NFL players aren't the only ones who have a competitive spirit. Regular workers also want to outdo their coworkers. NFL Office Pool Picks are the perfect way to show off your forecasting skills, starting with the Week 1 NFL schedule. NFL Picks Contest allows you to compete against coworkers, friends and family to win prizes as well as bragging rights. Whether it's Week 1 NFL spread picks or NFL predictions, anyone can join the Football Office Pool.
When making your NFL spread picks, you have to deal with Week 1 NFL spreads as they are fragmented. Apart from Patriots vs Bengals (-9) and Bills vs Cardinals (+6.5), the other opening week matchups have spreads of 5 points or less. However, this allows you to flex your football knowledge and prediction skills to a great extent. If you are up for it, CBS Sports has the perfect matchups to keep you tuned in all season long.
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Get football picks for every game from our proven NFL model
Here's one team to root for during the NFL's opening week: SportsLine's advanced computer model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, predicts the New Orleans Saints to win at home against the Carolina Panthers.
The Saints have come into this series recently in New Orleans, winning seven of the past nine home meetings, but the two losses in New Orleans must be marked with an asterisk because the Saints never had a chance to win either matchup in the final week of the season. Last year, the Saints won both division matchups, allowing just one total touchdown in both games.
Carolina ranked last in the NFL in defensive sacks last year and released last season's top three sack leaders, including two-time Pro Bowl selection Brian Barnes, in the offseason. This will only make Derek Carr's job easier. Carr improved his TD:INT ratio to 14:2 over the final five games of last season with a passer rating of 118.9. The Week 1 matchup looks to be a continuation of last season, with the model projecting the Saints to win in nearly 80% of simulations. Join the pool now to lock in your picks.
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