NFL Takeaways Week 14(total).
Hey, Buccaneers Offensive Coordinators, Take A Long Gander At That Christian McCaffrey Touchdown. Watch How He knifes Behind Blocker, Who Crave Out Double Team And Pave A Way Into The Second Level. In The Words Of Vegeta, "Let me Show You How It's Done." Thats How You Run And Block An Inside Zone Run; Next, Hopefully, Bowles Doesn't Defend A Shanahan Staple So Poorly.
I Parsed Through Quarterback Stats Briefly Last Week. Jungling Lines Of Thought And Low ANd Below Tm Brady Caught My Attention. Amid His Worse Professional Season At Age Forty-Five, He Still Leads The League In Passes Attempts And, For THe Briefest Moment, The Best interception rate (0.4). If Brady Stayed On Taht Pace, He Could Rival Aaron Rodgers's NFL Best In History of 0.2. Of Course, Brady Didnt, Actually, After Throwing Just Two In His First Interceptions in The First Eleven, He's Thrown Three In The Past Two. The Bucs Played A Risk Averse offense Early In The Season As The Awaited for The Football gods To Play Some "Graceful Charity" And Restore The Receiver Core To Full Strength. The Bucs Need Points To Remain Relevant, And After "Burning" Up 17 Points On Two LAte Touchdowns Against The Saints, The Risk Factor Had To Rise. In A Season Renowned For NFL Teams Disregard For Offense, Play Callers Have Turned The Corner, and Defenses won't Let Them Hide Their Liabilities Behind Run Blockers. Brady Still Finished The Weekend With The Most Passing Attempts. Dont Let Shannon Sharpe's Sacregilious Tirade Fool You, Brady HAs In No way Falling Off. He Surely Blew A Touchdown Throw To Mike, But The Bucs Suffer From Greater Scheme Woes.
Please, Can We Get One Day Of 2016-17 Julio Jones? Please. Just One Day When The Ball Doesn't Fall Lifelessly At His Feet.
Week 14 Of, The And We're Talking About Two Pictures; The Playoff Picture And The Draft Picture. The NFL Place Six Teams On A Bye As The League Looks To Seize The Eyes Of Christmas Day Viewers As Holidays Approach.
No Worries, Most Of The NFL 32 Have Schism Into One Or The Other Bowl-- Some teams Have Both. The Playoff Field In Conference Looks Set Only Position Remains A Of The Coin Toss, A Field Goal, Or The Probability Of Winning A Close Game When Your Leading This Season. The Chargers Could Theoretically Make A Run To The Hunt, But Don't Count On That Happening.
The Jets Are In Playoff Mode From Here On Out, And They Build Momentum Off Of This Final Stretch. Coach Robert Preaches Game To Game, Snap To Snap Presence, But Eventually, Those Veneers Fade Away. They're Facing The Suddenly Falling Like Lightning Bills Which Bide Well For zone Mike White. The Last Time The Jets New Starter Faced The Bills, she Threw Four Inceptions Last Season. For A Moment, The Magic That Turned The Frog Into The Prince--Just A Metaphor, Not A reflection Of My Opinion Of White Faded Into Dust.
The Reality Of A Back Up Posing A starter Came Shattering Through The Fourth Wall. This, of course, Isn't The Jets Teams Or The Bills Teams. Last Season The Bills Were The Best Team Defending The Pass(163 Passing Yards Per Game). This Year, They Down A Ranks, 17th(218.3). The Defense Still Hold Passers To 6.7 Per Pass and Getting Healthier, But They're Not As Effective As Last Season. The Jets Defense They've Stolen The Bills Blanket From Last Year, 6th Rank Passing Yardage, and The Best Graded Coverage Corners. The Jets And Their Neighbors, The Giants, Have The Only Playoff Spots Up For Grabs.
The Jets Defense Brought The Kryptonite Out of Pocket For This Game. You Know How Batman Keeps A Piece Just In Case Superman Starts Feeling Himself. Josh Allen And The Bills Offense Looked Drained. Josh Allen Started One Of Six, The Punted For Five Straight Drives. Fortunately, The Bills Defensive Line, Absence of Von Miller, Beat Mike White Like A Goat Skin Drum In Bahamian Junkanoo Season. The Bills Four Sacks Hit White Like Nine. Both Offenses Struggle To Find A Rhythm In This Game.
White Had To Sit A Series, In Obvious Discomfort, With A Chest Injury. Joe Flacco Stepped In To Continue The Jets Umbrage Against Offense. A Block Punt Made The end Result Of This Game more Intriguing Than The Play. In Three, Mike Has Almost Accumulated 1000 Yards After His Gutsy 27/44 268 Passing Performance. Still, He Hasn't Registered a Passing Touchdown For The Jets In Two Games. The Chargers Are Monitoring His Plays Carefully.
The Bills Stay Ahead Of The Chiefs For The Number One Seed Home Field Advantage, And The Bye. However, They Continue to Lose A Healthy Out Look Heading Into The Playoffs. Josh Allen Finished Just 16 Completions For 147 Passing Yards. Strangely Both New York Teams Are On The Cusp Of Losing Their Playoff Position After Encouraging Emerging As Promising Developments Early In The Season.
Browns Vs. Bengals
Now That the Brown And Deshaun Have Gotten Those pancakes Out of The Way, There's an Opportunity Coming HereAgainst A Division Rival To Showcase The Best Of Cleveland's Full Barracks. The Two Forces of Watson Had A Lot Of "Feeling" Out, Like A Sparring Match. Watson To Mesh With His Teammates And His Play-caller Stefanski.
"Knowing How They're Going To Come Out. Where There Going To Come Out. How They're Going To Be." Watson Said To The Media about His Coalescing With The Offense, Joining Like Voltron.
"We All Run At A Different And We Have To Get Him[Deshaun] Acclimated."
He, Again, Deshaun, Needs That Same Understanding With O-Line And So Forth.
Watson concluded His First Game Back In Houston With Possibly The Worse Stat Line Of His Career. Im Talking 12 of 22 passes for 131 yards, with no touchdowns and a 53.4 passer rating. Jordan Didn't Look Like The League MVP, 33 Points Per Game Scorer When He Returned With The 45 on His Back Either. Now That And All Of The. Externalities Of Playing A Former Team In Return Have Subsided.
The Browns Ultimately Didn't need Him To Beat The Worse Team In The League. Suppose Cleveland Hopes To Make Good Of The Watson Trade and Not Become A Prove Example Of Overzealousness And Hand Houston Top Ten Pick. In that case, They'll Need More Than Puzzle Jig-Zaw Man We Saw Sunday.
Deshaun Understood That Nick Chubb And The Run Game Eat First, And Sumptuous Opportunities To Crank Up The Passing Game Will Come as More Sundays Cross Over The Calendar.
"It's just going to get better from here on out." —Amari Cooper Confidence Or Chatter Until Proven Otherwise. The Bengals Are Coming In Hot, Winners Of 6 Of Their Last 7. In That Span, Joe Burrow has Thrown For Over 1830 Yards(Only Mahomes Has More), Completed 71. 7 Of His Passes Thrown 13 Touchdowns And 3 Interceptions. Deshaun Played His Best Of Two Games This Season On Sunday. His First Touchdown As A Brown. First 200 Yard, But He Looked No Better. After Putting The Browns Two Scores In The First Half, The Bengals Force The Ball Browns Into A Dimensional Passing Attack. Drive after Drive Kevin STEFANSKI offense Turn To Shot Gun After ShotGun Possession Deshaun Watson Finished 26/42 for 276 yards And The First Touchdown Of The New Era. Watson Got A Little Over Aggressive there. Near The End, Safety Jessie Bates Made a Great Jump On A Ball And Picked Off A Pass Intended For DPJ. The Offensive Line Didn't Help Matters, with 26 Pressures Total For The And Three Sacks.
The Bengals Force The Brown Into Jungle Rules, and Joe Burrow Just Had The Hotter Hand. The Bengals Just Out Played The Browns TEAMs That's Had Their Number Dating Back To The Baker Mayfield Days.
Are The Bengals The Best Team in the AFC? Joe Mixon Finished With His Best Stat Line All Season, 14 Carries, 96 Yards, 6.9 Per Rush On Day When The Browns' Superior Rush, By All Standards, Had Nothing Going. Nick Chubb got stuck to the Deshaun Watson Show with Just 14 Carries against A Tough Defense; not Bad, But 34 Yards at 2.4 A Carry. "Couldn't Get The Run game Going." Kevin Stefanski Pointed After The Game. Outside Of Donavan People-Jones, The Brown Got No One Really Going. David Njoku Caught a Touchdown, But The Bengals Secondary Kept Amari Cooper Out Of The Game.
Eagles Vs. Giants
Jalen Hurts Believes In Climbing. "The Only Way Is To Climb." Climbing: Moving Up To High Pointed Of Vertical Object Or Structure sounds Arduous. Two-and-a-half years ago, The Eagles Draft A Contingency Plan, A Semblance Of A Challenger, A Wind To Kick Start The Human Obelisk Carson Wentz. Instead, with The 53rd Pick, The Eagles Got A Leader, a Solution, A Star A MVP.
Hurts Has Put All The Reps And Monologues Together For His Best Season. Even Established Stars alike AJBrown, Pro Bowl Wide Receiver, Recognizes Hurts As The Teams Leader. "He Does A Great Job Leading The Team. He's A Great Leader." The Question, The Reporter Ask, Didn't Inquire About Hurts Leadership Rather, The Reporter wanted To Gauge Browns' View Of Hurts As The League MVP. That Debate Has Tightened As The Closing Weeks Approached. Hurts is Always Ahead Of Defenders On The Ground and Has The Edge To Climb Over Patrick Mahomes. The Reporter Original Ask Brown About Hurts Potential To Win MVP. I've Seen Many Player Rise From "Question Mark" Status To Starter Or Star But Never MVP—Maybe Kurt Warner In 1999. Brown byPassed The Question Like He Would A Jab From A PressMan Defensive Back. He's Not Going To put That "Pressure" On His Teammate, His Friend, or His Family. But it Hurts I Can't Avoid The Pressure. As he Climbs, The Pressure Mounts. Hurts Can Venture Through The Aisle Of Stoicism In Every Press Conference Trying To Fight The winds And Try To Not Get Too Up Or Down In Any Case. "You'll never get to a point where you say, 'I've arrived.' From The Onset Of this Division Game, You Sense, The Eagles Defensive Line Throttled Up Into Takeover Mode. If Not For Age, You Can't find fault with The Eagles D-Line You Cant Find Too Much Fault. They Rush Five Nearly Every Down, A Brought the Ruckus To Daniel Jones's Pocket Twice On The First Drive, Scooping The Giants Off The Field In Three Plays And Little Over Two Minutes. Credit Coaching Fir The Game Plan For The Offense. Hurts And Crew Took Q And Ate The Clock Like Cookie Monster On Whole Foods Cookie Dough And Ate Up The Clock. The Eagles Went Up 14-0, Dominating The Early, 13:7, First 20 Mins; then The Deluge Came Down. Have You Ever Watch A Nature Show Like a National Geographic Dhow And Seen A Deer startled at The Sight Of A Lion? That's How The Giants Looked At The Half. The Eagles D-Line Finished With 8 Sacks and 33 Pressures.
You Get That Tentative Feeling From The Giants, "We Don't Want This Right Now." After Playing The Game Square out Of Halftime, The Eagles Went Straight to Golbin Mode. They Added Three More Scores To The Three Score— That Brief Resembled Two—All Cap Off By A 49 Yard Miles Saunders Run That Put The Eagles Up 41-14. The Eagles Had No Trouble Moving The Ball; they gave an Access Pass. The Run Game Lead The Way 253 Total Lead By Miles Saunders 144 Yards. The Eagles As A Team have 8.2 Yards Per Rush; that's (Nearly)Good Enough To Match The Most Effective Passing Average On The Day.
The Runners Didn't Have All The Fun; the Bomb Squad Rolled Two Deep Touchdowns.
Hurt took The Offense On A Casual Spin. In Complete Control Of The Game—Honestly, He Looked Like a Quarterback Going Through Walk Through—Undeterred By The Pass Rush On The Drop back And Spun A Rainbow Into The Open, Waiting Hands Of AJ Brown.
A Total Of 294 Yards Of Offense21/31 217 passing yards, 7 Carries For 77 rushing yards, Three Touchdowns, two passing touchdowns, and one rushing touchdown.
They're Going To Need One Next Week Against The Commanders If The Hope To stop This Losing skid.
The Giants Haven't Now Lost All Of Their Division Games All Season.
The NFC East Still Has Four Winning Teams. You Can See The Wedge Between The Elite And The Good Enough Stretch Deeper And Deeper. "We've Got Bigger Goals. So It's On To The Next One." Coach Nick Siriani.
Seahawks Vs. Panthers
In Marvel Comic, There Exist This Cool-Villain Hero-Genius-god-King-Technical Wizard, A Being. A Human Being With Ten Thousand Names but Only One Name That Resonates Through His Exploits And Opposition, and "Kang The Conqueror ." Perhaps You've Heard Of This Kang Recently; come Across His Name A time Or Two. He's The Next Big Bad Guy To Threatened The Marvel Universe. Kang Has Indiscriminate Motives. His Agenda Changes and Follows Him As He Battles Himself, Different Entities, and Time. ("Centuries of Conflicting Timeline Playing On My Head.”) Kang Not Your Traditional "Baddie." He's not an Alien Warlord, A Mad Scientist, An Arms Dealer, Or A Spurned Family Member. He's A love Stricken Maniac Obsessed With First Him-selves(All The Timelines), His Future, His Past, Time, Control, and The Conquer Of Where the Feature Of His Life Crossover. His Greatest Adversary For one "Plans," Kang Must thrive In Disorder. Kang desires To Write Himself A New Story In The Marvel Universe. Teaching And Terrorinzing His Former Self To Prevent Himself From Learning the Sullen Reality Of Their Future. Many People Can Relate To The Ambition To Rewrite One's Won Narrative; some People Have Succeeded Better Than Others.
In 2013, a Young Man Sat In A Seat Out I New York And Waited. That's Not an Uncommon Picture; that Picture Exists As The Day-To-Day For Many In The Busiest City On Earth. This Young Man Didn't Sit Waiting On A Train, Or Cab Or Fall The New Year's Eve Countdown, Or Coffee Even; he Waited To Hear His Name. He Waited To See His Dreams Come True. A Day Later, He Heard His Name Called. Almost A Decade Later, His Dreams Came Through. "Hang in there, Geno, "good things come to those who wait" -Paul Tagliabue—A Tweet From Aaron Rodgers That Faithful Night. They Say One Of The Greatest Quandary To Unravel In Life, A Struggle That Could Tear You Asunder, Whether To Keep Waiting Or Give Up. We Now Know The Answer from What We've Gather From Geno Smith In 2022.
"At any rate, Smith will get drafted and can still develop into the cornerstone of an NFL franchise in need of a fresh start under center." (Bleacher Report)
Two Former Jets Quarterbacks Meet On Sunday. Both Have Football Career Forged Through The Darkest Years Of The Jets Franchise. Both Stricken By The Trials And Expectations That Come With The High Profile New York Lights. Both Forlorn In Ineptitude Burned By Failure, Glory, And Malice Face off In An NFC Battle.
Both are On Opposite ends Of Rewriting Their Narratives and Inscribe On Them Like Branding.
Geno Smith Has Completely Penned A NewScript For His Football Life. You Should Know He Never Pick Up And Wrote Back. At 31 Years Of Age, Having Spent A Year Of His Career Out Of The League, and The Clipboard Warrior, Geno Smith Has Risen From Forgotten Cast From To A Top Five Quarterback. The Former second Round Pick, The Last Man In Green Room In 2013, Has The Numbers This Season. Third In Yard Per Attempt(8.1), Fourth In Touchdowns(22), Number One In Completion Percentage(72.7), And Second In Passer Rating(108.7) And Passing EPA(64.8), According To ESPN—Seemingly Out Of Nowhere.
He Looked Overexposed In His Time With The Jets. Completely Done Giants And A Clipboard Cut With The Seahawks Before Russell Wilson's Injury.
What's Strange, He Doesn't Look Terribly Different As A Passer Since The Start Of His Career.
"Nothing Changes About Geno." Wide Receiver DK Metcalf Said To The Media. "Geno Is Going To Be Geno," Metcalf Spoke In Reflection Of Smith's Play All Game Long (2-Min Drill Or Otherwise), But The Quote Also Speaks To His Career Arc. Looking Back Over That Moment With Smith In The Greenroom. An Ink-let, An Iota In The Moment Existed When Smith Didn't Stay When His Patience Ran Thin And He Almost Left. Maybe He Looks Back On That Moment As That Faithful Seed Of Faith Change The Trajectory Of His Career. What If Geno Hadn't Stayed. As It Stands, Geno Stand As A Testament Against Time, As Did Kang.
He's Bread Himself Through A Journey Of Patience And Develops. Few People May Remember His DowncaSt Day As A Jets Cast Off. Even His Short Stint As The Seahawks Starter Last Season In Russell Wilson Stead. Yet He's A Story Of Relative Perseverance And How A Change Of Scenery And a Circumstance Can Change Any Outlook. What's Behind The Most Recent Of Improbable Comebacks? Simple, Don't Write Back.
Sam Darnold Will Have To Follow Geno's Path. The Panthers Starter, Former Number 4 Pick, Came Back From The Written Off And Into Another Chapter As A Team Lead.
" Preparing For When Your Time Comes To Play… Taking It One Snap At A Time." Darnold Told The Media. Aside From Smith, Darnold Will Also Look across From Tariq Wholen, Seattle Ball Hawking Corner. His Six Interceptions Would Usually Make Him The Favorite For Rookie Of The Year, If Not For Corner Who Plays For Darnold's Old Team. Wholen Holds Unto Pass And The Highest Voting For Pro Bowl. The Panthers Climb Up To The Nest, Into The Domain Of The 12, And Took Home A Win. Even If Geno Smith Doesn't Write, He Should Still Complete His Homework On The Panthers, Especially The Part That Says Don't Test Jaycee Horn. Since Returning From Injury, The Former Number 8th Pick Has Completed The Cornerback Equation, And No One Tests Him Too Much. Horn Force Smith Who Enter Wit One Of The Lowest INTERCEPTION rates(1.5) But Got Shoehorned Into A Early One To Horn. The Panthers' Offense Got Two Extra Drive And 19 More Plays Ran Because Of the 0:2 Turnover Differential. The Panthers Also Got 223 Yards On The Ground And Dominate Time of Possession, nearly 2:1(39:16,20:44). Lead By Chubba Hubbard And Donta Foreman. The Panthers Run Game Didnt Give Smith Too Many Chance To Atone For that Miscue That Made the Difference In A Score Game.
Comeback Stories Are En Vogue. After Suffering Through Humiliating and Pathetic Loss After Loss, The Panthers Have The Sputtering Bucs In Sight. The Panthers Have Written A Treatise A Started Rebellion Against The Narrative With This Late Season's Run. A Roster Dearth Of Talent, Set A Drift My A Former Coach And His Misguided Notion Of Culture Building instead Install A Motif Of a Fierce. Time Resilient Bunch Writing A Disquisition Against Who Wrote Off Into The Bode Of The Damned. Panther Won 30-24. This Loss For The Seahawks Shakes A Few Odds of Lose In The Playoff Picture.
Lions Vs. Vikings
The Lions Are In An Intriguing Position This Late In Season, A Position where Winning Doesn't Help. The Lions Lost Some Real Close Matchups Early But Have that Around and Won four of their last five games, including a Win Over The Giants That Stretch And Tightened Both Teams Playoff Odd. I Know Coach Dan Campbell Has Job Security Concerns. Companies In 2022 Just Started Its Second Or Third Endless Spiral Of Layoff, So This Isn't The Time To Lose a Jon. Still, He Needs To Take One For The Team Here. I'm Not Advocating Tanking, But Don't Win. If Thursday Night Taught Us Anything, The Rams Wouldn't Sheppard A Top Three Pick To The Lions. ( I Knows That Sentence Relayed An Awkward Piece Of Imagery.) Both The Eagles and Seahawks Have Top Ten Picks In This Year's Draft Lined Off For Them Thanks To shrewd, Advantageous Trade. Many Other NFC Hopefuls Are Beginning To Push Down, Opening Up Their Roster. The Falcons Have Made a Long-Awaited Move At Quarterback. The Eagles and Seahawks Are set For a Good Harvest Now And Into Tomorrow. The Lions Should Look To Hunt Another Helping Of High Draft Pick. Either For Talent Accruement Or Trade Capital. The Last Time The Lions Meet The Vikings, Week Three Win For Minnesota, Tight End TJ Hockenson Stood On The Detroit Sideline, He's Now A Viking And Looking forward To His Return. Rookie Jameson Williams Also Stood On The Detroit Sideline Inactive, Recovering From ACL Surgery. The Lions Active Him Last Week, And He's Sure To See More Action Against A Rival Vikings Team Average To Terrible Defending The Pass. Lions Quarterback Jared Goff has a follow-up to his second-best game of the season: a two-touchdown, 340 Yard Affair Against The Jaguars With a 115.9 Passer Rating.
The Vikings Secondary Surrenders Around A 100.6 Passer Rating. The Lions Have Voiced Their Commitment To Goff Going Into The Future, "Period" (Caresha Voice). Patrick Peterson And Harrison Smith—The Vikings Beat Blankets and Cover Guys— Are Going To Funnel Most of Their Attention To Amon-Ra St.Brown. Bronw Now Has The Fourth Best Receiving Grade According To PFF. The Lions Lost A Close Game To Vikings In Week Three, The Last Minute Touchdown The Difference—The Vikings Have Charted The Seas Of Seven More Such Wins Since Then. The Debate Will Rage Until The End Of Tempe Season, But The Vikings Players In That Locker Can Answer Whether They're A Good Team Or Otherwise. The Game By Game Model Has Now Carved The Position As The Correct Way To Judge A Season. Today The Vikings Weren't Good Enough. Kirk Cousins's 425 Yards, Justin Jefferson's total Eclipse Of Passing Fire Works Didn't Add Up To "Enough."
A Weird Goal Line Fumble By Dalvin Cook Cost The Vikings A Opportunity To Tie The First Half. Cook Finished With 15 Carries and 23 Yards, and Outside Of That Majestic Touchdown Where He Cut In and Cuts Down A Lions Defender, He Made An "Infinitesimal" Imprint On The Vikings Offense. Just One Catch 13 Yards For One Of The Best Offensive Weapons In The Game.
The Lions Had Their Offense Clicking On All Cylinders. They Put Their 305 Pound Offensive Lineman Penei Sewell, In Motion On A Crucial Third Down. For Reference, The 49ers Use Their Offensive Tackle Trent Williams In Similar Formations, Out Of The Back Field Last Season, But Never As A Pass Catcher.
The Wide Receiver Corp Showed Their Full Fangs Against The Worse Passing Defense In The Lewis's. DJ Chark Had His Second Straight Game Of 90 Yards Or More, Finishing With 94 YARDS on 6 CatchesAND a Passer Rating of 158.3 on 2.54 Yard Per Route Run. Rookie Jameson Williams Caught
His First Pass, First Touchdown, and First Down Field Strike Of His Young Career. The Vikings Defensive Back Field Didn't Get The All Points Bulletin. That's To Look for Williams as a Flight Risk, Camryn Bynum He Caught The Winning Interception against The Jets and Got Caught For Surrendering Two Touchdowns.
The Vikings Will Have To Wait Another Week To Seal Away The Division. The Lion Improve On Their Shot Odds To Make The Playoffs.
Chargers Vs. Dolphins
The Chargers Saw The Phin, Fin(?)… Fin Of A Competitive Roster Last Year. Brandon Staley Squad Finished 9-7. The Losers Of A Soul Squeezing Game To The Texans In Week 15 Before Losing In Dream Shattering Fashion To The Raiders Weeks Later, That Officially Ended Their Dreams. The Vicissitudes For A New Era Of Spasmodic Chargers Relevance Lay Still A The Raiders Penciled In One Field Goal. Wanting To Swim In The Bowl Of Competitors, The Chargers Took The Bait On The Big Fish In The Off-season. They Spent Lavishly Trying To Cure The Bends From Getting Blasted And To Shreds Up the B- Gap Over and Over By The Texans.
The Chargers Spent Upwards Of $284.2 million in new contracts, $158.3 million fully guaranteed Of 284.2, 202.3 million total, and $108.2 million fully insured. The Chargers Expunged To Acquire Defensive Heavyweights Like Khalil Mack and J.C. Jackson and 24 Million Per To Keep Safety Derwin James, The quarterback's Of The Defense, Treated Like So. The Offense Already Rank Top five. A Few Tweaks To The Defense And Look A Ready Made Contenders Like Their SoCal Rival The Rams. Expectation In Los Angeles Went Sky High For The Chargers, And Since The Chargers Only Imploded. The Dolphins And Tua Are Looking To Bounce Back For The First Time This Season, And A 6-6 Chargers Might Serve As The Right Prescription. The Chargers Are Looking To Get Their Hands On The Dolphins, Box Them Out Any Chance of A Rebound In Hollywood.
Football Fans Are Divided Into Two Equally Important Categories; Those WHO Think Justin Herbert Will Continue To Rise Into The Best Quarterback In The League And Others Who Think Not.
The Chargers Quarterback Has A Nice Canon Arm Like Cyborg From Teen Titans.
The Chargers Offense Holds Him Back. BooYah! I Fall Into The latter Category. I Admit I Fell For Tye Play I Saw In His First Two Years. This Year With A More Critical Nose For Quarterbacking, Hasn't Looked as Good. He's Still Raw And Doughy. He Navigates the Pocket Like a Toddler In A Play Pen As If His Next Steps Are Worked out In The Moment And Not In The Natural Flow Of Things. Not To Mention He Inability To Throw With Touch Or Finesse. He Only Has Two Throws, Two Arrows; Long, Like Really Long, Downfield And behind Or At The Line Of Scrimmage. He's So Toolsy. A Man Rich with Such Natural Resource And Ability, like A Oil Rich, Destabilized Third World Country(Sorry, That's Facts). You Have To Wonder What Herbert Could Become One Given The Right Direction. The Chargers Upset The Dolphins, Certainly. I Never Thought Tua Should've Usurp Herbert For The Nominal, Coveted Second Place Position Amongst Third Year Quarterbacks. Analysts, And Plaudits Alike Make Those determinations. Football World We're Comparing 12 Games Of Solid Production To The Most Pass Yards In A Quarterback's First Three Seasons. A Five thousand Just A Season Ago. I've Always Been Tua Agnostic. I've Always Felt His The Gaudy Numbers We're Inflatable Like Album Streams, inflated By The Mind Behind Him And The Legs Flying In Front Of Him. At Some, I Expected That 9.6 Air Yard zit Regress. Tua Started his Career Around 6.5 Of Year Ago. I'm not saying He Doesn't have the Ability; I'm Just Exhausted Of The Medias Creation Of Superior Talent. Tua Followed Up His Previous Worse Finish To A Game Against The Niners 18/33, 54.5, 295 Yards, 79.7 Rating With 10/28 35.7 Completion Percentage, 65.3 Rating, 145 Yards(60 Of Which Came On One Play) And One Touchdown; Looking All The RPu-A.
The Chargers Defense, Even At Full Strength, Nowhere Compares To Chargers. Tua Spoke About Having Communication Issue With His Receiver This Week Affecting His Accuracy. Nevertheless, Check the Presses Tomorrow Tua Will Lead The League In Apologist.
The Offensive Play Calling Continues To Skew and Stretch The Limits of Tua's Arm Strength With More Toward Tyreek Hill. Tua Finished Sunday With The Highest Average Air Yard Differential (-4.4). A Next-Gen Stat That Indicates If Passer Attempts Deeper More Frequently Than He Completes. Hill, Who Leads The NFL In Receiving Yards, Eats The Lions' Share Of Tua Targets Tonight. It Was No Different 10 Targets, 4 Catches, And 81 in One Of Lest Heralded Games; No Other dolphin Had More Than Four. Tyreek Also Syphoned Both Of The Dolphins Offensive highlights; A 57 Yard Scoop And Score And A 60 Yard Touchdown Pass.
Meanwhile, Justin Herbert Threw In His Best Game Of The Season, 367 yards, 39/51, 76.5 Percent Completion One Touchdown. A Terrible Amount Of Completion Happen Behind The Line Of Scrimmage, with 4.1 Completed Air yards. That Completion Has some Inflation On It. passing and touchdown.
Yeah, But I Already Wrote The Piece... I Have To Put It Somewhere
Rams Vs. Raiders
"Are you an actor?" Cliff says, "No, I'm a stuntman." —Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Starring Baker Mayfield.
The Big Win.
We All Love The Big Win. The One Win Where A Children's Movie Producer Could Have Drawn Up The Outcome Everyone Presumed. The Formalities Come Through To Correct Themselves Along The Way. The Stars Align Until The Final Moments. "I didn't think it was going to play out like this." the Man Of The Moment Baker Mayfield Said. The Stars Did Align But For Whom.
The Win. All The Moments That Lead To The Final Moments Are Rising To Conclusion; Everything Just Fall Together. The Adrenaline Bumps Just Crack, And Everything
Except You And Your Are At A Stand Still.
"Welcome To LA." Thursday Night Football.
On A Thursday Night In Los Angeles, Two NFL Teams Bordering On The Outskirts Of Relevance Came Into SoFi Stadium With Much More On The Line Than a Game And Change In Position In The Win-Loss Column. The Rams Are Not Having A Championship Hangover Type Season. They're Stone Cold Sober. Sean McVay, To His Credit, Has A Prideful Bunch of The Reigning Champs, For What It's Worth, For At least Two Months.
For The 3-9 Rams Are Down Bad. Critical Stars who The Team Leverage Their Chips Against have Suffered Injuries leaving An Already Thin Roster Hemorrhage Of Any Competitive Overview. The Adage "You Are What You're Record Says You Are." has Holes, But For The 3-9 old Adage Hold True. No Matthew Stafford, No Cooper Kupp, No Aaron Darnold, With Conspicuous Reason(Other Than Preventing The Lions From Capitalizing On Someone Else's Aggressiveness), The Rams Showed Up To Put Their Best Efforts Forward. So Desperate For A Spark, The Rams Signed Baker Mayfield, The Former Number Whose Learning His Third Playbook After The Browns And Panthers Moved On From Him. How Many Quarterbacks Have Started For Three Different Teams In One Calendar year? A Gutted Rams Roster Highlighted By A Cast Off Quarterback They Signed And Trusted More Their Long Time Whose Eaten Most Of The Teams Rep Over Coming Who Last A Script Of Plays In The Game. I Know Things Felt Awkward For Richard Sherman, 's Who Had To Eat His Recent Comments As A Proud Doubter And Detractor Of Baker Mayfield. Nobody, Including The Defense, Came Prepared For Baker To Man Down 8 Drives Of The One The Leagues Worse Offense And Came Out Of Top Of A Competitive Team. On The Opposite End Of A Big Win, An Oxygen Sucking Loss.
The Raiders Riding The Curtails Of A Three-Game Win Streak. The Rams On Losing Streak Twice as Long. The Raiders Piling On Pressure With Maxx Crosby and Chandler Jones Finally Living Up To The Billing At Least For One Week. The Offense Ranks Sixth In Yards Per Play, A Factoid That Didn't Travel with the Raiders In This Game.
In this Game Of Middling Team, Defensive Penalties Aside, The Raiders Choked. The Raiders Are a Common Fixture Amongst The Most Penalties Teams In The NFL. They finished second And Held Strong On Second This Season. The Raiders Have Won, Beating Good And Bad Teams Despite Acculturating Penalties Like It's No One's Business. No, The Jerry Tillery Unsportsmanlike Penalty. The Raiders Offense Stalled Out In three Times; One Touchdown, Two Feild Goals, And An Interception. Josh Mc Daniels Play Calling Moved The Ball In The First Half. The Raiders Scored On Their First three Drives. But On Consecutive Drives Near The Goal Line, You Could Tell They Missed Their Big Target, Tight End Darren Waller, And Their Short Yardage Master Hunter Renfrow Both Out With Injuries. Without Any Other Primary Targets, They Could Shade Over Davante Adams And Force Carr Into Mistakes.
This Rams, Mostly Constituted as Is, Played The Seahawks Into A Tight Corner game Last Week And Almost Came Away With A Win. Of Course, The Secondary Got Smoke By Geno Smith, and The Seahawks Receiver Dances On These Guys.
The Rams Schemes With What They Had Available. The Latent Talent Of Van Jefferson and Ben Skowronek That Exist Somewhere Between The Line Came Play All Game. The Raiders Were CominG Off Of Their On Close Win Of Their own Against The Chargers And Beat The Seahawks Two Weeks Ago. Why Would Any Take Concern Or umbrage Of The Rams Down On Their Luck? None Of The Defensive Talent Seem To Dawn On The Raiders Coaching. Coming Out Of The Half Up Double Figures Seemed Just. Josh Jacobs, The Raiders Fourth Season Running who Whose Taking That Next Level Step and Entered The Best Back Conversation, Had His Worse Game, 99 Yards, 27 3.7 yards per rush. He Could Pick Up Two Or One On A Crucial Third Down In The Fourth. Jacobs Leads The League In Rushing First Down, And The Raider Had Eight On The Day. He Set The Tone In the Rush Game By Gaining 9 Of The Necessary Yardage.
Betting On Your Best Guy To Win In That Situation Added Up For McDaniels. What Makes Sense McDaniels Game Plan Felt All To Unimaginative Or Limited. The Raider Finished 5/13 On Third Down. The Rams Still Out-Pace The Raiders In Passing Yard(211-137). Baker Mayfield Went 22-of-35 for 230 yards With A passer Rating Of 89.1 Compared To Derek Carr, Who Attempted Just 20 passes In Offense. The Raiders Ran All Season On A Passer Rating Of 36.9. (Sacks Count Against The Team's Passing Yards, Not The Individual).
The Raider Offense Began On A High, BUT the Phantoms Of Their Struggles In Close Came Back To Haunt Them.
"We've got to be able to extend a lead if we have one and keep competing." McDaniels After The Game.
The Raiders Stop Playing To Win And Started Playing The Clock, Or The Clock Started Playing Against Them.
Despite A plethora Of offensive Candy To Dish Out, Josh McDaniels Punted The Ball Away To the Rams, Contented To Leave This Wrapping Up Of This Mess To The Defense. If The Rams Installed A Script For Mayfield, They would Save Most Of it For That Final 98 Yard Drive.
In The Second, Both Of The Offenses Looked like Frozen Carbonate. "Most of the game was ugly." Why The Raiders Weren't More Aggressive, Derek Carr Turned That Question Over To His Coach. A Red Flag As A Quarterback. He's There To Operate The Ship, But He Should, By This Point In His Career, Have More Input On The Offensive Direction. Don't Pilot Your Ship Into a Meteorite Shower Just Because That's Your Coaches Wishes.
Despite Mayfield's Obvious Ignorance Of The Rams PlayBook, His pigeon Toe Throwing Motion, And his History Of Inducing Turnover Madness, The Raiders Only Intercepted Him Once All Game. The An interception Which The Refs Stripped Away From The Assailant Duron Harmon Thanks To A Penalty. Baker Mayfield Playing about 1.3 Million In House Spun The Dial And The Football gods Answer With A Final Lasting Connection. He Opened up Carving Season On The Raiders Secondary. The Rams Scored A Most Improbable Win Against A Team In The Raiders Who Never Fears Putting In Probable Loss In The Hat. The Rams Season Ended When This Six Game Skid Started. Chiefs, Kreisler, and Snead, are noticeably quiet in most Of The Organizations. The Rams Are Playing For Pride, For Paycheck, For Hope, and Mostly To Keep The Lions From Securing A top Ten Pick On Their Behalf.
