Monday Night Football Review.
Falcons Vs Raiders
If You’re Going To Tank For Shedeur Or Ward The Way The Raiders and The Desmond Ridder Offense Just Tossed Away A Strong Performance From Their Defense which Allowed Them Falcons To Overcome Their Own Porous Offensive performance Serves As A Prime Example Of How To Put On A Tank Job. The Falcons’s Offense Underwhelmed Their Way To A 15-9 Victory Finally Snapping Their Four GAme Losing Streak But Leaving LAs Vegas No More Confirmed As A Non-Conetender Than When They Entered. Safety Jessie Bates Seals The Win With An End Zone Interception on A Late Game Drive By The Raiders. Las Vegas Added A Late Touchdown On A Ridder To Runningback Alert Abdullah's Catch And Run That Help The Game Look Close At The End. The Raiders At least Concealed Their “Tanking” By Signaling To The NFL That We Tried To Win Late Even If They Didnt Want To Damage Their Odds With an Ugly Third Win On The Season.
Kirk Cousins Completes Eleven Passes For 112 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, One Pick, And Took Four Sacks As Atlanta Shows They Belong Where They’ve Fallen In Recent Weeks. Bijan Robinson 22 Rushes For 125 Yards On The Ground. The Falcon's defense picked four sacks to go along with two picks based on their safety pairing of Justin Simmons and Jessie Bates III.
To Snap Their Four Game Losing Streak The Falcons Have An Easy Task Of Dispatching the Two-Win Raiders atlannta’s Playoff Hope in Raheem Morris’ Season Will Prove A Far Greater Challenge. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated The Chargers On Sunday Downing Virtually The Last Challenge The Bucs Will See This Season Maybe The Cowboys Decide To Get Feisty Next Monday. Falcons Quarterback Kirk Cousins Has Hit A Slump of Eight Interceptions And Zero Touchdowns In The Past Four games And Nothing Like One Of The league's Worst Defenses Absent Their Best Player Maxx Crosby. The Falcons Will Also Face Their Former Quarterback Desmond Ridder The Man Kirk replaced. Kirk Broke His Touchdown Drought When He Connected With Drake London For A 30 Yard Catch And Run For A Touchdown In The First Quarter. Still, The Raiders Defense Would Do Their Thing Holding The Falcons to Just a Touchdown In The First Half Despite Some Momentum and Some Good Field Position Atlanta’s Offense Would Stall Out. The Raiders Got Pressure On Kirk Cousins and Out Of The Half Cousins Throws A Pick On His First To One Of The Few Bright Spots On The Raiders Defense To Linebacker Robert Spillane. Desmond Ridder Remains One Of The Least Accurate Quarterbacks In Football And The Raiders Couldn’t Capitalize On Any Advantage Their Defense Handed Them. Ridder Would Finish With 208 Passing Yards on 23/39 Passing One Touchdown And two interceptions. The Raiders' Pass Rush Generated A Ton Of Pressure And sacked Falcons Passer Four Teams Without Maxx Crosby In The Game. The Falcons get Another Two teams in The Giants Before Facing The Commanders In A Game That Could End Their Season But The Commanders are One Of The Ostensibly Beatable Winning Teams In Football.
Vikings vs Bears
By The Time Chicago’s Offense Remembered That The forward Pass, Not The Check Down Or The Lateral Remains The Most Effective Way To Move The Ball The Vikings Had Already Capitalized On Two Early Turnovers San Darnold Improved His Argument For An MVP And The Vikings Get Win Number Twelve. The Bears recorded their First Touchdown Of The Game Mid Way Through The Fourth Quarter And All Caleb Williams Could Do After The Fourth Down was Bullet To Keenan Allen and Sulk. No Celebration Just an Expression Of Flabbergasted Settled On His Face As The Bears Finally Broke The End Zone On a Long Day After The Shortest Drive Of The Game. The Vikings Offense Score Three a Touchdown Despite The Bears Terrorizing Sam Darnold for Most Of The Game On Way To A 30-12 Victory Over The Bears. The Vikings Notch Their First 12-Win Season Since The Late 90s.
As Fans And Football Analysts The Future Of Sam Darnold Continues To Pervade The Season. Darnold Has Played Well In Stretches Before But We’ve Never Gotten This Far With Homs We’ve Uncharted Territory With Darnold As We Enter The Playoff Him Leading An NFC Contender Into A Potential NFC Championship Run. in The Year Of The Quarterback Turnaround As We are Witnessed Quarterbacks like Geno Smith and Baker Mayfield Spin Their Career From Potential Long Term Back Ups To Super Bowl We’ve Witness Darnold Emerged Amongst That Group And He Could Now Live Up To His First Round Billing And Earn A Contract Around $40 Million Per Year Guy. The Bears Believed They Solved Their Term Quarterback Jam With Caleb Williams And Yes Williams Has Looked Like A Stud But He Gains A Little Too Much confidence and then Reverts To Pumpkin-Ish Ways. for A stretch Overd Their First Three Bears Offense Looked Respectable. The Running Game With D’Andre Swift Would Get The Bears Ahead Of the Chains but 0-3 On Third Down And A Failed Forth Down Conversion Along with A Sack Fumble Would Give The Vikings Two Short Fields To Start The Game. The Bears Defense Held The Vikings To A Field Goal but The Vikings Second Drive Off The Sack Fumble resulted In a Justin Jefferson Touchdown From Sam Darnold On A Seven-yard Dart To Conclude A 5 Play 39 Yard. Sam Darnold Looked Ready To Enter The MVP Conversation Before He Threw An Interception On The Vikings' Third Drive Inside The Chicago 30 On A Fourth And Three. I Understand The Vikings Having The Bears On The Ropes And Wanting To Go In For The Kill But Entranced By The Deep Ball Missed A Few Opportunities and Tried The Old “Justin Jefferson’s Down There Somewhere” And The Move Failed. The Vikings Get The Ball Back This Time Settling For A Field Goal Before Half Ending A 13 Play 58 Yard Drive. Even As The Bears’ rushing Attack Pick Up Yards The Vikings Defense Still Forced Punts Whenever Chicago Turned To Caleb Williams. The Bears Went 0-5 On Third Down In The First Half. Williams Completed 7/9 For 60 Yards But Only Attempted Two passes At Five Or Better Air Yards Completing Just One at Five Yards Nearly All Of His Other Attempts Came Behind The Line Of Scrimmage. The Vikings Take A 13-0 Lead Into The Second Half On The Strength Of Sam Darnold 16/27 For 150 Passing. Caleb Williams Would Find Better Luck with The Deep Ball In The Third Quarter First Hitting Keenan Allen For A 26 Yard Completion That Would Result In A Bear’s Punt. On the Bears' Next Drive Williams Would Connect with Rome Odunze On Second Down for 29 Yards. The Bears's second Drive Of The Third Quarter Would Result In A Nullified Touchdown And The Vikings' Defense held in The End Zone Forcing A Field Goal. A Blocked Punt In The Fourth Quarter Gifts The Bears Offense A Short Field, Caleb Williams Completes 2/6 Passes For 27 Yards Both To Keenan Allen To Get Chicago Their First Touchdown Of The Game. The Vikings' Running back Aaron Jones and Cam Akers Would Both score yard touchdowns as The Vikings Close This One Out 30-12. Darnold Played Solid In Stretches Finishing 24/40 For 231 Passing Yards, One Passing Touchdown One Pick. Caleb Williams 18/31 For 191 Passing Yards One Passing Touchdown. Keenan Allen 6 Catches For 82 Receiving Yards One Touchdown. Williams's Play Improved As The Game Progressed But The Vikings Had Already Assume Total Control Of The Game.
