It's NFL Time

It has become a tradition in the NFL that the two Super teams face each other on opening day the following year.  The NFL season begins Thursday night when the Carolina Panthers face the Denver Broncos. It is the first time that the two Super Bowl teams played the very first game the next season.

Carolina @ Denver:  Can't say that Denver will be as good on offense as last year and they were not that good then either.  They won the Super Bowl with defense and will  they be as good as last season?  I think Carolina will be better on offense than they showed in Super Bowl and with Denver having a new quarterback I'll take Panthers to start season off right.  Panthers 24 Denver 16

The 1pm games Sunday start in Atlanta when Tampa Bay visits the Falcons.  Can anyone give the Panthers a challenge.  The winner of this game could be the answer.  Falcons 27 Bucs 23

Buffalo @ Baltimore:  Everywhere Rex Ryan goes they  get worse every year.  Ravens 30 Bills 16

Chicago @Houston:  Oh Boy here is one of those I have no idea games. I'll take the home team  Texans 26 Bears 22

Green Bay @Jacksonville:  Is there a chance the Jags are better this year?  For some reason seems like The Packers are not as good as the past but they are playing the Jags. Green Bay 27 Jax 20

San Diego @ Kansas City:  SD started 23 different lineman trying to protect Philip Rivers last season.  Despite the changes Rivers passed for 4700 yards.  If healthy San Diego could be better but they start in KC who may be favorite in AFC West   KC 28 SD 24

Oakland @ New Orleans:  AFC West just may be best division in football this year mainly because Oakland is back as the bad boys.  There will be plenty of changes in New Orleans after this year.  Oakland 27 Saints 20

Cincinnati @ Jets:  Cincy just plain better than the Jets.  Bengals 33 Jets 21

Cleveland @ Philadelphia:  Will Browns be as bad as ever ?  Eagles at home 31 Browns 20

Minnesota @ Tennessesse :  Two weeks ago this was a no brainer but Vikes lost their quarterback.  Defense is still there and healthy. Vikes 23 Titans 17

Miami @ Seattle:  Seahawks hard to beat in the Northwest.  I see no reason that they will lose this one.  Seattle 23 Miami 14

Giants @ Dallas:  Cowboys just might be better without Romo. Giants still have that other Manning Dallas 30 Giants 21

Detroit @ Indianapolis:  Two teams that could both be terrible or great.  Who knows about these two.  Indy 38 Lions 32

Sunday night football has a good one in New England @ Arizona:  So finally the glamour boys gets his four games off.  Would love the Pat's win all four while Brady is out just to show it's the system not the quarterback.  Zona wins 26-22

The Monday night double header starts in Washington   Pittsburgh @ Washington.  Here is another game with two teams who knows how good they are.  This is the toughest pick of the week.  Washington 30 Pittsburgh 27

Rams @ 49ers:  Todd Gurley has not touched the ball all preseason while the most notable thing going in San Fran is a goof ball.  Gurley and company 23 9ers 17

Started last year less than 500 on picks the first two weeks.  Must start better this year.

Three high school games finally got played last night making up for the games put off by last week's tropical storm.

Rocky Mount Prep  got their first win of the season beating NorthEast Carolina Prep 20-14.

Rocky Mount Academy rolled over Community Christian School 48-6

The season is going down hill for SouthWest Edgecombe as South Central got their first win of the season winning over SWE 26-6 .

Got six of seven games correct running my season guesses to 18-6.