The third week of the NFL Season showed six quarterbacks make their first start of the new season; not for any good reason. This third week showed brilliant comebacks, dramatic moments and a lot of scoring. Every week I will have five takeaway from the weekends game, and i’ll share them with you.
Daniel Jones is an NFL Quarterback
Okay maybe I should slow my roll, but I really don’t want to. He excites me because I don’t know a situation with more pressure right now in the NFL. A top ten pick in the draft, quarterbacking for the big New York market, replacing a fan favorite in Eli Manning. Despite all of that, he delivered in a big way. Throwing for 336 Yards on 64% completion and two touchdowns with no picks. Pretty impressive right? Well let’s tack on two rushing touchdowns including one that ended up winning the Giants first game of the young season. He had a huge night and showed us all that the Giants may have their new franchise quarterback.
The Saints Will be Fine
If you’ve missed a week or so of NFL news, you may be asking “WhoDat” when you see who’s behind center for New Orleans. Drew Brees is out for up to six weeks and you can get yourself familiar with Teddy Bridgewater. Former Minnesota Vikings quarterback, he went through a big injury back in 2016 and hasn’t started in the NFL besides a week seventeen throwaway since. Fortunately for the Saints faithful, he didn’t seem to miss a beat.
While Bridgewater won’t be Drew Brees, (who can be?) he seems to look competent and understand his role. His job is just to manage this team and play well enough to keep Drew Brees in contention. However, no one would blame him for losing to the 2-0 Seahawks. Despite that, he beat them with room to spare; throwing for two touchdowns and blazing off to a big lead up 20 going into the fourth. The Saints have a big test in the Cowboys at home this coming week, but don’t write them off without a thought.
Patrick Mahomes is Going to Repeat as MVP
Wow. I think that’s all we can say to talk about the start Mahomes has had to this season. Leading in yards, touchdowns, passer rating and throwing no interceptions through three games is ridiculous. He’s currently on track to throw for well over 6,000 yards and 53 Touchdowns- historic numbers. Most likely, he won’t end up with that, but with this bad man who even knows. I can’t see anyone catch up to him barring a freak injury, and the Chiefs are going to be a tough team to beat this year.
Haskins Should Start Week 4
The Redskins have started their season at 0-3 and haven’t looked good since the first half of the Eagles game. Keenum hasn’t looked terrible out there but what is he doing exactly? They’re still losing games, all of them to be exact and this last game gives the Redskins their excuse. Throwing three picks against the Bears is enough reason to send him to the bench and throw the fifteenth overall pick to the lions.
Goff Needs to be at Home
Jared Goff is an amazing home QB, an MVP caliber player in that environment. Away? He just doesn’t seem to have it. His passer rating drops by 30 when he’s away from home and this week drives the dagger for me. A Browns secondary that was almost completely second stringers was able to keep up with Jared Goff and without Baker Mayfield’s offense stalling they really would’ve lost that game.
MVP Race
I want to start something new. Every week i’m going to put up who I think deserves to be in the race; even if I believe one man will be atop it all season
1 – Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs (3-0)
1,195 Pass Yards, 10 Passing TDs, 134.9 Passer Rating, 0 Interceptions
2 – Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys (3-0)
920 Pass Yards, 9 Passing TDs, 128.0 Passer Rating, 2 Interceptions, 1 Rushing TD
3 – Tom Brady, New England Patriots (3-0)
911 Pass Yards, 7 Passing TDs, 116.5 Passer Rating, 0 Interceptions, 1 Rushing TD
4 – Dalvin Cook, Minnesota Vikings (2-1)
57 Attempts, 375 Yards, 6.0 YPC, 4 Rushing TDs, 14 First Downs
5 – Jamie Collins Sr., New England Patriots (3-0)
14 Solo Tackles, 19 Total, 2 Interceptions, 1 Pick Six, 2.5 Sacks, 74 Return Yards
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