Week 1 Picks

Finally! Football season is here again! Now I have something to do on Sundays besides laying out the couch all day. Now I’ll be lying on the couch watching football!

It is also time to once again start making my weekly football picks. This year I’m not going to pick straight-up winners and winners vs. the spread. I’ll just be picking teams against the spread. I’m already 1-0 since I picked the Pats on Thursday. My picks should appear here by sometime on Friday evening.

Weeks 1 and 2 are always the hardest to pick for me since you don’t really know how a lot of teams are going to shape out, but here goes!

Week 1:
Oakland at New England (-7.5): New England Patriots
Houston at Buffalo (-5.5): Buffalo
Cincinnati (-3.5) at Cleveland: Cincinnati
New York Jets at Kansas City (-3): Kansas City
Denver (-5) at Miami: Miami
Tampa Bay at Minnesota (-6): Minnesota
Tennessee at Pittsburgh (-7): Tennessee
Chicago at Washington (-5.5): Washington
New Orleans at Carolina (-7): Carolina
Seattle at Jacksonville (-3): Jacksonville
Green Bay (-3) at Detroit: Green Bay
Arizona at New York Giants (-3): Arizona
Dallas at San Diego (4.5): San Diego
St. Louis (-6) at San Francisco: St. Louis
Indianapolis (-3) at Baltimore: Indianapolis
Philadelphia (-1.5) At Atlanta: Philadelphia

Miami, Tennessee, and Arizona are the only upsets I have this week. My sure-thing-o’-the-week is the Rams over the 49ers.