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Week 1 NFL Picks: Cowboys Unanimous Favorites Over Giants

The BTB writers weigh in with their picks for the Week 1 games.

Ronald Martinez

The Cowboys will kick off the 2013 NFL season on Sunday night, which means it's time for us to kick off our time-honored BTB tradition of having the front-page writers embarrass themselves publicly by picking their winners for each NFL weekend. Each week, the BTB front page writers will publish their straight-up picks for each game.

Here at BTB, we're very objective about our lack of objectivity. Most of us pick the Cowboys to win every game regardless of who the opponent is, though that's not really an issue this week - the Cowboys are our unanimous favorites against the Giants, and for good reason: the Cowboys have an NFL best .673 (35-17-1) winning percentage in season openers.

Over the last three seasons, we've had three different winners in our contest:

2010 - rabblerousr: .652 (167-89)
2011 - OCC: .691 (177-79)
2012 - KD Drummond: .684 (175-81)

Who do you think will take the crown this year?

Below are our Week 1, 2013 picks. Agree, Disagree? Let us know about it in the comments section.

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Coty Dave Who dis? Joey KD OCC rabble Tom Consensus
2012 Record 150-106 161-95 - - - - 175-81 149-107 160-96 163-93 168-88
2012 Percentage .585 .629 - - - - .684 .582 .652 .637 .656
2013 Record 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
0-0 0-0 0-0

BAL @ DEN (-7.5)
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NE (-9.5) @ BUF Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium Nep_medium
TEN @ PIT (-7) Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium Pit_medium
ATL @ NO (-3) Atl_medium Nos_medium Atl_medium Nos_medium Nos_medium Atl_medium Nos_medium Nos_medium Nos_medium
TB (-3) @ NYJ Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium Tam_medium
KC (-4) @ JAC Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium Kan_medium
SEA (-3.5) @ CAR Car_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium Sea_medium
CIN @ CHI (-3) Cin_medium Chi_medium Chi_medium Cin_medium Cin_medium Cin_medium Cin_medium Cin_medium Cin_medium
MIA @ CLE (-1)
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MIN @ DET (-5.5) Min_medium Det_medium Det_medium Det_medium Min_medium Det_medium Det_medium Det_medium Det_medium
OAK @ IND (-9.5) Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium Ind_medium
GB @ SF (-4.5) Gbp_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium Sfx_medium
ARI @ STL (-4.5) Ari_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium Stl_medium
NYG @ DAL (-3.5) Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium Dal_medium
PHI @ WAS (-3.5) Phi_medium Was_medium Was_medium Was_medium Was_medium Phi_medium Was_medium Was_medium Was_medium
HOU (-4) @ SD Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium Hou_medium

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