2023 NFL Season: Week 2 Overreactions
We are officially complete with Week 2 of the 2023 NFL season. We have a few panelists each week to share their overreactions. Let’s dive into it!
Trey Daubert
Micah Parsons is the best defensive player I’ve ever seen in my life and I actually believe the Cowboys can actually win the Super Bowl only because he’s on the team.
I think Micah Parsons might be worth 10 points on the spread and I’m being dead serious on that. You can put him in the Hall of Fame right now. We’re watching greatness. Also, it’s a friendly reminder that he dropped in the draft over nonsense and Trey has been a believer since Day 1 when other idiots spread lies. Also, it’s your friendly reminder that Dallas traded down in the draft and still picked him. That spot originally belonged to San Francisco. Please stop pretending Jerry Jones can’t draft. It’s also a lie.
Garrett Burroughs
It’s time, again, to fire Brandon Staley.
When is enough going to be enough? We called for his job at the end of last season, and they didn’t listen. Now, he’s got the Chargers at 0-2 with some very losable games coming up. Justin Herbert deserves better than this, and it’s time that the organization took the right steps to help him.
The Cincinnati Bengals are cooked.
The Bengals might be done for this season. If Joe Burrow has to miss extended time with his reaggravated calf injury, this team will go nowhere. The offense looks broken as it is to start the year, which doesn’t help. Cincy did start 0-2 last year and finished in the playoffs, but with how loaded the AFC is, I doubt their chances to do it again.
Jack Sabin
The Bears need to move on from Justin Fields.
I know there is still so much else wrong with this Bears team but Justin Fields is no exception. In Year 3, he still struggles to read basic defenses and becomes too quick to rely on his legs. There just hasn’t been that progression you would want to see from a first-round quarterback in their third year. The Bears need to cut their losses and add Justin Fields to the long list of failed Bears quarterbacks and tank for Caleb Williams, I guess?
Matt Hanifan
Bijan Robinson is the most fun running back to watch in the NFL.
This is more subjective than a hot take hot take, per say. But we’re also only two games into the Bijan Robinson era … and it’s been a treat-and-a-half. I could watch him play all day. He finished Week 2 against Green with 172 yards from scrimmage on 23 touches and is second in the NFL–albeit a microscopic sample–in rushing yards (180) and top-5 in yards per carry (6.4) and all-purpose yards (255). Desmond Ridder can be a tough watch, but Robinson’s electric burst, shiftiness and versatility are reasons to watch the Falcons alone. I’ll end with a hotter take: It might not surprise me if we’re talking about Robinson being the best running back in the NFL by the end of October, let alone the end of the season.
Anthony Miranda
Micah Parsons is a future Hall of Famer.
Parsons looks like the best player on the field when he is in the game. I think he will win Defensive Player of the Year at the end of the season. He just looks great. If Parsons can keep up his level of play for the season and for years to come he will have a top-tier career when everything is said and done.
James Herrick
It is time for the Browns to panic about Deshaun Watson
How much time does Deshaun Watson get to shake off the rust? At this point, Watson looks as bad in 2023 as he did in 2022. I am not sure how it gets better either. The Browns offense will need to rely on Watson with Nick Chubb presumably sidelined for the season, but will that yield positive results? I doubt it. Watson was great at Clemson and outstanding in Houston. It is tough to say that player will return anytime soon. The only positive for Watson is that he is 28 and his contract makes it hard for the Browns to move off him. That will give him plenty of time to get into prime form. Still, I’d be shocked if we saw that version of him in 2023.
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