2023-09-25 05:24:40
Rafael Zamorano Sep 25, 2023, 02:20 a.m. Reading: 3 min.
With two games remaining, blowouts took over the scoreboards across the league.
They are missing a double batch of “Monday Night Football” to complete the 16 matches of the Week 3 of the regular season NFLbut we can already find a common denominator to the day: momentarily, parity in the league disappeared.
The NFL It presumes parity among its teams, including the number of games that, season following season, end with a difference of eight points or less (a touchdown plus a two-point conversion).
The third day gave us everything, except that.
With two games pending, three Week 3 games ended in blowouts of at least 30 points.ESPN.com
Nine of the 14 matches that have been played in the Week 3including last Thursday when the San Francisco 49ers they overwhelmed the New York Giants To inaugurate the activity of the date, they finished with differences of at least 10 points, that is, the losing team would have needed at least two possessions to reverse the result.
That includes the historic beating of the Miami Dolphins a Denver Broncos of 70-20, a difference of 20 points, and the beatings of the Buffalo Bills a Washington Commanders by 37-3 (34 points difference), and of the Kansas City Chiefs to the Chicago Bears from 41 to 10 (31 points difference).
Three more games —49ers regarding Giants (30-12; 18 points difference), Cleveland Browns regarding Tennessee Titans (27-3; 24 points difference) and Houston Texans regarding Jacksonville Jaguars (37-17; 20 points difference)– they would have needed three possessions to turn the numbers around.
According to data from ESPN Stats & Informationthe three games with at least 30 points difference are the most in a day since the Week 1 of 2019. That number might grow, depending on what happens in the double day of “Monday Night Football“.
Are we facing a new trend in NFL, or is this simply an exception to the rule? Without a doubt, it is the latter. The victory of the Dolphins Over the Broncos included the third most points scored in a game in the NFL by a team, equaling what was achieved by Los Angeles Rams in 1950 on the Baltimore Coltsand remaining only below what was done by Washington in 1966 on the Giantsy Bears in 1940 regarding Washington.
Also they Dolphins They accumulated the second most yards in a game, with 726, only behind the 735 that the Rams regarding the missing New York Yanks in 1951, a game that also holds the current record for passing yards in a game, 554 Norm Van Brocklin.
That points to the reasonable conclusion that it will be a long, long time before we see another blowout of that magnitude: the league simply is no longer structured in a way for them to be a frequent occurrence.
The NFL It has positioned itself as the league with the best numbers among the United States audience, by a wide margin, and has followers in all corners of the world. It is experiencing a time of financial income and international expansion like never before in its history. The number of games that are defined in the last period, or even in the last possession, is a large part of the explanation for this unparalleled success.
The parties of the NFL, in general, will return to being more closed very soon. That’s where the trend is, actually. In the Week 1, eight games were decided by a margin of 5 points or less. In the Week 2, there were 12 games that ended with a difference of 8 points or less, that is, one possession. In Week 3, there were just five.
In the Week 1there was a game with a difference of 40 points on the scoreboard, the beating of the Dallas Cowboys Over the Giants. But, of the remaining 15, no difference was greater than 21 points. In the Week 2the largest difference was 28 points and, in second place, a match of 20.
The days will return with mostly competitive matches, and that will keep the fans glued to the seats, pending the outcomes. But, due to an extraordinary day in 2023, the differences in the scores skyrocketed throughout the league.
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