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Tom Talks: Week 1 NFL picks, anthem protests and college football’s mixed-bag opening

Go to Google, tap Week 1 NFL picks and you’ll be overwhelmed.

Touts and sharpies, celebrities and astrophysicists, calm bookies, pseudo bookies and former players in wide-striped suits offer what are tantamount to Week 1 guarantees.

I guarantee nothing. I do offer a Lock of the Week.

The difference between picks now and picks even three years ago are analytics. No longer are picks about instincts, research and probability. They are about systems, machines and, in the case of one group, multiple graduates of Stanford.

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Do not underestimate graduates of Stanford.