2017 Carolina Panthers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2017

We've all fallen victim to a savage hangover before. And one of sports' worst hangovers bit the Panthers last year: the Super Bowl hangover. Carolina saw its 2015 win total reduced by more than half, tumbling from 15 wins down to just six. The Panthers had their streak of three straight division titles snapped last year and were essentially a nonfactor just months after falling in the Super Bowl.

2017 New York Giants Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2017

The Giants have traditionally been one of the easiest teams in the NFL to handicap. When they are posted as an underdog or not expected to do anything they always show up and overperform. And when they are faced with expectations and heaped with hype they always manage to underachieve.

2017 New Orleans Saints Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2017

Sean Payton is moving dangerously close to Jeff Fisher territory. Payton, owner of a 94-66 career record and a Super Bowl title, has now led the Saints to a 7-9 record in three straight seasons, and, if you include the 2012 season in which Payton was banned, New Orleans has suffered a losing mark in four of the last five years.

2017 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/14/2017

I was ahead of the curve last year, jumping on the value of the Tampa Bay Bucs as an under-the-radar money team in 2016. They proved me sage, finishing 9-7 on the season and easily eclipsing their 2016 Las Vegas season win total. Now the word is out on the Bucs. Some splashy free agent signings and a tour on HBO's "Hard Knocks" has cast an even brighter spotlight on this squad.

2017 New England Patriots Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

Somehow, the Patriots actually got better in the offseason following their thrilling Super Bowl victory last February. And not just a little better; the Patriots got a lot better. Brandin Cooks was added to bolster an already loaded receiving corps. Stephon Gilmore is a stud cornerback set to take over opposite Malcolm Butler. Tony Ealy was picked up on the cheap to rush the passer. Mike Gillislee jumped over from Buffalo to give the running game some thump. And then the Patriots absolutely stole David Harris from the rival Jets.

2017 Dallas Cowboys Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

Never forget that the Dallas Cowboys have been seeped in the stench of loser for most of the Jerry Jones era. Sure, they had a nice little five-year run back when VCRs were still a thing. But over the last 30 years the Cowboys have had a winning record less than half of the time. Dallas is coming off 13 wins last year, their best regular season since 1992. But they have won 10 or more games just five times in the last 18 years, and I don't see them doing it in back-to-back seasons.

2017 Washington Redskins Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

By finishing 8-7-1 last year, Washington finished above .500 in back-to-back seasons for the first time in 20 years. In 1996-97 they went 9-7 and then 8-7-1, the same records that they posted nearly two decades later. The Redskins haven't posted three straight winning years since the end of the Joe Gibbs era in 1992, and the last time they won two straight years they followed up with a 6-10 stinker.

2017 Philadelphia Eagles Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

Philadelphia overperformed in the first year of their post-Chip Kelly rebuilding season. Carson Wentz exceeded expectations, and new defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz - one of the most underrated DCs in the NFL - was able to stabilize a defense that had finished No. 28 or worse in three straight seasons. The Eagles beat three playoff teams - Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Dallas - and six of their losses came by a touchdown or less.

2017 Miami Dolphins Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/10/2017

The Dolphins were a surprise playoff team last year, winning 10 games and sneaking into the Wild Card round. But their preseason has been a disaster so far, losing quarterback Ryan Tannehill to a knee injury and then grabbing Jay Cutler out of the broadcast booth. They've had to deal with other injuries (Ted Larsen) and off-field scandal (Jarvis Landry), and things appear to be resetting to the norm for this lackluster franchise.

NFL Preseason Betting Advice and Tips
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

I'm here today to give you some tips, tricks, indicators, and strategies for betting the NFL exhibition season. Obviously, preseason football betting is a bit different than how you would approach a regular-season wager. It is the same sport, but preseason football is a different game. The motivational factors are different. The way the numbers are set and what the movements mean are different. Even how much you should wager on these games is different.

2017 Oakland Raiders Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

The Raiders entered last season as Everybody's Sleeper Team. Normally that's the kiss of death. Those "sleepers" generally enter the year overhyped and overvalued, shackled by the weight of unrealistic expectations, only to watch it all crumble. Shockingly, the Raiders didn't just live up to the hype - they surpassed it. They won 12 games, the franchise's most since 2000, and tied for the most wins by a Raider team in 40 years. And now it is time for an encore.

2017 Kansas City Chiefs Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

Andy Reid has won over 60 percent of his games as a head coach in the NFL. He's had just three losing seasons in 18 years and has won 10 or more games 11 times. Reid is yet to have a losing season since taking over the Chiefs, and he's increased Kansas City's win total each of the past two years.

2017 Denver Broncos Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

Denver's follow-up campaign after their Super Bowl season left a lot to be desired. Well, not a lot, really. Just a quarterback. Denver won nine games last year on the back of its devastating defense. The Broncos fielded a Top 5 total defense for the third year in a row, and, despite some offseason personnel shuffling, they should be in that neighborhood yet again. Von Miller is a force, and Denver's secondary is the best in football. They did lose Wade Phillips, but the scheme should remain under new coordinator Joe Woods.

2017 Los Angeles Chargers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/9/2017

When is a five-win season progress? When you won only four games the season before. The Los Angeles Chargers (that still doesn't sound right) are just 9-23 in their last two seasons, squandering what were likely the final two years of Phil Rivers' prime. The soon-to-be-36-year-old quarterback has a new city and a new coach. But he's still weighted down by the same shoddy roster that's only made the playoffs once in the last seven years.

2017 Pittsburgh Steelers Season Win Total Picks
by Robert Ferringo - 8/4/2017

This team looks like the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are still rocking the black and gold. They still have Big Ben under center. They are still in that trademark 3-4 defense. And they are still ruling the AFC North. But while this looks like a typical Pittsburgh Steelers team, it is built as anything but.

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 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.