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The good, bad, and ugly from Week 2 in the NFL season
If the Packers were the first stop on the Sam Bradford redemption tour, we're in for an interesting ride. Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports

The good, bad, and ugly from Week 2 in the NFL season

Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts thought they had a chance to win their first game of the season. Down just six points with less than two minutes remaining, Luck had the defending champion Denver Broncos where he wanted them.

That's until Broncos EDGE rusher and reigning Super Bowl MVP Von Miller decided to take over.

The strip sack was recovered by Shane Ray and returned 14 yards for a Broncos touchdown, pretty much ending the game right there.

It was the second time that Luck legitimately handed Denver a touchdown. That's the start of what was bad from Sunday's Week 2 NFL action.

The Bad

Continuing with this theme, one has to wonder where exactly Gus Bradley and the Jacksonville Jaguars go from here. The team fell down 38-0 to the San Diego Chargers before scoring two garbage-time touchdowns.

It was Jacksonville's second consecutive loss to open the season and brings Bradley's September record as the head coach of the Jaguars to 1-12 in three-plus seasons.

This team is too talented to lay a deuce on the field against a squad it should have been able to beat. Considering Jacksonville entered the season with playoff aspirations, one has to wonder just how safe Bradley's job is (more on that here).

Speaking of jobs not being safe, prepare for talk of the San Francisco 49ers potentially replacing Blaine Gabbert with the ever enigmatic Colin Kaepernick under center here soon.

It was an interesting turn of events in Charlotte as the 49ers traveled to take on the defending conference champion Carolina Panthers after a short week.

San Francisco actually had the game within one score at the midway mark of the fourth quarter. It was in this that Blaine went full Blaine, throwing two costly interceptions in a meltdown that has come to define his career.

For the 49ers, there has to be some positives to take out of the first two weeks. The team has been much more competitive under Chip Kelly than it was over the past year and a half. That's the good news.

The bad news is that this team simply doesn't have a quarterback to run Kelly's system. At the very least, it's been proven that Gabbert isn't that guy.

It's not fair to the rest of the team to continue throwing him out there. Instead, San Francisco might be able to get a boost from Kaepernick. Heck, even Christian Ponder might be a better option than Gabbert right now.

The Los Angeles Rams played their first regular season home game in Southern California in over two decades. It came against Pete Carroll and the Seattle Seahawks. It also came at the Los Angeles Coliseum, where Carroll led the USC Trojans back to national prominence before leaving the program in disgrace.

The game itself was about as ugly as it gets. Los Angeles and Seattle combined for four field goals with the home team winning its third consecutive against the Seahawks, this time by the score of 9-3.

It can be said that the entertainment in this game came from the sideline and in the stands. Carroll was seen absolutely losing his mind multiple times on the Seahawks' sideline (watch here).

Meanwhile, an ugly scene took place in the stands with multiple Rams and Seahawks fans getting into a fight. Let's hope this isn't the start of a trend in what promises to be a newfound NFC West rivalry. Let's also make sure that anything of this ilk ceases to include children from here on out. That's just bad (watch here).

The Ugly 

If the Oakland Raiders want to contend for a playoff spot this season, they might want to actually start playing defense. Through two games, it's been about as ugly as it gets for Ken Norton Jr. and the Raiders' defense.

After watching the Atlanta Falcons drop 35 on them, Oakland has yielded 69 points and 1,035 total yards in two games. Adding to the ugliness, opposing receivers have caught 35-of-42 passes thrown in their direction against Oakland's defense.

Yeah, it sure looks like the additions of Karl Joseph (draft), Reggie Nelson (free agent) and Sean Smith (free agent) has helped here.

A win is a win is a win. That's pretty much what every football coach would want us to believe. It's also an absurd assumption.

Half of the teams in the NFL currently own a 1-1 record. Are they all equal? Well, we're not too sure of that.

Consider this: The Los Angeles Rams boast a .500 record despite averaging 4.5 points per game. Meanwhile, the Carolina Panthers have the same exact record and are averaging just over 3.0 points per possession. One of these things isn't like the other.

You want to know how bad the Jacksonville Jaguars were on offense Sunday? T.J. Yeldon was targeted a total of nine times. He came down with eight catches for 10 yards. Yes, that's an average of just over one yard per target.

Maybe Gus Bradley can find his own fall guy here. He should call Rex Ryan to ask about how that can become a reality.

First-year Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson has 99 problems, and play-calling surely is one of them. Despite boasting an early-game 20-2 lead over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, Cleveland somehow found a way to pass the ball more than it ran the ball. It also lost the time of possession battle to Baltimore. Now, that's an accomplishment we've rarely seen outside of the Pop Warner ranks. Good work, Mr. Jackson.

Though, the biggest booby prize this week has to go to the Washington Redskins and head coach Jay Gruden. Not only did the team lose a heartbreaker at home to the Dallas Cowboys, it watched former Skins running back Alfred Morris put up the game-winning touchdown.

Then after the horrible loss, Washington's second in as many games, reports surfaced that certain members of the Redskins' offense were growing tired of Kirk Cousins. Yes, apparently a rift is growing in the team's locker room

Unfortunately for the Redskins, they don't have Robert Griffin III to blame for this issue. He can no longer be used as their fall guy. Maybe it's not the quarterbacks that have been the problem in D.C. over the past couple years. Maybe it's the rest of the team. Heck, it could be Mr. Gruden himself.

If the other members of the Redskins have already grown tired of Cousins, maybe they can lobby to get Colt McCoy in the game. That would end extremely well for the team, right?

Adrian Peterson went down with what might be a serious knee injury in the third quarter of the Minnesota Vikings' win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night (more on that here).

Out in New England, Arian Foster of the Miami Dolphins saw himself grounded once again. The injury-plagued former All Pro suffered a groin injury and did not return to the field. This came just as he entered Sunday's action questionable with a hamstring issue.

Is it possible that we witnessed the end of two rather awesome Canton-worthy careers in the matter of just a few hours? At the very least, Peterson's long-term future in Minnesota will rely heavily on the outcome of Monday's MRI. As it relates to Foster, the dude missed nearly 50 percent of the Houston Texans' games during his final three seasons with the team. It might be the end of the line there.

That's the unfortunate thing. When healthy, and looking at it from a per-game perspective, Foster has been among the most-productive running backs in the history of the NFL.

This is no joke. The veteran is averaging 114.8 total yards per game throughout his career. For comparison's sake, Peterson is averaging 112.7 yards, Emmitt Smith averaged 95.5 yards and Barry Sanders put up a 118.9 per-game average. It's a crying shame that Foster's prime was cut short by myriad injuries.

New England Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo suffered what's being reported as a sprained AC joint in his throwing shoulder. That came late in the second quarter of the team's win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. It also came after he threw three touchdowns in the first half alone.

Recovery from AC joint sprains can range from one-to-six weeks, meaning that Garoppolo won't play Thursday against the Houston Texans. He could be back in time for Week 4. If not, it will be Tom Brady's show from here on out.

It's an unfortunate situation for Garoppolo as he has looked every part of a starter in six quarters under center this season. The third-year quarterback is completing 70 percent of his passes for 498 yards and four touchdowns. He's also yet to throw an interception 60 attempts.

The Good

Despite the injuries, the drama and the downright ugliness from Sunday's slate of NFL games, there was a whole heck of a lot of good that came out of it.

Sam Bradford. Yes, the very same Sam Bradford that we all love to make fun of. He showed up big time in his Minnesota Vikings debut. He did so in the team's opening game at U.S. Bank Stadium, and against the division rival Green Bay Packers.

How good was Bradford? It's possible he just put up the best performance of an otherwise pedestrian career. The veteran completed 22-of-31 passes for 286 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, completing outplaying Aaron Rodgers in the process.

Say what? It's Sam's world, we're apparently just living in it.

Dak Prescott. There's not much more we can say about this rookie fourth-round pick that doesn't include the term "wow." Taking on the division rival Redskins in his first career road start, the Mississippi State product completed 22-of-30 passes for 292 yards without an interception. He added a touchdown on the ground in the Dallas Cowboys' victory.

Prescott has now put up the most passing yards (519) for a rookie quarterback in his first two starts. During that very same span, the rookie has not thrown an interception in 75 pass attempts and is completing 63 percent of his passes.

Von Miller and J.J. Watt. Because, why not? As much as we are all about instant gratification in today's self-involved cesspool that is society, defense can still be fun to watch.

And in reality, these two guys may be among the best defensive players in the history of the game. That's not a joke. It's reality. And we're seeing greatness right in front of us.

Miller recorded another three sacks and a forced fumble en route to complete domination against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Meanwhile, a now healthy Watt, recorded 1.5 sacks while treating Alex Smith like a rag doll in the Houston Texans' win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Sometimes, we simply need to sit back and enjoy the game of football from the perspective of defenses. The Texans and Broncos are giving us that right now.

Pete Carroll may be the oldest head coach in the NFL (that's just weird). But the dude continues to make a fool out of himself on the sideline. That's a good thing, and we're definitely not knocking him here.

Who doesn't love to watch a coach go absolutely nuts on the sideline, nearly concussing one of his players in the process?

We love you, Pete.

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