The NFL is a week to week league; it’s the brutal truth. One week, a team can look like a future Super Bowl contender. And the next, they can collapse in every facet of the game.
The Washington Redskins never reached either extreme, but that doesn’t change the fact that the swing of quality between Week 1 and Week 2 is alarming, to say the least.
In Week 1, Jay Gruden’s Washington squad had the advantage over its opponent in every possible way. In Week 2, against a young Indianapolis Colts squad with a newly-anointed head coach, it was Washington who played the role of the Week 1 Cardinals.