Coming off their conference championship season of 2006, the Chicago Bears looked like shoo-ins to win the NFC North again last year, and perhaps even make another trip to the Super Bowl. But just like six of the last eight teams to lose the Super Bowl, Chicago failed to even go .500 the following season, [...]

Going into last season, Cleveland Browns coach Romeo Crennel was a candidate to become the first Bill Belichick protege to get a head job elsewhere, and then get fired. In its first three seasons under Crennel, Cleveland had won four, six and four games, and simply had not progressed. But last year, using the No. [...]

New England will be Super Bowl favorites in 2008 but NFL betting fans will be looking for another bumper payout this season but which team will rise from the pack in 2008 to surprise the lines makers? The New England Patriots nearly ran the table last year, but got shocked by the Giants in their [...]

The Seattle Seahawks enter head coach Mike Holmgren’s final season as, once again, the biggest birds in the little pond that is the NFC West. But how much longer this team remains on that perch is questionable. Seattle is now the four-time defending West champ, after going 10-6 last season, and has made the playoffs [...]