NFL Week 11 Takeaways.

Broncos Vs Falcons

In Shocking result The Denver Broncos Blow Out The Atlanta Falcons 38-6. Bo Nix Seems to Put It All Together Against A Very Formidable Falcons Defense Nix Racked Up 28/33 For 307 Passing Yards, A Passer Rating Of 145.0, And Four Touchdowns To Help The Broncos Drop The NFC South Leading Falcons To 6-5.  Atlanta’s Offense Couldn’t Get Any Out Of The Denver Defense Kirk Cousins Goes 18/27 For 173 Passing Yards, One Interception, And Takes Three Sacks as Atlanta Averaged Just 4 Yards A Play. Bo Nix Put Forth A Career Performance With Four Touchdowns, 28/33 Passing, 307 Passing Yards And A Passer Rating Of 145.0. The Broncos Stop A Two-Game Slide And Pick Up A Win over A Winning Team In Atalanta Has Dropped Two In Row.  Bo Nix entered the Offensive Rookie Of The Year conversation With This Performance, I Doubt He Can Catch Daniels But After Starting The Season On Training Wheels in Sean Payton’s Offense He’s Come Along Stronger. 

Lions vs. Jaguars

The Lions Pound A Life Left In Jaguars Season Right Out Of The City With A 52-6 Beat Down. The Lions Have Made a Bludgeoning Team This Season Amassing Their Second 50 Point blow Of The Year But The Way they Lions Kept Pouring On The Points, Going For A Fourth Down conversion Game Well Out Of Reach Because They Have To Keep That Killer Instinct Why Give The Jaguars Any Hope Of A  Historic Comeback With Mac Jones Still Playing InPlace Of Trevor Lawrence. The Lions Scored Touchdowns on Their First Seven Possessions. Jared Goff Just 24 Completions To Eclipse 400 Yards Passing Going 24/29 For 412 Passing Yards, Four touchdowns, and A Passer Rating Of 158.3. Big Games In The Receiving Game For Amon-Ra St. Brown And Jameson Williams As The Jags Again Just Look Hopeless To Stop The Lions. Williams had Four Catches For 124 Including A big 64 Yard Touchdown Right Over The Middle Of The Field In The Third Quarter. Amon-Ra St. Brown Two Catches For 161. Jahmyr Gibbs had 12 Touches For A Combined 123 Yards 69 On The Ground On 11 Carries And One

catch For 54 Yards On A Catch Run.   The Jags Have Now Suffered Two Of The Worst Losses Handed Out This Season as The Did Pedersen Regime Looks Headed For An End. The Jags Barely Muster Two wins So Far And Yes Before His Injury Trevor Lawrence Started To turn His Season Around But He Still did take That proverbial next step Into The Next Level Of Quarterback He’s Still Just Good Enough As a Prospect With High Upside. The Jags Have Something Promising With Brian Thomas Jr Who Had Five Catches For 82 Yards As The Only Positive Offensive Generator. Outside Of Thomas Jr., Gabe Davis Hasn’t Worked Out And The Jags won't Make The Playoffs For Us To Witness One Of Those Davis Moments. The New Regime Will Also Need To Rework This Defense And Potentially Off Load Some Expensive Or Valuable Pieces That Could Net Long Term Value In Draft Capital. Guys Like Both Pass Rushers Travon Walker and Josh Hines-Allen. The Lions' Dominance Should Strike Fear In the Hearts Of Teams That See Detroit Upcoming On The Schedule. The Jags Didn’t Have Their Best Game But For Team Knowing Their Best Game Might Only Save Them A Modicum Of Embarrassment Against This Juggernaut Of Football Greatness Will Have An Impact On How Teams game Plan Going Forward.   

Bears Vs Packers

While The Bears Organization  Has Carried The Banner Of Historically Underwhelming Quarterback Play The Hype Of Quarterback Prospect Caleb Williams Couldn’t Shroud This Inglorious Identity. The Bears Remain Suspect  In Terms Of Developing And Nurturing Quarterback Caleb Williams Has Learned The Same Lesson That Last Year’s Top Pick Bryce Learned That It's  A Whole Different Ball Game At The Top The sport. William’s superman Days Have Ended And he Has No Longer Even Worthy Of the Clark Kent Banner He’s been An Average Guy For At Least The Past Few Weeks and Expectation Have Met Adjustment Through Results. He’s Not The Wizard We Watch at USC Not Yet, the Competition From Week To Week NFL Heightens, and A Young Player Like Caleb Has To Learn That His Successes While In College Inflated Him, In The NFL Deceive Him. A Change In Caleb’s Play Style Won’t Come In Over One Week  But The Bears Have To Work Through This Stretch Of Games. 

The Bears' Offense Got Off To A Strong Start Caleb Williams was 6/9 For  57  Passing Yards, A Couple Of Scrambles For 3 Carries 28 Rushing Yards Two Drives Only Three Points, And Even Though He Played Faster Sacks Packer Still Drives In Silence. By Halftime Williams's Time To Throw Had Hit the Lowest of The Season With 1.98 Seconds and His Lowest Air Yards On throws was 1.7 Yards But The Bears Would Still Get A Lead Over The Packers. Williams Completed just two passes at The Five Air Yards. Running Back Roschon Johnson Would Pick Up  The team's First Touchdown since Week Eight With A Short Goal Line Rushing Attempt Before The Half. 

The Packer Offense Also Came In With Some Wrinkles To Iron Out, Jordan Love Barely Completing 61% Of His Passes, The Receivers The Second Most Drops In FootbAll But When Green Bay Has The Offense Rolling they Can Attack Any Defense, And The Bear Top Ten Unit Prove Vulnerable In Spots. Jordan Love Gets The Pack On The Board With A Thread The Needle Like Pass To Jayden Reed. Love Uncorks A Beam Between Two Defenders And Into The Sitting Arms Of Reed. Love Arm's talents Rival any League But His Arm Would Betray Him Later. The Packers Driving To The End Zone Jordan Love Targeting Tight End Tucker Kraft Intercepted By Corner Back Terrell Smith. The Bears Would Drive, Using Short Passes And  Caleb’s Legs To Get A 10-7 Lead. This Game Would Come To The Final Possession For The Bears. Jordan Love Would Get The Packers A Late 20-19 On Quarterback Sneak Rushing Touchdown. Love Would Fail To Put The Packers Up Over The Bears On the Previous Goal Line Drive When Love Gets Tackled One Yard short of A Touchdown. The Bears Couldn’t Capitalize Having Already Notched Their First Touchdown Of The Second Half Off A 39 Yard D’andre Swift. Williams Would Get In Some Shots Downfield On The Bears' Final Drive. After Taking Two Sacks and Stunt The Offense At 3rd & 19 Willaims Would Connect With Rome Odunze To Cut Ghe Down To 4th And 3 And Then Connect Odunze His Fellow Top Ten Pick 21 Yards On A Dime Of A Back Shoulder Throw. Williams Would Rack Up His Evening 23/31 For 231 Passing Yards, 49 On The Final Drive. Willaims set Up A Cairo Santos Potential Game Winning Field goal But The Packers Get Just Enough Of A Rush On The Snatos field Goal Attempt To Force A Miss and the Packers Escaped With a 20-19 Win.  If The Bears Wanted Offensive Improve They generated 391 Yards, 179 On The Ground With Both Swift And Williams  Racking Up 71 and 70 Yards Respectively. But The Pack and Jordan Love Despite An Interception, He Finished 13/17 For 261 15.4 an Attempt, 8.7 Completed Air Yards, 7.2 CPOE, and 113 Passer Rating. In The Receiving Game Christian Watson Pick Up Two Big Plays Of 48 and 60 Yards That Set Up Two Red Zone Drives, one of Which The Packers Converted One To Win The Game. Josh Jacobs had 22 Touches For 134 Yards, 76 Yards Rushing, and 58 Receiving One Touchdown In a Rushing Game. Neither Defense Played Great Just In Spots, The Bears Finished 9-16 On 3rd Down and 3-3 on Fourth Down. The Packers Offense Goes 1-5 On Third But Thrived On Their Numerous Big Plays. The Packers Move To 7-3 Staying In Tow With The Vikings For The Too Wild Card Spot. The Loss Doesn’t End The Bears Pursuit Of The Playoffs But The Mountain Gets Much Steeper. Does Williams Have Anything to Build On  From This Loss? Williams Still Took A Beating With Three Sacks The offensive Timing Looked Far Better, and Separation Remains An Issue Downfield But In All The Bears had Another Bout Of Offensive Confidence in a Week. 

Ravens Vs Steelers

The Steelers Take The Ravens 18-16 As Lamar Jackson’s Last Minute Two Point Conversion Gets Stop Short. The Steelers’ Offense Scores No Touchdowns, Manage Six Field Goals, and Throw A Red Zone Touchdown. 

The AFC North Now Comes Down Two Teams The Ravens and the Steelers. Ahead Of The Season Most Believed That Any Of The Four Contestants Could Win The Division Based On A Few Variables But All The Facade Crumbled and The Two Behemoths Emerged. The Ravens Defense Remains One Of The Weakest Especially Against The Pass Despite Having Two Corners Amongst The Top Ten In Passer Rating When Targeted. The Ravens Can’t Hide Their Other Liabilities On Defense and The Safety Play Remains Suspect On The Season. The Ravens Defense Fumbles On The First Play Of The Game As The Steelers Punch The Ball Out Of The Hand Of The League’s Leading Rusher Derrick Henry. The Steeler's offense Drives Into The Red Zone But Stall And Settle For a Field Goal. 

The Ravens Would Response Picking An Explosive Play From Lamar Jackson To Tight End Isaiah Likely For 42 yards the Ravens Settled For A Field Goal But The Usually Sure Footed Justin Tucker missed The Field. The Ravens Would Get On The Board with A Touchdown From Henry At The Goal Line As Lamar Proved He’s The King Of The 15+ Yard Passing With a 19 Yard Completion To Rashod Batemon and A 18 Play By Isaiah Likely Set The Ravens Score And The Only Touchdown Of The First Half. The Ravens Would Get The Only Touchdown Of The Second Half When Lamar Connects With Zay Flowers For 16 16-yard score But Turnovers Would Prove The Ravens' Undoing As Baltimore turned The Ball Over Three Times. Lamar Would Nearly Put The Ravens Over Early In The Fourth After he connected With Running-back Justice Hill For 15 Yard Catch Only To Have The Ball Ripped Away From Hill By Steelers Linebacker Payton Wilson For An Interception Before Hill Gets To The Ground. Despite Keeping The Steelers Out Of The End zone and Coming Away With an End zone Turnover, Holding The Steelers To 4.1 Yards Per Play, And Holding The Steelers To 4/16 On Third, Sack Wilson Four Time The Ravens Can’t Prevent Russell Wilson From Clocking His Fourth Straight Win, Leading The Division and Eyeing The Second Seed. Wilson Had His Worse Game By Relative Standards, 23/36 For 205 Passing Yards, 67.5 Passer Rating. The Ravens Kept George Pickens Off The Highlight Reel For The Most Part, He finished 8 Catches For 89 Receiving Yards. The Ravens' Offense The Run Got Upended In This Matchup, After Falling Derrick Henry Became An after Thought just 13 Carries 65 Rushing Yards(Including A Big 31 Yard Rush), and One Touchdown. Lamar Added Four Carries For 45 Rushing Yards. Ravens kicker Justin Tucker Converts 1/3 of Field Goals As The Ravens Leave Multiple Opportunities To Score ON The Board.  The Steelers have won seven of the last eight games against Baltimore. Is This The Time Of The Year When Baltimore Begins Their Decline? The Ravens Historically Haven’t Played Well Into Winter While Baltimore Made Plays The Steelers Played The Role Of Scavenger Picked Off The Ravens Out Put Opportunistically.  

Chiefs Vs Bills

A 23-yard Josh Allen Run Into The End Zone Puts a Bow On This Massive Win For The Buffalo As the Bills Hand The Chiefs And Patrick Mahomes Their First Loss On The Season  30-21. 

The Patrick Mahomes-Josh Allen Rivalry Remains The Height Of Quarterback Face Off Of The New Era Of Football. Like Most Of The Past Quarterback Rivalries Like Brady Manning(Peyton), The Results Remain Largely divided with Mohamed Getting The Best Of Allen Over The Years. The Script Looked Set For the Chiefs Again Facing A Late Fourth Quarter Deficit Mahomes Put Together One Of The Best Drives Of The Season. With Grasping A Two Score Lead Mahomes Take The Chiefs On A 10 Play 70 Yard Drive, Kareem Hunt Picks Up A Big 17 Yard Run, Mahomes Gets Some Passes To Keep The Chiefs Ahead Of Clock And The Chains, and End The Drive With A Touchdown Pass To Tight End Noah Gray To Cut The Score Down To Just Two Points. Many Teams Would and Have Floundered In The Bills’s Position Needing Another Touchdown to Stay Ahead, But Not Every Team Has Josh Allen. 

Allen Follows Up With A Drive Of His Own Bookended By Two Big Plays A 15 Yard Pass To Start The Drive From Allen To Mack Hollins And Allen Caps Off The Drive With A 23 Yard Run as the Bills Out Last The Chiefs Late. Kansas City Would Capture Their Final Lead Of The Game In The 2nd Quarter After A Josh Allen Interception led to A Chiefs Touchdown The Opposite Way. The Bills Would Put A Field 

Goal On The Scoreboard Before  The Half And Wouldn’t Look Back. Josh Allen 27/40 for 262 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, One Interception,  82.8 QBR While Adding 12 Carries For 55 Rushing and Another Touchdown. Bills wide receiver Kahlil Shakir Racked Up 8 Carries 70 Yards, 7 Yard After The Catch On Average. Amari Cooper Still Fishing His Way Through The Bills Offense Generated Two Big Catches Including a 30 Along The Sideline.  Running back James Cook Score The first Points Of The Game With A Three Yard Outside Run Touchdown On a Slow Night As A runner with Just 9 Carries For 20 Yards. The Chiefs Had To Lose At Some Point Because They Weren’t An Unbeatable Team And They Ran Into A Bills Team Ready To Execute When Given The Chance. Josh Allen Said After This Game Mattered No More Than Any Other Game. The Win Matters More In The Case The Bills Win Out And The Chiefs Drop One—I Don’t Know Which One Is Least Likely—But The Bills Would Assume The Number One Seed In The Conference. The Chiefs’ Defense For The First Time This Season Looked OVERMATCHED for Enough Stretches Of This Game With The Bills' Bigger Quick Fooeted Receiver and Mobile Josh Allen. If This Game Does Give The Bills Real Confidence To Get Over The Hurdle Of The Chiefs We’ll Find Out Come January. 

Seahawk Vs 49ers 

The NFC West Division Representatives Continue to Battle For Position As The Season Progresses. The Seahawks Enter This Matchup Against The Niners Coming Off Of A Bye. A Thrilling Finish To The Seahawks-49ers As Seahawks Quarterback Geno Smith Authors A Late Drive Touch Sparked By Two Explosive Quarterback Runs, One Which Kept The Seahawks Drive Alive—Facing 17-13 Deficit— For 16 Yards on 2nd & 13 With Seattle Needing A Score. Smith Would Drop Back To Scramble Again This Time In The Red zone For A 13 Yard Score When 12 Seconds Remaining As The Seahawks Escape With A Win. The Seahawks Started The Season 3-0 Before Losing 5 Of their Next 6 Games Game And Falling To 4-5 Needing A Win To Stay In Pace With The Rest Of The Division. Geno Smith Would Produce A Mixed Bag In Drop Back Success, The Seahawks First Drive Ended In An Interception From Smith But The Second Drive He’d Connect On Multiple Big Throws Including A 26-yard pass And Catch To DK Metcalf and A 17 Yard Pass To Jaxson Smith-Njibga Which Set-Up A Kenneth Walker Touchdown. Despite SOME missed Opportunities, The Seahawks Would Pick Up Big Plays In Times Of Necessity. In Passing Smith Had To Work In Some tight Windows,  No One Got “Open” And Seattle Did Suffer Some Drop. The Offensive Line Remains Worrisome As Smith Got Sacked Four Times and Most Of The Lineman Looked Visible Exhausted By The End Of The Game While Geno Decided To Scramble. 

This Game For the Niners Represented Much Of Their Season A  Top Ten Team That Look In Complete Control Of The Game Until The End. With No George Kittle Brock Purdy shows little Ill Effect Of The Absence Of His Tight End Early Instead He Shifted His Focus To His New Number One Threat Juan Jennings. Jennings Picked Up Several Chain Moving Plays For The Niners Early But As The Game Wore On The Lack Of Diversity Started To Show. As The Seahawks Took Jennings Away Late In The Game Guy Like Deebo Samuel Would Struggle To Create Separation On Routes. The Christian McCaffrey Run Game Would Go Quiet In The Latter Half Of The Game. Purdy And The Niners Missed Some Opportunities, Obviously The Tip Pick Result In A Lost Opportunity For The Offense But OverAll Purdy Performed Good Enough To Win.  The Niners Remain The More “Threatening” Team In The NFC West But They Suffer So Many Lapses Almost Walking And Assuming The Win Would Just Fall Into Their Hands. Geno Doesn’t Scramble Too Often but Not Accounting For Him In Anyway Looked Reckless. The Seahawks Will Face The Cardinals Next Week In A Massive Divisional Matchup That Could Decide Either Team's Season. 

Chargers Vs Bengals

The Chargers Avoid A Massive Collapse Late As The Bengals Kicker Fails to Convert two 50 Plus Yard Field Goals That Could’ve Put Cincy In Position To Win Instead The Bengals The Chargers After Going nearly Scoreless In The Second Half Put Together A Four Play 80 Yard Drive Capped Off By  A JK Dobbins’s 29 Yard Run.  a Tale Of Two Halves To Say The Least For Both Teams. The Bengals Got Tee Higgins Back In This one After He Missed A Few games With a Hamstring Injury and He Came through big. In The First Half With The Bengals Down 7-3, Driving Score After Higgins caught An eight-yard pass To Help Convert A Fourth Down On What Would Prove A Field Goal Drive But The Bengals Had Trouble Sustaining Drives. Justin Herbert Had Little Trouble Poking Holes In Cincinnati’s Defense. Herbert Got The Chargers On The Board With The First Of Three touchdowns in The First Half, When He Hit the Tight End Will dissolve for A 26 26-yard strike In The End zone. If Anyone Assumes Justin Herbert Had Turned “PG” And Turned down The Noise On The Big Blast Throws Herbert Flexed His Arm Hitting Five Passes For 20 Or More Yards Including The Chargers Second Touchdown A 26 Yard Strike To Wide Receiver Quentin Johnston In The Back Of The End Zone. All But One Of The Charger Touchdown Drives In The Game Required More Than Five Plays All Spanning At Least 70 Yards. The Chargers Would Take a 24-6 Lead Into The Half And The Game Would Look All But Over. In The Second The Bengals Would Adjust To Take Away The Deep Ball Herbert Hadn’t Use Much This Season And The Chargers Would Punch, Including Two Quick Punts At the End Of The Game That Almost allowed The Bengals  To Come Away With Them. Despite A Early Field, The Chargers Fumbled The Ball On A Juston Herbert Scramble Inside Cincy Territory. The Fumble Would Result In Points For The Bengals And A surge In Win probability as A Jamar Chase 17-yard Touchdown Tied The Game 27-27 And Capping Off Three Straight Scoring Drives For The Bengals. Early in The Third Burrow Hit Jamar For A Four four-yard touchdown to Give Cincy Their First Touchdown clapping off an 11-play 70-yard drive. On The Next Drive Tee Higgins Would Pick Up Another Fourth Down this One For 42 Yards and Touchdown Apart From 9 Catches For 148 Yards and One Touchdown. Chase Would Finish His Night 7 Catches For 75 Receiving Yards and Two Touchdowns. Joe Burrow Concluded His Night after A Massive Second Half  28/50 For 356 Passing Yards, Four Big Throws Downfield Including Two Of His Touchdowns. The Bengal's final Drive Fell Short And Zach Taylor’s Play Calling Couldn’t Get Evan McPherson Who Converted big Leg Field Goals In The Past Inside Of The Fifty Yard Range. The Bengals Lost Essentially Ends A Hollywood Narrative Of Them Making The Playoffs. Justin Herbert 17/36, Struggled In The Second Half, with 297 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns, and a 94.3 Passer Rating He also Added 5 Carries for 65 Rushing Yard Including A Big 30 Yard Run. Rookie Ladd Monkey 6 Catches For 123 and A Catch To Get The Chargers Final Drive Started. The Chargers Pick Up A Crucial Win To Not Only Stay Ahead Of Many Of The Other AFC Hopefuls But To Convince Fans They Win Clucth Game Against Tough

opponents.  

Dolphins Vs Raiders

A lot of players and the NFL media have praised the hiring of head Antonio Pierce, but his team remains one of the least disciplined in football. The Raiders Get An Early Red zone Stop against Tua and The Dolphin's offense After Forcing Miami Into Third And Long After Tua Suffers A Sack Fumble. Raiders Linebacker And Former First Round K’Lavion Chaisson Holds Dolphins Tight End For Virtually No Reason. The Penalty Gifts The Dolphins Offense Another Set Of Down Inside The Raiders Ten. Tua And The  Dolphins Exhaust All Four Downs But Convert A Short Passing Touchdown To Jonnu Smith To Get The Dolphins On The Board 7-0 On The Raiders. Jonnu Smith Would Later Crush The Raiders Hopes Of Pulling Out The Upset As The Big Tight End Slips Into The Back Of A Busted Coverage And Picks Up 57 Yard Catch and Runs Touchdown to Overcome The Raiders Late. The Dolphins offense Has Gotten Back on Track Since Tua’s Return AND any Talk About Mike MvDainels’s Genius Offensively Has Disappeared As The Dolphins toppel the Raiders 35-19. The Dolphins Pull Away Late In This One Scoring On All Four Of The Teams’s Second Half Drive Including Three Touchdowns To Start The Second Half And Pull Away With The Win. After Exiting The Half With a 10-6 Lead The Dolphins Come Off The Half With a WA Drive That Ate Up Nearly Half Of The Third Quarter, 7:47 On the Clock, 14 Plays 97 Yards Capped Off By A Tua Target To Tyreek Hill For 8 Yards. This Drive Would Spark A Series Of Drives For Dolphins For Points. In the Fourth Quarter, The Raiders Would Cut The  Miami Lead To Five 24-19 After Gardner Minchew Connected With Tight End Brock Bowers In the Back Of The End Zone. The Raiders Defense Cave In Giving The Tight End Smith The 57 Yard Strike And  A Minchew interception On The Next Drive Ended Any Hope of A Raiders Come Back Bid. Tua 28/36 For 288 Passing Yards,  Three Touchdowns, 90.8 QBR, And A Passer Rating Of 127.8. Tua Didnt Amass Too Many Big Plays But Had No Problem With Carving Through The Raiders Defense. The Dolphins offense has put up some good numbers since Tua returned from injury scoring 21 points or better over their last four games after coming off a Tua injury as the league's worst offense. The Raiders Continue To Sink Into Number One Pick Territory As They Drop To 2-8.