Week 2 Score Report: Flag on the Play

Quickie Score Report for the week:

• Week was heading for over 50 a game, but the last three totals were 30 (DAL-PHI), 44 (GB-SEA), and 27 (NYJ-IND).  Hence, the average for this week was 47.75 points per game.  Two-week per-game average:  46.5.  (Last year:  43.65)
• Home teams were 8-8 this week (18-14 for the year)
• Another BIG winning week for Vegas. Over was 7-8-1 or 7-9, depending on where you got the Carolina game at 41 or 41.5.  (15-15-2 or 15-17 for the year)
• Favorites took an abject beating this week, including losing against the spread 6 of the last 7 games completed.  ATS, the favorites were 6-10 (15-16-1 for the year).
• Biggest story of the week:  PENALTIES AND LOTS OF THEM.  After 206 penalties in week 1 (about 13 a game), it shot up to 298 (about 18.5 a game) this week.
• Teams with more penalties were 5-7, with 4 games having both teams with the same number of penalties.  (11-16-5 for the year)  Dallas won with EIGHTEEN PENALTIES.  Oakland won with 16.
• According to Pro Football Reference:  Dallas became the 19th team to have 18 or more penalties in an NFL game, going back to 1940.  The last team to do so was a Jets victory in 2013 in which they won with 20 penalties over Buffalo.  Teams with that many penalties are 7-12.
• Expand it to Oakland's 16, it's happened 77 times, and it happened in 2014 when San Francisco lost to Chicago on 16 penalties.
• You'd have to go back to Oakland-Kansas City in 2010 to find a game with more than 26 accepted penalties, but it's happened five times since before the two yesterday.
• Four cliffhangers (winning score <=2:00 of 4th or overtime):  2 Denver touchdowns in the last 36 seconds of Thursday night, and Atlanta, Jacksonville, and Oakland.  6 of the first 32 games have ended in such criteria.
• Four games ended within a score otherwise (11 of those total, on top of the 6 cliffhangers for 17/32 ending within one score).
• Four games were within a score at some point in the fourth quarter (6 of those this year, 23/32 games being competitive in the 4th)
• And, in some nice synergy, four games were non-competitive (9 total for the year).