Showing posts with label NFL Week 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NFL Week 1. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2015

NFL Week 1 Primer (With Picks): Football, Baby; Football

Football is back, and Sunday night's Giants-Cowboys game will give us this dude (Odell Beckham Jr.) making crazy plays, Romo and Eli either being really good or terrible, and a pass rusher missing a finger! God bless the NFL.
 By Jeremy Conlin (@jeremy_conlin) and Joe Parello (@HerewegoJoe)

What a long, strange year it's been. When we left you, the Patriots had just won their fourth Super Bowl in the last decade and a half, and were about to embark on perhaps the most bizarre offseason a football team has ever faced. But that's over now. Because we're here.

Joe took our picks crown in 2013 with a regular season record of 125-122-11, beating Jeremy's 118-129-11. In 2014, Joe took the crown again (barely), 128-121-7 to 126-123-7. This year, Jeremy is out for blood.

Jeremy and Joe (mostly Joe) have spent the last month previewing the season, so we won't waste time with that here. We'll just jump straight into the picks, because all that's important is that Joe loses this year.

-Jeremy

Game(s) of The Week

We really could qualify every game this week as a Game of The Week, considering football is back and we've all missed it, but we'll just run through a few ones of particular interest.

Indianapolis @ Buffalo (1:00 p.m. Sunday, CBS)

This could end up being the No. 1 passing offense in the league versus the No. 1 passing defense in the league, so whoever takes the upper hand here could be a decent harbinger for the year to come.