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NFL Analysis: Green Bay & San Francisco Set The Bar High

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If you’re a part of the conventional wisdom that sees Green Bay-San Francisco as a logical—even likely—matchup in this coming January’s NFC Championship Game, then nothing happened on Sunday afternoon to change your mind. The 49ers held serve at home with a 34-28 win over the Packers, but both teams set a high bar for any challengers to come after.

NFL Analysis: The Week 1 Undercard

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All of the games are predicted on the moneyline, which unlike the pointspread is simply about winning outright. If a team is (-300) as the favorite, it means you’re required to wager $300 to turn a $100 profit. If an underdog is (+220), a simple $100 bet gets you a profit of $200. Each team’s moneyline is in parentheses, and the road team is always listed first.

NFL Week 1: The National TV Games

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There are six games on the NFL Week 1 schedule that will draw national coverage, excepting in cases where the local team is playing in the same time slot. We’ve already previewed the nine undercard games. Here, TheSportsNotebook will focus on the core six games, which include the now-traditional Monday Night Football doubleheader to open the season

The NFL Week 1 Undercard

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The NFL season kicks off tonight, and with it TheSportsNotebook’s weekly game previews begin. The format for previewing each week will be as follows—We’ll start with an opening preview of the midweek game (normally Thursday nights) and include the undercard games of Sunday, which will be defined as those just being shown to the local market. Then on Friday we’ll come back with a preview of the nationally televised games, the four on Sunday (two early, one late, one prime-time) and Monday night. Here we go with NFL Week 1…