Well with the first week of the 2015 NFL season in the wraps
and now that we’ve seen that Peyton Manning is still Peyton Manning lets get
into some predictions for this Sunday’s matchups. As a lifelong Eagles fan it
is my belief that they are poised to score big this Sunday against the Cowboys.
Fresh off of a stunning loss to the Falcons I think the Eagles are going to
come out strong in their home opener and I would lock up running back Darren
Sproles and throw him into your line-up as a flex play in PPR leagues. He’s
still got some value in traditional scoring formats but in PPR his production
could be awesome. Last week he had over 100 yards from scrimmage and if Sam
Bradford keeps chucking it to him we might start to expect that on a weekly
basis. I would however stay away from Demarco Murray and Ryan Matthews because
I believe they will be running the ball more this week but there
production will be split and I think
Sproles will be getting all the touchdowns.
Now that I’ve talked about the Eagles let’s talk about some
quarterbacks you should start this week. I’m pretty high on Matt Ryan, Ben
Roethlisberger, Joe Flacco, and
Marcus Mariota for this Sunday’s matchups. Matt Ryan after
just torching the Eagles new secondary goes into New York facing a totally
suspect Giants secondary and I think he and Julio Jones are in for another big
week. Big Ben fresh off that Thursday loss to the Patriots is going to come in
big without Leveon Bell again against the 49ers. Meanwhile Joe Flacco after not
being able to do anything against the Broncos is going into Oakland against a
garbage Raiders team and I think he’s going to find his groove early and give
you some great production. Then we have the rookie Mariota, he looked
absolutely awesome against the Buccaneers last week and while yes they’re the
Buccaneers and they’re terrible his week two matchup is against the Browns! The
Browns just gave up 31 points to the Jets in their opener. Cleveland it feels like has been perpetually
bad and I expect Mariota to put up similar numbers to his week one debut.
Let’s talk about some picks now, I’ll give you guys my pick
for each game this week with the exception of the Broncos Chiefs but if you
really want to know I had picked the Chiefs to win that one so I’m sitting at
0-1 now. Not a great start but we’ve all got to start somewhere.
Eagles over Dallas .
(I fear Philadelphia
may explode if this doesn’t happen)
New England over Buffalo
So there you have it, I’m hoping next week if you check back
in I’ll be 14-1 with picks and you will all bow down to me as the game picking
genius. Let’s be real that’s probably not going to happen but hey we can hope
right?
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