Plus, the Browns are a quarterback away from being contenders, Mac Jones bounced back, Bears have survived the storm and much more.
The football remains sloppy, and the flags were plentiful , but there are still plenty of pieces to pick up from a scattershot Sunday. Our Week 7 Takeaways …And there are tangible results that really back that up. But we’re going to start with an intangible that’s served as the foundation for the team’s last two wins, sandwiching the Steelers’ Week 6 bye.Last year, you’ll remember, Pittsburgh started 2–6. Everyone assumed Tomlin would have his first sub-.500 season in 16 years as Steelers coach.
“That completely was the spark,” Pickett says. “They were in man. He’s a heck of a route runner. When I see that, I want to give him a chance to win and get open. Nine times out of 10, he’s going to do that. Great route, put the ball on him and then the run after catch is just what we’ve been pushing to get better at. He was awesome at that. It was awesome to have him back.”
Of course, that sounds ridiculous, given that Cleveland gave up three first-rounders , and a massive, unprecedented, fully guaranteed, five-year, $230 million contract just 19 months agoCleveland’s got a run game that churned out 155 yards on 33 carries against the Colts on Sunday. And do they ever have a defense—the best Myles Garrett says he’s ever played on.
And Cleveland could survive because the roster is incredibly well-rounded and loaded with win-now players, a situation that begs for a star quarterback. Watson was supposed to be that star. Instead, he’s still having games such as this one, in which he was 1-for-5 for five yards and a pick, and had another easy pick dropped on a play he got hurt on.
Last week, I said on Boston radio that the Bills would beat the Patriots by 30, because I figured they would drive into the same ditch they did against Dallas, and spin their wheels there faced with a more talented team.The Patriots, Gesicki would go on to tell me, worked on the clichéd fast start by emphasizing the first play of periods and the beginning of practices—New England added a fourth last week after a third straight loss—to try to create a coming-out-flying mindset.
And that much was apparent on the team’s final drive. That’s where, after blowing a 22–10 lead, the Patriots did need Jones to come through for them. After the drive got going with a 34-yard screen to Rhamondre Stevenson, Jones did convert on the aforementioned third-and-8—throwing a seam to Hunter for 14 yards. “Nobody was playing for overtime … Coach O’Brien called it aggressively,” Gesicki says, “where we could have just ran it and got to the 34, 33 and kicked a field goal.
After taking it on the chin in Kansas City in Week 3, as all of that swirled around, Chicago’s gone 2–2. Both losses came down to the end of the fourth quarter and were determined by a single possession. The wins came by 20 and 18 points, the latter being Sunday’s 30–12 beatdown of the Raiders. And the foundation, as coach Matt Eberflus sees it, was laid back in the spring and summer, when his team was still coalescing.
If this sounds a little like kids doing trust falls at summer camp, so be it. It worked for the Bears, and that much was obvious not just in how they came out flying in the first half against the Broncos in Week 4, but then how they responded against the Commanders four days later, after blowing the 21-point lead they built on Denver.
Jackson has the Ravens in first place, looking very good in his first year under Todd Monken.Tommy Gilligan/USA TODAY SportsThe MMQB Lead this week is going to feature the Ravens’ annihilation of the Lions. But I couldn’t let the Takeaways pass without pointing outAdd in a rushing touchdown, and he had his hand in four of the team’s five scores, and the cool thing is each one came in a different fashion.
,” Sirianni told reporters at his postgame presser. “I really appreciate that. A guy from Jamestown N.Y., I never thought I’d say,“A.J. is a phenomenal player,” he continued. “He just has this unbelievable ability to come down with the football. Nobody catches the ball as pretty as A.J. Brown. Nobody. I can’t tell you how many times in practice. I’m just in awe of good wide receivers, and the skill that they have. Nobody goes and snags the football like him—nobody I’ve seen.
And for most teams, that’d probably be it for spending that sort of capital on that position for at least a little while. “There’s still just little things here and there—the first-drive penalty, it just hurts,” Patrick Mahomes told reporters after Sunday’s breezy 31–17 win over the Chargers. “We play big games like this, those can be really big. And then the second half, just little miscues here and there. If I can hit Rashee on that one, when they’re triple-teaming Travis, he’s probably gonna score. So just little things here and there that I have to get better at.
Colorful language aside, Washington’s got some decisions to make over the next eight days. They Commanders are just a game under .500, but they host the Eagles on Sunday, so they could very easily be 3–5 with the trade deadline looming two days later, and attractive pieces on the roster.
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