Acme Packing Company
Week one of an NFL season usually results in some wacky results. Plenty of teams have new coaching staffs and personnel, while the teams that return largely unchanged from the year before have had an entire offseason and training camp to self-scout and come up with new, crazy game plans. It’s one of the more unpredictable weeks on the schedule, with week 18 right there with it.
So naturally, we’ll try to predict the results of this week’s games as we usually do here at Acme Packing Company. Naturally, the big one is the Green Bay Packers’ opener against the Detroit Lions, a game that will find its winner in the early driver’s seat for the NFC North division. The Packers have an unusually backloaded division schedule this year, as this weekend’s game is their only one against a divisional opponent before week 12. Starting then, five of the last seven games of the regular season will be against NFC North teams, so an early 1-0 division record would be a huge boost.
Sunday Night Football should be a great matchup as well, with the Baltimore Ravens visiting the Buffalo Bills. Those two teams met twice last year, first in the regular season and later in the Divisional Playoffs. In that postseason game, the Bills held on for a 27-25 victory, advancing to the AFC Championship Game. The Ravens are now slight favorites, however, with the line swinging a bit in the last few days, while the game has an over/under of 50.5, the largest number of any game this weekend.
Please remember that our picks are for entertainment purposes only — just look at our track records if you need any reasons as to why. Here are our picks for all of the week 1 games!
