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"FacebookPinterestGetty Images\n\n Welcome to the Ball Baron, where we break down the finer points of Sunday's NFL action.\n\n I watched Andrew Luck play a full game yesterday and it was clear to me that Andrew Luck\u2014even after his difficult Week 1 outing against Chicago\u2014is a very good NFL quarterback right now, this instant. When Andrew Luck is your quarterback, you inherently believe that good things will happen, rather than praying for good things to happen. And that's pretty much the key difference between teams that have a chance and teams that don't.\n\n It was a good day for rookie quarterbacks yesterday. Luck drove his team for the winning field goal in under thirty seconds. Robert Griffin III would have won if Josh Morgan wasn't a complete imbecile. Russell Wilson and the Seahawks curb-stomped the Cowboys. Brandon Weeden hung over 300 yards on the Bengals and didn't throw four picks, which was nice. And Ryan Tannehill won! Yes, even the sun shines on a Tannehill's ass occasionally. Yesterday was as clear a sign as ever that the idea of giving rookie QBs time to adjust to the NFL is hopelessly outdated. We will never again see a rookie QB ride the bench for as long as Aaron Rodgers or Steve McNair did way back when. More important, we should never again assume every rookie QB will struggle out of the gate. That's over now. Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco and Cam Newton and Sam Bradford and Andy Dalton have all disproven it. In fact, judging by yesterday, both Bradford and Bucs QB Josh Freeman proved more in their rookie seasons than they did in their second seasons. It was the second season, for each player, that was the anomaly. The rookie season held up as a truer statement of their abilities.\n\n Rookies QBs don't struggle out of the gate anymore, nor should they be expected to. College offenses have adopted too many pro-style wrinkles and pro offenses have adopted too many college-style wrinkles for a rookie QB to take a full year to \"learn an offense.\" And, as so many have already noted, the rules now in place to protect QBs mean that rookies are in far less danger of getting pummeled into oblivion, of having their psyches irrevocably altered thanks to one 50-sack season. Rookie QBs don't have to fear the NFL anymore, and that makes a big difference.\n\n So you shouldn't feel bad for judging a rookie QB right from the get-go. There's already so much potential being realized (and squandered) that your snap judgment of a rookie QB is far more likely to be accurate than it was ten years ago. Griffin looks amazing because Griffin IS amazing. Weeden looks lost at times and will probably continue to look lost at times. Many of these players already are what they're supposed to be. There's a fan-fulfilling prophecy to some of this. If everyone shits on Ryan Tannehill from the get-go, it's probably not gonna do wonders for his long-term confidence. But when a city and franchise spread their legs wide for someone like RGIII, he certainly seems secure out there on the field. These are career paths that now get decided in a matter of weeks, and then are dutifully followed. What you see with Griffin and Luck and many others is what you're going to get. And if you're a Colts or Skins fan, well then that's awfully reassuring.\n\n SELF-LOATHING FANBASE OF THE WEEK: Chiefs.\n\n This team has been outscored 75-41 in the first two weeks of the season. I don't know why we thought things would be any different, given that Romeo Crennel is the coach, Matt Cassel is the QB, and Scott Pioli is watching your mom shower via hidden camera. But there were an awful lot of people who thought this team was a chic pick to maybe make a playoff run in 2012. Man, that feels like a bad idea now. There's nothing worse than making a bold prediction and then IMMEDIATELY having it disproven. Couldn't this team have waited another four weeks or so to make everyone look bad?\n\n TEBOW OF THE WEEK: The NFC West\n\n The NFC West has been so terrible for so long that when a team from the NFC West plays well, it almost feels like a happy accident instead of a sign of true quality. But all four NFC West teams won yesterday. That only happened once all of last season. And I'm pretty sure some of these teams are, like, good! Even the Cardinals have managed to salvage Kevin Kolb, which is like making a fantastic dinner out of the three remaining items in your pantry. Those items? Canned beets, Marmite, and dried kelp. The NFC West is now a goliath. I fear it.\n\n ANTI-TEBOW OF THE WEEK: Greg Schiano\n\n Well, it was nice for seven quarters. Now we can all go back to not being excited that Schiano has \"changed the culture\" in Tampa Bay. It's still Tampa. You can only do so much.\n\n GIF OF THE DAY: Andy Lee's bulging dick.\n\n With that kind of package, he could be an Olympic rower!.\n\n FIVE THINGS BOSTON FANS WILL BLAME FOR THE PATRIOTS LOSS\n\nThat Dodge Dart ad. Brady's hair is too pretty!TOO MUCH FACKIN' BEER-AH AND CHICKEN IN THE CLUBHOUSE!Scab refsPlaying so much pickup basketballGostkowski"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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