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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 Green Bay Packers Season Win Total Picks
by Alan Matthews - 8/3/2017

Who really cares if/when Aaron Rodgers signs a new contract extension that will surely make him the highest-paid player in NFL history? What we all want to know is if he's going to get back together with actress Olivia Munn! Rodgers reportedly dumped her back in April. That just makes me hate the Packers more. Believe it or not, their breakup might have been fallout from Aaron's brother being on that stupid TV show "The Bachelor."

2017 Pittsburgh Steelers Home Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 8/2/2017

Look, no team is likely going to win a playoff game in New England this season barring a Tom Brady injury or something similar. The Patriots are loaded. So if any AFC team has a chance of knocking off the defending Super Bowl champions, it probably needs to get home-field advantage. Perhaps no club and, specifically, quarterback needs that more than Ben Roethlisberger.

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.

Dallas Cowboys at Arizona Cardinals Preseason NFL Picks & Predictions
by Tony Sink - 8/2/2017

The Dallas Cowboys play the Arizona Cardinals at Fawcett Stadium (8:00 PM EST). The starting quarterbacks are Dak Prescott for the Cowboys and Carson Palmer for the Cardinals. This matchup report includes odds, betting trends and a free pick against the spread.

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 Dallas Cowboys Home Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/28/2017

It's almost hard to preview the Dallas Cowboys for the 2017 season because it seems like one of their players is in trouble with the law or suspended just about every other day. Then again, the dynastic Cowboys of the 1990s were a bit of a lawless bunch too. Owner/GM Jerry Jones clearly doesn't mind taking risks on guys with major talent but questionable character.

2017 New England Patriots Home Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/27/2017

I started by NFL team-by-team road previews with the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, and that's where we will begin our home previews. We call the Golden State Warriors a superteam in the NBA. Can we call the 2017 Patriots the same? Somehow, this club looks better on paper than last year's. Again, this is assuming Tom Brady doesn't start showing his age.

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.

2017 San Francisco 49ers Road Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/26/2017

It's still baffling to me how ownership allowed former general manager Trent Baalke to run this storied franchise into the ground. Just four years ago, the 49ers had one of the NFL's most-talented rosters, were 12-4 and reached a third straight NFC Championship Game. However, things weren't great behind the scenes as there was an apparent power struggle between head coach Jim Harbaugh and Baalke. Harbaugh lasted one more year before he was cut loose to go work wonders at the University of Michigan.

2017 Carolina Panthers Road Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/23/2017

If you bet on the Carolina Panthers to win the NFC title last season, you clearly haven't been paying attention to the NFL for the past 25 years or so. Do I think curses are tangible things that prevent franchises from winning? I do not. The Chicago Cubs broke the curse of the billy goat in 2016 in taking the franchise's first World Series title in 108 yards. Curses are meant to be broken.

2017 Los Angeles Chargers Road Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/23/2017

So it took me all of five seconds to accidentally type San Diego instead of Los Angeles Chargers. NFL owners are businessmen, and while winning Super Bowls and hanging with athletes and hosting celebrities are all nice perks, having a team is still a business. It's about making money.

2017 Jacksonville Jaguars Road Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/19/2017

I thought the Jags could be a breakout team in the AFC last season along with the Raiders. Now, I wasn't projecting a Super Bowl or anything for the Jaguars but perhaps playoff contention and at least graduating to a .500 record. If you look at some recent Jacksonville drafts, this team has a ton of young talent - especially on defense.

2017 Chicago Bears Road Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/17/2017

You hear plenty about bad owners around the NFL. In Cleveland for one. Jerry Jones was considered too hands on in Dallas for years - it was Jones' fault that Jimmy Johnson left back in the 1990s - and is still the GM but at least listens to advisors now, and it's no coincidence the Cowboys are good again.

2017 Cleveland Browns Road Schedule Odds with Expert Picks and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 7/14/2017

Believe it or not, I think the Cleveland Browns actually have a solid plan and won't be an NFL laughingstock much longer. Oh, this year for sure. But they have some very smart guys in their analytical front office, and finally ownership appears to be letting those guys do their job instead of butting in.