NFL Picks And Predictions For Every Week 1 Game

Among a group of eight CBSSports.com panelists, every last one selected the defending Super Bowl champion Giants to win in a straight-up game. Even with the 3.5-point spread tossed into the mix to entice, only two of the analysts changed their selection to choose Jason Garrett’s Cowboys to cover.

Things are hardly any different over at ESPN.com’s Dallas and New York affiliates heading into the game, as 14 of the 17 writers polled from both sites also selected the Giants to pull out a victory. Former Cowboys offensive lineman Nate Newton was one of the three to pick the Cowboys, as expected, but he mentioned that he doesn’t “know the Cowboys’ identity yet.”