The Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs are 1-2 in the latest DVOA ratings, but the most surprising unit early in the season is the Miami Dolphins defense.

J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets! Yes, Gang Green has a rare spot on top of the Football Outsiders DVOA ratings after a huge Week 1 win over Detroit. You should also learn to spell "Ravens," because Baltimore is right behind them.

Updated preseason DVOA projections are here. It's a very unbalanced NFL, with seven of our top nine teams coming from the NFC. Pittsburgh and New England are the two AFC holdouts, and they're on top of our ratings and our Super Bowl odds, though our Super Bowl favorite has flipped since we published Football Outsiders Almanac 2018.

Malik Jackson and his teammates had a great game against New England, pressuring Tom Brady, limiting the damage the Patriots could do on big plays, and making Rob Gronkowski a non-factor. That doesn't mean that they'll be able to do the same thing should the teams meet again in the playoffs.

Coming off losses in Week 1, the Bears and Seahawks will face off at Soldier Field Monday night in a game where the loser's season will be hanging by a thread. Who has the edge?

Enough with the numbers -- guest columnist Keegan Abdoo goes to the film to show how Lamar Jackson's unique talents can drive defensive coaches (and players) insane.

In his first article looking at the Falcons, offensive line expert Ben Muth explains why outside zone runs put so much pressure on a defense, how Atlanta will cope with the loss of Andy Levitre, and why even the best run-blocking team needs a lot of help from its running backs.

Detroit's 48-17 loss to the Jets was an ugly night for the Lions, but Ben Muth found some positives to go with the negatives on their offensive line.

Our resident offensive line expert Ben Muth breaks down the three teams he'll be covering this season: the Detroit Lions, the Atlanta Falcons, and the San Francisco 49ers, who are hoping first-round pick Mike McGlinchey can make a big impact out of the gate.

Ryan Fitzpatrick has been the best quarterback in the league this year, followed closely by Patrick Mahomes. We put their starts in historical perspective (spoiler: they're really good) and ask if there's any significance to that. Plus, the best and worst passers, runners, and receivers of Week 2.

While the quarterbacks in New Orleans were putting up epic fantasy numbers, a rookie special teamer was quietly threatening to put his name in the NFL's all-time record books.

Here are all our advanced numbers from Super Bowl LII. As you can imagine, the offensive numbers are pretty high. The Patriots end up with the higher DVOA, but that's not how games get decided.

A potential NFC North early-season title decider ends in controversy and missed field goals! An early-season AFC Championship rematch flips the script! The hottest two quarterbacks in the league are names nobody expected! Your Audibles crew discusses the Week 2 action.

National Jump to Conclusions Week sees the return of the traditional Saints "defense," the Patriots yet again beating a potential playoff rival in Foxborough, and the Titans and Dolphins playing a weather-ravaged game that transcended the normal boundaries of time and space. The more things change ...

The NFL is back! And it kinda sucks! The FO staff discusses a game full of questionable play calling, poor execution, baffling officiating ... and in the end, a win for the defending Super Bowl champions.

After a week filled with blunders on and off the field, Bryan and Andrew can't possibly pick just one Keep Choppin' Wood winner ... can they?

New head coaches got off to a record-setting 0-7 start in Week 1. Bryan and Andrew try to figure out when, if ever, the new men on the job will eat their first W.

Bryan and Andrew wrap up their preseason predictions by looking at individual players. Who will be MVP? Can anyone stop Saquon Barkley from winning rookie of the year? And just what would it take for Hue Jackson to be fired?

Carson Wentz may not be ready for Week 1 after tearing his ACL in Week 14 last year. We look through our injury database to see just what a reasonable timetable of return is for one of the game's most serious injuries. Also: how have the other 2017 starters with torn ACLs been used this preseason?

In the second part of his look at scrambling quarterbacks, guest columnist Keegan Abdoo shows how Lamar Jackson and similar mobile quarterbacks can limit the playbooks of opposing defensive coordinators.

What kind of impact does a running quarterback like Lamar Jackson have, and how does that change between NCAA and NFL football? Guest columnist Keegan Abdoo starts to answer those questions by looking at what coverage schemes are most vulnerable to scrambles in college and the pros.

Terrence Horne had a pair of touchdowns on kickoff returns in South Florida's 49-38 win over Georgia Tech in Week 2. Brian Fremeau looks at the NCAA's new rules on kickoff returns and says that games like Horne's will be a lot less common in 2018.

The biggest play in college football last weekend might have been when Clemson's K'von Wallace knocked the ball out of Texas A&M receiver Quartney Davis' hands. Brian Fremeau looks at points lost on fumbles and shows that Wallace's play could not have been more valuable.

Washington-Auburn, one of the biggest games of Week 1, was largely defined by the scoring difficulties of both teams. Brian Fremeau explains why an offense can fail to score but still get positive value in his methodology.

Louisiana State got another win over an AP Top-25 team thanks to a last-second field goal over Auburn, but the predictive stats still don't really love the Tigers. Also, despite a great day for Ohio State, the Big Ten's slow start to the 2018 season continues.

Week 2 looked just OK on paper, but delivered with an awesome Clemson-Texas A&M game as well as upsets by Arizona State, Colorado State, Eastern Michigan, and East Carolina. Oh, and Georgia probably locked up the SEC East in its big win over South Carolina.

Week 1 was a little more muted than normal, with Auburn-Washington and LSU-Miami both featuring plenty of field goals. The story of the week might be the Big Ten East's underwhelming start.

Big games this week include Notre Dame-Wake Forest, TCU-Texas, and Oregon (with top quarterback draft prospect Justin Herbert) taking on Stanford.

Top games this weekend include LSU-Auburn, USC-Texas, and Brett Rypien and the Murder Smurfs traveling to Stillwater to face Oklahoma State.

The premiere contest of Week 2 could be D'Andre Swift and the championship-caliber Georgia Bulldogs facing a stiff test against South Carolina.

It appears the Chiefs knew what they were doing when they traded Alex Smith away. Pittsburgh's defense becomes the latest victim of the Patrick Mahomes buzzsaw.

Most of us can agree that the Bucs allowing 40 points to the Saints wasn't much of a surprise. The Saints allowing 48 to the Bucs, though...

Wow, an underdog upset the Steelers? Get out of town -- then, head to New England, for the AFC Championship Game.

Jon Gruden has issues with former Raiders, Antonio Brown has a bad week, Vontae Davis retires at halftime, and the Cleveland Browns win a football game.

This week: Jalen Ramsey threatens his family, Jon Gruden says Khalil Mack started it, Kirk Cousins gets even goofier, and Steve Smith and Michael Irvin get on each other's nerves.

Khalil Mack gets paid, but Le'Veon Bell is still waiting... and his teammates aren't happy about it. Plus: The secret reason why Jon Gruden came back to the NFL.

Cleveland's 19-game winless streak is over after Baker Mayfield's debut ignites a dramatic comeback. Why didn't Hue Jackson start the No. 1 pick sooner? We also look at how coaches go against their word on their rookie QB plans, and why they should start ASAP.

Denver pulls out another September comeback at Mile High. A lousy week of kicking denies Kirk Cousins his finest win and a win of any kind for the Browns. Andrew Luck is turning into a dart-thrower, and Nick Foles ties the failed completions record.

Cincinnati held off Baltimore after A.J. Green caught a career-high three touchdowns. Are these offenses showing real improvement yet? Also: based on the point spread, was Baltimore cutting it close inevitable?

The last time the Cleveland Browns won a regular season game, Myles Garrett was still playing at Texas A&M. Together they have a chance to win again, hosting the Jets on Thursday night. Use this thread to discuss that game and all the weekend's action, up to the Steelers-Buccaneers contest on Monday night.

We've all seen the Next Gen Stats as part of NFL broadcasts -- player speed, distance traveled, etc. -- but this story on NFL.com is the first time I've seen anything really useful done with the data. For each pass thrown in the NFL, they've calculated the likelihood of a completion based on six factors:

• Air distance, the actual distance between the passer and receiver, both horizontally and vertically.
• Target separation, the distance between the receiver and the nearest defender in coverage.

Jon Gruden has issues with former Raiders, Antonio Brown has a bad week, Vontae Davis retires at halftime, and the Cleveland Browns win a football game.