After a wild, unpredictable first week of the 2016 season, here are our NFL Week 2 picks against the spread for all 16 games
If there’s one thing that you can predict like clockwork about the first week of any NFL season, it’s that things are going to be unpredictable. Sure, we know the personnel in place for each team, but we don’t know what it’s going to look like until the games are played. Once again, this proved to be true in Week 1 of the 2016 NFL season. Consequently, things are only further complicated heading into NFL Week 2.
Looking back on the first week of the season, who could have predicted that Carson Wentz would be the savior of football in Philadelphia right from his first start? Moreover, everyone was 100 percent justified in not giving the New England Patriots a shot against the Arizona Cardinals with no Rob Gronkowski and with Jimmy Garoppolo starting. Yet here we are, having seen those things in more through one week.
Now comes the second week of the season where we try to make sense of everything. It becomes a balancing act of not overreacting to certain things while also assessing what you should be banking on moving forward. Subsequently, Week 2 can be every bit as trick to predict as the first week. Yet, that’s what I’ll try to do.
Though there were no picks from me in Week 1, we’ll start with a 0-0 record in Week 2. Here are the NFL Week 2 picks against the spread for all 16 games on the schedule.
Note: All lines are via Westgate Las Vegas
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