NFL Week 11 Takeaways.

Rams Vs Seahawks

I Wanted To Know What The Rams Defense Would Look Like When They Didnt Face A Backup Or A Mid-level Quarterback, and on Sunday, Los Angeles Faced The Hottest Quarterback In Football Outside Of The Quarterback That Suits Up For Them, and They Shut Sam Darnold Down (mostly). Without Committing One Sack, the Rams' Secondary stepped up to The Challenge, forcing Darnold Into Four Interceptions and holding one Of The Top Passers Without a Touchdown, His First Game Without A touchdown since Week One. Darnold Finished With His season’s worst 45.5 passer Rating, 29/44 for 279 Passing Yards In a 21-19 Loss as the Seahawks' four-game win Streak came to An End. The Rams Defense Kept Darnold’s Dropbacks From Gashing Them For Big Gains By Shutting Down The League's Top Deep Passers in Football Holding Darnold Two Just Two Pass Completions Of 20 Or More Yards, Four Completions Of Passes Over Ten Yards Air Yards. One Of Those completions went to Jaxson Smith-Njigba On A Handed Catch LONG the Sidelines. The NFL’s Leading Receiver Finished with 9 Receptions For 105 Receiving Yards. The Seahawks' Defense Slowed Down The World’s Hottest Quarterback, Matthew Stafford, as well as 15/28, 4.6 Yards Per Attempt, Two Touchdowns, and 89.9 Passer Rating. The Rams Offense Got 91 Rushing Yards From Kyren Williams Against A Stout Seahawks Defense. The Rams elevate to 8-2 In Sole Possession Of First Place In The NFC West. The Seahawks Hung Around For Much Of The Game, But Darnold’s Quarter Interception Proved Fatal to Seattle’s Comeback Hopes.

Arizona Vs San Francisco

Jacoby Brissett Knows His Assignment As the Holder Starter. Look Competent, But Don’t Rattle The Draft Odds Too Much. The Ten-Year vet, Former Third Round Pick Set An NFL Record with 47 Completions For 452 Passing Yards Two Touchdown Two Picks, +8.3%, 96.8 Passer Rating In A 41-22 Loss To The Niners. Cardinals Wide Receiver Micheal Wilson, Not Marvin Harrison Jr., Finished With A Career High 15 Catches For 185 Receiving Yards. Cardinals Tight End Trey McBride 10 Catches For 115 Receiving Yards and One Touchdown. Brissett slightly overshadowed The Return Of Niners Quarterback Brock Purdy, who made His First Start since Week Four and Just His Third Start Of The Season after Dealing With a Turf Toe Injury. Niners’ Quarterback Back Up Mac Jones Played Well In Purdy’s Stead, But Purdy returned To Dismiss Any Notion Of A Quarterback Controversy 19/26, 200 Passing Yards, Three Touchdowns, and 133.5 Passer Rating. Running Back Christian McCaffrey finished with 18 touches for 121 Total Yards and Three Touchdowns, Two On the Ground and one On The Ground. George Little Led The Niners Receivers With Six Catches On Six Targets For 67 Receiving Yards and Two Touchdowns, and He Looked Brilliant.

Buccaneers Vs Bills

A Back And Forth Affair Early in The Bucs And Bills Game In Upstate New York. Both Teams Needed A Rebound Game. Both Offenses Needed A Rebound Game, and, besides an Early interception by Josh Allen that led to a Bucs Field Goal, Both Offenses Got out of the Gate Strong. Allen Won Though The Air and On The Ground Against Tampa. The Offense Needed A Fourth-Down Conversion On The Team’s Second Drive Of The Game Before Allen Blasted Through The Bucs Defensive Front For A Yard Run and A 7-3 Lead. A 61 Yard Kick Return from Wide Receiver Mecole Hardman, Just Elevated From The Practice Squad, Set The Bills Up In Bucs Territory, and Allen Finished the Rest. Allen’s Second Touchdown Came On A Picturesque Pass To Wide Receiver Tyrell Shavers for 43 Yards Through The Air in the Second Quarter. The Book On The Bills Remains Win On The Ground, and The Bucs Offense Used The Short Pass Game To Set Up The Run Game. Baker Mayfield Punched In his Line Scamper For Four Yards and A Touchdown. With Bucky Irving still absent Due To Injury, Rachaad White and Sean Tucker took over Rushing Duties With a 43 Yard Blast That Put The Bucs Back On Top, 17-14, in the Second Quarter. Despite Picking Off Josh Allen Twice In The First Half, The Bucs Give Up A 52-yard Screen Pass Catch and Run To Running Back Ty Johnson, Which Put The Bills Ahead 21-17. With Play-Making Options Slim On The Outside Due To Injury To Tight End Dalton Kincaid and The Benching Of Keon Coleman, The Bills Sought Making Options in Players Like Johnson, Gabe Davis, and Hardman. Though Hardman Would Cost The Bills with a special Teams fumble In The third Quarter.

The Bills Score A Couple Of Penalties Late In The Second Quarter That Help The Bucs Cut The Lead To One Point On A Field Goal Before The Break. The Buccaneers capitalized on the Bills' Fumbled Punt To Put The First Points Of The second Half On The board with a Sean Tucker run that Put The Bucs Back Up 26-21. Buffalo’s Offense Would Quickly Piece Together A 10-0 run, Starting With a quick field goal That Cut The Bucs' Lead to 26-24. On Tampa’s Diving Drive, Quarterback Baker Mayfield Throws His Own interception, Targeting Emeka Egbuka, picked Off By Cole Bishop On The Crossing Pattern. One Play Later, Josh Allen Connects With Running Back James Cook for A 25-yard Touchdown. The Bills Overcome Their Sloppy Play In The First With Execution In The Second to Defeat The Bucs. Josh Allen Shakes Off Two First-Half Interceptions To Register Six Total Touchdowns, Three Through The Air, Three On The Ground As The Bills Pull Away From Tampa Bay Late, Sending The Bucs Careening Down the NFC Down With Their 3rd Loss In Four Games. Allen 19/30, 65% For 317 Yards 10.6 Yards Per Attempt, +0.46 EPA Per Pass Play, 103.5 Passer Rating, and 15.8 Yards Per Completion As The Passing Game Leaned On Some Familiar And Unfamiliar Faces. The Bucs Out-gained Tampa In Offensive Yardage For A Good Stretch In This Game Before The Bills Pulled Away Late, Finishing With 424 Total Yards, 7.8 Yards Per Play, 0.279 EPA Per Play, One Of The Bills' Best Performances. Tampa Bay Rushed FOR 205 Yards, Sean Tucker Leading The Way 106 Yards On 19 Carries, 5.6 Per Carry, Two Touchdowns. Usually, gashing the Bills On The Ground Gets The Jobs Done, But The Bucs' Passing Offense Struggled In The Second Half As Baker Mayfield Struggled With turnovers, two in the Second Half, a Pick, and A fumble as Mayfield Finished Very un-MVP-like 16/28 for 175 passing Yards, One Touchdown, and A 72.8 Passer Rating. Why Tampa Didn’t Make A Move At The Trade Deadline Baffles Me, But Team Lacked Playmaking Options with The Bills Defense Committed To Taking Emeka Egbuka Out Of The Game. Sterling Shepard Lead The Team With 56 Receiving Yards and Four Catches. The Bills Needed Outside Play Making and They Got It From Receiver Tyrell Shavers, 90 Receiving Yards On Four Receptions and A Touchdown. This win helps reassure some confidence in the Bills as contenders after some slippage in recent weeks. The Bills Need To Get A lot from Josh Allen To Win Games Of This Magnitude, but Allen Can Produce At This Level When the Occasion demands. I wouldn’t Suggest The Bucs Found Themselves In Danger As Their Division Lead Withers Down To one Game, As The Panthers Stay In Striking Distance, but Tampa Has To Get Trending Upward to Close The Season.

Panthers vs Falcons

These two teams, the Falcons and Panthers, Have Suffered The Inverse Of each Other Based On Preseason Expectations So Far This Season, as the Falcons Sweep The Season Series To Get Back Over .500 Once More This Season. Bryce Young Has Ten game-winning drives in His Twelve Wins As A Starter Through Three seasons. A Trend Exist If The Panthers Can Keep Young In Striking Distance. He Can Make Plays Late, And He And The Panthers Receivers Made Plays To Upset The Falcons Again This Season, 30-27 In Overtime. Young produced a Career High and Franchise Record 448 Passing Yards, His First Game Over 200 Passing Since Week Two on 31/45 Attempts, and a Season’s Best 123.2 Passing rating and Three Touchdowns. The Falcons' Passing Defense Has Only Given Up One Other Game Of 200 Team Passing Yards To An Offense, New England Week Nine, and Atlanta’s Defense Took Four Games To Start The Season Before Giving Up 400 Passing Yards Total To opponents. Somehow, Young Still Finished With a Negative Completion Percentage Over Expected -0.7%.

In The Fourth Quarter, Young Produced Two Passes That Looked Like Winning Touchdowns. With the Panthers down 19-24 with Less Than Two Minutes In The Fourth, Young Connected With His Running Back Rico Dowdle, who initially ran 38 Yards For A Score Before the Replay Confirmed He Stepped Out Of bounds at 28 Yards. Two Plays Later, Young Connects With Rookie Top Ten Wide Receiver Tet McMillian, Who Capped Off His Career Game Of 130 Yards On Eight Catches With A 12 Yard Touchdown Reception, His Second Touchdown Of The Game. The Panther Take 27-24 Lead with 1:08 On The Clock.

The Falcons' Special Teams Get A 39 Yard Return on the Ensuing kickoff, and Kirk Cousins goes 3/5 for 28 Yards To Set Up a Tying Field Goal, The Most Successful Passing Drive The Falcons produce with Kirk. Over Time, The Falcons Get The Ball First and Quickly Go Three and Out. The Panthers Take Over And On The Second play, Young Hit Tight End Tommy Tremble for a 54 Yard Catch and Run, 50 Yards After The Catch. Three Rico Dowdle Runs Later, The Falcons Get A Game-Winning Field Goal And Take Home A 30-27 Win.

The Falcons Redeemed Their Shutout In Week Three With The Offense Showing Up To Play Early. After A First Drive Punt, the Falcons Score Three Straight touchdowns through the Midway point In The Second Quarter, All Three On The Ground, Two For running back Bijan Robinson and The Other for Tyler Allgeier. The Falcons lost their Starting Quarterback, Michael Penix, In The Third quarter, and An Offense That Really slowed Down In The Second Half managed two More Field Goals With Kirk Cousins In The Fourth quarter That Forced Overtime. Penix finished 13/16 for 175 Passing Yards, one of his better-looking Looking Games In Some Time, Before Leaving With a Knee Injury. Drake London Caught 7 Passes For 119 Receiving Yards With Three Big Splash plays For The Falcons Offense.

The Panthers' Xavier Leggette quietly Produced His second-best game Of The year, Four Catches For 83 Yards and One Touchdown, 20.8 Yards Per Reception. Rico Dowdle, Not a Big game On The Ground 19 Carries For 45 Yards But Five Catches For 55 Yards for 24 Touchdowns And 100 Yards Totals. The Panther Perplexes Me, and That Makes Them Dangerous. At 6-5, Still Alive In The Playoff Race. The Pace At Which The Panthers Play Keeps Teams From Running Away In Matchups, and Bryce Young has proven that If You Leave The Door Open, he Can Make Enough Plays To Put The Panthers over.

Packers Vs Giants

The Packers' Offense Has Slumped in the Pass Two Weeks, Dropping To 18th In EPA Per Play Since Week eight, and Signs Point To Jordan Love. The statistics for the Packers' quarterback, Jordan Love, remain strong overall. During this span, he has completed 75 out of 110 passes (68.2%) for a total of 809 yards, with 3 touchdowns and 1 interception, resulting in an expected points added (EPA) per dropback of 0.169 and a success rate of 47.0%.

However, Love struggled against the Eagles, posting an EPA per dropback of -0.177. He faced significant pressure, leading to an EPA per dropback of -0.449 and a success rate of only 21.4% on pressured dropbacks. Additionally, he has performed poorly in the red zone, achieving only a 13.3% success rate (2 out of 15 dropbacks) over this three-game span, and he has been average on third downs with a conversion rate of 41.9% (13 out of 31). Without Tight End Tucker Kraft Against The Eagles and The Rest Of The Season, Head Coach and play Caller Matt Lafleur Threw A lot More Full Field Read Concepts At Love With Their Top Short Completion YAC Machine Kraft, who worked FLAT routes To Augment The Limitations Of Love’s Arm Talent. Unsurprising Love Finished With A season Low 55.6% (20/36) Completion Percentage, Got sacked Three Times and Scrambled another Three Without His Quick Out option Against The eagles Wtith his Pressure Rate Rising Each week 32.4%, 34.2%, 47.6% From Week 8 On. Lafleur may Have Ran Into The Same Issue His Former Boss Sean McVay Ran Into With Jared Goff Now That Defenses Have Keyed Into what Love and Lafleur Succeed At, Opponents Flood The Middle Of field Where Love Likes To Works Slants, Outs and Crossing Route and Forcing Him To Read Outside In. McVay Made The Move For Stafford. Will Lafleur Face The Same Decision If His Quarterback Can't Rise To The Levels Of Demands Of His Position?

Jameis Winston Stepped Into His First action As A Starter, his First Action As A Giant this Season, and If He Didnt Play Well, He provided engagement, but Winston Played Inspired. Winston's Passing Gave The Giants An Early Lead against A strong Packers Defense, As Running Devin Singletary Ran In a five-yard Touchdown. Winston Produced Two Pass Plays Of 20 yards On The Drive. Jordan Love Exited The Game Early In The First Quarter With a Shoulder Injury, turning This Matchup Of Two Teams On Different Ends Of The NFC Bracket Into a battle of backups. Loves First Drive Ended On a Drop, But Malik Willis Got The Packers on The Board on a Goal Pass To Christian Watson To Cap An 12 Play 62 yard Drive. Love Would Return In The Second Quarter and Put Together Some Big Plays, a 24 Yard Pass To Matthew Golden, 12 Yards To Christian Watson, And 24 Yards To Romeo Doubs Before Capping Off The Drive With an 11-yard Touchdown Pass To Running Back Emanuel Wilson To Give The Packers a 13-7 Lead In The Second. The Giants Tie The Game 13-13 on a Yard Touchdown run by Singletary, Set Up By a 14 Yard Pass Interference Penalty against the Packers In The Red Zone. Jordan Love Played Inconsistently. At Times, He Looked Like A Quarterback Throwing Up Prayers, But A Couple Of His Shots Got Answer Late, including A 17 Dime To a Covered Christian Watson That Broke A Tie With The Giants and Handed The Packers a 27-20 Win. I Think If The Giants Had Something to Play For Instead Of A Loss Season, This Game Could have Favored The Giants late. The Giants' Defense Held Love To 13/24 For 174 passing Yards, Two Touchdowns, and A 105.2 Passer Rating. Love hit eight of his 13 Completions On Passes Of Ten Air Yards Or Better and Had Completions Of 24, 33, and 22 for 79 Yards On Those Three Completions.

The Giants' Secondary Struggled Downfield, But The G-Men Got a Fair Amount Of Pressure In On Love, But the Packers Get The Much-Needed Win. Jameis Winston finished 19/29 for 201 Passing yards, zero touchdowns, and One Pick. His Passing Played A Crucial Role In All The Giants' Touchdown Drives, But His Late interception doomed a Potential game-tying drive. Winston also Suffered A Late Sack Fumble To add To His Turnover Total, But He Knew The Assignment was to entertain, but don’t look at The Draft Odds. The Packers get A Bounce Game.

Bears Vs Vikings

As Bad As JJ McCarthy played For The Vikings, and He played poorly, 16/32, 150 Passing Yards, Two Picks, and one Bad special TeaMs Coverage From a game-winning touchdown. The Minnesota receiving corps let Him Down On Several Plays by Way Of Drops and Lapses In Concentration. Justin Jefferson Dropped Multiple Passes And Still led the Team In Receiving With Five Catches For 61 Receiving Yards. Receiver Jordan Addison Caught The Lone Passing Touchdown Of The Game For The Vikings. Within The Loss, McCarthy Made Some Plays You Like In Terms Of Processing. He Made A lot Of Bad Throws and Not Bad Reads Because He Lacks Justin Herbert-level arm Talent. From The Looks Of The Vikings on Sunday, I can’t Say Whether McCarthy Has Starter arm Talent, and the Vikings May Need To Look At Other Options As Their Season Veers Towards An End.

The Chicago Bears Won a Close Division Matchup On A Final Drive With Less Than A Minute Left In The Game for the Second Time In Two Weeks and moved to 7-3. Both Offenses Struggled. Caleb Williams Also Finished 16/32 for 193 Passing Yards, Zero Touchdowns, and zero picks. Had A Few Elite Escape Pressure Moments, But Not exactly A Big Game For CALEB. The Bears' Run Game Ran For 140 Rushing Yards and One Touchdown On The Ground. The Bears Inch Closer To A Playoff Berth In What Looked Like A Doomed Campaign In Ben Johnson’s First Season At The Helm Of The Bears.

Commanders Vs Dolphins

The Dolphins and The Commanders Take Spain For The Final Matchup Through American Football’s International Calendar, Making This Game Location The Most Interesting Fact About This Game. Two Of The worst teams In Football, But One Will Walk Away With a Fourth Win in a Dour Season. The Dolphins Enter Week Eleven in better spirits, Having Upset the Division Force, Josh Allen, and the Bills On The Strength Of Their Defense And The Run Game. No Matter How This Game Plays Out, The Commanders Will Return To The Bottom Of The League Following Their Brilliant Run To The NFC Championship the Year Prior. The Commanders Made Some moves to Stay Competitive And respond to A Tougher Outlook This Year, adding All-Pro Tackle Laremi Tunsil and Pro Bowler Deebo Samuel, but injuries Decimated The Commanders' Depth Chart And Their Season. This Game Between Two 3-7 Teams Played Out Like A Game Of Two 3-7 Teams. Both Quarterbacks Serged Into The second On 100% Completion Rates. Both offenses produced long, yard-grinding drives like the one we rarely saw from them all season. The Commanders, in particular, had two drives of 12 or more plays and over 70 yards that ended without registering a touchdown.Instead, both Team Settled For A Pair Of Field Goals Each At The Half, 0-4 Combined In The Red Zone. The Battle Of Two Hawaiian Quarterbacks At A Stalemate at The Half 6–6. Marcus Mariota and the Commanders Would Break The Draw And The Touchdown Drought out Of The Break in the Third Quarter, capping off a Play, 59 Yard Drive With A 20-yard Touchdown Catch and Run To Deebo Samuel. Samuel Took The Short Catch And Generated 20 Yards After The Catch As He Cut Through Defenders Into The End Zone Like Vintage Deebo. The dolphins' first Attempt To Tie The Game, On Their First Drive Out Of the

Half fell short In The Red Zone On Downs. After A Defensive Stop, Tua And The Dolphins’ Second Drive Of The Second Half, First Drive Of The Fourth Quarter, on A 10 Play Drive, 53 Yards of Short Passes and Quick Runs, Capped Off By a Yard Touchdown By Rookie Running Back Ollie Gordon II. Both teams Had Chances To Score and Win The Game Late. The Commanders Suffered Their Own Turnover On Downs Inside The Dolphins One Yard Line Instead Taking A field Goal Leaving The Scoreboards Frozen At 13-13. The Dolphins Punt after Four Plays, But The Commanders' Special Team Muffs The Punt, Opening The Door For Miami To Take The Lead. The Dolphins Drive 39 In 8 Plays, 38 Yards Produced By Devon Achane That Set The Dolphins Up At One Yard Line With 3rd and Goal To Go. The Dolphins Don’t Gain Another Yard On Their Next Two Plays, and The Game Remained Tied With The Commanders In The Dolphins' End Zone. Marcus Mariota Connects With Deebo Samuel For A 28 Yard Pass Play That Got The Commanders Out Of The End Zone, and Later, A 25 Yard Catch And Run By Jacoby Jones To Get The Commanders Into the Dolphins’ Territory and Set Up An Ill-Fated 58 Yard Matt Gay Field Goal Attempt, That Landed Both Teams In Overtime. In Extras, Marcus Mariota Throws His First Interception Of The Game, the game's First Turnover On His First Drop-back to the Dolphins’ Corner Jack Jones. Three De’Von Achane Runs Later, The Dolphins Notch A Winning Field Goal That Ended This See-Saw Affair. Neither Team Had Any Mind To Win THIS game and Hurt Their Draft Odds, But One Team Had Their Backup In The Lineup, The Other had their $50 million quarterback and their prized running back. Achane Stays Hot, 21 Carries For 120 Yards On The Ground. Tua 14/20, 170 Passing Yards, 0 Touchdowns, 0 Interceptions, Three Sacks, and A Passer Rating of 96.0. Marcus Mariota 20/30 213 Passing Yards One Touchdown, One Interception 84.4 Passer Rating. Mariota Also Produced A Vintage 44-yard Run in The Fourth Quarter, Summoning The Oregon Duck Version Of Mariota.