EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Wide receiver Jalin Hyatt was out of the locker room quickly, in street clothes but with eye black still painted on his expressionless face.
That's unusual, even if it's only Week 1.
"It's the first game of the year," coach Brian Daboll said, the day after a 28-6 drubbing to the Minnesota Vikings. "It's a long NFL season."
Might as well add the coaching cliché: it's never as bad as it looks, it's never as good as it looks and the biggest jump comes from Week 1 to Week 2 to the post-blowout rhetoric.