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Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're running it back.

I'm Greg Rosenthal here with my friend and defending champion of all pickers.

Cynthia Freeland.

We're in the Chris Wesleying podcast studio for the first time this season, pick and game.

And the first time I can officially congratulate you on not just beating me in this

picks competition that we're going to do throughout the course of the season, where we're

really teammates because we're going to help out our listeners.

But the woman who picked the Super Bowl

and the champion before last season started,

Eagles Over Chiefs.

I mean, what other show has someone that has done that on it?

Only the shows with Cynthia Freeland.

Hey, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again, you know? No, you've got the computer model. You've got it all. That's pretty amazing. This year I also made the dogs pick because I was curious. I picked the top, my top eight from my model, and then I put a snack for each one, and I'll tell you who each dog picked too. Okay. tell you right now what it is. I'm going to tease that. That's good to know. And yes, you can check out like all of Cynthia's pick on her show, Numbers Game, which is on her YouTube channel. She has a new podcast too with Logan Ryan, which is very cool. And you can watch us on NFL Network, game day view. We're back. Every Friday. We got like new multiple airings. There's like one in the morning on Fridays too. I love it. So you can get all our picks here. Here we pick our three favorite selections. Yep. Against the spread of the week. And we will keep track of our records and hopefully help you out. And I will give you the first pick of the year. Well, the first pick of the year will go to the game that has played the last on the first weekend of the year. Okay. Okay. So it is played at Soldier Field and Minnesota comes to town. And you know, Brian Flores, my friend from college, he's got this really good defense, real sneaky. They do a lot of weird stuff with like, are you going to blitz? Are you going to, there's a dissimulator pressure? What are we going to do? But you know who's not going to be tricked? Ben Johnson? That's right. Caleb Williams? That's right. I think we get an upset. Wow. Starts strong here. Vikings are favored by one and a half. And I have the bears winning on the road and you

have the bears not only covering but winning. Outright winner. Straight up. Not going to be one of my

three picks, but long time listeners of the show. And by that I mean last season, which was first.

We'll remember I write down a lot of picks. I have some scribbles at the bottom of ones that didn't quite make the cut. I remember the beginning of the season, the scribbles were actually beating the actual. They were on fire. And we're going to keep track of them this year once again. But my Vikings pick was one that, you know, didn't make the cut. Because I personally like the Vikings overall as a team. And this is one thing I think players that in people are picking games

this because I personally like the Vikings overall as a team. And this is one thing I think players that in people are picking games this week

and have to be wary of,

just because I think the Vikings are a better team overall over the course of the season

than the Bears don't necessarily,

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