Confidence Points, NFL Picks: Week One

First of all, whoever decided to start the NFL season off with this Thursday night kickoff game is a genius. There's no other way to put it. It's a lot more effective the the MLB's version of kicking off the season, playing games in Japan at 4am me time. Each week, I'm in a pick 'em league, where we use confidence points. So I'm going to share my picks with you in this space, and write a brief sentence or two regarding why I picked what I picked. I won't be doing spreads, if you want that, Bill Simmons has that covered (he's back!) I'll go with least confident, to most confident. P.S. Don't read this if you're in my pick 'em league! 1 point - Oakland over Denver I think Denver has settled into the role of constant mediocrity, and that scares me as they open the season on the road. I think Cutler will have a good year, but I'm not too sold on Selvin Young in the backfield. I'm not that high on the Raiders, either, b...