2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/16/2015

Overreaction Week is one of my favorite weeks of the NFL season. Those few days after Week 1 games come to a close is unlike anything else during the regular season. Because there are only 16 regular-season football games, compared to 162 baseball games and 82 games apiece to an NBA and NHL season, every win and loss is magnified.

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 1
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2015

The National Football League is a monolith. It is an all-encompassing, all-enveloping, all-controlling pillar of our American sports and entertainment scene, and the league has become fundamental to our overall economy. It is Big Business. And over the last six months we've all borne witness to The Dark Side. Corruption, scandal, sexual violence, shady back-alley dealing and manufactured, hype-driven controversy have suffocated the national football scene.

Yards Per Point: One Simple Stat, Three Winning NFL Systems
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2015

The National Football League is state-sanctioned chaos. It's a weekly ritual of violence and speed featuring carbon-fiber-clad sociopaths with hyperactive pituitary glands mauling and maiming one another. It's a bizarre sport and senseless entertainment that has become a pillar of our national consciousness and economy.

Week 1 NFL Betting Advice: What to look for when Handicapping Matchups
by Robert Ferringo - 9/9/2015

Week 1 of the NFL season is finally here, and we are ready to rock. But a common mistake that amateur gamblers make is that they are so geeked up that pro football is back that they overexpose themselves and their bankroll in the opening weekend.

2015 Seattle Seahawks Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

The biggest obstacle facing the 2015 Seahawks is the mental baggage of their Super Bowl choke job. Seattle was one measly yard away from back-to-back titles and immortality. But instead have to settle for being infamous thanks to Pete Carroll's baffling call to end last season.

2015 Detroit Lions Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

I think that the Lions are becoming the new Bengals. And I mean that in a positive way. These two franchises spent the 1990s and most of the 2000s as the laughingstocks of the NFL. However, through savvy personnel moves and stability at the head of their organizations these two teams have become two of the most talented rosters in the NFL.

2015 Carolina Panthers Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Carolina became the first team in NFC South history to win back-to-back division titles last year. So that was positive. But when you consider the fact that they earned a playoff spot despite winning just seven games, you get an idea of just how pathetic this division was last year. The Panthers didn't improve their station this offseason, however, suffering one of the most crippling injuries of the preseason so far in 2015. And that has them behind the eight-ball heading into the regular season.

2015 Green Bay Packers Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Jordy Nelson's injury has certainly slowed down some of the hype surrounding the Packers heading into the 2015 season. But Green Bay remains one of the favorites to win Super Bowl 50 and has the look of a team hell-bent on avenging last year's epic NFC Championship Game collapse this time around.

2015 Dallas Cowboys Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

I was as wrong about the 2014 Dallas Cowboys as I have ever been about a team, predicting a total collapse for this overrated franchise heading into the season. But Dallas inexplicably banded together behind a suddenly solid coaching staff and turned in one of the best performances in the league last year. Dallas retained all its key pieces and added some more top-end talent in the offseason, and now they enter 2015 on the short list of teams favored to win the NFC.

2015 New York Giants Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Were it not for a couple of relatively fluky Super Bowl titles in the past 10 years I think that people would mostly overlook this Giants franchise. After all, they've made just one postseason appearance in the last six seasons and have largely been a non-factor while going 22-26 the past three campaigns. This has the look of a last hurrah for long-time coach Tom Coughlin, and I think that things could get ugly as his time finally winds down with the Giants.

2015 Arizona Cardinals Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Bruce Arians proved once again in 2014 that he is on the short list of the best coaches in football, coaxing an 11-win season out of a team that played four different guys at quarterback after losing starter Carson Palmer just six games into the year. Arians has now won double-digit games in three straight years with two different franchises and is a force to be reckoned with.

2015 St. Louis Rams Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

The Rams haven't had a winning season since 2003 and have averaged 4.4 wins per season the last eight years. They are one of the worst organizations in the NFL and now have the negative karma of a potential move to Los Angeles hanging over their heads this season. Throw in an ultra-competitive NFC West schedule, and for the life of me I can't see anything but failure for this group in 2015.

2015 Washington Redskins Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/27/2015

Look, it is not as if I didn't predict that Robert Griffin III had major bust potential before he was even drafted. But his spectacular flame out in Washington continues to be one of the best comedic elements of the No Fun League. Griffin is a certified loser. And as long as he is at the controls this racist franchise will continue to receive its just desserts.

2015 San Francisco 49ers Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/24/2015

The San Francisco 49ers had by far the worst offseason of any team in the NFL and, honestly, one of the worst offseasons of any team in recent memory. They ran their outstanding coach - and his excellent assistants -- out of town, and the front office oversaw a roster purge created by free agency, retirement, arrests and suspensions. It was a complete debacle, and the only question that remains is if the Niners have hit rock bottom yet.

2015 New York Jets Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/24/2015

Armed with a Top 10 defense, a powerful running game, and some improved skill position players, one team in the AFC East seemed poised to claim the role of sleeper in the division race. No, it wasn't the Buffalo Bills. The Jets, a team that has actually made the playoffs this century, looked like they might have some gambling value this year.

2015 Oakland Raiders Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/24/2015

For the first time in this century I can say that the Raiders are heading in the right direction. With their coach and quarterback firmly in place, Oakland is building a foundation that might have them legitimately competitive within the next few seasons.

2015 Denver Broncos Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/24/2015

The offseason coaching shakeup in Denver was one of the most surprising and consequential maneuvers of the spring. The decision to axe John Fox in favor of Gary Kubiak wasn't all that surprising given the relationship between Kubiak and John Elway. But it was a little shocking that the club that was in the Super Bowl two short seasons ago wouldn't take one more shot at a title with the Fox-Peyton Manning duo.

2015 New England Patriots Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/24/2015

The defending Super Bowl champions have been embroiled in controversy this offseason - you may have heard about it - and head into the 2015 season under a veil of uncertainty. Will they have Tom Brady for 16 games? Maybe 12? Maybe 15? And while they wait for a decision in Brady's court trial, the Pats, and their backers, are stuck in limbo.

2015 Minnesota Vikings Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2015

Entering the 2014 season the St. Louis Rams appear to be Everyone's Sleeper Team in the NFC. Every pseudo-analyst and bobblehead in the country is pimping the Rams as a potential out-of-nowhere team with a realistic chance to make the playoffs. Well, they can keep the Rams; I'll take the Minnesota Vikings.

2015 Chicago Bears Predictions: Season Win Totals Odds and Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/19/2015

The Bears are looking to pick up the pieces after the failed Marc Trestman experiment the past two seasons. Trestman was a solid X's and O's coach. But he completely lost control of the locker room, and Chicago slid completely off the rails last season. John Fox was a great hire. And he brought in some of the top assistant coaches in the league, meaning that the Bears are back on the right track.