All you need to do is look at the Colts and Raiders records last preseason to justify eliminating anything that happens on the field the next 3 weeks from your memory. But I don't want to let this mostly-meaningless mindset take away from some NFL football talk. There were several trends, stats and developments that I saw over the weekend that I don't think we should gloss over:

Kellen Clemens will take over the Jets reigns at QB due to a Pennington injury, and immediately become one of the best young QB's. His 16 for 22, 174-yard 3 TD performance wasn't a fluke. Some astute blogger you know well, predicted Clemens would be the second best QB of his draft class, only trailing Jay Cutler. Speaking of which ...
Cutler only played one drive, and made a ridiculously poor decision to take on three 49ers' linebackers near the goal, but he has improved. Enough that he'll lead the Broncos into the playoffs. A big help in that department ...

Travis Henry is going to rush for a lot of yards this year. 1,500 a lot.

Minnesota is going to be awful. We figured that was the case entering the season, and nothing I saw after week 1 has me thinking anything different.

Joey Harrington will be good enough to take the Falcons out of the Brian Brohm running.

This isn't much of a shocker, but LaRon Landry will break the rookie record for appearances on Jacked Up! The Redskins rookie introduced himself to Kerry Collins over the weekend.

Speaking of defensive rookies, I handed Patrick Willis the ROY last spring following the draft. I still like his chances, but Rams' DT Adam Carriker is going to give him a run.

While I'm on the Rams, just want to remind you that Brian Leonard was the most underrated rookie in the draft. Steven Jackson and Ray Rice are going to have a lot in common. Time in the spotlight that's a result of Leonard. The addition of Leonard and Carriker add two wins to the Rams season.

The Lions will be among the NFC leaders in passing. Kitna won't reach the 497 yards they Lions threw on Cincinnati this season, but he'll top 300 more than you'd expect. You can attribute that to Calvin Johnson, more receivers will be as wide open as Shaun McDonald. He'll also do a fair amount of this on his own:


Feel free to add your own week 1 foreshadowing, or just tell me mine suck.