NFL Week 15 Takeaways.
Eagles vs. Seahawks
Which Animal Would Win In Actually Fight? Probably An eagle.
The Eagles Get Struck Down by The Seahawks, Delivering Philly A Third Straight Loss, And If Two Straight Losses Emitted A Dubious Aura Surrounding The Eagles Super Bowl Hopes A Third Straight, It's giving Desperation Mode Vibes. The Eagles' Defense Held Seattle's Offense To 3 points at The Half. The Seahawks Rushed Out Drew Lock To Direct Seattle's Offense; He OverCame Some First Half Struggles To Deliver Late. Drew Lock Didn't Know He Would Make The Start Until Moments Before The Game, With Geno A "Healthy" Scratch But Reportedly Dealing With His Elbow Injury. We've got 54 minutes here to figure out what's going on." Seattle GM John Schneider Reportedly Said Before Drew Lock Took The Field. The Eagles Had Their Early Quarterback Issue. Jalen Hurts Reportedly Dealt With An Illness And Remain Questionable Up Until The Day Of The Game. Hurt Arrived In Micheal Jordan Flu Game Attire Even, And The Marketing With Jordan Brand And Hulu Have Started To Take Things A little Too Far Showing up In Flu Game "Drip" Might Rank As One Of The Cornier Things Jalen Hurts Has Done On Rise To Prominence. Jalen Hurts led the Eagles to A 10-3 And Finished With Over A Hundred Yards Passing. Hurts With two Rushing Touchdowns But Threw Two Interceptions, One of That Sealed The Game Late After The Seahawks Moved In Front On The Score Board Late. Hurts Didn't Manage Much In The Passing After Halftime And Finished 143 Yards. Hurts Ran For Two Scores And 82 Yards On 13 Carries As The Eagles Continue To Use Running Back As a Complimentary Rushing Piece, Apart from the Eagles Out-gaining Seattle On The Ground 178 To 100. Hurts Started The Game With A Big 13 13-yard run, Then Heights Switched Gears, Hitting Dallas Goedert For A big 18-yard gain Over The Middle for a Big third-down conversion. However, The Second Half Belong To Seattle. The Defense Held Philly down Two Punts, Two Interceptions Over The Final Four Drives of The Game, and Then The Offense With The Catch By JSN. With Less Than A Minute Left, Drew Lock Locks in On JSN's striding Downfield Defender Stacked, and The Rookie Wide Receiver Delivers Over The Shoulder To Deliver The Win. Seattle Got A Nice Game From Kenneth Walker On The Ground, 19 Carries For 86. He Got Seattle On The Board with The First Touchdown Of The Game For 23 Yards. Lock Finished 22/33 For 208. Drew Lock connected with DK Metcalf on a big 34-yard passing completion to set the touchdown strike. DK led the team in receiving 78 on 5 Cats. The Eagles Need To Regain Their Dominant Mystique. Losing Three Games Straight Only Hurt If The Eagles Can't Regain Their Composure And Make A Run To End The Season. Seattle And Pete Carroll Pooch Their Biggest Win Of The Year, having Only Beaten The Lions As A Contender, But The Win Looks A Little Too Late As The Rest Of The NFC Wild Card Teams Hold Their Station For The Most Part, And Philly Or Dallas Already Own One Wild Card Spot.
Ravens Vs. jags
The Ravens Crush The Jags On The Ground to The Tune 251 To Capture The Victory 23-7 And Sustain A Lead In AFC Conference As The Season dwindles. The Lost Keeps The Jags Jumbled In The AFC South With The Texans And Colts, Both Won This Weekend. The AFC South Tends To Boil Down to One Game In The End, and things Look To Shake Out That Way in the future. Trevor Lawrence Proved He's One Of The Clumsiest Quarterbacks Out There Any Week, Losing Two Fumbles.
Falcons Vs. Panthers
The Falcons unexpectedly lost to the Panthers 9-7 In the Game Atalanta Had To Have In Order To Keep winning with Tampa. How Atalanta, a team with three first-round offensive talents, scores only seven points with a coach of offensive pedigree. Desmond Ridder completed just 12 passes, throwing one Intercept and one touchdown (Which looked like a run-a-toss play but technicalities). The Falcons Ran The Ball 31 For Just 1.7 Per Rush. The Panthers' Defense simply Ate Up Atlanta's Rushing To the Tune Of 6 Tackles For Loss. Mean Carolina Got To Work On The Panthers Got To Work On The Ground. Chubba Hubbard Broke Open Four Explosive Runs On 10 Yards Or Better On His Way To 22 Carries For 87 Yards, 25 Yards Over Expected. The Panthers have to shell out another big contract to a Running back this offseason after signing Miles Saunders last season. Bryce Young tried to get in on the running action. He took a foolish sack early because he still needs to learn. He's not The Best Athlete On The Field Anymore. Young Completed 75% Of His passes At 7 Yards On Average, for 167 Yards. The Panthers Open The Door To Give The Number One Pick Away To Another team Other than The Bears. The Falcons Got A Couple Of Big Plays In The Passing Game, But The Offensive Out Put Fell Short Of Expectations In Big Moments. The Falcons Also Throw away My Prediction For The NFC South.
Bucs Vs. Packers
In The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Outlast The Panthers On Season's Best Game From Baker Mayfield. When Things Looked Like Mayfield Would Regress Into The Mayfield, That Got Ran Out Of Cleveland And Carolina Heights, And The Bucs' Passing Attack Charged At The Packers' Pass Defense. Mayfield Finished 22/28(78.6, Best Of The Season)For 381 Passing Yards, 4 Touchdowns, And A Passer Rating Of 158.3, Quarterback Performances Don't Get Better. Baker's Highlights Include A big 54-yard catch To Receiver David Moore, Who Escapes Two Defenders But Almost Cost The Bucs The Game Sealing Touchdown After A Green Bay Defender Hits The Ball Out Of His Hand On Moore's Way To The End Zone—Baker's First Touchdown Of The Game, A Laser Shot Through A Closing Window To Mike Evans. The Sonic Waves As Ripped Through The Air And Sound Barrier For A 19 Yard Felt Palpable Through The TV. The Tears In The Air That Created Sound Vibrations Could Get Picked Up Through The Screen. Chris Godwin Finished The Game With a Season's Best 10 Catches For 155. Jordan Love Had A Strong Game, 29/39, 284 Two Touchdowns, But The Packers Struggled To Compliment Him. The Packers Failed To Convert On Downs Early In The Game. The Bucs' Defense Forced Green Bay To Settle For A Field goal twice, the Second Of Which Came Early In The Fourth Quarter With The Packers Down 10, And A Touchdown Would Pull Them Within Three Points. Instead, They Settle For The After Love and fail to Connect With Tucker Kraft With Only Four Yards To the Sticks. Love Only Missed On 10 Passes, But They All Proved Crucial Misses. The Bucs score and Love suffers a game-ending fumble. Like the Broncos, the Packers have little to feel ashamed about Both their seasons being in peril at 6-8. The Packers turned a mid-season slump into a three-game run that propelled them into a feature in the wild card race.
Dolphins Vs. jets
Zach Wilson Won AFC Player Of The Week Coming In Fresh Off Of A 300-Yard Game, And As A Wilson Apologist, These Moments Bring Me Joy. The Award Serves As A Great Acknowledgment. Bengals's Back Up Quarterback Jake Browning Won The Award The Week Before Ao Wilson's Not In Elite Territory, But His Talents Flashed Greatly Last Week. He balled, he balled," G. Wilson said After The Game. Zach's Always Had The Talent. He's A Better Pure Than Jordan Love, In My Opinion, Because The Off Platform Escape Artist Mastery Comes naturally to His Game, But He's Missing That "X-Factor." Nothing About His Performance Surprised Me Except The Outcome. Wilson Captured A Career-best Game, No Question, But He's Still Working With A Lot Of Unproven And A Run That Grows More Skittish Each Week. The Jets Look At Wilson As A Savior Return Like Steve Jobs Returning To Apple After Getting Fired From His CEO Position. Wilson Doesn't Posses The Strongest Of Arms, Which Hurts Him When he Processes Things Late, But If He Played In, Say, The Dolphins Offense, With Multiple Play Making Receivers Rather than One, He'd Probably Get The Benefit Of The Doubt.
The Dolphins' Quarterback Tua Tagaviloa didn't leave Week 14 with a career game. Tua Five Sacks And The Dolphins Offense Failed To Sustain Two Drives That Could Have One The Game After Tennessee Roared Back To Steal The Game.
Neither Wilson Nor Tua Would Have Tyreek Hill This Weekend; the League's Leader In Receiving didn't suit up Due To An Ankle Injury.
Jaylin Waddle Would Prove Enough To Get The Dolpins' Explosive Offense Back To Their Head Spinning Ways.
Waddle Picked Up A Big 60 Yard Touchdown, Blowing away From A Jets Defender That Almost Put This Contest To Rest In the First Half.
This Jets Defense Came In With The Repute For Giving Quarterback Fits With Two Of The Better Corners In The Game and A Voracious Defensive Line. However, The Dolphins' Defense Came ranked second In EPA per Play, Third Against Quarterbacks ' backs In Recent Weeks, and Made The First Game Defining Play Of The Game. The Jets Defense Force The Dolphins To Punt, and Zach Wilson, Riding On The Tail End Of A Encouraging Performance But Still on A Short Leash, Takes a Sack Four Plays Into The drive. Instead Of Protecting The Ball, Heights Tries To Toss The Ball Out some Times. The Toss worked out. Other than You Fumble, Wilson Fumbled at the Dolphins this time and recovered at the Jets' one-yard line. Bradly Chubb Takes Credit For The Sack, And Chubb Only Just Got Started, He Stuffed Wilson Again In The Second Quarter. Zach Seiler, Who Had A Sack Fumble Recovery Last, Takes The Fumble Recovery. The Dolphins Offense, Which Scored Multiple Touchdowns From a Short Field Last Week, Knew Exactly what To Do With This fortune. Three plays later, Raheem Mostert gets the two-yard touchdown. The Jets Defense held The Dolphins Up Momentarily, Even Pushing Them Back One Yard, But Ultimately The Dolphins Get Their Way And 7-0. The Jets Get Aggressive On The Next Drive After Zach Wilson Fails To Hook Up With Xavier Gipson To The Drive Alive The Jets Try The Fake Punt Rushing Attempt And Fail. The Rush Gets Stuffed Almost Immediately, and The Dolphins Get Another Short Field To Work. And Only Walk Away With A Field Goal.
The Jets' Offense Had No Response To The Way The Dolphins attacked, And The Offense Finished The First Half With -10 yards Passing And Four Yards Total. The Dolphins Almost Put This One Away In The First Half, 24-0—Tua Strikes On A Slant For 19-yard WHICH LANDS The Dolphins In The Red Zone. Two Rushing Attempts By Raheem Mostert Secured The Dolphins' Third Touch Of The Day. The Jets Get Some Offense After the Defense Holds The Dolphins To a Field. Zach Wilson Suffers A Concussion, And Robert Salah Plugs In Trevor Siemian. Siemian does some nice things in Wilson Stead; he hits Garrett Wilson, who dances through the Dolphins' secondary, Dances for 18 yards, and the Jets' biggest play of the day. However, Siemian ends the drive with a guy punch intercept in Dolphins Territory. The Pick Ends A Drive Of Four Completions And Forty Passing Yards For Trevor Siemian. Miami takes this win going away 30-0, easing closer to their first AFC East crown in over a decade and only scoring two field goals in the second half. Tua Completed 87.5% Of His Passes for 224 and One Touchdown. Heights Didn't Work Deep Too Much, Just 3.9 Intended Air Yards. Raheem Mostert Finished With TWO Touchdowns on Just 15 Carries. Jaylin Waddle, 8 Catches For 142 Receiving Yards, 9.2 yards After Catch. Who Needs Tyreek Hill, Right? Maybe The Jets, Who Missed Out On Hill Two Years Ago When The Star Wide Out Requested A trade.
Cardinals Vs 49ers
Kyler Murray Commented To The Media That He Likes the New Cardinals Offense Under First Offensive Coordinator Drew Petzig. Petzig Has Roots In The West Coast System, But So Far, The Marriage Between Petzig And Murray Hasn't Looked Particularly Special; the Cardinals Still Rank As One Of The Worst Offensive Teams. The Running For The Cardinals Towers Amonsgt The League Because Unlike Kliff Kingsbury, Petzig Imbraces Deploying His Quarterback Under Center and using Multiple Tight End Sets Rather Than Kliff Kingsbury's Five Receiver Sets. James Conner Looks Like A New Back, And So Does The Cardinals Run Blocking, But Kyler hasn't Taken Flight Just Yet.
In four starts, Murray Has Just Three Touchdowns Through The Air(Three On The Ground), Two Interceptions, and A 61% Completion.
He's Taking Care Of The Ball, But He's Not Played Aggressively. Murray's carefulness with the ball betrayed him some on Sunday as a first intercept led to a defensive touchdown for the Niners, who took down the Cardinals going away. Conner Had A Big Game Against The Niners' Front Four. The Cardinals' Running Game Overall Delivered a Big Game On The Ground—234 Yards Total Between Five Runners. Starting With James Conner, 14 Carries For 86 Yards, 6.1, and One Touchdown. Emari Demercardo 4 Carries For 64, A Big 49 Yard Run, And A Touchdown. Kyler Joins In 6 Carries For 49 Yards. However, Murray struggled In The Passing 26/39 211, One Touchdown, Two Picks. Murray had to work off the schedule a lot as the pressure broke the pocket; Heights even left the game for a series with an injury and got knocked to the ground before returning to finish the game. The Niners Sack Kyler 3 Times.
Murray gets a touchdown late in the fourth quarter in garbage time on a nice fade toss, but Murray throws a pick-six to Chardavius Ward in the first half, which Ward returns for a touchdown. The Niners Took A 21-13 Lead Off Of The Turnover, And The Offense Only Opened Things Later.
This Game, However, belongs to The Arizona Native And Guy Looking Like A Future MVP, Brock Purdy. The Niners Team possesses so Many Weapons that you Can Make The Argument That Christian McCaffrey Might Matter More To The Offense Than Purdy. CMC Produced 187 Yards From Scrimmage, 115 On The Ground On 18 Carries And One Touchdown, 72 Yards Passing On 5 Catches And Two Touchdowns. McCaffrey Broke A Big Play Open For 41 Yard Score.
McCaffrey Has 20 Scrimmage Touchdowns On The Season. I don't Think two Teammates Have Finished the Top three In MVP Voting, But something In That Matter Should Happen This Year. Brock Purdy Agrees. "I think Christian should be MVP," Purdy said After The Game. Purdy Needed just 16/25 To Slay The Cardinals' Secondary For 242 And 4 Touchdowns. Two Of Purdy's Four Touchdowns Came On Passes Of 20 Air Yards Or Better; He dropped a Dime To Deebo on A 19 Yard Into The Corner of the end zone To End the Game. Purdy linked up with McCaffrey, who sneaked behind the defense for a 41-yard Catch-and-run. McCaffrey fell, regained his footing, and took off to the end zone. Deebo Samuel Also Has A Place In The Conversation On This Niners Team. He's Shown More Of His True Capabilities As A Receiver Rather Than His Role As A Gadget Wing Back. "A wide back. Wide receiver playing running back." Deebo Made His Name On "Multiplicity" But Right He's Excelling In One Dimension At Receiver. Samuel finished four cats for 48, 1 for 11 yards, and 59 yards of total scrimmage yards. The Niners Take Sole Possession Of The NFC, and If you're The Eagles Or Cowboys, You Hope The Niners At least Two More Because Heading Into Sands Fransisco With The Niners On A Bye Should Serve As The Largest Dread For Any Team In the NFC Playoff Picture.
Bills Vs. Cowboys
The Cowboys Nabbed The Coveted Signature Win That Defines the Successes Of Their Year.
"I have to pinch myself right now just to realize that we won this game," Jones Said After The 33-13 Defeat Of The Eagles. Those Words Of An Almost Child Expression encapsulate the Fevered Ambitions Of One Man To Grasp One Win to Rule Them All. The Boys Move To The Top Of The Line. A Head To Head To The Niners Doesn't Dent The Detail On This Dallas Season, The Cowboys The Right And The Crown As The Team To Beat. The Uniform Should Come With A Star On The Chest And A Target On The Back. The Cowboys Will Face The Bill In A Showdown That Could Earn Them Another Badge In The Signature Win Department. The Bills Come In Seething To Regain A Spot In The Playoffs With A Little Bit Of A Door Still Open In The AFC East. Josh Allen Comes In Against A Hot Cowboys Defense After A Tough Games Against The Chiefs. Allen Completed 54.8 percent Of His Passes, with a -0.08 EPA per dropback rate And a Passer Rating of 68.8. The Bills Won despite Allen Rather Than Because Of Him for the First Time All Season. The Bills Still Hold a 48% Chance To Make The Playoffs, While The Cowboys Have to Secure A Space And Now Look To Secure The Division and The Conference. "If You Cannot Afford To Lose, You Won't." The Bills, Facing A Game, Played Completely Equivocal To The Cowboys' Recent success, jumping out To A 21-3 Lead Over The Cowboys.
The Bills Defense Held A Red Hot Dak Prescott To A 1/5 Start For 15 Yards, Nad Dak Ends The Half 8/15 for 58, Far Off The Trail Of Those 300 Yard Games Dak Posted Across The Cowboys Six Game WinStreak. By The Time Prescott Threw The Gane First Interception In The Pouting Rain, The Effort Voided And Needless. The Bills Defense That had Played Like A Liability For Most Of The Past Couple of Weeks. Take The Game To The Cowboys Early, And Josh Allen's Arm Didn't Deliver The Brunt Of The Damage. Through The Third Quarter, Allen Had Just 6 Completions For 77 Yards, Instead of Running Back James Cook, Who Went Over 200 Yards Of Scrimmage Offense. Josh Allen Had A Quiet Game, But Heights Did Complete That Pass Straight Out Of The Matrix. All Resets His Feet and Curves The Ball Around The Defender. Intense Diggs Recaches Out and Hauls The Ball In With One Hand. Allen completed just seven passes. There was none more impressive on the season than that connection with Diggs. Diggs Caught 4 Passes For 48 Yards.
James Cook ended his Day 25 Carries For 179. He Looks Like A different back Just Dashing Through The Cowboys' Defense As Dallas Could Only Stand By As The Bills ran roughshod Over Their Top 10 Defense. The Cowboys Could Hang Their Head On Holding Josh Allen Under 100 Yards Passing, But Allen Did Conquer 118 Scrimmage Yards.
Bengals Vs. Vikings
The Josh Dobbs Experience Took Off And Fell Just Like That: Gravity. Just As Dobbs Looked Headed For New Heights With The Return Of Justin Jefferson, His Rocket Just Fizzled Out. NFL Team Know What The League Has In Dobbs, A Star That Burns Out Just Two Games Pass. The Vikings Now Turn To Their fourth starter This Season, Nick Mullen, Matching the Pace Set By The Browns, Who Have Also Had Four Quarterbacks Start A Game. This revolving door at the starting test, the pedigree of a head coach, and Kevin O'Connell in his third season at the Helm have a great challenge by assembling a new game plan for Nick Mullens.
NFL Hall Of Fame Quarterback Kurt Warner Criticized The Scheme Coach O'Connell Laid Out For Dobbs. Kurt, a former backup Himself, Has A Soft Spot For Guys Like Dobbs, But Mullings Takes Over. I've Seen Where Dobbs Failed To Prove He's A Complete Professor Of F
coverages Or Better Than better-than-average arm Talent. O'Connell Laid Out A Competent Game Plan, But NFL Teams Always Seem To Figure Out Quarterbacks Who Run Around A lot. Dobbs Struggled To Read The Raiders's Zone Coverage. Raiders Defenders Drop Back and Trusted Dobbs To Repeat The Same Steps. Now We Understand Why The Vikings Cherished Kirk Cousins So Much. Before His Injury, Kirk Had A Target Throw Percentage Of 82.2%.
Precious Gems won't Pop Up For You In The Market Place. You Have To Mine For Them The Posses Them With Care. The Vikings once employed the league's best Backup Right now, the Bengals' Jake Browning. According to PFF, Jake Browning's 87.8% adjusted completion percentage Over Three starts. He's also Third In Expected Points Added Over That Span. In the Last Two Games, Browning Boosts An 82% Completion Percentage And 119.2. I'm Quietly Tired Of Hearing About Jake Browning. Not That I'm Rooting Against Him, But Because the NFL Media Complex acts swooning Women To A Quarterback Whenever A backup Quarterback Takes To Good Starting. Browning Has Set The Bar High For Backup Quarterbacks Around The League underneath The Browning-Mullens Back Up Match Up. Nick Mullens nearly mirrors the expectation set for a back, and in any case, he Plays Josh Dobbs on most levels. Mullens, However, Lapse In One Area, Ball Security, And Those Failures Or Shortcomings Open The Door For Lead Backup Of 2023 Jake Browning To Shake Off The Struggles And Lead The Bengals Back From A Two Score Second Half Deficit And Into A Win.
The Vikings Defense Didn't seem To Impress With Jake Browning. The Bengals Got The Scoring Going On The First Drive Of The Game. Browning Hit The Vikings 5/6 For 56 Yards, Again Utilizing Short Passes To Put The Ball In The Hands Of His Playmakers. He Connected With Tanner Hudson before Looking Deep.
Jamar Chase caught a for 25 yards over the Vikings' secondary, putting the Bengals at the foot of the red zone. Browning Drop The Pass Right In The Bucket, Over A Vikings Defender With A Blitz Barreling In On The Pocket; Easily One Of Browning's Best Throws Of The Season.
The Vikings' Defense forced Cincy To Buckle And Settle For A Field Goal. The Vikings' Secondary And Entire defense Played at an ultra-high level, Not surrendering another point to the Bengals' offense for the entire first half: Browning Misses a Connection With Tee Higgins Downfield(Honestly, Tee Just Missed The Ball), And Those Two connecting Would Prove Crucial The Rest Of The Game, But Right Then, They Missed Things: A Quick Swing Pass To Chase brown Got Browning's Impressive Performance Started.
Their Bengals Offense Only Produced Three Outs and Punts And Didn't Pass the field As If They'd Find A Curse Awaiting Them. Nick Mullens Came Out And led the Vikings To A Touchdown On The Opening Drive. The Vikings only had three points last week when Mullens led the offense to a game-winning field goal. Nick Mullens Finished With a career Best 303 Yards Pass, But Running back Ty Chandlers Generated the First Touchdown Drive Of The Vikings. Across 12 Plays For The Offense, Eight Featured Chandler Running Or Catching The Ball For 46 Yards Total And The Touchdown. Justin Jefferson, Who Left Last Week's Game With An Injury, caught one Pass For 17 Yards. Then, The Miscues Stepped In For The Vikings. Both Teams Missed Opportunity On Their Drives, With The Bengals Surrendering Two Three Outs And The Vikings Punting. Mullens Eats A Big Sack; Browning Misses A Big Pass Down The Field.
Browning Played His most aggressive game, and His aggression came Back To Help The Bengals.
The Vikings Get Something Going On The Third Drive. After a slow start to drive, Mullens completes three passes, two of 15+ yards, and the Vikings drive down into the Bengals' red zone. Mullens targets Justin Jefferson On A crossing Route, But Heights throws The Pressure, Not Reading The Double Team On Jefferson, and Mike Hilton Intercepts The Pass. Mullens would Throw Another Interception on The Following Drive, With The Vikings Again Threatening For Points.
The Vikings ended a Promising Half Vikings With Just 7 Points Despite The Vikings' Defense Holding The Bengals' Offense In Place. Mullens Threw A lot Of Good Balls On Him To Finish 26/33, 9.2 Average, and a Passer Rating Of 99.9. He Hits Jordan Addison On A Big Crossing Route For 37 Yards That Appeared To Put The Game Out Of Reach 14-3 In The Quarter. Addison Totaled 111 Yards On 6 Catches.
The Bengals To That Point Still Laid Slumberous. After an early 3rd quarter, Mullens looked on his way to his first win and the Vikings' eighth. Mullens led the Vikings To A Field Goal. He Hit Justin Jefferson Twice On The Drive, Amassing 21 Yards Total. Jefferson Finishes 7 Catches For 84 In His Best Game Simce The Injury. Staring Down Certain Defeat Jake Browning and The Bengals Reach Deep Into The Bags and Over The Head Of The Vikings Secondary. Late In The Third Quarter, Browning Gets Aggressive. Through eight plays, Seven Passes Browning Completed Four Passes Of 10+ yards, Including a 13 Yard Strike To Tee Higgins In The End Zone. Browning Completed Five Straight Pass Going Over The Vikings Instead Of Under. The Vikings' defense kept their aggressiveness on, and things backfired.
Higgins Caught Four Passes For 61 yards And Touchdowns, AND All Eight Of Higgins Came Ten Plus Yards Downfield. The Bengals's Offense Kept Scoring Points. On the Next Offensive Drive, The Bengals tied the game 17-17, and All On A Joe Mixon Touchdown. Mixon looked like he stopped on the fourth down attempt, but the second effort got him over the goal line.
The Browning To Chad Set The Touchdown In Motion With A 24 Yard catch. Chase Also Set up the Higgins Touchdown With A 13 13-yard pass And Finished With 4 Catches For 64 Yards.
The Vikings Get Back On The Board And Survive Another Interception Scare. With 6:29 To Go In The Fourth, Mullens's Pass Intended For Justin Jeffery Gets Picked Off By Linebacker Germaine Pratt, But The Call Comes Back Due To An Offside Penalty On Trey Hendrickson. The Bengals Made A Point That Nick Mullen Would Have To win This Game With The Power Of His Arm As Cincy's Defense Aimed To Take The Run Away.
The Vikings Drive Down Into The Bengals' Red Zone, and Mullens Connects With Jordan Addison For The Vikings' First Points Since Early In The Third Quarter. The Pass By Mullen Looked Dubious Through Addison's Hands.
The score Put The Vikings Over 24-17 With just Over 3 Minutes Left For The Bengals To give an Answer, and they Surely Achieved.
Higgins And Browning Turned In The Best Highlight Of The Day. The Bengals Drive The Length Of The Field A Full Ten Plays, And Jake Browning Hits Tee Higgins For 21 Yards. Higgins reaches over the Vikings defender and then goes back to score the touchdown. Higgins Morphed Into Shaquille O'Neal For A Moment To Secure The Pass And Tie The Game. Tied 24-24, both teams possess the ball over time, but the Bengals find the right connections on offense to secure the game-winning field goal and the win. Over time, the Vikings failed to convert to quarterback sneaks that could have won the game as they crept toward field goal range. Instead, The Bengals Get The Ball Back With a Short Field; Browning Hits Tyler Boyd On A crossing Route For A 44 44-yard catch And runs Into the Field Goal Range. Jake Browning Morphed Completely Into The Form Of Joe Burrow.
Browning finished the game 29/42 for 324 and 7.7, averaging two touchdowns, one pick, a passenger rating of 97.7, and a QbR of 57.2. The Bengals Take Their Eight Win of The Season. Forget How Hopeless Things Felt When Joe Burrow Went Down With The Bengals Have Won Three Straight. Maybe The Vikings Shouldn't Have Cut Browning. No one expected the man who only threw one pass in their career to enter the Baltimore game to play like the four-star recruit like Heights Once Ranked. Mullens Didn't Play "Bad," and Willow Most Likely Start Next Week. However, Heights Took Too Many Sacks And Threw That puzzling interception Going To The Ground. Mullens needs To Bridge The gap between Reckless and Aggressive.
Bears Vs. Browns
With so much Attention On Justin Fields and the Bears Coming Quadary At the Number Pick In The Draft(And rightly so), The Bears' Defense Needs to Get More Credit. Since Week Nine, The Bears Have Ranked in the Top Five In EPA Per Play And Top Ten In Drop Back EPA And Surrendering Less Than 20 Points A Game. The Defense Has Kept The Bear Relevant In The Win Column As Much As The Dazzling Running Ability Of Justin Fields. Cleveland's DEFENSE ranks Number One, Of Course, and the Bears are 18th in DVOA, but the Twi Teams had their best work going early. The Bear Ate Up The Cleveland Until Justin Fields Started To Get Things Working For DJ Moore. Working A Drive Late In The First Quarter, Fields Hits DJ Moore For a 27 Along The Sideline. Moore Gets Two Toes Down, But The Browns Force A Punt. The Connection Marked The Biggest Play Of The First Quarter As The Two Defenses Dominated. In The Second Quarter, We Get Our First Points. A Joe Flacco intercept to Eddie Jackson leads to a Bears touchdown. On Third And Goal, Justin Fields Rolls Out, Escape Pressure, and Hits Tight End Cole Kmet For A Toe Tap Touchdown On The Move And Break The Games Silence On The Score Board. The drive Consisted Of Just Covering One Yard Due To Several Penalties. Flacco And The Browns Would Offer A Response. Flacco almost throws another intercept, but the Bears drop the opportunity; Flacco hits his number one receiver, Amari Cooper, for 42 yards down the field as Cooper pulls down a significant contested catch completion. Another 13 Yard Completion To Cedric Tillman Pulls Closer The Browns Closer To The End And Gives The 38 Year Old Joe Flacco To Show Off His Legs And Hit His Tight End David Njoku, Who Also Skies Over A Bears Defender For A Touchdown And ties The Game 7-7. But Both Defenses Played a Beautiful First Half—the Browns Brought a Load Of Pressure, multiple Deflected Passes, AND near Interceptions. The Bears' Montez Sweat registered a Sack, And The Secondary picked Flacco Off, Stuffing Out Runs, and The Interception. The Bears Picked Off Joe Flacco, Tremaine Edmonds Takes A Pick From Over Off Of A Tipped Pass And Returns The Interception For A Touchdown. Flacco Still Puts Up Over 300 Yards In The Passing Game
For All The Bears' efforts to Suppress The browns, The Bears only Held A 7-point lead with 12 Minutes Left In The Fourth Quarter. The Browns keep Fields from imposing his will on the game, stopping him from converting a fourth down with his legs. Instead, Joe Flacco Holds His Ground Under Pressure, Unfazed, Staring Down The Odds and The Gulf After Three Interceptions. Flacco overcame the plays that didn't swing his way and threw for 374 on 28/44, 8.5 per throw, and two touchdowns.
Joe Flacco Looking Like A Grizzled Soldier in War Movie Exits The Defensive Showdown with The Browns's Ninth Win 20-17. Justin Fields almost led the Bears to a late win. Fields Connected With Wide Receiver Tyler Scott For 30 Yards To Help Flip Bear's Field Position To Set The Bears Stranded At The Cleveland 45 Field With An Opportunity for A Hail Mary That He Almost Converted. A Cleveland Defender Bats The Ball Down Into The Waiting Arms Of Bears's Receiver Darnell Mooney, Waiting Beneath The Pile Of Bodies, But The Ball Ricochets Off Of Mooney's And Into The Waiting Arm of D'Anthony Bell. Fields Struggled In The Passing Game, 19/40, 166 Passing Yards, Less Than 50% Completion Percentage, One Touchdown Two Picks, Though should Be Coming Back Off Of The First Interception. The Browns' Defense Holds The Bears' offense Hostage For The Final 21 Minutes Of The Second Half, Including A Triplet Of Three Outs and The Game Ending interception. The
Neither team Could Muster Much Success on The Ground, But the Ground and The Browns Just Made More Of Their Opportunities Through the Air. The Browns' Passing Offense Produces A Couple Of Big Passing Plays: A 51 Yarder By Amari Cooper, A 34 Yarder By David Njoku, And A 57 Yarder By Marquise Goodwin, Who Can Still Produce Big In The League. Amari caught four passes for 109 yards and one touchdown to lead the Browns in the pass-catching game. Njoku Caught 10 Passes For 104 and A Touchdown. His big 34-yard Catch-and-run on a 3rd and 15 Toss From Joe Flacco set up the game-winning field goal. Even with Some "Gaudy" Passing Stats, The Browns Worked For Every Yard Through The Air. Joe Flacco Threads The Needle Between Two Bear, Hitting The Passing Pocket To Amari Cooper, Who Takes The Ball Into The End-zone and Tie The Game.
The loss Iron Off The Finishing Touches and End The Bears's Playoff Hope As Chicago Fall To Just 5-9. I hate to watch Fields lose because he plays the game with a lot of hurt, but this Cleveland defense meets the Bears in the Dirt and takes the win home.
The Browns Further Separates Themselves From The Rest Of The AFC Wild Card Hopefuls.
Lions Vs. Broncos
The Lions Football Team Struggled These Last Three Weeks, Losing Two Of Their Last Three, and Jared Goff Had Fallen Under A Spell That Inclined Him To Turn The ball over three Times Each Game. The Lions Offense Needed To Shake This Funk, And The Defense Needs To Hold Things Together. With The Broncos Looking To Inch Closer To The Chiefs In The AFC West Division. The Lions' offense gets back on track against a Broncos' defense, soaring in on a mile-high wave. The Broncos Haven't Given Up 20 Points Or Better In Three Weeks; The Lions Start The Game 21-0, Nothing All Passing Touchdowns. Jared Goff Gets The Scoring Started By Hitting Tight End Sam La Porta For 19 Yards. The Lions Got Off To An Inauspicious Start With Three Straight Punts. Even With Goff Struggling Early, The Lions Understand The Team Will Go As Far As His Arm Can Throw. Goff Doesn't possess the Strongest Arm, But He Can Surely Throw Over The Middle.
The Lions responded by ending the half with three straight scores. The Broncos' Defense Just Looked Far More Alert And Prepared for The Lions' Offense Early, But The Lions Found TheLinebackers More Inviting To Passing Offense Than The Bronco's defensive Backs Playing The Deep overfield. Goff caught The Broncos' Defense And Who To Pick On. Goff Linked Up With Wide Receiver Josh Reynolds For 21 Yards, Setting Up The Lions' First Touchdown Of the Game. Goff completed 9/15 passes between 10 and 20, his sweet spot.
La Porta Ducks Down Into The Flat On A Drag Route From Across The Formation, Fields The Pass From a Back Pedaling Jared Goff. After Gathering His Footing Inbounds, La Porta Forces A Miss Tackle By Broncos Linebacker Josey Jewell And Scampers To The End Zone. The Touchdown Gave La Porta His seventh Receiving Touchdown Of The Season, Tying The Franchise Rookie Record.
La Porta Would Later Break The Tie In The Second Half As The Lions Added To Their Lead.
Running Back Jahmyr Gibbs Got In On The Scoring Action, Crossing Over The Face Of A Defender To Put A Touchdown On The Board, And The Lions Surge Out To a 14-0 Lead. Gibbs Picked UP a big 20-yard run Earlier In The Drive, Displaying His offensive Abilities. David Montgomery And Jahmyr Gibbs Combined For 70 Yards Rushing Yard In The First Half As The Lions demolished Denver On The Ground.
The Lions' Weapons All Form Like Voltron To Complement And Form A Combative Structure That Comes At Defenses At All Angles. The Broncos Offense just Stumbled Out of The Gate. On The Lions' Final Drive Of The Half, Goff Connects With His Receiver Again, This Time Amon-Ra St.Brown, Scorching Across the Middle For 15 Yards.
Amon-Ra St. Brown Lead The Lions In 7 Catches For 112 Yards And One Touchdown. The Lions Got Jameson Williams Involved, The Speedster Nabbed Four Catches For 47 Yards. Goff Didn't Pass Over 20 Yards In Air Yardage, But Having The over-threat opens Doors Underneath.
Goff Attempted 26 Passes In The First Half. Russell Wilson had only 10 Attempts. One of his attempts connected with Cortland Sutton for 23 yards. The Lions' Defense Held The Broncos To Just 4 First Downs in The First Half. The Lions DefenSe A Liability For The Team
held The Broncos Scoreless In The First.
The Broncos would score coming out of the second half, and they have quite the flair for Drama for an offense that struggles to produce points and yardage. Russell Wilson Ranks First In Completions Percentage above Expected Amongst Quarterbacks With At Least 200 Attempts. In The Red zone, Wilson Targets Receiver Lil'Jordan Humphrey, Another big-bodied Receiver Wilson Likes, and In The Red Zone, he comes down With The Catch With A Defender All Over Him. Much Of The Broncos' Offense Depends On Russell Wilson Creating plays off Schedule and Surviving The Rush When Protection Breaks Down.
The Broncos Lost a Touchdown On A Controversial Offside Call At The Lions One Yard on 4th And One That Cost the Broncos A Potential Touchdown For 'Aesthetic' Purposes.
The Lions Munched The Broncos 42-17. The Lions added Two More Touchdowns Late. Jahmyr Gibbs Ran In a touchdown To Put The Lions Up 35-10. He Finished With 11 Carries For 100 Yards and Two Catches For 8 And A Touchdown. Sam Laporta had Three Touchdowns, Including The Lions Ensure Teams In The NFC, Can, Laporta Caught 5 Catches For 56 Yard On The Game.
La Porta is Too Big For Corner And Too Shifty For Linebackers.
Sean Payton expressed his Frustration Towards The Offside Call. He Even Took Some Of His frustration Out On Russell Wilson On the Sideline, But The Broncos Have Very Little To Feel Dour Or Ashamed ABOUT; They've Turned Around What Looked Like A Dead Season Earlier This Year. Wilson Finished The Game 18/32 For 223 Passing And One Touchdown. The Penalty did Help Seal a great Goal Line Stand By The Lions' Defense. With Just Three Games To Go And The Lions Face The Vikings Twice, The AFC North Looks Wrapped Up. The Broncos Still Have A Shot At The Playoffs, But They Need A lot Of Help in the future. They Had A Great Season Overall.
