Let’s go back to a simpler time, before we knew the proper psi for football inflation, when the first guy we thought of when we said “The Catch” was Dwight Clark and not Odell Beckham. I’m talking about Week 1 of the 2014 season. We learned so much about all 32 NFL teams in that season opener! Here were some of your big story lines coming out of that week: • The Tennessee Titans dominated the Kansas City Chiefs, winning 26-10 at Arrowhead Stadium. Jake Locker looked great, throwing for for 266 yards and two touchdowns. • Led by Knowshon Moreno’s 134 rushing yards, the most in the league in Week 1, the Miami Dolphins swarmed the New England Patriots. The Dolphins outscored the Pats 23-0 in the second half on their way to a 33-20 win. • The San Francisco 49ers, coming off a heartbreaking NFC championship game loss, jumped out to a 21-3 lead in the first quarter at the Dallas Cowboys and cruised to a 28-17 win. • Cordarrelle Patterson looked like a breakout star for the Minnesota Vikings. He had 128 yards, including a 67-yard touchdown run, in a 34-3 win over the Minnesota Vikings. “When I get the ball in my hands, I expect great things,” Patterson said, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. • Aaron Rodgers had an 81.5 rating after a loss at the Seattle Seahawks. Derek Anderson had a 108.7 rating after leading the Carolina Panthers to a season-opening win at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We know what happened next. The Titans lost 14 of their next 15 games. The Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl. Locker and Moreno are no longer in the NFL and Patterson has basically disappeared since that game. The Cowboys ended up being much better than the 49ers. Rodgers won the NFL MVP. Anderson … well, he didn’t. We’ll look back on some of the things we saw in Week 1 this season as signs of things to come. Some other things will seem totally random by the end of the season. Maybe even by the end of September. Good luck figuring out what is truth and what is fiction after one week. It’s hard to not overreact to what we saw in Week 1, because that’s all there is to analyze. But we wouldn’t freak out about some one-week anomaly in Week 10. So I’m not going to do so in Week 1. Not every team is going to move dramatically in the rankings just because of 60 minutes of football. Here are the overreaction-free post-Week 1 power rankings:
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