WEBVTT - NFL Week 10 FULL SLATE Preview 0:00:00.170 --> 0:00:03.290 Pittsburgh Steelers all rested up for the second half of 0:00:03.330 --> 0:00:06.290 their season, hit the road on a four-game win streak 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.340 for some Sunday night football action. 0:00:08.580 --> 0:00:09.380 Where else would you rather be? 0:00:09.980 --> 0:00:11.959 Where else would you rather be? This mountaintop ain't big 0:00:11.980 --> 0:00:13.770 enough for the both of us, man. Let's go! 0:00:14.340 --> 0:00:18.500 Monster divisional matchup. They're in Cincinnati. Bengals took care of 0:00:18.590 --> 0:00:23.590 business in Spain, setting up 6-2 versus 6-2. Winner sits 0:00:23.650 --> 0:00:25.070 atop the AFC North. 0:00:25.250 --> 0:00:29.050 Quarterback sneak, quickly into the end zone, touchdown. Joe Burrow 0:00:29.350 --> 0:00:30.350 calls his own number. 0:00:30.470 --> 0:00:34.339 This is round two, week three. They set a high bar, man. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:35.059 Great game. 0:00:35.409 --> 0:00:40.850 Joe Burrow, 280-plus yards, three touchdowns. Jamar Chase, 98 yards, 0:00:40.909 --> 0:00:44.890 a TD. T. Higgins, 90 yards and a score. But 0:00:45.229 --> 0:00:50.690 Aaron Rodgers countered with 290-plus yards, three touchdowns. Jalen Warren 0:00:50.990 --> 0:00:55.250 ran for 127 yards. Chris Boswell hit a go-ahead field 0:00:55.290 --> 0:00:58.670 goal with 2.15 to play. Burrow had the Bengals in 0:00:58.750 --> 0:01:01.850 range for a long field goal try. Gets sacked by 0:01:01.970 --> 0:01:02.810 Derek Harmon. 0:01:03.170 --> 0:01:04.110 Loses the ball. 0:01:04.450 --> 0:01:06.810 Steelers hang on to win it 30-27. Ball is loose. 0:01:06.890 --> 0:01:09.970 A battle for it along the ground. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.380 Who's got it waiting for the official signal? And it 0:01:14.459 --> 0:01:16.500 is Pittsburgh Steelers football. 0:01:16.740 --> 0:01:19.839 That's the game Pittsburgh's offense kind of woke up. They 0:01:19.860 --> 0:01:23.860 don't have stellar offensive digits for 2026, but from that point, 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:28.070 they've scored 24-plus points five of their last six games. 0:01:28.130 --> 0:01:30.430 It's going to be Friermuth under center, the tush push, 0:01:30.470 --> 0:01:31.429 and the touchdown! 0:01:31.870 --> 0:01:33.010 Rodgers is fired up. 0:01:33.340 --> 0:01:37.680 Cincinnati's defense, holding teams to 22 points per game. They 0:01:37.780 --> 0:01:41.310 rebounded from that Tennessee game nicely last week, holding the 0:01:41.370 --> 0:01:42.690 Falcons to 17. 0:01:42.690 --> 0:01:44.750 A rollout for Penix. 0:01:45.209 --> 0:01:47.350 Gets to the sideline. Nowhere to go with the football, 0:01:47.370 --> 0:01:48.350 so he throws it away. 0:01:48.470 --> 0:01:51.870 And while Rodgers had a good game versus Cincinnati, it's 0:01:52.010 --> 0:01:55.130 Warren who's been the most consistent force for their offense 0:01:55.270 --> 0:01:58.310 as of late. He's rushed for 90-plus yards in five 0:01:58.350 --> 0:02:02.240 of their last six. Four 100-yard games in that span. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.260 leads the NFL with a 5.9 per carry average. 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.320 He's averaging 88 yards per game on the ground, and 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:09.760 this is the biggest mismatch on this side of the 0:02:09.780 --> 0:02:11.299 ball because this week he's looking at a Cincy D 0:02:11.300 --> 0:02:12.100 that's allowed 100-yard. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.380 Games to the last two backs they've faced. 0:02:13.380 --> 0:02:32.200 117 on 5-6 a run allowed to Tony Pollard, then 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:36.060 100 yards to Bijan Robinson, 5-3 a carry last week. 0:02:36.490 --> 0:02:40.169 Five yards per try allowed for the season, too, so 0:02:40.250 --> 0:02:42.630 stopping the run, not a strength of theirs. 0:02:42.750 --> 0:02:46.140 Bijan Robinson, blocker in front, first down and more, breaks 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.380 a tackle, submarines to the red zone. 0:02:48.540 --> 0:02:52.060 Warren, also averaging 36 a game through the air, the 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.680 Bengals allowed Bijon to go for 47 receiving yards, 68 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.320 yards allowed to Drake London, but the Bengals' secondary also 0:03:00.410 --> 0:03:03.870 rebounded well after giving up 300-plus yards to Cam Ward, 0:03:04.169 --> 0:03:09.919 holding Michael Penix to 162. just 5.2 per attempt, a 0:03:09.900 --> 0:03:13.440 74 rate, which brought their season rating down under 90. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.200 Over the middle, scooped up. Is it intercepted? Barrett Carter. 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:18.980 It looks like they are going to say that he 0:03:19.060 --> 0:03:19.619 picked it off. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.550 DK Metcalf leads Pittsburgh with 47 yards a game. Their 0:03:23.590 --> 0:03:26.850 passing attack very much a committee approach. They have seven 0:03:26.910 --> 0:03:31.500 guys averaging between 29 yards per game and DK's 47. 0:03:31.500 --> 0:03:36.280 Jeremy Bernard, tight ends Pat Friermuth, Darnell Washington, safe bets 0:03:36.300 --> 0:03:38.480 to be out there this week with Rodgers, who is 0:03:38.660 --> 0:03:40.980 averaging 233 yards per game. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.900 And he's got the tight end, Washington, being chased by Schlesinger, 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.040 shoved out of bounds, no, the big man down inside 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:49.680 the five. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.260 They also have Roman Wilson, who's been nursing a hurt finger, 0:03:53.580 --> 0:03:56.780 Michael Pittman, a hurt foot, both hoping to make it back, 0:03:56.860 --> 0:03:59.760 if not this week, then soon. Only one team had 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:04.430 allowed more sacks than Pittsburgh's after nine weeks, 23-8 games, 0:04:04.730 --> 0:04:07.810 so close to three per game. Guard Mason McCormick has 0:04:07.830 --> 0:04:11.680 given up four. Left tackle Troy Fautanu has been beat 0:04:11.690 --> 0:04:15.080 for four and a half. Right tackle Max Iannichor, a 0:04:15.140 --> 0:04:16.520 team high five and a half. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.800 Trying to keep this one alive, not this time. 0:04:19.290 --> 0:04:23.160 Cincinnati's pass rush, which has a healthy 23 sacks for 0:04:23.180 --> 0:04:26.100 the year, comes off a donut when it comes to sacks. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.200 Boye Moffay, Dexter Lawrence and company didn't get to Pennix 0:04:30.420 --> 0:04:33.859 once on 31 pass attempts. Joe Burrow, on the other hand, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.540 took two versus Atlanta, and man did they slow him down. 0:04:37.860 --> 0:04:41.950 Cincinnati's offense only able to scratch out 34 points. That's 0:04:42.070 --> 0:04:45.169 four straight 30-plus point games for that offense. 0:04:45.190 --> 0:04:45.370 Hey! 0:04:45.710 --> 0:04:46.670 It's Jamar Chase. 0:04:47.010 --> 0:04:48.029 He's got a touchdown. 0:04:48.070 --> 0:04:50.409 And if you don't slow down these wide receivers on 0:04:50.430 --> 0:04:52.930 the outside, you are in for a scoring battle. 0:04:53.089 --> 0:04:56.080 Pittsburgh's defense has played most teams better than they did 0:04:56.180 --> 0:04:59.180 Burrow and company. Those 27 points they gave up their 0:04:59.220 --> 0:05:02.580 season high, they've held five of the seven offenses they've 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.850 played to fewer than 21 points. 18 points per game, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.909 big picture. Top 10 good on third down, healthy 13 takeaways, 0:05:10.210 --> 0:05:12.190 and have been elite in the red zone. 0:05:12.410 --> 0:05:16.589 Judd Gittles. Trevin backwards. Prisker was right there. 0:05:17.010 --> 0:05:20.479 Burrow threw three touchdowns against them. They've only given up 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.640 seven TD passes all year, second fewest after nine weeks, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.760 which is the reason their secondary has held quarterbacks to 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:28.800 a low 80s rate. 0:05:28.820 --> 0:05:31.640 That's away from Highsmith. Watson on the move, and he 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.860 throws incomplete for Boston. Samuel on the coverage. 0:05:35.450 --> 0:05:38.890 Now they face the hottest quarterback going, Burrow, the one 0:05:38.950 --> 0:05:43.020 TD run, three through the air, three-plus passing touchdowns in 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:49.099 four straight, 271 yards, a 140 rate in Spain, 270-plus 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.040 yards in five of his last six. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.200 Burrow back to throw. Into the end zone. Touchdown. Second 0:05:55.250 --> 0:05:57.210 of the day for T. Higgins. I mean, this is 0:05:57.270 --> 0:05:58.010 just beautiful. 0:05:58.330 --> 0:06:01.870 Burrow only took one sack versus Pittsburgh. Obviously, it was 0:06:01.910 --> 0:06:05.650 a very costly one sack. Steelers, without blitzing much at all, 0:06:05.790 --> 0:06:09.570 had the most sacks in the NFL after eight weeks. Hayward, 0:06:09.630 --> 0:06:12.370 two and a half. Alex Highsmith, three and a half. 0:06:12.730 --> 0:06:13.970 Nick Herbig, three. 0:06:14.310 --> 0:06:15.229 And that T.J. 0:06:15.290 --> 0:06:19.470 Watt guy, individual bag leader after eight weeks with seven. 0:06:19.250 --> 0:06:19.730 And a half. 0:06:20.190 --> 0:06:24.360 Watson, look out! Watt! It's Watt! 0:06:24.860 --> 0:06:27.839 Same guys that ate in the passing game versus Pittsburgh 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.719 week three filled their bellies last week. Higgins scored twice 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.890 for the second game in a row. touchdowns in three straight. 0:06:35.010 --> 0:06:36.810 It's just not fair. Watch what T. 0:06:36.870 --> 0:06:39.969 Higgins does here, and again, how he catches the ball. 0:06:40.230 --> 0:06:41.510 Only 32 yards. 0:06:41.630 --> 0:06:44.720 Jamar led the way on that front, also scored, but 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:50.800 155 yards. That's back-to-back 140-plus games for Chase, so he's 0:06:50.940 --> 0:06:51.740 in fuego. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:52.980 Backpedaling is Burrow. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.960 Floats one to the sideline for Chase. Does he get 0:06:56.310 --> 0:07:01.390 two feet down? He does it again. Toe-tapping Jamar Chase. 0:07:01.710 --> 0:07:02.930 It doesn't get any better than that. 0:07:03.210 --> 0:07:07.390 Dante Myers, 47 yards. Tight end Mike Gasicki's TD streak 0:07:07.490 --> 0:07:11.510 ended at 5. Bengals' rush attack hasn't been overly impactful, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.520 but they come off a 123-yard effort. Samaji Pirine, 43 yards. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.480 Chase Brown, 57 on 6-3 a pop. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:20.400 Again, it's Brown. 0:07:20.620 --> 0:07:20.980 Again! 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.930 He finds a crease to the secondary. All the way down! 0:07:24.310 --> 0:07:28.170 Steelers' defense, zero weaknesses, as they're holding runners to a 0:07:28.210 --> 0:07:32.400 nice low 3.6 per carry average. Linebackers Patrick Queen and 0:07:32.460 --> 0:07:35.290 Peyton Wilson, both with 60-plus tackles. 0:07:35.650 --> 0:07:39.350 Oh, what a great play defensively. Peyton Wilson, who is 0:07:39.410 --> 0:07:40.700 playing so well. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.640 Time to brush up on your Bob Denver. New England 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.700 Patriots off to Germany this week. 0:07:46.770 --> 0:07:48.150 They need the vacation. 0:07:48.230 --> 0:07:50.530 Tried to throw a party last week, and a bunch 0:07:50.570 --> 0:07:52.100 of cheeseheads crashed it. 0:07:52.350 --> 0:07:55.300 Has time, stands in, fires across his body, and it's 0:07:55.310 --> 0:07:55.600 going to. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:56.260 Be picked off! 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.520 Now they have to try and rebound versus another one 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.580 of the NFC North's elites. Could all four of those 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.660 teams make the playoffs? Detroit should, especially if that defense 0:08:06.740 --> 0:08:07.350 keeps it up. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:08.900 Think about it. After four weeks, the Lions hadn't kept 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.460 a team under 24 points. They are now sitting on 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.940 a 23-point-per-game average. They've held four straight teams under 22 points. 0:08:23.890 --> 0:08:27.680 Held Miami to nine points, no touchdowns. Their secondary didn't 0:08:27.700 --> 0:08:30.460 even get Kirby Joseph back, but they did get Brian 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.930 Branch back, held Malik Willis to 128 yards, a 50 rating, 0:08:35.470 --> 0:08:43.190 No TDs picked him off. Okay, sure, holding Willis and 0:08:43.230 --> 0:08:47.130 Kyler Murray to fewer than 190 yards the last two games, 0:08:47.410 --> 0:08:50.310 like holding Chad Powers and Uncle Rico in check, so 0:08:50.350 --> 0:08:53.320 making May look bad would really be a statement, and 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.240 he's coming off a game akin to Drake doing battle 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:56.760 with Mr. 0:08:56.820 --> 0:08:57.320 Duckworth. 0:08:57.580 --> 0:09:00.459 He was picked off three times by Green Bay. first 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.400 really rough game since week three. 0:09:02.420 --> 0:09:04.780 May had 100-plus rate games, four straight games prior to 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.920 last week. He still threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns. 0:09:16.660 --> 0:09:19.800 But they were kind of empty stats. 27 points is 0:09:19.820 --> 0:09:22.559 a lot of points, though, and New England's offense hasn't 0:09:22.620 --> 0:09:25.880 left work without at least 24 in six straight. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:31.580 May going deep. Stephenson's open. He's got it. Touchdown, New England. 0:09:32.059 --> 0:09:35.620 May took four sacks last week, and Micah wasn't even back. 0:09:35.700 --> 0:09:38.280 That's three-plus sacks taken back-to-back games. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.090 Second down, blitz again, May in trouble. May is sacked! 0:09:42.420 --> 0:09:46.430 Detroit's pass rush, elite, got Willis three times, Derek Moore 0:09:46.470 --> 0:09:50.090 with two. Their pass rush, 27 sacks for the season, 0:09:50.429 --> 0:09:51.770 top-shelf stuff. 0:09:51.990 --> 0:09:55.670 They come on the side, Moore chasing, Moore's got him! 0:09:56.470 --> 0:09:57.650 What a defensive play! 0:09:57.870 --> 0:10:01.200 When May was upright, 35 yards to Hunter Henry, 36 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.300 to Mack Hollins, 46 and a touchdown to Ramondre Stevenson, 0:10:05.300 --> 0:10:07.800 49 and a TD to Efton Chisholm. 0:10:07.940 --> 0:10:08.600 Hope C.J. 0:10:08.660 --> 0:10:10.380 Gardner-Johnson was watching. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:10.830 As a free agent. 0:10:11.190 --> 0:10:16.230 Eli Raridon, 52 yards. Demario Douglas, 75-plus yards in three 0:10:16.250 --> 0:10:19.979 of his last four after going for his first 100-yard game. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:21.880 Looking to take a deep shot. He's got him in 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.040 wide open and it's caught. Demario Douglas. 0:10:25.380 --> 0:10:28.540 New England barely ran last week for obvious reasons. When 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.270 they did, it was effective. 16 attempts, 94 yards, 5.9 0:10:32.270 --> 0:10:37.290 a carry. Stevenson, 5.3 on his six tries. Corey Kiner, 0:10:37.290 --> 0:10:40.760 6.9 and a TD on eight tries. He's at 5.3 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.859 plus in three of his last four and will take 0:10:43.940 --> 0:10:46.340 on a heavier workload because Stevenson is going to miss 0:10:46.380 --> 0:10:47.500 some time with an injury. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.900 Looking for the end zone, and he's going to get there. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.240 Touchdown for Corey Kiner. 0:10:52.540 --> 0:10:54.930 So then you get to the other matchups, which are 0:10:54.970 --> 0:10:58.430 more like Kyle Cartman's slap fights based on last week, 0:10:58.490 --> 0:11:02.650 because New England gave up 372 yards and three touchdowns 0:11:02.690 --> 0:11:04.950 to Jordan Love, a whopping 12.8 yards per attempt, no 0:11:04.970 --> 0:11:06.370 INTs for a 153 rate, 164 yards allowed to Matthew 0:11:06.690 --> 0:11:08.550 Golden and a touchdown, 171 yards and a TD to 0:11:08.590 --> 0:11:20.949 Christian Watson. The normally locked-down Christian Gonzalez got beat for 0:11:20.970 --> 0:11:24.290 a whopping 187 yards and a score. 0:11:24.809 --> 0:11:29.380 Jordan Love also playing great. Going deep again. What's it again? 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.459 New England gave up 45 points to Green Bay, gave 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.620 up 30 to Chicago a couple of games. 0:11:34.460 --> 0:11:35.140 Back, too. 0:11:35.540 --> 0:11:37.640 Love looks the other way, throws over the middle, and 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:38.860 it's caught wide open. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:39.640 It's golden. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.910 They've given up big points to Jacksonville, Buffalo, Chicago, and 0:11:43.950 --> 0:11:48.190 Green Bay, all teams averaging 24-plus a game. And Detroit 0:11:48.290 --> 0:11:50.630 is too, but they only came up with 19 a 0:11:50.670 --> 0:11:54.020 week ago versus a Miami defense that had been pretty 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.439 generous with the points prior to that game. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.880 Here comes the pressure. There goes the wobbly throw. Bobbled incomplete. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.120 Jared Goff in a two-game slump. Sure, struggling versus Minnesota 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.850 made sense, but Miami's secondary sports the worst rating in 0:12:08.890 --> 0:12:11.410 the NFL, and he got picked off for the second 0:12:11.450 --> 0:12:14.150 game in a row, no touchdowns, only threw for 170 yards, 0:12:14.170 --> 0:12:19.650 walked out with a 70 rate. back-to-back sub-90 rating games. 0:12:19.970 --> 0:12:22.689 First and ten, it's picked off on a deflected ball. 0:12:22.890 --> 0:12:24.450 Just the second this season. 0:12:24.670 --> 0:12:27.750 Goff took three sacks on 25 pass attempts versus a 0:12:27.809 --> 0:12:31.390 pass rush, last in sacks. He's now taken seven in 0:12:31.410 --> 0:12:34.329 his last two games. Left tackle Panay Sewell got beat 0:12:34.370 --> 0:12:37.730 for one. Tate Ratledge won. They've each allowed three and 0:12:37.750 --> 0:12:38.730 a half for the year. 0:12:39.170 --> 0:12:42.150 Five again, heavy pressure. They got him! Sacked again! 0:12:42.740 --> 0:12:45.460 New England's pass rush did at least sack Love three 0:12:45.500 --> 0:12:48.300 times on his 20 pass attempts. Elijah Ponder with one 0:12:48.340 --> 0:12:51.500 and a half. That's 24 overall, so they're a threat. 0:12:51.660 --> 0:12:53.380 Working here today on a third down. 0:12:53.420 --> 0:12:53.840 It's Love. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.380 Pressure this time at his face. Down he goes! 0:12:56.780 --> 0:12:57.610 Amon Ross St. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.310 Brown, the only Lion to hit Week 10 with anything 0:13:00.390 --> 0:13:03.720 positive to work off of. Eight catches on 10 targets, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.000 86 yards. That's 69-plus yards, five of their last six games. 0:13:08.300 --> 0:13:10.540 And up the middle he goes, Amon Ross and Brown, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.420 who squirms away from Rodriguez. 0:13:12.660 --> 0:13:18.040 Jamo, a 31-yard catch. Sam Laporta, 32 yards. Jameer Gibbs, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.650 74 rush yards and a touchdown, but only 3-7 to carry. 0:13:21.970 --> 0:13:24.970 Third time he's been held under four. He's been playing 0:13:25.050 --> 0:13:25.890 ping pong. 0:13:25.650 --> 0:13:26.589 So far, by the way. 0:13:26.610 --> 0:13:27.210 5-4 a run. 0:13:29.250 --> 0:13:34.780 3-3, 5, 3-1, 6, 4, 6-7 to appease the 13-year-old crowd, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.819 then 3-7 versus the Dolphins, so four games at 5-plus 0:13:38.900 --> 0:13:41.700 per carry or better, 4-under, 4-1. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.350 Gibbs, Sewell trying to block, look at the play by Rodriguez! 0:13:45.530 --> 0:13:46.609 Blew it up on the play! 0:13:46.830 --> 0:13:49.970 New England's rush defense, holding runners to 3-9 a carry, 0:13:50.230 --> 0:13:52.820 held Green Bay to 4 per run. which is as 0:13:52.900 --> 0:13:55.060 good as they've run the ball all year, so you 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.280 decide what that means. Detroit got hit with nine penalties 0:13:58.340 --> 0:14:00.800 last week. Hard to say if that's a lot anymore. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.210 Minnesota Vikings on the road this week. 0:14:04.510 --> 0:14:06.010 Enough was enough. 0:14:06.130 --> 0:14:09.790 With a defense like theirs, a receiver like Justin Jefferson, 0:14:09.890 --> 0:14:12.630 it was time to fire up the transporter and bring 0:14:12.670 --> 0:14:15.449 back an old friend. You could hear Captain Kirk from 0:14:15.490 --> 0:14:18.000 the City of Sin beam me up, Scotty. 0:14:18.010 --> 0:14:20.760 I got three words for you. You like that? Yeah! 0:14:22.890 --> 0:14:26.010 Vikes on a two-game skid. Packers hit this matchup having 0:14:26.090 --> 0:14:29.250 won their last two, five of their last six, and 0:14:29.380 --> 0:14:32.540 sporting a Nirvana-like big three on offense. 0:14:32.820 --> 0:14:34.940 Love looks the other way, throws over the middle, and 0:14:34.980 --> 0:14:36.160 it's caught wide open. 0:14:36.220 --> 0:14:39.080 It's golden. Touchdown, Green Bay. 0:14:39.340 --> 0:14:40.490 This is a sequel. 0:14:40.710 --> 0:14:43.270 They got it on in week one. Kyler Murray got 0:14:43.310 --> 0:14:46.490 knocked out of the game early on. Carson Wentz subbed 0:14:46.570 --> 0:14:49.989 in and threw three touchdown passes. Defense held Green Bay 0:14:50.010 --> 0:14:53.030 to three points in the second half, sacked Jordan Love 0:14:53.110 --> 0:14:53.810 four times. 0:14:54.070 --> 0:14:55.750 It was a sign of things to come. 0:14:56.050 --> 0:14:59.770 And defeat Green Bay 39-22. 0:15:00.100 --> 0:15:03.340 Love and that offense, much improved since then, but now 0:15:03.380 --> 0:15:05.780 they get to see just how good they really are. 0:15:06.250 --> 0:15:09.460 Ask Jared Goff and Josh Allen about the Purple People 0:15:09.540 --> 0:15:13.180 Eaters 2.0. Vikings may have lost to both guys, but 0:15:13.220 --> 0:15:15.970 they held the number one and number three scoring offenses 0:15:16.350 --> 0:15:18.250 well below their season averages. 0:15:18.820 --> 0:15:20.130 Allen's going for it all. 0:15:20.170 --> 0:15:23.910 He's got a man picked off by Murphy. 0:15:23.970 --> 0:15:26.210 The 23 they gave up to Buffalo, the first team 0:15:26.230 --> 0:15:29.859 they've allowed even 23 plus two, not on them, man. 0:15:29.930 --> 0:15:32.520 If you watched it, it was like watching Rocky take 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.640 all those punches from Apollo. You wanted Mick to throw 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.460 in the towel as an act of kindness, but they 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.090 kept taking it to the face and kept punching back. 0:15:41.490 --> 0:15:44.770 held Goff and Allen, both to sub-90 rates, picked both 0:15:44.830 --> 0:15:45.430 guys off. 0:15:45.590 --> 0:15:49.760 Heavy pressure on Josh Allen. Every time Allen looks up, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.700 there's purple in his face. 0:15:52.020 --> 0:15:54.100 And Love, of course, has to know how to dance 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.920 the ballroom blitz. Minnesota sacked Goff three times, who had 0:15:58.070 --> 0:16:01.870 great numbers versus 5+. It blew up Allen four times, 0:16:02.110 --> 0:16:04.230 who was supposed to be able to run past it. 0:16:04.510 --> 0:16:07.210 And it's third down and 15 to Blitz. Van Ginkle 0:16:07.270 --> 0:16:09.770 balls out, and Van Ginkle did it all. 0:16:10.070 --> 0:16:12.890 Bottom line, Love is staring at the defense. Number one 0:16:12.930 --> 0:16:15.750 in points per game allowed still. Number one in completion 0:16:15.790 --> 0:16:19.740 percentage allowed. Number one in rating allowed. Number one in sacks. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.100 Number one in QB pressure and Blitz rate. holding two 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.920 of the best and most talented offenses in the NFL 0:16:26.300 --> 0:16:28.040 in check back-to-back games. 0:16:28.220 --> 0:16:31.210 But now it's pace with a sack, and boy, does 0:16:31.250 --> 0:16:33.310 that come at a good time for Minnesota. 0:16:33.630 --> 0:16:37.630 So love your turn. Jordan rolls in off a 370-plus 0:16:37.670 --> 0:16:42.930 yard game, three TDs, no INTs, a 153-rate game, back-to-back 0:16:42.950 --> 0:16:49.870 70-plus completion percentage, 100-plus rate, three TD games. 274 plus yards, 0:16:50.050 --> 0:16:50.850 five straight. 0:16:50.930 --> 0:16:51.890 It's caught! 0:16:52.230 --> 0:16:58.050 Touchdown! Savion Williams, the other receiver. Another score for the Packers. 0:16:58.410 --> 0:17:02.040 Maybe they're more like the three amigos. Christian Watson, 100 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.760 plus yards, four times. His latest showing his best yet. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.860 171 yards and a score. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.090 This is a absolute you-know-what. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:18.800 Matthew Golden, 100-plus yards four times as well, 79-plus. 0:17:17.540 --> 0:17:19.260 Yards four of his last five. 0:17:19.060 --> 0:17:22.149 Games, caught all 10 of his targets versus New England 0:17:22.450 --> 0:17:26.830 for a season-high 164 yards, also found the paint. 0:17:27.010 --> 0:17:31.389 Love going deep. Golden again. He's got it! Golden's going off! 0:17:31.770 --> 0:17:35.820 Those cats at the heart of a season-high 45-point game. 0:17:36.100 --> 0:17:40.440 Honor dominance from this wide receiver group, and it's Christian Watson. 0:17:40.700 --> 0:17:43.100 Love hasn't taken a lot of sacks for the year. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.560 He did take three to the pass-pass. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:45.540 Rush, though. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.950 Down he goes! Patriots get home, and they needed it. 0:17:49.190 --> 0:17:52.070 As for his play versus the Blitz, well, you're looking 0:17:52.130 --> 0:17:55.590 at the quarterback tied for the most TDs versus 5-plus 0:17:55.650 --> 0:17:56.410 pass rushers. 0:17:56.790 --> 0:17:58.859 A nice 109 rate against it. 0:17:58.970 --> 0:18:01.870 Patriots send a blitz. Love. Back foot throw. He's got 0:18:01.910 --> 0:18:03.889 Watson again. He's got it. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.920 Vikings fans are screaming, our blitz ain't like any other. 0:18:08.060 --> 0:18:08.820 And they are right. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.720 Many cheeseheads were confused by one aspect of their offense 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.859 last week. Honey, the TV must be wonky or maybe 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.770 AI took it over because there's guys with G's on 0:18:18.810 --> 0:18:23.450 their helmet running the ball. 129 yards on four yards 0:18:23.530 --> 0:18:24.090 per carry. 0:18:24.150 --> 0:18:26.270 Two touchdowns. Caleb Johnson. 0:18:26.670 --> 0:18:30.140 One of the scores, 68 yards on 4.9 a run. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:31.600 This isn't fake news. 0:18:31.780 --> 0:18:32.680 It really happened. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.250 You will get it right up the middle. He is in. 0:18:35.590 --> 0:18:36.990 Touchdown Packers. 0:18:37.230 --> 0:18:40.270 The Vikings did give up 105 yards and a touchdown 0:18:40.310 --> 0:18:44.250 to James Cook. Minnesota has allowed back-to-back 100 rush yard 0:18:44.290 --> 0:18:47.290 games to running backs, and while they did struggle with 0:18:47.330 --> 0:18:50.230 Jameer Gibbs, who got him the week before, Cook ran 0:18:50.230 --> 0:18:53.890 31 times. Most of his better runs came when the Vikings' 0:18:53.950 --> 0:18:56.430 D was gassed, and they still held him to 3-5 0:18:56.790 --> 0:18:57.310 a carry. 0:18:57.390 --> 0:19:01.130 Toss to Cook. What a play. And that's big Eric Wilson. 0:19:01.369 --> 0:19:05.570 The roundhouses Minnesota's defense took all last week weren't really 0:19:05.630 --> 0:19:08.350 from Buffalo's offense as much as they were from their 0:19:08.530 --> 0:19:11.500 own offense. At least Vikings fans are going to welcome 0:19:11.580 --> 0:19:12.540 Kyler back. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:13.659 With open arms, maybe. 0:19:13.980 --> 0:19:17.240 Anybody who thought watching Murray was like having to watch 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.580 Sharknado was shown that it could be worse. They made 0:19:20.619 --> 0:19:21.700 a Sharknado, too. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:26.350 Wentz, Hawkinson, he is picked off by Dorian Williams. 0:19:26.770 --> 0:19:29.070 Eight for 25, 81 yards, two INTs, an 8.9 rating, 0:19:29.070 --> 0:19:37.180 3.2 yards per attempt. A Vikings friend texted and wondered 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.870 why KOC wasn't going Tampa Bay and just running on 0:19:40.869 --> 0:19:44.100 literally every down. It was the only chance they had 0:19:44.100 --> 0:19:47.169 of scoring a TD. The offense only managed two field 0:19:47.170 --> 0:19:50.590 goals with Wentz, 0 for 8 on third down, haven't 0:19:50.650 --> 0:19:54.110 scored even 17 points in three straight games, haven't hit 0:19:54.109 --> 0:19:55.760 24 since week one. 0:19:55.970 --> 0:19:59.280 Pressure on Wentz. He's in trouble, and down he goes. 0:19:59.580 --> 0:20:02.000 And thus, the swing for the fences to trade a 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.020 third-round pick for Kirko Chains. 0:20:04.260 --> 0:20:05.320 You could hear J.J. 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:09.030 's scream of delight from four states away. Cousins represents 0:20:09.090 --> 0:20:13.469 a major upgrade over Murray and Wentz, 240-plus yards in 0:20:13.550 --> 0:20:16.280 seven of his nine games. Two to three TDs and 0:20:16.330 --> 0:20:19.070 seven of nine. A nice 97 rating. 0:20:19.330 --> 0:20:23.109 Over the middle. Going up top. It's Bowers for the touchdown. 0:20:23.490 --> 0:20:26.320 Tough test. Right out of the gate. Green Bay secondary. 0:20:26.420 --> 0:20:28.659 One of the best in the NFL. They sport the 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.680 third lowest rate versus quarterbacks. have the second most INTs 0:20:32.780 --> 0:20:35.930 in the NFL after picking off Drake May three times. 0:20:36.150 --> 0:20:38.770 Yes, they gave up three touchdowns to him, 299 yards 0:20:38.810 --> 0:20:40.290