Week 2 NFL Picks: After winning debut, Cam Newton leads Patriots to Seattle

Game of the week

New Eng­land at Seattle

The Patri­ots are a four-point under­dog, but real­ly, this game should be a pick’em because the sta­di­um will be emp­ty. Rus­sell Wilson’s Week 1 was over­looked by oth­er quar­ter­backs, but he was 31-of-35 pass­ing for 322 yards and four touchdowns.

Sea­hawks 27, Patri­ots 24

Upset of the week

Min­neso­ta (plus‑3) at Indianapolis

Both teams turned in Week 1 clunk­ers. The Vikings allowed 522 yards in a 43–34 home loss to Green Bay in which they trailed by as many as 19 points. The Colts allowed Jaguars quar­ter­back Gard­ner Min­shew to com­plete 19-of-20 pass­es.  The Vikings are a three-point dog.

Vikings 20, Colts 14

Lock of the week

Detroit (plus‑6) at Green Bay

The Lions will trav­el to Lam­beau Field but their minds may be back in Week 1, when they had a come-from-ahead loss to Chica­go (blew 23–6 lead). Those are tough to imme­di­ate­ly over­come. Green Bay’s offense should con­tin­ue to go through receiv­er Davante Adams (14 catch­es-156 yards last week).

Pack­ers 35, Lions 20


Around the AFC: Running game makes Cleveland offense intriguing

Browns intrigu­ing. As bad as Cleve­land was in Week 1 at Bal­ti­more (38–6 loss), it looked as good Thurs­day, albeit against Cincin­nati. In a 35–30 win, the Browns rushed 35 times for 215 yards (6.1 aver­age) and six touch­downs. Nick Chubb (22 car­ries-124 yards) and Kareem Hunt (10–86) are a ter­rif­ic duo who make the Browns an inter­est­ing because the run­ning game in coach Kevin Stefanski’s offen­sive sys­tem sets up the play action and shots down­field to receiv­er Odell Beck­ham (43-yard touchdown).

Get­ting Ekel­er involved. Now the Charg­ers’ no-doubt start­ing run­ning back fol­low­ing Melvin Gordon’s depar­ture to the Bron­cos, Austin Ekel­er had only 19 of the Charg­ers’ 39 car­ries and only one of their 16 catch­es in last week’s win over Cincin­nati. That must change, begin­ning Sun­day against Kansas City. Last year, Ekel­er had 92 catch­es, includ­ing at least two in every game and at least five in 10 games.

Under­rat­ed matchup. An under-the-radar intrigu­ing 11 a.m. game is Jack­sonville (1–0), off an upset home win over Indi­anapo­lis, against Ten­nessee (1–0), off a late Mon­day night win at the Bron­cos. The Titans have con­trolled the Jaguars in Nashville (six con­sec­u­tive wins). New Jaguars play-caller Jay Gru­den has some tal­ent to direct. Quar­ter­back Gard­ner Min­shew had a 142.3 rat­ing, rook­ie undraft­ed run­ning back James Robin­son rushed for 62 yards and sec­ond-round receiv­er Laviska Shenault caught a touch­down. The Jaguars aren’t tank­ing as evi­dent last week.


Around the NFC: Winning debut for former Broncos assistant Brandon Staley

Win­ning debut. For­mer Bron­cos out­side line­back­ers coach Bran­don Sta­ley won his first game as the Los Ange­les Rams’ defen­sive coor­di­na­tor, 20–17 over Dal­las. The Cow­boys gained 380 yards, but were 3‑of-12 on third down. “I think I felt a lot like I did in the (Divi­sion III) nation­al semi­fi­nal against Wis­con­sin-Oshkosh when I was at John Car­roll (Ohio),” Sta­ley told reporters. “As a com­peti­tor, every time you get a chance to per­form, it means the world to you.”

Goff vs. Wentz. In 2016, the Rams trad­ed from No. 15 to No. 1 and Philadel­phia from No. 8 to No. 2 to draft quar­ter­backs Jared Goff and Car­son Wentz, respec­tive­ly. Goff has reached a Super Bowl and Wentz’s Eagles won the title (he was hurt) and both have signed sec­ond con­tracts. They meet for the third time Sun­day. Had the Rams tak­en Wentz, would Goff be an Eagle? “I think look­ing back, (tak­ing Goff) prob­a­bly would have been the next step for us,” Eagles coach Doug Ped­er­son said. “We were pre­pared in that situation.”

Saints’ Thomas injured. Unpop­u­lar Opin­ion Alert — Why do coach­es keep star play­ers in the game at garbage time? Last week, New Orleans led Tam­pa Bay 34–23 with 2:14 remain­ing when receiv­er Michael Thomas, while block­ing on a down­field run, got rolled into by run­ning back Latavius Mur­ray. Thomas sus­tained a high ankle sprain. Reck­less ros­ter man­age­ment, peri­od. The Saints had five oth­er receivers dressed. Use any of them except for Thomas.



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