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Welcome to another season of the NFL Ladder Contest! cyan1001 won last year. Who will it be this year?

For the uninitiated, the objective of the Ladder Contest is to complete challenges. Every week, you have the opportunity to complete the challenge. If you succeed, you move up the ladder to the next, more difficult level; if you fail, you have to try again next week. Whoever progresses the furthest wins.

**Once again, the system is not perfect, and I welcome any suggestions for ways to improve things or new level ideas. I left myself a note after last season about the idea of skipping levels, and of course I haven't thought about it since. Is this something that we want to try to add? There would have to be some kind of stiff penalty for skipping a level, such as a tiebreaker and/or cost of several or all of your bonus points, and possibly needing a certain amount of failed attempts at the level before being allowed to skip (although that would make me have to keep track of that, and more work for me = bad). Or we can just go on our merry way of hating certain levels. What was it that was really bad again?

Anyway, I guess we can get on with it. Level 1 remains unchanged, of course. No spreads or anything, so we can just dive right in. Have fun!

A few ground rules:
-Please say which level you are on when you post your pick. In most cases it will probably be obvious, but this makes it easier for me to record the picks.
-The deadline to make a pick is at the start of the second set of games on Sunday afternoon (4:25 PM ET). That means no SNF/MNF picks after most all the games have started or finished. You cannot pick a game that has already started.
-The deadline to answer the bonus question is at the start of games on Sunday (1 PM ET).

Explanation of Levels:

Level 1: Pick a winner. Simply pick one team to win their game. If they win, you go on to level 2.

Schedule (shamelessly ripped from the Pick 'Em topic)
Thursday, September 6th
Atlanta Falcons @ Philadelphia Eagles

Sunday, September 9th
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Cleveland Browns
Cincinnati Bengals @ Indianapolis Colts
Tennessee Titans @ Miami Dolphins
San Francisco 49ers @ Minnesota Vikings
Houston Texans @ New England Patriots
Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ New Orleans Saints
Jacksonville Jaguars @ New York Giants
Buffalo Bills @ Baltimore Ravens
Kansas City Chiefs @ Los Angeles Chargers
Seattle Seahawks @ Denver Broncos
Washington Redskins @ Arizona Cardinals
Dallas Cowboys @ Carolina Panthers
Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers

Monday, September 10th
New York Jets @ Detroit Lions
Los Angeles Rams @ Oakland Raiders

Bonus Question: Will any games go to overtime this week?
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