The Games Of Week 14 Of The NFL Season Projected As Some Of Least Eventful Weekends We’d Witness As The Football Season Turns To Winter. The Seahawks Further Tightened Their Grip On The Division With A Victory Of The Cardinals. The Eagles Sleep Walk Their Way Through Another First Half Only To Escape With A Win Over The Panthers Thanks To The Panthers Themselves Dropping The Ball On Several Occasions. Is Bryce Young Good? He’s Not Paid To Catch The Ball But He’s Starting To Look More And More Like Kyler With Limitations Due To His Lack Of Elite Foot Speed. Barring A Disastrous Close To The Season Young Should Earn Himself Another Shot As The Starter Next Season. Still, The Panthers Need To Bring In Competition Like Serious Competition To Either Elevate Or Surpass Young.
The Bucs Take Over The South, The Jets Get Officially Eliminated From Playoff Contention, And the Rams Out Last The Bills In A Surprise Shootout As Sean McVay and The Rams Offense Revive Some Of Their Early Decade Magic Scoring 44 Points On The Bills Despite An MVP Like Performance From Josh Allen.
Wrap Up.
The Buccaneers Take Over The NFC South with A Win Over The Raiders 28-13 In Tampa. The Buccaneers Score The First Two Touchdown of The Game On Part Of Two Baker Mayfield Passing Touchdowns But A Slew Of First Half Turnovers Including Two Interceptions and A Fimble Help The Raiders Stay Close Before With 10 Unanswered Points. The Buccaneers defense would pick a red zone intercept to prevent the Raiders from taking a lead before two more touchdowns to end the game. The Buccaneer's Offense Produced 7.1 Yards Per Play Against The Raiders Defense. Mayfield Finished 18/29 For 295 Passing Yards Three Touchdowns, Two Interceptions A Passer Rating Of 101.9, and Four Sacks. The Buccaneers Only Need To Stay One Win Ahead Of The Falcons To Seal The Division.
Titans Vs Jags In The Second Least Meaningless Game Of Sunday’s Action The Jags Score Just 10 Points In A Game Of Who Wants The Lower Draft Position. Mac Jones Throws Fir 220 Passing Including A Big 31 Yard Catch By Brian Thomas Jr. and Two Interceptions. Thomas Jr’s Fourth Quarter Catch Set Up Running Back Tank Bigby 8-Yard Touchdown To Put Jacksonville Ahead For The First and Only Time Of The Game. The Jags Only Averaged 2.7 Yards On The Ground. The Jags Score All Ten Points In The Second Half As The Titans Either Punted Or Failed To successfully late in the fourth. Despite a 102-yard game From Tony Pollard The Titans Found Themselves Dependent On The Arm Of Will Levis Who Struggled To Convert Passes Late. In the First Half The Titan Drive To The Red Zone On a 15 Play 90 Yard Drive Only To Have Levi’s Throw Three Incompletions. The Days Of Levi’s As The Titans Answer At Quarterback Continue To Look Numbered. Both teams have a Record Of 3-10 And The Jags Will face Multiple Teams Now eliminated And Fighting For The Bottom With The Jets On The Schedule. The Titans Have The Bengals And Colts Before Scraping With The Jags Once More.
Seahawks Vs Cardinals
The Seahawks have No Room For Error After This Week's matchup. Starting With The Cardinals' Loss Hands The Cardinals Back The Top Spot In The Division However In Virtual Lock The Seahawks Will Face The Vikings A Team You Never Want To Face With Your Playoff Fate dangling That’s Like Batman Hanging From A Building With The Joker Standing Over Him, Defeating The Cardinals Would Give The Seahawks The Tie Breaker If The Team Should Lock Up Record Wise In The Future. The Seahawks Jump On The Cardinals Early In A Game Between Two Of The Most Erratic Teams In Football Using To Back Kyler Murray's Interceptions To Amass A 17-7 Lead In The First Quarter and Look Back. The Cardinals Pulled With A Touchdown In The Second Quarter On A Field But A 51 51-yard run BY Zach Charbonnet In The Second All But Put This Game Away For The Seahawks 30-18. The Cardinals Live and Die By The Arm And Legs Of Kyler Murray and Today The Worse Of His Play Began To Show. Murray Didn’t See The Coverage Field And Consistently Threw Off His Back Foot allowing Passes To Float And Giving Defenders More Opportunities To Swipe His Passes. His Opening Drive Touchdown To Micheal Wilson Showcased How His Arm Can Dazzle But Too Often Kyler’s Arm Betray Him. Murray Relies On Instincts And His Worriskme Habits Cost The Cardinals A Shot At The Division For The Seahawks Zach Charbonnet Took A Lot Of The Weight Off Geno’s Shoulders By Rushing The Ball 22 Times For 134 Yards On The Ground with Two Touchdown, 6.1 Yards Per Carry Including Four Runs Over 10 Plus Yards. Geno Smith In A World Of Big Throws He Flashed The Canon Today He Got The Seahawks First Touchdown On The Board With a Massive Strike 19 Strike To Jaxson Smith-Njibga In The Back Of The End Zone In The First Quarter Off The First Play After The Pick. Smith Would Finish 24/30 Passing For 233 and A Touchdown. Jaxson Smith-Njigba Would Rack Up 5 Catches For 82 Receiving Yards and One Touchdown. The Seahawks At Times Have Looked Like The Best Offense In The NFL Other Times They’ve Struggled Just To Remain In the Game and Justify Their Position In The NFC. Seattle Has Little Time To Celebrate Their Win Over Their Division Foe With The Vikings Up Next and The Rams Now In Position To Sneak Away With The Division Crown. The Cardinals Have An “Easy” Two Games Ahead With The Patriots And Panthers Both Lackluster Teams Who Have Put Better Teams On Upset Watch.
Bills Vs Rams The Bills Got Into A Shootout With a Surging Rams Team Still Hanging Around NFC standing A Buffalo Drops A Crucial Game In Their Hunt For Kansas City At The Top Losing To LA 44-42. Between Bills Quarterback Josh Allen And Rams’s Wide Receiver Puka Nacua, you Could Debate Which Player Produced The Better Stat Line. Allen had Three passing Touchdowns On 22/37 Passing Passing Yards 342, Three Touchdowns 90.3 QBr, and A Passer Rating of 117.2. Allen’s Night Didn’t End There He Also Rushed For 82 Yards And Three Touchdowns On The Ground And In The Process Became The Only Quarterback In NFL History To Do So Surprised He Didn’t Catch One. Speaking Of Catch A lot Of Allen’s Passing Production Came After The Catch Like His 51 Yard Touchdown Run By Kahlil Shakir in Third Quarter And His Second Quarter 41 Yard Touchdown Pass To Ty Johnson As Allen Finished With A Negative CPOE(-7.8%). Allen Did Have His Spots Deep But He Threw Some Duds Out There In The Open Space. The Bills Score Touchdowns On All Four Of Their Last Possessions Of The Game But Fall Short As The Rams Already Built A Near Insurmountable Lead of 31-14 By The Start Of A Third Quarter With A Touchdown BY Kyren Williams.
The Bill's defense Entered The game playing Pretty Decent Against Allowing a 90s Rating and Not Allowing Big Plays Downfield In Their Zone Coverages Before Locking Teams Out With One Of The Best Scoring Defenses. To Combat This The Rams Sean McVay Used A lot Of Empty Sets With Five Wide Receiver Options To Spread The Bills Out And Attack Downfield.
Stafford Completed All Seven Of His Attempts From empty Including A Big 24 Yard Pass To Cooper Kupp In The First Quarter. Stafford Finished 23/30 For 320 Passing Yards and Two Touchdowns. The Rams Also Used A lot of play-action passing And The Incomparable Talents Of Puka Nacua. Nacua Put On A Dazzling Performance Absorbing 14 Of Stafford’s 30 Targets, Two Touchdowns popping nineteen Yard receptions that rival any Impressive catch Of His He Also Hauled in 21 Yard Reception and the Gane Clinching Touchdown For The Rams. The Rams Used Nacua All Over The Field He Rushed 5 Carries For 16 Yards Along With 12 Receptions For 162 Receiving Yards And Two Touchdowns. Can The Rams Pull Off Another Late Season Turn Around Right Now Their Locked In A tie With Seattle For The Division And Will Face The Seahawks Later This Year. The Seahawks Have A Tougher Schedule But The Rams Can't Look The Niners Coming Up On Thursday Night. The Rams Will Also Face The Cardinals Again With All Of These Team Trying Scrum For The Division. If The Rams Can Win Out They Can Take Over The Division.
Jets Vs Dolphins
The Dolphins Still Have The Faintest Of Hopes For The Playoffs Even Though They Have To Stand In Line Behind Team Who Jumped Ahead Earlier In The Season NFL Teams have Never Shown Any Exceptions To Collapses. The Jets Have Collapsed, and No One Talks About Football About The Jets All Of The Conversion Surrounding The Team Centers On Who’s Going and Who’s Staying Starting With Aaron Rodgers Who remains Adamant About Turning The Jets Around In The Future Of Course If He Has one With New York. Aaron Rodgers Showed He’s Got A lot Of Juice Left In His Arm As The Jets Offense scored 26 Points and Rodgers Puts Up 339 Passing Yards One Touchdown, 104.5 Passer Rating both Davante Adams And Garrett Wilson Pick Up Over 100 Yards Wilson Hauls In A Big 42 Yard Catch But The Jets Fall Short In Overtime. NFL Analyst And The Media Have Made Note Of The Dolphins Absence Of The Deep Ball In Their Offense. The Deep Ball Defined Much Of Mike McDaniels Early Efforts As Head Coach But In Tua’s Return, The Dolphins Have Played More conservatively. However, Have Show More Balance and A Willing To Play In Intermediate Areas Of The Field. Tua Didn’t Complete any Passes Over 20 air Yards But Instead Worked Methodically Through Passes In The 5-15 Air Yard Range To Rack Up 331 Passing Yard, A QBr Of 80.4, And A Passer Rating 104.1. The Dolphins Put Together A Late Scoring Drive That Resulted In A Game Tying Field Goal to Lock Up Both Teams At 26-26. In overtime, the Dolphins Would Use The Only Drive Of The Extra Period To Pick Up 70 Yards Over 8 Plays To Pick A Ten ten-yard touchdown To Jonnu Smith's tight End. Aaron Rodgers looks like his Old Self If He Wanted To Make A Statement About Staying In New York here’s His First Salvo 27/39 339 Passing Yards, a Passer Rating of 104.5, Three Sacks, and One Touchdown. Rodgers Connected With Two Deep Passes Of Better Than 20 Yards. The Dolphins Stay Alive For The Playoffs And Move Closer To A .500 record. The Loss Officially Eliminates The Jets From Playoff Contention.
Eagles Vs Panthers
The Eagles Have Firmly Establish Themselves As A Contender In The NFC along With Lions And Vikings But Some Questions About The Team Remain Present And A Game Against The Panthers won't Answer Those Questions. The Image Of Saquon Barkley Taking Home The MVP Has Become A “Cute” Talking Point So Far And If A Running Back Deserve The Reward Barkley Stands As The Chief Case In Any Regard As He And The Eagles Can Make Another Statement Against One Of The Weakest Defenses In Football. The Panthers Prove Their Recent Run Of Competitive Games Against The League’s Best Have Shown The Greater Ranges Of A True Transformation For The Team As The Panthers Come One Xavier Leggette Completion Away From Extending What Could Have Proven A Brilliant Drive By Come Back Drive By Bryce Young As The Eagles Prevail 22-16. The Eagles trailed 16-14 Through The Third Quarter Before Philly took Over In The Fourth And Held Carolina Off Late In The Game. The Eagles Suffered Another One Of Those Slow Starts Playing Against One Of The Weakest Rushing Defenses In Football The Panthers' Saquon Barkley had 20 Carries For 124 Rushing yards, and Jalen Hurts Added 59 As The Eagles OFFENSE rushed For Over 200 Yards But The Passing Game Struggled, Just 3.3 On Average As The Eagles CONVERTED 11 First Downs On The Ground. If The Eagles have One Concern As A Contender Can They Trust Jalen Hurts And His Arm To win Games Come January? Hurts Missed A Lot of Throws And Didn’t Look To Play Aggressively just 14/21 For 109 Passing Yards. The Panthers' Pass Game Hauled Some Late Heroic Passes From Bryce Young A 31 Yarder To Leggette Out Of The Panthers' Red Zone And A 32 Yarder To Adam Theilen To Extend The Panthers Final Drive Twice He Couldn’t Connect With Xavier Leggette To Extend Two Of The Panthers Fourth Quarter.
The Drop Pass Would Have Surely Scored The Panthers A Touchdown As Leggette Rolled Into The Red Zone Untouched. Both Offenses Exhausted Much Of Their First-half Half Efforts Rocketing Punts Back and Forth Before Some Level of Offensive Competency Before Sputtering Off The Rails Again.
Instead The Eagles Win. Ugly Games Come Into Play In The Grand Scheme Of Football But The Eagles Need To Stay On Their Game If They Hope To Win The NFC Conference.
Vikings Vs Falcons
In Kirk Cousins’s Return To Minnesota, The Vikings had a Slow Start On Both Offense And Defense To Defeat The Falcons 42-21 Thanks To 28 28-point Second Half Explosion Which Included Three Touchdowns By Sam Darnold. Darnold Rack Five Touchdowns Three To Second Year Receiver Jordan Addison Whose Second Half Consecutive Touchdown Put This Game Far Out Of Reach For The Falcons. The Win Helps Keep The Vikings In Range Of the Lions In The Division And The Conference The Loss Drops The Falcons Out Of First Place In the South. Kirk Cousins Put Up A Dazzling First Half But His fourth-quarter interception Helped the Vikings Ice The Game. The Falcons Have Now Lost Four In A Row After Looking for A Team Which Could Contend In The NFC. Despite The Pass Rush Ramping Things Up As Of Late The Secondary Gave Up Some Massive Pass Plays And Also Let Aaron Jones Walk Around Them Into The End Zone. Sam Darnold Finished 22/28 For 347 Passing Yards Five Touchdowns, 12.6% CPOE, and A 157.9 Passer Rating. Jordan Addison And Justin Jefferson Both Eclipse 130, 133 And 132 Each Through The Air. Kirk Cousins Threw Fir 344 Passing Yards But No Touchdowns, and Two Interceptions. The Falcons Season Could’ve Ended In This Game As The Bucs Have The Lead And Only Need To Finish With a Record One Better Win Than The Falcons To Come Away With The Division. Kirk has Zero Touchdowns and Eight Picks in his Last Four Games As The Falcons Begin To Make Their Move On A Spot In The Greatest Collapses In NFL History.
After Six Years Of The Safe, Systemic Life Under The Guidance Of Kirk Cousins The Vikings Replace The Proven Adequateness Of Cousins with The Erratic-ness Of Sam Darnold, really Looking at The Two You Wouldn’t The Degree Of Difference The Vikings Shifted Towards. Cousins Strive To Make The “Right” Within The Scheme And Play Call Even if That Meant Taking A Check On Fourth Down He Always Played Predictably, Darnold Holds The Ball And Hunts Big Plays Some Of Which Cost Him At Times But Hes Far More Dangerous For Both his Team And His Opponents. Kirk Cousins Started His Game With A lot of Success Down The Field Including Two Connections Of Over 15+ Taking Advantage Of The Vikings Primary Weakness On Defense, Playing A lot Of Man Coverage. For The Vikings To Fit The Tun and Blitz, They Have To Sacrifice Bodies In The Cover Leaving A lot Of One matchup for The Falcons' Talented Offense To Take Advantage. Facing Calls For His Job This Week Kirk Cousins Put Together One Of His Best Opening DRIVES to Get The Falcons On The Board Including A 15 Yard Connection To Drake London And A 28 Yarder To Darnell Mooney. Tyler Algerier Get The Falcons On The Board With a Six Yard Run To Finish an 11 Play Drive 70 Yards. The Falcons Pass Rush Started The Season As One Of The Worse But Started Coming On Late Of Sorts ended The Vikings’ First Drive That Got Into Falcons Territory But Pushed The Vikings Outside The Fifty. The Falcons' Offense took It To Minnesota To Start The second drive With A Darnold Mooney 24 24-yard catch But The Vikings Would Stop The Falcons on two back Drives One a Turnover On Downs and Another An Interception. Darnold Would Connect With Jordan Addison For 49 Yards And a Touchdown To Tie The Game. The Deep Ball would Betray Darnold From Time To Time Because Holding The Ball Invited Sacks But He’d Keep Attacking. A Field Penalty Would Grant The Vikings One More Shot At The End Zone And Darnold Would Hit Top Target Justin Jefferson For 12 Yard Touchdown On A beautiful Curl Route. The Two Offenses Would Go Back And forth as The Vikings Continue To Play Man To Man The Falcons Continued To Attack deep Favoring Darnell Mooney's Matchup On For 49 Yards Down Field That Set Up A Falcons Field Goal To Cut The Lead Down To 14-10. Cousins Out dueled Darnold In The First Half 183 Yards To 97 Passing Yards But The Vikes Keep The Lead After Stopping The Falcons On Three Straight Play. A SackOn First Drive Of The Second Half Prevent The Vikings From Extending The Lead To 7 Points With a Missed Field Goal. The Falcons Pick up a Field goal in The Third To Cut The Lead To 13-14 But Vikings And Sam Darnold Would Charge Back this time Darnold Would Escape Pressure Before Hitting A Chord Downfield To Justin Jefferson For 52 Yards As Jefferson Escapes The Coverage Downfield As The Vikings Stretch The Lead 21-13. The Falcons Would Put Together Another Scoring Drive This One Would Feature Drake London Getting Involved For Big 29 Yard Play And Ray Ray McCloud capped Off The Drive With A 13 Yard Pass From Kirk and A Bijan Robinson two Point Conversion To Cap The Drive and Tie The Game. This Game Would Showcase The Prolific Receiving Skill Set Of The Vikings As Jordan Addison Score a back Touchdown On Consecutive Drives Starting With A 11 Yard Touchdown Set Up By His Own 42 Yard Catch and another Six Yarder Following A Falcons Kick Return Fumble Equaling Three Total For Addison. The Vikings Pulled away 42-21 Off Of A Kirk Cousins’s Interception Turned Aaron Jones Touchdown.
