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Week one of the NFL season is here and the marquee matchup is Philadelphia versus Washington, Commanders visiting the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field this Sunday at four twenty-five Eastern. Jalen Hurts is three touchdown passes away from tying Carson Wentz for fourth on the franchise list, and this Eagles offense in the red zone last season was simply surgical, posting the highest goal-to-go passer rating in the entire league.
Elsewhere on the Sunday slate, Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers head to Cincinnati to take on the Bengals at one o'clock Eastern. Mayfield sits just three touchdown passes shy of two hundred for his career, a mark only fifty-two players in NFL history have ever reached. The Bengals have their own firepower to counter, so this one has the makings of a shootout right out of the gate.
Meanwhile in Pittsburgh, the Steelers open at home against Atlanta as three-and-a-half point favorites with the total sitting at forty-one and a half. The Pittsburgh ground game runs through Jaylen Warren, who surpassed nine and a half carries in sixteen games last season, and that running identity could be the difference against a Falcons squad still finding its footing.
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