They’ve started off the season 3-1, which is tied for the second-best record in the league. Pretty good, right?

Well, the Rams also started off 3-1 last season. They’d go on to finish 4-12 not good!

The Rams have actually looked much different this time around, though. They’re fifth in the NFL in total offense, and have the No. 1 scoring offense. Their first three wins of last season was really just the Rams getting by. They had a -13 point differential, a -442 yardage difference, and a five-point average margin of victory.

This year, those numbers are immensely better. They have a +37 point differential, a +64 yardage differential, and a 14.7 average margin of victory. Jared Goff actually looks like the player the Rams hoped he could be, and Todd Gurley looks like the old Todd Gurley.

But Thomas Rawls looked like the next star in the Seahawks backfield. Or at least until he fractured his ankle at the end of his rookie season, and then fractured his fibula in Week 2 of the next season.

C.J. Prosise briefly looked like he’d take the reins with 234 total yards on 30 touches in two starts during the 2016 season, but a fractured scapula ended that momentum.

Others like Eddie Lacy, Christine Michael, and Robert Turbin have had a chance to step up, but haven’t done much with the job.

Panic index: Losing Carson is disappointing for the Seahawks, but the biggest concern is the team’s offensive line. Asking anyone to hammer out more than a few yards per carry is a tall ask, but J.D. McKissic gave some reason to be hopeful. It’s not time to panic, but some decent luck at running back would be a welcomed change in Seattle.

That policy states that the players should stand for the anthem, and some have suggested the league would seek to change that to must stand. Goodell said in a memo to teams last week that the NFL prefers for players to stand during The Star-Spangled Banner.

Through five weeks of the season, there’s not much clarity in the NFL’s eight divisional races. Frankly, it would be weird if any team had a huge lead this early. Maybe that will start to change once season two of Stranger Things finally blesses our Netflix queue. But for now, almost every division is in a gridlock at the top.

The Bills have been even more unpredictable, following up two big-time wins over the Broncos and Falcons with a loss to the Bengals. Tyrod Taylor’s targets also look like this list of vaguely familiar didn’t he play in college at … I wanna say Syracuse? Northern Illinois? names:

So far, the Houston defense has limited Kareem Hunt, but has had bigger issues stopping Alex Smith, particularly without two of their best pass rushers. But a tackle on Travis Kelce preventing a first down by a hair.

Deshaun Watson picked up two first downs, but the Texans’ first drive stalled after a couple penalties �� and Bill O’Brien went a little Hard Knocks on us:

Alex Smith started off hot on third downs, converting the first three third downs the Chiefs faced. He misfired on their final one, leading to the Chiefs’ field goal, but that wasn’t the big story.

On the same play, Texans superstar J.J. Watt went down with a knee injury and had to be helped off the field. He went to the medical tent and was later carted off. He was ruled out for the remainder of the game with what was diagnosed as a tibial plateau fracture to his left leg.

He’s been playing this season. While McFadden has been a healthy scratch, Morris has handled backup duties thus far, albeit a small workload (just eight carries). He was a tremendous rookie back in 2012, emerging as an unlikely standout after being drafted in the sixth round. He should be picked up in all leagues.

The good news is that the #process is not a banned substance under the league’s policy on substance abuse or the PED policy. So if the Bills are going to get hooked on something, the process seems like a safe enough place to start.

New York hasn’t done a great job of fixing its rushing woes of 2016. Through four games, Paul Perkins is the team’s leading rusher with *61* yards. Eli Manning is fifth on the team in rushing yards with 21, and has the only rushing touchdown on the season.

It was this spectacular athletic feat:

Here’s the case for McFadden over Morris as the full-time starter in Dallas: He spent the preseason — when Elliott was expected to be suspended — as the starter. He also rushed for over 1,000 yards during the 2015 season when he was last a full-time starter. For those asking why Run DMC has been a healthy scratch all year? One explanation is that he’s too similar in style to Elliott. Morris adds a bit more of versatility. McFadden obviously now has an open window to playing time. He should be rostered in all leagues.

The Eagles are not a high-pressure team because their secondary is their weakness. They are 25th in the NFL allowing almost seven yards per pass play. The Eagles pressure on only 22 percent of their snaps, good for 23rd in the NFL. However, they are near the top of the league in quarterback hits, with 32. They often generate pressure with four or five pass rushers.

Washington’s defense is the biggest factor in this game, the front seven has drastically improved since last year, and that is no fluke. The front seven of Washington has looked stout since training camp, but many questioned if it was legit due to the setting, but three games in they’ve proven that they were as good as advertised.

I mean, first and foremost, you don’t come up in here and say what you’re going to put up on somebody. Two hundred yards? [Crabtree] didn’t catch two balls. He only caught one, huh? So please, whatever you do, do not run your mouth if you’re a wide receiver and expect to show up on Sundays, because I’m telling you, we are here and we are waiting, Norman said.

The Texans went three-and-out, giving the defense barely any time to breathe. The Chiefs marched down the field and Smith scrambled, then fired a bullet to Charcandrick West for an 8-yard score.

Washington 10, Chiefs 7: Josh Norman left the game with a rib injury, and it opened up Kansas City’s offense for its first score. Travis Kelce caught the 17-yard pass from Alex Smith to score the touchdown, capping a seven-play, 73-yard drive that wrapped up with Norman off the field.

Kelce is already up to four catches for 61 yards and a touchdown in the first half, which is a big rebound from his one-catch, 1-yard effort last week. You know what that means: it’s time to dance.

Washington 10, Chiefs 0: It’s been an up and down game for Travis Kelce. He celebrated a big 32-yard catch in front of the defense, which was fun. He also got absolutely crushed by Josh Norman on another play almost immediately afterwards, which was not as fun.

Ten years ago, we would’ve done burgers, hot dogs, fries, Moore says. We took out the fryer. We don’t have that anymore. We’re all about introducing them to new foods and teaching them the best way possible to eat.

The Saints had built a 45-10 lead only to see it whittled down to seven in the fourth quarter. Payton was annoyed about the way his team struggled to finish. So when someone asked about what Peterson was doing in Arizona and whether it gave him pause about trading the old warhorse five days earlier, Payton wasn’t having any.

That’s a dumb question, Payton said. We’re trying to win games, and I’d love to have that player. But it’s hard to have that many and get into a rhythm. I thought Mark [Ingram] and Alvin [Kamara] had some big plays, and I would hope we would have had that type of rushing output if Adrian was a part of it.

It’s a tough time for the Redskins to suffer key injuries as their next five games are against Philadelphia, Dallas, Minnesota, New Orleans and Seattle.

The Redskins also dealt with injuries at safety during Sunday’s 26-24 win over San Francisco. Montae Nicholson left with a shoulder injury before returning, and Stefan McClure suffered a hyperextended left knee. Safety Deshazor Everett already was out with a hamstring injury; he’s expected to practice this week.

Ingram and Kamara combined for 189 yards on 35 carries in the Saints’ win on Sunday. And while they couldn’t salt away the game by running it late, they won it by running it early and often, which makes you realize the Saints were loaded at running back and just couldn’t come up with anything for Peterson to do.

I told you all, he’s still got the juice, Ingram said after hearing what Peterson was doing to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in his first game as a Cardinal.

That same year, about 530 miles away, Brentwood High School in Tennessee posted its best ever season, going 14-1 and winning the football team’s first ever state championship. The team set school records with 5,432 yards of offense and 3,085 rushing yards, while its 384 points were 2nd in school history.

And there is little doubt that Brentwood’s incredible season would have been possible without one of its player’s fathers coming aboard as offensive coordinator: Les Steckel.

Their offense is advanced beyond what other people do, the opposing head coach of Riverdale High School said the week leading up to the title game. It looks like it’s being run by someone that knows a little something more than the rest of us.

They didn’t. In a night of surprises, that play was the biggest. Everyone went nuts. Commentators, fans, and even former players all remarked on Twitter that they’d never seen the play before.

To me, the 2-point conversion we ran looks like a merging of the wingback reverse and a classic Split T option, perhaps one of the criss-cross reverse plays that Faurot ran, (and that SB Nation broke down in 2015).

He then bounced around in assistant positions, and in 1997, he came to Tennessee with the Oilers/Titans as offensive coordinator.

I used the search tool in Pro Football Reference, and sure enough I found that in 1999, the Titans unsuccessfully ran the Howard-Miller-Trubisky play on a 2-point conversion, with Frank Wycheck in the Miller role and Steve McNair at quarterback.