NFL Week 10 Takeaways.
Broncos Vs Bills
Does Anyone Remember The Days When The Sean Payton-Russell Wilson Marriage Of Play Style And Coaching Looked Like An Abject Failure And The Broncos Needed To Clean the House And Start Over? Well, The worst team In Football For the First Quarter of The Season Just Beat The Two Preseason Favorites In the Conference In Back Bak Games(Three Straight Total)? The Bills Almost Pulled Away With A Late Win. A Josh Allen Scramble With 2:00 Minutes Left In The Game. Will Lutz Missed The Initial Field Goal Attempt From 41 Yards.
Nevertheless, A penalty For Too Many Men On the field Cost The Bills And Would Give Lutz Another Shot At Even Closer Range. The Bills’ Offense Suffered Too Many Setbacks In The Form of Turnovers, And Even Though Josh Allen Overcame Two Interceptions To Bring The Bills Ahead Late, The Broncos. The Bills’ Secondary, Riddled With Injuries, gave up A Big PAss Interference Call To Set The Broncos Up In Field Goal Late. Russell Wilson is 24/29, has 193 Passing yards, two Touchdowns, And a That's 117.4 Passer Rating. The Big Play Interference Call Doesn’t Count Against His Yards But That Count On The Passing Grade. Josh Allen Just 15/26 For 177 With A 59.3 Passer Rating. I Always Write About The Bills, And I Haven’t Seen This Paltry Of A straight line From Allen Ever. “We know Who We Can Be,” Russell Said To ESPN. “ We Got A Long Way To Go, But We Know Who We Can Be.” The Touchdown Pass Between Wilson And Cortland Sutton In The Back Of The Endzone May Christen A COMING Out Party For The Offense. The Incredible Part About The Play: Wilson Should Not Have Attempted That Pass, Much Less Complete The Score. With Pressure Barreling Down On Him, Wilson Scramble Back A Loft The Ball Skyward left To Hang In The Air For An Eternity For Any Active Player To Snag. The bAll Traveled 37.8 Yards In Air Distance According To Next Gen Stats. The Incredible PArt For The offense On That Play, Cortland Starts Dragging His Toes Long Before The Pass Even Arrives In His Gloves; Most Receivers I’ve Watch Start Their Drag after The Catch. Sutton Completes The PAss With Just A Sliver Of Difference Between His Toe And The Sideline.
Teams Around The League probably wished Denver Had Sold The Farm Because Then Cortland Sutton, The Broncos’ Big Play Receiver, Would Prove An Incredible Pass Catching Option, But His Toe Tapping Excellence Served The Broncos This Game. “Ecstatic” Cortland Sutton Said About The Win, “ To Beat A Team That’s Suppose To Represent Our [Conference]…. We Know What We’re Capable Of.”
Cowboys Vs. Giants
Ceedee Lamb Says He's The Best Wide Receiver In The Game, and I'm. Buying In With Him On That Proclamation Right Now.
I Haven't Written Anything On The Cowboys Since Maybe Week One After They Thrashed The Giants' Opening Night. Now, I am Unable To Ignore another Beatdown Between The Two Clubs. We Can't Keep Allowing The Cowboys To Run Over This Hapless Giants team Anymore( Thankfully, They Don't See Each Other Again). This Game Didn't Start As The Roughshod All Signs Pointed. The Giants Started Rookie Tommy Devito. The Names Sound Like An Extra In A Martin Scorsese Movie, Last Time The Giants Had Daniel Jones—Nothing Special But Jones Lead The Giants To
the Playoffs Last Season. The Game Started Scoreless As The Giants Halted The Cowboys at The Foot Of the Red Zone With A Powerful Stop That Cancelled A 10 Play 74 Yard Drive. The Cowboys Would Punt On Their Second Opportunity To Open Up Another Can Of "Butt Whooping" On The New York Giants. By The Second Quarter, Dak Had One Touchdown, An Interception, And an 8/11 Start, And The Cowboys Possessed A 7-0 Lead. By The Half, Time The Cowboys Ran The Score Up 28-0 With Three Straight Touchdown Possessions, Starting With Dak To Jake Ferguson, Another to Brandin Cooks And A Scramble touchdown by Dak Prescott. All The Giants Hope For The Pain to End. The final second Ran Off The Clock, But Not Before The Cowboys Packed Another 20 Points. The Cowboys' Demolition Of The Giants Came Across As A Real Version Of Madden Loss Vent(watch Viral Videos Of Fans Playing Video Games To Coup With A Big Loss) After The Cowboys Ate A Big Loss to the Eagles. Ceedee Lamb Went Off Against A Giants Secondary. Fresh Off 11 Catch 191 Game Against The Eagles, Ceedee Put Up Another 11 Catches For 151, 13.7 Per Catch And One Touchdown. Ceedee Made Some Earth Shattering Catches This Game, Including A One-Handed Catch Over Deonte Banks.
Brandin Cooks Took The Giants secondary To Tour. Former Texans Came Over To Dallas As A "Steal" In The Offseason, But He's Not Lived Up To The Hype, just 165 Yards The Week Against The Giants. Cooks Eclipse That Mark In One Game, 11 Catches For 173 And A Touchdown. Micheal Gallop Added 2 Catches For 70 Yards In His Best Game This Season. If Dak Didn't Go Off On The Giants, The media Would Drill Him; Prescott Lit Into The Giants 25/35 For 404 Passing Yards, Four Touchdown 138.5 Passer Rating and One Interception. The Cowboys' Defense Racked Up About Five Sacks Plowing Over The Giants Offensive Line. Surprisingly, One Interception Off Giants's Quarterback Tommy Devito.
The Giants, Playing With Their Third Starting Quarterback Of The Season, Gave Off The Energy That Tried To Win This Game For Dignity's Sake. Devito Only Managed 86 Yards In The End; on 14/27 Passing Yards, Devito brought the Giants Three Second Half Scores. The Run Game For The Giants The Offense Needed Some positive Takeaways—Saquon Barkley's 13 Carries And 66 Rushing Yards, Produced 111 Yards As A Team Total.
This Win Doesn't Move The Scale for The Cowboys. Dallas Remains Amongst The Lodge Of Super Bowl Contenders In The NFC. No One Except Maybe The Eagles Wants To Play Dallas At Their Best. Nevertheless, A Win Over The Giants Still Leaves The Sense The Cowboys Rest A Notch Below The Rest Of the NFC Group Below The Lions And The Niners.
Devito Won't Create Any Added Confusion In The Giants' Off-season Plans, A New QB Looms In New York Like Batman.
49ers Vs. Jaguars
The Recent Struggles Of Number One Pick Bryce Young Have Taking The Focus Away From Another Number One Pick Not Living Up To Expectations.
No one Talks About Last Year's First Overall Pick, Travon Walker, Who Hasn't "Busted" Just Yet, But Surely He's Not Mentioned among the Best Passers In The League. Somehow, The Jags Still Boost Of A Top Four Defense Without An Aidan Hutchinson Or Sauce Gardner Level Talent On The Roster Instead of Walker.
Walker Has Four Sacks And 25 Total Pressures On The Season, Nothing Special. What's Most Disappointing, Outside Of Edge Rusher Josh Allen, The Jags Struggle To Generate Pressures. The Jags Ranked 19th In Pass Rush Win Rate Hinges On Good Coverage. The Jaguar's Secondary Features Three Players Ranked In PFF's Top 20 Corner Going InTo Week 10, Easily The Most Of Any Team In The NFL, Including Cornerback Darius Williams At Number One.
The Jags Have The Opportunity To Solidify Themselves As contenders with a win Over The Niners. The Real AFC Contender In The State Of Florida Has Emerged.
If The Dolphins have Come out Of Their Disguise As Top Ten Team In The League After They've Failed To Beat Any Team With A Winning Record Thus Far, The Jags On The Opposite End Of Florida Have One Victory Against The Bills And Face A Niners Team Still In Contention But On A Slide. The Niners Haven't Drifted Completely Off The Track On This Game Skid—Brock Purdy's Still The Best Quarterback Regarding EPA Per Play And Success Rates. Analysts question Purdy's Value when The Niners succeed and Win, But When The Team loses, The Fingers Point To Purdy. Right Now, Purdy Struggles In Crunch Time. To His Credit, Purdy Has Put The Niners In a Position To Win, But He Struggles In Crunch Time, The Fourth Quarter Of A Game Within Seven Points, Just 23.1 Passer Rating. Purdy's Still Only In His Second Season. I Don't Know Why Anyone Expects Him To Meet The Lofty Super Bowl Projections Just Yet. With So Much Early Success, The Niners Haven't Exposed Purdy To Enough Close Games For Him To Feel His Way Through The Ebbs And Flow Of Football. Purdy Started His Career 12-0 In The Regular Season, Three Losses Or Even One, Thats New Adversity.
The Statement Win Today Belongs To The 49ers, Who Channeled Their Inner Stringer Bell From The Wire, "I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up ."The 49er Clubber The Jags 34-3. This Loss For The Jags Fall On The Head And Shoulders Of Trevor Lawrence. I Can't Speak For Every Football Fan, But I'm Waiting for him To Play Like He's The Next Great Quarterback In This League. Lawrence Turned The Ball Over Twice. Nick Bosa And Chase Young Combined On A Sack That knocked the Ball Loose From Lawrence'a Hands In The First Half Near Mid Field, marking A Long Day Of Ball Security For The Jags Offense. The JAgs Lots A Chance To Pull The Game Within One Score.
Chase Young Put His Hands on His Niners Debut With The Sack Fumble Recovery.
The Jags Three Turnovers In The Second Half, Two Interceptions By Lawrence. Add Lawrence's Name To The List Of Number One Pick Struggling To Gain Traction. Lawrence All The Abilities But None Of The Talent To Play The Position. The Jags Passing Almost Come About Or Generate Despite Him. The Niners Deployed A Clear Game Plan For Lawrence, "Early On Just Giving Him Different Looks," 49ers Linebacker Fred Warner Said To The Media After The Game. "Make Him Pat That Ball"
The Offense Suffered A Later Fumble As The Team Moved The Ball Into Scoring Position. With The Game Out Of Reach, The Jags Drive 75 Yards Into The End Zone. The Drive features a Big 39 Yard Connection between Lawrence And Christian Kirk, But Lawrence Struggled To Consistently Complete Passes, And Kirk Fumbles On The Run. The Niners Turn Quick, And 7 Plays Later, 81 Yards After The Niners Punch In Another Touchdown On The Boards To Go Up 27-3 And Ice The Game. Lawrence Finished 17/28 185 With 0 Touchdowns and Two Picks. The Jags First Three Drives Produced 23 Yards Over 14 Plays And One Fumble. Lawrence's Connection with Christian Kirk Created Some Motion On The Finals Jags Drive Of The Second Half That Helped The Jags Grab A Field Goal Before The Half But Nothing Else During The Game and The Fumble Near The Goal Line.
The Niners Produce A Stunning Bounce Back Win. The Niners Offense Produced 10 Before Settling A Lil Bit. Brock Purdy Didn't The Jags Secondary Too Testy, In a Bounce Back Game Buddy Finished An Easy 19/26 296 Passing Yards 11.4 Per Attempt Three Touchdowns and A Blistering 148.9 Passer Rating.
Purdy Completed Some Of Those "Purdy" Throw. He Defies The Rules Of Quarterbacking By Throwing Across His Body, But When He Can Locate Guys Like Brandin Aiyuk Over Four Jags In The Back Of The End—on The Niners First Touchdown—And Again Or A Big 20 Yard Completion, Who Can Sweat The Technique. "I'm Not Necessarily Proud Of That Play," Purdy said, Speaking Of The Risky Pass," I Gotta Be Smart With The Ball." Purdy Completed Three Touchdowns Of 10+ Air Yards, So He Finished The Game Better Than The Risk He Took.
Risk Or Not The Pass Purdy Put InnThe Direction Of Tight End George Kittle Work Well For The Offense. Kittle Caught Three Passes For 116 and A Touchdown.
The Niners Running Game Found The Jaguar's Impressive Run Defense all Too Welcoming. Led by Christian McCaffrey, Who Collected 94 Yards On The Ground, The Niners Finished With 144 yards And One Touchdown On An End Around By Deebo Samuel. Both Needed This Win. The Jags Could've Threaten The Chiefs For The Top Not to Mention Misspelling Any Notion Of Them As A "Pretender ."The Niners Came away With The Win. Nick Bosa Finished With A Big Game, 2.5 Sacks, And Pressure That Forced an Errant Throw And an interception. "A good Reset," Bosa Said After The Game.
The Niners' Defense Retuning To Form Matters The Most Because Everything They Want to Do Starts With The Pass Rush Down. The Niners Hold The West In Their Palms Heading Into The Final Stretch Of The Season. The Jags Still Rule The South, But The Texans, The Texans Smell Vulnerability And Their Coming.
Panthers Vs. Bears
One the Only Games Of Week Ten With No Effect on The Playoff Standing, The Panthers and Bear Squared with A "W" For The Bear Regardless Of The Outcome.
Fate Has Tethered The Panthers And The Bears Together For least this Season And Maybe For Years To Come. Everyone With An Ear Tune To Football Knows The Bears Traded The Number Pick In The 2023 Draft To the Panthers, Who In Turned Used The Pick On Alabama Quarterback Bryce Young.
Only God, Father Time, And Hindsight Have Never Taken The Bow On Loss, But You Take Young 9/10 Times With That Pick Even If, For Now, The Projections Haven't Proven True, About To Say The Least. The School Of Decision Intelligence Has A Rule, "Only Judge A Decision Based On What Was Known At The Time."
Sunday Against The Colts, The Panthers Produced Negative Eight Yards Passing At One Point. Young Threw Two Pick Sixes(6) And Lost Over 27 Expected Points Added Due To Turnovers and Sacks. Young Threw Three Picks Total On The Game, And I Think Maybe For The First Time In HIS Football life That He's Consistently Not The Best Player On The Field. The Struggles Appear To Have No Effect On The Panthers Offensive Identity Because The Team Drops Back To Pass 69% Of The Time Because The Twam Plays From Behind So Much.
Eventually, Young worked out For The Panthers, If Only For A Short Era. Justin Fields Didn't Start His Career In Aspiring Fashion, Remember Him? A lot Of Football Fans Looked Forward To Seeing Justin Fields Enter His Third and The Evolution He Would Take On, And Fans Have To Wonder When We'll See Him Again. Fields missed His Fourth Straight Game With A "right thumb injury." And Which Justin Will We Get When He Returns? On Thursday Night In Chicago, Tyson Bagent, The Division Two Product, Made His Third Start, And He's Had A Rough Couple Of Weeks. Bagent Has Thrown Five Picks In The Past Two Games, 3 Against The Saints, and Lost A Fumble To New Orleans. Those Looking Ahead To The Bears's Draft Smile Whenever Bagent Takes a Dropback, Something Inauspiciously Congruent Happens To The Teams Draft Odds. "The Picks Going To Be High." Bears's Commentator Alex Brown Said, "We Control The Whole Draft."
This Matchup Between Two Of The worst teams In Football Had The Offensive Consistency Of A puddle of Water, Or Maybe This Scoring Affair Played As Anyone Would Expect. Matt Eberflus Facing His Former Boss Frank Reich From Their Time With The Indianapolis Colts Neither Experiencing The Glory of Sucess Apart. Both Have Seen Better days.
What More Would Anyone Expect From A Game That Pit Bryce Young Versus The Bears? The Nice Throws The Two Rookies Completed Came Through The Screen With a "Plot Twist" Level Surprise, Like "Hey, I Didn't Know You Could Do That." Bryce Young Completes One Of Those "Big Throws" To Newly Signed Panther's Wide Receiver Mike Strachan (Familiar Name) Along The Sideline. Strachan's Catch Of 45 Yards Made Up Nearly 80% Of The Panthers Receiving Through The Second Quarter. Bagent Converted a Big Fourth And 4 Over The Middle Under Heavy Rush To Put The Bear At The Foot Of The Red Zone Before The Bears Offense Settles For Three Points. These Two Quarterbacks Share The Same Draft But Were Nowhere Bear The Same Strata In Class Coming Into The 2023 Draft. Young Went Number One And Entered The League as A Transcendent Talent. A Five-Star Recruit Who Led Alabama To College Football Playoffs Entered the Panthers' Camp As The Starter: Tyson Bagents, A Zero Star Recruit In High School Who Played at Sheperd. Bagent led the Bears On One Last Final Field Goal Drive at The End Of The 2nd Quarter, Going 5/6 43, Passing Yards, and If I had to Choose Between The Two—which Thankfully I Don't— I would Have To Choose Bagent.
I Thought Bryce Young Performed Some Masterful Feats With His Legs, Converting Two First Downs Early And As "Fresh" Sight Young Produced Moving The Chains With His Feet. No One Wants To See His Slight Frame Put In A Dangerous Position. Coming Out of The Half, The Bears's Offense Gets Tired Of Settling For Field Goals And Break The Goal Line On A Masterful Drive. With Good Field Position For The First Time All Game, Tyson Bagent Attempts Three Passes, Scrambles Once, and Running Back D'Onta Foreman Punches In The Game's First Offensive Touchdown. The Panthers Put The First Points On The Board With A Punt Return Touchdown Midway Through The First Quarter. That Touchdown Would Prove The Last Points Scored In The Game and All The Points The Bears Needed To Edge The Panthers. Bears Win 16-13. The Panthers Tack On A Field After Half Time And Miss A Potential Game Tying 59 Yard Attempt. This Thursday night game Produced Very Few Major Storylines For Ingest. Bryce Young Played Along The Line Of His Average Game. Young Finished 21/38, 185 Passing Yards, 4.9. The Panthers Delivered No Run Game Whatsoever, Just 43 Yards On The Ground, 18 Of Which Belong To Bryce Young On Scrambles. The Lack Of Success On The Ground leads To The Panthers struggling To Convert 3rd Downs, Just 3/15 But 3/3 On Fourth Down.
Tyson Bagent, Who Delivered His Second Win As A Bears Starter, Had A Good Game Manager Game. The Undrafted rookie Finished 20/33 with 162 Passing Yards, zero Touchdowns, and Zero Interceptions. "Going Out With A Win. That's Fantastic For The Team," Bagent Said, "If This Is It For Me, Nothing Changes With Preparation." Bagent Knows His Role As A Stand In Until Fields Returns. One Positive: Neither Turnover Prone quarterback Threw An Interception, Especially Auspicious Considering The Turnover Bounties They Suffered The Previous Weeks. The Big Takeaway The Bears Expect To Get Justin Fields Back In The Coming Weeks, "This Is A Big Week To Make That Evaluation," Bears Head Coach Matt Eberflus Said, "When Justin's Healthy, He's Our Starter." The Bears' Offense Started To Get Justin Going Before Injury, And The Hope Now He Returns To Form For The Final Stretch of The Season. Bagent Has Won A Full Game More Than Fields. After The Bears Secured The First Pick In Last Year's Draft, Some Analysts suggested the Bears trade Justin Fields and Draft Bryce Young. Bears GM Ryan Poles Said He'd Evaluate Every Option And Make The Most Advantageous Choice. Then, the Bears Ultimately Traded The Pick To The Panthers. The Moved Proved Best For Now, Given How Young Has Struggle.
The Bears Will Enter The Draft With Same Dilemma At The Top Of The Draft, with The Number One Pick(Mostly Likely) And Questions About Fields's Legitimacy As The Starter Into The Future.
Young Joins A Long List Of Number Picks Who Have Struggled To Start Their Careers, and He's Become A Cautionary Reason For Guys Like Caleb Williams to Make Comments about Returning To School Rather Than Land In A Bad Situation.
Bryce Young Had This To Say In His Recent Testament To The Struggles Embracing The Number One Pick, "It's Very Frustrating." Bryce Young," It's Not Going To Help You Next Week. But We've Got To Be Able To Use That Channel that[Frustration] In Some Away." Media Officials Also Pressed Young About What He And The Team Need To Change To Improve Their Outcomes, Bryce Had This To Offer.
Browns Vs. Ravens
Ravens When A Team Forces The Ravens To "Go The Distance," Will The Ravens Meet The Fight The Fight.
The Ravens Have Played The Part Of The Best Team In Football For The Longest Amount Of Weeks of Football This Season. What Do I Mean? Jon Harbaugh's Team Possesses The Best Point Differential In The NFL By A +35 Margin Between The Ravens At One And The Bills At Two. Lamar Jackson Leads The League In Completion Percentage, Which I Never Thought Would Happen, "Nothing Change, Just The Percentage." Jackson said. "I Know I Want To Be Great."
Jackson Proven He's More Selective With His Passes In This Offense. So Far Under Todd Monken, Jackson Hasn't Thrown One Deep Passing Touchdown This Season, Not That He's Needed To Go Overhead Because The Ravens Have Won Four Straight. The Ravens Also Pass The Ball at The Lowest Rate In The League(56%), tied With Their AFC North Adversary, The Cleveland Browns. Raved As Defensive Battle, This Divisional Game Came Down To The Final Possession. Deshaun Watson, Still Managing a Shoulder And His Malign Play, Stepped Into An To Earn His First Signature Win As A Browns Marks, And Fate Played Out In his But The Game Kicked Heavily In Baltimore's Favor. On The First Pass Of The Game, Watson Throws A Pick Six To Kyle Hamilton. Hamilton, The Ravens Star Safety, Jumps Directly In The Path Of an Anticipating Hamilton. The Ravens Offense Didn't Feel Daunted By The Browns Reputation. On The Ground, Keaton Mitchell Broke Free Up The Sideline On a Draw Play And Put The Ravens Up 14-0. By The Third Quarter, The Ravens Took Off To A 24-9 Lead On ODell Beckham Jr.'s Second Touchdown Catch On The Season.
The Browns' Defensive Pressure Ramped, a Myles Garrett Sack In The Third Ends A Promising Drive For The Ravens Even—The Browns Would Give The Ball Back On A Muffed Punt A Play After. Lamar Jackson Got Held In Check, 13/23 For 223, One Touchdown, Two Picks, And A Passer Sting Of Just 67.8. Easily The Most Pedestrian Game Since The Lost To Pittsburgh.
The Ravens Started a Game With An Explosive Run But Slowed Down In The Run Department. Lamar led the Team With 41 Yards On 8 Carries.
One Of Lamar's Interceptions Came On A Batted Pass. This Time, The Victimizing Lamar Jackson Landed In The Hands Of Gregory Newsome, Which He Turned Into A Pick-six. "That Pick Six, That Tip Ball," Lamar Said, Recollecting On Which Play Cost His Team The Game. The Browns's Defense Also Relegated The Ravens Offense To 25% Success Rate On Third Down.
The Browns's Special Teams's Defense Also Blocks A Field Goal Attempt.
Watson Started The Game 1/8 Passing And 7/21 Into The Third, But He Scrapped Together Two Great Scrambles. After Brown's First Touchdown Of The Game, Watson scrambled to Complete The Two Point Conversion and, Later In The Fourth, Scrambled For 16 Yard That Put The Browns In Ravens Territory On A Drive That Set A Game Winning Field Goal And A Massive Comeback. The Browns Played As Mediocre As Usual, But Jerome Ford Had A Big Game On The Ground, with 17 Carries For 107 Rushing Yards. Amari Cooper Caught 6 Passes For 98, Continuing To Prove He's Virtual Uncoverable. David Njoku Plowed Over Ravens' Defenders For 58 On 6 Catches. The Ravens Proved What I Thought All Along. Todd Monken's Offense gets more Yards Per Play Than The Browns, But When Teams Stretch The Ravens Deeper Into The PlayBook, Deeper Into Creativity, Deeper Into Their Gambit Of Runs, The Offense Will struggle. Without Using Lamar's Legs, The Ravens Offense Utilizes Very Little Else Counter Punches. The Ravens's Offense Can't Afford To Expose Lamar To Too Much Injury.
The Ravens' Offense Gained 376 To 306, And The Browns Ran 25 More Plays Overall Than The Ravens Despite Gaining Fewer Yards Per Play. The Browns's Trailed All Game Until The End.
No Team In The AFC North Wants To Lose Another Game Because It's Not Safe In A Rough Community. "We have Another. Division Opponent This Thursday," Lamar Said, Speaking Of The Quick Turn Around To Meet The Bengals. Thursday's Game In Cincy Could Determine The North. The Ravens Can't Lose That because Then The Browns Will Take Over With a Win In Week 11. The Bengals Also Can't Lose Either Or Else They Fall Out Of The Playoff Picture Almost Entirely—the Drama In The North Thickens.
Bengals Vs. Texans
The CJ Stroud Show Continued Sunday Against The Red Hot But Short-Handed Bengals. In Music, Many New Heavy Weight Acts Struggle To Maintain The Heights Of Grandeur They Set For Themselves Earlier in their Career; Even Electric Talents Like Taper Off Some.
This Weekend CJ Stroud Proved, He's Hot, And He'll Stay In The Flame. A Short-Handed Bengals Team Without Tee Higgins, But The Bengals Still Have Joe Burrow And Burrow Cane Out Shooting Looking To Keep The Bengals Win Streak Alive. The Bengals' Passing Offense Put The First Score On The Board As Burrow Found His Other Big(In-frame) Receiver Trenton Irwin. The Bengals Would Never See The Lead Again. The Bengals' Offense Would Overcome Two Massive Joe Burrow Turnovers And Tie The Game 27; All The Texans Would Pull Out In The End.
CJ Stroud, The Number Two Pick Facing Off Against His Third Number One Pick Quarterback In Three Straight Weeks, would Duel Joe Burrow. Stroud Crushed The Bengals' Defense Going Deep, And Over The Middle, Stroud Completed 5/7 Of Passes For 146 On Attempts Between The Range Of 20-30 Yards Deep. Joe Burrow Flourished With Similar Success Deep, 3/4 For 119 Yards Passing On Attempts Between 20-30. Deep Passes Would Come To Betray Should Later. On A 3rd And 3, needing Just One First Down To Seal The Deal, Stroud Targets Tank Dell Deep Along The Boundary. Stroud Placed The Ball A Little Behind Dell, Who Couldn't Make The Adjustment On The Ball. The Bengals Got The Ball Back With Two Minutes Left On The Clock, And Joe Burrow And Tyler Byod Generate A 64 Yard Pass Play To Set The Bengals Up In Field Goal Position. Burrow Finished The Game 27/40 with 347 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns And Two Interceptions. BYOD Finished With 8 Catches For 117 Yards—a Somewhat Hobbled Jamar Chase Clean Up Against The Texans Secondary. The Bengals Number One Receiver Pulled Down 5 Catches For 124 Receiving Yards, 24.8 Per Reception. The Texans' Pass Rush Ate, Sheldon Rankins and Jonathan Greenard Piled On Four Sacks.
Stroud Adds Another Prolific Game To His Rookie Resume Though He Struggled At Times Finishing 23/39 356 Passing Yards, 9.1 A Throw And A Passer Rating Of Just 87.1 One Touchdown One Pick. If Stroud Leads The Texans To The Playoffs, He Must receive MVP Consideration. "These Types of Games Come Down To Last Possession," CJ Stroud Said, "We Came In With A Mindset That We Won't Be Denied." The Texans Have To Carry That Mindset Further.
The Texans' Offense Racked up 544 Yards On A Bengals Defense That Played Well And, At Some Points In The Year Carried The Bengals. The Bengals Surrendered The First 100 Yard Houston Rusher This Season After Devin Singletary Exhausted 30 Carries For 150 Yards. The Win Helps The Texans Supplant The Chargers in The Playoffs And, What's more, Sets Up A Winner Matchup With The Jags Next Week For The AFC South. The Texans Also Own the tiebreaker with The Bengals Should Both teams fight To The End For A Wild Card Spot. The To The Texans Set The Bengals Momentum At A Stand Still. The Bengals Still Have "Caution" Written On Them As The Playoffs Approach, But Win By The Browns And Steelers Didn’t Help Their Cause For Turning Another Loss Season Into Gold.
Falcons Vs. Cardinals
The Cardinals Season Starts This Week, And No, I'm Not Saying This Metaphorically. Up To This Point In Week 10, Nothing, The Cardinals, Have Accomplished Air Better States Not Accomplished Has No Weight. The Cardinals Have Played Along To The Beat And Tune Of This Season, And They've Done Well, But This Weekend, The Cards Activate Kyler Murray As The Starter Coming Off An ACL injury In January. Before The Injury, Murray And The Cardinals Entered A Tumultuous Season. The Cards Faced High Expectations Coming Off Of A Playoff Berth, Kyler Host A Contract Hold Out Before Receiving A Near Quarter Billion In New Money. The Sequel To Events Doesn't Alway "Suck" But The Cards Couldn't Find The Magic. Defenses Caught Up To A Lot Of Kyler's Tactic in The Passing Game. "I just Think I Gain A New Level Of Resilience With This," Murray Said, "When You Go Something, You Find Out Quickly Who You Are And What You're About."
Even With Eight Games To Go, The Cards Have A World Evaluation to Perform. They'll Burn The Tape Of The Nine Weeks And Now Look To Appraise What They Have In Murray As An Asset. "I Don't Play This Game For Anyone Else," Murray Answered When asked about Him Proving Himself Coming Off Of an injury and The Rocky Season Before The Injury Struck," Me, My Family, And The People Who Believe in Me."
If I'm Going To Put My Money On Any NFC South Team To Find "Sustainability" And Reach Over The Others And Into The Playoffs—I'll Choose The Falcons, Who, Based On Share Talent, Can Make The Vaunted Leap. The Falcons Enter Week 4-5 with A Team That's Looked A 5-3 Team For Stretches But A Team Whose Vibes Tell Of A Worse Team Than 3-5. The Falcons' Defense Took A few Strays Last week For Allowing Newly Minted Quarterback Josh Dobbs to Run Free And Putting The Vikings Over. The Dobbs effect Hit The Falcons Hard, Probably Because The Defense Never Prepared For Him This Week, But The Falcons Defense Generate One Of The Better Results When Halting Offensive Conversions.
The Falcons' Defense Has Played On Par To The Steelers, Yes, The 5-3 Who Boost Of The Most Likely Playoff Contender. Instead, The Falcons Passing Game And Their Quarterback's Proclivity For Turnovers make The Falcons Rank Nonth Amongst The Worst Team In EPA Lost Per Pass Play Due To Interceptions. The Falcons' Bounty Of Negative Plays Impacts The Run Game Because If You're Not Good At Executing On One Aspect Of The Game, Your Opponents Want To Lean You Into That Aspect of The Game, In This Case Passing For The Falcons. The Falcons Offense Looks On Paper Like An Offense That Any Other Quarterback Could Succeed Operating, And On The Tombstone Of This Season, If Atlanta Fails To Make The Playoffs Should Read As Follows, "Here Lies Another Team That Unnecessarily Won Itself Out Of A Higher Chance To Draft a Quarterback ."The Falcons Won Two Of Their Final Four Games Of Last Year, Giving Desmond Ridder a Test Drive Of The Offense. The Win Threw The Falcons Out A Possible Top Four Pick and Maybe Anthony Richardson. Instead, Atlanta Draft's Bijan Robinson 8th, a World Talent, Arthur Smith, Now Desires To Use As a Decoy. Smith Desires To Maximize Bijan's "impact away from the ball can open things up." Using One Of The Most Enviable Talents In Football As A Decoy Feels Like Using A PS5 As A DVD Player. Smith's Position Feels Almost Unconscionable. The Falcons: No, my Having A Quarterback To Manage All Their Assets Feels Tantamount To Using A PS5 With an Analog TV. Kyler Murray's Return Helps The Cards Pull Away With a Late Win Over The Falcons.
Murray Shook Off Any Intrigued About His Knee Injury With An Early Touchdown Drive That Ended With A Classic Kyler Scamper. Murray's First Dalliance In This New Cards Offense, And I Don't Know How He Achieves What He Does At The Quarterback Position with His Height. So Many Diminutive Quarterbacks Struggle To Pass Over Defender's Hands, But Kyler Has The Touch. Murray Completed 8/9 Passes Over The Middle For 93 Yards On His Away To 19/32 249, But The Return Had some Sign Of Blemish With A Late Pick Over The Middle In Traffic, A Bad Throw By Murray. Murray Added 6 Carries On The Ground For 33 Yards; 12 Of Those Yards Came On Two Scrambles That Put The Cardinals' First Touchdown On The Board. As the run, the Game Remains Strong With Murray's Return. The Cardinals Finished With 122 Yards Rushing. Most Of Murray's Over The Middle Targets Went To Second Year Tight End Trey McBride, Who Caught 8 Passes For 131 Receiving Yards. Everybody Complaining About The Falcons Run Game Bear Witness. Bijan Robinson, No More Decoy, 22 Carries For 95 Rushing Yards, 4.3 A Carry and A Touchdown And He Showcased All The Dynamic Ability Shifting Through Lanes. The Falcons Finished With 184 Rushing Yards. Quarterback Taylor Chipped In 34 Yards On Scramble, But in Some See-Saw Effect, The Falcons Struggle in the Passing Game as The Running Game Elevates. Taylor Heinicke left With A Hamstring And Finished A Measly 8/15 passing for 55 yards and a touchdown. Desmond Ridder steps In And Leads The Falcons On A late-game touchdown Drive That Puts the Falcons Ahead 23-22. The 8 Play, 74 Yard Drive Featured More Runs Than Passes, But Falcons Wide Receiver Drake London forced a Big Pass Interference Call That Later Set Up A 9-yard Desmond Ridder Run For A Touchdown—the Falcons Benched Ridder This Week, And He Almost Gave The Team The Lead In The NFC South. With Over Two Minutes Left, Kyler Murray And The Cards Put Together A Quick Drive, Which Included a 3rd And 10 Converted By Way Of Kyler Murray's Legs. A 23-yard Matt Prater Field Put The Game Away For The Cards, 25-23.
"I Didn't Have Expectations," Cardinals Head Coach Jonathan Gannon Said After The Game, "I Was Just Happy The Guy Was Back Because I Know What It Took To Get Back To This Point."
Fortunately For The Falcons, who Have Now Lost Two Games In A Row Coming Down To The Last Possession, The Saints lost. The Bucs Won And The NFC South Remains At Large. For Arizona, I Hate This Win For Them In The Race For The Top Pick. On The Other Hand, The Cardinals Could Lose The Opportunity To Draft A Top Guy And Stick With Kyler Murray And Draft The Best Offensive Lineman.
Colts Vs. Patriots
The Colts Emerge From The NFL's Final International Game Of The At.500 At Astonishing 5-5 After a 10-6 Defensive Tussle With The Patriots. The Colts Have Flown Under The Radar In A Season That Looks Lost After Quarterback Anthony Richardson Suffered His Season-Ending Shoulder Injury. Instead, The Colts Find Themselves Somewhere In Shouting Distance Of The Playoffs After Handing New England An 8th Loss On The Season.
In A Matchup Between Gardner Minchew And Mac Jones Quickly Became A Battle Of Backups. Mac Jones Finished The Game 15/20, 170 Passing Yards, but A Fourth Quarter Interception Became All She Wrote. Thirty Of Jones's Passing Yard Came On A Short Pass And Run To Demario Douglas With The Colts Playing Deep. Jones Also Took Five Sacks Before Leaving The Game.
With Jones Struggling To Generate Thing Resembling Component Offense, Belichick Pulls With The Colts Leading 10-6.
The Game Ended With A Colts's Pick Of Patriots' Quarterback Bailey. Zappe, Who Took Jones Places After The Incumbent Starter Lost Favor With Coach Belichick After a Myriad Of Offensive Trouble Emblazoned By Jones's Rough Interception. Zappe, Running The Two Minute Drill For The First Maybe All Season, Pulls Out The Old "Fake Punt," And The Play Start To Look Promising Right Before Multiple Colts Surfaced In The Target Area, and Rodney Thomas Came Away With The Ball. Julian Blackmon Picked Off Mac Jones. Colts Quarterback Gardner Minchew Finished 18/28 On Completions, 194 Passing Yards, And A Passer Rating of 69.6.
The Colts Took A 7-3 Lead After. Both Teams Scored On The Initial Drives of the Game, But The Offenses Between These Two Teams Quickly Turned—the NFL Fans In Germany Didn’t Treated To A Sweet Treat In Germany. The Colts Usual Stout Run Game Didn't Have The Push Against The Patriots's Defense, Just 70 Yards Overall, But Jonathan Taylor's Yard Touchdown In The First Quarter Made The Difference. The Patriots Found Success On The Ground Of 167 But Not Enough Success To Overcome The Offenses Passing Woes.
Raiders Vs Jets
Call Aidan O'Connell What you want: A 25-Year-Old Rookie In Set With Justin Herbert, Tua, And JALEN Hurts, A Game Manager Whom Former Raiders Head Coach Josh McDaniels didn't Trust Enough To Start Over Veteran Brian Hoyer In A loss to The Bears; Or A Poor Man's Jared Goff But Regardless O'Connell Knows The Assignment, Target Davante Adams and Keep Your Position. O'Connell Finds Adams Against All Odds(even To The Detriment To The Team), But When Adams Pulls In One Handed Catches And Converts Bug Plays, Adams eating Up 13 Of The Team 25 (8 Of O'Connell's First 11 Attempts) Passing Attacks Falls Right In Line With The Goal.
The Raiders Offense Score Points in All Three Quarters As The Team Because He Over Looked Other Open Options. The Raiders Have Won Back-To-Back Wins Under New Coach Pierce; Josh McDaniels Could Never. Adams finished The Game With 6 Catches For 86 Yards, And Hell needs a lot More Games Like This To Get Over 1000 Receiving Yards.
The Jets lose Two Straight. Zach Wilson Played Good Enough Not For The Jets To swim But For The Team To Not Lose. Wilson's Ability To Pass, Especially On The Move, That Final Play Just Getting The Ball Out Of His Hands While Running For His Life, Much Less Get The Ball Into The End zone; Only A Handful Of Players Can Make That Pass. The Hail Mary Fails, And Zach Wilson Finishes 23/39 For 263 Passing Yards, But You Witness Why Head Coach Robert Salah Won't Give Up On His Talented Quarterback.
Wilson Stands One Veteran Presence Away From Stardom Or Burning Out(Possibly). Jets Wide Receiver Garrett Wilson Made A Few Tough Snags On His Away To 9 Catches For 93 Receiving Yards. The Raiders Surge Pass The Chargers And Bills In The Playoff, With Mount Josh McDaniels, Without Jimmy G And A, Let's Face It, Underperforming Davante Adams. If The Raiders Had Beaten Tyson Bagent's, they Would Stand As One Of The worst offenses To Ever Stand In Place For A 'Wild Card' Spot. Josh Jacobs Post His First 100 Yard Game Of The Season, The All-Pro Back Finished With 27 Carries For 117 Rushing Yards. Jacobs Did Fumble The Ball
after A Big 40 Yard, But The Ball Bounces Out Of Bounds and Sets up The Raiders In The Red Zone.
