Let's get this done... Score Report Week 3

Highest scoring week of the 3 so far.

46.5 a game this week (even though three totals were 29, 26, and 25)

44.6 is now the average for the season, about 2.1 points a game below last season.

Some more figures:

• Of the 10 national prime-time games so far, only one has been decided in the final two minutes, and only four have been decided by one score -- and two of those were decided by exactly eight points.
• Only two games were decided in the last two minutes this week (Baltimore's win over Cleveland, and, of course, the Super Bowl rematch -- only eight such games so far, 1/6 of those played), while four more games were decided by eight or fewer points (10 for the season), and another 5 (for 11 total) were within same at some point in the fourth quarter (13 of those for the season, 64.58% of the games this season fit one or more of these criteria).
• The over was 8-8 this week, except for the Stratosphere, where the Monday nighter pushed for 7-8-1.  Over is 22-26 to 18-26-4, depending on where you got it.
• Home teams 9-7 again for 30-18 total.
• Home teams were actually called for one penalty fewer a game than last week.  Visitors were up about 1/3 of a penalty.
• Total penalties accepted:  217, -5 from the first two weeks.  (661 total, a little more than 13 a game)
• Team with more penalties this week was 5-10-1, but the last three games completed were won by the team with more penalties. (21-25-2 for the year)
• Teams with more penalties accepted for Points of Emphasis fouls were 6-8-2 for the week.  (21-17-10)
• The home team was only called for more penalties, again this week, 6 out of 16 games. (19 for the three weeks)

Now back to the real news.