The good news about the 2008 NFL season is that it can only go uphill after Thursday night's Rin Tin Tin impersonation by the New York Giants and Washington. In case you fell asleep in the second quarter, in which case you outlasted most of America, the Giants won 16-7.

Here are this column's Week 1 picks, along with those of my kids, game-pickin' 5-year-old Buster and coin-flippin' 3-year-old Daisy, who automatically take all favorites of six points or more. The Panel o' Experts enters its sixth smash year. Details of its membership next week, but the defending champions are Mark Schlereth of ESPN and Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today.

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