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No game in Week 2 is a must win, but you can make a strong case that the Seattle Seahawks' game at Lambeau Field comes pretty close. We assume the Packers and Seahawks are the two best NFC teams, right? Sunday night's game is going to go a long way in determining where a potential NFC title game would be played between the two. Think about it in these terms: If the Packers win, they would take a two-game lead over the Seahawks and own the tiebreaker against them too. if the Packers go 12-4 after starting 2-0 (which isn't unrealistic at all), then the Seahawks would have to finish on a 13-1 run to get a better playoff seed than Green Bay. Or replace 12-4 with 11-5 (which would be a bit disappointing for Green Bay after a 2-0 start) and 13-1 with 12-2. You get it. If the Seahawks lose here, the odds shift dramatically to them having to come back to Lambeau Field for a championship game in January. Nobody wants to do that. The Seahawks understand this. They don't want to fall in an 0-2 hole. They don't want to chase the Packers for the No. 1 seed all season. They definitely don't want to come back to Lambeau in January. I think the Seahawks not only cover the 3.5-point spread but think they win outright. They have matched up well against Green Bay. I think they do so again in what should be one of the biggest Sunday night games of the season, even if it's just Week 2. Here are the rest of the picks this week: Broncos (+3) over Chiefs ( picked Thursday ): Never a doubt. If you think Andy Reid didn't make that bad of a call by handing off at the end, you probably think Reid was trying to hit a huge run by Jamaal Charles. He probably needed about a 50-yard run to get in field-goal range. Jamaal Charles has eight 50-yard runs in his 1,286 carries (0.6 percent), and he was trying to get his ninth against a really good defense which had to only prevent a 50-yard run. Terrible call.
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