Steelers, Rodgers, Mahomes: The 5 biggest talking points after NFL Week 1

The NFL season is through its first week, and so we thought we’d take a look back at five of the biggest talking points that have emerged from the opening weekend. 

It kind of feels like that sweet spot between Christmas and New Year’s Day. We have got through the first big event of the calendar, and now we eagerly anticipate what is going to happen during the next one. And the best thing is we get this feeling 16 more times between now and the end of the regular season.

Week 1 was certainly one that lived up to the hype that has been building ever since the Los Angeles Rams hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy in the air back in February. We had a highly entertaining first game as the Buffalo Bills eased past the defending champs on their own turf, and that’s before we even got to the opening Sunday of the season.

We had our first tie (or draw depending on your lexicon) between the Houston Texans and the Indianapolis Colts, arguably the game of the season already between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals in a game that both teams tried their best to lose, and it was all rounded off with a last-minute, missed field goal to see the Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos on Monday night.

But what did we learn from this week? What do we need to pay attention to as possible storylines going through the season? 

In no particular order, here are the five biggest things that we have learned this week:

After years of being frustrated by the Packers as an organisation, it was time for the back-to-back reigning NFL MVP to share some of that animosity with members of his offense this time, as he cut a dejected figure on the sidelines as his new group of receivers failed to live up to the high bar that Davante Adams has