NFL Handicapping Articles

2020 New Orleans Saints Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/8/2020

This is it. This is the swan song. This is the last go-round. This is the Last Ride of Drew Brees and his Band of Saints. Unfortunately, if the Saints don’t win a Super Bowl this season, they may be relegated to the sob stories of NFL history. Fran Tarkenton’s Vikings of the 70’s. Jim Kelly’s Bills of the 90’s, Donovan McNabb’s Eagles of the early 00’s. The Saints could be destined to join them as great teams that simply couldn’t get over the hump.

2020 Philadelphia Eagles Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/8/2020

The Philadelphia Eagles are at a crossroads. They’ve posted three straight winning seasons, won two of three division titles, and the 2017-18 Super Bowl trophy has barely started to gather dust. But the Eagles have had one of the oldest rosters in the NFL over the past two seasons, and this could be the final hurrah for this band of brothers.

2020 Los Angeles Chargers Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/8/2020

Tyrod Taylor has been viewed as a placeholder for his entire career. In Buffalo, after three solid years as a starter, he was cast aside and replaced by rookie Josh Allen. In Cleveland he was given just three games as a starter before being cast aside and replaced by rookie Baker Mayfield.

2020 Tennessee Titans Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/8/2020

Playing a proverbial Game of Inches, NFL teams have a razor thin margin of error. The Titans are the perfect example. They’ve gone 9-7 in four consecutive seasons. During that span they have posted just a +59 point differential, equivalent to an 8-8 squad each year. Statistically, they have been a perfectly average team. Yet they have made enough big plays at the right times to parlay that into four straight winning years and two playoff appearances.

2020 Houston Texans Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/8/2020

Bill O’Brien is the perfect example of The Peter Principle. For the uninitiated, the Peter Principle is the idea that people in any hierarchical structure will rise to the level of their incompetence. Basically, you move up the ladder until you finally get handed a job that you are incapable of handling.

2020 New York Giants Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/8/2020

I have no idea what the New York Giants are doing. And if their recent results are any indication, the Giants don’t know what they are doing either. The reality is that the Giants have been irrelevant for most of the last decade. They have posted a 12-36 straight up record the past three seasons and have registered six of seven losing overall seasons.

2020 Kansas City Chiefs Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/4/2020

When you have Patrick Mahomes, you really don’t need any more advantages beyond that. Yet in the strangest and most uncertain offseason in NFL history, Kansas City’s enters the 2020 season with impressive stability throughout the roster and coaching staff. And that leaves the Chiefs in a dominant position to repeat as Super Bowl Champions.

2020 Dallas Cowboys Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/4/2020

I have already been caught openly weeping for the death of the New England Patriots dynasty this offseason. Not out of any allegiance or affinity for the Patriots, mind you; my sadness was strictly relegated to the NFL betting success that I’ve had with New England over the last 15 years.

2020 Pittsburgh Steelers Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/4/2020

Since the turn of the century, the Steelers have produced one losing season. One. They went 6-10 in 2003. That’s it. They’ve finished .500 or better for 16 straight years. Between 1989 and 2019 – a span of 31 seasons – do you know how many losing seasons the Steelers endured? Four. FOUR! For comparison’s sake, during that same time frame New England has had seven losing seasons and the Cowboys nine.

2020 Las Vegas Raiders and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/4/2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has dulled the excitement of the NFL’s move to Las Vegas by a factor of about 20. What was supposed to be a coming out party for the Raiders, their new stadium and their new home, has become a secondary storyline in a season turned upside down.

2020 Washington Football Team Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 9/4/2020

The sinking interest and waning support of the Washington fan base has been an open secret/public joke for years. So, with that in mind, I have to ask: if the 2020 NFL season is played without fans in the stadiums, will anyone really notice a difference in Washington?

2020 AFC South Predictions with Betting Odds
by Chris Vasile - 8/24/2020

The AFC South division was so poor last season that it found itself to be one of the most competitive divisions in all of football. The division title came down to the last day between the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans, with the former of the two teams capturing the title. Despite that, the Titans made the deeper playoff run, knocking off the mighty Patriots and the mighty Ravens to reach the AFC Championship Game.

2020 AFC West Predictions and Expert NFL Betting Picks
by Chris Vasile - 8/23/2020

The AFC West is going to be an extremely top-heavy division once again this year with the Kansas City looking to and expecting to defend their Lombardi Trophy, and we see no reason why they can’t do just that. They have Patrick Mahomes under center, and they have Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce ready to put up solid numbers. If anything, the Chiefs offense figures to be better than ever given the fact that they are talking about hunger and motivation for more success.

2020 AFC North Predictions and Betting Odds
by Chris Vasile - 8/17/2020

The AFC North is going to be a very weird division this year. There is no mistaking that the Baltimore Ravens are the best team in the division. The Ravens are coming off a heartbreaking playoff loss to the Titans last season and are pissed off beyond belief and truly believe they have unfinished business to take care of.

2020 AFC East Predictions with Betting Odds
by Chris Vasile - 8/17/2020

There are so many storylines to cover among the four AFC East teams, with perhaps the most intriguing storyline taking place off the field in New England. We already know the Patriots are going to be without the services of Tom Brady, who left in free agency for Tampa Bay. They replaced him with Cam Newton, who has a lot to prove before Patriots nation and bettors alike start to trust him. The Patriots have had a handful of players opt out due to safety concerns, which leaves them thin at positions they already had no depth in.

NFL Pandemic Betting Props: Yes, You Can Actually Bet This!
by Raphael Esparza - 8/11/2020

It’s no secret that you can pretty much bet on anything and everything, and I will start displaying some of those outrageous betting options here at Doc’s Sports. During these pandemic times, sports books are trying to keep up with the high demand in betting propositions. And at times these great value props get overlooked on the daily sports action.

2020 NFL Season Win Totals Predictions
by Chris Vasile - 7/8/2020

There’s a lot going on in the world today, but I’m not here to talk about the negative. I hope everyone remains safe and we are through the worst of it. What I do want to talk on and ramble out is every NFL team’s season win total, with predictions, provided there is a full NFL season waiting for us come September. The main NFL story line this summer has been the QB carousel with Tom Brady, Cam Newton, Jameis Winston, Teddy Bridgewater all moving to new teams.

2020 New England Patriots Predictions and Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 5/15/2020

Let’s be clear: the dynasty is over. But that doesn’t mean that they are going to fall off the cliff. The Patriots still have Belichick and the No. 1 defense in football. They still have a championship culture and they still play in a division with three other dysfunctional, overmatched franchises. So the situation in Foxboro isn’t dire.

NFL Draft Grades Round 1
by Robert Ferringo - 4/24/2020

Under normal circumstances, I loathe the NFL Draft. It is one of the most overhyped events of the sports calendar, and I generally spend maybe 15 minutes watching it over the course of an entire weekend. Why waste hours listening to bobblehead analysts when you can just wake up Monday and get the results, hype-free?

Tampa Bay Bucs Super Bowl, Conference Odds Updated as Gronk and Brady Reunite
by Doug Upstone - 4/21/2020

On another dull day for sports bettors, other than more NFL Draft talk and horse racing bets to place, we were jolted out of seats. Rob Gronkowski decided not only to come back to football but asked or maybe even demanded (we will learn more on that later) to be traded to Tampa Bay to rekindle his relationship with Tom Brady.