Which isn’t to say the Steelers-Redskins game wasn’t interesting! It confirmed some real fears about the 2016 Redskins: That they would struggle to run the ball and stop the run, that Kirk Cousins would be inordinately important to each week’s outcome, that Josh Norman alone wouldn’t transform the defense into an elite unit, that my bold Draft Kings strategy of loading up on Redskins receivers won’t necessarily pay for my retirement.

But still, let’s not get crazy. This is a week-to-week league, and if you judged last year’s season by an opening home loss to the Dolphins, you would have missed a lot of good weeks. Thus, here are five overreactions to avoid on this Tuesday:

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1) The Redskins can’t win a big game in prime time

There are plenty of alarming stats on this one, and I’ve trafficked in them myself. The Redskins are 2-15 at FedEx Field in Monday night games? Wretched. They’re 5-20 in primetime games since Joe Gibbs left the second time? Yuck. These are amazing, ridiculous numbers, and you’d be crazy not to notice them.

But let’s not start assuming this is something baked into the souls of the actual players on this roster. Think about it: the two biggest non-playoff games the Redskins have played in the last five years both came in prime time: Division showdowns for playoff berths with the Cowboys in 2012, and the Eagles in 2015. The Redskins won both. They played terrifically both times.

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Are those wins as significant as a 2000 home “Monday Night Football” loss to the Titans? I would humbly submit that the new ones matter a bit more.

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Yes, Jay Gruden’s outfit hasn’t always excelled with the country watching, and Monday marked the second straight humbling performance on national TV. Gruden is now 2-5 in prime-time games, which is poor. But it isn’t all that much worse than his 11-16 mark in non-primetime games. There, that feels better, right?

2) Bashaud Breeland is toast

I’ve lost track of how many times Breeland has said his goal is to be the No. 1 cornerback in the league. He’s said it twice in my presence, at the very least.

“I’m trying exceed the point of where everybody’s putting me,” he said last month. “I’m trying to become the number one corner in the league and do what I can to become that, leave a legacy.”

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Lofty goals are neat, but realism has its advantages. Just be the best Bashaud you can be. Avoiding a public disaster should rank ahead of clinching “best-in-the-world” status.

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Still, the hand-wringing about Breeland on Tuesday morning seems a bit much. The guy torturing him Monday night happens to actually be the best receiver in the league, a guy who averaged more than eight catches and better than than 116 yards a game in 2015. So eight catches for 126 yards — Brown’s line on Monday — was pretty similar to his average over the past 16 games. He did what he almost always does, because he’s really, really good. And on his longest catch of the night, Breeland had great position and a chance at a breakup. One finger a few inches in the wrong direction shouldn’t cause panic.

“It was a freaky night,” Breeland said after the game. “It was ticky tacky, man. I can’t hang my head over it. All I can do is get better.”

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Maybe he won’t. But you wouldn’t judge opposing batters only on their appearances against Max Scherzer. And Breeland’s favorite target, Dez Bryant, is about to come to town.

3) The bloom is off Scot McCloughan

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For all the talk of the general manager’s drafting and scouting eye, his best work last year came during the season, not before it. It was the series of mid-stream pickups — who helped lead a playoff push — that really boosted McCloughan’s local stock.

Will he do it again? He already brought in Cullen Jenkins after Tuesday’s loss, and you can bet that won’t be the only change between now and January.

But the bigger point is that McCloughan’s arrival was supposed to signify a gradual, patient rebuild of a desolate franchise. I’ve worried for months that last year’s unexpected success will muck up that process, creating a faulty sense that the future is now, rather than being in the future — which is where the future ought to stay. Panicking after one September loss to a Super Bowl contender is the sort of thing that prompted all those bad Redskins habits of the past: Firings and advisers and ice cream deliveries and quick fix ideas that make matters worse. Stay patient about that whole adult-in-charge thing. Which reminds me…

4) Colt McCoy should get a shot

The first Redskins-related words I heard this morning came from a caller on 106.7 The Fan, who wondered why McCoy hadn’t gotten a chance to spark the offense Monday night. This, a few months after Cousins ripped up Washington’s passing record book while leading the Redskins to their second division title this century.

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Look, no one is a bigger Colt McCoy fan than I am. He’s played well when he’s gotten the chance. He’s been an ideal teammate. He’s one of the better backups in the NFL. He once saw me accidentally throw a Ping-Pong ball into a trash can, and he didn’t mock me. Well, he sort of of mocked me.

But the Redskins aren’t paying Kirk Cousins almost $20 million this season to find out if McCoy can play. This season is partly a referendum on the starting quarterback, on whether Cousins is the long-term answer. And honestly, if he isn’t, Redskins fans should breathe a sigh of relief that the team opted for a one-year test rather than a long-term commitment.

The only way to know for sure is to play Cousins, then play him more, and then play him again. If they could play him 30 games under the franchise tag, that’d be great. This season is not a referendum on Colt McCoy. Please don’t ever call local radio stations and advocate a change under center. At least not until November.

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5) ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT ROBERT GRIFFIN III

Look, no one is a bigger fan of using RGIII’s name to generate page views than I am. But the former quarterback went to Cleveland and suffered a catastrophic injury almost immediately. Maybe that’s not the time to revisit the Cousins-vs.-Griffin debate.

And yet I woke up Tuesday morning to this message from one of my long-time readers, an insanely devoted Griffin fan who has found it impossible to root for Cousins.

“You like that?” he asked me.

“Man, lotttttta nerve to say that in this of all weeks,” I responded maturely, referencing Griffin’s struggles.

“Doesn’t really change the fact that he stinks,” he responded back, referring to Cousins.

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I mean, perhaps in eight weeks I will look silly for saying this, and Cousins will have been proven to be a fraud. But I would submit that one week is maybe too early to make that call, and that previous allegiances to a failed experiment shouldn’t factor into your evaluation. Last year’s fan wars can stay in the past. Cousins is competing against himself right now, not the 2012 draft class.