NFC West Odds, Picks and Super Bowl Predictions

Lets go over the predictions and odds for the NFC West starting with the cream of the crop Seattle Seahawks who Las Vegas has at +945 to win the Super Bowl with an over under win total of 10.5. Pete Carroll is heading into his eighth season as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and he has a top 5 quarterback in Russell Wilson and a top 5 defense healthy and ready to go. We feel that if Jimmy Graham and Russell Wilson could stay on the field and if the Legion of boom stays healthy in particular Earl Thomas, the Seahawks defense although maybe past its prime is still one of the NFL's best if healthy. Looking at the NFC West 2017 NFL schedule the NFC West is playing the NFC East this year as well as the AFC South so rest assured other than the Cowboys and the Giants in the NFC East the Seahawks should wind up going 6-2 on these 8 games and they should wind up going five and one in division, so on these 14 games we predict 11 wins right there. Trust me, Pete Carroll is looking at them as important wins because the other 2 teams on the schedule are at Green Bay and home vs Atlanta. We like a small play on Seahawks +950 to win Super Bowl LII and our prediction is over 10.5 wins. The only other team in this division with a slight chance of making the playoffs are the Arizona Cardinals under 5th year head coach Bruce Arians. Las Vegas has Arizona at +4600 to win the Super Bowl with the over/under on the win total at 8.5 wins. The Cardinals defense has the potential to be really good if Tyrann Mathieu, Patrick Peterson and Chandler Jones all stay healthy. But the offense is a different story with Carson Palmer being a huge question mark and his backups being Drew Stanton and Blaine Gabbert. This offense has the potential to really sputter. No doubt they're gonna rely heavily on third-year running back David Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald still poses a deep threat and has great possession skills. The bottom line in this league is that you need a top shelf quarterback and the Arizona Cardinals do not have one which is why we would not go near them to win Super Bowl LII. We also feel the Cardinals are probably going to see too much Drew Stanton/Blaine Gabbert on their way to a 7-9 or 8-8 season at best. So our prediction is the the Arizona Cardinals going under 8.5 wins and missing the playoffs. Two teams definitely in the rebuilding mode in the NFC West the newly minted Los Angeles Rams to Vegas has a +21,500 to win the Super Bowl and over under 5.5 wins. The Rams will be led by first-year head coach Sean McVeigh and second-year quarterback Jared Goff who is coming off a very very poor first year. The Rams success will rely heavily on Goff’s performance. The Rams also need a rebound year from third year running back Todd Gurley. With a slightly improved offense of line we will see if the Rams offense can improve slightly if not dramatically from last year. The Rams new defense of coordinator is veteran coach Wade Phillips. The Rams defense with Robert Quinn, Aaron Donald and newly acquired Connor Barwin will have the potential to be very good. Regardless of how much better Jared Goff and this offense play or how good the defensive unit plays looking at their schedule we predict the Los Angeles Rams getting 4 wins this season. We predict the Rams do not make the playoffs and go under 4.5 wins. Picking up the slack is the San Francisco 49ers under new head coach Kyle Shanahan and new defense of coordinator Robert Seleh. We will not see this year whether or not the 49ers owner Jed York made a wise or foolish decision backing up the truck and signing zero experience GM John Lynch and HC Kyle Shanahan to mega contracts. It is obvious the 49ers with Brian Hoyer at quarterback and Carlos Hyde and Pierre Garcon as his main offensive weapons, and the defense being below-average personnel wise that there is no pressure on this front office and coaching staff to win any time soon. We think the 49ers will be in competition with the New York Jets for the worst record in the NFL and the number one overall draft pick 2018 NFL draft. We predict the 49ers do not make the playoffs and our prediction is under 4.5 wins for the 2017 San Francisco 49ers.

NFC West odds, Picks and Super Bowl Predictions

Seattle Seahawks Over 10.5 wins / Super Bowl LII +945

Arizona Cardinals Under 8.5 wins

Los Angeles Rams Under 5.5 wins

San Francisco 49ers Under 4.5 wins