NFL Week Three takeaway.
NFL Week Two Reviews
By The End Of The nine-game, one o’clock Skate, I Found Myself Caught At The Intersection of the SpongeBob Exhausted Meme and the SpongeBob Crossed Eye Meme. I Don’t Know Which One Works Better After The NFL Put Forth A Thriller, A Barn Burner, In Week Two. Only A Handful Of Sunday’s Slate Of Games Didn’t Come Down To The Wire, Including The Lions' Throttling of the Bears for 51 Points On The Scoreboard And The Ravens Pantsing The Browns in a divisional Battle. Still, Even The Rams Vs Titans Games Had Some Pay Attention Moments With Cam Ward connecting on a Ridiculous Touchdown. By Sunday Night football, the Super Bowl Rematch between the Chiefs and Eagles Felt Like An Afterthought Compared To watching the early Slate, and My Brain Could Simmer Down With just One Game To Focus On.
The Giants and Cowboys Took Over Early, A former prime matchup In Most years, Jettisoned To the mid-card, roared to high-stakes End as Russell Wilson Dusted The Dirt Off His Shoulder and cranked out so Many deep Balls That His Thirst For Adrenaline Betrayed Him In The End. The Colts And The Broncos, Two Teams Lacking prime-time “Attraction,” Put On A Thriller Of Their Own That Ended In A Missed field Goal That Briefly Won The Game For Denver Before A Penalty Gave Indy Another Try, this time 15 Yards Closer For The Win. Indy Now Stands as The Only Undefeated Team In The South, and Now That Daniel Jones Hung 300 On A Credible Defense, He Has Won The Football World Over as The Franchise Guy New York Always Thought Of Him.
The Bengals lost Joe Burrow To A Toe Injury In The Second Quarter. Back-up Jake Browning threw Three Interceptions, just two and A Half Quarters' Worth Of Action, But The Bengals Still Came Away As Winners In The Battle Of The Cats, 31-27. Browning Finished 21/32 For 241 Passing Yards, Two Touchdowns, Three Interceptions, and A Passer Rating of 69.9. Jamar Chase Went Nuclear, 14 Catches For 165 Receiving Yards and A Touchdown. The Jags just Kind Of Dropped Or Waved This Game Off, as Brian Thomas couldn’t Hold On To Multiple Passes, finishing with just 4/12 On Targets.
Sunday Night Football: Vikings Vs Falcons
No rousing Comeback, No Moment(S) where Vikings’s Quarterback JJ McCarthy puts the Game-Changing PASSING Plan All Together, the Falcons Lead wire-to-wire, Knocking Off Minnesota 22-6. Powered By A Phenomenal Performance By Bijan Robinson, 22 Carries, 143 Yards Rushing In a Dominating Display Of Rushing Talent. He And Running Back Yyler Algerier Combine For 219 Rushing Yards In Total. The Vikings' Defense Kept Atlanta Out Of The End Zone early In The Game, but Not Off The scoreboard as New Starting Kicker Parker Romo kicked 5/5 On Field Goals. The Vikings' Defense Held The Falcons' Pass Game In Check. Michael Penix Jr 13/21 for 135 Passing Yards, But He Did Help Convert Some Big Third Downs. Penix Completed Just Three Passes Over 10 Air Yards and Converted 5 First Downs With His Arm.
The Falcons' Defense Smashes the Vikings' Offense. The Days of Bottom-of-the-League pressure look over as the Falcons Rack Up Six sacks, 16 Total pressures on JJ McCarthy, Completely Plastering The Vikings' Offensive Line.
JJ McCarthy had an up-and-down Debut. He Looked Rattled Early But Bounced To Deliver The Comeback Win. Some Football Minds Gave McCartyy an " A “B” For His Performance. I Think I Heard That Grade Twice. He Didn’t Quite Past The Bar For Me—Not That He Had To—But Questions About The Polish
of His Game
Remained Unanswered. His Arm Lacks “Liveness.” He’s Closer To Kirk Cousins Or Less, But McCarthy Has Talent But Limits. The Bears couldn’t outdo the Vikings Because The Bears couldn’t Run The Ball, But The Falcons Have A Devastating Run Game That Might Not Allow McCarthy Back Into The Game If The Vikings Start Slow. The Falcons run the Ball effectively with Bijan Robinson, who pushes the Falcons Into The Vikings' Red zone on the First Drive, where Atlanta settles for A Field Goal. Robinson Got Off To A Strong Start Running, 5 Carries For 58 Rushing Yards, But The Falcons' Offense settled for Two Field Goals, going 0-3 In The Red Zone In The first Half, As The Falcons averaged 7.5 Yards Per Carry; the Second Drive Ended In A Punt.
The Defense Really Bailed The Offense Out, Forcing Two Field Goals and A Fumble Of Drake London With The Falcons Moving The Ball. McCarthy would Put Together A Red Zone Drive In The Second Quarter, But The Falcons' Defensive Line Would Sack McCarthy Back To force Minnesota Into A Field Goal. Despite Some Monumental Struggles, Including Five Sacks, McCarthy Connects With Justin Jefferson For 50 Yards To Set Up A Field Goal. The Vikings can’t create Often Splash Plays to Come Back In This game. McCarthy has Talent, But Lacks arm Talent, and With The Vikings' Offensive Line banged up. Defenses Have Hit McCarthy for a Better 50% Pressure Rate and 18% Sack Rate So Far This Season, which needs to improve and Will Improve. O'Connell needs to adjust his offense to accommodate McCarthy's situation and limitations as a quarterback. McCarthy's ability to throw out routes with his arm talent isn't sufficient; he needs to strengthen his grip or wear gloves, as he fumbled three times and lost one, resulting in a total of three turnovers. Without A Big Arm To Bail The Vikings Out Late In Games, McCarthy has to tone down His Turnovers.
Panthers Vs Cardinals
In Many Ways, Bryce Young Has Kyler Murray To Thank for His Entry Into The League As A Number One Pick. Before The “Success” Of Quarterbacks Like Murray And Russell Wilson, Quarterbacks Under 6 Feet Were Overlooked—Even 6 Feet Quarterbacks Faced Skepticism. Then Murray’s Blend Of Shiftiness and Playmaking Enticed The League To Believe That Tye Diminutive Had More To Offer Beyond Their Physical Stature. Young Struggled On Opening Day and Got Off To A Rough Start In His Week Two Matchup Against the Very Cardinals With Two Turnovers On Te Cardinals' First Two Drives—One A Fumble, The Other A Bad Interception With Pressure Barreling Down On Him. Young threw a Pick That Nearly Mirrored The One Kyler Murray would throw later In The Game, further cementing the Challenges Faced By The Shorter Quarterbacks who Showcase A quickness Advantage But Not A Strength to Get The Ball Out Of Trouble in Pressure Situations.
The Cardinals Nearly Pasted The Panthers In This One, But In The End, Arizona Came
Away With a Wire To Wire Victory Proving Not Every Small Quarterback Has The Same Juice.
Bryce Young Salvaged What Looked Like A Dubious Performance To Start The Game With A Late second-quarter performance, adding three Touchdowns after the Panthers Fell Down 27-3. But Bryce Young and The Panther Made The Game Interesting Late, Stitching Three second-half half-touchdowns and 19 Unanswered Points To Lose By a Respectable Five, 27-22. After Starting The Game With back-to-back Turnovers, Young Rallied Himself Against A Relaxed Cardinal Defense For 35/55 for 328 Passing Yards, Three Touchdowns, And One Pick, most of which came in The Second Half, and Enough To Justify Starting Young Again Next. The saving Grace For The 5’10 Young The Panther Number One Pick 6’4 Tetairoa McMillian, who has Suction Cups For Hands. He caught 6 Passes For 100 Receiving Yards. Hunter Renfrow, In His First Season Back In Football, Caught Two Touchdowns. Another drawback for Young is that his drives take a lot of time. All of Young’s Touchdown Drives Require More than 10 Plays. The First Touchdown Drive Took 14 Plays, 7:17 Mins, for 76 Yards, The Next Drive, 14 Plays, 5:27 for 88 Yards Offense. The Panthers averaged 4.6 Yards Per play, and that’s Great When You Have A Lead, But When You’re Playing From Behind, You Want To Score Faster, and the Panthers Struggle With This Pace Of Play Element. Young Generated The Bulk Of His Yardage On The sheer Number Of Pass Plays The Panthers Exhausted To Dig Themselves Out Of The Hole. Only One Of Young’s Completions Came On A pass Over 20 Air Yards Or Better Down Down The
Field. The Panthers' Offense Always Finds Itself Behind The Chains Facing Third And 7 Plus and Sometimes 4th And 10 Plus, But Young’s Hero Ball Converts From the Grave He Dug The Offense.
Kyler Murray, Who Got His Team Off To A Hot Start, Found Himself A Little overshadowed by a Young Finish. Murray only needed 17/25 for 220 Passing Yards To Secure One Touchdown And One Interception To Secure A Cardinal Victory. Murray Threw A Foolish Interception Under Pressure Late That Resulted In a Panthers touchdown On The Next Drive, And Plays Like Those and The Entire lackluster finish To This Game raise questions about Murray’s Ability To Win “Bigger” Games For The Cardinals. The Cardinals Have Started 2-0, But Have A Ways To Go Before They’re Considered A Threat In The NFC West, As They Get A True Test In The Niners In The Coming Week.
Packers vS Commanders
Thursday Night Football
Through Two Weeks, the Packers Have Proved Themselves As the Team To Beat In The NFC, Notching Their Second Victory Over AN NFC Playoff Team In A week, defeating the Commanders 27-18 on Thursday Night.
The Lead This Game Wire To Wire Getting Off To A 14-0 Lead In The Second Quarter The Commander Got as Close As One score In The Fourth Quarter But Jordan Love And Never Felt The Challenge As The Commanders' Defense And Offense Couldn’t Set The Pace. The Packers' defensive Line helped control The Game, Notching Over 15 Pressures and Sacking Jayden Daniels Four Times. Usually, Daniels’s Ability To Scramble Neutralizes Pressure, But The Packers Instead Neutralized Daniels, Who Generated -0.02 EPA When He Scrambled. The Packers' Secondary Also Proved To Be Difficult For Daniels In The Passing On 55 Dropback. Daniels Came Away With Just 200 Passing Yards, 85.4 Passer Rating, and 57.1% Completion Percentage, and -0.23 EPA Per Dropback. Not Jayden Daniels' Like Number In A Big Game Against A Conference Foe.
Jordan Love Entered This Season Needing To Take His Game To The “Next Level”. Semantically, The Phrase “Next Level” Has A Number, But Tangibly, Love Needs To Throw and Oaky With Better Accuracy and Timing, Especially On His Deep Ball. Love Finished Last season Below Average. In Deep Ball success Rate 34.7%, That Comes With Love, Improving His Connection with the six targets the Packers have out wide. Love First Challenge Against The Went as Well As Possible, He Average Over 11 Yards Per Completion and While Passes Of 20 plus Yards Didn’t Hit The Mark, He Only Needed 16 Completions To Put The Packers’ Opening Win The Bag. You Have To Love This Matchup Between Two Of The Young Heralded Quarterbacks Of The NFC, And Really The NFL. The AFC has Set The Pace For Quarterback Rivalries With Burrow, Mahomes, Allen, and Lamar All In Their Primes Simultaneously, As Guys Like Herbert and Stroud Peek In From Time To Time. The NFC doesn’t Have Such Rivalries Yet, But One Such Could Rise From This Contest. Jordan Love Still Struggles With His Deep Ball. He Attempted Multiple Deep Shots On The Packers' First Drive, Testing This Young Commanders’ Secondary, But Every One Fell Incomplete. The One He Did Complete That Would’ve yielded a touchdown to Jayden Reed Got Called Back Because Of a Holding Penalty Against The Packers’ offensive Line. Another Shot On Fourth Down That The Commander Defensive Back Broke Up Downfield. The Packers, however, struck first On The scoreboard thanks To A 57 Yard Catch And Run By Tight End Tucker Kraft That Set The Packers Up In The Red Zone. Love Delivers A Yard Strike To Romeo Doubs To Put The Packers Over. Love Hit Wide Receiver Malik Heath For A Big 37 Yard Reception, Toe Tap On The Side Line That Flipped The Field Position and Set Up A Josh Jacobs Goal Line With A 2-Yard Touchdown To Cap Off A 10 Play 92 Yard Drive. The Commanders Pulled Within A Score To Start The Fourth Quarter. Jayden Daniels Drove the Commanders On A Short Field From The 50 inTo The Red Zone. The Drive Hit several Speed Bumps, Including A Sack, some no-gainers on The Ground, and Multiple Fourth Downs—A Credit To Green Bay’s Defense— But Daniels Hits Tight End Zach Ertz For A 20 Yard Gain And A Score to Cut the Lead 17-10. The Commanders Finished 1-3 on Fourth Down The Packers Wasted No Time Responding On Offense The Very Next Drive, Love Connects With Tight tucker Kraft Who Walked Away With 124 Receiving Yards, 4.13 Yards Per Route Run and A Touchdown. Jordan Love Connected On Just Two Of His Seven Attempts On Passes 20+ Air Yards But He Scored Big In The Intermediate Area Finishing 19/31 For 292 Passing Yards, +7.0 CPOE, Taking Two Sacks and A Passer Rating 113.9. Can the Packers Sustain This Level Of Play throughout the Season? The defensive Play Keeps The Packers ahead. Once They Amass An Early lead, But So Far Jordan Love hasn’t Played In a high-leverage game Where He Needs To Lean On His Arm Talent To Win Out Late. He’s Never Really Excelled As A High Drop Back Guy Like Many Of His Peers In The Top 10 Quarterbacks. If the Packers' Defense Continues To Play At This Level, Love won't ultimately Need To Win With His Arm. The Packers Haven’t Trailed Yet This Season, and That Will Expose The True Nature Of This Team.
The Commanders Got Outclassed In This Matchup, And They’re Experiencing The Effects Of A Tougher Schedule This Season Compared To Last. After Beating Down A Bad Giants Team Last Season, the Commanders Would Face A bears, Falcons, or Arizona Next Instead Of A Tough Packers Team. The Commander Also Lost Running back Austin Ekeler to an Achilles Injury and Edge Rusher Deatrich Wise To A Quad Injury. The Commanders Have a Favorable Stretch Of Games For The Upcoming 5-7 Weeks.
Cowboys Vs. Giants
“Vintage Russell Wilson.” The Classic Performance From The Giants And Cowboys That Nobody Saw Coming. The Two Rivals and the Landmark Brand, At Their Lowest position on the Cards, Come Up With a Thrilling Slugfest.
The Giants Haven’t Shifted Their Position as One Of The Worse Franchises In Football Since The Last Time The Team Made Any Noise In The NFL In 2023. The Giants' Defensive Line Has The Potential To Make Sunday Difficult For Dak And The Cowboys' Offense Thanks To Some Elite Talent. The Giants' Defensive Line Didn’t Shift The Outcome Of The Week One Game Versus The Commanders, But The Cowboys Enter The Season Far More Vulnerable At Left Tackle With Tyler Guyton Struggling. The Cowboys Extended Their Guard Tyler Smith This Week. The Giants' Defensive line Made An Imprint In Pressure. However, the Giants struggled with Penalties, Including Numerous Infractions On Defense. The Cowboys Picked A Couple Of “Free Plays” During The Second Quarter, One That Set Up the Cowboys' First Touchdown Of The Game. Dak Laser A Red Zone Touchdown To Kavontaye Turpin On 3rd And 9 To Cut The Giants Lead to 13-10 Before The Half. The Giants Initially Stopped The Cowboys on Third, A Series Of Penalties Gave Dak Another Shot at the end, and the Giants picked up A Penalty On the Second third-down try, Which Allowed Dak To Play aggressively and Throw Over The Middle. The Giants Still Ended The first Half outgaining the Cowboys 251-144 In Total Yardage.
Football Writers Of America Had Already Started Writing Obituaries For Russell Wilson after he Struggled To Lead The Giants To One Of The worst offensive showings of The Opening Against The Commanders. The Giants Ranked Last in Most Power Rankings, But Wilson Responded, Starting His Second NFC East Game Against The Cowboys 16/19 For 221 and A Touchdown. Wilson Tossed A Beautiful 29 Deep Ball Touchdown To Number One Receiver Malik Nabers In The Second Quarter To Give The Giants An 13-3 Lead in The Second Quarter. The Giants outgained the Cowboys 246-94 In Total Yardage With Less Than Three Minutes Left In The Game. The Giants' Offense slowed down tremendously. Javonte Williams scored a 30 Yard Rushing Touchdown To Give The Cowboys A 17-13 lead. Jaxson Dart Makes An Appearance In The Fourth, If Only For His Mobility, To Force The Cowboys' defensive Line Out Of Position For Cam Skrtel to Score A Leading Touchdown In The Fourth. The Cowboys and the Giants traded scores in the fourth quarter down to the wire.
In The Second Half, As The Cowboys Pick Up The Pace On Offense After A Early Turnover, the Cowboys Score On Four Straight possessions, Including Three Touchdowns.
Resulting In Four Lead Changes In The Fourth Quarter Of This Game. Maybe the Cowboys' Defense Read Too Much Into The Demise Of Russell Wilson Because The Giants' Quarterback With Deep blasts after Blast Connecting with Wan’Dale Robinson For A 32 Yard Touchdown and Malik Nabers for a 48 Yarder On back-to-back drives As The Game swung back And Forth. In Regulation, Wilson Completed 7 Of 9 Deep Passes For 264 Passing Yards Of his 433 Yards. However, Scoring Deep Didn’t Allow The Giants To Kill Enough Clock, But With Less Than A Minute Left To Play. Prescott and The Cowboys’ Offense Carve Out 21 Yards In Two Plays To Set Up A 64 Yard Field Goal for Brandon Aubrey to Set Up Over Time, Tied 37-37. Over Time, The Limitations Of The Giants' Offense Under Wilson begin to show. Rarely, Their Head to the Cowboys' Defense adjusting to Playing The Deep Ball, but Wilson can’t Adjust To the taking Away of His Capacity To Attack Deep. Both Offenses Get Three Drives in Overtime. Wilson Missed A Series Of Deep passes, Including A Deep Interception On The Final Possession Of Overtime For The Giants. The Cowboys and Dak Prescott Pick Up A Quick 27 Yard Completion to George Pickens, and three Plays Later, the Cowboys Set Up a game-winning field Goal. The Giants Fall To 0-2 as The Cowboys Move To 1-1. Russell Wilson's Performance included 30/41 Passing, 450 Passing Yards, Three Touchdowns, One Pick, and A Passer Rating Of 123.0. His Two Leading Receivers Wan’Dale Robinson 8 Catches, for 142 Receiving Yards, Three Catches Of Over 20 Yards Receiving. Malik Nabers The “Would-Be” Game Winning Reception, 9 Catches For 167 Receiving Yards, Two Touchdowns with a 53.47 Targeted Air Yard Percentage. The Giants' Offense Betrayed Itself By Not Trying To Win The Methodical Game Late, Instead Living and Dying By The Gun Of Deep Balls. Wilson Also Generated Some Success in the short game. Dak Nearly 60 Dropback For 38/52 361 Passing Yards And Late Game Saving Drive. The Cowboys Got 18 Carries and 97 Yards From Javonte Williams. Ceedee Lamb with 9 Catches For 112 Receiving Yards, George Pickens caught A Touchdown and Nabbed The 27 Yard Reception That Set the game-winning field goal, finishing With Five Catches For 68 Yards. The Giants Suffered 160 Yards In Penalties, on 14 Penalties, Many Of Which Set Up Many Cowboys Scores.
Seattle Vs Pittsburgh
The Seahawks' Offense had to Play Better If They wanted to Secure Their First Win. When Facing A Defense in Pittsburgh that gave up 32 Points In Week One, What Better Way To Pass Their Own Test Than To Copy The Jets' Answers? Seattle Scored A Touchdown On Their Opening Drive With Rookie Receiver Tory Horton Jr. running The Same Crossing Route That The Jets Used To Score Against the Steelers in Week One. Seattle Demonstrated The Best Of Darnold’s Capacity For down-the-field passes and Seattle's Play Calling and Play Design. The Seahawks Would Struggle To Add To Their Lead, Showcasing The worst of Seattle and Darnold, Despite The Defense Holding The Steelers to Just Two Field goals. The Seahawks' Offense Couldn’t dig Into The Jets' bag of Tricks. Instead, Darnold Throws an Interception on a Bad Throw and Play Call—Why Is Cooper Kupp Running A Quick Out? — That Leads To a Pick On the First Pass On The Seahawks' Second Drive and A Pittsburgh Field Goal.
The Seahawks' Defense Kept This Game From Getting Away From Seattle, Just Like in Week One Versus The Niners. Darnold’s Second Interception Of The first Half Resulted In Pittsburgh's Touchdown. Darnold Had A Short Pass Tipped as Seattle Sought To Convert A 4 & 2, but Cameron Heyward deflected The Pass That Landed In The Hands Of a Steelers Linebacker, Nick Herbig. Aaron Rodgers led the Steelers To The Red Zone And connected with DK Metcalf For His First Touchdown Against His Former Team. Rodgers Than Hits Big Tight End Darnell Robinson For A Point Conversion. Rodgers Struggled Against The Seattle Defense Starting The Game 9/20 For 119 Passing Yards With A 60 PASSER rating Through The Third Quarter. With both offenses Struggling In The Second Half And The Steelers Down By Three, the Pittsburgh Special Teams commits A Blunder. Seattle Kicks The Ball Back To The Steelers, Rookie Kaleb Johnson Forgot The Rules That If The Ball Lands In The Landing Zone(as the area between the receiving team's goal line and its 20-yard line) Becomes Live( can be recovered by kicking team)If The Returning Team Doesn’t Field The Ball and Down The Possession as A Touchback. The NFL Introduced The Rule This Season, And The Steelers became the First Team To Fall Victim To This Slight Oversight. The Steelers' Offense and Aaron Rodgers This Time Couldn’t Put Together A Winning Performance Against This Seattle Defense That Picked Rodgers Off Late To seal Seattle’s First Victory Of The Season, 31-17. Seattle Survived Something Of A Rough Game Passing For Sam Darnold, Who Threw Two Picks and Finished With a Passer Rating Of 89.8 To Hold Off The Steelers. Darnold Racked Up 295 Passing Yards On 22/33 Passing and Two Touchdowns, 189 Passing Yards on Explosive Passes. Aaron Rodgers Rough Second Game, Seattle Pressured Him 21 Times, Sacked Rodgers Three Times as Rodgers Finished With A 58.0 Passer Rating, One Touchdown, Two Picks, 18/33 For 203 Passing Yards. According to PFF 65% Of Rodgers' Yards Came After The Catch, including a 65 Yard Catch and Run By Running back Jaylen Warren in The Third Quarter. The anticipated onslaught from the Steelers against the Jets never materialized in this matchup. Seattle running back Kenneth Walker had 13 Carries for 105 Rushing Yards. In The Receiving Game, Jaxson Math Njigba Caught 8 Passes For 103 Receiving Yards, Sam Darnold Targeted Cooper Kupp Eight Times. The Only One Kupp didn’t catch turned Into An Interception. Otherwise, Kupp Caught 7 Passes For 90 Receiving Yards, Five First Downs. The Steelers Have So Many Leaks On The Roster that The Offensive Line Lacks Chemistry, The Defense Struggles To Hold Up In Coverage, and Aaron Rodgers has Limits against Speedier defenses that Aggressively Close Windows Shut. The Steelers Again Got very Little From The Run Game In Support, 14 carries for 48 Yards On The Ground. If the Steelers cannot secure either the defense or the run game, they must enhance their performance this season; without that support for Aaron Rodgers, his efforts will be of little value.
Bills Vs Jets
Buffalo’s Josh Allen may Have Seized The Attention Of The Football World, Leading The Bills to A Thrilling comeback Win Over The Ravens, But The Jets Quarterback Justin Field Finished Week One With The Highest EPA per Play In The League. Should conversations and Headlines Center Around Fields With Their First AFC East Matchup Start With How Fields Can Attack Buffalo’s Defense? As A Fields’s I Didn’t Think His Career Redemption Arch Would Start With The Jets—Usually Quarterbacks Leave The Jets For Redemption—But Week One Proved The Jets Had The Structure Under a Rookie Head Coach To a Ring The Best Out Of Justin For Just One Week Thus Far. Fields has Always Had A Proficiency For The Deep Ball, Going Back To His Days At Ohio State, and He Registered a 158.3 passer rating on throws of 10 or more yards(PFF), but Fields Played A Serenity In The Pocket, Not Looking To Run At Any Turn, But Settled.
No Comebacks High Jinks In This One as The Bills Go Wire To Wire In A Division Matchup As The Bills Bully Jets and Make Off with a 30-10 Victory. The Bills Run Roughshod Over The Jets, literally 224 On The Ground, 5.2 A Carry As The Bills Register Multiple Explosive Runs. Josh Allen Broke Through For A Big 40 Yard Scramble, and James Cook blew the Ankles Of Multiple Jets Defenders On His Big 44 Yard Run, Dancing Through The Jets’ Defense. Cooks Racked Up 132 Yards On 21 Carries For Two Touchdowns. The Bills didn't rely heavily on the passing game, as the Jets' offensive struggles allowed the Bills to build a significant lead and coast to victory. Quarterback Josh Allen 14/25 for 148 Passing Yards, One Touchdown, one Pick, and A passer Rating Of 73.4.
Justin Field Didn’t Look Near As Sharp As the Quarterback We Watched In Week One. Fields Left With a Concussion In The Second Half After Proving Mostly Ineffective In The Pass Game. 3/11 For 27 Passing Yards and 5 Carries 49 Rushing Yards. On The Ground, Facing A Mediocre Run Defense, the Jets couldn’t Get Much Going Outside of A Few field scrambles. The Jets Struggled With design Runs. The Jets' First Two Drives After Scoring 32 Yards In Week One Netted -2 Two Yards and One Turnover, and By The End Of The First, the Jets Had Two Drives That Netted Better Than 25 Yards. The Bills' Defense, Which Looked Like An Open Book Against The Ravens, sure up Some Small Things.
