NFL MidWay Power Rankings.

The Screen flashed And Glitch. All Around The World Became Still. All With The Alertness Of A Lightning Strike. Commanding A sudden Shudder. A Light buzz flushed Through the Speaker. Then It All went Dark. A Roar Rang Out From Below. It quickly Rosed. The belting of A Thousand Lions Bellowing In Unison; A thunderous Crescendo. Gasp. This is followed by A Break In Action. By The End Of It All, A Climatic thud.

The Game Was Practically Over. Tom Brady And all His Mythical Might. Left To Dismay. The Bucs Comeback Bid Against The Saints, Stunted. A Late 4th Quarter Interception That The word  “Uncharacteristic” can Only Begin To Elucidate. Resulting To A Pick-six And A Loud Blow. Brady’s Rapport With His Number 1 Wide Receiver Mike Evans, Is Not There. This Adds Another Wrinkle To be Smoothen Out. The Road To Repeat, Appeared Clearer Two Months Ago. Now It Is Blemished. New terrain Made For Unexpected Interferences Along the Course.  

 The First Quarter NFL Season, when The Bright Untainted Lights  Adorn Our Summer Muses, The Teams, With A “Virgin’s Glow.” Teams Charge Forth, out Of The Offseason. Complete With health And Vitality,  Rumbling Through The Tunnels unto The Field Into Our Living rooms Or In front of Fans In Stands, Claiming The Field’s Home Once Again —The Only  Time I’m Overwhelm With Envy—And Into The Heart And then Unto Our Note Pads, Forever The Objects Of Our Affections. (So Dreamy). This Is The Part Where I Write Sonnet About It All, instead I'll Defer To These Stats And Play-By-Play Background That Read With Ease And Study Of Shakespearean Portentousness.  


In The Beginning Team’s Are Channeling The Scribes And Inner Spirit Of Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, “Allow Me To reintroduced Myself, My Name Is….” The second Quarter Is When They Come Out Channeling Their Inner Aubrey “Drake” Graham, “I Stop Asking Myself and Started Feeling themselves” Unless Your Outside Of The Top 10, The It's Back To Jigga “it’s a Hard Knock Life for Us’.


The Past 4 weeks Has to Unearth some Truths. Who Is Playing Their Best Now? Who’s Gauging to Play Their Best come, Winter. And Those Treading on Thin Ice. The Raiders Lose ground In the AFC, Then Lose Their Head Coach. “I Didn’t Have To cut the Tie; It Severed Itself.” Week Seven Closed. The AFC Power Brokers Were “Playing Musical Chairs with These Squares.” I Can Hear The Chimes Of NFL Pundit Crying “come Back Baby” As The Watch The Chiefs Descent Into Madness. If Only To Forgo Having To BackTrack, every Time We Proclaim The Bills, Ravens Or Titans The Best In The AFC That The Formality Of A Dominant chiefs Made Formulaic Work Of The Constants Shuffling.  

Come Week Eight, It was All DMX, “Y’all Gone Make Me Lose My Mind.”

The Cardinal Took Home Their First Lost In A Bizarre Fashion With There Now Being No Unbeaten Teams. Two HOT NFC teams, But Neither Appear Dominant. A Toppled Bucs, That Is For The Most Right Where They Were Last.  The AFC Needs New Management Its All NFC Holding The keys And Driving The Playoff Push.

 

 

All Stats, Grades, Storylines Are Of Week 8, A Courtesy Of The Usual Suspects, Profootballfocus And ESPN, Unless Otherwise Stated—Guess What, It's Not Otherwise Stated.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

1.     Green Bay Packers. 7-1

“Hotter Than Grand Mama Crisco.”

That’s Seven in A Row and Counting. But If There Anything That can Humble Momentum, Its Human fragility. I Don’t Believe Anybody Can testify That They considered the Packers Finished After Week One.  Three Points The Product Of A Team With two MVP Caliber Candidates Couldn’t Be The Reality for This Team. I Don’t Think Anybody, Can Honestly Testify That Rodgers Had Lost All His “shuddering” Field tilting Passing Abilities. You Know. Rodgers Is Rolled Out, Off the Platform. Defenders Charging Him. Eyes Down Feild. The Passing window, The Greater Width Of An eye Of A Needle With A Corner Back closing In On Roddger’s Target, wHo Could Be Moving Parralell To Rodgers In Steps But This Unscripted Style In Best Orchestatred When The Pieces In Motion Are Scattered Across the Board. Rodger Exercises Exceptional Arm Strenght And A Mind-Bending Atering In Environment— I Am Professor Strange, This Is The Multiverse, here The Laws Of Physics Dont Reign—The Trajectory Of the Ball Is Changed Mid-Flight. Like A Pitcher In Baseball, Tossing A Change-Up, Or a Heater Pitch From The Base Of The Mound. The Curving, Unpredictability Of Ball MAnipulate As If It were An Extenstion Of His Person And His Extremities. Thats Rodgers, the MVP, On His worse Day. Week One The Packers Posted Three-Point Against The Saints. Since The Packers have Scored 189 On A 27 Average Per Offer in The Last 7. The Biggest Win Game week 8 Against Incomparable odds. The Against The Cards It took A Wire To wire Performance To Knock of The Only remaining Undefeated Squad in the NFL. Minus Devante Adams And Whomever those Arms And Legs Are Who Line Up Parallel to Him Along the Line The Scrimmage, i.e., Marquez Valdez-Scantling and Allen Lazard. Of course, It Showed. Rodgers Finished With 184 Yards, 22/37, 2 touchdowns 5.0 Per Attempt. The Offense Has Slowed To A Crawl. An Average Of 24 Points Per Contest Over The Last Three. One Caveat to All this winning Dishing Out. With the exceptions Of The Cardinal's win, Now The  Packers haven’t faced A team Projected to be In The Playoffs since The Saints, who were And Still Are On the  Middle Ground As Far as “contenders” Are concerned. The Cards Game Was a Fortunate turn Of A Events For A Packers Team Entering True Mid-season Form. But The Packers Won’t Be Creeping Up On Teams Moving Going Forward.

2.     Dallas Cowboys. 6-1

3.     Arizona Cardinals. 7-1

4.     Los Angeles Rams. 7-1

“No Hype. Real Thing.”

Lately, The rams Have Been Getting All of the Hoopla. Are they the Best Team In the League? Matthew Stafford Continued His Brilliant Inaugural Season In LA Sunday. Stafford Crossed the Jordan And Breaking The “Chasm” Through And Out Of Detroit, the Former Number Overall Pick Has Found Himself Along the Way To Unfamiliar territory. Not Only Are The Rams grasping At A 98% Chance To Make The Playoffs, But Also the 6th Best odds to win the Superbowl. Still, I Ask Are They Good. The Rams Haven’t Tasted Defeat In Four Weeks—Fresh Off Of Some brutal thrashing Of The Lions And Texans. Now LA’s Good Team, There is Only ever One Good Team In LA At A time, Preparing For A Weekend Showdown With the Titans. Back To Stafford. He’s Favored To win MVP. Why? The Georgia Product Holds The Helms Of The Second Highest Rated offense In The NFL. This Offense Has Produced The 3rd Most Points In the League (245 in 8 Weeks). Chief Component Of That Offense, The Passing Game, Good For, 4th Best  Passing Attack. In The Weeks Past, there Have Been Mounting Threats To Stafford Status As The League’s MVP. But After Passing for 334 yards and three touchdowns against his former team, The Lions, Stafford Is Putting forth An Incontrovertible  Argument For The League’s Premiere Hardware. Stafford  Followed That Impressive Performance By dwarfing A Mostly inept Texans Team in every way in a 38-22 win Sunday, for 305 yards and three touchdowns in three quarters. Wide Receiver Cooper Kupp Is Doing Whatever He Wishes With the Opposing Teams Secondary.  Kupp’s Production Is Garnering enough Acclaim As-Is. I See No Reason To Expound On All The History Behind His Tallies For The Season; They Are Impressive, And The Position Of wide receiver Will never Be the Same,  statistically. It's Not All Stafford and Stats For The Rams Though. The Defense Is Rated And It’s ridiculous. The Team Is 1st In Sacks Despite All-Pro Aaron Darnold Having A Quiet Season. Darnold Ahs recorded 6 Sacks in 8 Games. The team Sack Leader In Leonard Floyd, the Long Time Chicago Bear With Eight. Third is Sebastian Taylor-Joy, With 3, And A Number Guys With 2 And So Forth. Former All-Pro Von Miller Hasn’t Recorded his First Snap For His New Team yet, But By Credit Alone, This is The Best Pass Rush In The league On Paper. The Coverage Unit, Lead By Jalen Ramsey, Is Good, Not Great.

I Don’t Own The Rights To this Photo.

Ramsey’s Presence Alone Alters Anything The Oppose Teams Intends To employ Against the Rams When They Approach Their Date With Destiny On The Schedule. Back To Kupp And Ultimately The Answer To My Question. For All The Gaudy Number, And Gaudy Is Not And Overstatement, Kupp Is At Best A Number Two wide Receiver On Any Other team. He is Exceptional between Short And Intermediate Yardage. Kupp’s Eats up Snaps Primarily In The Slot where He Takes Some 67% Of His Snap with The Other shares Of His Snap Worked On The Outside Tight Formations. Because So, Opposing  Kupps Hasn’t Been Many Elite corners Back. The Singular Corner Kupp’s Has  Faced Off Against With credits To His Name Is Perhaps Adoree Jackson of The Giants. He, Jackson, Ranks 15th According to pro football focus And Held Kupp To 1 Catch For 3 yards When They Line Up Opposite One Another. Which Bring Me to my Penultimate Point. Stafford The Ram Haven't Faced As Stiff A Competition In the NFC, As Say the Cards, Bucs Over In The Packers. They Had The 2nd weakest Schedule To this Point, Though that’s Set to Change. Saved only By The Week 3 Win Against the Bucs And The Lost To The Cardinals, Otherwise, The Rams have Beaten the Giants, Lions, Seahawks, Chicago, Texans, Etc. Not  Many Top 10 Teams For What I could Tell. Strength Of Schedule Is Not As Paramount In the Pros As In College But There Is Another Knock Against The Rams. The Rams Needed The Last Minute Blunder, Or Favor, By Jared Goff To Outlast the Lions and The Defense Surrender 22 Points In The Final 10 Or More Minutes of Week 8’s Matchup To The Aforementioned Woeful Texans--Albeit in Garbage time. Finally, And Perhaps Most Damming. The Rams Have A Thin Depth Chart, Underscore By Fact That They Texans Out Paced the Team Once The Starters Sat Through the Rest of the Game. Behind, Or Along with Kupp, At Wide Receiver Would Be Robert Woods and Van Jefferson, Not exactly world Beaters. The Primary Tight end Is Tyler Higbee. The Running Game Is Mediocre. An Injury To Any of The team starters Could Prove Cataclysmic. This Is A Good team. The Rams Beat The BAd teams Decisively, One characteristic Of A Contender But Im A Longways Away From Believing This Team Is The Best In The NFC.

 

5.     Baltimore Ravens. 5-2

6.     Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 6-2

“ The Game Of Chess is Like A Sword-Fight. You Must Think First Before You move”

The Shock value, In the Moment, something So Foreign Happens It was Once Considered Impossible. Nevertheless, You Witnessed It And Now The Trauma Must Be addressed. It Needs To be rationalized and Before It Subside. You Dig Into The Underworking of A Game. That’s The reality When your Superbowl Favorite Falls In Some Deafening Fashion. Tom Brady Had A Uncharacteristically Sloppy Game, two interceptions, One That ended The Game. The Hall A Famers Was Off Point On His Reads, Even When He Faced Relative Pressure, Which is Also Uncharacteristic.  But After Sundays Loss, You Study The Team And The Tape, And You Think, ‘That’s Ok.’ The Saints Have from time Been the impetus For Some Besetting Sins In The Golden Child. They Beat The Bucs Twice Last Season. If Anything, this Game Prove That They are Already Dominant Bucs Team Has Some More To Work To do; More Ground to Tread. Brady Failed to Connect With Mike Evans On Three Crucial throws, One Of which was Late In-Game, Ahead Of The Throw, That Resulted in the Game Finishing interception. Credit The Saint’s Corner For Disrupting Brady’s peerless Timing. The Absence Of Antonio Brown Has Become More The Capacious Revelation For And His Brady’s Inconsistent rapport With The Other Lot Of receivers That Compose The walls Of Tampa Dreaded Offensive Chamber. Chris Godwin Had A stellar Game, eight reception For 140. The Passing offense Produced One Of Its worse Grades This Season, And It Took A Wire-to-Wire Performance By A Good Team To Dispel The champs.  The Lost Could Be A Good Omen for The Bucs. Their Last Lost To The Saints Precipitated Their Run On The Playoffs In route To A Championship.

7.     Tennessee Titans. 6-2

I Don’t Want To Say, But You Cannot convince Me Otherwise. You Cannot Be A Superbowl Contender if Your Best Player Is A Running Back. It won't Happen In This Era Of XLR8 At warp Speed. Given Unstoppable. Kevlar’d. Indomitable. Steamroller. King. These Are A Few of The epithets That Combine To forge Derrick Henry. Another Year Breaking Tackles and Breaking Record Put Henry, The Reigning Offensive Player Of The Year, In The MVP Conversation. A Might Prospect So “Unfathomable” It Made The Prospect of Henry Repeating His 2000 Yard Look Marginal In Most respects. Of course, As We learn Form Stephen King’s Novel, 11/22/63--A Personal Favorite Of Mine. When We Fight To Rewrite History, History Fights Back. Henry Broke the fifth Metatarsal In His Foot, And The Best Back In The League Is Going To Shelved, Favorable Projections; he Returns near the end of The Season as the titans Prepare For The Playoffs. Realistically, the Prognosis is not So Generous. Henry’s Absents Does More Than Just Impact The Tennessee Offense Its Transforms It. Tennessee  has one Of The Lowest Ranking Passing offenses of Any top 10 team, 21st. The Counterpoise This Dearth Of Air Yards By Controlling Time Of Possession, Which Affords Them The Luxury Of Running An Inordinate Amount Of Plays Per games. The Titans Are the top 5 In Both Categories. The Yards Per Play Average Is Flat. Their Opponents Out Gain Them On Average. Converting Better On Third Down Is going To be Paramount with Henry in Tow. Thankfully The AFC South Is a division Of the Team’s Cannibalizing Themselves.

8.     Buffalo Bills. 5-2.

9.      Las Vegas Raiders. 5-2

 

10.  New Orleans Saints. 5-2

 

The Saints Are Coming off A crucial win Against the Bucs This Sunday. At 5-2, A Far More Propitious Insignia in An NFC Where Its Clear 4 wins Through 8 Weeks won't cut It.  From Here On They Are Going To Be Without Starter Quarterback Jameis Winston For The reminder Of The Season, After He Suffered A Knee Injury, Midway Through Sunday’s Win. Gracefully, The Saints Haven’t Had To Lean on Their Passing Offense. An aspect of Their Offense That Only Averages 50 More Yards Than the Last place Bears. With Less Than 50% Of Their Plays Ran, This Season Being Passes. The Saints Haven’t been Leaning Much On Offense Capability At All. The Rushing Game Is ranked 9th Overall, It Makes Up for The next 50 Plus Percent of Plays, But Alvin Hasn’t Eclipse 500 yards Yet for The Season. He’s Only Pushing 3.7 Yards Per Play; Winston was Only A Warm Improvement Over The Second option, Trevor Siemen. How Much Further Are The Saints Willing Lean On Their Top 10 defense And Their Sickeningly Stifling Corners.

11.  Cincinnati Bengals. 5-3

“Be Humble, Sit Down.” Its Lesson Learned But There Is Allows Room In The Curriculum Vitae For Another Lesson: Buy Not Into the Hype Of Young Teams. The Bengals Have A S Strong Second quarter Of The Season In the Works, and By No Means Does Sunday’s Embarrassing, And I Mean, embarrassing, Loss To The Jets, Cage The Cats.

12.  New England Patriots 4-4

Don’t Look Now the Patriots Are Still In the Playoff Picture. Mac Jones Continues to Outperform His Rookie counterparts. This broad receiver Group Is the Best roster that Has Deployed In Years. The Pats Are Still Facing So Stiff Odds To beat To Reach The Second Season, But After Beating The Chargers

13.  Los Angeles Chargers.5-3

It Saddens me.  It  Does, but I’m Going To levy the DMX On these Chargers. Excuse the violence. “Didn't want to kill him, so instead of putting the Mac on him, I did the only thing I could do, turn my back on him.”  I’m Bailing Out on the Chargers As of This Post. There Is Still A Strong Chance For them to Make A rush The playoffs, 53% According To ProfootballFocus.com, But those Final wild Card A lot Are Going To Be Hotly Contested Come December. This Declarative Shift In Allegiance, the Likes of which we May Not Have Seen Since Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, is only In Partly A Credit to the Lost to Against To New England Patriots This Sunday, 27-24. The Chargers Have Bumped Me Out  Since Week 7, Being Eviscerated By The Ravens. That Promising Shootout Win Against Cleveland And The Convincing Win The week Before Against  The Raiders Are in the Rearview. The Pats And the Chargers Have A Sordid history Of tearing At each Other In A Soft East Coats west Coast beef That’s Been Mostly Sided And Continues To Be No Matter How  Much the Decades March On. The Chargers Were one Of The Few teams that Came Close To Knocking Off The Ill-Fated “Perfect” Pats of the Late ‘00s’ when the two teams met in The AFC Championship Some Time Ago when fullbacks Justified a Roster Spot. Of course, they Failed. But Phillip Rivers, Norv Turner, LT And Co, And An Impressive Bolts Team Made A Run On the Pats’ Dominance Of The AFC. It Never Came Together For them. They were Always Just that, impressive. The Chargers Have Always Been Explosive But Never Dominant. In 2009, one Of The Best Charger’s Season In Recent Memory. The Team Went 13-3. Entered The Playoffs as AFC Favorites Before Bulking Against The Jets In The Divisional Round. The Chargers Are faltering Mid Season. Another History Lesson. 2014,  When The Bolts Won their first 5 of 6 Before Finishing 4 of 10. The Chargers Faced A Underrated Passing Attack That Has been “far more formidable than once thought.”   But This Game was About A Snake Bitten Charger’s Team and Those Tasteless Navy Blue Uniforms.

14.  Cleveland Browns. 4-4

15.  Pittsburgh Steelers. 4-3

16.  Kansas City Chiefs. 3-4

17.  Denver Broncos. 4-4

18.  Carolina Panthers. 4-4

“Let’s Play The Blame Game.” The Carolina Panthers Haven’t Been Able to Pull It Together Since Week 4. The Team Can’t Find A Direction On The Questions Of, Who To Turn To For Direction? When To Turn To Them? And How Is This All Going to Play Out? The Panthers Had Been Leaning Strongly On The Arm Of Sam Darnold. And Justifiably, His Early Season Success warranted More Play Calls, But Darnold Hasn’t eclipse 300 Yards Since Week 4. Even 200 Is Challenge for The embattled Quarterback. He was Bench Week 7. Now Trade And Injury Woes Hover Over The Former top Ten Pick Now Facing Another Franchise Write Off. This Season Has Gone Much The Way Of Darold’s Career. Darnold hasn’t Been good, But The Team Isn’t An Excuse For 1-3 Result Over the Past 4 Games. The receiving core Is Just As Culpable. Between DJ Moore, Robby Anderson, who are Leading the Team In Both targets and Yard But Also Drops And Interceptions are Thrown In each Players' Direction. Partly Because Darnold Is Careless with Location On Downfield, As Told By His 12 Turnover worthy Plays That Have Resulted In His * Interception but His Receivers Don’t Or aren’t capable of Winning One On One Contested Catches. Between Anderson And Moore, The Duo Has Converted 7 of Their Shared 20 Contested targets Downfield. The Panther Are Preparing for the Return of All-pro Running Back Christian McCaffery. A Running Game That Has By No Mean eased The Burden, only 40 rushes for 174 yards the previous two games combined According To ESPN, Came To Life Some On Sunday, Some What. Rookie Chubba Hubbard’s Finished The win Over The Falcons With 82 yards on 24 carries. The Defense Is Still “Bonkers.” The Unit Is fifth in the League, with All-pro Corner Stephon Gilmore Soon to Make His Debut Off The PUP list. Unfortunately, The Panther Has the toughest Schedule remaining, According to ProfootballFocus.

 

18)Minnesota Vikings. 3-4

 

It's Difficult, comprehending Why or How One Of The League’s Most Prolific Offenses--at least As Far As talent Is Concerned, Can’t Seem To Cut the Seams And Out Together A Complete Performance. With The Season entering Second Act, its Safe To Say the Vikes Are About To Make For The Exit, After Another Troubling Week 8 Performance. It’s One Thing to be Offensively Incapable, That’s Why There Are Teams Like The Lions And Texans, But To be Offensively Inefficient Is Inexcusable. The Vikings Have Failed To Build Up The Steam Despite Being Alert And Within Striking Range Of A Win That Could Tilt This Team Onto More Favorable Ground. The Team Proficiency Limitation Caps Their Talent Preventing  The  “Pull It All Together” Moment  And Sustaining Quality Play Through Drive to Drive. Another Dismal outing Against Dallas, 1/13 on 3rd Down. It's Not That The Roster Isn’t Capable. We Have Seen what These Guys Can Do At their Best Versus The Panthers. The Play Calling Is just Insipid, Or Perhaps Faulted To Former MVP Considerate Kirk Cousins,  Who Is One Of The Least Aggressive Taken Shots Down The felid In The League. In Vikings Four (4) Losses, Cousin’s Shoulder’s Much Of The Scrutiny For The Team’s Ineffectiveness With Moving the Ball Downfield. Stats And Video Reveal Proclivity For Checkdown And Route Into The flats, Exemplified By His 6.4 Yards Per Attempt, His Adjust Depth Of target Was 5.4 Yards on Sunday and The 7.0 Yards This Season In The Worse of His Career.  Compared to The Vikings, Three (3) Wins When Cousins Is A 8.1 Yards Per Throw, And If We Disregard His Struggles Against Seattle, His ADOT Has Been At Least 8.1 Per win. Being “conservative” Is Not A  Inditement Of Cousins. He Ranks Right Above Brady In regards Of Aggressiveness.  But The Bucs Convert Third Downs With The 3rd Greatest efficiency In The League. The Vikings Are 24th. The Bucs Usually Come Out Shooting, With The Highest First Down Passing Average; the Vikings Rank Middle Of The Pack on first Down Passing Action. The running Game Is Average. When The Secondary Is Being Plain Bad, It's Outright Unlucky. No To Mention  We Have Began to Dig into The Offensive Line Which Gave Up 16 Pressures And Been Mostly average Run Blocking.

19.  Atlanta Falcons. 3-4

“Never Went Down Without A Fight. Took A Left Turn But I still A Right.”

 

The Falcons Are Still being Unreasonable Competitive. No Matter, Their Still ten games remain to take a Broader View Prospect, But There Is Still a Long road To the Bottom. On The Plus Side, Kyle Pitts Is Emerging as A Number 1 Target for The Falcons Moving Forward. He Is Not the Transformative Tight End Prospect I Had Fist Thought ‘Scouting’ At Florida. But As Far As move Tight Ends Are Concerned, He’ll Be One of The Best for 10 + a Real Jared Cook Type. On The Opposite End of The Spectrum, Last year First Round Pick AJ Terrell, Is Also surfacing As a Lockdown Corner. Terrell Has given Up 11 receptions on Just 23 Targets through Eight Games and ranks 7th Of 150 Cornerback According To Profootballfocus.com. For Comparison, Defensive Player of the Year Candidate Trevon Diggs, Targeted 49 And Surrender 26 reception, 500 yards At 18.5 Per Reception. The Falcons Have Some Solid Young Talent—no Need to Disrupt This Excellent Run On First Picks With any less Than Another top Ten Selection.

 

The Bottom Hasn’t Bottomed Out. Here Rests a Pack of 3-win Team Who Could Wrangle A Favorable Run And Find Their Place Back Amongst The field.

 

20.  Seattle Seahawks. 3-5

21.  San Francisco 49ers. 3-4

22.  Chicago Bears. 3-5

23.  Philadelphia Eagles. 3-5

24.  Indianapolis Colts. 3-5

25.  New York Giants. 2-5

26.  New York Jets. 2-5

27.  Miami Dolphins. 1-7

28.  Jacksonville Jaguars. 1-6

29.  Washington Football Team. 2-6

The Washington football team was Young, Unproven, And expected. They won The NFC East Last Season On the Strength of Dak Prescott Injury. Has Muster No Such Ill Fortune Advantage Since. WFT  Came Into This Season expected To Lean Heavily On The enviable And Prized \ Talent of Their Front Seven. The Unit Is The Only Aspect Of the Team Offering  Solid Return  This season, Still Pushing  The Second Highest Pressure rate On the Year, But front Sevens Does Not  Score touchdowns. Washington Has The Worse Passing Offense In The League, According To Pro Football Focus. Taylor Heinicke can Be Magical At Times. He’s A Capable Runner, and Despite some Ball Secure Woes(4 fumbles), He has Amassed 232 Yards On the Ground.

30.  Houston Texans. 1-7

“The Plan was, To Drink Until the Pain Over...” If You Believe The reports

The Texans Have Intentions. Albeit misguided, there is Something To Applaud For A team still Daring to Be Something Despite The Current Inauspicious State Of Affairs. Deshaun Watson’s Name Has Emerge Out Of The Deep Much to The Shagreen Of Some. Now, what To Make Of His Inevitable Departure Of The Only Team He Has Known. Tradeline Passed, But Watson Status Remains Unclear.

31.  Detroit Lions. 0-8

“Who Do I Call after we Have Done All We have Done who Is Your replacement.”

The Lions Employ A New Coaching staff. A Mostly New Compendium OF Receivers. An Unexplored Collection Of Offensive Lineman, And A Perhaps Veiled,  But perhaps Paramount, A New quarterback. The Former Faces Of Franchise Faced Off. Matthew Stafford And Jared Goff were Only A Few Weeks Back. The Lion’s Put Forth Their Best Effort Certify Being Apart Of the seen And Not Just A Moment of Mentions In the Ram’s  Season Credits... The Face-off Sequel We Requested Back when Nicholas Cage And John Travolta first Put The Script In Motion. In case Detroit Missed It, Stafford And Goff Trade places and not Faces. Tell Me How Many Times This Season Have You Read a line On Lions, That Is if You Bother to read Refrains On The Lions, That retorts Something Like this. Goff’s Stat, With The Pretext Of Productive Language; The Lion’s New Starter passed for 268 yards. His Team, the Lions Sometimes Leading Or Still within striking distance, down 25-19, Late Into the 4th.

Then tumbling, “heartbreakingly,” short.  Goff Throws an Interception Near The Line Of Scrimmage, Capping Off An Impressive Drive With A Deflating Whimper.   Detroit is Still Running A Heavy Pass Offense tailored to feature Someone with The Caliber Of Stafford Ability.  Jared Goff Is Third In the League In passing Attempts of 308 And 8th in Yards nearing 2000(1995 yards). It is statically A Strong season. But He Is Only Justified running The Lion Offense By Results Of 8 Touchdowns And 6 Interceptions. The Other Two Quarterbacks Ahead Of Goff in Passing Attempts, Brady and Mahomes, two former NFL MVPs, Who Need No First Name  Introductions, Have Attained 25 And 19 Touchdowns, respectively. The Lions Are 24th In Passing Offense, And Find themselves “stuck” -ish, evaluating Whether Or Not There is, IF Any, Gold Is Left Of The Former Golden Bear. Not To Mention as of Sunday, the 0-8 Lions Have Yielded Mostly Head Scratching Results. It is Great to See My Georgia Guy Deandre Swift Getting More Love. “He’s dynamic…his power in space I just think is sneaky.”. Swift Leads the Team in runs of ten or More yards, Second in Yards, And Yards After, And Leading the Team Is Targets Out of The Back Field. Goff Is rated 118.8Screenenn Play, his best Result Amongst All Concepts. The Lions are 25th In rushing And Second Year Back Swift Production the Rest of the Season could Be A Benefit Of A team Fighting flee History.


Correction Is Expected To Miss Six Week(early Projections) With A Jones Fracture

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