Thanksgiving Takeaways.
A Little Late But Comes Week 12, Starting With Thanksgivings Day Games.
I'm Happy That I fall Into The Silent Majority That Has Never Had To "Bounce Back" From A 37 Point Blow Out. "We Didn't Like Getting Blow." I Could Only Imagine.
The Thought Of What Goes In A Game Plan Of Such Sounds Laborious. How does A Team Respond To Getting Dance Over, Completely Obliterated After Entering The Passing Through Point For Next In Line As A Contender? Whether Coming Off Of a Loss Or A Big Win, The Vikings Are Going To Entertain.
One Things For Certain The Vikings Would Need More Than Three Points To Overcome The Leagues Stingiest Defense In The Patriots Coming Off Of A light Out Defensive Gambit Against The Jets.
The Vikings are Thankful American Football Never Crosses Over With Soccer. Points l, Goals Matter More Than Wins, And The Vikings Are Short On Point Differential (-2) Heading Into This Matchup. They Finished plus 5 With A Seven Point 33-26 Victory. Justin Jefferson's nine-catch, 139-yard performance Outshine Something Of A Masterwork By Mac Jones.
With Surging, Polarizing Debate About The Properties 2020 Class of Quarterback Jones Offers The Best Passing Performance Of Anyone In The Group. Jones and The New England Play Caller Matt Patricia, Who's Taken Some Blows For The Slump His Quarterback Took The Vikings Secondary Back To School. Jones Had That Lift going anywhere On The Field. He Finished 28/39 For 382 Yards, 9.2 Per Pass, 119.8 Passer Rating. His Down Field Accuracy Never Moved The Needle, But He Had Something Going On Thursday. The Patriots Have a Gamut Of Different receivers Who, When Engaged, Can Excel Across The board. Six Patriots Finished With at Least One Catch Of 15 Yards Or Better. Devante Paker Averaged 20 Yards On Four Catches.
Nelson Agolohor, The Patriots Long Forgotten Experiment From Two Years Emerge As The Best Deep Threat For two touchdowns on throws traveling 15-plus yards. But Two Passes That Didn't fall The Patriots Way. A Completion To Hunter Henry That The Refs Ruled A Incompletion. Even With The Vikings Defense Trying Their Hardest Not To Embarrass Themselves In Two Games, A Row Holding Up In The Endzone, The Patriots Narrowly Pulled Away With The Victory. By the fourth, The Score Felt Out Of Faze, Like Nothing was Happening On The Field Move The Digits. The Patriots Finished With 4 Feild Goals, Three Of Which They Secured In Touchdown Range.
"Nobody's Better At Taking Away Your Number One Option Than Bill Belichick."
In The End, The Patriots have No Answer For Justin Jefferson. The Second Tenet in the Book Of Bill Belichick Takes Away The Opposing Team's Best Offensive Player/Option, Taking Away Their Lead Hand. Most teams Have Only One, And Justin Jefferson is Stuck Out Like Sore Thumb In The Vikings Offense.
For The Sake Of Discussion And To Their Defense, The Patriots Tried. Keeping Up With The Jones Played Defense With The Intent Of Shrouding Jefferson. Just Like Marvels Greatest Heroes Formed a Collective To Stop Thanos, he's Too Powerful. He Turned Most Of The Patriot's Double Teams To Dust. He Caught Two Balls Going Down Field With Multiple Defenders.
Cousins Cook Up 30 Of 37 for 299 yards and three touchdowns And Overcame One Interception Early, Forced Feed Justin All Game. Cousin's Shooting form Looked Different, like He was Pulling Power Off Some Throw. Short Arming Throws But Adding Touch.
Cousin's Changed His Throwing Motion Slightly. Only The Acutest Eye Would Notice, But The Results Reflect In His Production; "career lows in yards per attempt, passer rating, EPA per pass play, EPA per pass attempt." He's Trending Towards Regression Just As The Field Looks Relatively Cleared For The Vikings. He Struck Adam Theilen In The Back Of the Endzone On a "phenomenal Catch," In Cousins's Own Words. The Vikings Are a Team Flushed With PlayMakers.
"Even When Things Are Good, I'm Thinking About How They Can Be Better." The Vikings Are Sitting Alone In The driver's Seat In The NFC North. They Finished 2-1 In The Toughest Stretch Of Their Season. Kevin O'Connell's Team Are A Virtual Lock For The Playoffs. The Patriots, on The Other Hand, Might Have Effectively Ended Any Chance Of a Repeat Playoff Appearance. The Jets Win Boosted The 6-4 Patriots To 51%, Now Sitting At 6-5 less Than Fifty Percent With The Bills(x2) And The New Dolphins(x1).
Cowboys Vs. Giants
The Cowboys Are A Team To Watch. They Can Appear And Disappear As Quickly As They Begin To Have an Impact on Legendary Pokémon. Recency Bias Can Lead Anyone To Believe That The Cowboys Dog Piling The Vikings Means Jerry And The Cowboys Brass Are Pushing All The Right Buttons. The Cowboys Are Entering The Conversation As Contenders. For a Critical Point Of View, The Cowboys Have(Had) One Loss At Full Strength, The Packers Week 10. The Mike McCarthy Revenge Game That Never Happened. The Game is Now Famous Because of Christian Watson, four crashes for 107 yards against Dallas and touchdowns of 58, 39, and 7 yards. The Packers Second Round Pick, Who Look Liked A Dud Most Of The Season, Just Gashing The Cowboys Deep.
Green Bay's Aaron Jones Also Treaded On The Cowboy's rush Defense for 138 yards and a touchdown.
The Cowboy's Defense Couldn't Stop The Packers In The Second sand Neither Could They Stop Themselves. The Cowboys' Offense Ran 79 Plays, 46 Plays, 26 More Than The Packers, And Only To Out Gained The Packers By 6 Yards Total. That's Where The Passing Offense Falters, Mike McCarthy, Has To Run The Entire Playbook. No Chance He Saves That Final Play For Another Day; the Immediacy Never Settles Down. He Lives As The Play Sheet Controls Him. The Athletic Football Show Pointed Out That One Of Dak's Interceptions, Targeted To CeeDee Lamb, Could Fall On Lines Of A processing dilemma.
Having Dak's Strong Football Acumen Getting Overclock With Drop Back after Drop back. Dak Misread CeeDee's Intention To Break Off. Instead, Lamb Continued Up Field The Route On 3rd And 10 Play(they Finished 5/15 on third down, and Two Of The Five Were Longer Than 4 Yards). Withstanding The Fact That Dak And Ceedee Are A Stroke Of Magic Over The Middle. Forcing The Cowboys To Use Exhaust Down After Down Increases The Chance For Mistakes Like Two Interceptions. On the run, The Second And Third Level Don't Fit The Run Or Play With Enough Toughness. That's Why Green Bay Took Them For 207, 5.3 Per Rush. The Blame Has To Fall On The Second Level. Green Bay's blocking On Surrender 1.6 Yards Before Contact the Rest Of Aaron Jones's 5.5 Per Carry Came As He Continues Twisting And Cutting Away From Tackles.
To Beat The Cowboys, Established The Run. NFL Teams Cants Sweep was rushing Defense Under the rug And Skate By Selling Out To Stop The Pass. The Cowboys Don't Have The Bodies Along The Heavier Line. You'd Want To Avoid Falling Behind Against The Cowboys, That's Like A Death Note; Practically "Sleep Walking" Into Their Vaunted Pass Rush.
What Would The Cowboy's Second Act To The Cowboy's Complete Erasing Of An NFC Competitor Look Like?
The Giant's Impressive Start To The Season Begins a Slow Grinding Down March To The Mean. The Pass Defense Rank Top Ten In The Early Part of The Season, and So did The Rushing Offense. Against The Lions, The Giants Could Boast Of Neither Aspect Flourishing.
My First Thoughts After The Cowboys Beat The Giants; How Many Tights Ends Does This One Team Have? That Wack A Mole Celebration Only Work Because The Cowboys Have All Those Bookends Blocking And Pass Catching. You Don't Witness Too Many High Powered Offenses Running Seismic Level Of 12 Personel Because Of The Cowboys have An Impressive, Top Shelf Run Game To Feed.
Whoever Started The Petition, The Angry Mob Calling For Jerry Jones To Move On From Ezekiel Elliott. After Returning From Injury Two Weeks Ago, The Cowboy's Offense Recommitted To Zeke In Big Way, And He Rewarded Them In Return. With Rising Tony Pollard Limited, Zeke Took The Work 16 Carries 92 5.8 Per Carry, Easily His Highest Figure This Season. These Carries Weren't His Usually Body Blow Work. Zeke Notch had Several Explosive Runs For Easily His best Game And The Best Response To Chatter About His Decline Best Game Since The Last Giants Game, Week 3. The Giants Allowed The Cowboys To Run All Over Them.
Starting Quarterback Change With Dak Prescott Back, The Cowboys Shifted Back To Pass Friendly, And The Change Turned Costly: Two First half Interceptions For Dak. The Giants Traded Touchdowns and Punts, A Lead Into The Second Half.
Their Sterling Running Game, Down Bad—Saquon Barkley Finished With 39 yards rushing. In Recent Weeks Daniel Jones Has Taking Over More Of The Offensive orchestration, Direction. Against The Lions, He Accounts For 391 Yards Of Both Passing And Rushing Offense. His Usual Stewardship Robes WerE Torn Way.
On Thursday, Jones Gave Us Only A Pointillist Picture Of Positive References. His 44-Yard Connection With Darius Slayton— A Big Play, Both Players, Met In The Middle On With Responsibility. Jones Put The Ball In The Air With Slayton One On One, and Slayton Took Off Over The Corner To Set The Giants Up At The Goal Line. That's where The Most Of The Giant's Offense Ended. The Giants finished 3-11(Most Of Which Failed On Passing Downs) On Third Down To The Cowboys 7-11. Jones also Absorbed 3 Three Total (Two By Micah Parson), Which Cost The Offense 18 Yards, Not a Sack, and Pressure Pile Up From Last Meeting. Still, In Contrast, The Giants Fail At Tacking Any Hits On Dak Prescott at All. They Blitz He Beat Them With Timing. Even With Rookie Kayvon Thibodeaux scoring eight pressures On The Game. Empty stats, Really. The Cowboys Run Specialist Left The Rest Of The Giants's Pass Rusher Numb. Save Two Interceptions By Prescott—One Targeting Micheal Gallop, Who Hasn't Shown A Complete Rapport With Dak Yet This Season, and Another Targeted To Ceedee. On Another Miscommunication—A Game That Ran Into The Final Possession ends Early. The Giants Improve Their Win Probability By 10% Thanks To Those Picks, But The Game Carried On. The Cowboys Continue To Make plays Maybe For The Best.
If There's Any Knock On CeeDee Lamb's game Three Years In, Consistency: He Disappears For Stretches. I Don't Think Stepped Into The Number Option Spot With Amari Cooper Gone With Seamless efficacy.
He's On The Best, Maybe Three Game Tear Of His Career. He Caught The Packer For 150 Yards, Took A Short Day Against Minnesota, Then Took The Giants For 106 Receiving Yards. Lamb And Justin Jefferson Are Destine to Put On An Aaron Gordon, Zach Lavine Type Dunk Contest On Spectacular Catches Through Their Careers. Ceedee Enter Another, Another Ten. That One-Handed Shield Off On The Corner Route Going Into The Boundary. He Almost Came Down With Another Dazzling Catch In The End Zone, But A Giants Force Out Left The Football With Images Of only What Could Have Counted. The Cowboys Passing Game Didn't Suffer The Lost. Dak Finished 21/30, 8.7 Per Attempt, Which Looked Generous. Every Throw His Pitch Look Like A Down Field Attempt. He Finished With An IAY Of 12.1(Next Gen Stats), The Best Figure Since His Return. With Giants Playing Loads Of Man For Most Of The Game, The Window We're "Tight," But Dak Remained Undaunted. Both Of His Interception Came Downfield Deflections. If You Are Counting Along, Thats Four In Three(3) Games. The Giants Score A Final Touchdown For Cosmetics, But They Took The Second Half Going Away.
The Giants Makeshift, Treading Water In the Passing Game. Daniel Jones Took One Shot Over Over Twenty Yards All Game. Brian Daboll Schemed Up A Lot Of ways To Keep The Offense Rolling In The Right Direction. Brian Daboll Ran Some Triple Options.
Wide Reciever Sub Rub(Pick) Plays.
Scheme, Will, Grit "doggedness, and discipline" Can't Circumvent Talent. The Cowboys Delivered Talent, In The Second Half. Within A Breathe, They Shifted Into High Gear and Figured Out How The Giant Defending Them reeled Of Three Straight Scoring Drives To Put The game. The Giants Fall To 7-4.
Far Away From Out of The NFC Playoff Picture Or NFC Contention. The Seahawks Or Niners Are always Only A Few Games away, And So Ate The Up Coming Commanders. Odell Beckham Jr. Remain A Possibility; Hard To Imagine Him Going To Dallas Or Buffalo; New York Might Get A Guy Out Wide.
