What if.....week 1 Chargers.

[MileHighGrowler]

I don't think it would have changed the season except for one additional win on the record. Remember that when this team beat Pitt and Houston there was a cry about the morale boost and the confidence the team now had, and an expectation they'd pee in Baltimore's frosted flakes. But they didn't. In fact, they got trounced mercilessly. So I don't think a win in the first game would have changed a thing. In fact it may have even had a more negative effect of people believing they'd arrived after just one win. It's an interesting what-if, but this exercise could be conducted ad nauseum about every close call every year and usually just serves to show how close the team was, even if quite far away.