NFL Team Preview
October 6, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Buffalo is 3-1 after beating Houston 36-31, Detroit 41-31, and the Chargers 24-16, then losing 29-26 to New England on October 4. Last season they finished 12-5 with the fourth-ranked offense (28.3 PPG) and a 12th-ranked defense (21.5 allowed), covering at 14-3 even as the over went just 9-8. Warren Sharp's preseason forecast was 10.5 wins and first in the AFC East. His betting snapshot installed Buffalo as a favorite in 14 of 17 games, with a -3.5 average line that swings to -4.8 at home and -2.3 on the road, against the ninth-hardest schedule on his board.
NFL Team Preview
October 3, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Pittsburgh is 2-2 after consecutive three-point division games, winning against Cincinnati and losing 27-24 at Cleveland. They rallied from 21-7 down, tied it at 24 with 1:42 left, and Cleveland won on a 56-yard field goal with 10 seconds remaining. Last season they finished 10-7, scoring 23.4 points per game (15th) and allowing 22.8 (17th), with an 8-9 mark against the spread and a 10-7 record to the over. Warren Sharp's preseason forecast was 8.5 wins and third in the AFC North against a schedule ranked 19th in difficulty (1 = easiest, 32 = hardest). His preseason betting snapshot installed the Steelers as 0.6-point underdogs on average, minus-0.9 at home and plus-1.9 on the road, favorites in seven games and underdogs in ten.
Put Me in Coach Weekly Recap
September 30, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Three weeks in, and the league is already starting to develop a personality.
Darius35 keeps scoring like somebody forgot to tell him fantasy football is supposed to be difficult.
eduardobass7 keeps winning close games.
Bosscoe followed a 171.50-point eruption by falling below 100.
ALL BALLZ ITCH finally broke into the win column by taking down the team that entered the week as one of the league's biggest scorers.
And after starting 2–0, both horns75 and Goonies Never Say Punt finally discovered that the standings do, in fact, contain a loss column.
NFL Team Preview
September 26, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Baltimore is 1-1 after a 41-23 win at Indianapolis and a 24-17 home loss to New Orleans. Sharp's preseason forecast was 11.5 wins, treating last year's 8-9 as incomplete. The 2025 Ravens went 2-5 in one-score games. Lamar Jackson played 13 games, including a three-game hamstring absence after Week 4, and finished with a career-low 26.8 rushing yards per game plus last among 36 quarterbacks in red-zone EPA per attempt (-0.53). Nnamdi Madubuike's neck ended his season after 1.5 games. That same preseason snapshot had Baltimore first in the AFC North behind a quarterback room Sharp ranks second, with an offensive line ranked 24th and a receiving corps ranked 25th.
NFL Team Preview
September 26, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Cincinnati is 2-0, and last year's 6-11 already looks like two teams stapled together. Joe Burrow went 5-3 in eight starts; a Week 2 turf-toe injury that required surgery knocked him out of the other nine, and the Bengals went 1-8 without him. Warren Sharp's preseason forecast is 9.5 wins and second in the AFC North, a rebound that leans on the third-easiest schedule and a quarterback room he ranks third. Last year's scoring split is why that number jumped so far off six wins: Cincinnati scored 24.4 points per game (12th) and allowed 28.9 (30th), going 7-10 against the spread and 9-8 to the over.
NFL Team Preview
September 25, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Cleveland opened 2026 by getting embarrassed 34-10 in Jacksonville, then came back and beat Tampa Bay 23-19. Deshaun Watson is the starter after missing all of 2025 with an Achilles injury: through two games he is 40-of-52 for 443 yards, three touchdowns, one interception, and a 112.9 passer rating. Last year's defense carried a 5-12 roster that scored 16.4 points per game (31st) and allowed 22.3 (14th). Week 2 is the first evidence that the rebuilt offense might stop wasting that unit while Week 1 looked like 2025 all over again.
NFL Team Preview
September 24, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Tennessee went 3-14 last season and rarely made it a fight. They are already 0-2, but the two losses looked nothing alike. Week 1 looked disturbingly familiar: a 23-10 loss to the Jets, only 195 total yards, and Tennessee's lone touchdown in the final minutes. Week 2 was different. The Titans lost 24-20 to Philadelphia after leading 20-17 with 14 seconds left, and Cam Ward jumped from 140 passing yards and 4.4 yards per attempt in the opener to 183 yards at 9.2 against the Eagles.
NFL Team Preview
September 23, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Indianapolis is 0-2 after an 8-9 season that scored 27.4 points per game (8th) and allowed 24.2 (21st), going 7-10 against the spread and 9-8 to the over. Baltimore won 41-23 and then Kansas City needed overtime to win 33-30 in Week 2. Warren Sharp still has the Colts at 7.5 wins and third in the AFC South, with the ninth-easiest schedule, a 1.1 average line, minus-0.8 at home and 2.8 on the road, six as favorites and 11 as underdogs.
NFL Team Preview
September 22, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Las Vegas spent 2025 as a 3-14 club that scored a league-worst 14.2 points per game, allowed 25.4 (25th), and matched that record against the spread at 3-14 while going 8-9 to the over. Sharp's preseason forecast projected them for 5.5 wins and fourth in the AFC West on a 17th-ranked schedule, and his betting snapshot priced them as an average 4.7-point underdog (4.0 at home, 5.3 on the road) in 14 of 17 games. Two games into 2026 they have already banked two of those wins — 27-13 over Miami and 26-14 at the Chargers — without Brock Bowers.
Put Me in Coach Weekly Recap
September 22, 2026 • phillipsben1623
Week 1 gave us bench disasters, heartbreak, and enough hindsight to keep a group chat arguing for days.
Week 2 decided that wasn't enough.
This time we got **two legitimate upsets**, two games decided by fewer than four points, one matchup that the forecast basically called a coin flip before turning into a **68.82-point public execution**, and a 171.50-point eruption from a team that was projected for 121.50