NFL Week One Sunday Recap

A Chaotic High-Scoring Start To The NFL Weekend, The Season Hasn’t Started Until The Unbelievable Grows Into The Expected. The Highest Average scoring heading into Monday Night Football ever, but somehow the games still felt like Week One, Like An Unfinished Product. The Lions struggled to put the Saints away and survived a late overtime scare to survive an early upset. The Loss Didn’t Stop Saints Quarterback Tyler Shough from throwing for 410 yards on an obnoxious 60-plus-yard pass play in The Loss. The Lions gave up 457 Yards Of Offense To The Saints, and This Season Many Expect Detroit to return to contention, but the defense needs to clean up. The Bucs Fought Back hard against the Bengals but couldn’t overcome a four-fumble game, falling to the Bengals and a voracious defense on Sunday. Ball security issues happen from time to time over the course of a season; a lot of teams have those games when the ball refuses to buckle up. I’m Selling My Tampa Bay Stock Just Yet, And The South Is Coming Down The Stretch, But I Would Like To See Less Scrambling From Mayfield. The Kyler Murray Revival In Minnesota Under Head Coach Kevin O’Connell Suffered A Massive Speed Bump When An I Illegal Hit By Packers defender Knocked Murray, who threw an interception on his first pass of the game, out of the game with a concussion. Enter Carson Wentz, a quarterback not expected to make a redemption tour, much less a roster, this season. Still, he showed out, leading the Vikings to a Massive Comeback Win after Minnesota trailed 22-10 in the third quarter. When Packers Quarterback Jordan Love Connected With Tight End Jonnu Smith For A 43 Yard Connection in the third quarter, the Packers Held A 91.8% Win Probability, according to ESPN. The Vikings ran off four straight touchdown possessions starting from the end of the third quarter into the fourth quarter, leading to a blowout 39-22 Victory For Minnesota. The Vikings scored 22 points in the fourth as the Packers turned the ball over on downs twice, Love threw a pick, and fumbled to close the game for Green Bay. The Packers outgained the Vikings 412 to 269 in total offense, despite the putrid fourth quarter, including 387 Passing Yards To 151, but Crumbled Down The Stretch Of The Game. On One End, the Packers' defense and offense played well enough to win, but on the other, neither side could make a Closing Play to save the Win They Worked for all the first three quarters. The NFC East Dark Horse New York Giants posted four touchdowns and 431 yards of total offense to knock off the Dallas Cowboys in New York City. Jon Harbaugh’s Debut As Giants Coach His Team Held One Of The League’s Best Offenses and One The League’s Best Quarterbacks From Last Season to 259 Yards Of Total Offense, Cowboys Quarterback Dak Prescott Finished With 175 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns and one Interception. The Cowboys invested heavily in their defense in the offseason. Still, Jaxson Dart Didn’t Flinch He Saw The Same Cowboys’s Jersey And Assumed The Same Result, Finishing 23/29,79.2 completion Percentage For 230 Passing Yards, Three Touchdowns and 134.2 Passer Rating While Blasting The Cowboys All Over The Field. The Cowboys Blew Multiple Coverage Assignments on Sunday, So Curing Their Defensive Woes Boils Down To More Than A Talent Problem. The giants Added Some Top Flight Pass Catchers Like Former Ravens Tight End Isaiah Likely Who Caught 8/8 Passes For 78 Receiving Yards With Two Touchdowns, Six Receiving First Downs.

Bills Vs Texans

Josh Allen struggled against the Texans Throughout His Career Entering Week One’s contest, 1-4, Particularly Down In Houston, Where He’s 0-4, And These Struggles With Houston Date Back To 2019. Allen Has Posted A 72.7 Passer Rating and suffered 14 sacks in his career. Last season, he suffered eight sacks at the hands of the Texans' pass rush, two interceptions, and a 69.0 Passer Rating, -0.20 EPA Per Pass Play, and the Bills Only Lost By Four Points. Buffalo's turnovers cost them around -10 EPA, But Otherwise The Bills Outplayed Houston By A Wide Margin. In a game that looked like a blowout based on sack total and interceptions, the Texans' offense played poorly; that not even a dominant defensive performance could lead to a blowout—The game last season featured Davis Mills as the starter, not C.J. Stroud. The Texans' celebrated defense will impose its way on this game in a variety of ways but doesn’t need a traditional strong Superman Josh Allen Game To Get The Win, as long as Houston’s Offense Struggles To score Enough Points Put Buffalo down. Like a scene from a Fast and Furious movie, the Bills and the Texans Charged At Each Other, Staring Each Other With The Best Blows Both Teams Could Offer Until One Blinked, and In The End, Josh Allen, Despite Nearly Throwing the game away late, didn’t blink. With less than two minutes left in the fourth quarter, with the Bills Down 31-30, Allen led the Bills Into The Texans' red zone. Josh attempts a pass downfield targeting receiver Josh Palmer.

The Pass Lands In The Hands Of Texans Defensive Back Kamari Lassister, and then The Ball Pops Out Incomplete. Had Lassister Secured the Interception, the Game Would Most Likely Have Ended in That Moment; Instead, the Texans Blinked. The Next Play, Josh Allen Hit Josh Palmer across the middle of the end for what ultimately proved to be the game-winning touchdown on a 33 Yard Reception, And The Bills Steal A Big 36-31 Over The Texans. Against A Good Bills defense, CJ Stroud Looked Sharp. He forced plays, but he also stayed aggressive and didn’t Fall Into Some Of His Worse Habits. Instead, Stroud played dialed-in ball, finishing 26/38 for 274 Passing yards, two touchdowns, and a 106.7 passer rating while suffering three sacks. New Addition To The Offense, David Montgomery, registered three touchdowns, one through the air, in his Texans Debut While Racking Up 60 Yards On 20 Carries on the ground. Despite the loss, this game showcased strides for Stroud and the Houston Offense. Josh Allen went toe-to-toe with the Texans Offense That Has Gotten The Best Of Him In The Past and He Produced One Of The Beat Passing Performances Of The Weekend Maybe His Career 20/29 For 334 Passing Yards Two Touchdowns, four Completions Of 20 air Yards Or Better Really Seperated Him Allen From Stroud In This Contest. Tight End Dalton Kincaid Finished With 130 receiving yards. The Bills got DJ Moore involved; he scored a Big Touchdown On His Way To Five Passes For 100 Yards. Kahlil Shakir Caught Four Passes A Couple Big 1st Down Conversions For 50 Yards. The Bills got off to a promising start; the offensive line had moments of skittish play against this defensive line, giving up a few Sacks and Some Penalties, but playing with Allen And Running Back James Cook Absolved Some of the Issues. The Bills Will Have Lapses When Defensive Backs Start Capitalizing On Some Of Josh Allen’s risky tendencies, but the Bills Look Strong In Their Season Opener. Allen Plays His Best When He Squeezes The Football Into Spots Most Quarterbacks Wouldn’t Dear Either His Team Or The Opposing Team Must capitalize On Those Moments. Today, Buffalo Made The Plays Necessary To Get The Win. Allen Attacked The Texans' defense downfield. He averaged 12.8 AVERAGE Depth Of Target, Four Deep Completions For 155 Yards, 275 explosive passing yards, and a 10.3% big-time throw percentage as his MVP gets off to a great start.

Jaguars Vs Brown

The Jacksonville Jaguars and HEad Coach Liam Coen Wants To Prove That Last Season Had Merit That The Teams Division Run and Rumble With The Bills in Playoff Had Merit and Jags Have Something To Say Representing The South. The Jaguars, as a franchise, Haven’t Sustained playoff Success in Nearly A Decade. Much of the dissonance and noise around the Jaguars' playoff success comes down to quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who needs an MVP-level year to take the Jags Beyond The Wild Card Round and into the playoffs. Can Lawrence Commute The Confidence He Developed In 2025 With Him Into 2026? In a short five-year career, Lawrence hasn’t built a track record of sustained success, not to mention he played pretty pitifully in the Jags’ Wild Card loss to the Bills and finished just average enough in terms of yards per attempt, EPA per dropback, and Accuracy. The Jaguars Handled The Browns With Relative Ease, 34-10, and That Score Didn’t Tell The Entire Level Of Dominance For Jacksonville in this game, as Cleveland tacked on a late touchdown in the fourth; otherwise, the Jags rolled. Trevor Lawrence looked like the guy fans and commentators expected to make a push for the MVP this year, finishing 18/25, 78.3% completion percentage, 86% Adjusted Completion Percentage, for 245 passing yards, four touchdowns, one sack, and a 150.6 Passer Rating. Some of Lawrence’s touchdowns feature a high degree of difficulty: his 32 Yard Dart On The Move To Jacoby Meyers in the Third Quarter, and his 30 Yard Strike downfield to Parker Washington in the Back Of The End Zone in the First Quarter. The Jags For Most Of The Game Looked Like A Team Playing Against Itself Because The Browns Added Little Challenge. The Browns offense, with Deshaun Watson at quarterback, got off to an inauspicious start to the game with an Interception on The First Drive Of The Game, and the Browns never found any thread offensively afterward. Watson finished 16/22 for 205 Passing Yards, one touchdown, one pick, suffered five sacks, and also led the Browns In Rushing With 38 Yards On The Ground. To say Watson Doesn’t Put This Game Into Context, I question if he has the heart to play football anymore. The rushing attack and the defense for Cleveland enter the season with some expectation for growth, but that never materialized in Game One as the Jags dominated a Defense Still Filled With Talent Despite no Myles Garrett. Instead The Jags Offense Executed Their Script At Will Generated +0.298 EPA Per Play, 3.4 Points Per Drive despite A Lagging Run Game For The Jags Something That Could Arise To Become The Jags Undoing In The Jags Future. One Positive Note On The Brown Their Rookie Receiver, Denzel Boston, and KC Concepcion lead the charge at receiver with 59 and 43 receiving yards, respectively.

Colts Vs Ravens

When the Colts Locked Up Daniel Jones on a massive two-year, $88 million contract, most called the Deal a Risk for the Colts. After Jones Suffered An Achilles injury midway through the 2025 season, in which he posted MVP-level numbers through 10 games, his game started to break down before his body started to break. Nobody Outside Of The Colts Organization Knew If Jones could sustain a high level of play Or What Type Of Player Would Return To The Colts Off Of An Achilles Injury. Jones And The Colts shook off all the questions by starting the season with seven straight pass plays, including Jones registering 5/7 for 59 Passing Yards and Jonathan Taylor rushing in the goal-line score. Everybody Involved With The Colts, from the owner to Shane Steichen and Daniel Jones, Exhaled To See Jones Still Playing Sharp Football. Jones Didn’t Stay Sharp All Game He Threw A Pick On The Ensuing Drive Batted pass In The Ams Of Ravens Linebacker Raquon Smith. The Ravens offense began to run away with the game with back-to-back touchdown drives. Lamar Jackson Ran In The Ravens' first score of the season to match the Colts ' score, 7-7, with A sudden five-yard touchdown after his big 49 Yard Catch and run by Zay Flowers set up a red-zone opportunity. Following the Jones pick, the Ravens and Lamar Waste No Time Getting Into The End Zone With His 16 Yard Scramble That Converted 3rd and 16 To Keep The Drive Alive; Derrick Henry rushed in a four-yard touchdown. The Colts punt after three plays go nowhere, and the Ravens march down the field once again, stepping all over the Colts ' defense to set up a third red zone opportunity early in the second quarter, 13 minutes remaining on the clock, with Baltimore Seeking To Put This Matchup Away Early. The Colts defense makes a stand; one Baltimore Touchdown Gets Taken Off The Board Because Of An Offensive Holding Penalty, and Three Plays Later The Colts Force The Ravens Back On Downs. The Ravens Got Their Third Touchdown Of The Game After another Colts punt. The Lamar and Zay Flowers show continued as their connection hit the Colts For A 54 Yard Catch and 47 After The Catch, as Flowers skated past and through multiple defenders to meet the end zone and Put The Ravens up 21-7. Jones would not get a chance to match his early sharp play. On the first drive, the Colts' offense suffered another turnover: Jonathan Taylor Fumbled After a Catch-and-Run, giving the Ball Back to a Ravens Offense Rolling. Derrick Henry gets explosive on the ground for a 32 Yard Touchdown To Cap Off A Three-Play, 47-Yard Drive And Put The Ravens up 28-6 with 28 Unanswered Points. Daniel Jones and the Colts Would Never Recover Their Early Form As The Ravens ran up the score in their debut, 41-23. Daniel Jones 19/31 for 166 passing yards, one touchdown, one pick, and A 72.8 passer rating; running back Jonathan Taylor hit 19 Catches For 98 rushing yards and two touchdowns, but it was far from enough to overcome when The Defense can’t Get A Stop. The Ravens Offense Racked Up 526 Net Yards, with Lamar Jackson Throwing For Over 324 Passing Yards and Adding Another 40 on the ground, which proved too much for the Colts Defense.

Derrick Henry Got Off To a strong start for his age-32 season: 24 Carries For 144 Yards, six yards per carry. He continues to defeat Father Time. Zay Flowers nearly broke the time-space barrier on his touchdown run. He Racked up Five Catches For 150 Before Exiting The Game In The Fourth Quarter. The Ravens Have Gotten Off To A Strong Start, a Common Quality Of The Lamar Jackson era, but we’ve yet to see September Play Sustained Into January From The Ravens. The Colts defense traded two first-round picks for Sauce Gardner A Season Ago, and he’s a non-factor, and the Colts need a difference-making presence on That Side Of The Ball. The Colts surrender 496 Total yards Of Offense, 227 On Explosive plays, 7.8 Yards Per Play, and +0.293 EPA per play- not numbers uncommon to teams Who Have Faced The Quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Chargers Vs Cardinals

The Jeremiah Love third-overall pick conflicted with me on Draft Night because I’m a proud member of the Don’t Draft Running Backs In The First Round, let alone the top 1, but I’m also a huge fan of Love's game and His Talent. After witnessing the Success His Former Teammate and Fellow First-Round Running Back, Jadarian Price, Experienced In Game 1 for Seattle, I became less skittish about the Love Selection. Still, I needed to see the Play of the Cardinals' running back number two. First Round Running Backs Have Actually Lived Up To The Billing In Recent Years So Much So That The Market Has Pick Up With Two First Rounders Bijan Robinson And Jahmyr Gibbs Both Resetting The Market In The Same Offseason, After Saquon Barkley Reset The Market For Backs A Season Ago always A Good Sign When The Top Of The Positions Keeps Jumping. The Production/Numbers Match The Value Of The Contracts. Running Backs Lead The Way In terms Of Scrimmage Yards the Top Six Players In Offensive Production All Played Tail Back However Two Of The Six Players’ Teams Made The Playoffs Thats Christian McCaffrey and James Cook. Running backs, no matter how productive, don’t impact winning enough, no matter how dazzling and game-shattering their style of play is, and While The Cardinals stepping outside of the expected deserve merit, Jeremiah Love’s highlights won't gloss over their pass defense getting shredded week after week after week. Two Truths Can intersect At Once: You Love A Player And Believe He’s One of The Best Players In His Draft Class and Still Draw The Line At Where You Draft Him In April.

Jeremiyah Love Scored The First Touchdown Of His Career On The First Drive Of The Cardinals' matchup with the Chargers as he scrambled past Los Angeles Defenders In The First Quarter To Give Arizona An Opening Score Lead, 7-0. I thought this game had a sneaky chance to play out like the Panthers-Bears game: high-scoring, with Mike McDaniels Calling The Chargers off and the Cardinals' talented offensive skill-set players. Both defenses: the Chargers Applying Pressure To Jacoby Brissett’s pocket and the Cardinals’ defense recovering an unforced Omarion Hampton Fumble, Forcing A Turnover On Downs and Just Forcing Justin Herbert off the field, as the Chargers Had Possession Of The Ball For All But 11 Minutes Of The Game, with the Cardinals running-ball heavy. The Chargers Secondary had No Answer For Jacoby Brissett and Cardinals Multifaceted Assault But Holding The Cardinals To Three Field Goals On Three Straight Red Zone Trips between The First And Second Quarter. In Mike Lafleur's first game as a head coach, the Cardinals pulled off the upset Win Over The Chargers and Justin Herbert, 26-14. Justin Herbert's offense under Mike McDaniel didn’t get off to a promising start. The Chargers Managed Just 268 Yards Of Offense Against A Modestly Respectable Cardinals defense. Justin Herbert went 17/27 for 209 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, and one interception that ultimately sealed the game. The Chargers didn’t play an up-tempo style of offense—maybe Jim Harbaugh hasn’t let Mike McDaniel have the reins just yet—ultimately leading to Herbert's forced deep shot, Which The Cardinals picked up. A Season Of High Expectations For Herbert Gets Off To A sour Start. Jacoby Brissett, the veteran, 27/37, 73% Completion Percentage, For 277 Passing Yards One Touchdown, No Picks With A 103.1 Passer Rating Brissett Racked These Numbers Up On an Impressive Round Of Throws Down—Non More Impressive Than His Late Connection With Tight end Trey McBride—field Not Simply Screen and Check Downs Generating 187 Air Yards For The Game. The Cardinals Have A lot Of Ways To Attack Defense By Spreading Them Out And Forcing The Forces Of Give and take—take This Option Away, I’ll Take The Other Option—To swing in their favor against defenses unprepared to face so many questions. The Cardinals Have Concerns This Offense Should Have Scored 30 Points In This Game Easily But Escaped With 26; they have more potential to unpack as The Season treads on. For the Chargers, I want to see the offense shift into a more up-tempo style, give Justin Herbert More Dropbacks, and Create More Opportunities to score points rather than lean on a ball-control offense. The Cards ran 21 more Offensive Plays Than The Chargers, 71-52, averaging +0.117 EPA Per Play.

Pittsburgh Steelers Vs Atlanta Falcons

The 2026 season, for some, would be the year- or should be a year now- Falcons quarterback, former Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, returns to some form for the former sixth overall pick and celebrated quarterback. The Past Few Seasons Of Tua Breaking Down Physically and Unraveling As High Level Processor Have Cast away The Memory Of A Player Who Held Position In The MVP Race With Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, Pff Ranked Tua as The Top Quarterback In 2023 Instead His Most Recent Injury An Oblique He Suffered In Practice The Final Week Before The Start Of The Season Will Damper and Probably close The Door On Most Any Hope He’d recover His “Mojo”. Tua’s Career Probably Ends This Season In Atlanta, Giving the Decline In Performance—He Narrowly Beat Out Michael Penix Jr Who Will Start The Season On IR for The Starter Spot- The Combination Should Never Have Had Life, But Tua Never Stepped Up To Seize The Reign— And His Robust Injury. Another Quarterback In His Final Season—Not A Presumption— Aaron Rodgers Will Close Out His Career With One Final Run As The Quarterback For The Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers Made The Playoffs In 2025, but everyone agreed that Rodgers Didn’t Play Plus Football In His First Season Behind The Steel Curtain. Rodgers Numbers Looked Solid 24 Touchdown To 8 Interceptions EPA Per Drop back Has Decline Ever Since 2021, He Couldn’t Throw Deep Last and Became A Check-down Merchant As The Season Progressed Into The Playoffs. Rodgers brought the howitzer with him on Sunday To Face The Falcons. According to Next Gen Stats, his 9.2 air Yards Per Target Represented His highest number in his time as a Steeler. Rodgers Completed Six Passes Of Ten Air Yards Or Better. At the same time, his receiver, particularly DJ Metcalf, struggled with drops, but Rodgers came away from this game 24/40 for 221 yards, one touchdown, an 83.4 passer rating, and a lot of unrealized air yards thanks to Metcalf. The Steelers defeated 20-13, but the Offense For Pittsburgh Only Mustered 13 points. The other seven came from the Pittsburgh defense, with TJ Watt snagging an errant and Anticipated Target To Falcons Bijan Robinson In The Flat. Instead, Watt Takes The Ball Back for A Steelers Defensive Touchdown. The Get The Ball To Bijan offense worked earlier in the game to get the Falcons On The Board early In The First Quarter on a 23-yard catch-and-run from rush to Bijan. Rush struggled to connect with any Of The Falcons ' other pass catchers, as Robinson led the team in both rushing 89 yards) and receiving (90 yards), ultimately tripling the production of the Falcons' leading receiver, Drake London, who mustered 29 Yards. Only three Falcons players outside of Bijan Caught A Pass. Rush finished the game with 12/22, 143 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, two picks, a 51.9 Passer Rating, and Suffered Four Sacks. Will Aaron Rodgers Hold This Level Of Aggressive Downfield Play All Season? A lot of the big plays in the Steelers' scheme Resulted In DK Metcalf drops, but that doesn’t mean the Steelers Can’t Continue To seek out explosive Plays Throughout The Season.

Bears Vs Panthers

The Artistic Symmetry Between The Panthers and bears Two Number One Overall Quarterback Who sort Of Struggle With The Mundane But Excel In The Spectacular as Displayed On SundayTied Together by A Trade, two Highly Touted Offensive Guru Head Coaches, young and Talented Receivers The Symmetry Became Life As The Bears And Panthers squared Off matching Each In Hair Raising Eye Snatch Football Exhibition. The Panthers Secured The Rights To Bryce Young By Trading Multiple Picks To The Bears, one of which became Caleb Williams 2024, and Freed The Bears Up To Use Their Own Pick To Select Rome Odunze, all of whom made a big impact on Game Day Sunday. For a while, the Bears Looked Like The “Winner” Of The Trade With Bryce Young; his first couple of games saw him get benched and looked overwhelmed. Still, The Arrival Of Head Coach Dave Canales, Former Offensive Coordinator In Tampa Bay, Solved Most Of Young’s woes, and The Team Unexpectedly Won The NFC South and battled the Rams in the NFC Wild Card Round. Caleb Williams Also Looked Overwhelmed In His First Season In The League Before Ben Johnson, an offensive coordinator for division rival Lions, moved west and helped channel Williams ' talent into a respectable quarterback. The Two Teams Generated 55 Points In The First half Of Their Week 1 matchup, with the Bears leading 31-24 at The End of Two Quarters. Williams And The Bears Jumped Out To A 21-7 lead Williams Connected With His Tight End Cole Kmet On a 22 Yard Dime In The Back Of The End Zone In The Second Quarter, He Hit receiver Rome Odunze For A 47 Yard Bomb down The side line That Set Up The Second Of D’andre Swift’s Two First Quarter Touchdowns. The Bears offense had all phases working like clockwork: the offensive line, Williams Escaping and Moving In The Pocket, and the receiver making plays downfield. But the Panthers, playing With The Spirit Of Bryce Young, fought back in the second quarter. Young Reminded The Football World That He Too Can Hit Beautiful Deep Balls As He Connected With Receiver Jalen Coker on a 51 Yard Deep Pass.

The Bears Go Down On Downs on Their Next Drive And Young Not The Most Explosive Or Elusive Scrambler Sneaks Pass The Bears’s Defense on Seven Yard Scramble To Knot The Score At 21-21. In games of nearly evenly matched teams, swing plays like turnovers often determine the results, and the Panthers' Special Teams, led by Returner Jimmy Horn, Suffered A Muffed punt That Gave the Bears field-goal range, and Chicago Took A 24-21 Lead. Williams Would Match Young With An Explosive Rushing Touchdown For The Bears, a 29 Yard Rushing Touchdown To Put The Bears Back up by A Touchdown, 31-24, in The Second Quarter. Both defenses made big plays like sacks, but the explosive plays kept coming for both teams in The First Half. The Panthers drew the game back even out of halftime on the strength of A Chubba Hubbard goal-line two-yard scamper for a touchdown in the third quarter, where Bryce Young Looked sharp Connecting With passes over the middle, a place he’s struggled in Recent Seasons. The Panthers Could Escape The Infractions Despite The Defense Forcing Caleb Williams and the offense into a potential 3rd and 20 to go. Panthers defensive lineman Derrick Brown Hits Caleb After The Quarterback Tossed The Incompletion Assessing A Roughing The Passer penalty Giving The Bears A Fresh Set Of Down inside The Red Zone and The Bears Quickly Score and Never Looked Back. Carolina Produced A lot of Plays Fans and critics wanted to see from Bryce Young entering a crucial fourth year, but too many miscues for the Panthers To Overcome in The End. The Bears and the Panthers Combine For 96. Unfortunately for Panthers fans, 59 Came From Chicago, who scored seven touchdowns in the game. Quarterback Caleb Williams accounted for four touchdowns total: two through the air and two on the ground, as the Bears blasted past the Panthers In The Second Half. Williams finished 21/29 for 269 passing yards, a 124.1 passer rating, and a couple of big shots downfield. The Bears on the ground crushed the 291-yard total, None More Impressive Than Kyle Monagai's 61-yard dash through the Panthers ' defense in the fourth quarter with the game well out of reach. The Panthers’s Defense Gave Up 552 Total Yards Of Offense, 7.9 yards Per Play, 7.5 Yards Per Rush 10/14 On Third Down. The Scoreboard Overshadowed A Promising Game From Bryce Young 23/37, 361 Passing Yards, Three Touchdowns, One Interception, 110.3 Passer Rating and Pretty Accurate Over The Middle Which I Wanted To See Above All Else, Young Displayed The Stride’s In His Game in This Contest. The Panthers invested heavily in their defense this offseason, and the defense got shredded on so many levels- certainly not what Carolina Fans Expected.