{"id":339676,"date":"2025-09-04T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/339676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:40:10","slug":"sportsdays-expert-nfl-picks-for-week-1-cowboys-eagles-packers-lions-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/339676\/","title":{"rendered":"SportsDay\u2019s expert NFL picks for Week 1: Cowboys-Eagles, Packers-Lions and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The NFL\u2019s regular season is almost upon us with tons of storylines that have set up an intriguing year in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">There are many teams with new coaches, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, who had a drama-filled offseason of their own. Dallas has a new head coach and is coming off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/03\/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-micah-parsons-drama-publicity-david-mulugheta-green-bay-packers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/03\/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-micah-parsons-drama-publicity-david-mulugheta-green-bay-packers\/\">the stunning trade of Micah Parsons<\/a>. On top of that, the Cowboys are the ones to kick it all off when they head to Philadelphia to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/03\/cowboys-expect-trevon-diggs-tyler-guyton-to-play-in-season-opener-vs-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/09\/03\/cowboys-expect-trevon-diggs-tyler-guyton-to-play-in-season-opener-vs-eagles\/\">face the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles on Thursday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Aside from Cowboys-Eagles, there are several other top matchups. The Chiefs and Chargers face off in Brazil on Friday, the Ravens visit the Bills, the Lions go to Green Bay to face Parsons in his Packers debut and the Vikings visit the Bears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Below you\u2019ll find picks for every Week 1 game \u2014 straight up and against the spread \u2014 from our panel of columnists, insiders and special contributors.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Cowboys fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL\u2019s regular season is almost upon us with tons of storylines that have set up an intriguing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[230,257,25,7,491,6,12902,242,109,2476,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-339676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-eagles","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-micah-parsons","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-dallas-cowboys","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","17":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115143247784509758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}