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Today is the best day for a NFL fan, as every Sunday is considered NFL day during the football season. Let’s look at each game in time order being played on Sunday, predict the scores and outcomes. 

    Cleveland Browns at Baltimore Ravens

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-20 Baltimore wins

    Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Carolina Panthers 

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 21-14 Tampa wins

    Cincinnati Bengals vs Atlanta Falcons

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 28-27 Bengals win

    Detroit Lions at Dallas Cowboys

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 20-17 Dallas wins

    Jacksonville Jaguars vs New York Giants

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-21 Giants win

    Tennessee Titans vs Indianapolis Colts

    When: 1:00 PM ET

Score: 21-20 Colts win

    Green Bay Packers vs Washington Commanders

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-21 Green Bay wins

    New York Jets at Denver Broncos

    When: 4:05 PM ET

    Score: 21-18 Jets win

    Las Vegas Raiders vs Houston Texans

    When: 4:05 PM ET

    Score: 27-21 Raiders win

Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Chargers

When: 4:25 PM ET

    Score: 24-21 Chargers win

Kansas City Chiefs at San Francisco 49ers

When: 4:25 PM ET

    Score: 28-27 Chiefs win

Pittsburgh Steelers at Miami Dolphins

When: 8:20 PM ET

    Score: 28-21 Miami wins

New England Patriots vs Chicago Bears

When: 8:15 PM ET

Score: 21-14 Patriots win

Superstar running back Christian Mccaffrey has officially been traded to the San Francisco 49ers for multiple draft picks. The Carolina Panthers will receive 2023 2nd round, 3rd round 4th round picks and a 2024 5th round pick in exchange for McCaffrey.

 With the Niners being in a win now mode and the Panthers firing head coach Matt Rhule and being considered one of the worst teams in the NFL this Panthers organization has decided to start a full rebuild. Panthers also traded wide receiver Robbie Anderson to the Cardinals earlier this week. McCaffrey was next on the list, Panther’s number one receiver DJ Moore is also on the trade block with many other pieces, and with McCaffrey having such a big trade market the Panthers really got maximum value for the star running back.

The six year veteran running back has been a multi time pro bowler and has made an all pro team but the main concern with Mccaffrey has been his injury status the last three years, the last three years Mccaffrey has really struggled staying on the field with just 10 games played in the previous two seasons before showing his durability thus far playing every game this season. Although Mccaffrey doesn’t put up crazy statistics in the run game he’s more of a multi use back as he can catch, play special teams, and sometimes be considered a wide receiver. Mccaffrey’s best season was in 2019 where he had a combined 2300 yards from scrimmage.

The 49ers will now take on the remaining four years of Mccaffrey’s deal which he we paid an average of $11.5 million per season which for a top tier running back in this league is a good price to pay although considering the draft capital and money against the cap that is a lot to pay but if it accounts for a Super Bowl, the 49ers and their fan base will definitely accept that. The Panthers clear space and get lots of draft picks for this upcoming draft which could be the best draft in half a decade.

With the Saints having multiple injured players on offense and defense, and with the Cardinals being so drama-filled, this was going to be a good matchup regardless of the score. With DeAndre Hopkins making his season debut and facing off against Premier cornerback Marshon Lattimore, looking into this matchup really had potential to make for a great game.

The Cardinals are one of the slowest teams to start a game, the Saints jumped out to a 7 to 3 lead at the end of the first quarter, with Andy Dalton, throwing a crucial red zone interception that really gave the Cardinals away back to take the lead in the second quarter, but with the Cardinals struggling to find the end zone they settled for three points. With Marshon Lattimore being ruled out for this game with an injury this really gives the Cardinals an edge to take advantage of a weak Saints secondary.

Even though Andy Dalton had four touchdowns, the three interceptions really cost New Orleans the game, this was a much higher scoring game than most predicted as the Cardinals beat the Saints 42-34. Late in the second quarter Kyler Murray appeared to have yelled at head coach Kliff Kinsbury and with cameras and the media picking that up it quickly became a huge talking point going into halftime.

The second half is where it really picked up as Kyler and D-Hop revitalized their connection from last season with Hopkins having a 100 yard receiving game, but with Arizona having one of the worst defenses in the league the Saints had many opportunities to score in the second half. Saints quarterback Andy Dalton had everything going for him as the Saints offensive line gave up no sacks, the Saints beat the Cardinals in almost every statistical category the Cardinals definitely ran away with this win as the Saints lost themselves the game with key turnovers and mistakes.

The New Orleans Saints and Arizona Cardinals will be playing on Thursday night football. With both of these teams having their first standalone primetime game of the year, they Both will work to get back on track as they are two of the more underachieving teams in the NFL thus far. 

With the Cardinals having so much off-season drama with the Kyler Murray contract situation and the DeAndre Hopkins suspension, this team has been one of the more disappointing teams in the league, considering the expectations coming in. For the Saints as the expectations weren’t as high they still are disappointing for reasons of superstar wide receiver Michael Thomas coming back, Jameis Winston having another year under this system and signing free agent Tyrann Mathieu the Saints team has just overall been disappointing.

Let’s go through each team and figure out what the biggest X factors are for them to win this game. First let’s start off with the Cardinals I believe their biggest X Factor is pro bowl wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins coming back off a suspension and facing one of the better cornerbacks in Marshon Lattimore, the Cardinals pass game will definitely be there biggest mismatch and key to winning this game

For the Saints their biggest key to winning this game is getting pressure on Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, if the Saints can get real pressure and force Kyler Murray into making bad decisions they have a real shot at winning this game as teams have figured out if they force Kyler Murray to stay in the pocket and throw in passing lanes he isn’t nearly as effective as he would be normally.

Overall I think the Cardinals will win this game solely because of Kyler Murray, making plays with his feet and DeAndre Hopkins being fresh to start the season. My prediction is the cardinals win 27-21.

With one of the more premier matchups on Monday night football we have the Denver Broncos facing the Los Angeles chargers in Sofi stadium and what a game this was. The Broncos started out the game, taking a 10-0 lead in the first quarter and vintage Russell Wilson really emerged as he scrambled out of the pocket and made to big plays back to back, with Wilson coming off shoulder surgery earlier this week the Broncos were definitely projected to throw more RPO’s and bubble screens to keep Russell’s throwing shoulder under less pain and preserve him for the year more. 

With this Chargers team, being one of the most injury rattled teams, they finally got some other stars back with JC Jackson, but are still missing many key pieces on both sides of the ball like star edge rusher Joey Bosa, Corey Lindsley, Rashawn Slater who is out for the year, Keenan Allen who’s been banged up all year and many other key players, but at the end of the day this chargers team has really been underwhelming these last two years under head coach Brian Staley. 

    With all that being said the second half really turned out to be a close one with the Chargers rallying back to tie the ball game up and take the game into overtime where they kicked a field goal to win the game. With both teams really relying on their quarterbacks to produce offense in this game you have to wonder what changes will be made throughout the year to not rely on them as much, as we’ve seen with other teams who rely on their QB’s more those teams tend to struggle once the QB has a bad week or stretch of weeks. 

Wilson and the Broncos are off to a very rocky start in their first year as partners in the AFC and with Russell injuring his hamstring last night in the fourth quarter and Denver losing key pieces throughout the year like left tackle Garrett Bowles, running back Javonte Williams, receiver Tim Patrick and others, it’s shaping up like Denver is going to miss the playoffs completely this year. The Broncos fall to 2-4 on the season as the Los Angeles Chargers advance to 4-2.

Today is the best day for a NFL fan, as every Sunday is considered NFL day during the football season. Let’s look at each game in time order being played on Sunday, predict the scores and outcomes. 

    San Francisco 49ers at Atlanta Falcons

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-21 49ers win

    New England Patriots at Cleveland Browns

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 21-20 Browns win

    Green Bay Packers vs New York Jets

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 20-17 Packers win

    Jacksonville Jaguars at Indianapolis Colts

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 27-24 Jacksonville wins

    Minnesota Vikings at Miami Dolphins

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 28-24 Minnesota wins

    New Orleans Saints vs Cincinnati Bengals

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-20 Cincinnati wins 

    Baltimore Ravens at New York Giants

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 24-21 Ravens win 

    Pittsburgh Steelers vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers 

    When: 1:00 PM ET

    Score: 21-17 Tampa wins

    Los Angeles Rams vs Carolina Panthers 

    When: 4:05 PM ET

    Score: 24-17 Rams win

Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks

When: 4:05 PM ET

    Score: 21-20 Seattle wins

Kansas City Chiefs vs Buffalo Bills

When: 4:25 PM ET

    Score: 28-27 Buffalo wins

    Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles

When: 8:20 PM ET

Score: 24-21 Eagles win

As we approach week six in the NFL, some of last year’s bad teams are looking good right now. Even though these teams may not have the best record, they are playing good football, and have great momentum. Let’s go through my top three teams to watch out for an upset this weekend. Now I wouldn’t pick these teams to win outright but I do think they have a punchers chance of beating their more superior opponent this weekend.

First, let’s go with the New York Giants, the Giants are currently 4-1 and are playing the Baltimore Ravens, who seem to be trending down right now, this Giants team is overachieving massively with the help of team captain Saquon Barkley, who’s number two in NFL in rushing yards, and amongst the highest running backs in receiving yards. Even though I think Baltimore should win, I do give the Giants a 40% chance to win this game if big blue’s defense can bottle Lamar Jackson and keep him in the pocket.

Staying with a New York team the New York Jets have a good shot to upset the Green Bay Packers as Green Bay is coming off a tough loss to the Giants in London last Sunday and the Jets smoked the Miami Dolphins last week. This Jets team under Zach Wilson is currently 2-0 and have shown that they can play really good football on both offense and defense. Green Bay has really been struggling on the offensive side of the ball with one of the worst pass offenses and an underachieving defense. This Jets team has a decent shot to upset the Packers but I do still believe the Packers squeak out the win.

Lastly, the Seattle Seahawks have a chance to beat their division rivals the Arizona Cardinals, who are a underachieving team thus far into the season, and with the Seahawks playing very well under quarterback Geno Smith, this Cardinals defense could give up a lot of points and this could be a high scoring game if the Cardinals defensive line can’t get pressure on Geno, with Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray having a down year and seemingly going back and forth with head coach Kliff Kingsbury after games this could be a massive upset in what you thought could have been a blowout at the beginning of the year.

The first half of this game was as expected, a low scoring and defensive led game in the first half, with both of these teams having some of the worst offenses in the NFL. There were some major takeaways with Justin Fields really struggling in the red zone and Roquan Smith making big plays on Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz.

Let’s start with the Bears and Justin Fields struggling in the red zone, Fields threw a crucial pick to take the lead in the middle of the second quarter, Fields did make a couple nice plays in the first half but overall struggled. Bears defensive star Roquan Smith made some huge plays including 2 sacks and some key tackles on Wentz to keep the score close.  

The second half was a bit more exciting with two touchdowns being scored, one by each team with David Pettis having a receiving touchdown thrown by Justin Fields and Brian Robinson running a touchdown in, in the red zone. The Bears should have won this game, the Bears beat the Commanders in damn near every statistical category but turnovers cost the Bears with a red zone interception and a lost fumble, this is a young Bears team and they are improving each and every week but they don’t have a lot of room for error.

Credit to the Commanders as they rallied late in the fourth quarter to score nine unanswered points, despite what fans and Commanders head coach Ron Rivera thinks about Carson Wentz turning the ball over over the last five weeks but with Wentz having a clean game, you can’t complain about this game with Wentz. The Commanders advance to 2-4 as the Bears drop to 2-4.

The NFL in back to back weeks looks like they will have disappointing thursday night football games with the Broncos and Colts game being such a slow, defensive game last week and this week we have the Washington Commanders and Chicago Bears in which both of these teams are considered to be bottom five teams in the league with below average quarterback play thus far into the season. With the Bears having a 2-3 record and the Commanders being at the bottom of their conference with a 1-4 record both teams look to get back on track in the NFC race for the playoffs. 

Let’s go through the biggest matchups and X factors for each team and what they can do to win this game. First for the Chicago Bears, their biggest matchup that they should exploit is their ability to put pressure on Commanders quarterback Carson Wentz, the Bears have a solid defense and some good defensive pieces in safety Eddie Jackson and middle linebacker Roquan Smith. Carson Wentz is one of the worst quarterbacks when it comes to throws under pressure and stats while being pressured in general, if Chicago can force two plus turnovers on defense they will have a good shot to win. 

Now for the Commanders their biggest matchup that they should exploit is the ability to get the ball in the hands of their wide receivers, if Carson Wentz can make good timely throws without turning the ball over Washington has a very solid chance to win this game and win in a big margin, with wide receivers like Terry Mclaurin, Curtis Samuel and rookie Jahan Dotson, this Commanders team can score rather quickly and then later run the ball to chew clock and force the Bears to play catch-up in the second half.

Overall these two teams have a way to win and if they want to win they should really stick to what they’re good at and limit the amount of turnovers. Hopefully this game will be a more exciting and explosive game rather than the 12-9 overtime game last week with the Colts and Broncos.

With one quarter of the NFL season done, there’s already been some movement around the league and teams are already adjusting to their likely outcome for the season. Let’s go through some of the biggest shake ups in the league thus far through the first five weeks.

First let’s start off with the Carolina Panthers, who fired head coach Matt Rhule in just his third season with the team, Rhule started this year 1-4 and overall Rhule’s time with the organization has been rather disappointing Rhule’s 11-27 record over his three years with the team was unacceptable in the eyes of Panther owner David Temper who hired Rhule out of temple in 2020, the Panthers gave Rhule a seven-year $62 million contract to rebuild the Panthers organization and culture. The new interim head coach for the Panthers will be defensive coordinator Steve Wilks.

Speaking of the Panthers Baker Mayfield will miss at least the next game and potentially a few more games with a high ankle sprain that he suffered and Sundays lost to the San Francisco 49ers, Baker and the Panthers have really struggled this year to get the offense going as Baker has produced one of his worst seasons of his career with a passer rating of 71.9 and a 4-4 touchdown to interception ratio, the Panthers also have one of the worst offenses in the league who are the first five weeks.

Pro bowl linebacker Deion Jones has been traded to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a 2024 sixth round, the Browns will receive Jones and a 2024 seventh round pick. This is a great trade for both teams as the Falcons look to retool their defense and gain draft picks while the Browns look to bolster their linebacking core and defense overall. Jones is coming off a shoulder surgery, but still has flashes of stardom when he was playing in 2021 the Browns will owe Jones $1.39 million over the rest of the season while the Falcons now have a $12.14 million dead cap hit in 2023 from this trade.