NFL Week Four Takeaways
I Love The Smell Of Week Four In The Air. Team Identities Have Started TO CRYSTALIZE, AND Some Mirrors Appear Harder Ro Look Into Than Others.
The Chiefs Remain Undefeated After Four Weeks Even If Anyone Watching Can Count More Than A Handful Of Plays That Should’ve Resulted In A Loss For The Super Bowl Champs. Patrick Mahomes looks More Mortal Than usual But The Chiefs Remain Far From The Far and Away Best Team In The AFC. The Ravens Delivered The Bills their First Loss Of The Season as Baltimore Remembered How To Close Off Games Without A Climatic James Bond Finish. However, Should Anyone Expect The Ravens To Sustain This Ground Assault Into the Winter Portion Of The Season? A Couple Of Preseason Divisional Hopefuls Like The Browns and Jaguars Look Near Complete Disrepair and Both Teams Cut Checks For Very expensive Quarterbacks while Again Neglecting the team-building Process and The Talent Around Them Can’t Seem To Buttress These Quarterbacks's Deficiencies. The Browns Will Get Running Back Nick Chubb Back In The Coming Weeks But The Team Might Need To Open Up Shop On Guys Like Chubb And Amari Cooper If Any Turnaround Doesn’t Begin To Materialize By Sunset.
The NFC looks fun, and the football side is truly worth Watching. The Lions and Bucs appear as the strongest teams in not just the conference but also in the game, and I can’t think of any team greater than these two to beat in football come January. The Seahawks Also Have A Position To Hold As Well As the 49ers Who Returned To Their Winning Ways. The Vikings Picked Up Another Great Win In The NFC Defeating The Packers butMinnesota Still Feels Like A Team Everyone Watching Waiting To Collapse. The Commanders Find Themselves Quietly 3-1 With Offensive Coordinator Kliff Kingsbury Looking Like an Early Candidate For A Head Coaching Job.
Jaguars Vs. Texans
To Their Credit, The Jaguars Put Forth a Stronger Effort On Sunday Against The Texans At One Point Leading Late Into The Fourth. Truthfully Anything Better Than the
Mess Performance But on Monday Against The Bills The Jaguars Fell short Against The Texans by 24-20 And Drop To 0-4 On The Season. A Late Touchdown Drive By Houston Put CJ Stroud And The Texans Over Late In A Game That Broke Down Into A Defensive Struggle. The Jags Almost Shut The Door On This One. Facing A Fourth & 1 At The Houston Goal Line. Not Able To Get Much Going On The Drive with Their Running Backs The Jags Opted To Sneak Lawrence Who Gets Stuffed and The Jags Turn The Ball Over On Downs Late In The Third Quarter. The Jags
still Held The Better Odds To Win The Game In Fourth Before CJ Stroud And Nico Collins Put Up A Great Performance Late In This Game. The Jags Have Now Lost Three Game(Outside Of The Bills Blowout) All By One Score, Two In Which They Lead Late But Couldn’t Close The Game Out.
CJ Stroud Bounced From His Up And Down Performance To serve The Jags’s Secondary for 345 Passing Yards On 27/40, 8.6, A passer Rating Of 110.9, 75.0 QBr and Two Touchdown. Collins Caught 12 Passes For 151 Receiving, One Touchdown. Stroud And Collins Connected For Multiple Big Plays
The Jags Scored as Lawrence Hit Rookie Brian Thomas Jr. in The Back Of The End Zone A Muffed Punt on The Jaguars Early Drive Resulted In A Short Field And Lawrence Hitting his Receiver In The Back Of The End Zone On A Crossing Route by. The Texans Secondary That’s Produced Big Games Against The Likes Of Caleb Williams Continues To Get Picked Apart By The Rest Of The League. Of course, The Jags Couldn’t Sustain The Momentum. The Passing attack And Trevor Lawrence Missed Out on A lot Of Big Plays Downfield. This Jags Roster Still Doesn’t Look Constructed To Fit Lawrence’s Play Style As He’s Best Throwing To Bigger Receivers and Tight End Evan Engram Remains Out With Injury. Sometimes Lawrence Gets Too caught Up Hunting The Big Play Instead Of Taking The Short To Keep The Gains Moving. The Texans Defense Needs To Sure Up They Gave 6.6 Yard Per Run To A Jaguars Rushing Attack struggled To Gain Much Ground This Season. If Not For The Heroics of CJ Stroud, Nico Collins, and Tight end Cole Strange Who Came up With some Big Catches The Texans Would Have A Terrible Loss On Their Hands. This Texans Team also Needs Work on The O-Line AsStroud Spent Most Of Sunday Moving Off His Spot To Extend Plays Generating 2.97 Seconds Per Pass.
Vikings Vs Packers
Jordan Love Returns From
injury For The First Time In Week Four Since Suffering A Knee Injury In The Packers Opening Night Loss To The Eagles. Fans and Critics Alike Expect Much From Love After His Rookie Debut as A Full Time Starter Last Season Gained The Packers A Playoff Win and The Packers Inked Love To Big Deal In The Offseason. The Packers Have Done Well In His Absence Winning Two Games and Ranking Second In Passing Offense According To Football DVOA but 14th According To PFF So Some indiscretion Exists About Packers Success And The Vikings' Defense Will Test The Packers Offense For any Weak Points and Misfires. The Vikings’s DefenseENTERS week Four Highly regarded Number Two Overall In Passing DVOA Despite Relatively No Pass Rush.Of course, Sam Darnold's Comeback Story Has Overshadowed The Vikings’s Defense Somewhat But This Packers’s Defense Leads The League In Interceptions So Darnold To Will Find Himself Tested Dodge Some interceptions earlier This Season.
Darnold Dodge an Early Bullet Early After The Packers Dropped an Interception And After Converting A Massive 3rd & 14 Darnold Gets The Vikings’ Offense On The Board First With A big 29 Yard Touchdown. Darnold Would Hit Wide Receiver Jalen Nailor For 31 Yards To start The Game 3/4 For 72 Yards And A Touchdown.
Both The Packers And Vikings Offenses Inherited Their Philosophy From Shanahan Influenced a lot Of Big Crossing Routes Breaking Across The Field And Jordan Love Pick Up His Big Play Of The Game ConnectingWith Jayden Reed For 24 Yards Before. The Packers’s Offense Would Settle For A Field Goal Which shank AndThe Green Bay Would Remain Scoreless. The Vikings Would Get Their Second Score Of The First Quarter When Darnold Hit Tight End Josh Oliver Streaking Across The End Zone. The Vikings Secondary Would Strike Against Jordan Love First Interception Of The Game and The Vikings Would Score Quickly With Jordan Addison On An End Around. The Vikings Score A Touchdown On Their First Three Drives. Loves’s Second Interception Would Lead To A Vikings Passing Touchdown And The Vikings Would Score 14 Points Off Of Two Green Bay Turnovers. The Packer Would Continue To Work The Vikings Defense Before The Half But You Could Feel the Impact Of The Offense Sucked Out Of The Air In Green Bay.
The Packers Would Score Their First Points Of The Game, Thanks To A Vikings Special Teams Blunder, The Packers Who Punted Most Of Their Drive And Suffered A Turner On Downs on The Most Successful, The Offense Found Themselves Gifted excellent Field Position. Though initially denied and At One Point Pushed Back Into a Worse Field Position Jordan Undaunted By The Moment Would Hit Jayden Reed on The Outside For A Touchdown As The Packer CUT the Vikings Lead 28-7 To Cool Off Some Of The Vikings’ Momentum.
The Vikings’ Offense Would Slow Down In The Second Half, Including An Interception In The Red Zone And A Long Sack Resulting In A Punt But The Vikes’ Defense Would Not Relent. After The Half Time Break, The Packers Would Go 3 & Out(Twice) And Turnover On Downs. Green Bay’s Offense Would Get On The Board First In The Second Half, 11 Plays 89 Yards, and Jordan Love Would Hit Dontayvion Wicks For A One Yard Touchdown. Love And The Packers Had an Inconsistent Drive But A 28 28-yard pass To Bo Melton Would Push The Packers Over Midfield. The Packers Would Come To The Team’s Rescue Again Forcing A Fumble On A Sack On Sam Darnold and The Packers Would Quickly Hang Another Touchdown, Two Plays 20 And A Touchdown To Tight
End Tucker Kraft For A Touchdown. The Packers Convert a Two-Point Conversion And Suddenly The Vikings Find Themselves Holding On To A One Possession Lead. The Vikings' Secondary Even After Giving Up Multiple Touchdowns Would Not Let Up. The Vikings' Defensive Backs Would Force Two Turnovers, One Interception another A Fumble. The Vikings’ Defense Proved Too Fast For Jordan Love And His Motion Throwing Arm.Love Would Still Generate A lot Of Big Plays, Late In The Game He Hit Dontayvion Wicks For 17 Yards, And A Touchdown Ending A Five 96 Yard Drive Would end Game For The Packers Offensively As The Vikings Would Hold On To Take The Win 31-29. The Vikings Start The Season 4-0 And I Don’t Think Any One ExpectedMinnesota To Take Control Of The NFC north This Early In The Year But The Vikings look Like A Contender In The NFC. The Offense Slowing to A Stand Still In The Second Half Generated Some Concern If You’re A Minnesota Fan The Vikings Didnt Answer The Questions Whether They Could Go Distance To Distance, I Wanted The Vikings To Dominate. The Defense Forced Four Turnovers Of Love To Offset The Big Plays Surrendered Down Field. Darnold Finished The Game 20/28 For 275, Three Touchdown, And A Passer Rating of 123.5. Aaron Jones 22 Carries For 95 Rushing Yards, Justin Jefferson 6 Catches For 85 Receiving Yards, And Jordan Addison 3 Catches For 72 Receiving Yards. Jordan Love Had To Handle More Of The Offensive Load For The Packers In This Game Facing A 28-0 Deficit, The Pack Forsake ran the Ball Settling For Just 19 Attempts in 74 Plays. Love Would Attempt 54 Passes Completing 32 And 389 Passing Yards and Four Touchdown. Love Will Have Games Like This Because All The Great Perform Inconsistently Especially When Faced With a Tough Defense But Love Showed The Confidence To Continue Firing Away In The Mist Of The Minnesota Secondary. The Packers Fall To 2-2 And 0-2 With Love Starting Despite Relatively Positive So Far This Season. He’s passed for More Yards in two games Than Some Starter Have In Three Games.
Giants Vs Cowboys
Is Daniel Jones Back? One Performance Doesn’t Make A Comeback And We’ve Seen Witness The False Signs Of Hope In Jones’s Performances Before But In Week Three Jones Defeated The CLEVELAND browns, A Very Accomplished Defense With The Giants After Thought Of A Passing Game. Jones’s Stats For The Season Still Have Him Ranked In The Bottom Fifth Of The League With a -0.074 EPA Per Drop back, That’s Up 0.191 EPA Per Drop back. Truthfully The Giants’s Defense Especially The Defensive Front led by Defensive Tackle Dexter Lawrence Leading Interior Lineman In Pressures.
The Cowboys' Lack Of An Interior Presence Leads to The Defense Getting Exposed By The Raven Rushing Attack Up The Middle. On Opening Night The Cowboys Sent Shock Waves Around When They Dismantled A Handicapped Browns Sunce Then Both The Saints And Ravens’s Offense Have Made The Cowboys’s Defense For Joy Ride. The Saints Show has the better Formula For Defeating The Cowboys Because Few Teams Can Emulate The Impact Of The Ravens' Rushing Attack, Baltimore Averages More Than 200 On The Ground So Far, andJones presents a Threat In The Read Option Game—Not The Threat Of Jackson But A Threat—And Brian Daboll Can Utilize That Aspect Of Jones’s Game To Pull Off The Win. The Giants May Also Look To Slow Down The Pace Of The Game, Right Now They Play One Of The Slower Paces In The League.
The Giant's Passing Attack has To Utilize The Quick Game. Jones Has Excelled In The Short Passing Game Right Now Averaging A Little Over 6 Air Yards a Pass. No one Can Write The Cowboys Off Too Early, The Team Still Ranks As One Of The Most Talented In Football, The Giants Will Need Ways To Neutralize Dallas’s Pressure. On The Strength Of Jones’s Arm and His Quick Feet Found A Way To Get The Giants On The Board Early. With As Much Buzz As Giants’ Rookie Malik Nabers Has Made, Fighting During Training Camp, Becoming LsU’s All-Time Leading Receiver Before Turning 21 Or Leading The League In Target Share You’d Think The Cowboys Would Cover HIM Down Field. Instead, Dallas Blow A Coverage Spot and Nabers Picks Up 39 Yard Pass Down The Sideline. The Early Explosive Play Sets Up A Giants’ Field Goal. After An Early Punt, The Dallas Cowboys Put Together a Strong Scoring Drive. This Week The Media Embellished The Use Of An Apparent Disgruntled Ceedee Lamb And The Cowboys Offense. In Week Three Cameras Found Lamb visibly Upset With His Usage. On Thursday The Cowboys Made Sure To Use Ceedee On All Levels Of The Offense. Lamb Would Pick Up Yards On The Ground With An End-Around Run. He Picked Up A First Down On A Slant and the lamb Would Start The Game With Five Touches For 40 Yards. The Cowboys Would Score The First Touchdown Of The Game. Ceedee Lamb Would Help Set Up The Cowboys First Touchdown the Second Cowboys Touchdown Belonged Exclusively To Him. A Five Play 70 Yard Touchdown Drive Would End When Prescott Hit Ceedee Lamb On 55 Yard Catch And Run, 40 Of The Yards Came After The Catch. Ceedee Would Catch His First 5 Passes For 5 Catches And 80 Yards. The Giants Offense Would Match The Cowboys With Strong Drives But Couldn’t Get Nothing Going In The End Zone. Jones Excelled In The Range the game and Picked Up Some Big Throws But Overall He Missed A Couple Of Opportunities Down The Field, The Off Sode Free Play Got Picked Off Because Jones threw a wide-open Down The Darius Slayton. In The Red Zone For The First Time by The End Of The Half, Daniel Jones Gets Sacked
By The End Of The First Half, Ceedee Racked Up 94 Yards His Best Total Of The Season.
Some Of The Giant's Red Zone Woes Fall On Poor Red Zone Play Calling. Even with Nabers The Giants Still Lack a Strong Stable Of Receivers. They Need A Bigger Body To Work Around The Red Zone But They Lost Tight End, Darren Waller. The Giants Drive Down To The Foot Of The Cowboy’s’s Red Zone Only To Buckle After 11 plays and 77 Yards. Headed By Big Plays From Malik Naber 15 yard Pass But Also Big Plays From Darius Slayton and Wan’Dale Robinson The Giant's Passing Game Drove To Eight But Again Settle For A Field To Cut The Cowboys Two Score Lead To 14-12. Daboll Would Try To Scheme Open Wan’Dale More In Space But Cowboys’s Defense Would Not Break. Daboll Also Didnt Try To Use Jones’s Mobility But The Giant'sQuarterback Look Good This Gane. The Giants However Have Too Many Coextensive Wide Receivers, They’reAll light-weight and Short But Jones Doesn’t Have The Arm To Stretch The Field with Their Speed. The Lack of Size proves crucial Late In The Game As Wan’Dale Robinson, 5’8, Just Misses An Over-Played Deep long
the Side Line.
The Cowboys Consistently Played Nabers One-on-one On The Boundary Somehow The Giants Played conservatively, Not Trusting Their Protection, To Play Deep RAnge. Instead despite An Efficient Game From Jones, The Giant's Offense Would Generate Five Field Goals. The Giant's Defense In The Second Half Kept The Game Close. The Cowboys First Two Drives Of The Second Half, One Field Goal Of 60 Yards another Of 40 Yards. The Cowboys Would Hold On To Secure The 20-15 Victory. Lamb Would Catch One More Pass And Finish with 98 Receiving Yards On 7 Catches as The Cowboy's Offense Would Slow Considerably In The Second Half. Dak Prescott Would Deliver 22/27 For 221 Passing Yards, A 125.5 Passer Rating Two Touchdowns. Daniel Jones finished the Game 29/40 For 281, Completing Two Passes At Or Over 20 Air Yards in the Game.
Jones has only completed two passes and over 20 air yards for the season. I Think The Giants can Win With Jones In The Long Term if The Right Pieces Fall In Place Around Him. The Giants Leaned In Heavily On The Passing Offense With The Ground Game Struggle Devin Singletary Maxxed Out At 14 Carries For 24 Yards On The Ground And Just Never Got Anything Going, The Cowboy's Defense Cleaned Up On That End Of The Spectrum. The Lack Of A Run Game Hurt The Giants On Early Downs, As The Offense Finished With a Negative Success Rate On 1st&2nd Down But A Positive Success Rate On Late Downs 3rd&4th Down.
His Big Highlight Came From Converting A Fourth Down. Even With 15 Targets, 12 Catches For 115 Yard Malik Nabers Still Felt Underutilized. The Cowboys Didn’t Prove Anything Other Than They’re Still Better Than TheGiants Atleast With A obscenely Tough Schedule Ahead Of The Team In The Coming Weeks. Dropping A Game To the Giants As A Super Bowl Hopeful Negates Any Hope of Turnaround For The Cowboys in the Early Season.
Commanders Vs Cardinals
In The Preseason The Offensive Rookie Of The Year Award Looked Like A Forgone Conclusion With Bears Number One Pick Caleb Williams Dominating The Odds. Heading Into Week 4 The Picture Has Changed, TwoFormer LSU teammates Have Taking Over Odds And Control Over Their Teams’ Offenses Thus Far This Season. Jayden Daniels Looked Better Than Caleb Williams To Me Heading Into The Draft, Daniels Won The Heisman For A Reason. Daniels Looked More Pro Ready, More Develop, He’s Already 24 Years Old With Five Plus Years Of College Experience And Daniels Has Demonstrated His Uncanny Develop For A rookie 22/24 In week 3 Versus The Bengals. Daniels Had A Strong 7/7 Going Early Against The Cardinals, The Commanders Possessed A 14-7 Lead Over The Cardinals But Daniels A Talented Deep Thrower In College Just Mis Reads The Field And Suffers His First Pick Of The Season. Daniels Started As Efficiently As He Left Off. Daniels Would Recover From The Early Mishap And Continue To Eviscerate The Cardinal’s Secondary Leading The Commanders To a 42-14 Victory And A 3-1 Record For The Commanders in the young Season. Remember Back In Week Two When The Football World Went Bonkers Over The Cardinals' Passing Offense, Well That Offense Has Only Score More Than 14 Points In One Game This Season. Kyler Connected With Rookie First Round Wide Receiver Marvin Harrison Jr on The First Drive To Get The Cards On The Board Early. But The Cardinals' Offense Relies On The Creative Skills Of Kyler Murray To Sustain Drives And Turnovers Hurt The Cardinals' Ability To Sustain Drives And Penalties Of Defense After The Initial Touchdown The Cardinals Offense Punt, 3 And Out, 3 And Out, And Downs. Jayden Daniels Finished 26/30 For 233 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, And A Passer Rating Of 96.3. Daniels Threw Some Darts In This Game With A Quick Release That Cut Through The Air On The Way To The Target. The Commander rushing Game Averaged 5.8 Yards Per Rush And With Only A Handful of Nameable Players On Offense Kliff Kingsbury Has Built A strong NFC East Leading Unit Deafedted His Former Team. Kyler Murray 16/22 For 142 Passing Yards. The Cardinals’s Need Another Type Of weapon On Offense With tight End Trey McBride Out with injury. The Cardinals Need A Gadget Guy, One Who Can Generate Offense For Himself In A Way. The Cardinals Also Have Too Many Large Receivers—Strangely They Had Too Many Small Ones Last Season—But Too Super-linear Body Limit The Number Of Route Combinations An Offense Can Use To Attack A Defense. The Commanders’ Passing Defense Has Shown Some Spottiness But Overall They'reContaining Passing Attacks This Far. In A Division With The Eagles and Cowboys Can The Rookie Lead Commanders Take The NFC East?
Colts Vs Steelers
The Colts And Steelers Meet In A Matchup Of Two AFC Playoff Hopefuls. After A Slow Start To The Season, The Colts Picked Up Their First Win Against The Bears After A Strong Start To The Season Anthony Richardson Has Shown The “Incomplete” Nature Of His Game. In Many Ways, The Colts Drafted The Equiform Of Justin Fieldsan Amazing Athlete With A Range-less Arm Power With A Limited Capacity For Unlocking All Of The Complexities of The passing Game. In Three Games Richardson Has Six Picks and Indy’s Passing Games With Talent Hasn’t Flourished coming In Ranked 14th In Passing DVOA Despite Some Talent On The Outside. Richardson Has The Arm Talent With Elite Rushing Ability. The Colts Lost Anthony Richardson In This Game But Pulled Out The Win Against a Tough Pittsburgh led by Joe Flacco Who Delivered Strike After Strike To Overcome Justin Fields and The Steelers’s Defense. The Colts' Defense Deliver Four Sack, One Resulting In a Fumble But Still Gave Up Fields His Best Passing Effort Of The Season 22/34 For 312, 9.5 a Throw While Leading The Offense In Rushing 10 Rushes For 55 Rushing Yards and Two Touchdowns On The Ground. The Steelers Helped The Team Put Together A Mighty Half Effort That Fell Short As the Field Got Sacked On The Steelers'Last Drive Losing Down And Distance Effectively Ending The Steelers' Hope. The Steelers' Offense Lost Two Fumbles But Didn’t Give Up Any Points On The Other End To The Colts. The Colts Offense Got Strong Performances From Running Back Jonathan Taylor 21 Carries 88 Rushing Yard And One Touchdown Taking Alot Pressure Off Of Joe Flacco In The Pocket. Flacco Racked Up 168 Yards On 16/26 Two Touchdown A Passer Rating of 105.9 and A Dart Of A Throw To Josh Downs for an Early Touchdown. The Colts Have One Of The Better Constructed Rosters Offensive With No Holes Outside Of “Inconsistent” Quarterbacking. Micheal Pittman led the Colts In Receiving With 113 Yards and 6 Catches.
Browns Vs. Raiders
Joe Flacco Told Reporters That The Browns Didnt Offer He A Contract After He Came in And Lead The Team To The Playoffs Last season. Flacco’s Presence With the Browns Would Possibly Create Tension For The Browns in case Deshaun Watson Struggled and Watson Continues To Struggle This Season As The Browns Drop to 1-3 On The Season after Losing To The Raiders 20-16. The Browns Appear Trapped Against The Wall With Deshaun ButCleveland Has To Make A Decision And One That Could Cost Them Long In Terms Of Business Pedigree And Cap Space. Watson Certainly Had His Moments This Game He Leads The Browns To A 10-0 Score But Whether Just Drops Or Poor Offensive Line Play Cleveland Can’t seem To keep The Offense Consistently Delivering. The Browns' Success Rate On Late Downs Dropped 10% From Their Success Rate On EARLIER downs And 16% Of Watson’s Drop back Generated A Scramble The Browns Didn’t Turn The Ball Over The Struggled To Convert Downs And Penalties Cost The Team A Late Game Winning Touchdown. Kevin Stefanski Can’t Make The Game Any Easier For Watson Without Degrading His Offense. Watson Has Become Something Like A Series Like The Twilight Zone Where You Don’t Know what You’re Going To Get From Down To Down: One Play He throws A 15 Plus Air Yard, A Play After He’s Darting The Ball at The Feet Of His Receiver Halting A Positive Drive.
The Raiders Pull Out A Gutsy Win With No Davante Adams.
Lions Vs Seahawks
The Lions' Offense Hasn’t Gotten Off To A Hot Start Most Expected This Season Ranked Only 15th By Football DVOA And Just 13th In Passing Offense And They Face The League's Best Seattle Secondary. The Lions' First Drive Only Gained 4 Yards And Saw Goff Complete One Pass But the Second Drive Featured Multiple Strikes Downfield Through Tight Windows. The Seattle Linebackers, Safeties, and Corners All Have Equal Length and Physical Dimensions So Goff’s Passes Need Extra Zipped and He Hit Them. Over 12 Plays Goff Would Hit Jameson Williams For 10 Yards, Amon-Ra St. Brown For 17 Yards, Jahmyr Gibbs Would Tack On 20 Yards On The Ground and David Montgomery The Drive With Three Short Distance Runs. When The Run And Pass Work Together Thats When Ben Johnson's Offense Works To Perfection. The Detroit Secondary And Pass Defense Don’tHave The Talent Or Pedigree Of Seattle And The Seahawks Geno Took Advantage Of The Lions Early On The Boundary, Converting Multiple Splash Plays Down Field. Geno started The Game 6/8 For 61 Yards, 39 Of Which Belong To DK Metcalf. Metcalf Would Bully Detroits M's Smaller Secondary But A Hard Hit By Jack Campbell Would Result In A Fumble recovered By Carlton Davis. Jahmyr Gibbs This Would Get The Honor Of Putting Detroit Up Two Scores On A Three-Yard Run. Metcalf Would Remain Undaunted On The Next Lions’s Drive Geno And Metcalf Would Hook Up For 29 29-yard pass To Set Seattle Up At The Detroit Red Zone And Kenneth Walker Would Finish Off the Drive. The Lions decide To Play Defense With Offense, Controlling The Clock and Moving At A Slower Pace On Drives to keep the Seattle Offense On The Side. Goff Would Go 5/5 On The NextNine Play Drive The Lions Would Amass 70 Yards And Jahmyr Gibbs Would Finish The Drive With A Touchdown, His Second Touchdown Of The Game. Gibbs And Montgomery Continue To Hit Like Thunder And Lightning. The Detroit Secondary started to Get A lot More Physical With Metcalf Because Of His Size and Strength I Think The Refs Allowed Detroit To Get Away With some Handsy Play On Metcalf Down The Field.
The Seahawks and Geno Smith Continued Slashing into The Detroit Secondary and Two Touchdowns In The Third Quarter Both Touchdowns Author By Geno Smith One To Tight Aaron Barner To Start The Seattle Third Quarter Recovery. The Geno Touchdown Pass Went To DK Metcalf On a Beautiful Ball Into the boundary. Jared Goff Started The Game Perfect in the Fourth Quarter but His Best Completion Came On The Receiving end. The Seattle Defense Already Had So Many Of Detroit’s Weapons To Deal With Jared Goff On the Receiving End Of a Pass Of Amon-Ra St. Brown In The End Zone To Keep The Lions Ahead Of The Charging Seahawks. Goff returns To His Place In The Pocket On the Lion's Next Drive And In One Play He Hits Jameson Williams Over The Middle Who Takes Off For 75 Yards to Put Detroit Ahead 35-20. Goff Would Return The Favor To St. Brown Later In The Fourth Quarter.
The Seahawks Faced A One Score Deficit at 9 Minute Mark Of The Fourth quarter On 4th And Three. Seattle looked Initially To Convert The Downs On Pass To Jaxson Smith-Njigba But An Offensive Pass Interference Calland The Lions Would Off To Hand Seattle Their First Lost Of The Season 42-29 In A High scoring Affair. A Goff Touchdown Pass To A Toe Tapping Amon-Ra St.Brown To Put The Game Out Of Reach And A Late Game Winning Interception By Geno Smith Seal The Win On An Impressive Night. Detroits’s Secondary Gave Up 395 Yards, On 35/54 one Touchdown To Geno Smith. The Seahawks' Offense Generated 519 Yards Of Offensive OutPut, An Astounding 7 Yards Per Rush. Detroit However Converted 5/5 Opportunities In The Red Zone Scoring 6 Touchdowns Total. Kenneth Walker Rushed 12 Times For 80 Yards On The Ground. DK Metcalf 7 Catches For 104 Receiving Yards. Jared Goff Finished The Game A Perfect 18/18 I Think impacted Some Of The Play Calling Late Which Resulted In A Safety Penalty. Seattle’s Fumble In the First Half gave The Edge To the Lions In This Game. The Seahawks Shouldn’t Worry Too Much, They Need Weight and Strength Up Front On Defense Perhaps Better Safety Help The Offense, Even With a Jaded Offensive line Looks Like A Clear Strength For The Time. Kenneth Walker Delivered Three Rushing Touchdowns and Generated A lot of Explosive Plays For The Seahawks' Offense.
Buccaneers Vs Eagles
In Week Three The Buccaneers Came Out Timid In A 26-7 Loss To The Broncos. Looking Far From The Team Who Overpowered The Lions A Week Before The Buccaneers Offense Lacked The Same Efficiency and Threatening Downfield Power. Early Against The Eagles The Bucs Found Their Footing As a Super Bowl Contender Once More With Baker Mayfield Posting Two Passing Touchdowns early In The First Quarter. The Eagles Secondary Has Looked Improved In Movements And Vulnerable Others And When Mike Evans Runs A Crossing Route Over The Back Of The End-Zone That’s One Of Those Moments When the Eagles’ Secondary Couldn’t Keep Up With The Taller Receiver On The Long Developing Route. The Eagles' Offense Would Struggle On Early Drives Just 2 Yards On The First Three Plays And Punt. The Buccaneer's Offense Would strike Back In No Time Baker Mayfield Going 4/4 For 76 yards and A Touchdown, a Big Play 28 Yard Play To Chris Godwin, And A 15 Yard Pass To Trey Palmer For A Touchdown. Jalen Hurts And The Eagles’ Offense, Still Missing AJ Brown Wouldn’t Score Or Even Generate A Yard Of Offense In The First Quarter Of The Game. A Special Team’s penalty Would Result In a Muffed Punt, A Turnover, and A Short Field For The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On A Short Run, Baker Mayfield Would Rush For a Yard Touchdown to Give The Nucs Three Touchdown Before The Eagles Generated Their First Conversion Of Downs. Mid-way Through The Second Quarter. The Eagles Generated 1.1 Yards Per Play Way Through The Second And The Defense Finally Halted The Bucs At The Edge Of The Red Zone. The Eagles Would Pick Up Their First New Set Of Downs At The Six Minute Mark In The 2nd Quarter. The Eagles Would Get A Touchdown On The Board After A 14 play, 70 Yards Touchdown End With Hurts Connecting With Paris Campbell In The Back Of The End. The Eagles' Offense Would Carry This Momentum Over Into The Third, Cutting The Bucs Lead In Half thanks To a five Play Touchdown sparked By A 59 Rush By Saquon Barkley to set The Eagles Up In The Tampa Red Zone. Jalen Hurts Would Power His Way Into The End Zone Three Plays Later. The Eagles' Takeover Of The Second Wouldn’t Last The Bucs and Baker Mayfield Would Answer The Eagles' Score. Baker Mayfield’s complete Running Over Of The Eagles' Defense Continued, With 12 Plays, 70 Yards again Spare Headed By Baker’s Connection With Mike Evans The Hook Up Produced A 21 Yard Pass That Set Up A One Yard run To Bucky Irving. The Tampa Offensive Machine Showed Little Signs Of Slowing Down In The Second Half. The Bucs Would Hold The Eagles Offense Off To Take Home A Big Win Over An NFC Rival, 34-16. Baker Mayfield Returned To His MVP Form 30/47 For 347 Passing Yards and two Touchdowns.
The Eagles' Offense Desperately Misses That Number One Threat Of AJ Brown As Too Many Times Jalen Hurts Didn’t Have Any Targets To Lean On Even With Dallas Goedert But No Devonta Smith. Against A Very Capable And Complex Secondary and A Defense Like Tampa Bay. Hurts Doesn’t Have The TalentTo Make Enough Plays Overcome The Eagles Talent Deficit and The Massive Lead The Bucs Amassed On The Scoreboard. The Bucs Resubmit Their Claim As A Super Bowl Contender. The Eagles Nearly Made This A Game Late A Big Saquon Barkley 59 Run Set Up a Jalen Hurts Sneak Touchdown And A Block PAt Cut Tampa’s Lead To Just Two Scores But The Eagles Couldn’t Capitalize After A Jalen Hurts Sack Fumble Led to A Turnover Effectively Ending The Game For The Eagles.
