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2014 New Orleans Saints Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/9/2014

It was easy to predict a bounce back 2013 for the Saints after they endured a tumultuous, scandalized 2012 season. Sean Payton proved again how vital coaching is in the NFL and the Saints easily made the playoffs for the fourth time in five seasons.

2014 Cleveland Browns Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/9/2014

The perpetually rebuilding Cleveland Browns are at it once again. The young ownership group axed Rob Chudzinski – who was a bizarre hire to begin with – and the rest of the front office after just one uninspired season. That means Cleveland will enter the 2014 season with its third head coach and third new system in the past three years as they try to climb out of the AFC North basement.

2014 Detroit Lions Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/5/2014

The offseason firing of Jim Schwartz and hiring of Jim Caldwell is either going to go really, really well or really, really poorly for the Detroit Lions. But when you are a franchise with just one playoff appearance since the turn of the century I suppose it is OK to take some chances.

2014 Indianapolis Colts Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/5/2014

I will admit to taking a big swing and miss on Indianapolis last year. I predicted that Andrew Luck and the Colts would suffer a major sophomore slump and I was licking my chops to bet against them last year. Instead, the Colts won 11 games and posted a very strong 10-6 mark against the spreadas the Legend of Luck continued to grow.

2014 Jacksonville Jaguars Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/5/2014

With just 11 wins in its past 48 games the Jaguars are firmly entrenched as the worst franchise in professional football. Jacksonville is just 31-65 the past six seasons and they have been outscored by an average of 12.2 points per game over the past two years. In fact, despite doubling its win total from two to four you could argue that the 2013 Jaguars were actually worse than they were in 2012.

2014 Tennessee Titans Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/5/2014

The Tennessee Titans have everything that you need to be a playoff-caliber NFL team. Their offensive line is rock solid, with added depth thanks to free agency (Michael Oher) and the draft (Taylor Lewan). They have five capable wide receivers and three solid running backs. The defense is underrated, ranking in the top half of the league in total yards, passing and points allowed. This team is tough and physical and they aren’t on anyone’s radar heading into 2014.

2014 Arizona Cardinals Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

I was the only football analyst in the country touting the Arizona Cardinals going into last season. I won an 8-Unit NFL Futures Bet on the Cardinals going ‘over’ 5.5 wins and they cleared that absurdly low hurdle before Thanksgiving. Bruce Arians’ charges closed the year as one of the hottest teams in football, winning six of eight games with the two losses – to playoff-bound Philadelphia and San Francisco – coming by a combined six points.

2014 Atlanta Falcons Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

The Falcons were one of the NFL leaders in starts lost due to injury in 2013 as they fell victim to the Curse of the NFC South Champion. There has never been a repeat South champ in the group’s 12-year history. And after earning banners in 2010 and 2012, including a trip to the NFC Title Game, the Falcons bottomed out with just four wins last season.

2014 Baltimore Ravens Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

The Ravens suffered a serious Super Bowl hangover in 2013, failing to top .500 for the first time in five years after winning the 2012-13 championship. But with Ozzie Newsome restocking the shelves the Ravens remain one of the most well run and most talented organizations in all of football.

2014 Buffalo Bills Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

The Buffalo Bills are losers. And that type of stench is tough to clean off. Buffalo has not made the postseason since 1999, the longest streak in the NFL, and they have endured 15 years of the Flutie Curse. The Bills have finished over .500 just once in those 15 years and haven’t won more than seven games since 2004.

2014 Carolina Panthers Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

It all came together for Ron Rivera and Cam Newton in 2013 as the Panthers brain trust helped the franchise to nearly double its wins (seven to 12) from 2012 to 2013. They also earned a home playoff game and were one of the conference’s powers.

2014 Chicago Bears Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

Perhaps no team in the NFL has underachieved as much as the Chicago Bears over the past four years. Chicago has parlayed 37 regular season wins during that stretch into just one playoff berth. They have been eliminated on the final weekend of the season each of the past two years and have wasted excellent first halves with disaster stretch collapses in the past several campaigns.

2014 Cincinnati Bengals Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

From 1991 to 2004 the Cincinnati Bengals failed to produce a winning record or a playoff berth. But last year’s 11-win campaign marked the third straight year with nine or more wins, and the fourth time in five years, for this one moribund franchise. They are clearly no longer league doormats and instead enter the season with heightened expectations.

2014 Dallas Cowboys Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

Truthfully, I think that Dallas is one of the worst teams in the NFL this year. Their odds will always be inflated because they are the most public team in the league. But this team is awful and when I scan the roster I see a five-win team, at best.

2014 Denver Broncos Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

There is generally little or no money to be made betting on the season win total of teams like the Denver Broncos. They are coming off a 13-win season and a trip to the Super Bowl. They have the highest season win total number on the board (along with Seattle) and because of Peyton Manning they are a very public, square team for bettors to wager on. I normally ignore these teams, just like I usually stay away from the two or three bottom feeder teams with the lowest season win totals. The value just isn’t there.

2014 Green Bay Packers Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

Over the past five years the Packers have essentially morphed into a poor man’s version of the New England Patriots. Both teams are riding five-year playoff streaks and each has made a Super Bowl appearance during that stretch. Their records are similar (55-24-1 for Green Bay versus 61-19 for New England) and both squads enter this season as prohibitive favorites to win their division. Finally, at the heart of each franchise is a talented coach and an all-time great quarterback.

2014 San Diego Chargers Season Win Total Picks & Futures Odds
by Robert Ferringo - 6/4/2014

San Diego was a surprise playoff team in Mike McCoy’s rookie coaching season. They snapped a three-year streak of failing to live up to their preseason wins expectations and even won their first postseason game since 2008. As a result they won’t be sneaking up on anyone this year and will have to scrap their way to another winning season.

Free NFL Picks: 49ers at Seahawks Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/16/2014

Is this the greatest final four in the NFL playoffs this century? I'd definitely make the argument that it is indeed as it's pretty clearly the best four teams remaining -- and the four preseason Super Bowl favorites. You have the greatest individual rivalry of this generation in the AFC Championship Game as future Hall of Famers Peyton Manning and Tom Brady face off for the 15th time and perhaps last in the playoffs with both QBs on the downside of their unbelievable careers.

Free NFL Picks: 49ers at Panthers Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/8/2014

In my opinion, no game is more evenly matched in the NFL's divisional round than the 49ers at Panthers on Sunday, and that's indicative in that this line is the only one under a touchdown as of this writing. But the teams really are mirror images. They are very physical on both sides of the ball and would just as soon pound the ball on the ground than throw it.

Free NFL Picks: Saints at Eagles Playoff Odds and Predictions
by Alan Matthews - 1/2/2014

Tough picking which game to preview on wild-card weekend. You have the Chiefs at Colts, a rematch of a game won rather surprisingly easily by Indianapolis 23-7 in Kansas City on Dec. 22. The Chargers visit a Cincinnati team that looks unstoppable at home; San Diego is incredibly lucky to be there. If Kansas City kicker Ryan Succop hadn't missed a potential 41-yard winning field goal last weekend in San Diego, the Bolts, who won in overtime, wouldn't be in the playoffs (Pittsburgh would).