In Week 1, we were reminded that, in the NFL, there are some things that never change. Buffalo, Cincy, and Oakland snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Whatever Brett Favre tried to do to Percy Harvin will be the subject of Law & Order SVU next week.
Of the three matchups this week featuring playoff teams from last year, this one has the best profile. San Diego’s defense looked terrible last week against a bad Oakland team. What do you think Joe Flacco, who threw for 300 yards against a bad Kansas City defense last week, is going to do to them? San Diego will likely be without LT, meaning that Darren Sproles will see the majority of time at running back. But we all know you can’t run on Baltimore. What does that leave us with? Joe Flacco v. Phillip Rivers in a wild west shootout. No surprise here if both teams break 30.
The new stadium. The Giants defense. The Cowboys passing game. We know the Giants can stop the run. Their secondary is questionable. Dallas knows how to score on them. Will Eli be able to keep up? With a heavy dose of Brandon Jacobs, we think the Giants can. This will be tight, but don’t be surprised if it digresses into a 4th quarter shootout.
Denver will get to start 2-0 based solely on the fact that they got to play 2 of the 6 worst teams in the league at the front end of their schedule. This will probably be a crap-fest, much like the Denver-Cincy game. Cleveland sucks.
Did I just say that? Yes. The Lions were terrible last year, we all know that. They only lost 3 games by less than 7 points. Two of those 3 games happened to be against Minnesota (12-10 and 20-16). They gave up over 100 to AP in both games and were still in them. While this year’s version of the Lions isn’t much better, neither is this year’s version of the Vikings. I still like the Vikings to win this week, but I had to go out on a limb with a crazy pick here, and I actually had a tad of anectodal evidence to back this one up.
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