Sunday Night Football Games to Look Forward to

Sunday Night Football Games to Look Forward to

Robert Lewis Knuckles III

“Waiting All Day For Sunday Night”

We are months away from football season. We already got the schedule a few months ago and I want to talk about the Sunday Night Football games to look forward to.

1. New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys September 10th

What a great way to end the first sunday of football games with a great matchup of the Giants against the Cowboys. Last year the Cowboys with rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliot took the league by storm but there has been one team that's been a throne at their side and that's the Giants. Giants were the only team to the Cowboys (Eagles did too but that game didn’t count for the Cowboys.) Prescott worse games came up against the Giants and he’ll definitely be fired up to face this team.

The Dallas Cowboys offense will return and they have a new defense but can this team beat a Giants team with a triple threat wide receiver trio with Sterling Shepherd, Brandon Marshall and O’dell Beckham Junior and their top ranked defense? We’ll have to see wait and see but get ready for a great game.

2. Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons September 17th

Rematch of the NFC Championship where the Falcons destroyed the Packers. Now a lot of people picked the Falcons to win the game due to the fact Aaron Rodgers didn’t really have anyone. Jordy Nelson came back from an injury so really didn’t have a huge impact and their defense was already lost a good amount of people. The Packers got busy during the offseason getting tight end Martellus Bennett to replace Jared Cook and they drafted cornerback Kevin King to help out their secondary. Falcons have majority of their team returning and drafted defensive end Takkarist Mckinley. This will be a different Packers team the Falcons will face but can the Falcons recover from their Super Bowl Loss?

3.New York Giants at Denver Broncs October 15th

Battle of the defenses. Giants will come across a huge test going up against Denver’s defense. The No Fly Zone will look to shut down the Giant’s triple threat receiver group. The same goes for Giant’s defense looking to shut down Denver’s offense. Denver did improve their offensive line by getting Ronald Leary and drafting tackle Garett Bolles. It’s going to come down to which offense can make plays and keep their defense off the field and make plays but one thing is for sure. It’s not going to be easy for the Giants playing in the Mile High stadium but who will be Denver’s starting quarterback?

4. Atlanta Falcons at New England Patriots October 22nd

Super Bowl Rematch are always something to look forward to. Falcons were up 28 to 3 before losing against the Patriots and it looks like the Patriots got better by getting receiver Brandin Cooks and cornerback Stephon Gilmore. They still have Malcom Butler and Don’ta  Hightower. Falcons still have most of their players and remember this offense can compete but will losing Kyle Shanahan have a huge effect?

5. New England Patriots at Denver Broncos November 12th

The seventh time meeting these two teams will meet each other. When these two teams faced each other last year Denver’s defense managed to keep it close but their offense couldn’t get it done. With a new offense line can this Denver team beat a re amped New England team?

6. Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys November 19th

You can’t have sunday night football with a classic Eagles against Cowboys matchup. Last year quarterback rookies Dak Prescott and Carson Wentz played a great game but it was Dak who came up with the win in Overtime. Eagles did get really busy in free agency getting Wentz a lot of weapons and changing up their defense but are these new additions enough to stop this high powered Cowboys offense?

7. New York Giants at Washington Redskins November 23rd

Back to back NFC East matchups and this we have the Giants at the Redskins. The biggest thing that’s going to be talked about is the Odell Beckham and Josh Norman matchup. Norman not to long ago said that the NFC East is going to be a battle and there will be blood. There’s already bad blood between these two players enough as it is so be prepared to see more.

8. Green Bay Packers at Pittsburgh Steelers November 26th

Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger. Two elite quarterbacks going at it. Now the Steelers do have more weapons on offense but that still doesn’t stop the Packers because they have  Aaron Rodgers who's up for any challenge and playing in Pittsburgh will be difficult. Both defenses aren’t the best so expect a high scoring game.

9. Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers December 10th

Another classic Sunday Night matchup. The Ravens and Steelers do not like each other and that’s no surprise. Ravens failed to beat the Steelers last year on Christmas to clinch the division title. Ravens did add some defensive pieces during the off season and they also got receiver Jeremy Maclin in free agency. Steelers still have their offense and will be getting receiver Martavis Bryant back from suspension.

10. Dallas Cowboys at Oakland Raiders December 17th

Cowboys and Raiders two similar teams. Great quarterbacks in Dak and Derek Carr, great offensive lines, great running backs in Zeke and Marshawn, great receivers and an ehh defense. Now the Raiders do have something the Cowboys don’t have and that's Khalil Mack. I can see this being a high scoring game so it's going to come down which defense can make turnover.

11. Minnesota Vikings at Green Packers December 23rd

The last of the Sunday Night Football between the two teams that many people believe will be battling the NFC North title. Mike Zimmerman’s defense has given Rodgers trouble a couple of times. Vikings do have a double headed running backs in Latavius Murray and Dalvin Cook. Vikings had a good start last year going 5-0 but fell to 8-8. Vikings offensive line suffered, they lost Adrian Peterson and their receivers didn’t do well. The Vikings hope to have better season in 2017 to win the division.

Now I will probably update this list when the season starts. For the other games that I didn’t post here depends on how well they play this season. If they play great I’ll add the game to this list.