Week Seven Takeaway.
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I Judge The NFL Has Evolved Into Something Resembling More of a Serial Drama Like "Law And Order." The Plot And Character's emotions Refresh Every WEEK RArther Than in A Full-Length Movie where All The Scene Plays Into Each Other. Those Questions Like "Why'd That Happen?" Only Matter Because of What Happened Before. You Can't Get Any Of These Teams Under Labels oR story Placement; Explosive, Clutch, or "Run-First.".
Next Week, They'll Throw A Wrench In the Entire Motif.
The Bengals Offense Had An Awaken. Last Season Joe Burrow And The Bengals Offense Put On A CLINIC in explosive Plays. By The End Of October Of 2021, They Put 33 Plays Of 20 plus On The Stat Sheet Better Known As Explosive Plays. This Season, Cincy Had Their Claws Clipped.
Heading InTO Sunday, the Bengal's Explosive Roar Came Whimpering In against Atlanta With Just 15. Joe Burrow Opened Up The Long Range: What Do They Call Those Things Now, Completions Today. 34 of 42 for 481 yards and three touchdowns. One Pass Of sixty Yards To Tyler Boyd, Another One Of Thirty To Jamar Chase.
The Giants, The Giants Won Again, And Not Only Did They Win, Daniel Jones Went For Over 300 Yards Through The Air. His Play Directly Influenced The Games Outcome. Not Like In Games Past When Jones's Play Felt "Substitutable ." The G-Men Pull Out Another Close Win That's Six On The Season. I Know The Giants Have Read The Cautionary Tails About Paying A Tail-Back, But They Have To Give Saquon A Big Deal Just Off Of Good Faith. Every this Offense Does Well Work Because He Works. The Way He Cuts, the Ground Kind Of Shifts With Each Stab Of He Puts In the Ground. Now That The Giants Are A Threat, How Far Can They Go?
The Chiefs and Bills Are Like Ryu And Ken This Season. The Two Best Fighters Almost destine To Only Fall By The Other's Ambition To Become The Better. The Chiefs But 44 Points On One of The Best Defenses In The League, For the Second Time This Season. They Gave The Bucs Forty in Week Four. Now The Niners Get Blasted. Patrick Mahomes Put Up 423 On 12.4 Yards Per Pass. After An Early Interception, The Niners Defense Just Absorbed Touchdown AFTER touchdown, Whiles The Chiefs Collected 529 Yards Of Offense. Chiefs Receivers We're Cutting Through The 49ers Man Defense Like A Buzz Saw Throw Butter. Forget Bringing A Gun To Knife Fight, Or However, The Saying Goes, The Chiefs Are Bringing Star Fox Type Weaponry To Field.
The Niners Lost Significant Ground In The NFC West. A Division They Would own Right If The Seahawks Would Stop Winning.
The Dolphins Are Easily The Second Best Team In The AFC. Winning Against The Steelers Doesn't Count For Anything Drastic. But The Win Means Everything.
The Dolphin's Weapons On Offense Have Deep Grooves Playing From Ahead And Win Coming From Behind. If I Had To Pick One Team Who Can Last Canon For Canon With The Chiefs, I'm Willing To Bet Only The Dolphins Have Enough Gas To Blow For Blow.
The Panthers Scored A A round Of Picks In The Christian McCaffrey Trade. A 2023,2nd,3rd,4th, And 5th Year After, Added Cap Alleviation Both Trades (McCaffrey and Robbie Anderson) Create The Panthers Can Now Fast Track The Unavoidable Rebuild That Should've Started This Sunday Against The Bucs. But The Panthers Decided To Break The Scoring "Thing A Ma Jig" Out On The Bucs. Neither Team Came Out of The Particularly Sharp—trading Haymakimg Punts Like Old Boxer Holding Unto Each Other Until The match Concludes In A NO decision. Ultimately The Panthers Offense Put The Bucs D Out. With the Last Place Offense In The League, The Panthers Outgain The Bucs By Two Yards Per Play.
The Panthers turned in One Impressive DJ Moore Touchdown Before The Half. The Panthers Just Continue to play when The Bucs expected Them To Lay Down. The Scored The Most Underwhelming Upset Of A Season, Not Short On Upsets. The Buccaneers have To Make A Move Before The Trade; "No Risk It. No Biscuit.". And The Offense Hasn't Had Much of a Pulse Since That Kansas City Game.
Do We Believe In Geno Smith? He's convincing Enough. But his Football Season Still Has A lot of trickery Behind Those Stats. I don't know what Surprises Me More About Geno Smith, The 1712 Yards, The 8 Yards Per Attempt, the 73.5 Completion Percentage, Or The Eleven To Three Touchdown Interceptions. Now That I Wrote Everything, The Completion Stands Out. Smith Leads The Uncontested In That Area, And His Intended Air Yards Of 8.7 With That High A Conversion Makes Him James Bond Level Deadly on Dropbacks. In The Most Surprising Storyline Of The Season, The Seahawks Might Win The Rough And Tough NFC West.
When ESPN Reported That Taylor Henieke Would Take Over The Starting Duties For Carson Wentz In The Nation's Capital( 🫣), I Couldn't Draw Out A Image Of How The Passing Offense Would Function. Heinicke Plays With A Certain Recklessly Thats Enjoyable Through And Through. He's A Pure Missile "Dropper" Pulling Strings. The Commanders Really Just Pulled A Body Swap, Only They Have More Mobility And Less Arm Strength, Meaning No Less Worrisome Results.
Heinecke Commanded The Commanders' Offense Before Creeping That Clause Into Your Conscience Became Awkward AFFAIR. Two Season Ago, He Steps In For Alex Smith And Started A Playoff Game. He Finished With 306 Passing Yard Against The Eventually Champion Bucs.
Despite That Faithful Day In January, The Commanders Didn't Trust Heinicke To Takeover The Starting Duties; instead, The Signed Ryan Fitzpatrick, Who Suffered A Hip Injury in The First Game. Enter Heinicke, The Former XFL Kept The Commanders In the Playoff picture Almost Up To The End, Finishing His Uncharted Course As The Starter 7-8. He's an "Always Down For The Cause, Never Down For The Count" Kind Of Guy—For The Third Time In As Many Season Heinicke Steps Into Takeover The Passing Offense. One Thing Going For Heinicke, His Rapport With Wideout Terry McClaurin. Last Season Taylor Heinicke Could Locate Terry In the Crowd, 126 Target More Than Twice as Many As The Next Man Up(reportedly 24.7 percent of his routes, According To An Article in Washington Post). Adam Humphries, Who No Longer Plays In Washington. McLaurin Made Seismic Leaps in His Production Since Coming Of The Board: The 12th Recover Drafted in 2019; Form 58 catches, 919 yards, and 7 Touchdown As A Rookie. Those Numbers Jumped Up To 87 Catches, 1,118 Yards 4 Touchdowns in His Second Year; Then Even Off Some But Still Leading The Team with 77 Catches, 1,053 Yards 5 Touchdowns in 17 games.
The Commander Revamp The Whole Receiving Core. From Last Year's Top Ten Receiving Targets, Only Five Remain. Most Of Whom Didn't Pass 50 Targets.
This Year's Top Three include McClaurin (Whom Most Consider Quarterback Proof). The Other Two Are new Entries(Curtis Samuel, And Jahan Dotson, A Rookie) To Heinicke Experience. The New Group Forms Like Voltron Or *NSYNC Along With Slightly-Emerging Second Year Man Dyami Brown Who Had Two Touchdown Against Tennessee Two Weeks Ago. He'll Be Out Against The Packers. Heinicke Logan Thomas, The Commander's Tight End, Expects McClaurin To Awaken From Something Of A Down Year To Feature Big In This Matchup With The Packer's Secondary, That's Talented But Underperforming. In last season's Week 7 Matchup, Nearly The Exact Date Mclaurin Took Off On The Packers For 122 Yards, 17.4 Per Catch on Seven Catches One Touchdown. Now That Mclaurin has Evolved Into The Top Guy for The Commanders Since he was Drafted In 2019. That Glory Earned Him a Payday and The Reward Of Becoming The Focal Point Of The Defenses Attention. Ron Rivera And The Commanders Are at That Every Game Counts Threshold., Must Win Situations Or Every Down And The Has So Much Talent Offensively It Bogles The Mind. Any Chance To Win The Division Flew Out The Door In The Carson Wentz Bowl Against The Eagles. Every Team In The NFC West Has an Argument For Wildcard "Glory," and So Are The NFC East Teams And Possibly The Falcons and The Packers. The Commanders Are Another Team Whose Season Starts Today.
As Such, The Packers Have As Season To Save As Well. In a Similiar Vein As The Commanders, The Packers Have Had The Microscope Over Their Quarterback "Situation" Since Week 3. Now The Lens Continues To Focus In The Bits And Pieces Of Yardage And, More Importantly, "Ws" That Have Falling Out Of abounds Or Through The Hands Of Their Wide Receivers—speaking Dropping Through Hands.
On Sunday, Mclaurin Would See the Packer's Number One Corner, Jaire Alexander. According To NFL Next Gen stats, Alexander Forces Quarterbacks To Throw Into the Second Highest "Tight Window" Rate. Quarterbacks Need To Have Their Dead Shot On When Targeting Receivers Near Green Bay's Top Guy. Few Team In The League Has The Luxury Of Bringing In A Back-Up With Years Of Experience In An Offense More Experience Than The Starter. Still, Scott Turner Can Call On Heinicke, and He Showed Up. The Redskin Threw A Couple Of Formation out There That Stunned Me. A Four By One, Three By Two In A lot Of Empty Sets With Routes attack All Levels Of The Field. The Commander's Offensive Architect Showed Bruising Confidence In Heinicke's Ability To Direct The Passing Attack
The Redksins Hung Around Late, Staying On Pace With The Packers Into The Game, and Then Took The Lead. The Packers Offense Continues To Play This Chess Match With Themselves, Almost Daring Or Trusting Teams To Lose Before They Do. Heinicke Kept The Offense On Time. The Blitzes Didn't Unnerve Him. He Pushed Back Against A Tough Start That included An interception. Managing To Wrangle Together 20 Completion of 33 for 200 yards, Linking Up With Terry Mclaurin 5 Catches For 73 yards And One Touchdown And another Touchdown To Antonio Gibson In The Back Of The End-zone. No Doubt About The Comfort Level The Two Share. The Commanders Have a 1/5(21%)Chance Of Making The Playoffs.
The Media Wants You To Forget That The Patriot's Offense Wasnt Supposed To Function With Such Alacrity This Season. Father Time, The Law Of Averages, and Bad Omens Had The Assignment For The Patriots.
The Three-Headed Monster Of Bill Belichick, Matt Patricia, and Joe Judge Had Never Done Anything Of Such As Calling Plays. So Fans Must Portend The Patriots Cant Possibly Succeed AT That Manner Of Football Like in The Days Of Bill Belichick, Turning The Unconventional Into the Remedy Were Done. How Does That Old Biblical Poem Go: Therefore, Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet. It means that the dead carcass of a lion has accumulated a bee hive which has produced honey. That's Sweet, The Zappe. The Patriots Came Into Monday Riding The Hype. Both At Quarterback And On Defense.
Over The Past Two Weeks, The Patriot's Defense Gave up 15 Points For A point Differential Of 67-15 To Fifteen. Bill Belichick Front Four Held The Browns Steamroller From Hell In Check For 70. They kept The Number one Offense From Scoring. They allowed Neither Top Ten Offense To Average 5.7 and 5.3 Yard Per Play, respectively. The Patriots Started Slow But Were Giving Up Just Over 18 On The Season. Enter The Worse Passing And One Of The Lowest Scoring Team The Bears. Running A Ground And Pound Ball Control Chicago's Offense Has Mustered Just 93 Points In 6 Weeks. Then The Bears Entered Foxborough On Monday For Their Seventh Prime Time Of The Season And Put 33 points On The Patriots. Whatever Worked Against The Brown Justin Fields Didn't Feel Any Ill Effect From It. What Happened Different Between The Browns And The Bears, The Quarterback. Fields, He's Next To Josh Allen As The Ultimate Football Weapon, When Everything Around Him Works. The Bears again Kept The Passing Yards To Whisper—Fields Hit Tight End Cole Kmet Along The Boundary For An Impressive First Down Conversion—passing 179 Yard On 13/21 for 8.5 yards per attempt. The Bears Let The Rushing Rain(reign). The Offensive Line Just Down Blocks Better Than They Pass Set, And They Don't Have To Hold Block Waiting For Fields To Release The Ball—Feilds Only Processes The Game Downfield. His First Three Completions All Went Between 10-19 Yards Down Field. Bears Rusher, Like Kahlil Herbert and David Montgomery, Attack Opening and Create Yards After Contact. Justin Fields On Scrambles Just Out Athlete-Ing Other Football Players. On a Scramble For First Down In The Second Half Of A Then Competitive Game, Fields Came Up With Another Gear To Out-Pace A Patriot And Secure A First Down.
The Numbers Still Need to be Ready, But I'm Sure The Bears Produced Half Their 243 Yards After Contact. The Bears Came In With 771 Of Their 1024 Yards On The Ground Coming After Contact. That's 75%. The Bears Showed With One Of The Worst Offenses And One Of The Worst Defenses, And Both Units Left With Impressive Performances Against A Popular Team. All Week The Patriots Had A Quarterback Controversy Brewing. Whether Anybody Surrounding The Situation wanted To Acknowledge The Matter.
Bill Belichick Wanted To Give Both QBs A Run. Nothing New For The Legendary Coach Whose Come Across A Fair Share Of Quarterback Withdrawals In his Career. Mac Jones Started With Projections That the Coaching Staff Would Shift Him Out Kind Of "Awkwardly." After Only A Couple Plays Belichick Call Jones Out Of The Game. Like A Pitcher Throwing A "No-No" (Jones Didn't Impress That Much) But Called Out In A tight Spot. You Could Feel The Tenseness And Frustration Of The Match. The Move Made Little Sense In Hind, Sight But I Guess Bill Didn't Suppose The Defense Would Put Up One Of Its Worse Performances Of The Year And At Least Give The Offense A Chance To Win. Maybe Belichick Wanted To Gauge How Jones Would Respond To having To Succeed His Spot To Bailey. More Jedi Mind Game Stuff.
Enter Zappe Coming Off Of Two Wins And One Impressive Performance And Charged Down Feild For 55 Yard Touchdown Drive 54 Through The Air. Zappe Lead The Patriot's Final Scoring Drive Of The Game—After Fields Interception In The 2nd Quarter—To Give The Pats a Brief Lead of 14-10. Highlighted By A Deep Bomb To Devante Parker. The Difference In The Patriot's Offensive Performance When The Two Quarterbacks Swapped Out Felt Palpable. The Patriot's Offense Would Start The Second Half With 4 Yard In Six Plays Before Two Interceptions Would Wipe And Noise Of Quarterback Trouble Off The Board.
The Cowboys Got Quarterback Dak Prescott Back From Injury Sunday. Jerry World Lost Its Leading Act After Week One. Still, The Cowboys haven't Lost Momentum(Maybe Offensively) Or Generated No Less Buzz And Wins. The Cowboys Turned The Keys Over To Cooper Rush, Every Sports Panelist's Favorite Name Drop And Nothing More Than An Average Quarterback. More Prominently, The Cowboy's defense With Micah Parson At The Forefront Of The Cowboy's Explosive Pass Rush. Cooper Rush has Had Enough Spectacular Moment To Keep Big D as The Headline and Not In The Headlines. The cowboys Picked Four Impressive Wins, Hitting Pause On Opponents On Third Down, And AmCancel Flight Plans In the Passing Game(Top Ten Defense In Both Receiving Yardage and Third Down). Before They Ran Into The Eagles On Sundays. The Cowboys Struggled To Pass The Ball themselves. Offenses around The League Not Having A Real Flinstone "Day Ole Time," And The Cowboys Are Amongst The Worse At Only 182 Yards Passing. After Finishing Number 1 In Total Offense Last, The Cowboys Are 26th. I won't Say Dak And The Pass Rush Are In The Same Caliber—That's Self-Evident, If Anything.
If The Cowboys want The Offense Moving At The League Best Rate, That Requires Dak Rinse And Repeating A high Octane Amount of Drop-backs(Real High Maintenance Vehicle. He's Something Like A Cadilac. You Can't Leave Him In a Stall; he Gets Going And Stays Going. Mike McCartney Should Have a Quick Pace Tune-Up Job On The Call Sheet and A Express Lane To 35 Plus Dropbacks In Tow For The Always Ready For A Highway, Open Field Chase Lions. Neither Of These Two Top Offenses Got Anything Going On Sunday: Not Last Year's Top Offense, The Cowboys, Or The Top Offense Through Five Weeks Of This Season, Detroit. The Cowboys Set The Offensive Alarm System For The Third Quarter To Wake Up The End Zone With Short Run After A Detroit Pass Interference Penalty, But The Boys were On The Door Step. Yes, With Dak Back, The Pass First Creates The Opportunities For The Cowboy's Offense To Score. The Cowboy's Offense Struggled In The Forst Half, Only Mustering a Field Goal On A 12 Play Drive That Stopped At The Foot Of The Lions Endzone. McCarthy Staggered The Rushing And Passing Attack Early, Trying To Work Together The Proper Sequence Or Combinations Of Dak In The Shotgun And Runs. But The Passing Offense had Better Elasticity When Moving the Ball Downfield. They Manage Three Points. The Hapless Lion's Offensive Hasn't Scored A TOUCHDOWN in Since One Minute To In Their Loss To The Seahawks. Jared Goff Had Four Touchdowns. Ben Johnson And The Lions Know He's Capable, But The Shot Gun Snaps Are Starting To Recoil: Another Turnover Filled Battle.
Coming Out Of the Half, Goff Gets A First Through The Turn Two Plays Later And Throws And Throws an Interception. I LIKE Seeing Goff Testing His Arm Some, But the Power Level on that Deep Ball Won't Break Any Scouters Any Day Soon; Dragon ball Z Style. The Cowboys Scored The Forst Touchdown Of The Game On The Issuing Drive. Afternoon. The Cowboy's Defense Customarily Takes Home The Crown As The Driving Force Behind Their Team, 's But The Lions Just Didnt come To Play.
Goff Couldn't Keep The Offense On The Field. They Racked up Five Turnovers On Six Second Half Possesions, three Of Which The Cowboys Converted into Offensive Touchdowns Right In Detroit Territory. That Zero Touchdown, Six Points, and Seven Turnovers in The Past Two Game For the Lions. The Lions Star Receiver Amon-Ra St.Brown To A Concussion. The Lions are 1-5 And Need To Find Their Offensive Identity Again. The Cowboys Have To remain In Close Contact With The Giants, Whom They Beat, But New York Still Boost A Better Record, and They Have To Face Each Other One More Time.
"Do Your Job." the Old Bill Belichick Axiom. Three Words Tha Live Hidden Away Bunker In the heads(Inscribe Across The Minds Of A Player) Of Players That've Past Through Patriots Camp Like A "secret Society" Code. Once Utter Snaps many Ardent Follower Into Programmed Behavior Like Dan Brown Thriller Novel.
NFL Tend To Lean On Those Words In Disciplinary Matters. When Assignments are Blown.
No Three Words Can Carry More Weight In A. football Auditorium Or Spur Mortal Men To Greatness On Sundays. But Browns Coach Kevin Stefanski Felt The Moment Call For More, So He Added a Modifier Or An Appositive In His Briefing With The Team, "Do Your Job For 60 Mins." The Browns Have Had Their Fair Share Of Issues, Especially On Defense. Usually, The Apposutibe Support The Subject, But 60 Mins Means more In These Neck Of Woods. Suppose The Browns Had to Endow Themselves with A Full Breath Of "Wire To Wire" Football. In that case, We'd Speak Of The Browns In The Same Vain As Kansas City, Buffalo, And Philly Amongst The Leagues Elite. Instead, The "Building The Browns" Group Are On The Road Fr A Couple Of Late Collapses That Culminated In A Week Six Shellacking At The Hands Of The Patriots. The Browns Aren't Alone In The AFC North In Terms Of Big Lead Collapses, Given That The Ravens Are Setting The Standard In That Regard. Baltimore looked Like The Divisions Best But has blown Two 17-point Games and Another Ten Point one. Credit The Ravens For building Build leads No Less, But They're Another Team That Should Chair At The Pantheon Of gods, But Opponents Pull It Up From Under Them Every Go. The Ravens Are Third In DvOa, But They're One Possession Away Against The Bengals From Having 2-4 Record On The Season Entering Week Seven.
Both Teams are Fighting "Listlessly" Call Of Wondering One Possession Losses. The Ravens are A Good With No Disguise, But They Struggle In Areas Where The Teams They've Faced Excelled. The Rush Defense So Far Has to Turn Up Average Against The Run And is Susceptible To Miscommunications Deep. The Browns are No Better; if Anything, Even Worse. Teams Who Missed The Playoffs Last Season After Entering The Year With Expectations Only To Miss Out On The Postseason. The Face A dirty Mirror. Two Rivals Who've Faced A Troubling Schedule But So Far Their Enemy Has Worn The Same Uniform Themselves. You Can Take Two Perspectives On This Game; The Ravens Won, Or The Browns Had The Game Striped Away From Them. Or You Can Take The Kevin Stefanski Stance and Move On. "We Don't Have To Look very Far Ahead, and We Don't Have To Look Behind. That's where OUR focus Is." That's What Stefanski Said Addressing After The Media after The 23-20 Loss. The Browns Are Looking Up On Another Loss Season. Stefanski Can't Look Too Far Ahead Because A "Far Ahead" Might Not Exist For Him In That Cleveland Organization. The Browns Have Too Many Missed Opportunities On The Board.
Stefanski Also Spoke About A Lack Of Scoring, But The Browns Haven't Converted Key Third Down Opportunities. The Passing Game Gets Too Predictable Without an Over stop Threat. Once The Ravens Secured A Lead, The Power RunGame Couldnt Threatened Their Defense. The Browns Are Amongst The Worse Teams In Third and Long Predicaments Because Of personnel But Third and Mid(4-7), They Stand among The Best. This also means that The Browns Can't Survive Turnovers but Can't Avoid Them With Jacoby Brissett At Quarterback. The Browns Are In A "Catch-22." Their Strengths Put Them In Position Where The Weaknesses Are Exposed. The Browns To Go For It On That Fourth Late In Fourth Instead, They Kicked A Doomed Field Goal.
The Browns Can't Trust Your Quarterback Read Long Developing You Trust Your Wide Receivers To Put Together And Win Routes Downfield. They Have A trade Chip In Kareem Hunt and A Fair Ammount Of Cap Space, But Where do They Find The Right Guy? The Browns Can't Take On Any Big Deal Because Deshaun Watson's Cap Hit Goes Nuclear Next season, a Trade Chip Like Brandin Cooks Wouldn't match unless they moved Amari Cooper With Hunt.
The Ravens Are Back In The driver's Seat In The Division.
