Week 1 featured a lot of road favorites and those are often tough to back in the NFL. That seemed especially true for the season openers after a lot of the better teams left their starters on the sideline throughout the preseason.
As it turned out, it was a mixed bag for road favorites, including a 49ers loss in Chicago that looked more like a water polo match than a football game.
As we move ahead to Week 2, it’s imperative to identify point spreads that look like overreactions. One data point may not fully represent a team. Also, a lot of Week 1 games were sloppy with a lot of turnovers, and it was clear that a lot of quarterbacks and wide receivers need to work on their timing. We should see improvement from Week 1 to Week 2, but that’s far from guaranteed.
Here are the opening lines I like for Week 2: