Ranking a team’s relative power after one week of football is a lot like predicting the staying power of a band after listening to their first single. Who else here thought we might be inducting Chumbawamba into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame by now (there’s still time)?
The offseason allows an inordinate amount of time to game plan for a specific opponent, which often leads to some coaches’ magnum opuses. The Jacksonville Jaguars last year beating Philip Rivers and the Colts at home comes to mind. And so we’re left to decipher what is real and what is simply the product of some long-planned schematic curveball that isn’t sustainable.