NFL Handicapping Articles

2016 Seattle Seahawks Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

Football success in Seattle has been the norm in the Emerald City throughout this century as the Seahawks have made the postseason 10 times in 13 years, won three conference championships, and hoisted the Super Bowl trophy in 2013. Those numbers are better than supposed football powers like Dallas, the Giants or even the Denver Broncos. Pete Carroll will attempt to continue his Pacific Northwest dynasty, and this year's Seahawks should be better than last year's streaky 10-6 outfit.

2016 Arizona Cardinals Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

The Arizona Cardinals have the best roster in football. This is not an opinion as much as a statement of fact. Arizona has talent, depth and experience on both sides of the ball and at just about every position. They are the only team in the league that doesn't have a weakness anywhere on the 53-man roster.

2016 Washington Redskins Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

It is difficult to like Washington because they are one of the most despicable, shady, soul-sucking, corporate-whoring organizations in all of sports. Daniel Snyder, the leader of this debacle, is impossible to root for. And time and time again during his stewardship it has been made clear that this front office cares way more about the prospect of winning and selling their fan base on the hope of future wins than it cares about following the necessary steps to being a top-tier organization and actually finding on-field success.

2016 Dallas Cowboys Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

The fun thing about Dallas is that as long as we are still in the Jason Garrett-Tony Romo Era I don't have to do much scouting on this team. We all know who the Cowboys are. We've seen them. We've seen them perform (and fail) in all manner of situation over the last few years as America's (Mediocre) Team has been forced down our throats in big, nationally-televised games year after year.

2016 New York Giants Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

The Tom Coughlin Era in the Meadowlands is over. The Giants were apparently the last ones to realize that Coughlin should've rode off into the sunset three years ago. Instead, he stuck around and guided a sloppy Giants team to three straight losing seasons before they finally sent him packing. That means for the first time in a decade New York enters a fall with fresh blood on the sidelines.

2016 Philadelphia Eagles Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

It's a new, old era in Philadelphia this year as former Andy Reid assistant Doug Pederson makes his head coaching debut for in The City of Battery Love. The irony of Pederson's hiring is pretty thick; Eagles fans and management ran uber-successful Andy Reid out of town - the scapegoat of some horrific personnel decisions gone wrong. Now just three years later the Eagles bring in a guy who will try to mimic everything Reid did and to pick up the pieces of the failed Chip Kelly experiment.

2016 San Francisco 49ers Expert Predictions and Season Win Totals Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/25/2016

Most football coaches - high school, college or pro - are dickheads. Between the mix of rage and daddy issues there is always a distinct, undeserved air of faux toughness and authority. Football coaches are generally delusional and antisocial dicks. Chip Kelly fits that mold.

Expert NFL Picks: Props Odds and Predictions for Most Receiving Yards
by Trevor Whenham - 8/25/2016

Last year it was a two-horse race for the receiving title in the NFL. Julio Jones of the Falcons and Antonio Brown of the Steelers both led the league with 136 receptions, but Jones had the slightly better average yards per catch and came out 37 yards ahead with 1,871 yards. The odds suggest that those two again are in the driver's seat of what promises to be another tight and exciting race. BetOnline has posted their odds for the top receivers this year, and there is plenty of interest:

2016 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Home Schedule Odds and Picks with Win Total Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/24/2016

The NFL has a rule that teams can block other clubs from interviewing their personnel if it's for a lateral move. So, for example, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers can refuse the Philadelphia Eagles permission to speak with Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter if that's the job the Eagles want to hire him for. I mention this rule because if the NFL didn't have one, then Lovie Smith might still be Tampa Bay's head coach instead of in the same role at the University of Illinois.

Free NFL Betting Picks: Props Odds for Most Rushing Yardage with Expert Predictions
by Trevor Whenham - 8/24/2016

Last year Adrian Peterson led the NFL in rushing with 1,485 yards, edging runner-up Doug Martin by a decent day's work for either of them - 83 yards. It was the third time that Peterson topped the list of top yard producers. Can he do it again? Or will someone else take his place? It's an interesting question by itself, but it's even more interesting because we can bet on it. BetOnline has odds listed for pretty much every running back you could imagine. Here is a look at some of the more interesting:

NFL Betting: Handicapping the All-Important Third Preseason Game
by Trevor Whenham - 8/23/2016

We have made it to the third week of the NFL Preseason. This week can also be referred to as the only week of the NFL Preseason that deserves even a little bit of attention. It's still garbage football compared to the regular season, and there are several reasons for bettors to be very cautious, but if you are itching to get some action it's by far the best week of the preseason to consider a bet. Here are four reasons why the third preseason game is the best of a bad bunch of games and three reasons why you still need to be cautious when selecting your bets.

2016 San Diego Chargers Home Schedule Odds and Picks with Win Total Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/22/2016

Frankly, what happens on the field this season for the San Diego Chargers is mostly irrelevant compared to what happens in a Nov. 8 ballot initiative on whether the city should raise taxes to build the Chargers a new stadium. Voters will decide whether to increase the hotel room tax to 16.5 percent, up from its current rate of 12.5 percent, with the proceeds to help fund a $1.8 billion new downtown stadium and convention center. The team and NFL are pledging $650 million.

2016 San Francisco 49ers Home Schedule Odds and Picks with Win Total Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/19/2016

You can find a prop on the lowest-scoring team in the NFL for the coming season at various sportsbooks. The favorites are the Cleveland Browns (+600), Los Angeles Rams (+650), Tennessee Titans (+800) and San Francisco 49ers (+1000). I'll be putting my money on the Niners.

2016 Buffalo Bills Home Schedule Odds and Picks with Win Total Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/19/2016

I think you can go ahead and get your resumes in with the Buffalo Bills if you are an NFL head coach or general manager candidate. That's because Coach Rex Ryan and GM Doug Whaley reportedly have been given a make the playoffs mandate or be fired, and I don't see the playoffs happening because of injuries/suspensions.

NFL Wagering Advice: Best and Worst Backup Quarterback Situations
by Trevor Whenham - 8/19/2016

The backup quarterback is a guy you never want to think about as an NFL bettor. You hope that teams will only play their starters all year - especially the teams you bet on. It is inevitable, though, that due to injury or poor play several guys who are backups now will be forced into starting roles at some point in the season. For some teams that won't be a big deal - the backup is capable and the drop off should be fairly small. For other teams, though, the loss of a starter for an extended period would just be a disaster. Here's a look at the best and the worst backup QB situations at this point:

NFL Betting and Handicapping: Teams Having Very Strong Camps
by Trevor Whenham - 8/19/2016

There are some NFL franchises that we know are always going to run very competent, almost dull training camps. They know how to run a team, and it leads to a lack of headlines but strong results on the field. Unless it is due to a commissioner's vendetta, the Patriots always run a dull camp. So do the Packers and the Seahawks. From a handicapping perspective, then, the training camp activities of those teams aren't particularly useful or interesting.

NFL Odds and Betting Predictions for Defensive Player of the Year
by Trevor Whenham - 8/18/2016

Defensive players may not get as much attention overall as the truly elite offensive stars in the NFL, but the very best have nothing to complain about when it comes to media attention or what they bring home on payday. The big individual prize for those players, of course, is the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award. As is almost always the case, it is truly a wide-open race for that hardware this year. A wide-open race is one that is interesting to bet on, and this is no exception. Here's a look at how the race shapes up, with futures odds from BetOnline.

2016 New York Giants Home Schedule Odds and Picks with Win Total Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/17/2016

While I'm a bit baffled why the Giants fired head coach Tom Coughlin yet basically kept the status quo by promoting inexperienced offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo to head coach, I'll just get right to the point and say this team is my pick to win the NFC East this year. Is it that I think the Giants are a great team? No. But the NFC East is pretty weak.

NFL Betting Advice: Teams with a Great Chance to Improve ATS
by Trevor Whenham - 8/17/2016

With the NFL Preseason underway, and the regular season now just around the corner, it is a good time to look to the past to imagine what could happen in the future. We know which teams were consistently good performers against the spread last year and which ones really struggled to covers spreads and deliver profits to bettors.

NFL Preseason Handicapping: Concerning Camps for Certain Teams
by Trevor Whenham - 8/17/2016

Training camp and the NFL Preseason don't always mean much. Every year we see teams that look great in the preseason falter badly when the games actually matter, and vice versa. You have to take everything you see in the NFL in August with a gigantic grain of salt. There are some teams, though, that shows signs in August of issues that you just can't ignore.