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After several major upsets last week, the bar for Week 2 to compete is set awfully high. Were Jacksonville and Washington one-week wonders? Can Chicago replicate its wild fourth quarter for a game? How worried should San Francisco be about injuries and a home loss to Arizona? If we are lucky, chaos will reign and we will still be searching for answers heading into Week 3.

Here is a look at NFL Week 2, with picks made against the point spread.

Last week’s record: 8-8

BROADCAST LOCALLY

Broncos at Steelers

11 a.m. CBS

Line: Steelers -7.5 | Total: 41.5 This game will likely be a selection in plenty of survivor pools, as the thought of a young quarterback trying to win on the road against Pittsburgh’s top-tier defense inspires mostly a wrinkled nose of sympathy. If there’s hope for the Broncos (0-1), it is that the Steelers (1-0) gave up an uncharacteristically high number of passing yards to the Giants last week.

Pick: Broncos +7.5

Falcons at Cowboys

11 a.m. Fox

Line: Cowboys -4 | Total: 52.5 Oddsmakers are expecting this to be the highest-scoring game of the week, and there’s no wonder why as the Falcons (0-1) and Cowboys (0-1) combined for 886 yards of offense last week, while combining to allow 805 yards. This should be an aerial slugfest, with quarterbacks Matt Ryan and Dak Prescott using their wealth of receiving options to carve up the field. But the game might be decided by which team can get something going with the running game.

Pick: Cowboys -4

Chiefs at Chargers

2:25 p.m. CBS

Line: Chiefs -9 | Total: 47.5 Patrick Mahomes has gotten a lot of credit for a lot of things but one overlooked element has been his success despite the team having a distinct deficiency at running back. This year, in steps rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaire, who was the only running back taken in the first round of the draft. He justified that pick with a league-high 138 yards rushing in Week 1 against the

Houston Texans.

Kansas City takes its newly balanced offense on the road to face the Chargers (1-0), who held off the Cincinnati Bengals last week, and now face a significantly stiffer test. Los Angeles is hardly a pushover. The team has a great deal of talent on defense and are one of the few teams that can be expected to put significant pressure on Mahomes.

Pick: Chargers +9

Patriots at Seahawks

6:20 p.m. NBC

Line: Seahawks -3.5 | Total: 45 The Patriots (1-0) and Seahawks (1-0) had plenty of reasons to be happy in Week 1, but if you’re looking to nitpick: While New England’s multipronged running game looked great, the team showed very little ability to air the ball out against Miami’s solid secondary. And Seattle seemed to take the doughnut off the bat in terms of letting quarterback Russell Wilson create his own momentum on offense, but coach Pete Carroll likely would have preferred for running backs Chris Carson and Carlos Hyde to combine for more than 44 yards rushing (and for either to average more than 3.5 yards per carry).

Both teams may look to correct those deficiencies this week.

Pick: Patriots +3.5

OTHER GAMES

Ravens at Texans

2:25 p.m.

Line: Ravens -7 | Total: 51.5 If anything notable was absent during Baltimore’s demolishing of Cleveland last week, it was the high-volume running game that people came to expect from the Ravens (1-0) last season. To say the team ran for just 107 yards feels unfair, but that is fewer than they had in any game last season.

Should the Ravens be concerned? Hardly. Lamar Jackson was toying with Cleveland’s secondary all game, and when Baltimore needed the running game, it was there, with rookie J.K. Dobbins punching in two touchdowns.

The Texans (0-1) have an absolute force of nature in quarterback Deshaun Watson, but Houston’s defense was torched last week by a rookie running back.

Pick: Ravens -7

Rams at Eagles

11 a.m.

Line :Off| Total: Off

The Rams (1-0) may not have looked spectacular in Week 1 against the Cowboys, but it was the type of game they would have found a way to lose last season. Now Los Angeles goes on the road against the Eagles (0-1), who are fresh off a game against Washington in which they ran up a 17-point lead only to somehow lose by 10.

Pick: Rams 11 a.m.

Line: Colts -3 | Total: 48.5 What did Taylor Swift say about shaking things off? The Vikings (0-1) looked inept on defense against the Green Bay Packers in Week 1, while the Colts (0-1) shot themselves in the foot resulting in the week’s biggest upset. A win in Week 2 for either team will make last week a blip, and a loss will mean an 0-2 start and a lot of hard questions about not living up to expectations.

Pick: Colts -3

Bills at Dolphins

11 a.m.

Line: Bills -5.5 | Total: 41

It feels like the NFL’s schedule makers were invested in getting the rookie Tua Tagovailoa the starting quarterback job for the Dolphins (0-1) as quickly as possible. Last week, No. 1 quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick faced the stellar New England secondary, and this week he has to step up to the Bills (1-0), who batted around the Jets like a cat toy last week. Fitzpatrick could have another three-interception game and the Tagovailoa chatter should reach a fever pitch.

Pick: Bills -5.5

49ers at Jets

11 a.m. Fox

Line: 49ers -7 | Total: 42

The 49ers (0-1) have to be fairly devastated at an opening-week loss in a game they led in the fourth quarter, but Arizona has usually given them fits and the result was only a mild surprise. Losing to the Jets (0-1) would be jaw-dropping, even with wide receiver Deebo Samuel and cornerback Richard Sherman on this season’s mini version of injured reserve and tight end George Kittle working his way back from a knee sprain. San Francisco should be expected to win.

Pick: Jets +7

Panthers at Buccaneers

11 a.m.

Line: Buccaneers -9 | Total: 47.5 In the aftermath of Tampa Bay’s loss to New Orleans in Week 1, there was chatter that Tom Brady’s decline was being exposed with the Buccaneers (0-1) because he no longer had New England’s system to hide his deficiencies. It’s not entirely clear what games those pundits were watching last season, as the physical decline of Brady was readily apparent with the Patriots, and last week seemed to be an extension of that rather than a departure from it. The Panthers (0-1) made a reckless decision to give the ball to a fullback, rather than Christian McCaffrey, with the game on the line last week, but nothing about either team indicated that a 9-point spread for this game is warranted.

Pick: Panthers +9

Lions at Packers

11 a.m.

Line: Packers -6 | Total: 49 For three quarters last week, it looked like a new era could be dawning for the Lions (0-1). Then Detroit spent 15 minutes making Mitchell Trubisky look like Aaron Rodgers, restoring balance to the universe.

Pick: Packers -6

Jaguars at Titans

11 a.m.

Line: Titans -9 | Total: 43 Only three quarterbacks had ever completed 95 percent of their passing attempts in a game going into last week. If you expected Jacksonville’s Gardner Minshew to join that list, then you should be picking stocks. But to pull off a shocking upset, the Jaguars (1-0) needed perfection from Minshew and an enormous gift in the form of two interceptions by Philip Rivers. The Titans (1-0) do teams no such favors. Their offense last week was right back to last season’s style of having running back Derrick Henry bruise his way to big yardage while quarterback Ryan Tannehill efficiently picked spots to put points on the board.

Pick: Jaguars +9

Giants at Bears

11 a.m.

Line: Bears -5.5 | Total: 42 Saying Saquon Barkley of the Giants (0-1) rushed 15 times for 6 yards last week is a little misleading, since he had a 7-yard run mixed in. So to put it another way: Other than one carry in which he barely surpassed mediocrity, Barkley ran 14 times for minus-1 yard.

The Bears (1-0) were awful for three quarters last week and terrific for one. If they could improve that to two decent quarters against the Giants, they should get a win.

Pick: Bears -5.5

Washington at Cardinals

2:05 p.m.

Line: Cardinals -6.5 | Total: 47 The Footballers (1-0) pulled off a shocking upset of the Eagles in Week 1 thanks to an all-around effort. Going on the road to face the Cardinals (1-0), who have to be incredibly amped after toppling San Francisco on the road, is the kind of thing that should splash a great deal of cold water on Washington’s collective face.

Pick: Cardinals -6.5

MONDAY NIGHT

Saints at Raiders

6:15 p.m. ESPN and ABC Line: Saints -6 | Total: 50 The Saints (1-0) looked a little rusty on offense in Week 1, regardless of the 34 points they scored. But they rolled to an easy win thanks to three turnovers recovered by the defense. In a continuation of a trend that goes back a few years, New Orleans is slowly but surely becoming a team that can rely a bit less on its offense and a great deal more on its defense from week to week.

On the road in Las Vegas, New Orleans should be a little concerned. The Raiders (1-0) looked extremely capable on offense in an opening-week win.

The Saints should be expected to win, but oddsmakers assuming they will win by six or more points seems to ignore reality.

Pick: Raiders +6