Each autumn, the NFL's second week arrives as a kind of reckoning — a moment when the noise of opening day begins to settle into something more legible. Analysts across the major networks are weighing the Giants against the Rams, the Bengals against the Texans, and a field of teams seeking redemption after stumbling out of the gate. It is the oldest ritual in American sport: the attempt to impose reason on a game that reserves the right to confound it.