Over/Under on team wins 2008 - final results
 

Before the season began, Lance Zierlein wrote a blog about his pre-season predictions for the over/under for team wins NFL/2008 which I copied and stored. The results are in and LZ went 12-20 on his predictions which shows how tough picking the winners can be:

Arizona Cardinals: 7.5
Prediction - UNDER L

Atlanta Falcons: 4.5
Prediction - UNDER L

Baltimore Ravens: 6
Prediction - OVER W

Buffalo Bills: 8
Prediction - OVER L

Carolina Panthers: 7.5
Prediction - OVER W

Chicago Bears: 8
Prediction - PUSH L

Cincinnati Bengals: 7.5
Prediction - UNDER W

Cleveland Browns: 8
Prediction - UNDER W

Dallas Cowboys: 10.5
Prediction - OVER L

Denver Broncos: 7.5
Prediction - UNDER L

Detroit Lions: 6.5
Prediction - UNDER W

Green Bay Packers: 8
Prediction - OVER L

Houston Texans: 7.5
Prediction - OVER W

Indianapolis Colts: 11
Prediction - UNDER L

Jacksonville Jaguars: 10
Prediction - OVER L

Kansas City Chiefs: 6
Prediction - UNDER W

Miami Dolphins: 5.5
Prediction - UNDER L

Minnesota Vikings: 8.5
Prediction - OVER W

New England: 12.5
Prediction - OVER L

New Orleans: 8.5
Prediction - OVER L

New York Giants: 9
Prediction - PUSH L

New York Jets: 7
Prediction - OVER W

Oakland Raiders: 6.5
Prediction - UNDER W

Philadelphia Eagles: 8.5
Prediction - OVER W

Pittsburgh Steelers: 9
Prediction - UNDER L

San Diego Chargers: 10.5
Prediction - OVER L

San Francisco 49'ers: 6.5
Prediction - UNDER L

Seattle Seahawks: 8.5
Prediction - OVER L

St. Louis Rams: 6.5
Prediction - UNDER W

Tampa Bay Bucs: 8
Prediction - PUSH L

Tennessee Titans: 8
Prediction - UNDER L

Washington Redskins: 7.5
Prediction - UNDER L

LZ may or may not revisit this in an upcoming blog but I thought it was interesting....

Note the Texans went over their spread for the second year in a row which, I suppose, means improvement from a Vegas perspective....

looks like 20 L's by lz. not saying I would have done better though.

Yeah, by posting this, I wasn't trying to make LZ look dumb or stupid or anything like that, it was meant to show how much preseason conceptions look so different at the end of the year.... Perhaps I should have left the name out and just said, "a well respected Houston media member's picks".....

At any rate, Vegas had Detroit @ 6.5 wins and who'd thunk they would go winless?

Looks like LZ don't know any more than us everyday predictors do. He just has a bigger forum.