NFL: 5 takeaways from Week 2

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Sep 14, 2014; Charlotte, NC, USA; Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) calls signals at the line in the fourth quarter. The Panthers defeated the Lions 24-7 at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports /

This is what makes the NFL stand apart from the other sports and so difficult to figure out at the same time.

We’re only two games into the 2014 season, but each team has just 14 more to go. Every single game matters so much. It’s not like the MLB, NBA or NHL where a team can endure a poor stretch of play and rebound to save their season. In the NFL one bad cluster of games costs you a season.

Everything about the NFL is based on a small sample size. You don’t have time to let a proper amount of stats develop to study in a singular season. Judging anything across sports off two games is a completely insane thing to do, but in the NFL we have no choice.

Even though a confluence of factors that are impossible for each team to control have occurred through the first two weeks of the season — weather, fumble luck, home, road, miles traveled, start times, injuries and others — an attempt has to be made to weed through the non sense as you attempt to get the feel for how this stand alone season will shape up.

With that here are five takeaways I have from Week Two:

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