we have no confidence in either of these QBs. Still, the Storm should be good for the upset.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Tampa Bay Storm +3.5

Week 6 AFL Matchup: New Orleans VooDoo @ San Antonio Talons
Date: Friday, April 13th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: San Antonio -4 (114)

The VooDoo are playing well at the moment, and they are probably the best team in the Southeast Division. We have watched plenty of this San Antonio team this year, and there is just something that we think is off about it. It is the first game on the NFL Network in the history of arena football here in the site of the Alamo, but we still think this is a game that New Orleans is going to win.

AFL Week 6 Pick: New Orleans VooDoo +4

Week 6 AFL Matchup: Utah Blaze @ Jacksonville Sharks
Date: Friday. April 13th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Utah -1 (115)

The Blaze are going to have a tough test in this one, but we think they are going to pass it. Flying across the country generally isn’t a good thing, but they do have the great equalizer of knowing that Jacksonville was on bye last week. Remember that teams can’t practice during their byes, so generally speaking, that is awful news for a team that is getting some momentum together. We just don’t know who is going to be quarterbacking for the Sharks, and we have no confidence that they are going to be able to get the job done.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Utah Blaze -1

Week 6 AFL Matchup: Chicago Rush @ Georgia Force
Date: Saturday, April 14th, 7:00 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Chicago -4.5 (106.5)

The Force just allowed 92 points last week to Philadelphia. Of course, we don’t think that there are going to be quite that many points allowed this time around, but we still think that Georgia is a farce. Chicago is still the only undefeated team left standing in this league for a reason, and it should be able to come on the road and take care of business by two scores in this one.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Chicago Rush -4.5

Week 6 AFL Matchup: Orlando Predators @ Pittsburgh Power
Date: Saturday, April 14th, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Pittsburgh -2 (89.5)

It’s a really, really low total tonight, and it might be one that is justified for the Power and the Predators, knowing that they are the two of the three worst teams in the league offensively speaking. That being said, Orlando is a team that we still see with some promise, especially with the addition of WR Bobby Sippio this week. Pittsburgh got the best of these two teams in the first meeting, but there were nothing but scabs for the most part in the game. Orlando has the better team in this one, and we think that it will get the job done and pull off the upset on Saturday night.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Orlando Predators +2

Week 6 AFL Matchup: Arizona Rattlers @ Iowa Barnstormers
Date: Saturday, April 14th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Arizona -6.5 (116.5)

This is one of the toughest games to handicap on the slate this week and is a game that we don’t really recommend playing. That being said, to try to take a stab at this one, we are going to go with the Rattlers, knowing that their defense is really playing well at the moment. If that ‘D’ gets into a groove, QB Nick Davila and the offense should be able to pick up the slack in the Barn.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Arizona Rattlers -6.5

Week 6 AFL Matchup: Milwaukee Mustangs @ Spokane Shock
Date: Saturday, April 14th, 10:00 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Milwaukee -1.5 (116)

This is quite the intriguing game this week. The Mustangs are playing well, but they are coming off of their bye week and have to fly across the country. Spokane finally showed a pulse this past week with QB Kyle Rowley back under center, and if not for a late gaffe in its game last week, it would have beaten San Jose. That being said, we think that home field advantage will play into the Shock’s hands on Saturday night, and they’ll get back in the win column at the expense of Milwaukee in what should be a great game.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Spokane Shock +1.5

Week 6 AFL Matchup: San Jose SaberCats @ Philadelphia Soul
Date: Saturday, April 14th, 6:00 ET
Arena Football Week 6 Odds: Philadelphia -4.5 (129.5)

Usually any total above about 125 or so is an automatic under play in our eyes, and there is a reason that this total has come down 3.5 points from the open on Saturday. These two teams are really setting up for a great showdown in what might amount to be an ArenaBowl preview. This is just Philly’s second home game of the season, and it has already dropped 84 and 92 points in two of its three road games this year. San Jose has its work cut out for it on the road in this one.

AFL Week 6 Pick: Philadelphia Soul -4.5

Week 5 of the 2012 AFL season is upon us, and here at Cappers Info, we are taking a look at all of the games that are on the AFL betting lines and making our Arena Football predictions for the week ahead!

Week 5 AFL Matchup: Iowa Barnstormers @ Pittsburgh Power
Date: Friday, April 6th, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: Iowa -3.5 (109)

Pittsburgh is going to be on yet another quarterback this week when Andrico Hines gets on the field. He is terrible and is one of the worst signal callers that will start a game this week. We just don’t see how the Power should be anywhere near a tossup against an Iowa team that has looked relatively respectable this season.

AFL Week 5 Pick: Iowa Barnstormers -3.5

Week 5 AFL Matchup: Tampa Bay Storm @ New Orleans VooDoo
Date: Friday, April 6th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: New Orleans -4.5 (110)

The VooDoo now have the third longest losing streak at home in team history, but this is a game that really should be won. Tampa Bay was lucky to get away with a win last week against an iffy Jacksonville team, and we like the way that the VooDoo have played this year. Head Coach Pat O’Hara and OC Tim Marcum, both of which were long time coaches in Tampa Bay, should get their revenge on the Storm in the NFL Network game in Week 5.

AFL Week 5 Pick: New Orleans VooDoo -4.5

Week 5 AFL Matchup: Spokane Shock @ Arizona Rattlers
Date: Friday. April 6th, 10:00 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: Arizona -14 (117)

The Shock are making some big time changes this week, and the notable move is that Kyle Rowley is back to lead the team. Yes, he has only been in camp for a few days, and yes, he hasn’t played a game this year, but he is a heck of a lot better than anything else that the Shock are going to throw out there at quarterback at this point. Look for Spokane to at least keep this one without two TDs against an Arizona team that we think is vastly overrated this year.

AFL Week 5 Pick: Spokane Shock +14

Week 5 AFL Matchup: San Antonio Talons @ San Jose SaberCats
Date: Friday, April 6th, 10:30 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: San Jose -9 (110)

These two teams played to a tie in the preseason, and the game was called thanks to a brawl that happened on the field. This is a game that has a lot of emotion in it, and we prefer the experienced SaberCats with all of their veterans over a San Antonio team that has really looked sloppy with first year Head Coach Lee Johnson trying to run the operation. Look for the Cats to romp.

AFL Week 5 Pick: San Jose SaberCats -9

Week 5 AFL Matchup: Philadelphia Soul @ Georgia Force
Date: Saturday, April 7th, 7:00 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: Philadelphia -3.5 (114)

There is a real question as to whether Philadelphia is good enough to go on the road and win consistently. A home loss to Cleveland last week was suspect at best, though we do think that the team is going to put forth a better effort in this one. Georgia has had mixed results this year, and it hasn’t played against a team anywhere near this good. The Force should be dumped by at least a TD at home.

AFL Week 5 Pick: Philadelphia Soul -3.5

Week 5 AFL Matchup: Kansas City Command @ Chicago Rush
Date: Saturday, April 7th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: Chicago -15.5 (90)

Kansas City was so thrilled with the way that both of its quarterbacks played that it released both of them this week. Now, the Command are going to be going into battle with Matt Gutierrez making his first career AFL appearance. Gutierrez has some experience in the NFL, and we think that that will at least help out this team just a bit. Chicago hasn’t really played much in terms of a schedule this year, and we think that laying more than two TDs is a bit absurd, even against the Command.

AFL Week 5 Pick: Kansas City Command +15.5

Week 5 AFL Matchup: Orlando Predators @ Cleveland Gladiators
Date: Sunday, April 8th, 6:00 ET
Arena Football Week 5 Odds: Cleveland -4 (97)

Will the real Gladiators please stand up? Is this team that was brutal offensively over the course of the first two games of the year, or the one that blew up and had a great outing against Philly last week in the City of Brotherly Love? Orlando has been awful all year long offensively, and Collin Drafts just isn’t cutting it. We think that the Predators are in a lot of trouble in this one in a venue in which they have never won a game in franchise history.

AFL Week 5 Pick: Cleveland Gladiators -4

Week 4 of the 2012 AFL season is upon us, and here at Cappers Info, we are taking a look at all of the games that are on the AFL betting lines and making our Arena Football predictions for the week ahead!

Week 4 AFL Matchup: San Antonio Talons @ Orlando Predators
Date: Thursday, March 29th, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: San Antonio -2 (104)

We really just don’t have a very good feel about the Predators in this one. They aren’t playing well offensively, and they aren’t all that much of a dangerous looking team. Sure, it is the de facto home opener for the Preds, who played their first game of the year at home with scrubs, but we just don’t think that it will make a difference. San Antonio should get the job done.

AFL Week 4 Pick: San Antonio Talons -2

Week 4 AFL Matchup: Pittsburgh Power @ Milwaukee Mustangs
Date: Thursday, March 29th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Milwaukee -6.5 (110)

When are the oddsmakers going to learn that Pittsburgh is just a bad team? Bill Stull isn’t a great quarterback. Never has been, and never will be. Milwaukee has the offense to get the job done against some of the best in the league. This Power team isn’t one of the best teams for sure. The ‘Stangs should romp.

AFL Week 4 Pick: Milwaukee Mustangs -6.5

Week 4 AFL Matchup: Arizona Rattlers @ Kansas City Command
Date: Thursday, March 29th, 8:30 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Arizona -13.5 (106.5)

Kansas City is another one of these teams that just doesn’t have a quarterback. Nate Davis hasn’t completed even 50 percent of his passes this year, and he still might be the best option that the team has when push comes to shove. Arizona hasn’t quite yet played like one of the best teams in the league, but we know that this is still a squad with a heck of a lot of talent. Asking for a two TD victory shouldn’t be too much, though it is a heck of a lot of points for sure.

AFL Week 4 Pick: Arizona Rattlers -13.5

Week 4 AFL Matchup: Jacksonville Sharks @ Tampa Bay Storm
Date: Friday, March 30th, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Jacksonville -2 (101)

The Sharks aren’t nearly the same team that won the title last year, and Omar Jacobs is coming off of a game in which he tossed four picks last week. Tampa Bay doesn’t have all that much to look forward to this year either, knowing that Steve Wasil really is one of the worst signal callers in the league, but we like the way that the defense looks for the boys that are going to host this game. The Storm should be good enough to get the job done at home.

AFL Week 4 Pick: Tampa Bay Storm +2

Week 4 AFL Matchup: San Jose SaberCats @ Spokane Shock
Date: Friday, March 30th, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Spokane -1 (127.5)

An easy ‘under’ play here as well. The Shock don’t have the offense to be able to put 50 on the board against most teams in this league with Adam Froman calling the shots, and though the SaberCats do have one of the best offenses in the game, it isn’t going to make a difference. 127.5 is just far too many. Because we are handicapping sides though, we know that the SaberCats are clearly the better bet of the two teams. They should be able to come on the road and win in a hostile environment relatively easily.

AFL Week 4 Pick: San Jose SaberCats +1

Week 4 AFL Matchup: Chicago Rush @ Iowa Barnstormers
Date: Saturday, March 31st, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Chicago -2.5 (109)

The Barnstormers are one of these teams that we really just don’t have a great feeling for right now. We tend to think that they can compete to get into the second season, but we wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t. Chicago is a good outfit, but the two teams that it has beaten this year (Tampa Bay and Orlando) aren’t exactly all that stellar, and there is a big difference between coming to the Barn and playing in the Windy City. We’ll take the points.

AFL Week 4 Pick: Iowa Barnstormers +2.5

Week 4 AFL Matchup: New Orleans VooDoo @ Utah Blaze
Date: Saturday, March 31st, 10:00 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Utah -9.5 (118)

The VooDoo are a heck of a lot better than one would probably figure this year. Sure, the team was absolutely atrocious a season ago, but Head Coach Pat O’Hara is going to have this team winning again sooner than later. Utah has a great offense, but not much else. We want the points on our side, and we think that a moneyline play at perhaps +300 or so might be in order on the Doo as well.

AFL Week 4 Pick: New Orleans VooDoo +9.5

Week 4 AFL Matchup: Cleveland Gladiators @ Philadelphia Soul
Date: Sunday, April 1st, 6:00 ET
Arena Football Week 4 Odds: Philadelphia -9.5 (111)

The Soul looked very, very good against Pittsburgh last week, but we aren’t so sure just how good the Power really are. Cleveland’s defense looks okay, but the offense looks all out of sorts at this point. This is a brutal game for the Gladiators, who probably don’t stand all that much of a chance. Dan Radabaugh, a birthday boy this week, should lead the Soul to a comfortable win in their home opener.

AFL Week 4 Pick: Philadelphia Soul -9.5

Week 3 of the 2012 AFL season is upon us, and here at Bankroll Sports, we are taking a look at all of the games that are on the AFL betting lines and making our Arena Football predictions for the week ahead!

Week 3 AFL Matchup: Orlando Predators @ Chicago Rush
Date: Thursday, March 22nd, 8:30 ET
Arena Football Week 3 Odds: Chicago -6.5 (104)

The Predators are just overmatched in this one. Sure, they’ve had two weeks to prepare for this one, but bye weeks generally hurt AFL teams and not help them (players cannot practice during bye weeks or be in interaction with their coaches). QB Russ Michna has a good arm and is clearly a ton better than QB Collin Drafts for Orlando. Chicago has always played well at home, and it will get the job done again in this one as well.

AFL Week 3 Pick: Chicago Rush -6.5

Week 3 AFL Matchup: Kansas City Command @ Cleveland Gladiators
Date: Friday, March 23rd, 7:30 ET
Arena Football Week 3 Odds: Cleveland -7.5 (90)

Yuck. Both of these teams have been awful offensively this year, but QB Nate Davis, or whomever the Command wants to throw out there at quarterback is nowhere near as good as the AFL veteran, QB John Dutton, even if Dutton has become an INT machine. The Command aren’t going to have a shot of sticking around at the Q.

AFL Week 3 Pick: Cleveland Gladiators -7.5

Week 3 AFL Matchup: Philadelphia Soul @ Pittsburgh Power
Date: Friday, March 23rd, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 3 Odds: Philadelphia -1 (104)

It’s not going to be a pretty home opener for the Power in all likelihood. They are either going to have to go with QB Andrico Hines, who was terrible in the opener, or with the newly acquired QB Bill Stull, who wasn’t even in football to start this season. Philly has an impressive looking team under new HC Doug Plank, one of the best X’s and O’s coaches that we have ever seen in this league. The Power still have to be in disarray after a bye week and after their players walked out in Orlando two weeks ago. They are clearly overvalued here.

AFL Week 3 Pick: Philadelphia Soul -1

Week 3 AFL Matchup: Milwaukee Mustangs @ New Orleans VooDoo
Date: Friday, March 23rd, 8:00 ET
Arena Football Week 3 Odds: New Orleans pick ‘em (111)

The VooDoo put up a good fight against what we figure to be the best team in the league in Philly last week, but it just wasn’t enough to get the job done. We are more impressed by the Mustangs and what they have been able put together. Milwaukee had a shot last week in the desert to take out Arizona, another of the top teams in the league, but it came just short as well. The Mustangs have the better of these two teams, and the home field advantage that used to be present in the Graveyard just isn’t there anymore.

AFL Week 3 Pick: Milwaukee Mustangs pk

Week 3 AFL Matchup: Georgia Force @ Jacksonville Sharks
Date: Saturday, March 24th, 7:00 ET
Arena Football Week 3 Odds: Jacksonville -7.5 (102)

The Georgia offense was absolutely pathetic last week in Tampa Bay, though QB RJ Archer did look like the better of its two signal callers. The Sharks are being overpriced here though, as they are nowhere near as good as they were last year when they won the ArenaBowl. QB Chris Leak has left the team, meaning that QB Omar Jacobs is really the last shot that Jacksonville has this year. The Sharks might win in their home opener on banner raising night, but we think that this is a heck of a lot of points to be giving out.

AFL Week 3 Pick: Georgia Force +7.5

Week 3 AFL Matchup: San Jose SaberCats @ Utah Blaze
Date: Saturday, March 24th, 9:00 ET
Arena Football Week 3 Odds: Utah pick ‘em (123)

This should be the best game of the weekend. Both Utah and San Jose have some big time offenses that can put a lot of points on the board, which is why the ‘total’ is so high in this one. QB Tommy Grady has a good history of putting up gobs of points, though we know that his defense isn’t always the greatest. The SaberCats have the most talented team in the league, but QB Mark Grieb isn’t going to throw for nine TDs without a pick every single week like he did in his first game of the year. We’ll take Utah at home, knowing that it typically has a great home field advantage (as long as they are playing at Energy Solutions Arena).

AFL Week 3 Pick: Utah Blaze pick ‘em