NFL Week Seven Takeaways.
Bill Belichick Earned his 300th, But The Patriots Grab A Mostly Meaningless Change In Their Record Even With The Historical Significance. After All Of The Complaints and Aubrey’s Over the Falcon's Offense, Arthur Smith Finds Himself atop The NFC South As The Rest Of The Division Contenders Fall To The Wayside. Lamar Jackson And The Ravens Offense Put On A Full Course On How To Dismantle a Defense, But Can You Expect Sunday’s Performance In Baltimore For The Rest Of The Season? Probably Not. Also, He’s not Better Than Mahomes.
I Wanted To Add Monday But With NBA Opening This Time Could Fade Into The night.
Raiders Vs. Bears
Davante Adams Made Some Interesting Comments This Week. The Als Vegas Raiders Dont produce Much To Talk About—Except The Aces Winning The Championship—So You Know When Something's Said And By A Star Player. Adams Aired Out The Raider offense, Not For ranking 27th In Scoring Offense But For Playing Awful And Not Including Adams Enough In The Offensive Formula. "I Have Extremely High Standards For Myself," Adams said. "… Y'all Should Know Who I Am And What I Am About At This Point." We Know What Adams Stands For. He's One Of The Best Receivers In The Game, but He Relishes In A "Certain Status," But His Status Resides In His Numbers, Which Don't Look "Best In The Game." In Six Games, Adams Has Notched 471 Yards Receiving(Tyreek Has Almost Twice That Amount), 39 Receptions And Three Touchdowns(All Of Which Came In The Last Two Games), and Only One 100 Yards. He's Still Projected To Eclipse 1300 Yards, And Last Season, Adams Started Slow In A New City And A New Offense Before Earning The Most Important All-Pro Of His Life, The First All-Pro With Out Aaron Rodgers. Head Coach Josh McDaniel Spoke To The Media This Week About Not Only Getting Adams Involved But Finding a Way To "Get It Going" For The Raiders's Offense. The Raiders Rank 22 In Passing DVOA And Will Most Likely Be Without Starting Quarterback Jimmy Garrapolo For The Second Game In Three Weeks. Getting Adams Involved Entails More Than Just Throwing The Ball To Him "More"—Adam's Skill Set Needs To Mesh In With The Rest Of The Raiders Offense. Heliocentric Routes Like Two Go Routes, Or Quick Slants Won't Fly In The Raiders Offense, And Adams Needs To Work Himself Into The Flow Of McDaniels Vision, Incorporating Longer Developing Routes. McDaniels, On The Other End, Need To Rev Up The Throttle On The Raider Pace Of Play. According To Football DVOA, The Raiders rank 28th In Pace, Or Plays Per Second. The Offense Has To Rollover Faster To Create Ample Opportunities for All The Weapons The Possesses. Garropolo Has Played Well; He'd Rank As The Third Best Quarterback Adjusted For Turnovers In The NFL, least according To The Unexpected Point. The Raiders Offensive Line Presents An Issue Because They Can't Run Long Developing Plays.
Josh McDaniels Has To Trust That Responsibility To Rookie Aidan O'Connell Or Brian Hoyer. Adams Demanded A Trade To The Raiders, The Uniform He Grew Up Desiring To Wear. Adams Doubled Down On Playing For The Raiders After Derek Carr Got Shown The Door, Adams Double Down On His Desire To Stay In Las Vegas. He Plays An ego-driven position, And The Raiders Play A Part Of His Game As Much as He Plays A Part For The Team. No 'I' But You Can Always Find An "M E" Somewhere. Adams Wants That Kobe Role On Offense, A Guy Who Takes The Team Over The Top, Not Just A Participation Trophy. Unfortunately, That Win Doesn't Happen On Sunday Against The Bears. I'll Never Advocate For The Firing Of Anybody, But Josh McDaniels Can't Loss To The Bears In Blowout Fashion. Maybe On A Flukey Bad Weather Injury Riddled Day, The Coach Can Reach For A Excuse In Defense To Getting Blown Out By At least A Bottom Three Team in The League, But With Full Effort, The Raiders Lose To Bears. The Raiders, To Their Credit, Made A Conservative Effort To Get Davante Adams The Ball. Brian Hoyer Almost Force Fed Him Targets Early, like The Offense Unwillingly Handed The Bully Davante Adams Their Lunch Money. Adams Caught Four Catches For 43 Yards In The First Quarter And Finished with 7 Catches For 57 Yards On 12 Targets. He Caught Just Three Pass Over The Next Three Quarters For 14 Yards.
With Brian Hoyer Taking Steve Brunt Of The Snaps, The Raiders Couldn't sustain Drives, Just 2/9 On Third Downs. Hoyer Ran Into Some Bad Luck, A Batted Pass That Spill Into Tremaine Edmonds, Bear's Linebackers Hands. Regardless, Hoyer Played A Backup. The Former Undrafted Patriot Constantly Put The Ball In Danger. He Threw Another Pick, Sailed a Ball Over The Head Of Receivers On His way to Finish 17/32 129 Yards with a 37.1 Passer Rating, and Threw A Pick Six. Aidan O'Connell Stepped In Late To Add His 10/13 For 75 Yards And A Touchdown. Elsewhere, I'm Surprised The Raiders Still Try To Run The Football—Josh Jacobs 11 Carries, 35 Yards, and 3.2 Per Carry. According to PFF, the Raiders Averaged -0.87 EPA Per Rush And Lost -15.44 Points Off Turnovers.
The Raiders Didn't Break The End Zone Until The Final Two Minutes Of The Fourth Quarter.
The Bears's Quarterback, Tyson Bagent, Outplayed Both Raiders's Quarterbacks. The Bears Went 3/3 On Red Zone Drives, With Running back D'onta Foreman Accounting For All Three Touchdowns. Foreman Caught A Pass From Bagent, and D'onta Finished With 88 Yards On The Two Touchdowns and multiple Big Run. Bagent Stepping In For Justin Fields Finished 21/29 For 165 Yards, 97.2. Low Numbers, But The Bears Had No Problem Running Over The Raiders Defense. The Raiders Need A Good Defense, But The Body Language Read No Wanted To Play On Sunday. The Bears Defense, Jaylon Johnson Grabbed Two Picks, One From Each Quarterback Because He Doesn't Discriminate With Poorly Placed Footballs.
Losing To The Bears For The Raiders Feels Inexcusable, And A Roster Reevaluation Has To Take Place. "We Got Out Played," Josh McDaniels said After The Game. "We Had a good Week. I Thought We Were Good To Go." I Won't Speculate If Adams's Comments Hurt The Team Morale, But His Words Didn't Help, And If Your Words Don't Help, Don't Speak.
The Bears's Win Didn't Hurt The Teams Odds Off Grabbing Two Five Picks Because The Patriots Won, But The Cardinals Have Crept Closer Into The Conversation. The Should Enter The Trade Justin Fields Conversation At This Point.
Ravens Vs. Lions
After The Rams Won The Super Bowl and trading For Matthew Stafford, I Thought The Outcome Of The Trade Looked Clear: Unless The Lions Turned Those Picks Into Gold, The Rams Won The Trade Then And Forever More. Jared Goff Looled Over Cook McVay's Offense And His First Year In Detroit Everyone Labeled Him A "Bridge" Living Out Ill-Fated Big Contract The Rams Gave Him. Stafford Still Looks Good, But This Season, The Number One Pick Counter To Him In The Trade Looks Better Than Anyone Thought Goff Could.
Jared Goff Looks To Continue Authoring His Book For An MVP Nod And Thus Far Prologue Read Like A Bestseller. He's posted The Best Adjusted Completion Percentage, The Fourth Best Completion Percentage, Fifth In Total Yards, And The Highest Passing Grade According To PFF. The Secret To Goff's Success Starts With The System And The Players Who Believe In Him. "I Always Had A High Comfort Level With Goff," Jameson Williams Said. "It's Never changed." Jameson Williams Generates A 135.4 Passer Rating When Targeted In The Two Games Since His Return. Most of Goff's Teammates Share This Sentiment. Five Of The Lions Receivers Have 10 Plus Targets, Lead By Amon-at St. Brown with(47) And Sam LaPorta(42) And Budding Relationship Between Goff And La Porta Has Proven Most Critical. The Iowa Tight End's Size Makes Him A Great Safety Valve, And Goff Will Need Laporta Facing The Ravens.
Jadeveon Clowney led this Baltimore Pass Rush. After Signing A Contract Late In The Offseason, The Now 30-Year-Old Former Number One Pick Edge Rusher, Who looks written Off At One Point, Is Seventh In The League In Pressure. The Ravens Need This Game Because They Play In a Division That Projects To Play Out Like A Slugfest. Goff Represents The Best Quarterback The Ravens Have Seen This Season so far.
I Read This Incredible Stat About Lamar Jackson This Week According To ESPN, Jackson's 15-1 in his career against NFC opponents, 7-0 at home. I Thought That's Preposterous. His Only Loss Came Against The Giants Last Year, And Today, Versus The Lions, His Record Moved To 16-1. The Ravens Put The Lions Away Early. The Ravens Hit This Matchup On Every Cylinder. Lamar Jackson, the game Of His Life, Just 21/27 357 Four Touchdown. The Lions' Offense Finished The Game With 337 Yards Of Offense Total. Lamar Started The Game 15/17 For 207 Before Ten Minutes Left In The Second Quarter. The Passing Attack Started The Game 5/5 Wasting Little Effort Flying Over The Lions In 7 Plays For 75, Which Included A Few Scramble And Just Some accurate Work Over The Middle To OBJ And Zay Flowers Almost Bludgeoning The Lions Defense 16/20 In The intermediate (10-19) Yard area 312 Yards. At One Point, The Ravens Had Out-gained The Lions' Offense By 312 Yards Total.
His Twelve Yard Touchdown Pass To Nelson Agholor, Where Jackson Just Held Off, Not Avoided, Pass Rusher As He Just Scanned Downfield Stood Out Amongst Jackson's Best Plays. "Those Guys Blocked Their Tale Off," Lamar Jackson Said After The Game. The Ravens Finished With eight Explosive Pass Plays.
Despite Lamar Jackson Generating 393 Yards Of Total Offense, He Didn't Look Special, Everything On Offense Just Came Easy. The Ravens Offense, Calm And Methodical, Racked Up 4 Passing Plays Of 20 Plus Yards Or Better, The Averaged More Than Ten Yards Per Play. The Lions' Defensive Secondary Must Have Gotten Their Defensive Strategy From the Dentist Because They Left Holes Everywhere. By the Time Baltimore Went Up 28, The Offense Turned To The Run Game To Exploit Voided Run Fits. Gus Edwards, Justice Hill, and Lamar all Served the Lions With Multiple Explosive Runs And Averaged 5.3 Yards Per Rusb—the Ravens' Only Blemish In The First Half.
The Lions Didn't Step Off The Bus Today. In The Battle Of Great Defense Versus Great Offense, Fans Tend To Favor Big Shoot, But Today, The Winds Of Favor Swung In Favor Of The Baltimore Defense. The Lions Had Nothing Going. Jared Goff Couldn't Keep The Offense On The Field. Five Drives For The Lions Resulted In Four Punts And One Turnover On Downs. The Second half Proved No Better, One Touchdown, One Interception, And Multiple Turnover On Downs. The Lions Packed On Some Yards Late And Some First Downs Because They Only Had 3 First Downs In The First Half. The Combination Of The Ravens' Pressure, They Leave The League In Sacks And Hit Jared Goff Five Times On Top Of The Ravens Offense, not Taking Their Foot Off Of The Pedal But Continuing Drive Forward And Layer Drive On Top Of Drive, Forcing The Lions To Drop back Pass. Goff Attempted 53 Completed 33, 284 And A Passer Rating 68.4. The Lions Averaged Just 4.7 Yards Per Play. Jahmyr Gibbs Had A Good Game On The Ground In His Return From Injury, 11 Carries And 68 Yards. Amon-Ra St. Brown Had A Great Game with 11 Catches For 103 Three. The Lions Need to Show Up. The Pass Rush Couldn't Whiff Lamar. Ronnie Staley And The Boys Just Muscled The Aidan Hutchinson And The Lions Pass Rush.
The Ravens played Out Of Their Dimension Today. No One Can Or Should Expect These Levels Of Performances From The Offense Consistently; I'm Not Hating; I'm Just Taking A Realist View. "Today was Lights Out," Tight End Mark Andrews Said After The Game. Andrews Caught Four(4) Pass For Two Touchdowns And 63 Yards. Zay Flowers Continues To Blossom, Four(4) Catches For 75 Yards. Can The Lions Bounce Back? Of Course, They Loss One Game To A Very Competitive Team In Baltimore.
Dolphins Vs Eagles
The Promise, The Prophesy Of Tua Tagvolia Has Finally Come Into Frustrations. Like The Tales Of The Last Airbender, The Legend Of The League Next Great Passer Look Better Than Ever Better Advertised. Well, Maybe Not Better Than Advertised Because Tua Earned "Golden Boy" Hype Entering The Draft. Last Season, Tua Put Up Numbers On A Hot Start To The Season, But I Don't Think Anyone Believed He'd Propel Into The Stratosphere As A Starter. Most Fans Had Witness the Former Alabama Quarterback Run An Offense Solely Based On RPO Concepts Just A Year Before Mike McDaniels Took Over The Offense. Now He's Breaking Speed Records on Roads Paved Before. Ultimately, Tua Fell Off, Partly Because Of Injury, Partly Because Defenses Figure Everything Out Eventually. Tua's The MVP Front Runner, Number One In The Passer Rating, Passing Yards, Passing Touchdowns And Passing EPA. Pundits Refer To Him As The "Best Of The Best." I'm Not All there yet; he throws Some Balls. Too Many of Tua's Passes Force Receivers to Adjust To the Ball On The Run. Tua's Facing A Very Dubious Eagles' Secondary Which Receivers Have Smoked "It's Always A Test To Go Up Against A Team Like This…" Tua Said This Week. The Eagles Have A Clear MO to get to The Quarterback And Put Him On The Turf. The Dolphins Have Only Surrendered Six Sacks All Season; Tua Gets Rid Of The Ball Fast, Like the Fastest In Football Fast(2.31). The Eagles's Secondary Also Got Cooked By The Rams' Slot Receivers.
This Dolphins' Secondary Has to Look Like The Only Week Link On The Team Will Face AJ Brown Coming Might Guy Leaf Hurricane Right Now. Not Even Tyreek Hill Looks Hotter Than AJ Brown Right Now. I Don't Any Receiver Any Receiver Can Always Get Open, But AJ Put Defenses At The Scene Of A Messy Crime; he's Uncoverable.
The Dolphins Lost Their Second Opportunity To Prove Themselves against A Competitive Team. I'm Ready To Call "Bogus" and Let The Air Out Of The Dolphins Blimp Like Hype.
As Of Today, AJ Brown holds sole Possession Of The Title Of Best Receiver In The Game. Has He Surged Into MVP Honors? Maybe Not, But Offensive Player Of The Year Seems Viable. I'll Get To Brown. In This Prime Time Matchup Between The Two Best Team In The League In Prime Time, Nick Siriani Looked Nervous On The Sideline Pacing. His Team, The 5-1 Eagles, Looked To Bounce Back From A Loss, A Rare Occurrence Like "A Total Solar Eclipse" But Not Unprecedented. With the Thud Of The Loss To The Jets Still Ringing Bells And The Cries Of Plaudits Attacking The Eagles Offense And Threats From The League To Banned The Unstoppable "Tush Push," The Eagles Changed Nothing. "I'm Happy With How We Responded," Hurts Said After The Win. "Especially Coming Off Of Last Week. "If You Understood The Eagles Game For The Dolphins, You Understood Siriani's Nerve. The Eagles Battled The Dolphins Speed With Stagnancy.
The Eagles Controlled The Clock. Jalen Hurts, And the Offense Ran 68 Plays, 20 More Than The Dolphins, Converted 4/4 On Fourth, Produced 26 First Downs, And Punted Just Once. Argue That The Eagles Offense looks aesthetically Repulsive In Those Kelly Jersey That Honest Putrid, In My Opinion. Nearly Every Pass From Jalen Hurts Moved the Ball Diagonally Like Ping Pong, Sideways And Up. It's A Great Opportunity for The Eagles Use Of Tight End Screens; They Use That, and With Dallas Goedert, Those Screens Work. The Eagles Stroke The Touchdown Mark First As The Dolphins's Secondary Struggles To Tackle Dallas Goedert As The Tight End Rumbles In For A Touchdown. When The Eagles Went Over The Middle, The Dolphins Met The Challenge Of Covering AJ Brown, And No Matter Who They Left Out Matched. Ever Since Complaining About His Target Share A Few Weeks Ago, Brown Has Nuclear; He's On The Longest Running "Kai O Ken x10" Attack In The History Of Earth.
Brown has Takem Lengths To The Extreme, 59 Targets, 701 Yards, and 30 First Downs While Generating 5.9 Yards Per Route Run His Past 5 Games, Including 15 Targets, 10 Catches, and 137 Yards Against The Dolphins. Brown Lined All Over The, But He Took Advantage Of The Dolphins On The Outside. According To Next Gen Stats, "Every one of A.J. Brown's receptions came against the Dolphins in off coverage (5+ yards of cushion)," And Those Receptions are on The Outside. Brown Plays With Too Much Strength For Any Defense To Propose Jamming Him At The Line Of Scrimmage.
"He Came With Bad Intentions," Devonta Smith Said After The Game. Brown Caught Passing With A Lot Of Bodies Around Him; He Only Generated 1.9 Yards Of SeparAtion On His Plays. Jalen Hurts Threw For 279, 9 Yards Per Throw, Two Touchdowns, One Interception(Returned For A Touchdown), a 109.5 Passer Rating, And Two Turnovers. An Efficient Performance. Tight end Dallas Goedert Caught Five Passes 77 Yards.
"The One Thing We Can't Forget Is Every One Has a Role." Hurts Said "The Challenge Everyday, Dominate That Role." Right Now, Jalen's Role Reads Get The Ball To AJ Brown. Devonta Smith Caught Four Passes For 49 Yards, He Remembered How To Catch. D'Andre Swift Rushed 15 Times For 62 Yards, 4.1 A Carry. Jalen Hurts Had One Rushing Touchdown.
The Dolphins Again Met The Chess Board Speed Couldn't Manipulate. The Dolphins Could Still Contend, But Against a Team Who Can Flood And Force Tua To Work Across The Field( Diagonally), The Offense Suffers. The Dolphins Struggled To Tye Run The Ball Against The Powerful Blockages—the Eagles Front Four Line Off With—the Eagles Hit Tua For Four Sacks. Throwing Into The Boundary Prove Too Much A Challenge As He Missed Multiple Throws Going Away From His Body; The Limited Arm Strength Proves Consequential Again. The Eagles Defense Get A Little Cocky, Playing Tyreek Soft Over The Top, And He Burned the From 27 Yard And A Touchdown. The Eagles Didn't Let Hill Or Any Dolphins Receiver Go Haywire. Hill Dropped A Sure Touchdown. The Cheetah Caught 11 Passes For 88 Yards. Tua Finished 23/32 For 216 Yards with an 87.5 Passer Rating, Not Bad For Eight Drives. The Dolphin's Defense Didn't Play Badly, Especially Considering They've Only Had To Play Legit Defense Twice This Season To Keep The Team In the Game. They Jalen Hurts Sacked Hurts Three(3) Times. The Eagles Offense Looked "Unpretty," And I'd Still Fear Facing The Dolphins On The Wrong Rather Than the Eagles.
Atlanta Vs. Tampa Bay
Entering Week 7, The Falcons Leave Behind The Best Stretch Of Passing Offense In The Arthur Smith Era, At Least The Best I've Seen From His Offense That Always Produces Promise And Puzzles, None Greater Than Last Week's Performance. Desmond Ridder threw for 307 yards and two touchdowns, Deuled His Draft Mate Sam Howell, Who Threw For Just Over Half Of Ridder's Production But Three Interceptions, Crush The Falcons' Cause To Move To 3-3. the week prior, Ridder Passed for 329 yards, "…if you look at it, macro or big picture, there are a lot of things that are expanding." To Arthur Smith's Credit, "Things" Have Expanded.
The Offense Has Featured Both tight ends In The Most Action, And Drake London Refuses To Accept Coverage. Still, The Falcons Have To Produce Better Than The 30th ranked offense In The NFL And have A -21 Point Difference. Despite All Of The Fuss Over The Operation Of The Falcons Off, Atlanta Owns The Top In The NFC For The First Time In Almost Five Years.
Desmond Ridder Didn't Throw a Pick And Finished the Day With A Near Clean Passing Record, But He Lost Three Fumbles and Cost The Team -15.46 Points On EPA and Atlanta Only Converted 1/5 Red Zone trip. However, Fans Love it When Kyle Pitts Gets Involved and Ridder Connected With The Tight End On A big 39-yard play That sets up a game-winning field Goal For Atlanta On The Game's Final Drive. Atlanta Generated 401 Yards Of Offense, And The Falcon Struggling Run Toted The Rock 38 Times For 4.1 Yards, 156 Yards Against a Stout Bucs Defense.
Baker Mayfield Posted Back To Average Game In Losses For The Bucs. Over the past two weeks, He's Completing Under 60% Of His Passes For One Touchdown And Two Interceptions. Against Atlanta, Mayfield Finished 27/42 276 Yards Passing, 64.3% Completion Percentage. The Offense Appears To Have Regressed To Preseason Expectations.
Cardinals Vs. Seahawks
Josh Doubs Has Performed As Well As Anyone Could Expect Of Him except for Maybe Last Week And The Week Before. Doubs Engineered A Remarkable Three-Game Run Where He Leads The Cardinals Through Many Competitive Losses. You Couldn't Ask More Of A Quarterback Station To Lead A Doomed Vessel. Notching The Victory Over The Always Heralded Dallas Cowboys Looks Great On Any Quarterback's Resume. He's Produced Negative EPA In Both Of His Last Two Games. Doubs Leads The League In Yards Per Scramble, Which Seems Funny Looking At His Unorthodox Playing Style and How "Wiggly" His Body Moves.
But Scrambling Cost The Cards A Fimble Last Week. Josh Doubs Escaped A lot Of Pressure, Scrambling For Extra Yards and First Downs, But He Couldn't Help The Cardinals Escape With The Win. The Seahawks' Offense Hasn't Shown Me The Explosive Capabilities I Predicted The Offense Would Produce In The Preseason.
Geno Smith Has Played Solid. He's Still Close To Completing 70% Of His Sports And Adjusted Completion Percentage Of 81.9, But He's Thrown 7 Touchdowns, Two Of Which Came In This Game Against Arizona. The Seahawks, however, Got A Good Game From Jaxson Smith-Njigba. The Former Ohio State Product And Seahawk First Round Pick Have Had A Tough To His Career. The Doomsday Predictors Have Already Call JSN A Bust, But He Came Out With a Big Game, four Catches, 63 Yards, And One Touchdown. Geno Smith Finished 18/24 219 Two Touchdown And A Pick. The Seahawks Have A Clear Run Way For A Wild Card Spot In The NFC, But They Have To Keep Winning.
The Cardinals Have Activated Kyler Murray Off Of The IR, Opening Up His 21 Day Window To Return action Before The Cardinals Face a Major Off-season Decision Regarding Murray and The Team's Future.
Jaguars Vs. Saints
On An Impressive Three-Game Winning Streak And Coming Off Of A Going Away Victory Over Divisional Rival The Colts With A 4-2 Record, The Jags Enter Week Seven On Thursday Night With The Opportunity To Put The Division Away Early. The Jags Took Care Of The Colts Who've Lost Their Starting Quarterback For The Season. The Titans Look Discombobulated At Quarterback And Could Find Themselves Seeking A Trade Soon. Only The Texans, The Last Team To Beat The Jags, Remain Standing As A Viable Challenge For Now.
After A Week Of Will He Or Will He Not Play, Trevor Lawrence Came Out And Took The First Snaps At Quarterback For The Jags. Hobble, He Pitched Fast, And The Jags Offense Had No Problem Getting On The Score Board On Their First Against This Vaunted Defense. Lawrence Went 5/6 For 60 On The Early Drive, But Most Of The Yards The Jags Generated In YAC. Lawrence Generated Just 2.9 Completed Air Yards On His Throws, Which Included A Few Short Passes Sprinkled In with Some Middle Strikes; Some of The Best Stuff We've Seen From Trevor Lawrence. His Coach Called Lawrence's Willingness To Play Through "Gritty." The Offense Got The Ball Out Of Lawrence's Hands Fast. According To Next Gen Stat, he averaged 2.2 SECONDS per Throw, The Fastest Time In His Career.
The Saint's Defense Gave Up an opening Drive Touchdown, which hasn't In 18 Games.
The Saint's Defense Takes No Prisoners. A Top Ten unit, Dennis Allen Came In With The Stronger Pedigree, Holding Teams To Just 20 Points Per Game and Passers Under 200. The Saints Forced A Fumble On A Christian Kirk Catch And Run, Nearly Picks Off Trevor Lawrence Before The End Of The Half, and forced the Jags To Settle For A Field Goal. The Jags' Defense, However, Has The Better Defensive Passing; Andre Cisco And Co. Forced 9 Passes, and the Saints missed a field on Their First Possession. ,
The Defense Forced Two (2)Turnovers Early: the Fumble mentioned above, Defensive End Carl Granderson Forces, And A Special Miscue Gifts The Saints Offense Favorable Field Position. The Saints Offense musters Just Three Points In Three Possession as Derek Carr Starts The Game 4/10 For 29 Yards. The Jags Defense Didn't Make Anything Easy For Derek Carr All Game. With Multiple Injuries Across The Offensive, Carr Faced Pressure Almost On Rhythm On His 50 Plus Dropback. Josh Allen Generated 11 Pressures On His Own According To Next Gen Stats. When The Saints Take Offense, Sometimes You Can't Tell If Carr's Scrambling Because Of His Desperado Nature Or Pressure. Tonight, Pressure Won Even With The Jags Just One Sack. The Pressure Forced Carr To Throw Just 5.9 Per Attempt, And Carr Delivered Several Good Strikes Under Pressure, Leaning In On His Playmakers, Alvin Kamara Lead The Team In Both Rushing Attempts/Yards/Receptions(12 Catches On 14 Targets)/Receiving Yards, Generating 153 Yards Of Total Offense. Derek Carr Struggled Even If His Passed For Over 300 Yards For The Second Straight Game, But He Only Passes For One Touchdown for The Second Week And Generated a Passer Rating Under 90 For The Second Straight Week. Carr Averaged Under 5 Yards Per Drop Back For The Game, As Evidenced By His 3.7 Completed Air Yards.
The Jags Offense Buff The Two Turnovers Off And Respond With Another Touchdown. Lawrence's Knee Didn't Look Too Bad. He Ran The Ball Twice Early On Scrambles For 35 Yards. Football Has This "Can't Put Down This Book" Quality About The Game; No Lead Feels Insurmountable. The Saints Offense Struggled To Piece Together Drives To Generate Field goals as The Jags posted three Touchdowns And A Field Goal, But One Taysom Hill Touchdown In The Fourth Quarter Pulled The Lead To One Score. Tags I'm Hill Caught 4 Passes For 50 Yards.
The Saints scored 9 Points Over Three-Quarters Of Work. The Exploded For 15 Points In The Fourth Quarter But A Drop Touchdown By Foster. Maureen In The Back Of The End Zone Pretty Sealed The Saints Fate. The Saints Had Opportunities In This Game, The Finished 2/5 In The End Zone. Converting 4 Fourth Downs Looks Great On The Stat Sheet, But Fourth Cheat The Reality Of Finishing 3/18. One Of The Fourth Downs The Saints Failed To Convert Came On The Potential Game Tying Drive.
The Jags Made The Difference In This Game A Pick Six From Foyesade Oluokun Making The Difference On The Score. The Saints Struggled To Gain Traction On The Ground, Only 3.9 A Run. The Saints Needed A Total Of 87 Plays To Produce About 24 Points, the Jaguars's Offense Needed Just 56, 31 Less Plays. This Loss Knock The Saints Out Of Contention In The NFC South. They've Already Suffered One Loss To Tampa Bay, And They Need to Look Good On Offense Throughout The Six Games. A Judgement Between the Saints and the Falcons feels Like A Toss, But A NFC Wild Card Spot Looks Like A Long Shot.
Chargers Vs Chiefs
When Patrick Mahomes Made A Shovel Pass To Travis Kelce For A Two-two-yard touchdown, The Chiefs To gave the Chiefs a one-touchdown lead leading into The Half. Kelce Gave The Chiefs a 24-17 In A High Powered First Half That Feature 321 yards and three touchdowns in the first half From Patrick Mahomes And 143 Yards From Kelce. "They Were Very Conscious Of Travis, And It Open Up Other Things." Mahomes Said After The Game. Kelce Finished With 13 Receptions And 179 One Touchdown. The Chargers Still Let Kelce Break Free For A Big 53-Yarder. Kelce's Best Work Came Through The Chiefs' Other Receivers; He Opened Up Voids For Mahomes To Connect With 10 Other Receivers. Marquez Valdez-Scantling 3 Receptions 84 Yards, Rashee Rice 5 Reception 60 Yards, Isiah Pacheco 4 Reception 28 Yard.
The Kansas City Defense Held Justin Herbert In Check for Most Of The Half. Chris Jones And George Kalaftis Brought Ample Pressure, Sacking A Total Of 5 Times Compared To Just Once By The Chargers.
The Chiefs Offensive Line Held Up Against The Chargers Rush. "they Kept Me Clean." Mahomes said.
The Chargers Offense Only Dodge Few Opportunities To Keep Pace With The Chiefs. Both Teams Came Out Of The Half, And For The Longest Time, The Score Stood Still Until 3:30 Left In The Fourth Quarter When The Chiefs Plugged In Another Touchdown And Went Up 31-17. The Two Defenses Turned On The Hulk In The Second Half. Starting With A Chiefs Fumble, Both Split A Pair Of Turnovers; Justin Herbert Threw His First Interception Of The Game At The Foot Of The Endzone With The Chargers Looking To Tie The Game. Even As The Chargers' Defense Forced A Chiefs Punt, Herbert And The Offense Would Never Enter The Red Zone Again. Gain 42 Yards Across The Next Four Drives After The Initial 11 Play 73 Yard Drive. The Chiefs Faired No Better Even With Patrick Mahomes Scrambling To Keep Drives Alive With His Legs. Mahomes Passed For 424 Yards, On 32/42 But Added Four Rushing Attempts For 29 Yards, 7.3 Yards Per Carry, to Go Along With 4 Touchdown Passes, 13 Yards Per Completion, One Interception and A Quarterback Rating Of 129.5 Produced 23 First Downs For Mahomes Passing And Rushing including A 15 Yarder In The Third. The Field Position Game Helped The Chiefs Pile On A Lot of Offensive Yardage With Scoring A Lot Of Points. Mahomes Would Multiple 75+ Drives To The Endzone; The Chiefs Finished 3/4 With The 20-Yard Line. Tye Chargers' Offense Didn't Read Into The Hype Of Two Of The Premier Arms Talents—Justin Herbert Has The Most Passing Career By Yardage To Start A Career, Patrick Mahomes Speaks For Himself— In Their Prime Facing Off In A Pivotal Division matchups And The Chargers Lean In On The Run Game. The Chargers' Offense started Tye's Game Going 50/50 Pass, And Yes, Joshua Kelley's Big 49 Yard Run Put The Chargers First Touchdown On The Board. The Offense Never Kept Just Herbert Going. Outside Of Two Big Plays In The First Half, The Sixty Yarder That Set Up For Their Second Touchdown Of The Game, Tying The Game 17-17 At Half Time. Herbert Hit Keenan Allen For A 26 Yarder Early In The Game, But Outside Of Those Two Explosive Plays, Herbert Did Very Little In The Passing Game. The Chiefs' Pass Rush, As Mentioned, Didn't Afford Herbert The Time. Nearly All Of The Sacks Voided Promising Scoring Drives For The Chargers. The Chargers Forst Field Goal Came From 55 Yards Because Pressure Forced an Errant Pass, And The Chargers Failed To Gain More Yardage On The 3rd and 21, With The Chiefs Playing "Soft" Coverage. Joshua Palmer Continues To Emerge In The Number Two Receiving Role; He Caught 5(Five) Balls and 133 Receiving Yards. Keenan Allen, The Chargers Hottest Wide Receiver, Had 4 Catches For 55 Yards. As Herbert's Top Target, The Chiefs' Defense Put Him in Cuffs. The Chargers Faced a lot Of Third and Only Converted 6 Because The Offensive Script Kellen Moore Set Up Folded In Front Of The Chiefs' Defense. The Chargers Only Had Two Red Zone Drives, And One Resulted In A Pick. Outside Of Three Big Offense Plays, The Chargers Offense Got Left In Quarantine Of Short Gains. Herbert Threw Two Picks, Which You Can't Against A Team Like Kansas City. The Chargers' Defense Barely Scuffed The Chiefs Offense, And Patrick Mahomes—Brandon Staley Stole Just One Possession On An Interception And Just One Sack.
We're Only Crossing Over Week Seven, But The Chiefs Have The Division And The AFC Almost Sealed Away For The Last Five Years. With Losses By Both The Dolphins And Bills, The Chargers Haven't Loss Too Much Ground In The Wild Card Race, But They Loss Two In A Row, And The Microscope Trains Itself On Brandon Staley. He Can't Survive This Year As Te Chargers Head Coach. At Some Point, HE Has To Dethrone The Chiefs In The Division, And That's Not Happening This Year. "I Just Didn't Enough Get Our Team Ready To Play," Brandon Staley Said, "We Don't Execute In Pass Rush Or Pass coverage." The Chargers Need To Give Brandon Staley The Napa Treatment; "Maybe You won't Be Such A Disappointment In The Next Disappointment In The Next Dimension(The Unemployment Line)"
