Everyone knows that you cannot jump to conclusions after Week 1, that anyone claiming the Patriots are "finished" is just trolling, that the Rams and Jaguars aren't going to face off in the Super Bowl and that even leading a mid-September NFL column with "you cannot jump to conclusions" has become a cliche.
So let's ask a more pressing question: How can we tell the difference between a Week 1 stumble and a sign of a pending franchise apocalypse?
That's a question veteran teams with playoff ambitions around the league are asking themselves this week, even as their fans comfort themselves with it's only one game mantras.