![]() ![]() They’ll line up on opposite sides when MIAMI (2-0) has the ball against DENVER (0-2) on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium (1:00 PM ET, CBS).ĥ. SPOTLIGHT – INDIVIDUAL MATCHUP: Broncos cornerback PAT SURTAIN and Dolphins wide receiver TYREEK HILL each earned first-team All-Pro honors last season. PITTSBURGH (1-1), which travels to face the LAS VEGAS RAIDERS (1-1) on Sunday Night Football (8:20 PM ET, NBC), also became the first team to record at least six sacks, four takeaways and two defensive touchdowns in the same game since NEW ENGLAND in Week 2 of the 2019 season.Ĥ. WATT became the first pair of teammates to each post a sack and touchdown in the same game since 1982, when the individual sack became an official statistic. RENEGADES: In their Monday night win, Steelers linebackers ALEX HIGHSMITH and T.J. The last time the NFC East had three 2-0 teams was 1989, when the Giants, Eagles and Cardinals opened undefeated through two weeks.ģ. DALLAS, PHILADELPHIA and WASHINGTON are each 2-0. The NFC East is a combined 50-24-2 (.671), substantially better than the next-closest division, the AFC North (42-33-0. NUMBER OF THE WEEK – 50: The number of wins by NFC East teams since the beginning of 2022, most in the NFL. He now needs one more game of two-or-more rushing touchdowns to reach 10 such games in his career and match the NFL record among quarterbacks, held by CAM NEWTON.Ģ. O In last week’s win, Hurts ran for two touchdowns. During the Super Bowl era (1966-present), he’s only the sixth quarterback to win at least 19 games over a 20-start stretch, joining TOM BRADY (twice, 2003-08), PATRICK MAHOMES (2019-20), JIM MCMAHON (1984-85) and Pro Football Hall of Famers PEYTON MANNING (2008-09) and JOE MONTANA (1983-84). O Eagles quarterback JALEN HURTS has guided his team to wins in 19 of his last 20 regular-season starts. O Tampa Bay has won each of its last four against Philadelphia, including the postseason. 654) own the NFL’s fourth-best record, trailing only KANSAS CITY (41-11. O Since the beginning of 2020, the Buccaneers (34-18. Only DALLAS (plus-seven) has a better mark through the season’s first two weeks. O Both Tampa Bay (plus-five) and Philadelphia (plus-four) rank among the league’s top three teams in turnover ratio. In recent seasons, both the Chiefs in 2019 and the Rams in 2021 earned Week 3 wins against undefeated opponents en route to world championships. ![]() In that span, 14 NFL games have featured a pair of 2-0 teams in Week 3, and seven of those 14 games have produced an eventual Super Bowl berth. Since 2010, early season tests between undefeated teams have foreshadowed Super Bowl appearances. SUPER BOWL HARBINGERS: PHILADELPHIA (2-0) travels to TAMPA BAY (2-0) for a Monday Night Football showdown (7:15 PM ET, ABC) featuring the week’s only battle of unbeaten teams. But don’t get comfortable with big leads because, if you haven’t learned by now, comebacks are contagious in the NFL.ġ. So as you return from your halftime break this week, word to the wise: Do get comfortable with close games because they’re here to stay. The Giants’ win marked the seventh time since 2019 in which a team overcame a deficit of 21-or-more points to win, including the postseason. While it stood out so far in 2023, that comeback wasn’t unusual in recent history. In the most impressive comeback this season, the NEW YORK GIANTS last week overcame a 21-point third-quarter deficit to win, 31-28. Also in Week 2, 13 of 16 games were within one score in the fourth quarter.Īnd close games in the fourth quarter are many times intertwined with their sibling complement: Comebacks. This past week was historic as 12 games – tied for the most ever in a single NFL week – were decided by eight points or less. Since the NFL expanded the postseason in 2020, 20 of 21 teams that won at least 66.7 percent of their one-score games (decided by eight points or less) have advanced to the postseason. That’s significant for many reasons, the most revealing of which is this: Winning close games leads teams to the playoffs. This year, the average final-score margin is 9.50 points through two weeks. NFL games have picked up where they left off in 2022, when the average final-score margin was only 9.70 points, the lowest for a full season since 1932 (9.13). It’s the new normal in the National Football League: Games are closer than they’ve been in 91 years and large leads are an endangered species.
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