NFL Week 11 Preview.

Vikings Vs Titans

Has The Ride Ended For Sam Darnold? Despite Coming Into Week 11 Completing Nearly 70% Of His Passes The Vikings Offense Had steadily  Declined In Weeks With The Vikings Most Porous Offensive Showing coming Against One Of The Worse Defenses Against Jacksonville Who Only Had Two Picks Before Darnold Tossed Them Three in Week 10. Darnold And The Jags Will Face a Tougher Test In The Tennessee Titans. Tennessee Still Ranks Number One in Total PASSING Yards Allowed Per Game and Yards Attempt. When Titans Give Up Completions They Usually Give Up Touchdowns 5.% Of Passes Go For Scores Against Tennessee Good Enough For Tenth In Football. Darnold Threw Three Interceptions In The Red Zone Against Leading To Vikings Losing 14.72 EPA. Maybe Darnold Chooses A New Target To Focus on Tight End TJ Hockenson Will Make His Third Appearance Of The Season, He looks close To Some Form Of His Previous Game 8 Catches For 72 Yards. The Vikings Pass The Ball At One Of The Lowest Rates In Football But Justin Herbert Only Needed 14/18 For A Passer Rating of 123.1 And A Passing Grade Of 92.6. The Titans Also Got A Return From Will Levis The Young Quarterback Put Forth One Of His Best Offerings Of The Season, 18/23 For 175 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns, and A Passer Rating Of 127.4. Wide Receiver Calvin Ridley Had One Of His Best Games, with a 2.90-yard route run, 84 Yards Two Touchdowns. The Vikings Defense Allows A Passer Rating In The High 70s We’ll See If Levis Can Replicate The Same Success. 

Chiefs Vs. Bills

The Old Adage Goes That No One Can Obtain Perfection But If You Chase Perfection You Can Obtain Something Close To What The Chiefs Have Done. Standing An Impressive 9-0 The Chiefs Enter Week 11 With Destiny Afoot Against Arch Rivals The Buffalo Bills, A Game That Could All But Wrap Up The Number One Seed For The Chiefs In The AFC For The Playoff. One Of The Primary Ways The Chiefs Beat Times is through Shear Pace And Waves—the Chiefs Play At One Of The Highest Paces Which Opens The Door For More Opportunities. While teams like the Broncos and others who have nearly beaten the Chiefs and the Chiefs overcome, those losing teams play to limit mistakes but ultimately limit opportunities and open the door for the Chiefs to overcome late. On The Season The Chiefs Have Ran 603 Plays Compared To 514 By Opponents. The Bills and The Chiefs Opponents Have Run Less Plays Than Their Opponents(591-618) And Operate At One Of The Slowest Paces In Football.  Styles Make Fights And We’ll Between These Two Long-Time Foes Who Will Emerge. The Top NFL Defenses Have Become Better through Holding teams To Small Gains The Chiefs Win By owning The League’s Second Best Success Rate. The Bills Allow The Fourth Lowest Yards Per Completion(9.8). The Chiefs Defense Again In The Top 10 Will Have to Face Josh Allen. Last week Cortland Sutton Gave Chiefs Number One Corner Trent McDuffie Problems And The Bills won’t Have  Their Climb The Ladder Type Playmaker In Keon Coleman Who Can Out Physical The Smaller McDuffie And Wide Receiver Amari Cooper Remains A  game Time Decision. With A Depleted Offense This Game Lean Towards Kansas City But Can The Bills Improve Their Odds Of Taking The Number One Seed With An Upset? Josh Allen Can Hard Press His Final Claim To The NFL MVP Award with a Win. 

Jacksonville Vs Detroit

Hey Look Doug Pedersen Still Has His Job As Coaching Firing Heat Up Into The Waning Weeks Of The Season. The Tests Get No Easier As The 7-1 Best Team In The NFC Lion Track In From Some Big Cat On Big Cat Showdown. The Jaguars Won’t Have Trevor Lawrence For A Second Week As He Deals With a Shoulder Injury. Mac Jones Redemption Arch Will Continue Against The Lions’ Defense That Put The Clamps On CJ Stroud And The Texans’ Offense Shutting The Texans Out For Two Quarters As The Lions Offense Surge Back. If The Jags Offense Fresh Off Of A 7 Point Outing Amass A Lead Of That Nature They’ll Need Their Last Place Defense To Perform. The Jaguars Give Up The Second Highest Completion Percentage and The Highest Passer Rating In Football. Under Jones Offensively The Jags Produced -0.41 EPA Play, And A 29.5% Success Rate, You Want That Number Closer To 50%. The Lions course became the AFC South Leading Texans Late The Texans Got Pressure On Goff To Forcing One Of Those Picks. Can The Jags Count On Two Weeks Of Careless  Quarterback Play To Get Them A Win On Their Dwindling Season? 

Packers Vs Bears

The Packers Return From Their Bye Week 6-3 Overall Still In Position For A Wild Card Slot In The NFC. The Last We Saw Of Green Bay The Lions Snapped The Packers ' Game Win Streak and halted the Packers' Chance Of Climbing Detroit At The Top Of The Division. The Packers will Look For Better Luck Against The Lowest Team In The Division The Bears Coming Off An Embarrassing loss to The Patriots and Looking To Avoid a Four Game Streak In the Opposite Direction Having Lost Three Straight Games Falling To 4-5. The Packers Offense That Hasn't Scored Less Than 20 Points Since Week Two Only Manage 14 Against The Lion Despite 273 Passing Yards From Jordan Love. Love Doesn’t Play Remarkably  Efficient(0.118 EPA) Instead Relying Heavily On The Coming In With The Second Most Deep Yards In Football(615). The Bears’ Passing Defense Remains A Solid One In Terms Of Passer Rating(77.4) and 2.2 Touchdown Percentage But Give Up 11.2 Yards Per Completions. The Bear Will Have Their Hands Full With Keeping Love From Exploding For A Big Game. The Bears ' Offense Enters a Slump, with No Touchdowns In 20 Drives, and Just, Three Points In Effort As Criticism And Bad Stats Mount On The Bears' Offense They Made A Change At Offensive Coordinator. Shane Waldron Makes His Exits Enter Thomas Brown Formerly Of The Carolina Panthers and The Rookie Bryce Young Experience. Not The Strongest Track Record But Someone To Work With In The Long Term. On The Season Williams Climbs the Ladder In Terms Of “Bad Throw Percentage” And Total Negative EPA(-0.096), percentage 50.5 Completion Percentage, 4.9 yards per attempt During This Losing Streak. Nothing comes easy As the Team Continually forces Williams To Hold The ball Inducing Him Into His Worse Tendencies Of Hunting Deep Balls Later In The Shot Clock. The Packers Have High Turnover Numbers And Also Hold Quarterbacks To Sub 90 Passer Rating. If The Bears Can’t Scheme Open Quick Plays Against A Zone Heavy Team Williams Might Find Himself Having A Long Game. The Bears Haven’t Unlocked The Pass Game Either With D’Andre Swift On The Ground the Pack Boost A 4.2 Carry average  Could The Bears Get Something Going On The Ground. 

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