Judging biggest overreactions for NFL Week 2 games - ESPN

ARLINGTON, Texas — Just when you think Week 1 is the wildest week of the NFL season for overreactions, Week 2 swaggers in and invites you to hold its beer.

There were 10 games in Sunday's early window, and it's fair to say they didn't all go exactly the way we thought they would. The Raiders winning in Baltimore to drop the Ravens to 0-2? The Bucs holding the Lions to 10 points and winning in Detroit?? Sam Darnold and the Vikings taking down the 49ers???

And then there was the game I covered this weekend, in which the new-look Saints offense made egg salad out of the Cowboys' defense. The Saints scored touchdowns on each of their first six possessions and rolled the Cowboys 44-19 in front of a surprising number of loud and excited New Orleans fans in Dallas' home stadium. It was one thing when the Saints put up 47 points in Week 1 against Carolina — nobody is expecting the Panthers to put up much of a fight at this point. But after following it up by scoring 44 on Micah Parsons & Co. on the road, they have our attention.

And so we begin Week 2 overreactions — where we judge a few potential takeaways from the weekend's games as legitimate or irrational — with the very impressive-looking 2-0 Saints.

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Are the Saints the best team in the NFC?
Will the Panthers draft another first-round QB?
Can Darnold bring the Vikings to the playoffs?
Would trading for Russ make sense for Miami?
Are the Bengals still the Chiefs' biggest threat?

Just as everyone predicted, the NFC's 2-0 teams are the Vikings, Buccaneers, Seahawks and Saints. The Eagles can join that club with a Monday night victory over Atlanta, in which case Philadelphia would certainly have a claim to this title. But none of those other teams has been as dominant in