{"id":898062,"date":"2026-09-19T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898062\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:10:11","slug":"whats-real-and-not-real-including-jets-giants-stellar-starts-after-an-eventful-nfl-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898062\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s real and not real &#8212; including Jets, Giants&#8217; stellar starts &#8212; after an eventful NFL Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your team spit the bit in Week 1 and you\u2019re freaking out. Or maybe your team surprised you and gave you hope that it won\u2019t be a woeful laughingstock for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is easy to recognize what is real and what is not real at the start of the NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it isn\u2019t. Remember the 2007 Giants? Started 0-2. Won Super Bowl 42. Remember the 1986 Giants? Lost 31-28 to the Cowboys. Won Super Bowl 21. Remember the 2001 Patriots? Started 0-2 before Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFL sells hope every offseason,\u201d longtime legendary NFL columnist and chronicler Peter King told Serby Says, \u201cand everybody buys hope every offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your team spit the bit in Week 1 and you\u2019re freaking out. Or maybe your team surprised you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,1263,1242,1235,593,24858,466749,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-898062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-sean-mcvay","tag-serby-says","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}