Buffalo cornerback Taron Johnson (7) breaks up a pass to New York Giants tight end Darren Waller on the final play of Sunday’s game. It preserved the Bills’ low-scoring 14-9 victory.
This past weekend was the most terrible offence week the NFL had seen in over a decade.
The NFL had its lowest scoring week since 2014 as a result of young quarterbacks struggling throughout the league, elite defences for Cleveland and the Jets stopping strong offensive efforts from San Francisco and Philadelphia, and superstar quarterbacks Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes failing to score even 20 points in their games.
The NFL’s lowest scoring week since Week 15 of the 2014 season, when teams averaged 18.2 points, occurred in Week 6 when teams throughout the league scored an average of just 18.4 points.
For the lowest number of points in any week since the 1995 season, just two teams—Miami and Jacksonville—scored at least 27 points. The NFL record for the most teams kept to 20 points or less in a single week was 23, teams.
Mahomes and the Chiefs defeated Denver with a meagre 19 points, giving him his second victory of the year without scoring 20 points. During Mahomes’ first five seasons as a starter, Kansas City scored at least 20 points only three times when he started.
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- The Bills defeated the Giants 14–9 to equal a record for the fewest points scored in a victory since 2018—Alan Allen’s debut campaign.
Eight other teams, including the Browns (19-17 over the 49ers) and the Jets (20-14 over the Eagles), prevailed last week without scoring more than 21 points. The record for most points in a week was shared by the ten victorious teams that scored 21 points or less. The 1993 season’s 13th week saw the last occurrence of it.
The main reason was a lacklustre passing performance, as clubs in the league as a whole had the lowest passer rating (78.6) of any week since Week 14 of the 2016 season (77.5).
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This season, the 1972 Dolphins were able to enjoy the end of the unbeaten teams a bit sooner than normal.This is the first season since 2017 that every club has lost at least once in the first six weeks when San Francisco lost to the Cleveland Browns and backup quarterback P.J. Walker, and Philadelphia lost to the New York Jets and backup quarterback Zach Wilson.
- The NFL claims that two teams who were 5-0 or better suffered losses to backup quarterbacks in the same week for the first time since QB starts were first recorded in 1950.
With their respective defeats, the Eagles and Niners are now tied for the best NFL record at 5-1 with Kansas City, Miami, and Detroit.
The Lions own at least a share of the top record in the NFL this late in the season for the first time since Week 11 of the 1993 campaign. Before going 10-6 that season, they were one of five teams tied at 7-2.
- Miami is continuing playing at a ridiculous pace despite the struggles of most offences. After defeating Carolina 42-21, the team now has 223 points for the season.
The 2013 Broncos (265 points) are the last team in NFL history to have scored more in the first six games. Only five teams have done it overall.
The Dolphins have accomplished this both aerially and on the ground, becoming only the second team in NFL history to have at least 15 touchdown throws and runs in the first six games of a season, along with the 1958 NFL champion Colts.
- Having scored 11 of those touchdowns in his team’s first six games, Raheem Mostert is the eighth player in the Super Bowl era to do so. This season, Mostert has scored more touchdowns on his own than eleven teams combined.
With 814 yards received thus far this season, Tyreek Hill is second all-time behind Don Hutson’s 819 in 1942.
NEW AWFUL
The Giants have perhaps struggled more than any other team to score points; their 14-9 loss to Buffalo last week included drives that ended at the 1-yard line in either half is proof of that. - In the past 13 seasons, New York is the third club to go three games in a row without scoring an offensive touchdown. The Giants have only accomplished it twice in the Super Bowl history; the first time was in 1976, when they went four games without an offensive score.
With two touchdown passes after six games, New York has less than any other club since the 2009 Raiders, who had two touchdown passes with quarterback JaMarcus Russell. Additionally, the Giants are the only team since 1998 to have not scored any offensive touchdowns in the first half of a season.
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New York came close Sunday night, driving down to the 1 in the closing seconds of the first before getting stopped on a running play and letting the clock run out. The game ended with the Giants throwing an incomplete pass on an untimed down from the 1.
It was the first time a team reached the 1 on two drives without scoring on either since the Broncos did it in the 2022 opener at Seattle last season. Melvin Gordon and Javonte Williams both lost fumbles to end those drives.
TURNAROUND TEAMThe Bills managed to win that game against New York despite being held scoreless in the first three quarters.
TURNAROUND TEAM
The Bills managed to win that game against New York despite being held scoreless in the first three quarters.
It was the second time this season a team got shut out at home in the first three quarters and came back to win, with Green Bay doing it in an 18-17 victory over New Orleans in Week 3.That hadn’t happened once in the previous 10 seasons.
The last time the Bills won a home game after being held scoreless in the first three quarters came during a replacement player game in 1987 when they beat the Giants 6-3.
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