The honor of launching the season in the NFL returns to the champions of the Super Bowl, as desired. The Eagles start their match with a division rivalry on Thursday, while the next day, the Chiefs will try to forget their last pitiful performance last February.
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The last time NFL football was offered to us, the Eagles completely destroyed the chiefs. It was not even close to being a match and more than six months later, the two finalists start the campaign very differently.
On the one hand, everything seems to bathe in oil in the Eagles, which are always considered a power. They start their season in front of their boastful supporters, facing the cowboys, above which a black cloud hovers.
Little imagine that cowboys can reverse the Eagles, even less since they have compared their defensive AS, Micah Parsons, with packers.
Last season, in the two division duels between the Eagles and Cowboys, Philadelphia offered two butchers of 41-7 and 34-6. In the second duel, the Eagles had nothing more to win and had rested their starters. Imagine …
Cowboys were, however, struggling with several injured in the two games and it is a safe bet that they will offer more decent opposition this time. Their attack can make noise with a duo of receivers newly formed from Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens, but the absence of a real threat in the ground play will quickly make this one -dimensional attack.
Tyler Booker and Tyler Guyton, choice of first round of this year and last year, will have full boots in front of the defensive front of the Eagles. In defense, no one on the front will really disturb the dominant offensive line of the Eagles.
The Eagles therefore start with the wind in the sails, like many other champions before them. Since 2000, the Super Bowl champion team has won 20 of the 25 inaugural games the following season.
Chiefs on mission
If I told you that the two finalists of the last Super Bowl do not begin the season in the same state of mind, it is that many seem to think that the chiefs are in the long day before and that the effects will be felt on Friday in Brazil, facing the charges.
It should not be forgotten that the chiefs had also appeared in the Super Bowl in 2020 against the Buccaneers and that they rebounded by taking part in three of the following four Super Bowls. They represent stability and resilience embodied with seven presences in a row in the conference final. Declare them dead if your heart tells you …
The loads certainly represent an excellent opposition. The gang of Patrick Mahomes won the last seven duels against this division rival, but six of the eight duels between Mahomes and Herbert involved a change of leader in the last minute of the fourth quarter or in overtime. You have to expect a whole suspense!
This will be an opportunity to note whether the work carried out on the offensive line during the dead season has paid off. It will also be an opportunity to see if the attack on the chiefs, more conservative for two years, will open the valves by exploiting the speed of the recipients Xavier Worthy and Hollywood Brown.
It also seems that a certain Travis Kelce is in the form of her life after losing some flop. If this is the case, it is not only Taylor Swift which will be filled.
My predictions:
Cowboys 17 Eagles 27
Chiefs 26 Chargers 23
In the world of NFL …
Big favorites
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I revealed to you on Saturday in these pages that my choice to win the Super Bowl 60 stopped on the Ravens. On nfl.com, there are no less than 16 to arrive at the same conclusion, while five promote the Bills and three the chiefs. On the Sports Illustrated Sports site, the Bills and Ravens are equal since three experts each chose them. Two prefer lions, one the eagles and another chiefs. On Thescore.com, three go there for the Bills, three for the Ravens, one for the Eagles and one for the chiefs. My finalists in the National Conference, the Rams, are clearly not popular.
Poor jets!
It seems that at the start of the season, the jets are damned for one reason or another. This time, we learn that the excellent (but super fragile) keeps Alijah Vera-Tuker tore the triceps and missed the full season. Within a young offensive line, it’s a hard blow. Jets will at least give Josh Myers playing time, a young veteran who has started 56 career games with packers and who has been hired as insurance policy in the last months.
New sheriffs
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Seven new teams are starting the season with a new head coach. These are Patriots (Mike Trebel), Jets (Aaron Glenn), Jaguars (Liam Cohen), Raiders (Pete Carroll), Cowboys (Brian Schottenheimer), saints (Kellen Moore) and Bears (Ben Johnson). Du Lot, Truebel and Johnson are already among the favorites to win the title of head coach of the year, according to various books.
