NFL Week Two Takeaways.
I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Witness Anything Startled An NFL Teams the way Big Leads Held Teams NFL Offenses In A Trance On Sunday. All Across The Sunday Schedule, The Clocked Played On the Minds Of both Teams. Sometimes Running Like A Faucet Other Times Moving An Hour At The Office.
All The That Time crunching Produced Climaxes Like The Ones In Christopher Nolan Movies. NFL Coaches Draw Up Scripts For The Different Scenarios That Pop up In Game And Quarterback Into Those situations. But Who Knows How Things Are Going To Unfold On The Feild, Just Like Who Knows Things Will Unfold Behind The Mind Of Movies Like Tenet. In Football, Nothing Unfold As Scripted.
“Probably not The Craziest I’ve Been Apart Of, But It Happens“ Matthew Stafford Addressing The Media After The Train To An 0-2 left The Station Before And After The Falcons Climb Back From Depths of Loss. Stafford, He's A VET, Who's Experience The Pressure Of Both Ends Games Like The One Between His Rams And Falcons Unfolded. But, Even He sounded Phlegmatic When approaching On The Topic Of holding Back A surging Comeback. I Assume It's Akin To The End Of Any exhilarating Contest: You’re Exhausted and Thrill Not to Have Fallen Off The Thwarted End Of The Sword.
Sunday A Host Of Took Off To Double Figure Leads During The Early Slate Of Games, And That Carried Over Into The Evening. All Around The Endgames Of Dozens Crumbled. “play After Play After Play” Redzone Bounce From Game To Unable To Keep Up With All The Games Coming Down To Wire. The Dolphins Engineered The Largest Come In Over A Decade.
The Day Of The Comebacks That Never Quite Came Full Circle. The Jags Put The Colts In The Figure Four, And Maybe The Division. Whoever Wrote the Ravens Secondary As The Best In Football Should Have Done So In Chalk Because They Erased Today. In Lighter Terms, We’re Living In Twilight Zone In First Two Weeks. Tua, Who’s Never Had A Three Hundred Yard Game Until Sunday, Leads The League In Passing Yards. Carson Wentz Everybody Favorite “Write-off-able” Stands Behind Tua, But Wentz Couldn’t Pull Off The 20-Point Comeback In Tua Style.
The Lion Are Performing Some Un-Lion-ish Feat In The First Two Weeks Of Football.
If You’d Ask The Grizzly Number Of NFL Commentators Which Team Would Lead The League In Points and Offensive Yardage After Two Weeks, Most Would Posit, The Cheifs, The Bucs, or The Bills; No One Suggested The Lions as A “Top Offense,” Much Less A “GOOD one.” Through Two Week Against Two NFC East Contenders, The Lions Have Offense. The Lion has produced 811 Yards Of Offense, Nine Touchdowns, and 71 Points In Two Games(including the safety). Jared Goff, the Master Of The Ordinary Play, Completed Some Nice Dimes—As a Few Does. All His Throws Were In The Goff Wheel House Of Plays, Despite The Washington Secondary’s Best Efforts To Obscure Goff’s View(Or Otherwise) And Any More Degrees Of Difficulty. Goff Showed Tremendous Trust With His Receiver Going 20-35 For, Wait for 235—Two Three Five(2-3-5) Twice. D’Andre Swift Didn’t Have The Ground Game Going, But The Team as A Whole Took home 191 Yards On The Ground. So Far, Six Of The Lions Touchdown Belong To Goff, Three to St-Brown, And Their Budding Connection Continues. If I Had Any Concerns, The Concentrated-ness Of Their Offense. Josh Reynold had a Touchdown In The Back Of The End, But Otherwise, Goff and St. Brown Move The Offense. Sixteen Of Goffs Forty Completions Have Gone To St. Brown. For Goff, Who’s Brilliant With Ball Placement, St.Brown Present A Well Round Target So Slippery and Illusive Even The Camera Loses Him.
Has Anybody Seen Separation Specialist T.J. Hockenson Move Yet? They're Getting Virtually Nothing Out Of DJ Chark. Rookie Aidan Hutchinson Had Three Sacks. Once The Redskins Offense Decided To Show Up, The Lions Defense Belly Up.
I’m still “Heavy” On The Commanders, Even Without The Secured Comeback. This Game Had A Decided In The Trenches Motif Going Early, But Carson Wentz Took Command. Another 300 Yard Plus Game. “Never Dis Di Man With The Handle.” The Commanders Got Off To Slow Start, Like a Five Punt In Six Possessions Start. The Only Carson Wentz Had On His Hands We’re Two In The Form Of A safety. In The Second Half, He Reeled Off Three Touchdowns To Get The Commanders Back Into The Game. Once The Offense Started Moving, Wentz, Samuel, Dotson, And McLaurin Had The Field Almost To Themselves. Three Second Half Touchdown Brought The Game To One Score, But Trading Touchdowns With The Lions Offset The Effort. If The Commanders Under Wentz and Scott Turner can Continue To Produce Sat This Level. Wentz Leads The League In Passes Of 25 Yards Or Greater(7). For the First time In Maybe Three Seasons, The Commander's Offense Continue To Baffle Me. Still Time Table On Chase Young’s Return. In Two Games, The D-Line Hadn’t Made many impacts.
If The Lions Can Continue Winning Shoot Outs, How Far Can They Go In NFC?
Fresh Off Of Blowing A Double Digit Lead To Saints, The Falcons Wanted To Give The Gift Of “What A Bummer” To 0-1 The Rams. Of Course, The Rams already had Their Fill Off Of Troubling Losses. No One On The Team Could Hide The Shame Of Their Opening Because The Shellacking Showed On Everyone. Coming Out In Week With Something to Prove, Through The First Three Quarters Looking Like A team Readied To Win, Prepared To Get Back On Track. That Fresh 31-10– Humble Pie Serving At The Hands Of The Steamrolling Bills Still Warm. Your Quarterback Doesn’t Get Sack Seven Times And Throws Three Interceptions, And You Get To Sip Tie Or Champagne Over Wound. The Rams We’re Sent Packing To Mid Card; Almost To Say, Nice Ring, But “You Ain’t Like That” Sean McVay Left The Game Adamant about Adjustments Were In Demand, And Better Results Are Coming.
Matthew Stafford And Sean McVay Know How To Climb The Mountain Again. The Bills Are Out Ahead Of Everybody It’s “Level” These Competitive Height. The Rams Entered Atlanta To Face The The Falcons Fresh Off Of Putting The Number One Defense From A Year Ago Down In The Wire Early 26-10, Pushing For Four Hundred Yard (348) With Almost A Full Fourth Quarter. Did You See Marcus Mariota? Probably Not. He Put On A Few Houdini Moves That Left Defenders Shook And Observers Wowed. In The End, The Falcons Would Put on A Collapse, The Likes Of Which Only They Can Rival, To Start The Season 0-1.
Two Teams Are Coming From Two Separate Vantage Points, Both Night And Day In Their Previous Performances. In The First Quarter, The Falcons Ran 36 Offensive Sets(Plays, Passes, And runs) To Produce 3 Points And One Turnover. Things Quickly Unfolded Into A Tug Of War Between Positive and Negative Plays Pushing A Pull Like a Two Handled Saw.
The Falcon Surprise Rushing Attack That Faced Down The Saints Faced One Week Ago Turned Into A Short Passes Of Two Yards Flurries. Once Those Vanish, The three And Outs Stepped. The Falcons Finished 3/10 On Third Down. The Falcons went third And Out On Their First Possession Of The Third, and The Rams Were Up 28-3. Los Angeles didn’t Punt In The First Half, And An Interception Remain The Only Drive Without Points. From Mid-Way Through The Third Quarter And Beyond, The Rams Fell Into A Vat Hubris. Not only did he catch An Itch For More Interceptions, but The Passing Game also Began What He Called “Peppering” Throws Against The Falcons Zone, Forcing The Rams To Run The Ball.
For All Of The High Profile Strengths Of This Team, Run Game Just Doesn’t Quite Qualify As A-List. Nursing A Lead AND the Game Clock and Becoming A Growing Opponent, The Rams Turned To Ground Against The Falcons Bottom Of the pile Rushing Defense Only To Produce2.7 Yards Per carrying. Inadvertently Aggravating Concerns
About The Offense's Trust In Stafford's Arm.
The Tacked On Two Touchdowns. One To Rookie Drake London Who’s Off To A Scorching Pace. Who In Atlanta Saw Him Leading Rookies In Yardage and Catches, “Errrbody.” He Caught Eight Balls For 86 yards, And He’s Push Last Top Target Kyle Pitts Down The Ladder. Arthur Smith wants To Win, but London Can Get Open And Separate. Kyle Pitts hasn’t Thus Far and Needs The Scheme Work For Him. I Still Believe In Pitts, But Tight Ends Are A Dying Breed.
The Rams Got A Feild Goal On The Next Possession. Setting A Three Touchdown Difference On The Board And Sending Falcons Into Next Week. Arthur Smith Group Weren’t Done Playing. Another quick Touchdown Pass From Marcus Mariota Knocks The Scoreboard For Atlanta. The Falcons Still Needed Two Quick Scores With Time Now On The Rams Side, the Chance A Score Came In The Least Likeliest away, A Blocked Punt. Ever Since The Packers Lost To Niners Last Year, NFL Teams Have Taking To The Chore Of Keeping Maintenance On Their Special Teams Unit. The Rams Are Amongst The Worst. Sean McVay Uses His potent Offense To Curb The Pressure On His Special Teams. The Rams Line Up To Punt For The First All Game. With The Rams Back Firmly Against The Wall, On The Snap, The Falcons Snapped. A Blocked Punt Returned For A Touchdown Turned The Stadium Into Frenzy. The Startled Rams Looked Panicked. Operation “Get Out Of Here With The Win” Came Into Effect. Now Up Score With Too Many Number And Point Blocking The Game Clock From Zero. The rams Ran Three Plays Resulting In Another Touchdown,… No, Wait, Turnover, That’s Right, Turnover. With Just Less Than Four Minutes To Go, The Falcons Had One More Drive-In To Win The Game. If I Can Say, This Game Tested The Resolve Of Arthur Smith’s PlayBook.
The Falcons Struggles In The Rush Game Contributed to some end Product. A Failed A RPO Put The Falcons Behind In Yardage And Downs.
Trusting Mariota’s Arm— A Prisoner Of The Moment, Moment—3rd An 13, Against The Rush, He Went For The Touchdown Nearly Thirty Yards Out From The End-zone: Interception. Why Didn’t Atlanta Call The Route For The 6’6 Tight End From That 2x2 Smash Concept Look? Just Know Arthur Smith Wants To Win.
Credit Jalen Ramsey For A Great Play. The Falcons Played Athlete On athlete, And The Better One Prevailed.
The Rams Got Their First Win Of The Year. I Don’t Suppose Anyone Projected One Win Would Arrive With Such Consternation.
“Holy hell,” McVay said. “I need a couple of drinks.”
*Glass Breaks Sound Effect*
NFL Team Know, When They Enter Into The New Orleans Superdome Or When The Saints Enter Their Super-dome Or Stadium, They Have A Good Ole Fashion Attitude Era No Hold Barred Brawl On Their Hands. The Saints Play A tactlessness Brand Of Football That warps Even The Physicality Of a Full On Contact Sport. They Play Like Piranha. When Any Piece Of ball Or arm Comes Loose, They Swarm. The Saints Get Especially Chippy Against The Bucs. The Games Get Ugly, And Brady Hasn’t Made Much Of Difference In Two Years, Until Sunday. Without Chris Godwin, For Good Reason, Brady Must Have Busted Open A Slot Machine Or Something Because He Dropped A Few Dimes. One A Touchdown To Breshard Perriman In The Back Of The End zone.
Another Dime Drop To Scottie Miller Along The Boundary. Julio Jones, Who Had His Share Of Splash Plays Against The Cowboys, Didn’t Play.
That’s Not To Say Brady Had Splash Game. He’s struggled With The Saints is Well Chronicled. Up Until The Third Quarter On Sunday, The Bucs We’re Scoreless Against The Saints Through Six Quarters. Through The Air Only 18/34 Just A Buck Ninety(190 Yards) On The Day and One Touchdown And One Shouting Match With Marshon Lattimore. He’s Well Behind The Nine Touchdown apace He Started With Last Season. The Bucs Didn’t Get On The Board Until The Third Quarter. Thankfully The Saints Were Doing Much Opposite Them, with only One Field goal Ahead. After A Nice Comeback Game in Week One, The Real Jamies Winston Would Walk Up To The Bucs Defense and Were Confident In This Fact.
“We just knew he’d give us the ball.” -said Devin White.
Winston Threw Three Picks, For The First time, In His Career(Since Leaving The Bucs). Winston Alone Didn’t Cost The Saints. Rookie Chris Olave Caught Five Balls For 80 Yards, But He Fumbled On A Deep And averaged 50% On Catches On The Season. The Saints Just Aren’t Built To Win By Way Offensive. The Bucs,(Clearly) the Best Secondary In The League, Forced Three Ints Of The Saints On Three Straight Possessions. The Saints Last Five Possessions Of The Game Went Like This: interception, interception, touchdown, fumble, turnover on downs. Top Ranked Secondary Showed Up. Jamel Dean With Two Picks Carlton Davis Raked Up A Fumble. The Saints' Defense Can Still Keep The Lid On An Opponent, But They Don’t Have The Talent OR The Toughness Of Last Years Bunch. As Good As Dennis Allen Has Schemed Up Play Sheets Against Brady. A Thirty Year Old Tyran Matthieu Cant Or Shouldn’t Lay His Body Out On The Field, Like Say, A Mid-Twenties Marcus Williams Or Marshon Lattimore Would a Year Ago. Most Expected The Saint's Defense To Play The Role Of Security Guard For Their Offense. Still, The Bucs Defense Are Tipping Their Hat Early for The Best In The League.
Oh, That Elderly Guy, With Shades On, Jawing With The Saints Players Along The Sideline, Bruce Arians—Special Consultant. He’s On The Case Down On The Field Watching The Offense. According To Football Outsiders, The Bucs Are 28th In Offense; they Ranked 1st Last Year. The Passing Game Has Fallen Off Of The Rails The Most.
Someone Give Kyler Murray His Roses. All Across The League NFL Stars Have Jumped To Grab Hold Of Title, Slogan; “I’m Him,” Two Words That In Any Moment Serve As A Gravitas To M-V-P. I’m H-I-M, As To Say I’m “That Guy.” Just As Recent As Sunday, Jalen Ramsey Caught The Hots. For Those Two words, After He Caught The Hots For An Interception And The Eager Critics Of His Game. Coincidentally Stephon Diggs Made The Same Remarks After Cooking Ramsey In The Opener One Thursday, The Inspiration For Said. Athletes Assail The Crowd, Their Teammates, and Their Opponents; once It’s Apparent, We’re On Two Different Planes In The Same Game, Like 3D Chess. The Phrase Original Derives From Place Of Overcoming “all the pain and suffering” To Become A Bracelet Of Bravado; Like The Defunct Turnover Chain At “The U.” The World Of High Achievement Of Acronym and If You're Not Going H-A-M, Your Not H-I-M. Furthermore," Any man who must say 'I am the king is no true king." If You Must Say Your Him…
Kyler Murray, Your H-I-M. We Talk a lot About MVP Candidates Having Signature Performances, That Game Catapults them Above The Feilds. Murray', Whose Name Hovered Along The Outskirts Of The Debate Logged, Had His Performance On Sunday. After Standing On The Sidelines For Patrick Mahomes, Five Piece Kyler Didn’t Match Touchdown, A Week Ago. Murray had His Come To Jesus Moment.
On A generally Sub-par Day, when The Moment Arrived He Just Made Play after Play After Play. Staring Down A 2 Score Deficit Going Scurrying Deeper Into The Fourth and An 0-2 Start In A Competitive NFC West Division, Kyler Murray is Stuck With It. When In Looked Like The Cardinals Receiver Forget How To Catch—The Team Registered Six Straight Drops In The Last Minute—Murray Kept Looking For Opportunities. Two Raiders Penalties Kept The Cardinals Eighteen Yard Drive From Stalling Out. No One Wins In Football Without A Little Fortuitousness. By all Accounts, The Longest Drive oF The Year. The Cardinals Ran 78 Plays In Total, Seventeen More Than The Raiders, Who Held The Cardinals To Just 71 Yards On 19 Plays. Both Team’s Offenses Average 5.3 Yards Per Play, But The Cardinals Almost Out Gain Raiders By 100, Including Outrushing The Raiders By 63 Yards On The Ground. Both Teams had Nine Drives, But The Cardinals Needed Three Forth Down Conversions To Keep Hope Alive.
Early In The Second Quarter, The Raiders Gave The Cardinals Back An Possession On a Penalty, Only For Murray To Give The Ball Back. No Such Thing In Second Half. Murray Capitalized On The Raiders Missteps. Murray Kept Blasting At The End zone Until The Scoreboard Fell. Murray floated A Dart Over A Defender And Into The Hands That Giveth and Taketh Away Of A.J. Green.
Murray finished 31/48 270 Yards and 28 Yards On The Ground. None More Vital Than That 3 Yard Scamper To Put The Cardinals Within Two. He Would’ve Traveled Over 100 For The Game If The Distance He Scrambled For His First 2 Point Conversion Would Account For Yardage. Before The Throw Of The Year Converted A Two Point Conversions, Leading To The Most Anticlimactic OT Ending Since Last Week. How Murray Turned The Tide Of The Game Defies Logic. But Sometimes Logic Doesn't Work, And We Need Ingenuity, And Murray Has Ingenuity By The Server Size.
The Cardinals Are 1-1and Looked In Tie With Everyone In The Rough and Tumble NFC West. I Still Like The Cardinals In This Division, But I Cringe. Kliff Kingsbury Needed All Of Opportunities To Exhaust To Win A Win A Game. The Resilience To Line Up For a Play And Forget The One Over Stands For SOMETHING, but Getting It Right, And Scrubbing The Miscues Means More. The Cardinals won Because They Played A less Sloppy Game Than The Raiders. Right Now, They’re Not Generating Points Efficiently. Murray Curated To of The Most Deft Defying Plays Just To Keep The Cardinals In The Game.
The Raiders, On The Other Hand, fall To 0-2. The Cardinals Remarks Comeback Shifts The Vantage Point On The Game. Carr has One Of The Worst Fourth Quarter QBRs(53.9) In Football. So Far Through Two Games, He’s Recorded One Touchdown in The Fourth Quarter, And The Raiders Are 28th In Late Game DVOA. The Raiders Faired Better Spreading The Ball Around But To “Ill” Effect. No Hundred Yard Receivers, No Double Digit Snags. Davante Adams finished With 12 Yards On Two Catches and one Touchdown. On Defense, The Raiders Applied Amply Pressure To The Cardinals Pocket. Murray Either Evaded Maxx Crosby, And Penalties negated the Boys or Sacks. The Raiders Are Limping Out Of The gate, When The Chiefs, On The Other Hand, Are Far and Away The Best Team In Football. The Chargers have Some Concerns With Justin Herbert’s Rib Injury The Chargers Bright Eyed Bomber. The Broncos Secured Their Face Win Against The Texans, But I Het the Feeling Nobody Concerns Themselves With Denver At The Moment.
The 2nd Installment Of Jimmy G As the Niners Has Arrived, Just As Soon As We Always Predicted, in Week 2. It’s The Matrix Revolution All Over. In The Wake Of A Succinct Unsettled Divorce Settlement, He’s Return To Command Center. “Garoppolo and the 49ers did not choose to remain together …remaining together chose them.”(New York Times)
With Trey Lance Done For The Season, Questions About The Former Number 3 Overall Picks Ability To Run The Offense And Teams(Players) Commitment And Confidence In Him Already Spiraling With Every Ball He Spins; the Niners Have To Stew Another Season To Clear The Air. Everything About The Niners And His Development Remains On Hold For Now. I Can’t Say For You Or Niners Nation, But I Got A “Sense Of Relief.” Not So Much With Lance Going Down With An Injury—I Don’t Think Any player Wishes An Injury On Another, But With Jimmy, G is Returning To His Spot As The Teams Lead. Jimmy, For All The Hysteria He Inspires, Puts The Niners Back In The Conversation As Contenders. The Niners Have No Shortage Of Star Power Across The Boards, But Those Cheap Years On Young Players—Particularly Nick Bosa are Running Out. “Any time a guy gets hurt, I wish I didn’t call that,” Shanahan said. Shanahan Has had A lot of zig Calks on His Hand In Recent Months. From The Moment Shanahan Made The Unequivocal Declaration Of Lance’s Takeover Winning A champion Meanwhile “The Work In Progress,” The Balancing Act Of Bringing The Niners’ Offense under Lance’s Subjugation Prevailed Over The Greater Wishes Of The Team. By Some Evaluation Lance Started to Turn The Corner, If Only By Inches— Better Weather Would Provide a Better Picture. Lance Started The Game 2 for 3 for 30 Yards passing (21 Yards Of YAC By Brandon Aiyuk), three carries for 13 yards. That Blend Of Rushing And Judicious Passing Made Lance the knight In Shining Armor. Shanahan Sought For To Run The New Brand Of His Old West Coast Product, Like Coke Zero.
Garropolo Does Give The Niners A Definitive Quality Rather Than The Curious-High One Upside Of Trey Lance. The Niners have A Top 5 offense When Guide the d By Arm Of Jimmy G.
Nobody Knew, Without the Shadow Of A Doubt, What The Niners Had In Lace A MVP Cam Newton Or A Back To By standing Cam Newton.
What Your Channeling And Deciphering Between The Two Players; 1) Jimmy G. Whose High Variance Can Produce Any Result, Good Or Bad;2, Trey Lance Can Become Anything, Good Or Bad. Sunday Jimmy G Hung In The Pocket, Under Pressure, One Of The Weakest Points Of His Game.
For Now, For Sure, The Niners Have What Looks Like A contender.
I Anticipated A Shootout In The Preview Of The Eagles Vikings Game. The Eagles enter The Matchup As The Higher Rated Tea,m But After Surrendering 35 Points To The Lions The Week Prior. Detroit Got All They Wanted From The Eagles 4-for-4. Questions About Their Defensive Fortitude Came To The Forefront. Now They Faced A Much Strongest NFC North Opponent. After Week One, nearly Everyone, Myself Included, Proclaimed Kevin O’Connell A Whiz. O’Connell Discovered The potion That Cured—If Briefly—Kirk Cousins’s “Jekyll And Hyde” Syndrome. Jekyll soon ran out of the drug Or The Best Car Scenario For Cousins To Thrive And Wrestle With The urge To Morph Into His Lesser Self
“Look at all this commotion here,” FOX analyst Greg Olsen said. The Packers Were All Sort Of Out Of Sorts.
The Vikings Thrived On All Of The Disorder And Misplace Tactical Structure Of Green Bay’s Secondary. You Would Think So, With Faces of Justin Jefferson Streaming Downfield Unattended To By Anyone In The Packers Secondary. Cousins Ranks Amongst The Worst Quarterback When Under pressure Last Year His Passer Rating Drops From 116.7 To 72.5 When Under Pressure. The Vikings’ Offensive Line Ability Or Inability To Produce and maintain A Stable Pocket Remained A Concern For The Team Regardless Of Whose Coaching. The Eagles Didn’t Hang Back A Wait To See If They Could answer The Call. The Eagles Defense Line Didn’t Wait For A Response. With The Vikings Offense Crouching On The End zone, The Eagles Brought The Pressure, Sending Cousins Backpedaling And Ultimately To Turf—But Not Before Throwing A Duck Or Wobbler In the Direction Of Justin Jefferson.
Within A Change Of Camera Angles, the Two Driving Forces Of the Viking's Offense (Jefferson And Cousins) Had A “Drifting Away” Moment Sending A Chance To Build On A Hot Start Into The Hysteria Of The Philly Crowd.
The Other Interception, A Serious Case Of Momentary Dissonance.
A Miscommunication Sent Jefferson Up Field Kirk Read Jefferson Crossing Over The Face, So He Throws The Pass Inward. Most Likely A Choice Route, Base On What Position Slay Played, But The On Separate Polars Pushing Away From One Another, The Result Were Jaunting. Darius Slay Intercepted The Pass, Stymieing The Vikings Bid To Bring Life To A Loss Cause. That Eagles D-Line that The Lions Offensive Line And D’andre Swift Press Down To Look Like “Puddy”—Now Down One Derek Barnett, Done for The Season With An ACL Tear—Got Dalvin Cook and The Vikings Run Game Stuck In Gum. The Vikings Offense Ran Cook Just Six Times and For Seventeen Yards. The Team Rushed For 62 Yard At 5.3 Yards Per Carry. With Tye Vikings Starting From Behind, Kevin O’Connell Trusted The Offenses Care Into The Hands Of Kirk Cousins, Who Went Up
27-for-46 passing for 221 yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions. PFF Gave Cousins An Adjusted Completion Percentage Of 67.4 Thanks to A Few Crucial, gut Churning Drops. The Targets Appeared But Failed To Deliver. Kirk Will Forever Be An Eternal Heartache Of An Evaluation: you Can Never Tell if He’s Failing the Team Or When The Teams Failing Him. Next To Jefferson Exist Another High Caliber Wide Receiver In Adam Theilen, But You Wouldn’t Know By Production. According To Next Gen Stats, Jefferson Still Leads The League In Team Total Air Yards. He’s now Fourth In The League In Receiving Yards With 232 Yards; Adam Theilen In The Other End Has Catching Up 88 Yards. Jefferson Will Reap The Lion share Of The Field Vision—He’s That Guy—At Times I Think Kirk Doesn’t Stare Him Down Enough.
Theilen Need To Have His Hands Up, Ready, and On Board With The Game Plan.
Against The Eagles, He Leads All The Vikings Receivers With 52 Yards.
One Loss Doesn’t Muddy A Season. The Vikings Have Too Much Talent Work With. But Teams Got A Good Look At The Vikings When Justin “Jetta” Jefferson Couldn’t Take Off, And The Offense Couldn’t Back Track To Dalvin. The Eagles Came To Prove A Point Minnesota Simply… Showed Up To Play Their In This Write-Up.
Jalen Hurts Looked Like His Best Self, And His Best Self Too Often Comes On The Ground. Yes, Sonar Located 53 Yard Bomb To Quez Watkins Set The Eagles Two Scores Ahead. Hurts Got To Flexing His Rakim Mug On The Doubters and The Bandwagon-ers
As His First Touch Down Of The Game On The Ground. Then Came Another, A Quick RPO (run-pass options), Crossover, And A Pile Drive Through A Defender To Break The Plane. The Vikings Everything In Hurts Bag On That Eleven Play Opening Drive. He Looked Like The Best Offensive Weapon In The League. From His Improved Pre-snap Reading To The Added “Pop” In Throwing Motion.
“I want to execute at a high level, whatever that is — running the ball, throwing the ball, alignment things, situation things — I just want to execute at a high level.” Hurts Said Last Year After A Win Against Atlanta.
After An off-season, Working On His Anticipations Skill, With Thoughts Of Reversing The Results Of His Famous “Cover 7 Brackets” Rant.
He’s Taking In Information Pre-Snap And Executing Like Pre-diagnoses.
Sometimes The Plan Requires Breaking Script, Breaking The Pocket, Breaking Tackles, and Breaking Gravity. His Second Rushing Touchdown Of The Game, A Cruise Control Swerve To Stay In Bounds. When He Broke The Pocket, It Looked Like A Prematurely Take The “Soft” Route And Step Out Of Bounds; no One Would Fault Him For Protecting His Body. Instead, He Took Home Another Touchdown By Powering Through A Couple Of Defenders. His Only “Blemish,” An Interception On Beautifully Pass That Followed An Trajectory Awkwardly Before Bouncing Off, Of The Hands Of The Running Back Kenneth, we’ll. Otherwise, You Can’t Get Better Than 26/31 333 Yards And A 108.7 Passer Rating.
In The End, He Showed All the Major Facets Of His Game. Attacking The Middle, The Boundary, AND Of course, Throwing Deep. The Next Step For Hurts, Taking On Buccaneers And Saints Tacklers With The Same Tenacity.
