2023 Pittsburgh Steelers Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2023

I will be the first to admit that I am a little higher on the Pittsburgh Steelers this season than most football analysts. Then again, when a team hasn’t had a losing season in almost 20 years, I’m not exactly going out on a limb by predicting that they will be among the top teams in the AFC again this season.

2023 Denver Broncos Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2023

Heading into last season, the Broncos had Super Bowl hype. The addition of potential Hall of Fame quarterback Russell Wilson, the excitement of new ownership and a fresh coaching regime, and a slew of free agent and draft pickups, all created an air of certainty around the 2022 Broncos.

2023 Cleveland Browns Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2023

I’m not sure if any other team in the NFL has endured as much drama over the last six years as the Cleveland Browns. In 2017, they suffered the indignity of going 0-16. In 2018, they had two Top 5 draft picks, the first of which they squandered on Baker Mayfield (just a few years after taking Johnny Manziel in the first round).

2023 Los Angeles Chargers Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/8/2023

I think the Idea of The Chargers has always been better than the Reality. Whenever someone talks about the Chargers, the first word that comes to mind is “talent”. Any media bobblehead talking about Los Angeles will, within the first 30 seconds of discussing them, mention their “talent”. It was the same thing we heard over and over again during the Philip Rivers Era. Each year the Chargers were a trendy Super Bowl pick because of their “talent”.

2023 New England Patriots Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/2/2023

Human existence is a tale of creation and destruction. Things built. Things destroyed. And on and on into infinity. The New England Patriots Dynasty of the early 21st century was one of the greatest that football has ever seen. Yet right now, the same people that marveled at the overwhelming accomplishments of Bill Belichick and the Patriots are reveling in his demise and calling for his head.

2023 Jacksonville Jaguars Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2023

Jacksonville is one of the most overvalued and overhyped teams in the NFL heading into the 2023 season. At Caesars Sportsbook, the Jaguars currently have the fifth-highest Las Vegas season win total (10.0) in the AFC. I have also seen them in the Top 10 of nearly every preseason power ranking that I’ve read, and quarterback Trevor Lawrence is being called a “sleeper MVP pick”.

2023 Las Vegas Raiders Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 8/1/2023

There’s nothing like being down to your last chance in Vegas. Last job. Last opportunity. Last bet. Last $20. That hyper-awareness; like a trapped animal. The blood-draining reality of the long odds staring you in the face. That feeling of heat radiating through your body. The paralyzing intensity of each single breath as time becomes incohesive.

2023 Tennessee Titans Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2023

Mike Vrabel is one of the coaches whose value is difficult to quantify. Let’s try anyway. His teams have been consistent overachievers in his five years at the helm, posting four winning seasons and beating their Las Vegas season win total in four of Vrabel’s five years.

2023 Indianapolis Colts Predictions with Season Win Total Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 7/27/2023

You often hear the term “window” when people talk about teams in the NFL. “Window” has become to the NFL what “bubble” is to college basketball. If you want a perfect example of how NFL “windows” open and close in the NFL, just look at the Indianapolis Colts. Over the last 15 years, the Colts watched the championship windows of the Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck eras slam shut prematurely due to injuries to their star quarterbacks.

Expert NFL Handicapping: Starting a Rookie Quarterback is a Terrible Idea
by Robert Ferringo - 7/14/2023

Quarterback is the most consequential position in sports. It’s the most important position in the most profitable and popular sport in this country. The flow of billions of dollars, annually, is directed by these offensive conductors.

Impact of Injuries on Sports Betting: Handicapping and Adjusting Your Bets
by Robert Ferringo - 6/29/2023

Injuries are one of the great equalizers of sports betting. We’ve all been there. Swollen with confidence, knowing that an upcoming bet was a brilliant, savvy play against a weak line. You’ve already started mentally spending the money you are certain you are going to win. Then it happens.

The Best Baseball Betting Strategies and Systems
by Robert Ferringo - 6/29/2023

No matter what sport you're talking about, it can be devastating to lose a perfectly good wager by half a point, half a run, or half a goal. Whether it's a run or a point, a loss is a loss and that hook can be as lethal on the diamond as it is on the gridiron, pitch, hardwood or ice.

NFL Draft Grades 2023
by Robert Ferringo - 5/1/2023

NFL draft grades are tricky because you can never really tell how a class is going to shake out until four or five years down the road. But I am grading teams based on how they did with the information they had in the here and now. So, with that in mind, here are my 2023 NFL Draft grades:

2023 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/1/2023

It isn’t always pretty basketball, but the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament always comes through when you are looking for drama and emotion. This tournament, which has its championship game this coming Sunday, really tips off the start of March Madness and hammers home the reality facing every team in the country over the next month: if you lose, your season may be over.

College Basketball Betting Advice: Betting on Bubble Teams
by Robert Ferringo - 2/22/2023

For the uninitiated, a “bubble team” is a college basketball team that is on the fringe of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid. Because the criteria for selection into the tournament is subjective, there is no real way of knowing who is in and who is out heading down the stretch. This isn’t like, say, the race for the playoffs in MLB or NBA, where a team’s record is the sole determination of who makes the postseason and who doesn’t.

2023 Super Bowl Outlook: Old vs. New as Eagles Will Use Brute Strength on Sunday
by Robert Ferringo - 2/10/2023

The Chiefs are hoping to create a dynasty. They won Super Bowl LIV just three short years ago, and this is their third trip to the championship game in four years. That title in 2020 was first championship for both quarterback Patrick Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid. It was supposed to harken the beginning of the league’s next dynasty.

NFL Power Rankings Week 18
by Robert Ferringo - 1/3/2023

The last thing you need is another hot take on the Damar Hamlin situation. I’m not trying to ignore the biggest story in football right now. But I’m instead going to choose to stick to the game. And I have the same advice for every football bettor every year heading into the final week of the regular season: tread lightly.

NFL Power Rankings Week 17
by Robert Ferringo - 12/27/2022

One of the themes that I’ve discussed in this space all season is that the NFL is a fundamentally different game now than it was as recently as five years ago. By extension, betting on the NFL has taken on a completely different form. There is a multitude of reasons for the changes, but the end result is that games are much closer and lower scoring than they have been in decades.

NFL Power Rankings Week 16
by Robert Ferringo - 12/20/2022

Betting on sports really can be masochistic sometimes. And last week, after watching a rash of come-from-behind wins like the NFL has never seen, I feel like anyone getting ready to bet again on pro football this week must secretly love the pain.

NFL Power Rankings Week 15
by Robert Ferringo - 12/13/2022

It looks like Mother Nature is going to have her say in the NFL playoff race. December football is a completely different beast than games played during the rest of the regular season. The stakes are higher. Teams rarely have their full complement of players due to injury. Shifting motivational and situational factors come into play.