NFL Handicapping Articles

NFL Predictions: Which Winless Teams Can Overcome Bad Start?
by T.O. Whenham - 9/29/2010

Being 0-3 after three weeks in the NFL isn’t disastrous, but it is obviously far form ideal. A team can easily make the playoffs after such a bad start - just like Denver showed us last year that you can miss the playoffs after starting 6-0 - but teams that go 0-fer in September certainly aren’t making it easy on themselves. There are fie teams after three games in 2010 that have yet to put a win on the board. Here’s a look at each of them to see if they are playing up to their potential, or if something is just going wrong, along with some NFL predictions for turning things around:

NFL Predictions and Picks for Sunday Night Football: Dolphins Vs. Jets Betting Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 9/26/2010

When the Dolphins and the Jets meet up on Sunday night, the stakes will be higher than they have been between these two teams in a while. It’s early in the season, but both of these teams have already shown that they have the ability and potential to make the playoffs out of a tough division, and the winner of this game will be better positioned to do so than the loser.

Week 3 NFL Picks and Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 9/25/2010

It has been an often surprising and frequently frustrating start to the NFL season from a betting perspective. As we look ahead to week 3 NFL picks and odds, we can hope that this week isn’t as surprising. Surprises are great for fans, but lousy for bettors, and I don’t know about you but I’d rather that the week’s action was boring but profitable than the reverse.

Monday Night Football NFL Predictions: Saints at 49ers Betting Odds and Picks
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/20/2010

The Saints have hung 30 or more points on San Francisco in the last four meetings against them. The 49ers were gashed for 31 points in Week 1 by the underdog Seahawks in an embarrassing 31-6 loss. The Monday Night Football clash in the Bay Area between San Francisco and New Orleans has all the makings for a Saints offensive explosion when it kicks off at 8:30 p.m. ET.

NFL Predictions and Picks: Giants vs. Colts Betting Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 9/19/2010

This is a game that has the media in full-frenzy. After all, it has the perfect media-friendly storyline - two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks who just happen to be brothers meeting up for just the second time in their careers. What more could you want? Well, personally I would rather watch two teams without so many questions coming out of their openers. And I would rather not watch Eli Manning at any point, but I might be the exception.

Week 2 NFL Picks and Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 9/19/2010

Week 1 of the 2010-11 NFL season is in the books and now we look ahead to some Week 2 NFL picks and odds. This week we will focus on what I consider two of the biggest games on the board for NFL betting, and that is the Baltimore Ravens at Cincinnati Bengals and the Houston Texans at the Washington Redskins.

Week 1 Betting Trends to Help With NFL Picks for Week 2
by T.O. Whenham - 9/16/2010

It was a strange opening weekend in the NFL. Of course, most weeks in the NFL are a bit strange - that’s why it’s such a wildly popular league. Some things went according to expectations, but a whole lot didn’t. Here’s a look at some of the interesting betting trends that emerged in the opening week of action – these can always help with your Week 2 NFL picks:

NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/16/2010

It was a pretty interesting first week of the 2010-11 NFL season. Some of the traditional powers looked like they haven’t lost a beat (New England, New Orleans, Green Bay), while some looked like they may have lost a step (San Diego, Indianapolis). But it is still early and there is plenty of time for teams to rise to glory or fall on their collective faces. With that being stated, here are my NFL Power Rankings for Week 2.

NFL Predictions for Monday Night Football: Ravens at Jets Betting Odds and Picks
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 9/13/2010

Monday Night Football may have landed the premier AFC game of week with the Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets, two teams brimming with confidence and high expectations that will face off at the new Meadowlands Stadium at 7 p.m. EST Monday.

NFL Predictions and Picks for Week 1: Cowboys vs. Redskins Betting Odds
by T.O. Whenham - 9/12/2010

Dallas and Washington certainly don’t get to ease into the regular season. They start things off with a brutal NFC East contest that could have repercussions right through to January. Dallas is hosting the Super Bowl this year, and the pressure couldn’t possibly be higher for the Cowboys to play in it as well. The Redskins have gone through a major overhaul - new coach, new QB - and have had a training camp far too heavy in drama, so they will be looking to make a statement to start things off on the right foot, and a win here would certainly be a statement.

Free NFL Pick Detroit Lions Vs. Chicago Bears
by Jason Sharpe - 9/11/2010

No professional sport changes more from year to year then the National Football League. Many teams come back looking completely different from the product they put on the field just eight months earlier. Every year in the NFL there is a handful of teams that will take a big step forward or backwards from the previous year. The key is figuring out who these teams are before everyone else does.

NFL Predictions for St. Louis Rams Quarterback Sam Bradford
by T.O. Whenham - 9/10/2010

Sam Bradford presents NFL handicappers with a very interesting puzzle. He’s obviously a phenomenally talented player, and he performed so far above expectations in the NFL Preseason that he has already won a QB contest that was expected to last at least a few weeks longer. The hype really couldn’t be higher than it is now - and that’s saying something for a guy who went No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft. The problem, of course, is that Bradford, while a special quarterback, is on a terrible team. Really awful.

NFL Week 1 Picks and Predictions: Vikings Vs. Saints Football Betting Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2010

For us, the huddled gambling masses, the dream and distraction of another glorious NFL season gets underway on Thursday night with the opening kickoff of the 2010’s first game. For the Minnesota Vikings it will be like being forced in Week 1 to march into the wasteland of some demented, demonic nightmare from 2009’s last game.

NFL Betting Predictions: Receiving Yards for a Tight End Props
by Alan Matthews - 9/8/2010

A few weeks ago here at Doc’s, we gave you our recommendations on which player would lead the NFL in receiving yards in 2010. Well, a tight end is never going to lead the league in yardage in this modern NFL, so Bodog also offers a prop on which player from that position has the most yards this season.

NFL Betting Predictions: Second-Year Running Back Props
by Alan Matthews - 9/7/2010

That price on Moreno is pretty attractive, but he suffered a slight hamstring tear on Aug. 1 and is just recently back practicing with the team. He seems a bit injury-prone – he also was hurt in camp last year – and I don’t happen to think the Broncos will be very good, which could limit his touches if they are always coming from behind. Plus, he will lose some carries to Correll Buckhalter.

NFL Predictions: Most Improved Defenses
by T.O. Whenham - 9/4/2010

Oakland Raiders - This defense had some real issues last year - especially against the run. They should have that under control this year - at least they shouldn’t be so laughably bad. The defense last year was chaotic - not a surprise given that it’s the Raiders.

2010-11 NFL Predictions for Every Team
by T.O. Whenham - 9/2/2010

The NFL season is about to get underway. Finally. That means that now is a good time to make NFL predictions - the kind that I will surely come to regret as they become ridiculously inaccurate in short order. Fearlessly, I’m about to set out to make a prediction about every team in the league:

NFL Predictions: Surprise Teams for Early in the NFL Season
by Jason Sharpe - 9/2/2010

When a handicapping an NFL football card, sports bettors should always be looking to buy certain teams that most of the other bettors may not be looking at. This is much like the stock market term of looking too “buy low”. Sure, we all know that the Colts and Saints are two of the best teams in football once again this year, but this isn’t likely to make us any money as the oddsmakers put a higher tax on the so called ‘good teams’

2010-11 NFL Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 9/1/2010

Each season professional NFL handicappers like my colleagues and I gear up for the six-month gauntlet that is the professional football betting season. We make our living on the strength and profitability of our NFL predictions, as the NFL season is the marquee battleground in the annual wager war that goes on between bettors and bookies throughout this great nation. But the road to riches is littered with the decaying carcasses and shattered dreams of many men whose NFL picks, plays and predictions met a horrific and unfortunate end. Fickle Fate tests. NFL profits beckon the soul. Brutal is the path.

NFL Betting Ramifications of 18-Game Schedule
by T.O. Whenham - 9/1/2010

It seems pretty much inevitable that the NFL is going to go to an 18-game schedule soon - perhaps as soon as 2012. The Commissioner is committed to it, the owners couldn’t be more in favor of it, and the Collective Bargaining Agreement allows for it, so there is no real impediment to making it happen - regardless of what the players might think.