NFL Picks For Week 1

0:00It's the Boomer in Geo podcast from W F A N. Bore and Geo's Friday football picks are presented by Fandall sports book, the official sports book of W F A N play your game. Boomer is the rating champion. 20, 25's crown went to him as we start 20, 26. Jerry Rekko will start with his games. He came in second last year, six games behind and then I was last. Well, I guess we use more like five and a half and I was six whatever we stunk everybody was under 500, but this year will be different, right? Five games all that we picked on our own. We're not doing the thing that we started last year with where we picked the jets and the giants games and all of that. Maybe we pick a jet and giant game. Maybe we don't, but it's all coming out of our brain. Jerry Rekko, let's hear it. You want all five or one at a time here? All five. All right, all five. So the first game I'm going to take is the Saints and the Lions. Lions minus six and a half. I know people are up on New Orleans. I'm taking Detroit.

1:00They lost the opener last year on the road of Green Bay, but came back. I believe in beat the Bears in week two, like 52 to something. So I'm going to take the Lions out of the gate to start fast minus the six and a half, not believing in the Saints just yet. That's game number one. Game number two will be the commanders and the Eagles. Philadelphia at home giving five and a half points. This is a for me a show me spot. I don't believe in the commanders until I see them play better last year was a mess. I think the Eagles are going to be better edition by subtraction with AJ Brown now in New England. I think it's going to be a little bit more cohesive. And I think a big say, Juan Barkley day, give me the Eagles minus five and a half game. Number three, Cardinals and chargers. I don't care if this spread is 15 and a half. It's nine and a half. The Cardinals are supposed to be the worst team in football along with the dolphins. Jim Harbohm in LA. Mr. Herbert time to put up or shut up at least this year. I'm taking the chargers minus nine and a half and what should be a route. All right, the two local games.

2:00Jets and Titans. Gordon Damer told me that the Jets are winning. He guaranteed me that the Jets are winning. He said the Jets will win this game. All right, Gordon, I hear you. I'll take the Jets. Wow. I'm taking the Jets plus one and a half on the road to good Lord. Jim to keep the Titans. That is the picture of failure right there. Yeah. This is on the screen. The score is there works. Nice little Jerry Rico picks graphic. And lastly, Cowboys and Giants, the Giants plus two and a half at home, the start of John Harbohm. It is going to be magical. I do believe that but not yet. Not Sunday night, not against the star. The Cowboys and Dak Prescott will roll in the MetLife Stadium. They will beat the Giants by more than a fuel goal. We're taking the Cowboys. All right, Jerry. We do share a brain on two of those picks. So I'll just get those out of the way. I have a different logic for one of them.

3:02The Chargers though minus nine and a half against Arizona. We have the same exact logic on it. That team is going to be terrible. Michael Floor, Nate Hackett and Chikolby Brissette for God's sakes. If the Chargers talk, I murder that team. Shame on them. With the Jets, I just, I don't like Rob Sallow. I don't know if Ryan Davis coaching this team. Cam Moore down there's going to be a lot of pressure. The Jets just have to show up. I think that Gino Smith, Cam Moore, it'll be one right there in a terrible football game. And they just have the veteran quarterback making just one or two more plays and they'll be able to cover the spread and win the game. So you took a cue from Gordon Damer about a game. I'm taking a cue from Mike Tomlin about a game. And I understand he's a former Steelers coach, but he seemed really confident about Steelers in this game. And that's when he thought two was playing. I wonder what he thinks with Cooper Rush playing. You might actually like the Falcons a little bit better, but the Falcons feel like a mess. Sound like a mess. Give me the Steelers minus four and a half at home against Atlanta.

4:06Yes, I'm actually picking the Minnesota Vikings in the first game of the season against the Packers, namely because they have all sorts of problems on their offensive line. You go in there, Vikings fans are going to be fired up, loud building. I think they get after Jordan Love a lot in this game. And the last one, quite honestly, I didn't have a pick that I liked for my fifth one. So I threw a bunch of hat and I pulled out the Ravens minus three and a half at Indy. That's how I decided that one. So there you go. All right. All right, here we go guys. You know, I'm with you, Gio, when it comes to the Jets and the Titans, I'll take the Jets, I'll take the point and a half. And the reason I'm doing that is because there are often, it's going to be a lot better than you've seen. I'm telling you right now, I will put my reputation on it. I think they'll have a great game offensively. I'm Falcons at the Steelers. I will take the Steelers. I will lay the four and a half points. There's no question about that. Bills at the Texans. The Texans have one of the best defenses in football. Josh Allen struggles against the Texans.

5:06Don't be surprised that they lose the game and CJ Stroud has a good game. I think the Texans come away with the victory here. And by the way, I'll take the points in the home underdog with one and a half points. Bears at the Panthers. Panthers are plus three at home underdog at home. They have an underrated defense. Bryce Shung had a really good year last year. I think they bounce back. I think they play well again here against the Bears. I don't know if they'll win the game, but I think that they'll at least cover. And then finally, the dolphins at the Raiders, you know, you were talking about the Cardinals thinking dolphins are spending more money in deadcap money than they are in the players on the field. I'll take the Raiders and Kirk Cousins to take down the dolphins. All right. There it is. It's the first test of 2026 with all three of us picking the same team. And of course, we all pick the jets. This is going to go great. I'll be so negative, man. I mean, it's a new year. It's a new year. But this is our history. It's just, it's, I understand some new year, but every year most of us, if not all of us,

6:10are under 500. And then every time we all pick the same game, we lose. Yeah. Well, let's hope we don't lose this one. Well, you don't come here Monday after a jet. What happens if the, you know, I still, I still, I'm telling you, this jet offense is going to be a lot, I'm telling you, it's going to be a lot better. Just mark my words. They have good players. They're going to have a good plan. And, you know, like Frank was saying yesterday in his press conference, Gus Bradley knows Frank, Frank knows Gus Bradley. They've worked together. They know each other really well. It's going to be a good plan. I think Geno's going to have a really good game here. What do you want to do with our knockout pick? We're in a big pool. Boomer and I have joined together. Nice. And you could pick any team you want any week. So it's not like we just want. So we're definitely, we don't want to get cute. We're just going to go charter. I'm not going to get cute. Not going to get cute. We just said they'd hack it. Yeah, I did. Michael of floor, which I have nothing against these guys, but Nate Hackett, what is he proven? That he's a dummy. I mean, I, you know, you got to go with the charter.

7:13All right, we're doing my pick, Daniel and Justin Herbert, throwing for 400 yards in this game. We'll go chalk. We'll go chalk. It's fine. I'm fine with chalk. We want just got to get through. Just got to get through. It's got to get through. Yeah, that's a name in the game.