Welcome to Week 2, a.k.a. Overreaction Week.
All summer long, we waited for football, poring over the stats, ranking players and position groups, haggling in fantasy auctions and debating with friends. Football’s offseason can feel interminable — we go seven full months without any new meaningful data, eight or nine for some of these teams.
Suddenly, Week 1 brings a fresh batch of numbers and our brains go haywire.
For teams and players we liked, confirmation bias can reign supreme. For reads that didn’t go our way, we tend to overreact in an attempt to right the ship. Lines are soft in Week 1 because it’s all guesswork, and that often means huge swings and over-corrections in Week 2.