NFL Week 1 pick ‘em: Unanimous confidence in Bengals from Cincy Jungle

Pride: A sense of one's own proper dignity, value, or self-respect.

Every season, the staff at Cincy Jungle make weekly selections on the full slate of NFL games for that week, and the prize is pride. No confetti parades or popped bottles of champagne. No lucrative bonuses or endorsement deals. And no statues erected in our honor.

Even without such glamorous rewards, we have made our picks in an attempt to win the honor of making the most correct picks this season. And with that in mind, here are the first of 17 weeks of picks by the crew at Cincy Jungle.

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With a new season of NFL football upon us, the slate is wiped clean. Every team starts 0-0, and every Cincy Jungle staff member starts 0-0 in picking their winners for each NFL game on a weekly basis. Looking to start the season on a solid foundation, most of these Week 1 selections were safe picks, with many favorites carrying the day with the staffers.

The Bengals were picked unanimously over the Ravens, as were both of last year’s Super Bowl teams - New England over Kansas City, and Atlanta over Chicago. The other consensus selection was Carolina winning at San Francisco.

The biggest risky pick was John taking the train wreck known as the New York Jets to win at Buffalo. A couple brave souls also selected the Luck-less Colts over the Rams, and the Browns over the Steelers.

As the season progresses, we will likely see more diverging opinions in the weekly game selections. But in Week 1, we really don’t know who these teams are yet. And just like the real teams, the staff members have to feel out which teams they are going to trust this year with their picks.