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Welcome to NFL Daily, where we are back on the winning track and back in the Chris

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I am Greg Rosenthal, and I'm here for the first time in three weeks in person.

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Yeah. We really love growing the show. So I said we're back on the winning track. I went and checked our picks from a week ago.

Unfortunately, we couldn't both go undefeated because we went against each other. And I did get that Patriots game right over the bills. They not only covered, but they won. Same thing with my Broncos pick. Unfortunately, my pick of the year. I don't know if you remember that. I do remember that. I do remember that one. Respect the buccaneers. No matter how injured they were. With respect on their name. There were more Seahawks injuries than I expected, but that's excuses. So I go two and one. You got that bills one wrong, but you nailed Washington and Indianapolis, who both covered by about a million compared to where the line were. So we're on the winning track here after a tough start to the season.

I'm going to give you the first pick. And if you're new to the show, we make three picks every single week. And we do it against the spread. And I might have some extras for you today. Okay. So where are you seeing this New England and New Orleans line? I think it's at three and a half. Okay. I'm good with that. I'm good with the Patriots to win by more than three and a half points in New Orleans. Like that. You have more confidence maybe than I do as a Patriots fan. Tell me why. Well, for a couple of reasons. Number one, when I went back and rewatched the Saints game to get five turnovers in a row.

That's something that hasn't happened since like five interceptions from Ryan Fitzpatrick

or research packets.

I mean, that's like, that's some pretty crazy stuff.

And that's what it took against the Giants.

Right.

And now you have Drake May dealing the situation where he's great when he's not under pressure.

The Saints, though they have a decent number of sacks, they're not great under, they're not causing a lot of pressure. So my sense here is that I think the Patriots, there's no letdown. I don't think it's like a hangover from the bills win. I'm not so worried about that. For me, this one's maybe let's maybe let's see the run game improved for the pets in this one.

I think it's spilled on that success.

Plus, the defense is, like, significantly healthier.

Christian Gonzalez, like, that turns out it helps to have your good players. As we tape this, he popped up on Thursday's injury report as limited with hamstring injury,

which is concerning because he wasn't on the injury report Wednesday. So something happened during practice. We'll have to find out that would be unfortunate for you. Well, I still would be okay with. I'm still okay with it. I'm just saying, I don't think they're going to have a hangover from that. Christian Barmore's crushing. He's playing really well. Milton Williams is playing well,

and the Saints' offensive line is not protected well. I do think it's a mismatch when the Patriots offense has the ball in terms of the coaching. Josh McDaniels has done a really good job scheming open receivers and making it easier on Drake May. So Drake May gets the easy stuff. and then as you saw in the Bills game

when they got that cover for me and the win,

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