The Packers are a service academy, the Cowboys are a fraud and 12 things we learned in the NFL's Week 2

Week 2 of the 2024 NFL season gave us another classic Cincinnati Bengals – Kansas City Chiefs tilt. It also gave us the Green Bay Packers cosplaying as the Naval Academy, just without the flashiness of the triple option.

The second Sunday of the year delivered some of the upsets we’d been missing in a chalky Week 1. The Las Vegas Raiders woke up after a sleepy debut to drop the Baltimore Ravens to 0-2. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took a banged-up squad north to Michigan and held on to beat the Detroit Lions. But the most shocking result either stemmed from the Dallas Cowboys’ absolute inability to stop the New Orleans Saints or Sam Darnold’s proficiency to make his Minnesota Vikings 2-0 against the reigning NFC champion San Francisco 49ers over the last 365 days.

Let’s talk about those last two points — and 10 others — with our partial Week 2 recap.