A week after starting the NFL season with a lot of skepticism and Little Buzz, the Steelers, the Colts and the Jets will be among the most watched teams of week 2 while fans and analysts look for clues about one of the most unexpected questions of the young season.
Can the Aaron Rodgers Marshal Trio of Pittsburgh, Justin Fields of the Jets and Daniel Jones de Indianapolis look so good? again?
Each one had been expelled by his former team during the low season, and another poor performance in week 1 also threatened to cancel them with his new.
When the media published preseason classifications of the field marshals of the League, the three were routinely classified in the lower half; The NFL website itself classified Fields and Jones 30 and 31 in a 32 team league. Rodgers, an ex four times MVP of the League, was 21.
That lack of trust was justified. Jones had a 1-5 record in seasonal openers with the giants. Then, in his first start with the Colts since he supplanted Anthony Richardson in the depth table, Jones took Indianapolis to points in each of his first seven units to exploit the Dolphins, 33-8, and win the first game of the colts in 12 years. Jones combined for three touchdowns. It was the first time since at least 1978 that a team scored in each possession of a game, according to the investigation of the League.
Like Jones, Fields had been recruited in the first round with great expectations that were never met. After losing his initial work in Pittsburgh last season, he signed with the jets as a replacement of Rodgers, who had been left aside by the new New York coaching staff. Fields completed 16 of his 22 passes for 218 yards and a touchdown and ran for two more touchdowns. Passenger efficiency was a reminiscence of the way it began last season, mostly capable with Pittsburgh too; The difference in his debut in the jets was how much more fields the ball issued, averaging almost 11 aerial yards for attempt, the highest of his career in four yards in five race season openings, according to the Stats Stathead database.
The Jets lost despite scoring more than 30 points because Rodgers was even better in their debut with a new team. With Pittsburgh, Rodgers launched four touchdowns without a turnover, something he had not done since 2021. He had launched for four touchdowns in a first game of the season only once in 17 previous attempts. His pin rate was the second best of his career in seasonal openers, while his TouchDown rate was a stop in such scenarios, by Stathead.
It was unexpected. It was surprising.
Is it sustainable?
Jones has not won consecutive games since October 2022. If that will change it depends on whether it can be healthy, a constant fight while with the New York giants, and how much he learned while half of the last season in Minnesota under coach Kevin O’Connell, a remarkable field marshal coach. Jones told the “Pat Mcafee show” this week that was impressed to see the granular level of details that O’Connell pays attention when planning defenses. With the Colts, it also has the benefit of launching the outstanding wing Tyler Warren.
Rodgers, who enjoyed beating the Jets at his press conference after the game, seems as motivated as ever, and his arm showed the same Zip that made him an MVP four times. But the father’s time is as discouraging to overcome as an unlocked edge corridor. In the 19 games since Green Bay left, and since Rodgers turned 40 and has lost mobility, he has been fired more frequently (45 times) than has launched TouchDown passes (32).
Criticized during the stops in Chicago and Pittsburgh for the frequency with which he hastened instead of letting the plays develop from his pocket, Fields was remarkably better in his debut in the jets, first classifying among all the quarters of week 1 in explosive plays and the expected points added when he withdrew to pass, according to the statistics of the next generation of the NFL. His ability to run provided to the fields a third opportunity to demonstrate that he is an NFL holder. But producing as a pin will determine how long it lasts.
“We will let him play as a field marshal, we will see the things he likes, and we are also going to progress with the things in which it is not good for him to improve in that aspect,” said Aaron Glenn, first -year coach of New York, to journalists after the game.
What we are observing in week 2:
Jacksonville (1-0) in Cincinnati (1-0): No quartback was pressed less in week 1 than Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence. The Bengals hope to win more than the 7 yards that produced in the second half of last week.
New York Giants (0-1) in Dallas (0-1): When Dak Prescott plays, the cowboys have won 13 consecutive games against giants. The NFL record belongs to Bob Griese, who won 17 consecutive games against Buffalo until 1979.
Chicago (0-1) in Detroit (0-1): This is the UH-OH territory for Detroit, which is in danger of moving from the playoffs seed number 1 last year at the NFC to a start of 0-2 for this season.
Los Angeles Rams (1-0) in Tennessee (0-1): According to the NFL, only 16 combined interceptions were combined in week 1, the least for a week opening the season since the merger of the NFL/AFL in 1970. Matthew Stafford and the Titans of Los Angeles Cam Ward maintained that low number when remaining without selection last week.
New England (0-1) in Miami (0-1): Last week, the Dolphins averaged 6.5 yards for hauling, among the best in the league. They also hurried the ball a little more than the league 12 times.
San Francisco (1-0) in New Orleans (0-1): Field Marshal of the 49ers, Brock Purdy, possibly for a month, with an injury to the foot. Instead, Mac Jones transfer steps.
Buffalo (1-0) in New York Jets (0-1): Cam Newton has the NFL record for most games (45) for a field marshal with a touchdown of passes and hurried, according to Stathead. Josh Allen de Buffalo can tie him on Sunday.
Seattle (0-1) in Pittsburgh (1-0): It is the first Steeler Breadout DK Metcalf game against the team that changed it. It is also an opportunity for Aaron Rodgers (Carrera 507 Touchdown passes) to go to Brett Favre (508) for fourth place.
Cleveland (0-1) in Baltimore (0-1): According to the NFL, the Ravens produced an explosive work in almost a third of their offensive plays in week 1, the highest percentage of any team in the last decade. However, they lost.
Denver (1-0) in Indianapolis (1-0): Here is a great test for Daniel Jones to show that his hot week 1 was really. After leading the NFL in captures last year, Denver produced a better NFL six more in week 1.
Carolina (0-1) in Arizona (1-0): After a promising end of his second season, former General Selection No. 1 and the Panthers Campo Marshal, Bryce Young, completed only 18 of his 34 passes for 154 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions.
Philadelphia (1-0) in Kansas City (0-1): Chiefs have not started a 0-2 season since 2014.
Atlanta (0-1) in Minnesota (1-0): The Vikings receiver, Justin Jefferson, is a capture to tie Larry Fitzgerald as the youngest receiver to reach 500 trapped in his career. Jefferson will be 26 years and 90 days on Sunday, the same age as Fitzgerald until the day he succeeded.
Tampa Bay (1-0) in Houston (0-1) (Monday): Leaving the consecutive seasons of 1,000 yards, the best receiver of the Texans, Nico Collins, obtained only three trapped for 25 yards in the first game. The Houston Campo Marshal, CJ Stoud, has been fired 104 times since he entered the League in 2023, 12 more than any other field marshal.
