NFL Week 7 takeaways
NFL Week 7 Reviews
Chargers Vs Colts
The Colts Take Care If The Chargers In A Lob-sided Affair 38-24. The Chargers Debut The Team’s New Gold, Honey Mustard Colored Uniforms But The Colts Had The “Secret Sauce” For The Game, Jonathan Taylor With Three Touchdowns, 16 Carries For 94 Rushing Yards, 5.9 A Carry, His 19 Yard Score In The Third Put The Game Away For The Colts. Daniel Jones Played near The Gold Standard 23/34, 288 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns 88.4 QBr and Big play after Big Play In The Passing Game. The Colts look Like The best Team In The AFC Even Though The
Defense Gave Justin Herbert 37/55 420 Passing Yards Three Touchdowns Two Interceptions. A lot Of Herbert’s Yardage Came In “Garbage Time” With The Game Mostly In The Hands Of The Colts, So Did One Of His Picks. NFL Teams, Fans Players Have Learned That The Game Never Ends Until We Hit Zeros On The Clock. The Colts Pulled Away To A 23-3 Lead In The First Half And The Offense Matched Every Rally The Chargers Tried To Make Later In The Game. The Colts Have Pummeled All The Average-To-Bad Teams On Their Schedule Dishing Out Four double Digit Defeats. The Close Win To Cardinals Doesn’t Look As Bad after The Cards Again Lost By four Points To The Packers. The Colts Have A Remarkably Easy Schedule And They Could Arrive in Kansas City In November At 9-1 In Clear Control Of The Conference At This Pace. The Chargers May Have Unlocked A Gem In Tight End Orunde Gadsden The Rookie Lead The way With 6 Catches For 156 Receiving Yards and One Touchdown. Keenan Allen Looked Like Prime Keenan Allen For Stretches Of This Game Proving He’s still Amongst The Most Dangerous Weapons Along The Sidelines, Allen Hauled In 11 Cathes For 119 Yards Receiving. The Chiefs And Patrick Mahomes Blasted The Raiders returning To Their Empire Winning Ways. The Broncos Also put The NFL On Notice That They Can Rise Out Of The Coffin Of Any Fourth Quarter Deficit Like The Undertaker So They Never Die. The Chargers Have Less Room For Error As Their Place In AFC Playoff Picture Shrinks.
Panthers Vs Jets
The Panther And The jets Played An Ugly But according To rules Someone Has To Watch And Someone Has To Win and The Panthers Move Above.500 For The First Time Since Sam Darnold Played In “The Queen City”. Both The Jets and Panthers Lost Their Starting Quarterback In This Game, Justin Fields Left In First Half With A Head Injury, Returned, Then Got Benched For Tyrod Taylor Who Iced This Loss For The Jets soaring High Above Any Other Team In The Race For The Bottom. Bryce Young Left The Game With An Ankle Injury. The Carolina Defense Blanked The Falcons and Turned Over The Dolphins But Hadn’t Improved In Status. Still, This Carolina Sacked Jets Passers Five Time and Forced Tyrod Taylor Imto Turning The Ball Over With Two Picks By Cornerback Jaycee Horn and Carolina Pulled Off The Win. Fields’s Contract Now Becomes An Interesting Domino A two-year deal with $40 million, including $30 million guaranteed Makes Fields Nearly Unmovable For A Season. The Jets Will Reset That Position Most Likely Through The Draft As They Move Closer To The number One Pick. Will The Team Fire Aaron Glenn, Probably. The Jets’s defense Improved In Recent Weeks But the 0-7 Looks Untenable.
Browns Vs Dolphins
Speaking Of Quarterbacks And Benching Tua’s Time As A Starter Looks Done. The former Alabama National Championship Hero Has Regressed In Mike McDaniels’s Offense, As His Accuracy and No Longer Processing Cant Accommodate His Overall Lack Of Arm Talent. Tua Threw Three Brutal Picks Two Lead Directly To Points, One Pick Six. The Dolphins Have Nothing To Hang Their Heads On This Game as A The Image Of A Brown’s Quarterback, A Rookie Browns’s Quarterback Who Didnt Play “Exceptional” Takes A Knee To End A Game In A 31-6 Beat Down By The Browns.
Giants Vs Broncos
The Giants Get Everything Right On Score Card during The First Three Quarters In Their Upset Loss To Broncos 33-32. The Broncos Favor Themselves As A Defensive Team However The Young G-Men Had Their Way With Denver Through the Air With Jaxson Dart, A Career Game In Yardage(283) and Total Touchdowns(Four)But Awful Completion(45.5%) And On The Ground With Cam Skattebo And Tyrone Tracy Jr. The Giants Build A Seemingly Insurmountable Fourth Quarter 19-0 lead That Morphs Into 26-8 In Fourth Quarter, With Six Minute To Go Before They Blow The Lead Late. The Giants Had a 98% Win Probability When They Got The Ball Back after The Broncos Score Cut The Lead 26-16. Jaxson Dart Shakes Off a Fourth Quarter Interception And Converty A Suspect Lookig 4th and 19 leading To A Go Ahead Touchdown 32-30 With Less Than A Minute left. The Denver Defense Sacked Dart Four Time But He Found Time To Move In The Pocket Constantly 2.93 Time To Throw. Bo Nix, Puts On His Best Tim Tebow Impression, If The Defense Gives Him A Chance Late In The Game, He’s Going To Make A Play, Like A Flip Just Switches, He’s gifted As A Freelance Play Maker. Nix Struggled With His Touch On Deep Passes All season Coming Into This Game and He Only Hit Two In This Game But Finding The Right Clip On Those Two 20 Plus yards Bombs That Set Up A Game Winning Field For The Broncos. Just When Bo Nix Looks Like A Quarterback Who Hasn’t Stepped His Game, He Delivers Another Brilliant Fourth. Nix Finished 27/50(54%) For 279 Passing Yards, 48 On The Four Total Touchdowns. He’s Always On A Roll out and Always Looking To Take Off And Run. The Loss Falls On Head Coach Brian Daboll, His Young Players Have Never Felt The Pressure Of A Fourth Quarter Crumbling and The Experience For The Young Jaxson Dart May Prove More Crucial Than A 3-4 Record But The Giants Missed An Opportunity To Carve Out More Room For Themselves In The Playoff Picture. The Giants fall To 2-5, Daboll Still Looks Out Even After The Giants Improved Over This Stretch.
Eagles Vs Vikings
The Eagles Offensive inconsistencies Have Flared Up All Season Long, From Run Game Looking A lot Record Breaking And Game Breaking To The Passing Game Not Hitting Stride On Multiple Concepts( Anything But Slants Or Go Route). Across This Two Game Losing Streak They Malignants Of Bad Offense Has Finally Gotten More Attentions Because Philly Lost. The Eagles Last two Versus The Bucs And Rams, The Teams’s Special Teams and Defense Made The Difference In Both Contest, The Offense Got The Attention Because Of The Stars Aboard. The Eagles Rank Bottom Two In Yards Per Drive and Bottom Five In Scoring Percentage. Every Year NFL Teams, Rivals Get More Film More Diagnostic Information On where Players Excel and How To Counteract That Success. What The Eagles Have Learned This Season Offensively “What Got Them Here Wont Get Them There(Again).” The Vikings Defense Probably Knew That In Man To Man Coverage AJ Brown will Probably Run A Go Or Deep Route. Brown’s First Quarter 37 Yard Touchdown Didn’t Exactly Indicate An Offensive Remedied Eagles, The First Eleven Plays Of The Twelve Play Drive Only Generated 48 Yards With Multiple Negative Plays That Left The Eagles Facing Fourth And Four. With The Vikings Guarding The Sticks, Brown Shook free Of His Defender caught The Deep Ball and Ran It Into The Endzone. Hurts Started The Game 4/5 For 44 But 37 Came On One Play. Of course Scoring Gets A lot Easier When The Opposing Team Helps You Out On The Score And Carson Wentz Former Eagles Starting Quarterback, Number Two Overall Pick, The Who Jalen Hurts Unseated, Threw A Pick Six To Eagles In The Second quarter To Give Philly a 14-3. Wentz Started The Game With Two Interceptions Probably Reminiscing Of His Promising Rookie Season As A Eagle. The Vikings Defense Simply Didnt Get The Memo On Hurts, Play Zone and Dont Get Beat Deep Instead The Secondary Locked Up One On One and Got Burned. Devonta Smith 79 yards Down Field In The Third Quarter That Gave The Eagles A 21-6 Lead. The Vikings Score 10 In The Third Quarter and Jordan Mason Puts The Vikings On The Board With A Goal Line Rushing Touchdown That Cut The Vikings lead 21-16. Despite Committing A Slew Of Cardinal Sins Against The Eagles Like Giving Up Deep Passes, Turning The Ball Over and Not Converting Their Third Downs But the Vikings put Themselves In Position To Win. The Vikings Pulled With A Feild Goal In Fourth Quarter 21-19. Whenever Jalen Hurts has that connection to AJ Brown and Devonta Smith cooking the Eagles, Your quarterback can't protect the ball, and the Eagles will outlast any team. Hurts Hit Devonta Smith For A 21 Yard Pass The AJ Brown For 26 Yard Score. The Vikings Decided To Live Or Die By Not Playing A Safety Over The Top Of AJ Brown Or Devonta Smith and Thy Burned Minnesota Corners All Game. Devonta Smith 9 Catches For 183 Receiving Yards and A Touchdown, AJ Brown 4 Catches For 121 Receiving Yards and Teo Touchdown. Jalen Hurts 19/23 326 Passing Yards Three Touchdown, 158.3 Passer Rating His Most Efficient Passing Game Of The Season. Hurts Completed 5/6 Of His Deep Passes of 20 Air Yards Or Better and His 45 Yard Connection To AJ Brown ended The Game. He Didn’t EaxcStrike Back At The Critics Who Denigrated Him As passer Beacuse Most Of His Yards Came On Two or Three Concept By Two Or Three Players But when Teams Like The Vikings Choose To Play With Fire They Get Burned. Carson Wentz Continues His Erratic Run As The Vikings Starter, 26/42(61.9%) For 313 Passing Yards, Two Interceptions 64.9 Passer Rating, of All The Vikings Starting Quarterback Since 2020 Wentz Stand As The Only Quarterback To Struggle At Times Connecting To Justin Jefferson. Jordan Addison Lead The Vikings With 9 Catches For 128 Receiving Yards, Wentz Through His Second Interception Targeting Addison. Justin Jefferson Five Catches For 79 Receiving Yards But The Two Struggled To Connect Consistently Pretty Much All Game. Jefferson Also Had A Touchdown Dislodge From His Hands By Cooper Dejean In This Game. Jefferson Generates 0.707 EPA Per Target From Wentz On The Season As The Most Targeted Receiver Since Wentz Took Over But He and Jefferson Have Left A lot Of Points and Yardage Out There On The field. I Think The Vikings Stick With Wentz Until The Wheels Fall Off For Better Or Worse and Give McCarthy Another Year Or Two Of Marination.
The Vikings Had A Touchdown Taken Off The Board After Tight TJ Hockenson Failed To Secure A Ball Through The Ground In The Fourth Quarter. The Vikings Drove Down To The End Zone Six Of Their Nine Drives and Converted just Once For A Touchdown. The Vikings Spent A lot Of Money In The Offseason To Solidify A Roster Around A Quarterback and Losing By six and Falling To 3-3 Doesnt Take Minnesota Out Of The Running. Still, The Corspe Of Carson Wentz Wont get Minnesota Over Tougher Competition and What We Saw from JJ McCarthy Didn’t Look Convincing Either. The snap Their Two Game Skid and Philly Fans Can Look Forward To Generally Positive Beats About The eagles for At Leasts A Week.
Titans Vs Patriots
The Titans Fired Their Head Coach Brian Callahan This week Ahead Of The Teams Matchup With The Guy Who Callahan Replaced In Mike Vrabrel. Vrabrel Lead The Titans To The Playoffs Three Times and The Number One Seed In The AFC Back In 2021 But He Got axed After Six Seasons. In His First season Taking Over The Patriots Vrabel Has This Team Headed Towards The Playoffs With His Young Quarterback Drake Maye In His Second Season Looking Like An MVP Candidate. Maye and Ward Dueled The Number One Pick From This Years Draft Versus The Three Pick Of Last Year’s Draft. The Titans Started The Game On A 10-3 Score After Two Drives. Cam Ward Connects With Chimere Dike For 38 Yard Touchdown. Ward As Struggled With Completion Percentage All Season But He’s A Gifted Slinging Deep Passes. Ward Started The Game 11/16 For 148 Passing Yards and One Touchdown. The TitanS reportedly Simplified The Offense For Ward To Have More Success as He Grows In The Pro Game. Ward Hasn’t Mastered the Simpler Aspects, Right Out Of The Third Quarter On The Titans First Possession, Ward Fumbles On A Roll Out as The Ball Just Slips Free From His Hands and edge Rusher K’Lavon Chaisson Picks Up The Ball And Scores.
Drake Maye, He’s Already Running A Full fledge Patriots Offense Under Josh Daniels. Maye Starts the Game With Two Touchdowns, His 39 Yard Touchdown To Kayshon Boutte At The End Of The Second Quarter. Maye Played Explosive On The Ground and Through The Air and Got Off To 10/11 For 110 Passing Yards Two Touchdowns, While Adding 43 Yards On The Ground. Drake Maye Would Leave The Game In The Third Quarter After Taking A Hit On A Quick Run To The Outside And A Tackle By Titans Cornerback Roger McGreary. Patriots Fans Got Treated To Some Josh Doubs Action for Two Plays Before Drake Maye Returned. The Patriots Convert A fourth Down In The Red Zone and The Patriots Score Their Third Touchdown Of The Game On A Rhamondre Stevenson Four Yard Run. Josh Doubs 12 Yard Completion To Demario Douglas converted A Third Down before Maye Returned Completing three Straight Passes and The Patriots Score. The Titans Offense Struggled In The Second Half After Moving The Ball Effectively In The First Quarter. The Titans Stay stuck At 13 Points, Cam Ward Finishes With 25/34(73.5%) With 255 Passing Yards One Touchdown One Pick, Eats Five Sacks, and A 92.2 Passer Rating His Best Game In Terms Of Completion Percentage and Passer Rating.
Drake Maye Completed 91% Of His Passes, 21/23 For 222 Passing Yards Two Touchdowns, Four Sacks And 135.9 Passer Rating. Unless The Patriots Win Out Maye won’t Win An MVP But The Patriots Move Closer Into The World Of Contenders. The Offense Needs A Consistent Run Game But Rhamondre Stevenson Showed Some Signs Of Redemption 18 Carries, 88 Rushing Yards. The Patriots Still Need an Elite Number one Receiver But The Collective Of Kayshon Boutte, Stefon Diggs and Mack Hollins Put In Work Today. The Defense Gets Four Sacks Former Jaguars’s First Round Pick K’Lavon Chaisson Picked Up Two Sacks.
Rams Vs Jaguars
The Rams and Jaguars Meet In London Technically a Jags’s Home Game Both Team Have Some Rebounding On The Agenda Although Only one Team Lost In Week Six. The Jags Got Exposed On Defense By The Seahawks And The Offensive Line Got Bull Rushed By Mike McDonald’s Scheme In Game That Tested The Legitimacy Of The Jags In The AFC. The Rams Beat The Ravens But Finished With Their Worse Game In Terms Of -2.98 Total, -0.058 EPA Per Play Since Week One, Which Shouldn’t Happen Against The Ravens’s Defense. If The Jags Defense Catch The Rams Off Platform With a Top Five Secondary Without Puka Nacua To Fear On The Outside, The Jags could Force an Upset. Unfortunately The Rams Had The Offense Cooking, 21 Unanswered Points To Start The Game and Even After The Rams Offense Slowed Down In The Second The Jags Just Couldn’t Get Enough Going To Make Any Good Of The Limited Chances Their Defense Secured. The Jags Offense Would Get On The Board But Not Before The Rams Post Their Fourth Score Of The Game On Matthew Stafford’s Fourth Down Pass. Trevor Lawrence Connected With Rookie Wide Receiver, Cornerback Travis Hunter for A 32 Yard corner Route Score That At least Save The Jags From A Scoreless Game. Lawrence Didn’t Get Much Help From His Receivers This Game Who Dropped Several Passes, Particularly Over The Middle Of The Field.
The Jags Played Without One Of Their Best Defenders Line Backer Devin Lloyd and Stafford-McVay Brain Trust attacked the Short Area and The Underbelly Of The Jags Zone. On Stafford Targets His Tight End 14.63% Of The Time One Of The Lowest Rate In Football But Against The Jags Stafford Got The Offense Going To His Tight Ends Who Caught All But Two Of Stafford’s First 7 Completions On The Rams Opening Score Drive. Stafford Touchdown Pass On The Ram Opening Drive Landed In The Hands of Konata Mumfield The Rookie Wide Receiver Seventh Round With One Catch This Season Before The Rams Red Zone Touchdown. After Shorter Targets To His Tight To Start The Game You Could Tell Stafford Had That Itch To Hunt Big Down Field. The Offense Picked Up A Massive Pass Interference On A Deep Target To Tutu Atwell, followed By a 23 Yard Pass To Colby Parkinson. In Two nearly Unimpeded Drives The Rams and Stafford Drive Into The Jaguars Red Zone And This Time He Hits Veteran Davante Adams For A Two yard Fade and A 14-0 Lead. Trevor Lawrence Baffles And Amazed, On The Jags Third Drive He Makes A Play In The Pocket Where Nimble Leaps To Avoid a Pass Rusher But he Can’t Find Anyone Down Field and He Cant Exhilarate To Get Up Field and Takes A Sack. The Jags Best Drive Of The First half In the Second Quarter Ends With a Missed Field Goal. After Brief Intermission On A three and Out The Rams Get Back Scoring On Their Fourth Drive 5 Plays 60 Yards Tight End Colby Parkinson Nearly Scores On A 16 Yard Catch and run But He Fall At The Goal Line. The Rams Run Two More Plays and Stafford Connects With Davante Adams For A One Yard Score a 21-0. Stafford Threw Five Touchdowns By The End Of The Game Before He Hit 200 Passing Yards, Davante Adams Caught Three Touchdowns Before He Caught 50 Yards In Receiving. the Rams Completely outclass The Jags. This Rams Team Can Take Down Any Team In The NFL When They Play Up To This Standard, Even If They Only Converted 2/10 Third Downs. Trevor Lawrence 23/43(47.9%), 296 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, Seven Sacks 74.7 Passer Rating, Some Of Inefficiencies Fall On The Receivers Who Let Ball After Ball Fall On The ground. The Jags Given Up just six Sacks In The First Five Games Have Given up 14 in The Pass Two Weeks. Jacksonville Has unraveled, Their First Seven Drives Went Punt, Punt, Punt, Missed FG, Downs, Downs, Downs. The Jags Enter Their Bye Week searching For Answers To Problems They Had Solved Earlier In The Season. The Pass Blocking Can No Longer Hold Up, The Corners Can’t Cover and The Running That Started The Season Explosive and Amongst The League’s Best as Frozen As Quickly As They Started Up.
