GKJ
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It's finally Week 1 in the NFL, and I've been commissioned to do the NFL GDT's too apparently, I guess we'll see how much juice I have. We've endured the off-season, draft, contract disputed, bad pre-season football, and generally weak college football outside of a handful of games to get to this point, and our rewards is the next 18 (23 including playoffs) Thursdays, Sundays, holidays, and other days to endure the one thing we are told we can't get enough of.
Thursday: the 2-time defending champs look to be the first team in the Super Bowl era to turn that 2 into a 3. A rematch of the AFC Championship Game, with a flip of the home field, Kansas City Chiefs host the Baltimore Ravens on NBC, and they want people to know that their offense is back, all the way back. scheduled officially for 8:20pm kickoff. KC -3
We have our first Friday opening weekend game, and our first NFL game in South America. The Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles make the 10ish-hour trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil to play at Neo Quimica Arena, the 14th largest stadium in Brazil and home to/owned by SC Corinthans and is expected to seat over 47,000 for the game. This is an Eagles an home game. The Eagles will unveil their new offense which added Saquon Barkley at running back, and Nick Sirianni ceding nearly all of his control of the offense to Kellen Moore, which is bound to not have people asking questions about who should be the head coach if this is going to work. Eagles also hire Vic Fangio, who they wanted to hire before last season, but because the NFL is stupid with their coach hiring process, didn't happen, so it is now, and no one knows what's going to happen with the Eagles defense, my guess is it takes a while to make the pieces fit, presuming they do at all. So, we could be looking at some points here. Jordan Love begins his second full season as the starting QB, and first as the highest paid player in the league, which also makes sense. This is a Peacock Game, which is a pain for a lot of people, but not me! Philly and Green Bay markets will get the game on TV locally.
Sunday Maps! CBS Single window:
Blue
New England @ Cincinnati
Ian Eagle, Charles Davis
Green
Jacksonville @ Miami
Kevin Harlan, Trent Green
Yellow
Houston @ Indianapolis
Andrew Catalon, Tiki Barber, Jason McCourty
Cyan
Arizona @ Buffalo
Tom McCarthy, Ross Tucker, Jay Feely
Red
Las Vegas @ LA Chargers (LATE)
Jim Nantz, Tony Romo
Orange
Denver @ Seattle (LATE)
Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta
Fox Early:
Red
Pittsburgh @ Atlanta
Joe Davis, Greg Olsen
Blue
Minnesota @ NY Giants
Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma
Green
Tennessee @ Chicago
Adam Amin, Mark Sanchez
Yellow
Carolina @ New Orleans
Chris Myers, Mark Schlereth
Fox Late:
Red
Dallas @ Cleveland
Kevin Burkhardt, Tom Brady - who we do not yet know if he will have access to pre-production meetings because, as usual, he wants to make his $375m being an analyst and be part-owner of the Raiders. The NFL, as if this writing, has yet to define what kind of access he can have and what level of conflict of interest exists here. CLE -2.5
Blue
Washington @ Tampa Bay
Kevin Kugler, Daryl Johnston
Sunday Night Football has a playoff rematch and the feel-good, and then later feel-bad-for story of the Detroit Lions hosting the Los Angeles Rams. The playoff game was the actual Matthew Stafford return game, but that aspect seemed to lose a bit of juice given the playoff nature. Not sure how often we've had the return game end up in the playoffs. DET -5
Monday Night Football, Aaron Rodgers is gonna try this again. The New York Jets travel west to play the San Francisco 49ers, so the Field of Death that exists at the Meadowlands isn't in-play here. It's real Bermuda grass in Santa Clara. It's definitely last call for the Jets, they're not gonna have Zach Wilson to blame anymore if this doesn't work, not that it wasn't their fault to begin with that he was even there last year at all. The 49ers have the daunting prospect of the Super Bowl loser trying to make it back there, more often than not is a very tough hill to climb. They finally have Aiyuk signed, and we'll see how much Brock Purdy gets paid. SF -4.5
Welcome back!
Thursday: the 2-time defending champs look to be the first team in the Super Bowl era to turn that 2 into a 3. A rematch of the AFC Championship Game, with a flip of the home field, Kansas City Chiefs host the Baltimore Ravens on NBC, and they want people to know that their offense is back, all the way back. scheduled officially for 8:20pm kickoff. KC -3
We have our first Friday opening weekend game, and our first NFL game in South America. The Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles make the 10ish-hour trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil to play at Neo Quimica Arena, the 14th largest stadium in Brazil and home to/owned by SC Corinthans and is expected to seat over 47,000 for the game. This is an Eagles an home game. The Eagles will unveil their new offense which added Saquon Barkley at running back, and Nick Sirianni ceding nearly all of his control of the offense to Kellen Moore, which is bound to not have people asking questions about who should be the head coach if this is going to work. Eagles also hire Vic Fangio, who they wanted to hire before last season, but because the NFL is stupid with their coach hiring process, didn't happen, so it is now, and no one knows what's going to happen with the Eagles defense, my guess is it takes a while to make the pieces fit, presuming they do at all. So, we could be looking at some points here. Jordan Love begins his second full season as the starting QB, and first as the highest paid player in the league, which also makes sense. This is a Peacock Game, which is a pain for a lot of people, but not me! Philly and Green Bay markets will get the game on TV locally.
Sunday Maps! CBS Single window:
Blue
New England @ Cincinnati
Ian Eagle, Charles Davis
Green
Jacksonville @ Miami
Kevin Harlan, Trent Green
Yellow
Houston @ Indianapolis
Andrew Catalon, Tiki Barber, Jason McCourty
Cyan
Arizona @ Buffalo
Tom McCarthy, Ross Tucker, Jay Feely
Red
Las Vegas @ LA Chargers (LATE)
Jim Nantz, Tony Romo
Orange
Denver @ Seattle (LATE)
Spero Dedes, Adam Archuleta
Fox Early:
Red
Pittsburgh @ Atlanta
Joe Davis, Greg Olsen
Blue
Minnesota @ NY Giants
Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma
Green
Tennessee @ Chicago
Adam Amin, Mark Sanchez
Yellow
Carolina @ New Orleans
Chris Myers, Mark Schlereth
Fox Late:
Red
Dallas @ Cleveland
Kevin Burkhardt, Tom Brady - who we do not yet know if he will have access to pre-production meetings because, as usual, he wants to make his $375m being an analyst and be part-owner of the Raiders. The NFL, as if this writing, has yet to define what kind of access he can have and what level of conflict of interest exists here. CLE -2.5
Blue
Washington @ Tampa Bay
Kevin Kugler, Daryl Johnston
Sunday Night Football has a playoff rematch and the feel-good, and then later feel-bad-for story of the Detroit Lions hosting the Los Angeles Rams. The playoff game was the actual Matthew Stafford return game, but that aspect seemed to lose a bit of juice given the playoff nature. Not sure how often we've had the return game end up in the playoffs. DET -5
Monday Night Football, Aaron Rodgers is gonna try this again. The New York Jets travel west to play the San Francisco 49ers, so the Field of Death that exists at the Meadowlands isn't in-play here. It's real Bermuda grass in Santa Clara. It's definitely last call for the Jets, they're not gonna have Zach Wilson to blame anymore if this doesn't work, not that it wasn't their fault to begin with that he was even there last year at all. The 49ers have the daunting prospect of the Super Bowl loser trying to make it back there, more often than not is a very tough hill to climb. They finally have Aiyuk signed, and we'll see how much Brock Purdy gets paid. SF -4.5
Welcome back!
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Great job !
