2018 Philadelphia Eagles Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

All hail the Super Bowl Champions. The Eagles have taken a six-month victory lap, and now it is time to start back up the hill. Philadelphia retained the core of its title-winning team, and if they get 16 games from a healthy Carson Wentz they could be even better this time around.

2018 Dallas Cowboys Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

The Dallas Cowboys are perpetually one of the most overrated and overvalued teams in football. This year is no different. Despite some glaring holes on the roster and some important offseason losses, the Cowboys are still expected to be a factor in the NFC.

2018 San Francisco 49ers Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

San Francisco is one of the trendiest picks to compete in the NFL this season. And despite going 6-10 last year and winning just 13 games over the course of the past three seasons, some members of the bobblehead media have spent the summer debating San Francisco's bona fides as a Super Bowl contender this year.

2018 Seattle Seahawks Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

The window for Seattle as a championship-caliber team has closed. After five years as one of the dominant forces in the NFC, including two conference titles and a Super Bowl championship, the Seahawks missed the playoffs in 2017. And as they enter the 2018 campaign they are clearly neither as talented nor as experienced as they were throughout their recent time at the top.

2018 New York Giants Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

Notorious pud Ben McAdoo was sent out to pasture after leading the Giants off a cliff last season. Pat Shurmur, he of the 10-23 career head coaching record, was brought in to pick up the pieces for this crumbling franchise. Yet every week we get further away from the Tom Coughlin Era it is becoming more and more obvious that the Giants blew it by letting Coughlin walk.

2018 Washington Redskins Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

Much like the Chicago Bears, the Washington Redskins have been one of the least relevant and most overrated franchises in sports for the past 25 years. Like Chicago, Washington is one of the most hallowed football franchises in NFL history, a team whose history spans nearly a century. But, like Chicago, they have rarely and barely been competitive for more than a minute in the past quarter century.

2018 Arizona Cardinals Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

The Bruce Arians regime, which at one point showed so much promise, ended with a whimper. Last season the Cardinals suffered a rash of injuries and couldn't overcome one of the league's worst offenses. That they actually finished 8-8 despite being outscored by 66 points on the season is a testament to Arians. But the reality is that Arizona slid from first place in the NFC West in 2015 to second in 2016 to third in 2017.

2018 Green Bay Packers Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

The entire Packers organization was exposed last season. I had been firmly on record as saying that over the course of the past three years the Green Bay Packers had one of the weakest rosters in pro football. My theory was that without Aaron Rodgers the Packers had the talent of a four-win team. And we got a chance to see what Green Bay was actually packing when Rodgers went down early in Week 6 last season, as a 4-1 start gave way to a 3-8 finish without the All-Pro signal caller.

2018 Minnesota Vikings Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

The Vikings were just one excruciating week away from becoming the first team in NFL history to play the Super Bowl on their home field. And looking at this year's squad I can say that they still have all the makings of a team that could win a championship.

2018 Detroit Lions Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

When will people finally realize that proximity to past greatness is not an indicator of future success? Hell, when will people realize that proximity to greatness isn't even a guarantee of future competence? Because when I look at new Lions coach Matt Patricia I see the next in a long line of Bill Belichick's former assistants that were inept head coaches once they left his side.

2018 Chicago Bears Season Win Totals Predictions and Expert Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/22/2018

I have to begin with a full disclosure: I am a lifelong Chicago Bears fan. Of course, my fandom in all sports has eroded over the past decade. Nowadays I am a diehard fan of whichever team I have money on. But you always know a little bit more about "your team" and, generally, you always have a little more of a "feel" for a team that you've been following for, say, decades.

NFL Power Rankings Preseason Edition
by Robert Ferringo - 8/16/2018

Hope is for the tourists and coke fiends. I don't deal in Hope. I deal in information. Information always has been and always will be hard currency in the gambling game. In this Dark Era of Fake News, that currency can be hard to find, and people can find themselves vacillating between an information overload and information void. No one knows what is going on. No one knows what the Rules are anymore. And no one knows what dangers are lurking around the corner of the next snap.

2018 Colorado State Rams Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/15/2018

I was a bit skeptical of Mike Bobo when he took over Colorado State. He never impressed me all that much at Georgia as the offensive coordinator. But he has posted three straight winning years in Fort Collins and has kept the Rams solidly in the second tier in the Mountain West.

2018 New Mexico Lobos Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/15/2018

It has been an offseason of turmoil at New Mexico. Coach Bob Davie spent part of the offseason on suspension as the school investigated a host of ugly accusations. Davie managed to keep his job. And then this fall he managed to protect the football program from a range of budget cuts that gutted parts of the athletic department.

2018 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

Two years ago the Irish took every bad beat imaginable and bumbled their way to a 4-8 season. They responded in force last year, going 10-3 with their victories coming by an average of more than 22 points per game. Brian Kelly's squad has 15 returning starters and a load of experience. So, should we take this team seriously as a potential College Football Playoff participant or are they just an overblown, overrated side show?

2018 Boise State Broncos Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

The Boise State program was already a juggernaut when Bryan Harsin took over in 2014. But Harsin has to be given some credit for continuing the standard of excellence that Chris Petersen set before he left for Washington. The Broncos have increased their win total each of the past two years, and Harsin enters this fall with potentially his best team yet.

2018 South Florida Bulls Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

I'm glad that Charlie Strong landed on his feet in South Florida. Strong is a really solid coach that's been underappreciated at both Louisville and Texas. And now he can start laying the foundation for his program in Tampa while trying to build on last year's 10-win campaign.

2018 San Diego State Aztecs Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

Rocky Long has been getting it done in the Mountain West for nearly 20 years. He had three years off in between a decade at New Mexico and his current gig with San Diego State. And as he enters his eighth season with the Aztecs, this program is as strong as ever and focused on making a third conference title game in four years.

2018 Houston Cougars Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

Major Applewhite struggled in his first year with the reins of the Houston program. But the former Texas and Houston offensive coordinator brought in Kendall Briles to help ramp up an offense that is coming off one of its worst full-season efforts in a decade.

2018 Memphis Tigers Season Win Total Picks and Predictions for NCAA Football
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2018

Mike Norville has been a steady hand at the rudder for Memphis over the course of the past two seasons. But now he has to move on without sensational quarterback Riley Ferguson (and standout receiver Anthony Miller) while trying to maintain the Tigers' perch atop the AAC West.