Can a operating again win the NFL’s MVP award? Can the Baltimore Ravens flip their season round? We pick some Winners and Losers from NFL Sunday…
Winner – James Prepare dinner
Let James Prepare dinner. The Buffalo Payments are a completely totally different risk when their star operating again is enjoying a outstanding function within the gameplan. As a lot has been the case since Joe Brady stepped up as offensive coordinator in November 2023 rather than the fired Ken Dorsey, who was criticised for his failure to maximise Prepare dinner’s two-way function as each a chain-moving operating again and added spice to Joe Allen’s passing assault.
The Payments had been responsible of falling stale on offense within the face of evolving defenses that sought to quash Allen’s deep risk, Prepare dinner’s best-of-both skills making a far higher supply of phantasm to maintain opponent’s trustworthy. On Sunday he torched the Carolina Panthers with 19 catches for a career-high 216 yards and two touchdowns, together with his 64-yard home name, to grant his quarterback permission for a quiet afternoon.
It marked probably the most dashing yards by a Payments participant since O.J. Simpson’s 273 in November 1976. Brady wants to start out fascinated by 20-25 touches each recreation for him.
Loser – Myles Garrett
Myles Garrett put in a commerce request with the Cleveland Browns earlier this yr, underling a ‘need to win, seemingly and rightly fed up of dropping on a group that torpedoed its quarterback scenario whereas losing what continues to be among the finest defenses within the NFL. Days later he agreed a four-year, $160m extension; it felt barely contradictory, contemplating all we all know the Browns to be as an anti-winning organisation. The non-cynical ones amongst us may select to imagine it was loyalty out of the franchise who made him the face of town.
Regardless, Sunday was a reminder of how removed from profitable he and the Browns are as Garrett put up a career-best 5 sacks solely to see Cleveland hobble to a 32-13 defeat to the New England Patriots. The efficiency additionally noticed Garrett break the file for many sacks earlier than the age of 30 in NFL historical past with 112.5, whereas being the third participant ever to put up 10-plus sacks in at the very least eight seasons. Having traded away Joe Flacco, the Browns are searching for to seek out out whether or not they have a solution at quarterback in Dillon Gabriel. However the frustration is mounting for Garrett, who was seen smashing his helmet on the bench Sunday.
“I would throw the whole performance in for a win,” he stated post-game.
Winner – Justin Fields
Being happier for anyone within the NFL greater than Justin Fields was a tall order this weekend.
It felt solely too becoming that Fields would assist steer the Jets in direction of their long-awaited first win of the season to cap every week wherein he had been topic to direct and public criticism from group proprietor Woody Johnson, who selected to pin the blame on his quarterback over head coach Aaron Glenn. Fields completed 21 of 32 for 244 yards and a decisive game-winning landing move to Mason Taylor as New York surprised the Cincinnati Bengals 39-38 having trailed 24-10 after which 31-16 earlier than discovering the tip zone thrice within the fourth quarter.
His post-game interview did a lot of the speaking with out lots of speaking, Fields nearly smiling in aid that he was in a position to produce the right response, with Tyrod Taylor rumoured to start out had he not been injured. Fields and the Jets had a serious serving to from operating again Breece Corridor, who had 18 carries for 133 yards and two touchdowns amid hypothesis linking him to a commerce forward of the league’s November 4 deadline. In distinction, the Bengals squandered a golden alternative to resurrect their season behind Joe Flacco, who once more proceed to reignite Cincinnati’s stumbling offense within the absence of Joe Burrow solely to see his facet come up brief in a bid to maneuver to 4-4.
“When I was on the field, I was damn near crying,” Fields stated. “Not because we won. But just how everything I’ve been through the past week, everything we’ve been through as a team these past seven weeks. Lots of ups and downs.”
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New York Jets operating again Breece Corridor made the landing move to Mason Taylor because the guests accomplished the comeback, securing their first victory of the season
Loser – Bijan Robinson
Is there a stranger group within the NFL than the Atlanta Falcons? They lose 0-30 to the Carolina Panthers, they take down the Washington Commanders and MVP Josh Allen’s Tremendous Bowl-contending Buffalo Payments after which on Sunday hunch to defeat towards a Miami Dolphins group in tatters with a head coach burning on the recent seat and an ideal efficiency from a quarterback in Tua Tagovailoa beneath fierce scrutiny for feedback relating to his teammates.
Atlanta have been with out Michael Penix Jr as Kirk Cousins returned beneath heart, however the true story got here at operating again as Bijan Robinson was restricted to only 9 carries for 25 yards, amongst which was a misplaced fumble ultimately zone because the Falcons didn’t get their run recreation going. It was the newest reminder that this group runs by the manufacturing of its multi-purpose Offensive Participant of the 12 months candidate; when Robinson has a quiet day, so do Atlanta – as a lot elevating query marks over why there are video games when Zac Robinson appears to neglect who he has within the backfield, much more so when it’s with their backup quarterback on the sector. 12 complete touches in your finest participant is felony. They’re a well-recognized image of inconsistency, blessed with expertise however unable to rework it right into a dominant run.
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Khalil Shakir’s excellent 54-yard landing noticed Buffalo pull additional away from Carolina
Winner – The Ravens’ season
Baltimore entered the week in Final Probability Saloon territory, floating dangerously on the point of a untimely finish to their season. However they’d maintain their marketing campaign alive due to a 30-16 win over the Chicago Bears, snapping the four-game winning-streak of Ben Johnson’s group and rising to 2-5 with Lamar Jackson anticipated again on Thursday after a three-game absence and their playoff ambitions nonetheless nearly alive.
Tyler Huntley proved a serious improve on turnover-prone Cooper Rush at quarterback together with his potential to scramble and play out-of-structure, punched in two touchdowns together with a decisive fourth-score, and security Kyle Hamilton’s deployment as a move rusher out of the field arrived a desperately-needed spark to one of many worst defenses within the league. Huntley completed the sport 17 of twenty-two for 186 yards and a landing, whereas dashing for 53 yards.
The Ravens are heading right into a beneficial run on their calendar with video games towards the Miami Dolphin, Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns and New York Jets, Jackson’s imminent return growing hope of a dramatic turnaround over the second half of the season.
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Chicago’s DJ Moore took an unbelievable catch late within the fourth quarter towards Baltimore
Loser – Kellen Moore
New Orleans is unimaginable, the Superdome is majestic, NOLA followers are loud, thrilling and pleasant, and but it stays one of many least interesting head coach jobs in soccer.
They’re caught in quarterback purgatory, Spencer Rattler being benched in Sunday’s 23-3 defeat to the Tamp Bay Buccaneers earlier than Tyler Shough 17 of 30 passers for simply 128 yards and an interception. Kellen Moore deserves a few years to try to make this work, however there are few head coaches with as little to work with than the previous Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator.
The Saints are nonetheless irrelevant, rating fourth-worst in scoring offense as Moore now spends the following day or two deciding whether or not to start out Rattler or Shough in Week 9. Rattler has been intercepted 4 instances and sacked seven instances during the last two video games, as with Robinson, star participant Alvin Kamara was afforded simply six carries for 21 yards.
New Orleans are actually 1-7 and in pole place for the No 1 choose on the 2026 NFL Draft. Moore needs to be excited and enthused concerning the prospect of digging this Saints offense out of the mud, however they’re a franchise in bother.
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