NFL Week Nine Reviews.

Rest In Peace To Quincy Jones, We Had A Thriller Of NFL Games This

Weekend. 

Bills Vs Dolphins

The Buffalo Bills Outlast The Miami Dolphins On Last Second 61-Yard Field Goal From Bills Kicker Tyler Bass. Both Offense Started Slow With Miami Holding A First Half Lead of 10-6 On The Heels Of A Nifty Tua Tagovailoa Passing Touchdown To Runningback Devon Achane Who Streak Through The Bills Defense For A 12 Yard Score. Josh Allen And The Bills Offense Nearly Had A First Half Touchdown But Dolphins Jalen Ramsey Makes An Excellent Play To Peel Away A Reception Out Of The Hands Of Rookie Bills Receiver Keon Coleman In The Dolphins Redzone And Held The Buffalo Offense Average Better Than 38 Points At Home In Check. 

In The Second Half, The Bills scored on Every Possession. Bills quarterback Josh Allen Delivered Three Touchdown Passes From One 63 Yards and Another Two Yard Touchdown To Quinton Morris To Put The Bills Up On The Dolphins 27-20. Tua and The Miami Offense Authored Their Response With A 11 Play 81 Yard, With a quick pass Seven Yard. With Less Than Two Minutes To Go The Bills Put Together A Late Drive, That Almost Fell Short But Two Dolphins Defensive Penalties Kept The Drive Alive Late A Neutral Zone Infraction And A Unnecessary Roughness  Call On Former Bills’ Safety Jordan Poyer. Allen Would Barely Get The Bills Pass Midfield Before Kicker Tyler Bass Inscribes The Finishing Touches On  The Game. The Dolphins' Offense Has Produced Two Of Their Best Games Of The Season These Past Two Weeks and Have Fallen Short Of A Victory Twice By Field Goals. Tua is 25/28 For 231 Passing Yards Two Touchdown, 124.9 Passer Rating But The Dolphins Season Essentially Ends On Two Booming Field Goals. With The Division Wrapped up The Bills Will Look To Stay Ahead Of The Ravens  In The AFC Standings. 

Panthers Vs. Saints

The Carolina Panthers Upset The New Orleans Saints In Derek Carr’s RETURN to The Saints Lineup. Bryce Young Fighting For His Carolina Career Build Off Of His Last Week Performance As He Leads Carolina OnGame Winning  Drive To Topople The Saints 23-22. Young Had His Struggles on His Way To Finishing 16/26 with 171 Passing Yards One touchdown, and One Interception For A Pretty Average Outing But The Panthers Pick Up Their Second Win Of The Season. Chubba Hubbard Finished With 15 Carries, 72 Rushing Yards TwoTouchdowns,  and 4.8 A Carry. Derek Carr In Return 18/31 236 Passing Yards. Alvin Kamara Carried The Weight Of the Saint's 35 Touches For 215 Yards Of Total Offense. The Saints’s Defense Couldn't Keep The Panthers Out Of The End Zone Late And Derek Carr Failed A Completion on A Fourth And Four To Keep The Saints Last Drive.  With Over a Minute Left In The Fourth Quarter, The Saints Drove The Ball To MidField Facing A 3rd, and 17 Derek Carr Picked up 16 Yards on a Passing Connection To Receiver Cedric Wilson. The Saints opt Not To Go For The 4th And One, The Defense Holds Carolina On Three Downs The Drive After But Carr Never Gets The Offense In The Vicinity Of Mid Field Again. A Conversion On The 4th And One   Could’ve Kept The Clock Moving And Improve The Likely Hood Of A Victory For The Saints Instead They Lost and Coach Dennis Allen Subsequently Gets Fired Monday Morning. 

Patriots Vs Titans

 In A Battle More For Draft position And Pride For Both First Time Head Coaches In This One, The Titans Drop The Patriots 20-17 Despite Some Late Heroics By Patriots Rookie Quarterback Drake Maye. With One Possession Left And The Patriots Facing A  Touchdown Deficit On Goal To Go Situation Inside The 10 Yard Line, At The Tennessee Five Yard Line, The Patriots Offenses Makes One Last Gasp, Drake Maye Scrambles For Over 11.82 Seconds And Somehow Locates Running Rhamondre Stevenson Just As The Pressure Barrels Down On Drake Maye. In The endzone Stevenson Secures The Catch and Forces  Overtime. In The Extra Period, The Titans struck first With A field Goal That gave them The LEad But allowed The Patriots To Respond With Either a Field Goal Or A Touchdown to Win The Game. Unfortunately For All His Good Drake Maye Gets Overaggressive and Tries to Make A Big Swing Downfield Targeting Receiver Kayshon Boutte The Pass Gets Picked Off By The Titan'sSecondary Ending The Game 20-17. Maye Finished The Contest 29/41 For 206 Passing Yards One Touchdown But Two Picks and He Also Lead The Pats In Rushing Attempts With 8 Carries For 95 Yards and One Lost Fumble. The Patriots Just Don’t Have The Downfield Playmakers For Maye To Attempt A Pass Like That. Maye HoweverProbably Felt The Need To Play aggressively given How Much The Offense Leans In On Him. 

“Just A Dumb decision” Maye Said After the Game. “GOTTA make some Better Throws”

Mason Rudolph Faired A lot Better with 20/33 Passes, 240 Passing Yards 7.3 Avg, 2 Touchdown, One Interception. Tony Pollard 28 Carries, 128 Rushing Yard As The Titans Hold Off The Patriots For A Low-Quality Win. 

Cardinals Vs. Bears

Like The Weather In Arizona, The Cardinals Offense Has Earned Fame For Ghe WilD inconsistencies This Season. The Cardinals' Defense on That Side Of The Ball Has Played Consistently Porous This But Decided To Show Big For A Win That Could DefinE A shift In The Season For Cards As The Defense Holds A Very Capable Bears’e Offense to Just 9 Points As The Cardinals Take This Crucial NFC Win 27-9. The Cardinals Defense NotFamous  For Much Especially  Not Pass Rush Generated a lot of Pressures Including 12 QB hits, 36 Pressures Total, and 6 Sacks On Caleb Williams. These Sacks And pressures For The Cardinals Became Momentum Sacks That Cut Drives Short For Williams In Bear Who Constantly Found Themselves Fighting Against The Grain With Late Downs and Long Yardage To Go Williams Struggled with The Bears' Offense Converting  Just 3/14 On Third Down Just Three Field Goals In First Half. Williams is 22/41 For 217 Passing Yards Touchdowns, No Picks And Wholly Ineffective, And Holding The Ball For 3.3 Seconds On Time To Throw. Kyler Murray Didn’t Have Tremendous Success Through the Air Either 13/20 For 154 7.7 Per Attempt, 10.5 Yards Per Completion, and Didn’t Look Good Except In Spurts.  The Cardinals Run Game Produced A Solid Outing With Needing Kyler Murray To scramble A lot. James Connor  5.9 A Carry, He  Busted Through Multiple Tackles. Second Year Back Emari Demarcado Closed Off The First With A 53 Yard Touchdown Run To Close Off The First Half. The Cardinals Needed A signature, A Quality Win Over A “Good” Club And They Took One With This Win Over The Bears. The Bears Fall To 4-4 And Questions About The Coaching Staff and The Play Calling Simmer Up Again As Williams Struggles And Remains Undisciplined Hunting Downfield Plays(9.7 Intended Air Yards) Rather Than Taking Shorter Gains To Stay Ahead Of The Defense. Rookie Wide Receiver Rome Odunze Caught Five Passes For 107 Receiving Yards. The Cardinals Possibly The worst team In The Division To Start The Season Have Emerged As The Division Leader  Through Nine(9) Weeks. 

Seahawks Vs  Rams

 The Rams Defeat The Seahawks Over Time On Some Late Game Theoretic From Matthew Stafford Who Used Three Quick Strikes Of His Arm To Take The  Seahawks In The Extra Period. Stafford Ends His Assault On The Seahawks Cornerbacks By Connecting With Wide Receiver Demarcus Robinson On A 45 Touchdown Pass. The Seahawks Controlled This Game For Much Of The Outing Picking Off Stafford In The First Half and Scoring The First Two Touchdowns. Down 13-3 At The Half, The Rams Crept Back With The First Scoring Drive Of The Halfa Quick Touchdown To And Later A Field Goal. Seahawks Quarterback Geno Smith Would Struggle Late Throwing Two Red Zone Interceptions, Both To Kamren Kinchens Who Return A Pick For 103 Yards For Pick Six and A Rams Lead. Smith Would Get The Game Tying Touchdown To Jaxson Smith-Njigba Who Had Two Touchdowns On The Game In The Waning Moments. Smith And Smith-Njigba  Missed A lot of Big Plays, Including 38 Yards and 40 40-yard plays in The Second Half Thanks To Offensive Holding Penalties. Geno Smith would Finish The Game 21/34 For 363 passing Yards, Three Touchdowns, Three Interceptions 90.7 Passer Rating. The Rams Defense Also Sacked Smith seven Times, He’s Got A World Class Mess Of A Protection plan In Front Of Him. 

Smith-Njigba Step Up As Seattle’s Top Passing Option With  7 Catches For 180 Receiving Yards. Tyler Lockett Would Add Three Catches For 63 Yards. The Seahawks Would Get The First Possession In Overtime But Failed To Convert A Late Fourth Down. In  Just three Plays The Rams Would Drive From Inside Their Own 20-yard Line Into Seahawk Territory and Field Goal But Stafford Would Strike Once More Down Field To Close Of The Game. Both Offenses Played Messy and Disjointed But The Rams Got The Plays When Needed Matthew Stafford was 25/44 For 298 Passing Yards For Two Touchdowns, One Pick, and No Sacks. Cooper Kupp caught 11 Catches For 104 Receiving Yards and the Rams supplanted the Seahawks And Rise To The Second Spot in the Division. 

Eagles Vs Jaguars 

The Eagles Possess Too Much Fire Power On Offense To Fall To The Jags In Week But Something About This Matchup Just Felt Like A Trap Game Like The Jags Still Have That Predator In Them. Trevor Lawrence  Has Turned His Season Around In The Past Three Weeks. The Eagles Take Off To A 22-0 Run But Hold Off A Late Jacksonville Run Thanks To A Late Trevor Lawrence Interception And A Massive 25-yard Devonta Smith Touchdown. This Trap Game For The Eagles did look Like Any Trap Game In The First Half. The Eagles Got Their First 1st Quarter Score Of The Season When Jalen Hurts Connected With Saquon Barkley For 20 Yard Nine Plays Into the Game. The Jags Got The Stop But A Lost Punt Resulted In a Short Field For Philly and A Score. As The Jags' Defense Contained Philly Turnovers Would Strike Constantly Throughout  This Game andThe Jags Would Finish With Three Total None More Devasting Than The Final Turnover. The Jags Would Get Turnover Luck In The Second Half. With Eagles Looking To Kill Clock Holding A  22-8 After The Jags Saquon Barkley, Usually, Sure-Handed And Spectacular Fumbles And Jags Edge Rusher Travon Walker Returned Fumble To Cut The Eagles Lead To One Score A Jags Sucessful Two Point Conversion. A Debate raged on The TV Cast Whether The Refs Should’ve Barkley Down By Contact But They Couldn't Find Enough Proof That Anyone In A Jags Uniform Tagged Him. The Fumbled Served As One Of The Few Blemishes for Saquon This Game. Barkley Finished with 30 Touches Total For 199, 159 On The Ground And Two Touchdowns and A Spiraling Backwards Hurdle. Devonta Smith Collected 4 Catches For 87 Yards 61 On The Eagles' Final Scoring Drive Of The Game. Down 28-23 The Jags Faced One  Last Gasp To Pull Ahead. Lawrence And The Jags Would Get A Pass Interference To Convert a Late Down and Another Big Play To Set The Jags Offense Up In The Red Zone AndThats Where The Jags Dream Ending Closes. On 1st And 10 The Eagles’s 13-Yard Line Lawrence Throws An Inexplicable Interception  Targeting His Runningback D’ernest Johnson Covered By Nakobe Dean Who Picks Off The Past. The Eagles Escape With The Win. AJ Brown Left The Game With An Knee Injury. Jalen Hurts is 18/24 For 230 Passing Yard, Two Touchdowns, and A Passer Rating of 132.3 Two Touchdowns. Hurts Also added 13 Carries For 67 Yards On The Ground And A Touchdown. Lawrence is Just 16/31 For 169 Passing Two Interceptions, No Touchdown, and a Couple Of Two two-point conversions. To Lawrence’s Credit, The Eagles Secondary Played Stellar. 

Cowboys Vs. Falcons

“Here We Go” The Cowboys And Dak Prescott Have One Last Chance To Make Good On All Of The“Advisories” Chants Because  The Cowboys ' Wagon Looks Near Empty But The Boys Have One More Shot Season On The Line Rolling Into Kirk’s “Trap” On Sunday To Face The NFc SOUTH leading Falcons. The Falcons Have An Off And On Relationship  With Their Tight End Kyle Pitts The Former 4th Overall Pick Has Come Along Strong Since Week 5 and has become A Catalyst To The Falcons’ Riss To The Top Of The South. Pitts's Multidisciplinary Skills have helped Him To the Top Five At The top in Nearly Every Receiving statistic for Tight Ends But The Falcons Have To Keep Him Engaged And Thats How Versatility Hurts Pitts At Time. No Matter How many Route Combination Pitts Unlocks They All Have To Work In The Frame Of The Offense In Response To The Defense, Pitts Lacks That One Thing He’s Superior To Than Anyone Else.  With so much Talk Of the Cowboys' Struggles, You Could Almost Forget Ceeder Lamb Produced a Big Game Last week And the Falcons Didnt Concern Themselves Either As They Took Down The Cowboys 27–21. 

Facing a  27-13 Early In The Fourth The Cowboy's Defense Put Together A Couple Of Stops That Keep Hope But The Offense Didn't convert A Fourth Down Mid Way Through The Fourth quarter. The Cowboys’s Offense Added A Late Score, and Cooper Rush entered The Game To Spell Dak Prescott Who Exited With a Hamstring Injury But The Falcons Won This contest Really From The Onset. Kirk And The Falcons Pass Game Gets The First Touchdown On The Board To His Top Reviver Drake London On A Fade Route. London Would Leave The Game With an injury On The Play and Wouldn’t Return. Cousins Would play A Mostly Conservative Game just One Pass Over 20 Yards, 4.1 Completed Air Yards,  Mostly relying On His Playmakers Like Darnell Mooney. When We Speak Season Picks Up we Don’t Mention The Former Bear  But Mooney Hides Behind The Larger Names Enough He’s Come Through With Big One Of The Best Yards After Catch Guys. 

Mooney Converted A Short Pass Into 36  Yard touchdown on A 4th and 3 before And Put Atlanta Up 14-3. The Cowboys Would Respond With a Touchdown From Dak To Rico Dwodle Before The Half The Falcons Would Prove Too Much. The Cowboy's Defense Held The Fakcons To Just 4/13 On Third Down But Atlanta Converted 2/2 On Fourth Down. The Cowboys Win The Offensive Yards(378-310) Battle, The Turnover Battle but Fall Short.Both The Eagles and Commander Win And The Cowboys Find Themselves Knocked Further Down The Totum Poll. The Falcons Carve Out More Room At The Top Of The NFC South. Cousins 19/24, 222 Passing Yards, Three Touchdowns, Passer Rating 144.8, 9.3 Avg. Bijan Robinson Has A Total Of 26 Touches, 145 Yards Of Offense A Big 29 Catch, And a Run To Convert A Big Third Down. The Falcons Offense Lead By Kirk Cousins That WasntClicking Has now Connected The Dots On This Recent Win Streak. 

Ravens vs Broncos

The Ravens Offense Goes Off For 40 Points, Derrick Henry continue TO Charge Over NFL Defense On His way To 1000 Yards Over The First Nine Weeks Of The Season As The Ravens Blast Pass the Broncos Top Five Defense.This Game Served As A Litmus Test For Both Teams, The Broncos Find Themselves In The Thick Of The AFC Wild Card Playoff Picture Thanks To a win Start To The Season But How Would Bo Nix Respond to Having To Go Toe To Toe With The Giant Of Lamar Jackson. The Ravens Faced The Top defense With one Metrics And A Defense That Can Get After The Passer. The Broncos Got A Few Pressures In On The Ravens’s Passer Only To Watch Lamar Break The Pocket and Make Plays Down the Field With His Leg and extend plays. Lamar Generated A  full 3.02 Seconds In Time To Throw On His Way To 16/19 For 280 Passing Yard, Three Touchdown And A Passer Rating of 153.8 On His Way To Leading The Ravens To 41-10 Victory.  The Broncos Secondary Also Had Trouble Keeping Up With Zay Flower In Receiving Game. Flower Only Needed Five Receptions To Pick Up 127 Two Touchdowns In a 53 Yard catch And Run Before Half To Break The Game Open for The Baltimore Offense Putting The Ravens Up 24-10 Before Half. After The Second Quarter The Ravens' Defense, Under A microscope This Season Wouldn’t Give Up Another First Down To The Broncos Offense Until Early In The Fourth Quarter. The Ravens Offense Score 24 Points Unanswered, Including A Derrick Henry Touchdown To End The Contest.   Henry Had Little Trouble Plowing His Way Through The Denver Strong Hold, 23 Carries For 106 Yards. The Broncos' Offense Couldn’t Keep Up, Bo Nic Missed A Couple Of Big Deep Ball Diwnfield That Could've Shifted the Tide Of The Game. Nix Finished With a 65.6 Passer Rating Thanks To Missed Opportunities. The Broncos Rookie Quarterback Pick up his First Receiving Touchdown On A Broncos Red Zone Drive Outside Of The One Touchdown Drive I Think Nix is Just Fine, Extending Plays And  Making Reads. The Broncos Still Have A Shot At The Playoffs, Reports Indicate The Broncos Will Stay PaT At The Deadline But The Offense  Could Use Some Diversification. The Broncos Roster has Too Many Big Bodied Receivers and A Lack Of Speedsters and Athletic Gadget Guys Can Catch A Bubble Screen and Create YAC Or guys Who Can Win Deep. Bo Nix Over Threw Two Deep Targets But Those Balls Were placed in Catchable Spots The Receiver Just Didn’tHave The Burners. The Broncos Couldn’t Run The Ball Either Making A Quicker Receiver Type More Valuable. Cortland Sutton Finished With 7 Catches For 122 Receiving Yards And A Two Yard Touchdown Pass. 

The Ravens Return To Dominant Form. Rashod Bateman Continues To Drop Passes But The Offense Looked Stellar.