The Football Five 🏈
- The Eagles crushed the Titans, 35-10, with A.J. Brown absolutely annihilating his former team with 119 yards and a touchdown, but it was Philadelphia’s other star wide receiver that set the tone, writes NFL expert Jeff Kerr. Philadelphia earned an A+ in our weekly grades.
- Playing in his first game in 23 months, Deshaun Watson struggled, but the Browns‘ defense scored a pair of touchdowns and Donovan Peoples-Jones had a punt return touchdown in a 27-14 win over the Texans.
- The Giants and Commanders tied 20-20, and, well… yeah. That’s that.
- Geno Smith capped his first fourth-quarter comeback since 2014 with a touchdown pass to DK Metcalf as the Seahawks earned a crucial 27-23 win over the Rams. Thanks to the Commanders’ tie, Seattle hopped back into the 7 seed in the NFC.
- Behind five turnovers forced by the defense — including one on four straight drives in the fourth quarter — and scores by pretty much every offensive star, the Cowboys thrashed the Colts, 54-19. Dallas outscored Indianapolis 33-0 in the fourth quarter, tied for the largest margin in a fourth quarter in NFL history. It was also Scorigami!
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The Bengals did something no other team has done in an impressive, 27-24 win over the Chiefs. Cincy is now the only team to beat Mahomes three times in his career (including playoffs), and all three have come in the 2022 calendar year: Week 17 last season, last season’s AFC Championship and now again Sunday.
Here’s how:
- Joe Burrow threw touchdowns to Tee Higgins and Chris Evans and ran for one of his own, Samaje Perine had 155 yards from scrimmage with Joe Mixon (concussion) out and Ja’Marr Chase had 97 receiving yards after missing over a month with a hip injury.
- Patrick Mahomes had season-lows in passing yards (223) and completions (16) and tied his season-low with just one touchdown. The Bengals did a great job on him and on his favorite target, Travis Kelce (four receptions, 56 yards, lost fumble).
- The Chiefs’ five-game winning streak came to a close, while the Bengals pushed their own winning streak to four.
What I liked most was that Cincinnati closed it out in a fashion many teams aren’t willing to try: with a 10-play, 39-yard drive that included two 3rd-downs converted by Burrow’s right arm. So many teams get conservative and simply try to run clock, even against the Chiefs,…
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