NFL Week 12 REcap

A Couple Of Teams Who Entered The Week With sub-50% Odds To Make The Playoffs Pulled Off Massive Comeback Wins To Save Their Seasons. The Chiefs shut down nuclear-level threat Colts Running Back Jonathan Taylor, Who Had Previously torn apart most of the defense's face, a Legitimate MVP Candidate At a non-quarterback position. More impressively, the Chiefs Simultaneously Did Not surrender a Big Game To Daniel Jones through the Air, an occurrence previously thought impossible by The Laws Of Give And Take--To Stop Taylor Meant Opening up Voids Downfield, and the Chiefs Neutralized Both Threats and scored the Comeback Overtime win. The Chiefs were Favored To Win This Game, But This Still Feels Like an Upset, given Kansas City trailed most Of The Afternoon Before A Couple Of Swing Plays Put Kansas City In The driver's seat And Now Holding On For Their Playoff Lives. The Cowboys Get Their Revenge On The Eagles 24-21 After Trailing 21-0 At One Point In The First. Brandon Aubrey Nailed The Last Second Field Goal To Keep The Cowboys Mathematically In Hunt for A Wild Card Spot. The Rams Jumped Out To A 21–0 lead On The Bucs on Sunday Night Football and didn’t Surrender An Inch To Tampa Bay In A Rout, 34-7. One Week after Securing The Division Lead, the Rams took over the NFC’s Number One Seed, and Years After Most Projected Matthew Stafford’s Talent Would Erode DUE TO INJURY, He’s Emerged From The Ruins As The MVP frontrunner in A Season With The Most open MVP Race. The Bucs Drop Another Crucial Matchup Down The Stretch, and A Reality Where Bryce Young, Still An Unproven Commodity At Quarterback, Could Make The Playoffs Has Open Up.

Dallas Vs. Philadelphia

The Dallas Defense Made The Big Splash acquisition of Jets All-Pro Defensive Tackle Quinnen Williams At The Trade deadline, and the Full Impact Of His Presence Didn’t Register Because The Dallas Played The hapless Raiders Offense. On Man Doesn’t Make A Defense Function, The Last Time Dallas Played A Competitive Game, They Gave Up A 115.1 Passer Rating To Jacoby Brissett. Williams’s Number One Run Stop Win Rate and Number One Pff Run defense Grade at His Position Could Prove Crucial Against the Eagles, With Dallas’s Playoff Hope Still Hanging In The Wind.

William’s Presence Proved Crucial In Pressuring Jalen Hurts And Forcing Errant Throws and Forcing The Eagles To Kick Rushing Attempts To The Outside.

The Cowboys Score 24 Unanswered Points To Flip A 3.3% Win Probability and A first 21 Point Deficit Into A Game Winning Field Goal and A 24-21 season Saving Win Versus The Eagles. Forcing The Eagles Away From The Run Game, Despite Struggling To Run The Ball All Season, The Eagles Still Feature As a First Team, Usually Serves Philly’s Opponent. The Cowboys Forced The Eagles Away From The Run Game, 17 Rushing Plays, zero Explosive Two Scrambles, and Without The Run Game The Eagles Can't Shorten The Game, Milking The Clock and Limiting Possessions for themselves And Opponents While Executing The Opposing Team And Striking Timely Deep Shots That Stun Defense. When The Eagles' Offense Gets AJ Brown And Devonta Smith Going, None Of These Facets Matter. Jalen Hurts Produced One Of His Most Effective Passing games all Season 31/44(70.5%), 336 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, with a 100.3 Passer Rating. Brown got the Eagles On The Board Early With a 16 Yard Score, a part of His Eight receptions, 110 Receiving Yards, 13.8 Yards Per Reception game. Hurts Registered Philly’s Next Two Touchdowns Inside The 10 Yard Line Of Dallas With A Yard Run and a Line Tush Push. Through The First Three Drives Of The Game, for Philly, the Eagles produced 192 Yards Of Offense, Mostly Through The Air, and Philly Took A 21 Point lead. AJ Brown caught A 22 Yard Pass on the Eagles' Second Drive, Devonta Smith Caught A 41-yard Reception that Set Up Hurts' second touchdown, Philly’s Third In The Second Quarter. Smith Finished With 6 Catches For 89, Two Catches On The Eagles' Third Drive Accounted For 51 Receiving Yards. The Cowboys' Offense Couldn’t Match The Eagles' Output Early. Dallas Punted On Their first Two Drives, Then Followed Up With Two Turnovers: A Fumble By Receiver Kavontae Turpin and an interception by Dak Prescott in The Red Zone With Pressure Barreling Down on Him in The Pocket. These Back To Back Turnovers For Dallas With One, The Fumble, Philly Converted Into A Touchdown Drive, Both Lost Possession That Nullified Some Impressive Gains and Momentum By The Cowboys Offense. The Dallas Defense and, To A Greater extent, Philly’s Play Calling Responded, Forcing Four Straight Punts From The Second Quarter Into The Fourth. Turpin Would Redeem Himself With a Massive 48 Yard Catch and Run, 35 Yards After The Catch, That Set Up The Cowboys' First Touchdown. Some Of The Most Yards After Catch Prescott Got All Game With 255 Air Yards, 11.1 Air Yards Per Completion On An 11.7 Average Depth Of Target. Prescott Connected With George Pickens For The Cowboys' First Touchdown Of The Game Late In The Second Quarter. Philly’s Defense Has The Personnel To Match The Cowboys On The Outside, But Prescott And The Dallas Offense Out Schemed and Out Skilled the Eagles. Prescott's excellent touch and accuracy allow him to hit passers over the top of zones. Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean and corners Adoree Jackson and Cooper Dejean surrendered a total of 215 yards between them, proving to be some of Prescott's favorite targets. Dejean Accounted For 148 Yards as He Gave Up A 48 Yard Bomb in The Third and another 43 Yard Bomb to George Picken, Which Ultimately led to a Cowboys Touchdown. The Eagles' Offense sputtered In The Fourth, Missing A Field Goal, Suffering A Fumble On Special Teams in Their Own Red Zone, and punting twice. The Philly Defense held The Cowboy Incheck in the Fourth +0.92 EPA On Defense, but The Offense Couldn’t Capitalize(-3.79 EPA). Dallas Ended The Drive unsuccessfully, Failing To score inside the Eagles' two-yard line, and opted to go for it on fourth down instead of kicking a field goal: the Eagles faltered. Many games this season have gone in Philadelphia’s favor due to lucky breaks.They Lack Live Reps In Clutch Situations. Dak finished 23/36 354 Passing YARDS Two Touchdowns, One Interception +6.7%CPOE, 80.6 Passer Rating +0.14 EPA Per Play, 15.4 yards Per Completion, 240 Explosive Pass YARDS, Eight Explosive Pass Plays. Prescott targeted the usually difficult-to-handle Philadelphia secondary. Philadelphia's pass rush gained attention after the addition of the Dolphins' edge Jaelen Phillips to the lineup. The Eagles pressured Dak 18 Times On 47 drop-backs, One Sack, and The Pressure Negatively Impacted Dak, But When The Eagles couldn’t Get Pressure, Prescott Hit Big. The Cowboys' Pass Rush Got 25 Pressures On Jalen Hurts With The Eagles' Offensive Line Dealing With Injuries Across The Board. The Cowboys Remain An Anomaly For Me. Obviously, Dak And The Offense Can Compete With Any Team In the NFC, But The Margin For Error Remains Thin If The Defense Can’t Force Turnovers Like The Special Teams did on Sunday, Week 12. This Game Actually Raises More Concerns About the Eagles and Their Offense Faltered Down The Stretch as The Cowboys Ratcheted Up The Pressure On Jalen Hurts. If The Pass Defense Can’t Consistently Slow Down Teams With multiple Outside Options, Then The Eagles Will Have To Hope That They Land The Right Matchups During Their Upcoming Playoff Run.

Viking Vs Packers

In Four Starts, a 22 22-Year-Old Practically A Rookie Vikings Quarterback Has Shown Some Growing Pains At the Toughest, Most Scrutinized Position In Football. No Matter How Many Quarterback Meetings and Book Language McCarthy Learned, Team practices don't simulate Game Situations. His anticipations, accuracy, and mechanics look and feel “Off”. I Think McCarthy Has Made Good Decisions With Bad Results, And Yes, Thats A Thing, and His Receiving Corp Filled With First Rounder and All-Pros Needs To Lift Him More Than He Needs To Lift The Rest Of The Offense. McCarthy didn’t Improve Much as the Packers blasted the Vikings 23-6, dropping Minnesota To A 4-7 Record. McCarthy had Moments, But The Vikings Offense Looked Justifiably Unwatchable -0.77 EPA Per Pass Play, 87 Gross Passing Yards, Two Explosive Pass Plays, Five Sacks, 16 Pressures Faced, Two Picks, and 34.2 Passer Rating. Just Brutal.

The Vikings Played Pass Defense For Much Of This Game, holding Jordan Love to 14/22 on 25 Dropbacks, 139 Passing Yards, no touchdowns, No Interceptions, and No Deep Pass Completions. The Green Bay Helps The Packers Keep Pace With The Bears In The Division.

The Browns vs. the Raiders

The Raiders And The Browns Neither Have Much To Play For, But This Game Hold Significant Interest In Terms Of Draft Position. Because Of The Nature Of Football, Not The Physicality Or The Technical Jargon And Concept, But the Winning Culture. Success in football brings celebrity, opens doors, and establishes credibility. Losers in football Receive Reproof and Censure, and thus the “Tanking” The Art Of Losing On Purpose To Gain Better Draft Position That Swept Over NBA In The Past Decade Doesn’t Seem To Creep Into The Game Of Football. The NFL rule Book stipulates that Teams “ Must Make an Earnest Effort To Win Each Game”. Football Players, Coaches, and executives don’t Get To The Highest Level Of The Game Looking To Adopt Winning Principles; they’re Embedded From Youth Football Levels, and Not Even The Promise Of A Young Quarterback On A rookie-scale contract can Ride That Nature. Neither the Raiders nor the Browns has anything To Gain With A 2-7 Record. The Browns' Run Game and Defense helped Cleveland Pick Up The Most Unavoidable Win, Facing The League’s worst team, the Raiders, 24-10. The Cleveland defense sacked Geno Smith multiple times, held the Raiders out of the red zone until midway through the fourth quarter, and restricted the Raiders' offense to 4 of 17 on third downs and 3.6 yards per play. Geno Smith Managed To Complete 30/44 67.4% Passes For 285 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, and No Picks For The First Time In A While, 93.5 Passer Rating, while facing 46 Total Pressures on His 55 Drop-backs. Ashton Jeanty scored a Touchdown On A Pass From Geno Smith as the Raiders' Run Game Expectedly Struggled against this Cleveland Front -0.23 EPA Per Run, 2.9 Yards Per Carry, -0.6 Yards Before Contact in Another Dismal Showing As The Raiders' Offense scored 10 Points Or Less For The Sixth Time This Season. The Browns Started Their Other Rookie Quarterback, the high-profile Shedeur Sanders, Son Of Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, and the fifth-round pick, Shedeur, improved on His Spot showing in Week eleven. Sanders finished 11/20 209 Passing yards, -0.20 EPA Per Pass Play, 189 Yards On Explosive Pass Play, But Only 57 Air Yards, One Touchdown. Sheer Hit One 50 Yard Completion That Travel 44 Air Yards and Another 25 Yarder That Jerry Jeudy Fumbled In The Second Quarter. Outside Of That, All Of Sander's completions landed For Less Than Five Air Yards. 72.6% Of His total Passing Yards came after The Catch. Dillon Gabriel Needed Several Games Before He could Complete A Pass Over 20 Air Yards, so Shedeur improved on His Predecessor’s Play By At Least That Metric. Rookie Quinshon Judkins had 46 Rushing Yards and Two Touchdowns, and Running Back Dylan Sampson led the Browns In Receiving With 59 Receiving Yards and One Receiving Touchdown.

The Raiders' Dearth Of Outside Talent Has Become So Pronounced that Geno Smith Had A Point When he Retorted Sardonically To Reporters, “Blame It On Me” Last Week. Former Titans Cast Off Tyler Lockett Leads The Raiders In Receiving with 61 Yards On 4/4 Targets. Running Back and Sixth Overall Pick Ashton Jeanty Caught 7/7 For 57 yards Receiving, One Touchdown. Unless Brock Bowers “Goes Off,” The Raiders Offense Gets Stuck In Neutral, and Sometimes Credit Geno Smith For Handling 50 Plus Drop Backs Without Imploding. The Raiders' Offense Could’ve Looked Worse, and some of the Browns Have Better Position Players On Offense Than The Raiders.

Patriots vs Bengals

Despite receiving both praise and criticism on talk shows, Drake Maye's performance this season has brought stability to the Patriots' offense. This is particularly notable given the lack of a strong running game, the presence of many unproven players at wide receiver and on the offensive line, and a defense that struggles with passing coverage and pressure production. He’s The Reason Cam’s “Fools Gold” Comments Have Little Validity on This Patriots Team. If Any Criticism of Maye’s deserves Censure, Maye’s Turnover Rate has started to Climb In Recent weeks. The Patriots' Record Has Paid For The Growing Number Of Sloppy Plays. Maye paced The League in Accuracy Percentage and Second In On Target Pass Percentage, number in EPA per Play for Quarterbacks. He’s 11th In Turnover Worth Plays and Four Interceptions In His Pass Five Games, including The One Pick Six He Threw Against The Bengals in Week 12 and The Two Fumbles Maye Suffered Against Atlanta. The Patriots' Passing Defense Shut Down The Bengals' passing Offense For Most Of The Game, and the Patriots' Offense Failed To Put The Bengals Away for Much Of The Game. The Patriots' Offensive Second Half Included Two Field Goals and One Red Zone Turnover On Downs as The Patriots nursed A Score Lead Late, But Left The Door Open For An Upset And More Drama Than Necessary Late. The Patriots

Joe Flacco and the Bengals offense, who Played Somnolent Most Of The

The game registered A Touchdown Late In The Fourth Quarter, Flacco To Receiver Mitch Tinsley Over All-Pro patriots Corner Christian Gonzales. The Bengals' Offense Lost Wide Receiver Tee Higgins and Andrei Iosivas In The Second Half Of The Game, and Playing Without Jamar Chase, The Resilient Bengals found Someone To Make A Catch. Tinsley became Flacco’s Top Target Late. The Penn State Product Pulled Down a 12 12-yard reception To Convert A 4th and Eight To Keep The Game Interesting For The Bengals late. The Patriots' Secondary Gives Up A 19 Yard Pass to Andrei Iosivas Before Getting Deflections On Three Straight Flacco Passing Attempts, and The Patriots’ Escape With The Win. The Patriots' Second Half Offense Nearly Squandered What Looked Like A Going-Away Victory. The Bengals' Defense In The Second Half Performed Well, bending but not breaking, giving up 35.1 Yards Per Drive But Holding New England to 1.8 Points Per Drive. New England had 14 Red zone Plays, but zero Red Zone touchdowns, and Red Zone efficiency became a Big Topic For The Defense, the worst red zone Defense In Football, which gave Up A Red Zone Touchdown To An ailing Bengals Offense, But The Patriots Offense Couldn’t Score One. The Patriots Defense Flipped The Script This Game, Strapping Up The Bengals' passing offense -0.51 EPA Per Pass Play, 50% Completion From Joe Flacco, But Getting Crushed On The Ground, Giving Up 5.2 A Carry, 120 Rushing Yards, 107 Rushing Yards For Bengals Chase Brown, On 19 Carries, 5.6 The Best Performance Of Any Single Rusher This Season. Drake Maye Played Average, His Second Game With A passer Rating In The H80s In Two Weeks, finishing 23/38, 288 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, One Interception on 42 drop-backs, 60.5% Completion Percentage, +0.20 EPA Per Pass Play, 13.1 Yards Per Completion, 182 Air Yards, Seven Explosive Pass Plays(15+). He Made a Difference, But Not Consistently, And The Patriots Need To Remain Aware Of Playing Down To Their Competition, But They Hold On to Win. Will Campbell, Left Tackle, fourth Overall Pick, Exited The Game With An Apparent Knee Injury In The Second Half, the severity of Which Remains Undetermined.

Giants Vs Lions

The Giants Have Mastered the Art Of Putting On A Scare Of An Upset Before Pulling The Rug Up From Under Themselves And Losing Late. The Giants have lost several close games to teams in the playoff picture, including Denver, Dallas, and the Packers in Week 11. In Week 12, the Giants led the Lions For Most Of The Game But Couldn’t survive In Overtime. The Lions Overcame a Double Deficit and Some Giants Passing Theatrics To Win in Overtime 34-27. The Giants jump On The Lions Early With a Play Drive For 70 Yards Ending With A 39 Yard Flicker Touchdown From Jameis Winston To Wide Receiver Wan’Dale Robinson. Robinson Cut The Lion Up Early With Over 100 Yards In The First Quarter before Finishing With 156 Receiving One Touchdown, 9 Catches On 14 Targets. Giants Quarterback Jameis Winston Would Get In On The Receiving Game Later In The Fourth Quarter, Catching A 33 Yard Catch and Run, 20 Yards After The Catch, 14 Yards after The Catch, Over Expected After Winston Broke A Tackle and Diving Into The End Zone. Winston Finished 18/36, 366 Passing Yards, 10.2 Yards Per Attempt, Two Touchdowns, and A 93.1 Passer Rating, and His Receiving Touchdown Put The Giants Up 27-17 In the Fourth Quarter. The Giants' Offense Averaged 21.1 Yards Per Completion On 401 Passing Yards For the Game, 340 Passing Yards On Explosive Pass Plays.

In The End, A Point Lead, some Heavy-Engagement Social Media Highlights, and A Late Third Quarter Interception Would Not Prove Enough to Put Detroit Down. The Lions Charge Back Powered By 219 Rushing Yards By Jahmyr Gibbs, A Ton Of Explosive Including a 49 Yard rushing Attempt That Set Up A Three Yard Red Zone Reception at the Goal Line Rushing Attempt For A Touchdown, Another 49 Yard Rushing Touchdown that Cut The Giants Lead To 27-24 in The Fourth and A 69 Yard Rushing Touchdown In over Time that Proved The Game Winner For Detroit. Gibbs added 11 Catches For 45 yards and one touchdown through The Air, finishing with 264 Yards From Scrimmage, Three Touchdowns On 26 Touches. The Lions' Pass Rush Had One Sack Of Jameis Winston all Game In Overtime. Lion's Edge Rusher Aidan Hutchinson Sacks Winston On 4th and Five To End The Giants' Last Gasp Drive. Winston Averaged 3.23 Seconds on Time To Throw, Just 13 Pressures Faced.

A Pretty Average Game For Jared Goff, The Lions Survived His Play More Than He Boosted The Team 28/42, 279 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns, One Interception 91.3 Passer rating -0.12 EPA Per Pass Play, 79% Adjusted Completion Percentage. Goff's Inception Basically Goes Down As A Dropped Pass By Amon-Ra St.Brown, and Goff faced 23 Pressures and got sacked Three Times. The Lions' Capacity To Break Off Big Gains With The Suddenness Of A Lightning Strike Will Always Garner Respect, But The Offense Needs More Consistency, with only 38% on Third Down Conversions. Amon-ra St.Brown Caught 9 Passes For 149 Receiving Yards and one Touchdown.

Steelers Vs Bears

The Bears Have Become The King Of The North And One Of The Top Teams To Beat In The NFC, and Part Of That Description Comes With a Print For Defeating Chicago. Starting With Running The Ball, the Bears Rank 29th in run Stop Win Rate with All Three Of Their Backers Out. Contain Caleb Williams on Scrambles, and as a Rusher, he Helps The Bears Rank Eighth In EPA Per Rush. Opposing Teams Need To Protect The ball(regardless Of Who They Face), The Bears Rank Number One In Turnover Differential, +16, and Have Gained +83.9 EPA Added By Turnovers Through Eleven Weeks. Defenses Need To Contain Explosive Plays. The Bears rank Third In Explosive Plays Over The Pass in the past Five Weeks. The Steelers, without Aaron Rodgers, Narrowly Threw that Game Plan away Early In The Game before recovering mid-game to make Things Interesting. Mason Rudolph Got His First Pass Picked Off On The Steelers' First Drive Of The Game On a Forced Pass To Outside Targeting. DK Metcalf Picked Off By Nahshon Wright. The Bears' Offense Responded With an 8 Play 56 Yard Drive to Put the Bears Ahead 7-0 Early in the First Half. Rudolf Responds With A Touchdown Drive For The Steelers, 13 Plays 95. This Time, He Connects with DJ For a Yards Score. The Bears Look Prepared To Take Off With another Plus Turnover Game. TJ Watt swept In On Caleb Williams In The Pocket, forcing A sack Fumble In The Bears' Own End zone. The Steelers Edge Nate Herbig Recovers In The Endzone For A Steelers’ Touchdown Early In The Second Quarter That Put The Steelers Back on Top and A +14.8% Win Probability According To ESPN. Fumbles Would Hunt The Bear Again As The Offense looks to Take The Lead Back six Plays Into The Next drive at midfield. D’Andre Swift Fumbles. The Bears' Defense Stop The Steelers On 4th and Escape A Play Drive Without Surrendering Any Points. After Two Fumbles, the Bears' Offense Ties The Game 14- 14 In The Second Quarter On a 12 Yard catch And Run From Tight End Colston Loveland. Outside Of The Turnover in the First, The Steelers' Offense Looked Solid With Mason Rudolph in A See Saw Game. The Steelers Take The Lead Before The Half on a 7 Play 80 Yard Drive, a Massive 55 Yard Fake Sneak Run By Running back Kenneth Gainwell Set Up A One Yards Jaylen Warren Run. A Bears Field Goal Before The Half Set Up A 21-17 Lead At The Half. The Bears' Offense In The Second Half Starts To Shake Off The Fumbling Blows And Score 14 Unanswered To start The Second As The Bears Pull away Late Before Holding Off The Steelers For A 31-28 Win. I thought Caleb Williams Played Inconsistently, and the Bears’ -0.10 EPA Per Pass Play reflects those Sentiments, but Williams finished 19/35, 54.3% completion Percentage For 240 passing yards, Three Touchdowns, and A 104.5 Passer Rating. He Made Some Big Plays Through The Air, seven Explosive Pass Plays(15+ pass yards), including A 25 Yard Touchdown to DJ Moore In The Second, a 12-yarder to tight end Colston Loveland, and a 20 Yard Pass Play To DJ Moore in The Fourth That Started The Final scoring Drive For Chicago In The Fourth Quarter. Williams finished with 146 Air Yards, 12.6 yards Per Completion, 7.7 Air Yards Completion only saw Pressure Six Times, Got Sacked Twice, and The Ball Out Quickly, 2.60 Seconds On Time To Throw. The Bears' Win Helps Them Maintain Their Lead In The NFC North. The Steelers' Worst Nightmares Realized Despite As Solid A Game as you Could Get From Back Up Quarterback Mason Rudolph 24/31 for 171 Passing Yards, One Touchdown and One Interception. The Steelers' Fall, Loosening The Last Finger From Their Grip Over The AFC North As The Baltimore Ravens Won On Sunday, Gives Both Teams Identical 6-5 Records. The Steelers

Texans Vs Bills

The Ravens, Rounding Their 1-5 Start Into A 5-5 Run Heading Into Week 12, Have Garnered More Attention Over Their Four Game Win Streak, But The Texans, who Have Also Followed The Same Path, Have Put Together a More Impressive Run from A 0-3 start Heading Into Week 12. The Ravens Started The Season As Super Bowl Favorites With a top-ten offense. The Texans' defense remained ferocious, but the offensive woes with C.J. Stroud continued to plateau in play, looking incurable for a stretch. The Texans Remains Unremarkable Even Without Coming 24th In EPA Per Play Since Week Seven. The Defense Has Held The Fort, Showing That Demeco Ryan’s Coaching Magic Hasn’t Rubbed Off. Unlike the Ravens, the Don’t Have an Easy Path To The playoffs. Five Of Their Remaining Seven Games Feature Matchups With Teams In Playoff Position, Including The Bills On Thursday Night. The Texans Upset The Bills 23-19 To Push Their Record To 6-5, 3-0 With Davis Mills As the Starter Over Bringing The Most Unlikely Climb To An Over .500 Records To The Peak Of This Houston Season. The Bills expectedly struggled On A down-to-down Basis Against Houston’s Defense. The Texans Force Three Turnovers, Two Picks Of Josh Allen, The Guy Who Just Produced a Historic Six Touchdowns Performance Just Four Days Prior. The Texans' Defense Forced Buffalo To -0.085 EPA Per Play, and Josh Allen To A 69 Passer Rating, -0.20 EPA Per Pass Play, 71% Completion Percentage.

The Bills' Offense Leans Towards Producing Opportunistic Explosive Plays like James Cook’s 45 Yard Touchdown Run In The First Quarter That Put The Bills On The Score Board First Quarter, Cooks Posted another 20 Yarer In The Fourth Quarter. In the past Game, Bills Wide Receiver Kahlil Shakir Caught A Short Pass And Went 44 Yards After Forcing A missed tackle in the fourth quarter, Converted A 4th and 27 for 44 Yards Late In The Fourth Quarter To Offset Great Defenses. The Texans' Defense Forced Allen To Pass Short, 5.5 Average Depth Of Target, and Rely On YAC 193 Yards Of Allen’s 262 Passing Yards Came After The Catch, 73.7%(Numbers From PFF).

The Bills Produced Similar Big Plays Against The Bucs To Put The Bucs Away In a Saw Game. Cooks Produced Three Explosive Runs, and 92 Of 134 Net Rushing Yards Came On Explosive Plays. The Box Score Dictates That the Bills Generated 5.8 Yards Per Carry. The Texans Still Made Buffalo A One-Dimensional Dropback Attack Outside Of A Couple of Explosive Plays and That 97 97-Yard Special Teams Touchdown.

The difference For The Bucs And The Texans, Houston Forced A Late Interception By Pressuring Josh Allen With Less Than 20 seconds left In The Game. The Texans Pressured Allen 29 Times and Sacked Him Eight Times, 70 Yards Lost On Sacks, and That Made The Difference For The Texans In The End. The Bills' Offensive Line Feature Two Tackles In The Top Five Of Pass Block Win Rate, and One Guard In the Top Five Amongst Guards, And Houston Still Dominated The Bills.

Texans’ Safety Calen Bullock Registered Both Picks Of Josh Allen, One Tipped Pass and Another A Great Read That Ended The Game With Buffalo Needing A Touchdown. Bills' Kicker Missed an Extra Point In The First Quarter On Buffalo’s First Touchdown. The Miss Looked Benign Early, But Had He Converted The Bills Could’ve Settled For A Field Goal On Their Final Drive and Tied The game, forcing overtime. However, no one Could Say What Buffalo’s Offense Would’ve Done Late In The Game.

Texans Quarterback Davis Mills Connected With Rookie Wide Receiver Jayden Higgins For 8 8-yard Touchdown Reception that Concluded A 6 Plays 75 Yards Drive, The Best Drive For The Texans Offense All Game. The Reception For Higgins Gave The Texans A 20-16 Halftime Lead. Both Teams Would Split Two Field Goals During The Second Half. Unless I Need To Fix My Glasses Or even Where Glasses To Begin With, But The Texans Offense Looks Better Under Mills In Certain Areas, particularly downfield (6.0 Air yards Per Completion, 8.6 Average Depth Of Target) Because He Gets The Ball Out Faster Than Stroud. Mills Has Smarts And Doesn’t Need a Longer Time To Process Defense. He Registered A 2.42 Time To Throw, Avoided Getting Sacked, and Faced 9 Pressures on His. Stroud's Time To Throw This Season's Stand At 2.72 Seconds, which Invites Sacks and Pressure Behind A shaky Offensive Line: STROUD'S Return Look Imminent for Texans. Mills finished -0.16 EPA Per Pass Play, 16/30 On 30 Drop back, A 90.0 Passer Rating, and 153 Passing Yards. A Thursday Night in Week 12 Never Presents The Clearest Picture Of Either Team Involved, The Bills Have Lost Four Games To Teams That Have Exploited Buffalo’s Anemic Run Defense, and The Offense’s Over-Reliance On Josh Allen and Explosive Plays. In Less Than a Week, We’ve Witnessed the Best Of Allen’s Game, and the Bills Will Win And Lose On Allen’s Productivity. Can Allen Succeed With The Bargain Brand Receivers The Bills Roll Out? The Texans' Defense Forced Allen Off Of His First Read Several Times, again Inviting Pressure To Allen’s Pocket, forcing A -3.16 EPA Per Drop Back And A 10.0 EPA Yards After Catch Per Play.