# NFL Week One is the Loneliest Number **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [September 7, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135 "2022-09-07T13:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/101 "2022-09-12T00:30:20Z")
What’s even weirder is the NFC East is 3-0. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/102 "2022-09-12T00:33:03Z")
I hate that I’m rooting for Tampa Bay tonight. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/103 "2022-09-12T00:33:04Z")
I’m hoping it drops to 3-1 when the Cowboy game is over. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/104 "2022-09-12T00:33:30Z")
AFC North is 3-1. Defending AFC champions Bengals suffered the only loss. And nobody has a win in the AFC South. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/105 "2022-09-12T02:30:09Z")
I sometimes wonder if taking joy in a team struggling reflects poorly upon me as a person. But then I see Jerry Jones’ smarmy mug, and I’m OK with it. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/106 "2022-09-12T03:29:56Z")
Cowboys looked rather mediocre tonight. Prescott was…not good. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/107 "2022-09-12T03:39:39Z")
And Prescott will need to have surgery on his throwing hand and will miss several weeks. The Cowboys season is over as soon as it starts. The only happen person in all this is Sean Payton; he just added a zero on to the end of the contract demands he’ll be making to Jerry Jones come January (or earlier). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/108 "2022-09-12T04:41:22Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I sometimes wonder if taking joy in a team struggling reflects poorly upon me as a person. It’s only football, you are fine. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/109 "2022-09-12T04:43:10Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > The Cowboys season is over as soon as it starts. > > The only happen person in all this is Sean Payton It’s not just Sean Payton who is happy about the Cowboys struggling. We are legion. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/110 "2022-09-12T04:45:42Z")
I’d feel bad about Dak but months ago he signed a huge contract with lots of guaranteed cash. He’ll be just fine. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/111 "2022-09-12T04:49:21Z")
I still can’t believe the Giants have a winning record. It’s been six years. Not winning seasons, mind you, but any winning record in any week of the season. Six years. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/112 "2022-09-12T05:27:22Z")
Who knows, maybe they can draft some players for Daboll (like a QB) and make this more than a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/113 "2022-09-12T14:14:06Z")
Bengals rebuilt O-line still a work in progress, I see. They better get better fast or they’re going to get Burrow killed. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/114 "2022-09-12T14:14:23Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > And it looks like the Lions don’t have any quit. They also don’t have any defense, but good on Dan Campbell. Yeah, glimmers of hope on offense. Nice to see a decent running game. But if the D is going to be giving up nearly 40 points every time it’s gonna be a long season (or a short beginning of the season before I choose an alternate team to root for). Everyone seems to like Dan Campbell. An announcer at one point was talking about how Lions fans have embraced his philosophy and positive attitude. I’m not convinced. One of the announcers also said (pretty sure I heard this) that Campbell has given up play-calling. which he was doing last season. I think that was an improvement-- last season it seemed like the Lions were constantly going for it on 4th down, forcing it too much, and failing. Yesterday they went for it on 4th down a couple times, but they were both good calls, I (armchair coach solost) thought. There’s a time to go for it on 4th down, and a time to punt. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/115 "2022-09-12T16:20:41Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > It’s the first time the Colts have been involved in a tie since December 19, 1982 against the Green Bay Packers I was less than a year old at the time, incidentally. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/116 "2022-09-12T16:45:49Z")
Ha! From Reddit: “Evan Ingram was the real curse. Was signed and played his entire 5-year career on the Giants and never once experienced a winning record. Now without him the Giants are undefeated.” Aw, that’s so mean and bitter. I mean, I get it, I’ve been trashing him for years, but still. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/117 "2022-09-13T01:22:07Z")
Wow, not a lot of defense happening here so far, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/118 "2022-09-13T01:37:13Z")
2 sacks for Seattle. Unfortunately 2 dropped interceptions as well. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/119 "2022-09-13T02:00:51Z")
Geno looking impressive tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-one-is-the-loneliest-number/971135/120 "2022-09-13T02:25:16Z")
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