NFL Week 3 Takeaways.
Week Three presented A Critical Testing Arena for Every NFL Team, Those In focus Or Out Of Focus, No Matter Your Record, Offensive Rating, Or The Morale Surrounding Your Coaching Right Now. Every Body Still Has A lot To Prove On The Season.
ESPN's "staggered" Broadcasting Approach To Monday Night Football Has A Curiously Frustrating Feel Now That Expanded Double Header Pf Games To Two Weeks. One Game Starts At 7:15 and Another At 8:15, To Monday Night Football ended With Eagles Vs. Tampa Bay Game and The Bengals Vs. Rams, At Least Ends Until December. I Still Have Mixed Feelings ABOUT the Approach. Watching Multiple Football Games At Once Should feel Natural To Any NFL, But On Monday, Two Games Feel "Off" " Maybe If Mondays Two Games Offered More In The Way Of Entertainment I Would Feel Differently. Admittedly, The Rams Made Things A Little Interesting At The End Of The Game Of Their 19-16 Loss To The Bengals. Matthew Stafford Made Two Bonkers Throws, One Which Didn't count Because He Got Sacked, The Other That tore Ripples Through The Air To Connect With Paku Nacua For Just 37 Yards. The Arm Angles Stafford Uses Spit In The Face Of Physics. Stafford Didn't Present His Best Game Passing The Ball by Finishing 18/33 On Passing Attempts, 269 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, Two Interceptions On Forced Passes Over The Middle And 66.4. Stafford Ate 6 Sacks And 10 QB Hits Off Of The Bengals's Pass Rushers.
Pacua Caught Five Passes For 72 Yards To Continue Bolstering His Strong Start To His Rookie Season. These Two Teams Rocked This Game Back And Fourth Like A Ship Lost At Sea.
Neither team's Offense Could Sustain A Drive Beyond 25 Yards. Whenever Either Team Sustains A Drove, The Results Usually come with A Field Goal. This Matchup Of Heavy Super Bowl From Two Years Ago Didn't Live Up Hype.
For The Bengals, Joe Burrow Entered The Game Under Injury Watch And Load Management Due to His Calf Injury That Almost Kept Him Out Of The Game. "Don't Have Any Setbacks," Joe Thought As He Entered The Trying Stage Before The Game.
The Bengals Couldn't Lean In On The Ground Game, So Joe Burrow Took 49 Attempts, 50 Plus Dropbacks, 59.8 And 5.3 Yards Per Attempt. Jamar Chase Came To Life For The First Time This Season. He Caught 12 Passes For 141 Yards, But Tee Higgins Struggled Again To Make An Impact. The Rams Out gained The Bengals On A Per Play Bases, But Thanks To Turnovers And Sacks Effectively Pushing The Rams Backwards On Down And Distance. The Rams Gained 5.6 Yards Per Play, But A Third And Long Doesn't Matter Much. The Bengals Ran About 22 More Plays Than The Rams. Both Teams Find Themselves 1-2. The Bengals Notch That First Win Of The Proposed Turnaround Of Their Season. The Rams Followed Their Week One Upset Of The Seahawks With Two Losses. Head Coach Sean McVay Has To Return To The Drawing Board After This Bengals's Defense Gave The Rams Offense A lot Of Trouble.
Eagles Vs. Bucs
The Eagles Tore Away From The Bucs After An Early Defensive Struggle Look To Lock Both Teams In Field Goal War. The First Seven Series Of This Game Started Punt, Downs, Punt, Field Goal, Punt, Punt, Field Goal. Tampa Bay entered the Game As One Of Few Remaining Teams Without A "Turnover" Of Any Kind, Interception, Or Fumble, But With Baker Mayfield At Quarterback, That Star Wouldn't Hold Up Long. Truthfully, I Thought The Bucs Botch This One. Mike Evan's Hauled In An Impressive One-Handed Catch In The Fourth Quarter, But Early In The Game He Let A Few Game-Changing Opportunities Slip Through The Finger Tips. He Only Converted 50% Of His Targets. Evans Couldn't Control A PAss From From Baker Mayfield That PopRight Out Evans's Hands In The Back Of The End Zone. Evans Also Allowed A catchable Ball From Baker Mayfield To Go Over His Head.
Against A Powerful Eagles Defense, You Just Can't Let Opportunities Pass. The Eagles Offense Found Early Success Moving The Ball. Where Bucs Receivers Suffered Drops and Just Missteps In The Passing Game Eagles Receivers AJ Brown Got Off To Strong. He wore neon Green Cleats, Possibly To Stand Out After He And Jalen Hurts Had An Argument Last Game. Brown Collected Two Of Jalen's First Completion Before Quickly Turn To Make Pudding Out Of The Knees Of Tampa Bay Defenders, Dodging Tackles On His Way To a Season High 131 Receiving Yards. I Can't Count How Many Tackles she Slipped Around On The Outside. D'Andre Swift Totaked 16 Carries, 130 Yards, and A Couple Of Big Runs That Went From Ten Plus As The Eagles Run Game Dominated The Bucs. After Just One Carry Against New England, Swift Has Packed On 44 Carries Since For 305 Yards. By The End, The Eagles Dominated The Bucs. Jalen Hurts Lead The Offense To 472 Yards Total; The Bucs Finished With Just 174. The Eagles had 78 Plays Compared To Just 44 For The Buccaneers, But Philly Took A While, like Into The Second Half, Before They Pulled Away From Tampa Bay. The Eagles Got Up Ten On The Bucs, But the Lead Felt Minimal Because of All The Drives That Started. Promising but Stalled. Until The Eagles That Tampa Punt In The Second, I Thought If Baker Could Complete A String Of Passes, The Bucs Still Appeared To Have A Shot.
The Buccaneers Have A strong Defensive Pedigree, And For The Eagles To Wear Down A Team Already Suffering Through Injuries Speaks A lot About This Season's Eagles And Their Capabilities. "Whether We Win Or Lose, I Don't Think I'll Ever Be Satisfied," Said Jalen Hurts. "… There's A lot zit Clean Up Obviously But Happy For The Win." Hurts Finished The Game 23/37, 277 Yards Passing With 1 Touchdown And Two Deflating Interceptions, But His One Touchdown To Olamide Zaccheaus Threaded Three Defenders. On Defense For The Eagles, Jalen Carter Has Developed Quite the Mean Streak. He Registered Half A Sack And A Power Force Fumble.
49ers Vs. Giants
The 1-1 Giants Find Themselves One Cardinal's Fourth Quarter Meltdown From Brandishing At 0-2 "Lump" On Their Forehead. After The Roughest Six(6) Quarters Of Football To Start A Season, The Giants Look Like Last Year's Version Of The "Try Hard" Team, If Only For Two Quarters And Five Second Half That Produced 31 Points. "It all Comes To Execution. Doing The Fundamentals And Basics Right." Coach Daboll Said After The Game.
The Giants Pulled Away With A Win Against The Weakest Team In FOOTBALL This Week The Giants Face One Of The Strongest—Arguably The Strongest.
I Didn't Think Anybody Outside Of The Mathematicians Expected The Cowboys To Put The Giants down In Such Overwhelming Fashion. The G-Men Face Their Second Power House Opponent In Three Weeks In Prime Time No Less. The Niners Own The Right To Claim As Best Team Zion Football, But The Cowboys Creep Close By Waiting To Overtake. What Better Way For The Niners To Settle the Precept Of A Debate than By Forcibly Pummeling The Giants? The Cowboys Left The Giants Offensive Line Shattered, And When Giants Receivers Started Picking Up The Slack, They Face The Niners.
In a League where so many teams have ramped up the pressure, especially Teams In the NFC East, The Giants Have Produced Generally Absent Pressure. For the First Drive Of The 49ers Offense, The Giant's Pressure got To Purdy. Kayvon Thibodeaux Sacked Purdy And All Around Waves Of Hand swatted At Passes. Thibodeaux Registered The Giants' First Sack Of The Season in Game Three. The Team Finished With Two Sacks in the Game, And Now only The Bears And Lions have Fewer Sacks Than The Giants.
The Giants' Secondary Entered This Contest Heavily Under match Against This 49ers Catching Unit. Still, The 49ers Played Defense, With George Kittle Having To Interrupt A Sure
interception For The Giants On An Errant Purdy Throw. Purdy's First Series Didn't Look Like The Guy Who'd Answered The Questions About His Pedigree At Quarterback. After Starting The Game 2/5 And Taking A Sack, The Niners Show How They Can Overwhelm Teams With All Their Offensive Arsenal. Purdy Would End The Niners' First Drive With Another Five Straight Incompletions As The Niners Tack Three Points On The Board.
A Giants Field Goal Nodded The Game 3-3 And We Looked To Have A Defensive Struggle On Our Hands. By Half Time With CMC Adding Another Touchdown On The Board, the Niners Stood 17-3. Ultimately, The Niners Pressure Proved a Bit more Convincing. The Niners Brought Pressure On Almost Every Third Down, Trusting Their Corners To Hold Down The Outside.
Daniel Jones's New Check Book Couldn't Afford Him More Time To Settle And Passes. He Target Tight End Darren Waller A lot, But The Pressure Disrupted The Passes Just Enough To Prevent Third Down Conversion. The Offensive Line Lacked Star Left Tackle Andrew Thomas, But The Giants need to Protect Jones much better If They Hope To Make another Playoff Run. The Giants Have A Real Tough Bender Of Games On The Slate. I didn't Expect Daniel Jones To Put Up 300 Yards Again, but His 22/32 For 137 Passing Yards and 64.2 Passer Rating Don't Feel All On Him.
The Giants Upgraded Skill Position Players Remain One Of The Most Underwhelming In Football. No Receiver Wins One On One Matchups Consistently. Only Projection Models Could Suggest The Impact of Saquon Barkley's Absence on The Giants, But The Out Gained The Giants In Yardage 441-150.
The 49er's Run Game And Quick Pass Game Powered Pass The Giant's Defensive Front And Secondary.
A Lot Of Catch And Runs From The Dynamic Trio Of Deebo, Elijah Mitchell, And Christian McCaffrey Put The Niners On The Board With The game's First Touchdown As Purdy Connected With wide Receiver Ronnie Bell, Taking Snaps For An Injured Brandon Aiyuk.
"I'm Happy For Ronnie. He Was Ready For The Moment." Coach Kyle Shanahan Said After The Game.
Purdy Only Targeted One Of The Other Receivers, George Kittle, Outside Of Ronnie Bell. Powered By a 30 Yard Catch And Run Deebo Samuel. He Added Another 40 Yarder In The Third Quarter. "Whoever's Hot Os is Going To Get The Ball." Deebo Said After The Game.
Purdy Struggled Into The Second Half, Deebo Samuel And The Rest Of The Niners's Skill Position Picked Up The Slack And Proved Too Great For Giants. Kyle Shanahan Had To Shorten The Script To Rollouts And Short Crossing, But Short Passes Turn Into Mighty Gains Quickly. Purdy Redeem Himself Some With A Beautiful Dime To Deebo In The Corner Of The Endzone. Deebo Caught Six Passes For An Astonishing 126 A Tremendous Haul Coming After The Catch. 13.3 YAC Per Reception. Despite Struggling, Brock Purdy Still Produced 310 Yards Passing And Two Touchdowns, with an 8.4 Per Pass 111.3 pass rating. Purdy Registered a couple Of Turnover Worthy Plays. "there Were Looks That We're There, That I Was Off Inaccurate. Things Didn't Happen Right In Our Scheme." Brock Purdy. Despite His Early Struggles Purdy Lead The 49er's Offense To The Red-zone Six Times And Came Away With Thirty Points. Some Of Those Targets Would Have gone Brandon Aiyuk's Way. He's A Better Body In The Red Zone Than Any Other 49er Not Named George Kittle.
Even With Purdy's Struggles, The Niners Look Invincible. This Giants's Game Could've Proven A Trap Game For The Niners And For The Briefest Moments As Third Down Conversion Slipped Through The Giant's Hands. This Game Could've Ended Otherwise, But The Niners Pulled Away Late.
The Giants Pulled The Game Within One Score, 17-12; one Or Two Plays Could've Made The Difference Instead of Differential Stretches, And So Does The morale surrounding The Team.
Browns Vs Titans
If You're A Browns Fan, You Must Have Inched Your Hand A Little Bit Away From The Meltdown Button After This Sunday's Wire To Wire Win Versus The Titans. The Past Week Must Have Felt Like A Bad Massage—Wait.
Nick Chubb, The Engine Of Your Offense, Lost To A Season Knee Injury. Thankfully, Early Reports Suggest That The Initial Gruesome And Even Career Threatening Injury Appears Downgraded To An MCL Injury. We witness The Injury, And We All Assume The Worst, But Thankfully, Nick Chubb's Built A Different From Mere. Projection Indicates Chubb Could Walk Away With An MCL Injury. Brown's Fan Will For Quarterback Deshaun Watson To Take The First Leap. No one Has Seen His Peak Form Yet In Cleveland; The Browns's Now Need a Peak Form; Deshaun Can't Find Him. Cleveland, However, Has Peak Myles Garrett And A Defense That Will Keep Them In Games. Myles Garret Crush The Titan's Offensive Line For 3.5 And A Half Sacks. When Tannehill Stayed Up Right, He Only Completed 13/25 Passes For 104 Yards, 62.8 Passer Rating. The Titans Just Came Off Of A Big Win Against The Chargers That Seemingly Resurrected The Team Psyche, Only For Them TO Spin Into The Buzz Saw Of The Cleveland Defense. Tannehill Completed A Couple Of Big Plays To DeAndre Hopkins And Chris Moore Before Halftime, But The Titans Ultimately Had No Answer For Their Protection Woes—browns's Sacks Crushed Tennessee Drives. The Win Keeps Cleveland In Lock Step With The Steelers, Who Own Their Head To Head Now, and The Ravens. The Lost also Keeps Tennessee In Lock With The Rest Of The AFC South, Aside From The 2-1 Colts.
Deshaun Finally Put In A Good Game For Cleveland, His Best Game as A Brown, And the second-best completion Percentage Of His Career. "Just Take What The Defense Gives. Don't Try To Do Too Much." Watson Said After The Game. I'm Not A Fan Of The Strategy, But I want to See Him Return To Form. Watson finished 27/33 (81.8% Completion Percentage) with 289 Yards, Two Touchdowns, And A Passer Rating of 123.4. Added 8.8 To Those Numbers with 4 Carries and 16 Rushing Yards. The Titans' Front Four Packs Quite The Punch, And The Browns's Run Game Couldn't Generate Any Push. "Give Them[The Titans] Credit, They Have A Great Front." The Titans's Secondary, On The Other Hand, sticks Out As The Team's Weak Point. Big Game For Amari Cooper 7 Catches, 116 Yards A Couple Of Bigs One Catch Big Reverted Because Of An Incidental Whistle. Solid game From Elijah Moore, 9/9 on Catches For 49 Yards.
Vikings Vs. Chargers
The Vikings' Turnover Binge Continues. The Vikings' Defense Forced a punt, Only For The Offense To Have A Promising Offensive Drive Canceled by Poor Ball Security. The Vikings Defense Came In Average In Third Down Defense. The Offense Has To Capitalize On The Limited Opportunities; Last, Vikings Excelled With a Poor Defense By Taking Care of The Ball This Year Not So Much. The Chargers Jump To An Early 7-0 After A Catch And Completion From Kirk Cousins To TJ Hockenson Turns Into A Turnover. When You Think The Vikings Can't Catch Break, They Bend Back and Force The Chargers' First Takeaway Of The Season. Vikings' Linebacker Jordan Hicks Punches The Ball Free From Wide Receiver Jordan Palmer. The Vikings Would Respond With An End zone Drive Which Almost Looks Dead In The Water But Toss Up "Forward Progress" Stopped Called Protect The Vikings From themselves. But Turnovers Ultimately Proved Consequential Late. Kirk Cousins Threw An Interception On His Final game pass, but you can't blame Him For This Game. He Pitched a Strong Outing. Kirk Pitched 32/50 For 367 Yards And Three Touchdowns, His Third Straight 300 Plus Yard Game To Start The Season With A Passer Rating of 97.7, 10.8 Yards Per Completion. He Had To Eat 4 Sacks, But When The Vikings Line Kept Him Clean, He Delivered. He Finished With An Average Of 2.99 Secs To Throw. A Couple Of Drops And Miss Calls, Like The One that Landed In The Stomach Of Jordan Addison, Or Several
three Targets To TJ Hockenson That The Tight End Didn't Catch Could've Changed The Game. The Decision To Go For The Touchdown On the Fourth with about Three Minutes Left Cost The Game. Wide Receiver Justin Jefferson, Who Played a Scorching, Not Only Got Flagged For An Illegal Shift, But He Didn't Complete The Pass Anyway. The Vikings Defense On The Ensuing Drive Hoisted Their Turnover On Downs, One Of The Few Stops The Defense Managed In The Game. Kirk Would Throw a Tipped Interception And Sink the Giants To 0-3. "Disappointing To Be 0-3. Disappointing To Lose The Way We Did. We Have To Score Touchdowns". The Vikings Offense finished 1/4 In The Red Zone And Just 29%(4/14) On Third Down And the Routinely Lost Turnover Battle.
Justin Herbert Registered a Big Game To Pull The Chargers Away In This One—just Big Throws. Kellen Moore Finally Brought Out The Beast The Monster In Justin Herbert. According To Next Gen Stats, The Vikings Blitz Herbert Over 80% Of Snaps, So He Hit His Receiver Quickly, And Nobody Got Open Better and Beat-Man Coverage Better Than Allen. The Ageless Chargers Wide Receiver Caught 18 Passes On 20 For 215, with A Long Of Just 25. He Tack On 10 Yards After 10 Yards. Keenan Allen Even Got In On The Passing Connected With Mike Williams he caught the 49-yard touchdown pass. Allen Generated About 265 Yards Of Offense.
"As Consistent as They Come… "Herbert Said "How Special Keenan Is? You Gotta Get The Ball To Him One On One." Alllen Alone Didn't Give The Vikings Corners Fits When The Chargers Offense Also Needed Big Plays. Herbert Looked To Mike Williams and Josh Palmer. Williams Made A Heck Of A Catch Sliding To The Ground, Hauling In A 35-yard Catch Out Of The Third Quarter. Initially, I Thought The Ball Hit The Ground, But Williams Hauled The Catch That Took The Chargers Out Of The Endzone. The Chargers Had No Run Again In Their Second Straight Game Without Austin Ekeler. The Chargers Averaged About 2.0 Yards Per Rush
which Hurt Them In Keeping The Ball Away From the Vikings, Which Let Minnesota Back In The Game.
The Vikings March All The Way Back From 21-10 To Take The 24-21. Justin Jefferson Had A Strong Game with his 52 Catch And Put The Vikings Ahead Late He Finished With 7 Catches For 149 And One Touchdown. Hockenson And Addison Combined For 14 Catches and 140 Yards But Needed To Step up Late And They Both Failed. KJ Osborn, The Other Vikings Wide Receiver Who Finished Last Year On A High Note Has Regressed Some He caught One Touchdown, His Only Catch, For 36 Yards.
The Chargers And The Vikings Faced Off In A Game That Determines The Narrative For Their Respective Seasons. Two Playoff Teams From Last Year That Suffered Unexpected Banishment In First Meet. Both Teams Possess capable, But Neither Has One Coming Into Week 3 0-2. Both Teams are suffering Losses.
By One Score In Each Game And At Least One Of Those Games, Both The Chargers and The Vikings Should Walk Away With The Win. They Entered Those Contests Favored And Held Leads. Both Teams Feature Coaches That Burgeoned From The Same Coaching Tree. O'connell And Staley Worked One Year Together Before Staley Moved To The Chargers One Year, Then O'connell To The Vikings A Year Later.
Arguably, Staley's Trending In The Wrong Direction.
Staley Nor The Chargers Will Survive This Loss. "it's Not One Thing[Prevented Us From Moving Into 2-0], Staley Said "We Have To Capitalize On Our Opportunities. We Have To Execute At A Higher Level."
Now They Both Teams Enter With Questions One Has To Leave 0-3 or 0-2-1. Either Way, These Teams Should Press The Panic Button. According To ESPN's Bill Barnwell, "Starting 0-3 is all but unsurvivable.". But Spear The Chargers The Odds, They've Looked Across A Few Inescapable Predicaments Before. "We Belong In Everyone In This Organization. Things Haven't Gone Our Way the Past Couple Of Games But panicking Is Never Going To Fix Anything." The Chargers Defense Has One Of The Worse Coverage Defenses In The League And Maybe If You Judge Them Based On The Miami Game, You Find Solace But The Chargers Defense Gave New Life To Ryan Tannehill And The Titans Who Look "Shook" Passing And Put Up The Worse Passer Rating Of Week One. The Vikings Enter This Matchup Versus The Chargers With A Long Week Off Behind Them. You Could Almost Forget Them As If They'd Taken On The Cloth Of An After Thought.
The Chargers Put That Deflating Overtime Loss Behind Them.
"The Season Is Far, Far From Over," said Justin Jefferson. Theoretically, The Vikings Have Sunken Far Away From Where They Finished Last Year. The NFC North Could Still Win Either Way. The Vikings Have A lot Of Divisional Games Ahead, But Nothing Gets Easier From Here On Out. The Chargers Get The Win. I Could Have Felt The Intensity Dripping Off Of Brandon Staley After His Team Failed To convert ON Fourth Down, Handing The Ball Back To The Vikings In Plus Territory. The Vikings, Of Course, Don't Score, But The Chargers Can Continue For An AFC Wild Card Spot If They can catch The Chiefs Up Top In The West.
Jets Vs. Patriots
Zach Wilson Must Have The Mental Fortitude Of A Brick Wall Or Adamantium Because Despite The Chaos Surrounding Him
And The Jets, Created From Himself Or Otherwise, Playing For The Jets These past three Years. If Wilson Has Any Redeemable Qualities As A Player, Any Worth Admiring, His Resilience. I Don't Think Alive Ever Watched Anyone Play Football. He's Thrown So Many Interceptions Scrambled For More Yards Than Most Running Back Carry And When He Gets Sacked, I Want To Reach Out To Him And Tell Him, "Just Stay Down." Wilson's Short Memory, If To His Detriment At Times, Keeps Him Locked In On The Game. He's Derek Carr Without The HairBrain Heroics.
"The World Doesn't Disappear When You Close Your Eyes." the Patriots Offense Out Gained The Jets 216-36 In Offensive Yardage But Only Lead The Game By 7 Points At The Half. Mac Jones Completed About 50% Of His Passes, But That Yardage Differential continues to Bolster The Argument Against Jones At Quarterback.
As They Prepared To face AFC East And Longstanding Rival The Jets, The Patriots Have Another game Playing In The Background. Before The Season Started, The Pats Cause A Minor Uproar After They Cut All Of The Quarterbacks Off THe Roster Except StarteR Mac Jones. For Days After, Speculation Spiraled Over Who Would Take Jones's Place As The Backup. Last Year's Backup, Bailey Zappe, Stepped In and played a series Of Games As Zach Wilson Struggled. Promising Rookie Malik Cunningham was cut. The Pats Sign Former Panthers Third-Round Pick Matt Carroll, Who Briefly Joined The Roster Before Going "AWOL" AND Landing On The Practice Squad As Of This Week. Zappe eventually Emerged as The Immediate Backup To Jones For Opening Day. Still, The Patriots Continued Shuffling Their Quarterback This Week As The Pats Added Former Cowboys Will Grier To The Practice Squad. Because Of How Poorly New England's Offense Has Executed These Past Few Weeks, They're Exploring All Their Options I Suppose.
"They don't have a complex offense," said Gardner, via SNYTV, when asked to evaluate New England's unit. "It's pretty simple for the quarterback to get. In the gap scheme, everything is really simple, but they excel at it. They try to get other people to mess up and make mistakes. They do everything right."
I've Read That In Some Circles, They Champion The Idea "Simple Is Smart," But That Motto Doesn't Have A Universal Application. Some works Of Life Require Complexity. The Patriots On Offense Even Today Return To A Lack Of Complexity.
Take A Look At Miami, Where Everyone Wants To Look at Very Few Simple Concepts.
For An Opposing Defender To Speak So "Morosely" About Your Offense Sucks. Still, They're The Opposition, But For The Patriots To Only Hold A Field Goal Lead despite The Jets Struggling To Muster Any But One Drive Of Offense Speaks Volume. Through the fourth, the Jets Went 2-12 On For 2.8 Per Play, Which, If You Do The Math, Adds Up To Less Than 9 Yards Per Drive. I Know Everyone's Quick To Point Fingers At Zach Wilson, but The Entire Offense Struggles: the Running Game is an Afterthought. Breece Hall Mentioned That Some Of The Team's Struggles Boil Down To His Underutilization, And Despite Early Carrie's, Breece Couldn't Break Past 20 Yards. Still, With Less Than Two Minutes Left On The Clock, One Down On The Board The Jets Down Five Have One Chance To Win. Zach Wilson, Unfortunately, Or Fortunately, Forgot How To Compete A Pass Beyond The Line To Gain. The Patriots Hold On To Win The Ugliest Game Of The Season. Everyone With a Radar And Nose For Offense Wants to Evaluate What's Wrong with The Pats Offense. Everything Almost Points Back To Jones. The Patriots Quarterback Finished 15/29 For 201 6.9 per Pass. The Pats Scored Once On A 10 Play 42 Yard Drive For A Field Goal And The Long Standing Ten Point Lead. In 26 plays, The Field Goal Generated 75 And Five Punts. With Just Over Two Minutes Left And Needing First Down To Put The Jets Away, The Patriots Failed and Gave The Jets two Chances To sneak Away With a Win. Of The Patriots Struggled To Run The Ball Late. I Don't Know What We Signed Juju Smith-Schuster He's Got 10 Receptions For 14 Yards. How Does Pharoah Brown Who I Didn't Know Held A Roster Spot, Lead Us In Receiving With Two Catches, 71 Yards, And One Touchdown? "…the Patriots drove seven times into Jets territory and only scored 13 points on offense." one NFL.com Columnist Wrote, Specifically Mac Jones's Failure To Move The Ball Through The Air, He's Too "Robotic."
In A World With Quarterback Questions, Nobody Has More Question Mark Spring Than The Jets. The Offensive Struggles Don't All Boil Down To Wilson. The Jets Knew Playmakers Don't Do Much Playmaking. Every Position For The Jets Needs Reevaluating. Everyone Will Return To The Zach Wilson Topic And Truthfully, Zach Wilson was 18 of 36 for 157 yards; Looks Bad. Still, The Jets Don't Have Enough In The Away of Offense To Accommodate Wilson's However, What Other Options Could The Jets Find At Large?
Bills Vs. Commanders
The Commanders Enter Week 3 As The Luckiest Mention In Group Of Unbeaten Teams, And They Should Feel Ashamed. For The Past Two, The Commanders Have Narrowly Escaped With Victories Against those Who legitimately Have No Interest Or lack The Capability To Compete Right Now In those Teams, the Cardinals And the Broncos. The Commanders Have The Talent To Compete In The NFC East. The Eagles Have Flown Low To Start The Season, And The Cowboys Own The Best Point Differential in The League(+60), But They Haven't Played Any Worth Noting, and Neither Have The commanders. The Commanders Have The Strength Of The Second Best Pass Rush In The League. Against The Broncos, They Produced 37 Pressures. Does anybody Remember That Bad Game The Bills Suffered To Start The season When Everyone Accused Josh Allen Of "Doing Too Much"? Well, He's Bounced Back A Bit These Past Two Weeks. In The Past Two Games, Both Blow Out wins For The Colts. Allen Has Completed 51 Of 69 passes for 492, 4, And One Interception—these Past Two Contest As The Bills Storm Past The Commanders. The Commanders came In with a Dubious 2-0 Mark Because They Hadn't Beaten Anyone Good and Struggled Versus The Average Competition They Did Face. Commanders Quarterback Sam Howell, Who Impressed Some Plaudits, Never Impressed Me. He Looked Average And Up By Receiving Talent, And Today, The Bills Knew. Four Bills Intercepted Howell, And The Commander Took Nine Sack On Top Of His Worsening Showing Through The Air. Josh Allen Didn't Perform Anything Demonstrative; He Kept The Bills Ahead Of The Chains, and He Connected With Gabe Davis For The Game First Touchdown On A Deep 36 Yard Bomb, Davis's Only Catch Of The Game. Allen Threw His Only Interception On Something Of A Forced Play To Gabe Davis Because He's Still Josh Allen. "Bonehead Pressing A Little Bit A Throwing An Interception on Third And Long."
Stefon Diggs, However, Caught Eight Passes, 111 Yards, and Generated Most Of The Bills's Offense On The Day. The Commanders Placed Promising Forst Round Pick Emmanuel Forbes On Diggs, But The Rookie Didn't Look Ready For That Responsibility Just Yet.
Josh Allen Finished The Game 20/32 with 218, One Passing And Another on the Ground.
The Bills Offense Also Ran The Ball Well Against A Strong Washington For Seven. James Cook Broke Open A Few "Explosive" Runs To Rack 15 Carries For 98 Yards.
"Our Defense Balled Out," Josh Allen Said After The Game. The Defense Forced 5 Turnovers. Edge AJ Epenesa intercepted One of Howell's Passes and Ran In For A Touchdown.
The Bills Ruled This Game Against A Talented But Skeptical Commanders Squad.
Colts Vs. ravens
Gardner Minchew Survived The Famed Orlovsky Step Out Of The Back Of The End Zone Incident To Lead The Colts To A Massive Overtime Victory In Overtime. With The Game Tied 19-19, Raven's Kicker Justin Tucker, The Living Embodiment Of Never Failing In Clutch Time, Falls Shorts On A Game Winning Kick. He Needed about 4 More Yards. After The Ravens And Colts Split Four Possession In The 10 Extra Period, Matt Gay, Who Had The Feel From Fifty All day For The Colts Boots In His Third and Final Three Points Of The Game To Win The Match For Baltimore. For The Ravens, Lamar Jackson Offered A Strong Game On 14 Carries, 101 Yards, One Touchdown, A Few Design Run A couple of Scrambles, and As A Team Averaged 5 Yards Per Run But Couldn't Pick zip Three Yards On The Final Play Of The Game. Lamar Used His Legs to Put The Ravens On The Board. He Didn't Have The Best Touch Passing The Ball, And Multiple Drops By Raven's Receivers Crushed Late Drives. The Colts Defensive Line Buckled Down Late. Both Defenses Cranked Up The Knob, Forcing A Late "Tug Of War" For The Lead. The Colts pull Out And Move Above Everybody Else In The AFC South. Without Jonathan Taylor Or Anthony Richardson, I Don't Think Anyone Expected The Colts To Solely Own The Best Record In The South. The Specter Of Bad Health Already Hovers Over The Ravens, And On A Day When Passing Fell Short Of Impactful, If Im were A Ravens(which I'm Not), I Clinch My Teeth Any Time Lamar Jackson Has To Hotwire The Offense With His Legs. He's Too Susceptible To Injury. Reporters Tackled Lamar About The Struggles The Ravens Suffered And Mistiming With The Receivers. "Just Mishaps Throughout The Game…" Jackson said, "We Tried To Take What the Defense … Being Conservative." The Colts Passing Game Didn't Struggle As Much. Gardner Minchew Accomplished A Solid Game. The Colts' Backup Quarterbacks Took Two Bone Rattling Sacks From Safety Kyle Hamilton, But Minchew Stayed Tough And Splayed The Game Out. My Goodness That Catch By Micheal Pittman Jr In Overtime Just Bonkers. The Colts Punted That Drive, But Pittman Continues to Emerge as A Special Talent.
Justin Fields
The Bears Have Melted Down Into A Twilight Saga Drama. Who Takes the Faulted For the Terrible Start of The Continuation Of Last Year's Promising Season? Who Do You Blame? are You Team
Justin Or Team Bear's Brass, Either Way, Someone Getting Things.
At the End Of Last, Justin Fields Looked Like Football's Chosen One. When The Bears Announced Before Week 17 That Fields Would Miss The Final game Of The Season And A Shot At The Record, it set Off A Massive Down for Fans Who'd Plowed and Waited through the Mitchell Trubisky Era To Finally Meet A Star QB. Of Course, Justin Did Suffer An Injury. The Bear's Season Ending On A Sour Note Only Made This Season More Inviting. This Past Week, Everyone From Film Gurus To Opinionist And anyone Who Watches A Bit Of Football offered some Diagnostics For the Field's Porous. He Hasn't thrown For Over 200 Yards In A game Yet.
Fields Haven't Improved. Currently, He Ranks Last In Completion Percentage Over Expected.
You Can Argue That He's Still Trying To Make His Second Reads On Some Plays From Week One, An Idea Of How Slow He Reads Defenses. ,
Right, The Bears Rank Last In Most Offensive Categories, and Fields Inadvertently Blamed His Coaches Before Having To Track A Bit On His Comments And Whether He Meant "I Think Its Coaching" As A direct Shot A Clear Disconnect Between him and The Offensive Coordinator Starts Baring Light. "I'll Go Out There And Play Football Like I Know How To Play Football." Field Continue. The Coaching Hasn't Gotten Through To Him, But Who's Wrong Here? Star Reject Coaching All The Time, Some Times To Their Benefit Other To Their Detriment. All Eyes Point The Coaching Because Fields's Underperformance Doesn't Stand Out Alone. Darnell Mooney, The Team's Former Number One Receiver, Still Needs to Put Decent Number Three Level Receiving Production This Season.
Last season, The Bear Hyper Athletic Quarterback Stole The Gaze Of Football Fans as He Raged Down The Sideline, Squeezed Between, And Shook Defenders Like He Became The Football Impersonation Of Allen Iverson On His Way To A Near Record In NFL Quarterback Rushing Yards Falling Some 50 Plus Short Thanks To Missing Two Games To Injuring.
The Bears Lost Their Way To A Number One Pick, But Everyone Treated The Team Like Something Special To Watch Because Of Fields. Because Of The Number, I Understand The Reasons Behind The allocation for Using Fields In The Run Game. He Creates A Numbers Advantage, And He Can Open More Opportunities In The Offense.
The Trouble With The Rushing Fields Argument Starts When You Think Of Longevity. Quarterbacks Who Play That Style Of Football Don't Sustain Continued Success, And We Accept This As Truth. We're Already Witnessing Anthony Richardson Paying The Toll For That Style Of Play Early In His Career.
