TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis has already previewed the four national games of Week 4, starting Thursday night, running through the money game of late Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia-Denver, and then the prime-time games of New England-Atlanta and Miami-New Orleans. Here’s a look at the rest of the games, including picks based on the Las Vegas moneyline.
Week 4 of the NFL season kicks it off on Thursday night in St. Louis and concludes on Monday night in New Orleans. TheSportsNotebook’s weekly preview of the games begins with a focus on the four major national TV games that almost everyone will see—the prime-time games on Thursday, Sunday and Monday, along with late Sunday afternoon’s doubleheader game on Fox.
Normally we begin our NFL previews here at TheSportsNotebook each week by leading with the Thursday night game, but I’m not going to do what the game is as demonstrably awful as this week’s Cleveland-Baltimore game is. Just being in prime-time isn’t enough to make you the lead story, so for NFL Week 4 we’ll drop the Browns-Ravens in with the rest of the undercard games—those that won’t be seen much beyond the local market). Here’s a look at the nine games that include tonight, plus those that will be mostly televised locally…