Hold the Phone

Best Bets NFL Week 1: Game Picks, 6 Leg Parlay, $500 TD Scorer

September 12, 2026·44 min
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WE ARE SO BACK. 13 games on a Sunday. Who has it better than us? The early slate is chaos with a 1 p.m. start time. Bills at Texans is the game. Josh Allen on the road against the defense that has made his life miserable, Buffalo a field-goal favorite, total sitting around 44.5. Lamar and first-year coach Jesse Minter open at Indianapolis as 3.5-point road favorites. Bucs at Bengals is the points game — Cincinnati -3.5, total 50.5. Lions host the Saints as a touchdown favorite. Steelers get Atlanta. Jaguars are laying eight and a half to Cleveland. Jets-Titans is a 38.5-total hostage situation in Nashville. Bears at Panthers exists so someone can lose Week 1 in Carolina. Then the late window gets mean. Packers at Vikings is a one-and-a-half-point home favorite for Minnesota because Green Bay is missing Micah Parsons and Josh Jacobs is on the commissioner’s exempt list. Kyler Murray’s first start as a Viking. Jordan Love still has to go play. Commanders at Eagles is Philly -5.5 after they traded A.J. Brown to New England and handed the offense to Sean Mannion. Jayden Daniels walks into the Linc without Laremy Tunsil. Chargers are laying 9.5 to Arizona because somebody had to be the biggest favorite on the board. Dolphins at Raiders is the other 4:25 game if you enjoy suffering. Sunday night is the NFC East doing NFC East things. Cowboys at Giants. Dallas -3. Total around 48.5. John Harbaugh’s first game in New York. Jaxson Dart under center. Malik Nabers is supposed to play. The Cowboys have won 16 of the last 18 in this series. The Giants have not won a home opener since 2010. MetLife. Prime time. No grace period.We give our pick for Cowboys–Giants, our same-game parlay, and two sneaky props to start the Sunday slate. No more depth-chart arguments. No more pretending joint practices meant something. Thirteen games. One night game. The season is actually here. Don’t take a single game for granted because somehow we’re going to blink and it’ll be Week 14. Drop your favorite bet for Sunday in the comments. 🏈 0:00 Intro 0:45 The Board: 5 Game Picks, $500 TD Score & 6-Leg Parlay 3:27 Game 1: Bills @ Texans 6:59 Game 2: Packers @ Vikings 12:23 Game 3: Ravens @ Colts 17:01 BetMGM 17:40 Game 4: Titans vs. Jets 22:18 Game 5 (SNF): Cowboys @ Giants 27:35 $500 Touchdown Score 32:33 6-Leg "Going for Glory" Parlay 41:34 Outro / Witching Hour Livestream Promo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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