Sure, here is a more detailed paraphrase of the text:---ARLINGTON, Texas -- Just when you think Week 1 is the wildest week for overreactions, Week 2 swaggers in and invites you to hold its beer.

There were 10 games in Sunday's early window, and it's fair to say they didn't all go exactly the way we thought they would.

The Raiders dropped the Ravens to 0-2? The Bucs holding the Lions to 10 points? And the Vikings? And then there was the game I covered this weekend, in which the new-look Saints offense made eggs salad out of the Cowboys' defense.

The Saints scored touchdowns on each of their first six possessions and rolled the Cowboys in front of a surprising number of loud and excited New Orleans fans in Dallas' home stadium.

It was one thing when the Saints put up 47 points -- nobody is expecting the Panthers to put up much of a fight at this point.

But after following it up by scoring 44 on the road, they have our attention.

And so we begin Week 2 overreactions -- where we judge a few potential takeaways from the weekend's games as legitimate or irrational -- with the very impressive-looking 2-0 Saints.

Just as everyone predicted, the NFC's 2-0 teams are the Vikings, Buccaneers, Seahawks, and Saints.

The Eagles can join that club with a Monday night victory over Atlanta, in which case Philadelphia would certainly have a claim to this title.

But none of those other teams has been as dominant in both weeks so far as the Saints, who have scored on 16 of their 21 drives, with touchdowns on 11 of them.

And by the way, they also looked pretty darn good on defense against the Cowboys on Sunday.

New offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak is using motion more than the Saints ever have, and the players have bought in -- they looked way too fast and way too creative for the Cowboys in this game.

Their protection schemes worked beautifully against Parsons, who after the game said it felt as if he was fighting his way through a 'maze' at times.

It helped quarterback finish with a 99.

4 Total QBR, his best in any game in his NFL career.

It was total domination by a big underdog, and the Saints surely headed home to New Orleans on Sunday night feeling awfully good about themselves.

This is too easy.

I'm willing to admit I was way, way, way wrong about a Saints offense I thought would struggle because of offensive line issues.

But no matter how impressive these two weeks have been, I am not willing to say New Orleans is the best team in the NFC yet.

The Saints have my attention and respect, but over the course of a four-month regular season, I'm still figuring teams like the 49ers, Lions, and Eagles have a chance to come out ahead.

Heck, I'm not sure the 2-0 Buccaneers won't end up ahead of the Saints in the NFC South division, let alone the conference.

You have to think at some point an opposing defense will figure something out and hold them under 40 points.

Get back to me this time next week if they've managed to beat Philadelphia.

The opposite of the way the Saints have started the season is the way the Panthers have kicked off the 2024 campaign.

New coach Dave Canales was supposed to fix quarterback, the No.

1 pick in the 2023 draft.

And he might -- but he hasn't yet.

In two ugly losses so far, Young has completed 31 of 56 passes (55%) for 245 yards (total, not per game), zero touchdown passes, and three interceptions.

He's also 5-for-15 throwing more than 10 yards downfield.

He does have a rushing touchdown, but it's the only TD his team has scored so far.

After losing to the Chargers on Sunday, the Panthers have been outscored 73-13, and it hasn't seemed even close.

Carolina had the worst record in the league last season, but it didn't have the top pick because it had traded that selection to the Bears the year before for the right to move up to select Young.

I need to stop writing this section now because every sentence seems to be making the situation worse.

We haven't even talked about the Panthers' defense, which lost its best player last week when defensive tackle went down with an injury.

This team actually could stay noncompetitive all season for the second year in a row.

At this point, it seems like the best Carolina can hope is that it gets to the end of the season having seen some improvement and some reason to feel good about Young moving forward.

But that feels like a long way up from a very deep pit.

And if the Panthers don't get there, then yeah, selecting Young's replacement in next year's draft -- Georgia's? Colorado's? Texas'? Someone else? -- is very much on the table.

It would absolutely have to be in consideration.

Let's get back to the happier stories.

The Vikings beat the 49ers to improve to 2-0 thanks to a fantastic game by Darnold, who ironically was the 49ers' backup quarterback last season and probably owes some thanks to Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco coaching staff for helping him improve.

Darnold has completed 72% of his passes so far and has four touchdown passes against two interceptions.

He even ran for 32 yards Sunday.

Per ESPN Research, it was the first time Darnold had consecutive games with multiple passing touchdowns since Weeks 14-15 of the 2019 season.

Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell has taken the work Shanahan did with Darnold last year and built on it, and he believes that he has Darnold -- still just 27 years old! -- in the best situation he has ever been in and that his talent will help him thrive in it.

All kudos to O'Connell, who was planning to open the season with Darnold as the starter even before first-round pick got injured in the preseason.

The Vikings believed they had Darnold in a place where he was trusting his feet and not trying to do too much in an offense built around the idea of consistently getting receivers open and stacking first downs.

And so far, it looks as if they were right.

But they have a long way to go with a still-young quarterback who has never had sustained success.

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and start streaming something for everyone today! The Vikings' upcoming schedule is an absolute gauntlet -- vs.

Texans, at Packers, vs.

Jets (in London), and vs.

Lions.

They finish the season with games against the Seahawks, Packers, and Lions.

The receiving corps, thin to begin with, is already suffering injuries, with (right ankle) and leaving it early because of a.

Tight end is still likely a few weeks away from returning from last year's injury.

I do think Darnold and the Vikings will continue to play well; the coaching will make sure of that.

But there's just too much working against them for me to predict them as a playoff team, even after the 2-0 start.

Booted out of Denver after two lousy seasons, Wilson signed a minimum-salary contract with the Steelers this offseason and.

He got injured on the first day of training camp, reinjured it a few days before the opener, and has watched as and the defense have led the Steelers to a 2-0 start with road wins in and.

Fields has thrown only one touchdown pass, but he is completing 69.

8% of his throws.

Meanwhile, as everyone unfortunately saw, Miami quarterback suffered, and the Dolphins are unsure how long they will be without him.

The Dolphins are a team built to win now, and if Tagovailoa has to miss significant time while he recovers, they need to be exploring all possible options.

If the Steelers like what Fields is doing -- and again, they're 2-0 with him as the starter -- maybe they'd entertain a call from the Dolphins about Wilson? One interesting side note here is that Wilson actually has a no-trade clause in that minimum-salary deal with the Steelers.

So even if it came to this, he'd have to approve the deal.

Now I have no idea why someone wouldn't want to go play quarterback for Mike McDaniel and throw to and, but who knows? The point is, there's a lot working against this idea.

Would the Steelers even want to do it? Sure, they're 2-0, but it's not as if Fields is lighting up the scoreboard.

Per ESPN Research, he's averaging only 6.

1 air yards per attempt this season.

Maybe Pittsburgh still thinks a healthy Wilson is the better choice, when and if he's finally healthy.

And after the way he played the past two years in Denver, are we sure a banged-up 35-year-old Wilson would even be Miami's top choice if it decided to trade for a veteran QB? Plus, we don't even know for a fact how much time Tagovailoa will have to miss.

This seems like one of those assertions that assumes a level of Wilson's game that's no longer in evidence.

I guess if it comes to that, maybe the Dolphins take a shot.

Or maybe they do if the Steelers cut him.

But it's early for that, and I'm guessing the Dolphins will look elsewhere for solutions if in fact they end up needing one.

Time was, the Bengals had the Chiefs' number.

They beat them late in the 2021 season, then again in that season's AFC Championship Game in Kansas City.

They beat them in the 2022 regular season.

They felt so good about it that they were calling the Chiefs' home stadium 'Burrowhead Stadium' ahead of the 2022 AFC Championship Game.

But they lost that game in heartbreaking fashion.

They lost again to the Chiefs late last season with Burrow injured and at QB.

And they, as the Ghost of Bengals Past