Los Angeles will be a headache for someone, if the team reaches the playoffs. Plus, we can’t ignore Russell Wilson, Bill Belichick’s interest in UNC and more.
was the final week of byes, which means this season is really entering the home stretch. As we've been doing all season, we'll publish the takeaways Sunday and update them live through Monday morning. So come back again if not all 10 are here yet …The Los Angeles Rams may not be loaded like they were three years ago—but Sunday showed that, on a given game day, there isn't a team in the league they can't knock off.
Allen piloted touchdown drives of 80, 70, 91 and 70 yards. Over those four possessions, Buffalo's final four of the game, the Bills ran up 279 yards from scrimmage on 32 plays, which averages out to 8.7 yards per offensive snap. And yet, as the avalanche of production struck the Rams, they weren't overrun by it and goaded into mistakes or sloppy play.
Stafford dropped his arm angle to get the ball around a defender's arm, and slung it into a window where Atwell could chase it down. And it was nice symbolism that it was those two, since those two loom large as a perfect illustration of why the Rams will be a headache for someone, if they make it to the playoffs. It's not like the Bills didn'tto cover Kupp and Nacua. It's that the Rams kept finding ways to make it borderline impossible to.
He's started seven games, won six of them and posted a triple-digit passer rating in five. He took the helm at a point when plenty of Pittsburgh Steelers players and coaches, with the team at 4–2, would have rather had Justin Fields, who competes and carries himself like a born Steeler, just stay in there.
On Sunday, it manifested with Wilson throwing to nine different receivers and connecting with eight of them. He took care of the ball, the Steelers won the turnover battle and he kept the offense on schedule . He did what Tomlin wants from his quarterback on a day when George Pickens, Pittsburgh's No. 1 option by a mile, didn't play.
Or, at least, that's what Jonnu Smith, the Miami Dolphins’ veteran tight end, would tell you. And that's something I learned when I asked him to describe his game-winning touchdown from overtime Sunday against the New York Jets. It’s part of what’s giving the Dolphins a shot, with the Houston Texans, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and another game with the Jets left on the schedule, and two games to make up with the three teams tied at 8–5 for the final three spots in the AFC playoff picture.
So what does this show? To me, it's two things. First, the Giants were under no illusion that they should bank on Jones breaking through to another level—the way he did in 2022—again, to justify picking up the $30.5 million on his contract for next season. Second, it makes it apparent that the plan has been, as John Mara has said, to stay the course with the current regime and give Schoen and Brian Daboll the chance to draft a quarterback.
“We just had to stay locked in for four quarters, had to be on the same page,” David says. “You got to play a full football game at the end of the day.” Then, word emerged of internal resistance against a Belichick hire being voiced to Blank, which was followed by Belichick abruptly being left on the outside looking in. Could Belichick's takeaway from that experience be a hardened belief that an organization needs to be set up in a certain way in order to win? It sure could be. And in college, while there are plenty of hands in the pot, there's never any question that the coach is king.
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