Week 1 is in the books, and now we move to Overreaction Week. With just one game of data for each team, Week 2 becomes the time for reading too much into 60 minutes of football. While it's easy to shake off the Rams being the lowest-scoring team of the week and still consider their offense top-tier, can we say the same about duds from the Chargers and Broncos? Are the Bears on their way to being the highest-scoring offense of all time?
For the most part, we need to sit tight and trust our preseason reads on teams after one week, chalking up any outlier behavior to the randomness of football. But there are situations where we can be a bit more aggressive in our reactions, and that applies to teams facing a lot of uncertainty heading into the season. Now that we've seen Declan Doyle's offense in Baltimore, as well as other new coordinators and play-callers in action, we can make some aggressive adjustments -- one way or the other -- to the teams we put big "CAUTION" labels on heading into Week 1. The same can be said for key players reported to be healthy returning from long-term injuries, like Patrick Mahomes and Daniel Jones.
Below, I'll share my Week 2 spread power ratings and go step by step through those notable adjustments. Then, we'll look at my projected spreads for every game, see where we differ from the market, and try to ascertain why those discrepancies exist.
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