2025 NFL Challenge || Intro and week 1

[ponchi101]

Hello and welcome to the 2025 TAT NFL Challenge! We'll be doing a confidence pool once again this year.

In case you need a refresher, or if you want to join, it's not too difficult. Suppose there are n games in a given week. You rank your confidence in a pick from 17 - n (least confident) to 16 (most confident). And this year, we have a little catch.
If you do not pick a team for the THURSDAY GAME, that NO PICK will be worth 7 points. Meaning, you cannot make a pick in the 7th spot; it will have been used, and you get 0 points for it.

If you don't wish to read any further, you don't need to; the rest of the introduction is mainly for transparency purposes.

As was the case last year, you can rank a game before Sunday whatever you want, but if you so happen to miss a pick for one or more of those games, they will be given the lowest possible weights. In addition, you may not change the weight of a game after it has started. For example, suppose there 16 games total on a given week, 1 on Thursday, 2 on Saturday, and 13 on Sunday. You forgot to pick the Thursday and Saturday games. Then those three combined would default to being worth a total of 10 points (7 + 1 + 2), and you could weigh the remaining games from 3-16 points, excluding the 7th slot. Here's an example of how you might post your picks:

Philadelphia 1
Pittsburgh 5
Indianapolis 2
Tennessee 6
San Francisco 11
New England 3
New Orleans 9
Jacksonville 14
Baltimore 16
Kansas City 10
Seattle 4
Arizona 7
Carolina 8
Chicago 12
NY Jets 13
LA Rams 15

Because life happens and we tend to miss weeks, your overall score for the regular season will be the sum of your best 17 weekly scores. The worst week will not be included.

This will extend into the playoffs as well, with scoring remaining the same as last year. I'll remind you of that scoring once we get that far.

Matches for the week will be in the next post

[ponchi101]

Thursday and Friday games are due before the Thursday game.

**NFL Week 1 – EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Thursday, September 4
- **Cowboys @ Eagles** — **8:20 PM EST** (NBC / Peacock)

Friday, September 5
- **Chiefs @ Chargers** *(in São Paulo, Brazil)* — **8:00 PM EST** (YouTube, NFL+)

Sunday, September 7
- **1:00 PM EST games**
- Bucs @ Falcons (FOX)
- Bengals @ Browns (FOX)
- Dolphins @ Colts (CBS)
- Raiders @ Patriots (CBS)
- Cardinals @ Saints (CBS)
- Steelers @ Jets (CBS)
- Giants @ Commanders (FOX)
- Panthers @ Jaguars (FOX)

- **4:05 PM EST games**
- Titans @ Broncos (FOX)
- 49ers @ Seahawks (FOX)

- **4:25 PM EST games**
- Lions @ Packers (CBS)
- Texans @ Rams (CBS)

- **8:20 PM EST**
- Ravens @ Bills (NBC)

Monday, September 8
- **Vikings @ Bears** — **8:15 PM EST** (ABC / ESPN)

[Fastbackss]

Philadelphia 5
Kansas city 3

[Chad1]

Philadelphia Eagles - 10
Los Angeles Chargers - 2
Tampa Bay Bucs - 12
Cincinnati Bengals - 13
Miami Dolphins - 9
New England Patriots - 3
Arizona Cardinals - 16
Pittsburgh Steelers - 11
Washington Commanders - 15
Jacksonville Jaguars - 8
Denver Broncos - 14
San Francisco 49ers - 5
Detroit Lions - 6
Los Angeles Rams - 4
Baltimore Ravens - 7
Chicago Bears - 1

[ptmcmahon]

Eagles 14
Chiefs 13
Falcons 5
Bengals 6
Colts 7
Patriots 1
Cardinals 8
Jets 9
Commanders 16
Jaguars 12
Broncos 15
Seahawks 11
Packers 2
Texans 3
Bills 10
Vikings 4

[Togtdyalttai]

Philadelphia 16
Kansas City 8

[ponchi101]

Phily 16
Chiefs 7

[New England Nitemare]

Philadelphia [15]
Kansas City [5]

[Omess]

Philadelphia 16
Kansas City 14

[wolfy333]

Philadelphia 13
Kansas City 11

[Omegadoom]

Philadelphia Eagles ~ 16
Kansas City Chiefs ~ 11

[ajay.gov]

Philadelphia 14
Kansas city 10

[New England Nitemare]

Tampa Bay [12]
Cincinnati [14]
Miami [6]
New England [7]
Arizona [13]
Pittsburgh [8]
Washington [11]
Carolina [4]
Denver [16]
San Francisco [9]
Detroit [1]
LA Rams [10]
Buffalo [3]
Chicago [2]

[Togtdyalttai]

Atlanta 1
Cincinnati 15
Miami 4
New England 2
Arizona 9
Pittsburgh 13
Washington 14
Jacksonville 5
Denver 10
San Francisco 6
Green Bay 3
LA Rams 12
Buffalo 7
Minnesota 11

[wolfy333]

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