Week 1 - 2010 Season

Well I hope everyone enjoy their Labor Day holiday and summer because it's time to get back to NFL football. As usual though the first few weeks will mostly be picks without much added opinions because no matter what takes place during summer and drafts, etc. the true nature of a team and its players for a new season is really not revealed until 3 or 4 games are played...

This year though should be an exciting one and lots and lots of hopeful teams out there. In fact I would say some of the old top teams, especially like New England or Colts might be in for a rough year.

My picks of teams to watch for this year are - St Louis, Tennessee, San Francisco, Jets and Detroit might have some surprising up-sets...

Let's get on with the season -

Thursday Night Game:

MINNESOTA (0-0) AT NEW ORLEANS (0-0)

Again the problem for the first few weeks of a new season is that there are no decisive
Offensive Statistics or Defensive Statistics, just well they could do this or well they should be strong here, etc.etc.etc. The one thing you can question from last season is whether some teams will continue to be good on the road and at home or will some teams just be good road teams or just good at home..

This game is a re-hash of last seasons Championship game where Favre took a pounding! and still came up smiling... although the Vikings lost...

The Vikings last year had 4 losses - all away games, The Saints had 3 losses all at the end of the season when it didn't really matter... Right at the moment Vikings are somewhere between 3.5 and 4.0 underdogs....

I think they will top the Saints in this game only for the fact that Favre needs to if nothing else...

My Pick: Vikings 26 - Saints 24

Sunday games I'll have come Friday

Be seeing you, Knobby