It’s easy to overreact to Week 1 performances. Players can be rusty, teams can be still building chemistry or breaking in new starters or sometimes just having a bad day. There are plenty of reasons a team can disappoint in its season opener, and for some teams Week 1 may wind up their worst performance of the season.
Still, sometimes panic is justified. Perhaps strengths that were taken for granted aren’t so solid after all. Or a weakness that was supposed to be addressed has returned worse than ever. There were no shortage of teams who didn’t live up to their preseason hype in their openers.