Monday night in Los Angeles produced the least ambiguous result of Week 2. The rest of the league's noise was mostly argument. Both have value in September.
ESPN published its post-Week 2 power rankings, all 32 teams, with a companion audit of every starting quarterback ahead of Week 3. Rankings in September are priors wearing a fresh coat of paint. The QB1 audit is the half worth reading. Two games tell you who has an offensive line and who doesn't. Nothing else.
The Rams beat the Giants 28-6 on Monday Night Football. Their first win of the 2026 season, and it wasn't close. Matthew Stafford threw for 327 yards and four touchdowns. Davante Adams accounted for 195 of those yards and two of the scores.
Stafford arrived in Los Angeles in 2021 and won a Super Bowl in his first season there. Monday was the version of him the Rams traded for: efficient, unhurried, finding the one receiver who couldn't be covered.
Puka Nacua was out for that game, and the absence explains the distribution more than the scoreboard does. Adams got that volume because there was nowhere else to throw. When Nacua returns, the targets tighten up, and anyone treating 195 as a new baseline is going to be disappointed. LeBron James watched from the stands, which is not a football fact, but it is a reminder that Rams home games have been a celebrity default since the franchise moved back to Los Angeles in 2016.
The Jaguars are taking heat for Travis Hunter's limited offensive snaps in their Week 2 loss to Denver, and Emmanuel Acho went further, arguing Jacksonville is wasting the potential of a former No. 2 pick and Heisman winner. Acho is right on the substance. If you draft the two-way experiment, you run the two-way experiment. A Heisman winner who barely touches the ball is a scheme failure before it's a player failure, and the criticism has now gotten loud enough to be a coaching problem rather than a fan complaint. I expect his snap count to climb in Week 3.
In Los Angeles on the other side of the country's attention, NFL fans mocked Dan Orlovsky for defending Justin Herbert's struggles by blaming the Chargers' supporting cast. Orlovsky isn't wrong about the roster. He also isn't offering Herbert an exit. Herbert has been the constant with that franchise for years, and the constant is who gets graded. Supporting casts explain bad afternoons. They stop explaining bad seasons.
My verdict: the Rams are the only team in this roundup that answered a question. I'd treat Adams' night as a Nacua artifact, not a new normal, and I'd bet on Hunter's usage changing before Herbert's reputation does.
