Mike Tomlin offers theory to explain Week 1's record-breaking offensive explosion across the NFL

If you thought Week 1 in the NFL was explosive, you thought right. Per multiple metrics, Sunday’s Week 1 slate and the entire set of games leading up to Sunday night were historic in terms of scoring. Entering “Sunday Night Football” between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, Week 1 was the highest scoring in the NFL since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger by average with 50.1 combined points per game. Per NBC, Sunday’s slate alone marked the highest-scoring Week 1 Sunday since the merger. Leading the way was the barn-burner between the Bears and Panthers in which Chicago secured…