Week Five Takeaways:
I’m Not Saying I Look Forward To A New York Versus New York Super Bowl.
After Week Two Or So Of This NFL Season, I Thought I Hit The Tap-Out As A Writer; I Feared I Ran Out Of Words. Like Speed Buggy, Sputtering To Get Started OrThe Bear’s Passing Offense (97.5 yards per game) Had More Continuous Success Sustain Drives Than I Had Building Word Structures. Seriously, I Thought The Lexicon Grim Reaper Had Come For Me. I Couldn’t Produce Any Witty Metaphors Or Allegories Or Analogies Or Anything. I Couldn’t Pound A Paragraph Out, Like The Exact Opposite Of The Bear’s Rushing Attack.
I Couldn’t “Execute” None Of That Juice About Speed Buggy And The Lexicon Grim Reaper. A Real Brain Drain. With My class Half Full, Build Motif and Forget polish Out Later Approach. In My Former Days as A Christian, Sorry. When Drains Would Come, As They Are Always To Arrive On Schedule, A Follower Of Christ Returns To the Source. Not Tim Tebow, The Well Of Life Christ. Now That Football(Or Instagram, Really) Plugs In Where Salvation, I Go To My Source(s). I’m Not Becoming An Adherent Of Jalen Hurt’s, Dialogue I Just Know When He Grabs The Mic, You Know Some Good “Word” Will Bellow. God Uses Those Willing And Available. Ahead of The Cardinals Game, Hurt Preached “Consistency” And, On Substrata Level, “Authenticity.” In Everything, On Everything. Speech, Likeness, Not Only In Football.
I Just Need To Keep It Simply Doing What I Do.
Vikings Vs. Bears
On The Season, The Bears Have Completed(67) as Many Passing Attempts As Josh Allen Attempts In Week 3 Against(63) The Dolphins. I know That’s Not Apples To Oranges comparison, But Those Results From One Game And One Season And The Talent Difference( The Bills Are The Number One Passing Team,) But Relay The Idea Of The Stark Reality Of The Bears Forlorn Passing Offense Remains.
With The Luke Getsy Hire At Offensive Coordinator, The thought Persisted That He Could Mold The Bear Offense To Feel More like the Packers In Some Effect. As If The Packer’s Talent, Scheme, and Experience and Heck, Matt Lafleur’s Play calling Would Transpose Over To The Bears Like A Transition Effect In Adobe XD(Please Insert Sponsor Here). Critics Can Easily Polk At Justin Field, Who Hasn’t Looked Good By Any Reasoning Of Quarterback Play. To Whom Much Is Given, Much Is Attested. Fields Came Out Of Ohio State With Question Marks and A Hype Machine Strong Enough To Overshadow Issues And Push the Phase Four Marvel Movie( Im Just Saying). His 390 Passing Yards Are Once A Day In The Life Of Josh Allen.
The Bears Have Something To Work With and Something to work Into Wining Order.
Starting With Scheme, Offensive Talent, and The Coaching. If The Football World Wants To Offer “Patience” To The Broncos, Don’t The Bears Deserve The Same Respect?
I Fancy A Home In Minnesota. Right Next To…
I Wrote In the Last Weeks Piece About How The Vikings Are Revealing Themselves, But They’re Calcify What They’re Becoming. For A Stretch In First Half Before The Bears Stormed Back, The Viking Looked Like The Best Offense In The NFL. Not The Most Noteworthy, Innovative, Or Celebratory But The Most Efficient. When All The Cylinders Are Firing On The Kevin O’Connell, Only The Browns Have A Better Running Game.
Every Week I Watch Vikings YouTube Just To Pick The Mind Of Kevin O’Connell. One Of The Brightest Minds In Football Today. Someone To Juxtapose My View Of The Game Against Someone Else’s. I won’t Sprinkle Too Much Confidence On The Vikings For Their Comeback Win Against The Bears. In A Game When The Vikings were 21-3 Before A Late Touchdown, Put Them Back Up 29-22 For A Comeback Win That Shouldn’t Have Happened. I Know The Vikings Will Take The Win And Sole Possession Of The Best Record In the NFC North (4-1). How The Documented, Offensively Challenge Bears Took A Late One Point Needs Some Form Of Addressing.
Everybody’s Favorite Fringe MVP Candidate Kirk Cousins Looked The Part Early, 17 Straight Completions, Pulled Directly Out Of The “Ghostface Killah”; “Coming All Shapes And Sounds.” Deep Outs, Classic Underneath Bends. Kirk Had The “Him,” Him-Ing. The Vikings Scored Three Touchdowns On Their First Three Possession. After Dusting Off His Two Game Slump, Justin Jefferson Wanted To Cast The Memory Of short Tow Game Stretch In The Ocean. Over 100 Yards In The First half against A Competitive If Nothing Else Bears Secondary. The Bears Defense Surrendered Very Little Easily, Especially In The Second Half. The Vikings Needed 29 First and 74 Plays To Mash Together Four and Two Missed Field goals. He Finished With 12 For 154 Yards. Running back, Dalvin Cook Woke Up And Chose “violence.” That 100 Yard game Of The Season Continue To elude him, But He Had Menacingly Explosive Moments On The Ground Against him. He Took Off For Several Sonic The Hedgehog Runs That Came Out Of Nowhere, One Foot In The Turf and takeoff Two. In Particular Stood But, he Finished With Four Explosive Runs that Added Up to 94 Yards, 18 Carries For 5.2 Per Carry.
How The Bears Allowed Jefferson to Spring Loose On That Two-Point Conversion Baffles Me--You Only Need To Cover One Guy In The End. But The Needlessly “Resilient” Vikings Won. On A Per Attempt Basis, The Bear Out Passed The Vikings. Justin Fields Rounded 15/21 208, 9.9 A throw And One Touchdown, And 118.8(The Best Rating On His Young Career)Passer rating And Completion Percentage Over 70%. No Bad For Almost Written Off Prospect. That 9.9 Might be Overlook By The Untrained Eye, But That’s Quite A Gaudy Figure For A Young “Struggling” Quarterback To Test The Line So Often.
For Fields, The Long Range And Spectacular Doesn’t Hurt Him, The Pedestrian, underneath Simple Reads Throw Him Off. Fields Graded Amongst The Highest Flame Spitters Throw In The League When Targeting The Deep Zones A Year Ago. In Terms Of Progression, He Needs More work.
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Here In The Fourth Quarter The vikings HAve A Three Route Concept Call, The Vikings Have Middle Of The Filed Open, Meaning No Defender In The Hook Zone On A Man Defensive Call, 3 Deep Look. Fields Correctly Locates Safety Harrison Smith Holds Him In The Deep Middle.
The Vikings Rush Four But Bring Pressure. Here Fields Sho’s His Worrying Lack Of Awareness And Anticipation. With DJ Wonnum Barrelling Down, Feilds Seven Step. Drop Ends And He’s Hot, Now. The Ball Needs To Find Its Way Out Of His Hand. Darnell Mooney Comes Open On A Post Or Deep Over In Middle; hit Him. Tight End Cole Kmet, The Hot Route, open In The Flat, Hit Him.
The Play Results In A Sack But Here Fields Still Has Time To get the Ball Out His Awareness Both Situational And Presence In The Pocket Are Poor.
Coming Into Sunday’s Eagles—Cardinals Game, A Battle Of Two Bird Teams, Two Texas Quarterbacks, Two Former Sooners, and Two Of The Most Dynamic Athletes At The Position. Neither Two Quarterbacks Shy About Putting On a Show Through The Air. Here At Mindfull, “We” Have A lot Of “Enterprises,” But We Don’t Clock Anyone’s Funds. One Has A Quarter Billion On A Debit, The Other Has Millions On The Clock, And He’s Playing Like He’s Worth Every Dime. Hurts Second Start In The NFL Came Against Murray And The Cardinals; not An Easy Day Taking Over For Carson Wentz. Those 44 Attempts That Day In Arizona For The Then Rookie Hurts Are Still Top Five In Hurts Career. That Week 15 Affair Favor The Cardinals. Kyler Had The Blades Going. He Had The Arm Going; he Had The Blades Some More. Fun All Around. Kyler Finished With 406 Yards Passing, an 11.3 Average Per Completion, Three touchdowns, and One Interception. Hurts Went Over 300 Yards for The First Time In His Career; 338 Yards, 24 Completion On Those 44 Attempts, Three Touchdowns, and One On The Ground. As Two Team Prepare To Do Battle, I Find Looking back On two Years Ago(Nearly), Neither Quarterback Has Change Much In skill Set. Kyler Still Doesn’t Get Enough “Oomph” Under His Deep Throws. Hurts Still Reads, watches, and SnapBack (For The Most Part) On His Targets. The Cardinals Came Away With A Win. Two(Tootsies) Thing Mainly Different This Sunday Than Two Years Ago( No Surprises There, Right). The Eagles Water Out Offensive Line Gave Up Six, Or Jalen Hurt Got Sacked Six Times, And The Offensive Line Certainly Had Their Share In The Spoils. The Cardinals Receiving Corp Looks Starkly Different.
Nobody Who Started Wide Two Years Ago Will Start Sunday. Larry Fitzgerald(Retired). Christian Kirk(Free Agent) And D’Andre Hopkins(Suspended), He’s The Crucial Absence. Nuke(Hopkins's Nickname) Went Off—It’s Easy Like That— 9 Catches, 169 Yards, And 11 Targets. A Blanket Of Safeties Couldn’t Cover Him That Day. The Cardinals finished as An Average Passing Team In 2020, And They’re An Average Passing Team In 2022. The Eagles, On The Other Han,d Had A Near Bottom Passing Attack In 2020. Today They’re Top Five. The Eagles Have The better Receiving Corp And Best Receiver Between The Two Teams. The Similarities And Differences In Two Years. The Cardinals Are Harped On For Their Slow Starts, And I’m Sure Everybody Involved Doesn’t Want To Hear About The Lack of Progress In That Area Anymore. But The Late Game Play Proved Just As Critical In This Loss. The Cardinals Situational Awareness Grade Down The Stretch: Poor. I Don’t Want To Make Light Of JJ Watts's Heart Condition, But That Jolt He Got Perfectly Symbolizes What The Cardinals Need As A Team.
The Cardinal’s Defense Held The Eagle’s Offense In Check. Jalen Hurt Finish With 6.6 Per Attempt, His Lowest On Average Of The Season. The 6’s Continue For Hurts(Must Be An Omen), 61 Yards On 15 Carries To Lead The Eagles. Next Up Are The Cowboys, In what Should( and Mostly Likely Will Be) The Best Game Of The Season.
Security Check Hurts At The Gate, Nothing Too Explosive On The Day. Just One Deep Pass Worth 22 Yards To Devonta Smith, No Touchdown Through the Air, and Two sons on the Ground Quarterback Sneaks. What The Game Boils Down To One Team Understanding The Moment, Checking Each Box, And Having A plan. The Other Team “Free-styling” both Teams Played a lot Of Drop Zone, Forcing Both Offenses To Run The Play Sheet Down To The Thread.
“We Got The Talent And The Scheme It Boils Down To Execution.” Zach alerts Said After The Game.
The Cardinals Needed A Lot to Make Shift 3rd And Long Conversion To Stay Close.
With One Final Possession To Win Or Take The Lead after The Defense Forced a Field Goal Out Of The Eagles. Before The Spotting Issue On The Slide—“Everyone On Offense Assumed zit Was The First Down.” Regardless, Murray Missed A Wide Open Zach Ertz On Deep Post, Late Games Those Plays Decide The Match. The Cardinals Are A Team Of Missed Opportunities; if You Lose The Game Because Your Back Up Kicker Missed A Field Goal, You Deserve That.
Admittedly The Eagles Needed This Game More Than The Cardinals. Nobody Wants To Run Away With The NFC West at The Moment, But The NFC East Has Two 4-1, With The Eagles The Only Remaining Unbeaten Team In The League.
I Had A Chance To Review The Film For Zach Wilson's Season Debut, Win Against The Season. Not Review, But watch A Review Of The Film. If the 2021 Quarterback Draft Class Had Questions Entering The Season, Wilson Had A “Entrance Survey.” Could He Play Any Worse Than Last? Are the Jets Stabilize Around Him? Where Does The Talent Players Go When They Enter New York Air Way? Above Any Quandary Zach Wilson remained The “Enigma”; Not A Problem To Solve For But a Possibility and Proposition For Study. His Tape, His Performance From Sunday, Adds Another Ledger To the Stock Pile Of “Studies” That Clarify Little But Certifying “Tidbits” Of His Still At Large In The File. As A Quarterback, He’s A Drake Album. Like Scorpion Double Side “Night And Day” Style.
The (High)Hi-Hats Are Booming, But The Low Are Dangerously Off. His Touch Over The Middle, The Place Where Average Quarterbacks Fear To Tread, Look More Than improved; the Timing And Snap Looked Ready. His Timing and Sync Ups Are At The Level With Anyone In The Game. When The Slants Comes Out on A quick Diagonal, He Can Look at A Linebacker Off And Rip It With zipping. No Processing, Just Pull The Play Straight Out Of The Packaging.
But His Miss. when Wilson Misses A Pass, He Can get His Evaluation On Its Head. He’s Strikingly Dumbfounding: Almost two sides To The same Coin. He Threw A Swing/Bullets Route To Running back That Look Like He Never Threw a Pass In His Life. Mind The Lock A Step Look Perfect, But Everything Fell Apart Of Release.
So Far, His Young Zach Wilson Has a 77.4 Accuracy Percentage, According To Pro Football Reference. The Stats Data Base Calculates The Percentage Based “On-Target” Passes Regardless Of Results(Completed Or Incomplete/Dropped). Wilson Finished with a 118.8 passer Rating Over The Middle, 116.7 Out On The Boundary, And 129.6 Into The Left. He’s Less Than Palatable Anywhere Else On The Field. Arm Angles and Arm Strength Are An Issue thus Far. Last Season He Struggled Over The Middle, In His Defense, as Most Quarterback Struggles to Find The Soft Spot In Zone Coverage. Whatever Successes Or However The Jets Brian Trust Want Those Successes To “Look” Will Hinge Mostly Not On The Development Of Zach Wilson But The Harvesting Of What He Does Well. If Indeed Wilson Maintains At least The Positive Trend, He’s On. He Mostly Picks Apart The Pittsburgh Steelers' “Eazy Duz It” Line Backing Corp, And That won't Move The Meter From Orange To Red On A Scale, But He Could’ve Very Well Flopped. Offensive Coordinator Mike Lafleur Sum It All Up; “He Was Able To ado Enough.” Lafleur Told The Media, In Glowing Remarks. The Expectations For Zach Wilson Have Not Changed. “We Feel Good, you Know.”
Sunday, The Jets Had An All-Time Great Performance. Just Sunday, I Wouldn’t Pencil Them In for The Playoff Or The Superbowl. Facing Against The Dolphins Third String Quarterback Skylar Thompson After Teddy Bridgewater's Got Taken Out Of The Game and Enter Concussion Protocol—Tua Started The Game In Protocol. The Jets Were Having Their Way. The Defensive Secondary Flew Around, only Giving Up 166 Yards, Highlighted By One Interception For Sauce Gardner. The Jets Pass Rush Produce 36 Pressures Compared To Just Six For Miami, Who Only Two Weeks Ago Terrorized Josh Allen’s Pocket. Zach Wilson Comfortably In Pocket Until Forced To Flush Out For Goal Line Touchdown Dive. He Finished With a Time To Throw Of 2.73 and had To Scramble Just Once For The Touchdown Earlier. But The Jets Didn’t Need Him To Score Forty In His Second Game Back Wilson Only Completed 14 Passes For 210 Yards—100 Of Which Came On Two Plays. Rookie Running Back Breece Hall Had Something Of a Breakout Game, 93 Yards, 4 Big Runs On 18 Carries 5.4 Per carrying And Just One Tackle for Loss, His best Showing As A Pro Thus Far. Hall Caught Two Balls Out Of The Back Fields For 100 Yards. Nobody Else On The Jets Offense Had More Than fifty Yards. Rookie Garrett Wilson Took Home three catches On Three Targets for 27 yards On The Afternoon. Am I Buying Results Of Two Game As Indictor of Zach Wilson’s Curing Or Correcting? No. Far Too Early. Far Too Little Sample Size. I'll Leave That One For The Hot Take Talk Shows.
The Jets Won This Game, But They’re Not a Top Team in The League. Still Average At Best. Two Punts And A Field Goal To Start The Game. The Dolphins Have Skylar Thompson Press Into Duty For The Foreseeable Future. Which Only Bodes Well For Tua Because When He Left, The Dolphins Had Acclaim. Now They’ve Fallen Off Shore With Two Average Replacements.
Raves Vs. Bengals
“You are what your record says you are.” Every Idiom As Some Truth And Some “Falsity” Beneath It. Football(Winning Football) Comes To Executions, And Winning Comes Down To Execution Relative To Your Opponent. Every Record Needs Context.
“We’re 2-2, tied for the division lead, and that’s where we stand.”
That “Fire Zone Blitz” Won’t Look When It Turns As Busted Coverage On A Fourth Down Stretch Play when The Slot Receiver Streaks Across The Middle After Winning His Slant Route Off The Line Of SCRIMMAGE.
In An Alternate Reality Where Madden Rules “Supersede” The NFL And Going Up Double Figures Or 21 Means An Automatic Victory, No Matter What Happens, The Ravens Are 4-0. Instead, They’re Two 2-2. Everybody Has Their Hands Up, Looking For a map Like, How Did We Get Here—the Ravens average 29.8 points per game Third Best Line In The League. But Offense Has A Thin Ice Quality To Its Number. The Surface Level Appears Firm But Cracks The Further You Up. The Ravens Problems Mostly Boil Down: How Bang-bang MVP Lamar Jackson Can Turn Up When “The Moment.” He’s A “Made Man” In The League Leading League In Touchdown Passes, Passer Rating, Average Rushing, And 9th In Total Rushing Yards. His Abilities, his Prowess, and His Deft For Cutting Down Defenses Through The Air And On The Ground Makes Him Especially Taxing To Plan For Deals. Sacrificing Bodies From Coverage Can Expose Holes In Run Fits. He Stresses Your Personal Usage Formation Every. Trying Match Every Way Lamar Can Attack Can Turn Into A Parallel Two. Step A "Three-dimensional chess" If You Would; One Move Begets Another To Cover Another Move. Through Four Games Has Lamar Jackson Hasn’t Shown The Evolution That’s Greg Roman Table For Him Two Years; In Ways, You’d Project.
Quarterbacks Are Judge By several Equally Distinct Traits, Some Of Which Are: Accuracy, Strength, Touch, Anticipation, And Acuity.
Lamar Can Twist The Ball Deep But Doesn’t Have “Wow” Arm Strength A Point Support By His (12) Explosive Passing Plays On season. Not the Worse, But He’s Tied With The Niners And Steelers At The Same Lower Threshold. Entering Week Five, He’s Still Over A Thousand For The Year When Almost Any Quarterback of high Repute Has Over 1000 Yards On The Year. He Stood Around The Bottom, Below Joe Flacco, Who Didn’t Play On Sunday In Week 4. He Finished The Bills Game With just 144 On Five Yard Per Attempt And Interception. Almost On Par With Rookie Kenny Pickett, Who Played Just a Half Of Football.
Sure He Splits Attempts On The Ground, But His Arm Will Sign That Cheque Next Spring, And that Arm Looks Average Thus Far. His Anticipation Looks Great, But His Mechanics Break Down, and His Foot Work Sometimes Looks Like A Jig Saw Puzzle. The Broncos-Colts Game Set A High Standard For Bad Football In Week Five, So Bengals-Ravens Didn’t Have A High Bar To Clear. With the Division Lead On The Line, These Two Teams, Archetypal Models For modern Offenses, were Brought t face Down At The Feet of Quarters Coverage: Nothing Much To Draw On Here. Lamar Finished With One Of The Worse Passing Games Of His Career, 174 Through The Air, One Touchdown, and One Interception That He Air Mailed So Long I Thought He Might Break A Neighbor’s Window Until Von Bell Pop Out With It. He Had The Fifth Lowest Air Yard Differential(4.4), The Result Of Failed Attempts Anywhere Beyond What The Defense. The Touchdown To Mark Andrews Put The Ravens In Spot To Win Late On A Justin Tucker Field Goal. For The Most Part, The Ravens Are What Their Record Says: Mid. The Best Teams In The NFL Can Absorb The Best Blows From This Offense The Bounce The Body Shots Off Like Bee Bee “Revolto.”
Both Teams Leading Tight Ends Found Receiving Glory, With Former Raven Hayden Hurst Scoring The Bengals Touchdown. The Ravens Traded Away To Move Away From Heavy Tight End Sets And Open Up The Offense So Far The Results Inconclusive. Especially Consider The Ravens Have Done “Sparsely” To Replace Their Former First Round Pick.
Hayden Hurst Impressed The Bengals In Training Camp After Coming Over From Atlanta In Trade, But I Don’t Think Zach Taylor Believed They’d Traded For The Focal Point Of Their Offense For A Sunday Night Game against The Ravens.
Hurst Finished With 53 Yards. Joe Burrow Took What The Defense Gave Him, And Those We’re The Results.
I’m Sure Nobody In The Ravens Coverage Unit Forget What Jamar Chase Gave Them Last Year, 10 Targets, 21.7 Yards Per Reception For 163 On Average For Two Games. Marlon Humphrey And The Ravens Shut Him Down, 53 Yards On 10 Targets.
The Bengals Had No tee Higgins The Bengals. Joe Burrow Took What The Defense Offered, Which Wasn’t Much At All. In His, Thirds Burrow Has His Worse Start To A Season Thus Far. The Bengals Are Battling The Ebbs And Flows Of Figuring Out Where To Find The Magic When Nothing Seems To Work. This Winning Used To Feel Natural.
I’m Known To Mistype A Phrase Or Stat Or Two, But I’ll Follow Through With This Statement Unequivocally: Entering Week Five, The Lions Are Scoring In Prides. Before Leading The League In Scoring Average At 35 Points Per Game, The Lions Running The Rough And Tumble In The Jungle Of Offense year Date Backs To Last Season, Munching Out Touchdown Like Nobody’s Business. Going Into Week 4, The Lions Had Score a Touchdown Sixteen Straight Quarters Before The Vikings Shut The Cage In The fourth quarter of Week Three.
They’ve Gotten So Much From So “Little” Or Less Heralded Names I honestly Never Thought The Lions Offensive Identity Would Last. Jared Goff And Amon-ra St. Brown Weren’t Just Scoring Touchdowns, Seemingly Indefensible They Look Enviable; Especially Consider How Sluggish The Rest Of The League Look Trying To Produce Points Feebly. The Lions Offense Thrived On Explosive Plays, Top 10 In Passing And Rushing Explosive Plays On The Season. Nothing On a Surface Changed; you Just Wonder If They Could Sustain The Results. Could Jared Goff Drive Another Ferrari Off The Lot and Not Crash And Burn? The Lions Overcame That Huge To Lose A Win To The Sea Hawks Late. Living On Explosive Plays Has Draws back: The Lions are Feats Or Famine. On Net Points Per Drive, They’re Near The Median Of The League On Drive Success They’re At The Bottom. Explosive Plays Can Arose Through Scheme Or Happenstance(Blown Coverage, Miss Tackle). The Patriots Didn’t Have Any For Sale Today.
I Don’t Know If The Patriot's Throwback Jerseys Confused The Lions And Jared Goff, Who Spun Around Endlessly as If Seeing “Ghosts,” Or Confused Trying To Figure a which End zone Started And Ended. When He Turned His Head Straight, The Pats Were Ready, Forcing Pass Breaks And Intercepting The Lions Near The Endzone. The Lions Run Game Could Hardly Show Face, Much Less Fang And Claws. Jamal Williams Had A Set Of Tough Runs, But Once Goff's Fumble For A Touchdown Sent The Pats Up Double Figures 13-0, The Lions Abandon The Ground All Together. But Nothing Could Stem The Tide Of Menial Offensive Work.
Lion Went Three Out There after To Finish The Worst First Half Of Football On The Season. only The Second Act Proved More Damning. The Patriot's Defense Forced The Lions Out On Downs Four Straight, Three Of Which Were Failed Completions By Jared Goff.
The Lions Near Bottom Rank Defense Met “The Zapper” “Zapp Brannigan” Bailey Zappe. The Third String Back Up Thrust Into Action A Trusted To Simply (Not) Pilot The Ship Into Embarrassment and Disaster. A Slumbering 1-3 Pats Team Just Needed Zappe To Stay On Schedule, Keep The Offense On-Time 11 Of The Pats 22 1st Came Through The Air, With Over 9.0 Yard Per Attempt Barrier To Collect Them. Once He Got Going, The Field Opened Up.
A 24-Yard Touchdown Perfect Strike To Pats Receiver Jacobi Meyers, Who Finished As The Game Leading Receiver. Zappe Link With Hunter Henry For Another 23 Touch Pass Earlier. The Defense and The Run Game Spare Headed By Rhamondre Stevenson’s 161 Yards On 25 Carries.
After The “High Impact” Offseason Put The Chargers In The Middle of Super Bowl Contention. The Real Season Has The Chargers Somewhere Out Of Orbit, Like Some Disrepair Satellite. The Chargers Stand At 2-2. They Have 3-1 “Vibes” If We Adjust The Model For Injury Woes. In Their Division, Their Closely Related To The “Roll Out” Chiefs More Any One Else. Not The Something-Something, Still Loading Broncos At 2-3, Or The Wide Range Of Outcomes calls The Raiders. The Chargers are A Schrodinger's Cat, A Supposition Of Both States Until You Open The Box. The Chargers Spent A Medici Family Size Check To Remodel Their Defensive Line, Really Their Defense As A Whole. Bringing In Kahlil Mack, Sebastian Joseph-Day, And Corner J.C.Jackson To Play One On One and “Free” Another Player To Fit Run Gaps. On The Young season, Brandon Staley Has Looked Good For zit. Coming Into The Matchup With Cleveland, The Chargers Are Top Ten In Rush Win Rate after Finishing Dead Last In Success Rate Last Year. Old Qualities Die Hard. The Texans Faced The Chargers Reinforced Run(Without Edge Rusher Joey Bosa) and Found Some Flaws; I’m Talking 131 Yards, 14 Attempts, 9.4 Per Carry Type Flaws. The Texans Have An Impressive Offensive Line, And The Damien Peirce Attack That Right Side. The Charger Had Given Up Two 100 Yard Rushers In Back To Back To Back Games This Season. No Time To Lick Your Wounds When The Most Explosive, mechanized Run Game In The League In Cleveland.
The 2-2 Browns Don’t Have 3-1 “Vibes”; They Have Undefeated “Vibes.” One Collapse, Two Errant Jacoby Brissett Passes From 4-0. All Of The Fault Doesn’t Rest On Brissett Out Of Control Fire Hose Arm. He’s Fourth In Offensive EPA Per Play, A Stat By Definition(Or Explanation) “offensive successes or struggles fall more on the quarterback or the overall offense “(The Athletic/Larry Holder). Escaping Brissett Island isn’t an option when The Browns Fall Into One Possession. On the Play Sheet, they’re 0-2 In Late Game score Games. The Browns, Kevin Stefanski, Would Strive To Differ Offensive Control Out From The Hand’s Both Losses Have Come Down To Late Interceptions. His Struggles Late Are Betoken by A 55.5 Passer Rating In Fourth Quarter, Close Quarters Combat.
These Two Big Name Defenses Are Fooling anyone; They’re Both Good For A “Thrashing.” Neither Teams Are Shy About Going To Wire. They’re Like Saiyans; They Live For The Hard Fights Only To Get Stronger. A Win Won’t Feel Real If The Scouter Doesn’t Swing Widely During The Fight.
If An offensive Melee Breaks Out, You Have To Think Herbert Takes Home The Advantage. Brown’s Head Coach Kevin Stefanski Knew He’d Have A Full Length, Wire To Wire Tussle On His Hands: “we’ll Be In [For] 60 Min Affairs… We’ve Gotta Be Lock In For all Scott Minutes.”
Herbert’s Coming Off Of His Best Game This Season Herbert completed 27 of 39 passes for 340 yards, two touchdowns, and Nada on interceptions Against The Texans.
Who Would Have Predicted That Two Forces, One An Over Aggressive Coach, Would Collide With The Force Of An Over Aggressive Quarterback Late In The Fourth? Early On. Neither Team Looked Like They’d Seen A Run Fit Before Or A Coverage Scheme. The Chargers Running-back Austin Ekeler Came Out Of The Back Like a Canon Ball Out Of a Canon. Coming Into The Game, He Ranked Last By Football Outside DVOA Metric, Which Accounts On Per Play Basis for How An Average Back Would Perform. He’s Mostly A Gadget, a Hybrid Receiver Out Of The Backfields “Smash In Case” Justin Herbert Needs A Release Valve. Ekeler Had Over 1500 Scrimmage Yards and 20 Touchdown Last Season. This Season The Chargers Are Off To Slow Start, And On The Season, Ekeler Averages 3.1 Yards Per carrying Carry And 140 In Yards Total On The Ground. So I Could Understand Why The Browns OverLooked Him On The Game Plan Hod. He Finished With 171 on the Afternoon, And The Charger Feasted For 238 Yards. The Brown’s Defense Plays A lot Of Nickel Formation. Playing The Chargers mean Preparation For Long Day Through The Air, Which opens Space For Ekeler To Roam. The Browns Didn’t Fair Well Defending The Pass Either. Mike Williams Looked Like A Walking “Titan” Out There Just Hanging Over Guys. With Keenan Allen Still Sidelined With A Hamstring Injury, You’d Think Keying In, Even Double Teaming Mike Williams, the Browns surprised Me by Playing One-On-One And Getting A Full Salvo Of The Chargers Passing Offense. Williams Caught Ten Ball For 138 Yards and Some Big 1st Down Conversions. The Browns Talented Secondary Had No Answer For Him. Justin Herbert Didn’t Have His Best Game. Only One Touchdown, 22/34 For 228. Better Than His Counterpart Jacoby Brissett Who Sealed The Brown’s Lost With Yet Another Fourth Quarter Interception.
Rolling To His Right, Brissett Stares Down His Target, Amari Cooper, so that Hard He Could have to Pierce A Hole In Him. Instead, He Drops The Ball Off In The Waiting Hands Of A Waiting Chargers Defender At The Goal Line Down By Two. To His Defense, He Escaped A Crumbling Pocket With Some Nifty Footwork.
The Loss For The Browns Sends The Down 2-3 With Some Of The Most Brutal Losses On The Young Season. According To PFF 37% Chance To Make The Playoffs.
The Two Teams Combined For 908 Yards Of Offense, Both Teams Traveling Over 200 Yards On The Ground and Through The Air. Nick Chubb Did His Rightful Damage with 17 Carries, 134 Yards Two Touchdown. The Tackle Breaking Machine Roughed Up the Chargers, Bursting Out Obvious Tackle Situations And Finishing With 70 Yards Rush Over Expected The Second Best Number Bested Only By Austin Ekeler’s(98). The Browns Either Need Their Late Games Offense Or Drastically Adjust The Defensive Game: I Know of A Player Who Can Improve One Of Those Aspects. The Chargers Are 3-2, Waiting On Their Next match Up With The Chiefs.
