The best way to win your NFL office pool picks or NFL confidence pool picks is making the right call on the closest matchups. Two games on the first Sunday of the season have NFL lines of 1.5 points, Browns vs. Panthers and Packers vs. Vikings. The question is which side is the right one for those games in your Week 1 NFL picks. Motivation for every team to win will be at its highest point all season since every one will want to open with a victory. Green Bay and Minnesota play each other twice a year, but Cleveland and Carolina have only played three times since 2010 and Cleveland is 2-1 overall and against the spread in those games. Before you make your NFL predictions, you need to see the Week 1 NFL football pool picks from SportsLine’s proven model.
The model, which simulates every NFL game 10,000 times, is up over $7,500 for $100 players on top-rated NFL picks since its inception. The model enters the 2022 NFL season on an incredible 138-97 run on top-rated NFL picks that dates back to the 2017 season.
More importantly for NFL confidence pool players, the model also ranked in the top 10 on NFLPickWatch four of the past six years on straight-up NFL picks and beat more than 94 percent of CBS Sports office pool players four times during that span. Anyone who has followed it is way up.
Now, the model has simulated the entire Week 1 NFL schedule 10,000 times and generated its optimal NFL pick’em plays. Go to SportsLine to see them now.
Top Week 1 NFL office pool predictions
One of the top Week 1 NFL predictions from the model: The Indianapolis Colts (-7) comfortably beat the Houston Texans on the road by 11 points. In two games against Houston last season, Jonathan Taylor ran for 288 yards and four touchdowns. New quarterback Matt Ryan hasn’t quite enjoyed the same level of success in three previous games against the Texans, but his new No. 1 receiver, Michael Pittman, has a 14 yards per catch average against them.
The most dynamic player in the Texans’ offense, Brandin Cooks, had 127 total receiving yards, but no touchdowns in two games against the Colts last season. Additionally, Houston lost the turnover battle against Indianapolis last year, 5-1, and the Colts’ defense should be equipped to handle the Texans again. Cinching the case for Indy is that the Colts are 4-1 overall and 5-0 ATS versus Houston in as many games.
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