OK. Are the Packers this good, or are the Redskins simply that bad?

It's two games into the season and the Packers have scored 65 points. Their opponents have managed six.

Ahman Green leads the NFL in rushing with 273 yards. Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila leads the league with four sacks (tied with Seattle's Chad Brown), and the Packers' total of 12 is also an NFL-best.

Brett Favre and Bill Schroeder celebrate their TD pass Monday

Also in 120 minutes of football, the Redskins have scored three points. Their opponents have rolled up 67. 

Jeff George has thrown for just 168 yards in two weeks and has tossed three interceptions. In two games offensively, the team has racked up 16 first downs.

Somewhere in between?

"We can be dominating," Brett Favre reasoned after tossing touchdowns No. 3, 4 and 5 on the year, a sixth taken away from Antonio Freeman by 'Skins rookie corner Fred Smoot just before halftime. "I still get excited about a Monday night game."

"We're just getting our butts kicked," George said. "Two games, three points, Monday Night Football. It's embarrassing."

So maybe the Packers are this good. And perhaps the Redskins simply are this bad.

Either way, it's a far cry from just 12 months ago. The Packers had dropped their opener at home to the Jets, then traveled to Buffalo and took a beating not reflected by the 27-18 final. The Redskins were the talk of football last September, and new owner Daniel Snyder was supposed to have opened his pocketbook wide enough to carry the Redskins to the Super Bowl. {INSERT_RELATED}

The Packers rallied to finish 9-7, and still seem to be building on that momentum, having now won six straight games dating back to their own Monday nightmare in Carolina (next week's opponent) last November. The Redskins flatlined to 8-8, a mediocre disappointment that could be a benchmark in 2001 after scoring just one field goal in the opening two weeks.

Even better than the Packers' 2-0 start is the NFC Central's overall struggles. Minnesota has not been as inept as Washington, but they share the same 0-2 record; Detroit's Ty Detmer threw seven interceptions in Cleveland Sunday as the Lions also skidded to 0-2; Tampa Bay, the supposed favorite, labored to beat an impotent Cowboys team starting a rookie at QB in his first NFL game; the Bears, 1-1 and now with Jim Miller as their starting passer, could well be the most impressive team of the lot.

A good start is magnified in a season that might hold a mere four playoff berths in the NFC, pending the commissioner's efforts this week to move the Super Bowl back a week and maintain a full 12-team slate. And in the entire NFC, only St. Louis has played and won two games (New Orleans and Tampa had byes after opening wins).

So back to our original question: this good or that bad? Definitely somewhere in between. The Redskins' talent on both sides of the ball makes their slow start even more puzzling, and the Packers seemed to have a lot of question marks (overall health? wide receiver play? Bubba Franks? the D-line?) just four weeks ago. Of course, two wins like these first two go a long way toward answering most of them.