2017 Philadelphia Eagles Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

Philadelphia overperformed in the first year of their post-Chip Kelly rebuilding season. Carson Wentz exceeded expectations, and new defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz - one of the most underrated DCs in the NFL - was able to stabilize a defense that had finished No. 28 or worse in three straight seasons. The Eagles beat three playoff teams - Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Dallas - and six of their losses came by a touchdown or less.

2017 Miami Dolphins Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

The Dolphins were a surprise playoff team last year, winning 10 games and sneaking into the Wild Card round. But their preseason has been a disaster so far, losing quarterback Ryan Tannehill to a knee injury and then grabbing Jay Cutler out of the broadcast booth. They've had to deal with other injuries (Ted Larsen) and off-field scandal (Jarvis Landry), and things appear to be resetting to the norm for this lackluster franchise.

NFL Preseason Betting Advice and Tips
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

I'm here today to give you some tips, tricks, indicators, and strategies for betting the NFL exhibition season. Obviously, preseason football betting is a bit different than how you would approach a regular-season wager. It is the same sport, but preseason football is a different game. The motivational factors are different. The way the numbers are set and what the movements mean are different. Even how much you should wager on these games is different.

2017 Oakland Raiders Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

The Raiders entered last season as Everybody's Sleeper Team. Normally that's the kiss of death. Those "sleepers" generally enter the year overhyped and overvalued, shackled by the weight of unrealistic expectations, only to watch it all crumble. Shockingly, the Raiders didn't just live up to the hype - they surpassed it. They won 12 games, the franchise's most since 2000, and tied for the most wins by a Raider team in 40 years. And now it is time for an encore.

2017 Kansas City Chiefs Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

Andy Reid has won over 60 percent of his games as a head coach in the NFL. He's had just three losing seasons in 18 years and has won 10 or more games 11 times. Reid is yet to have a losing season since taking over the Chiefs, and he's increased Kansas City's win total each of the past two years.

2017 Denver Broncos Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

Denver's follow-up campaign after their Super Bowl season left a lot to be desired. Well, not a lot, really. Just a quarterback. Denver won nine games last year on the back of its devastating defense. The Broncos fielded a Top 5 total defense for the third year in a row, and, despite some offseason personnel shuffling, they should be in that neighborhood yet again. Von Miller is a force, and Denver's secondary is the best in football. They did lose Wade Phillips, but the scheme should remain under new coordinator Joe Woods.

2017 Los Angeles Chargers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

When is a five-win season progress? When you won only four games the season before. The Los Angeles Chargers (that still doesn't sound right) are just 9-23 in their last two seasons, squandering what were likely the final two years of Phil Rivers' prime. The soon-to-be-36-year-old quarterback has a new city and a new coach. But he's still weighted down by the same shoddy roster that's only made the playoffs once in the last seven years.

2017 Pittsburgh Steelers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2017

This team looks like the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are still rocking the black and gold. They still have Big Ben under center. They are still in that trademark 3-4 defense. And they are still ruling the AFC North. But while this looks like a typical Pittsburgh Steelers team, it is built as anything but.

2017 New York Jets Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2017

Last year I took one look at Cleveland's roster at the start of the season and I knew it was one of the worst I had ever seen. But right now I'm looking at the Jets roster heading into 2017 and I really think they could give the 2016 Browns a run for their money.

2017 Buffalo Bills Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2017

Those poor, poor Bills fans. Growing up in Upstate New York, I have and still do know dozens of long-suffering, delusion, masochistic Bills fans. And unlike fans of the Browns or Jets - all-time incompetent organizations that lose with gusto - the Bills and their fans have almost an ignorant innocence about their lost cause fandom.

2017 Cincinnati Bengals Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2017

Following one of the most successful five-year runs in franchise history, the Bengals had the rug pulled out from under their feet last season as they stumbled to 6-9-1. That snapped a streak of five straight postseason appearances. And if there wasn't a target on 14-year head coach Marvin Lewis's back prior to last year, there has to be one on him heading into this campaign.

2017 Baltimore Ravens Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2017

I was always a bit skeptical of John Harbaugh's actual coaching ability in his early seasons leading the Ravens. After all, he was gifted one of the most talented teams in the AFC and a locker room that was always stacked with excellent veteran leaders like Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, and Derrick Mason. Now, in his 10th season at the Ravens helm, Harbaugh faces what seems like a make-or-break year.

2017 Cleveland Browns Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2017

I said prior to last season that it would be a miracle if the Browns won more than two games and that they had a better chance of going 0-16 than they did of beating their season win total. It was clear to me that the Browns would be "breathtakingly bad", and that was exactly the case as Cleveland fielded one of the worst teams of the past quarter century.

2017 Tennessee Titans Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2017

My patience and belief in the Titans finally paid off last season. After predicting that Tennessee would be "much better than their expectations" they went out and proved me correct by winning nine games, nearly double the five victories they mustered in 2014 and 2015. Now the word is out on this team. And Tennessee enters the 2017 season as one of Everyone's Sleeper Teams. That is to say that the Titans have become the trendy, sexy pick by prognosticators and media bobbleheads to win the AFC South and make their first playoff appearance since 2008.

2017 Indianapolis Colts Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2017

Wait, so Andrew Luck isn't the Next Tom Brady? Anyone that has ready or listened to my analysis over the last five years knows I think that Luck is one of the most overrated players in football. I still firmly believe that. But at this point even I have to admit that there is a lot of organizational instability unpinning the Colts' back-to-back 8-8 seasons.

2017 Houston Texans Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2017

It is at the point now where my Texans preview is simply a song stuck on repeat. "The offense is a train wreck. The defense is stacked. The division sucks, so they have a chance to make the playoffs and get crushed. The end." At least now we know who the Texans are. Last year at this time I couldn't decide if their 2015 division title and postseason appearance were aberrations or if this team was any good. Now we know that the Texans are a low-budget version of Kansas City, a team good enough to win some games but a group with a ceiling of January fodder.

2017 Jacksonville Jaguars Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2017

New season. New coach. New attitude at the top. But is this the same old joke of a Jaguars team? Jacksonville has been locked in an epic duel of incompetence with Cleveland over the past decade. The Jaguars have gone 22-74 straight up and 40-52 against the spread over the last six years, one of the worst marks in the league. However, each of the past three seasons plenty of poor souls have been suckered into tabbing the Jaguars as a "sleeper" team only to watch in horror as their season went in up flames by Week 5.

NFL Playoff Predictions: Props Odds for Teams to Make the Postseason
by Robert Ferringo - 7/13/2017

"Who is going to win the Super Bowl this year?" That's one of my least favorite questions. Whenever I inform people of my profession, invariably the first question they ask is about who will win the championship of whatever sport is currently in full swing. And since Football Is King, more times than not the question is about who will win the Super Bowl.

College Football Betting Lines: Early Spread Analysis and Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 6/20/2017

I know that June is a little too early to start thinking about college football picks against the spread. But college football championship odds were out within 24 hours of Clemson claiming the national title last January. And several sportsbooks currently have Week 1 college football betting lines posted.

Kentucky Derby Post Positions: Expert Analysis and Historical Data
by Robert Ferringo - 5/5/2017

The 143th running of the Kentucky Derby commences at 6:24 p.m. on Saturday, May 6 at Churchill Downs. The Run For The Roses marks the open of the Triple Crown racing season and is one of the most highly-anticipated sporting events of the spring. The post draw took place on Wednesday afternoon without the usual fanfare. Kentucky Derby organizers have, in the past, tried to "liven up" the post draw with gimmicks such as allowing owners to pick their own post or having the draw in primetime. But this year's draw was a quiet affair that took all of five minutes this morning.