NFL Week 3 predictions: Picks against the spread for every game

There’s a meme-satire account on Facebook with 1.2 million followers titled, “The last thing I want to do is hurt you.But it’s still on the list.” I came across that Thursday morning and it made me think about Giants co-owner John Mara and what must be going through his mind these days. After the short tenures of coaches Ben McAdoo, Pat Shurmur and Joe Judge, and the disastrous reign of GM Dave Gettleman, you’d think the last thing Mara (and Steve Tisch) would want to do is move on from Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen early in Year 3 of their regime.

But you also have to wonder if that’s on the list. The Giants are 0-2 for the 10th time in the past 12 seasons.Not only that, they are now finding new ways to lose.

In Sunday’s 21-18 defeat at Washington, Big Blue made NFL history by becoming the first team to fall in regulation time after scoring three or more touchdowns and their opponent none. We already know from watching the offseason “Hard Knocks” that Mara was not in favor of cutting ties with Saquon Barkley — the Giants’ “most popular player, by far” — particularly if the running back was to end up with the Eagles.Yes, Barkley’s butterfingers cost Philadelphia the win on Monday night, but it must have been uncomfortable for Mara to watch his 248 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns in the first two games. Schoen eventually might be proven correct for not paying Barkley, and judging by the way the first-round quarterbacks have played so far, maybe it’s not so bad he wasn’t able to trade up for one of them. Daboll is just one season and a few weeks removed from Coach of the Year and hasn’t forgotten everything he knew in 2022.

But for now, he’s being asked to try to win with a rehabbing Daniel Jones and no Barkley, and it’s not going well. Anyway, on to Cleveland … the Browns have a long injury list and a fairly low-powered offense (17.5 ppg so far with Deshaun Watson at quarterback).Malik Nabers had the big dr...