For those inclined, the NFL Score Report For Week 2, and Why the NFL and ESPN Need To Talk

First, the numbers, and then a couple of interesting sidebars:

• Week 2 per game:  45.25.  Last year was 47.75, two years ago 43.65.
• Home teams were 10-6 for the week, 17-15 for the year.  Last year, 8-8 and 18-14.
• Thank you to one of my readers and followers, the guy behind "The Greatest Tragedy In Sports", NFLRanking, who pointed out this after Sunday's game in Minnesota:

@darkstar7646 71% of the money went on GB https://t.co/GyHNfdm3eQ

— NFLranking (@NFLranking) September 19, 2016

• Come on.  The public, even as in love with the Packers as they are, couldn't see this one coming?  First off, the Vikes asked the NFL to make the Packers the opener for the new stadium.  Second, if you watched NBC promote this game, they had the Packers and Aaron Rodgers as "DYNAMIC" and God-Fearing Child Beater and the Vikings as "DOMINANT".  Now, Adrian's torn meniscus could change things -- a LOT!.  (I have the Vikings winning the Super Bowl behind him this year.)  But anyone who didn't take the point and a half the Vikings were getting and RUNNING TO THE BANK WITH IT was a fool.
• David Purdum, ESPN, on another big winning day for Las Vegas this weekend with the NFL:

Story out of Vegas on Sun: “We’re looking at a winning day no matter what. But it’ll be a huge day if Vikings get there" Vikings got there.

— David Payne Purdum (@DavidPurdum) September 19, 2016

• Even though favorites were 7-7 against the spread (two pick em's) and 9-5 straight up (13-15 ATS and 17-11 SU for the year, last year was 15-16-1 ATS for the two weeks), and the Over was 8-7 (the Monday night game was 43 total with numbers in Vegas from 42.5 to 43.5) for the week and 17-14 for the year (15-17-2 or so for the two weeks last year and 7-8-1 or so for 2015 Week 2 on the Over), the story was this...
• Several five- and six-figure losing money line bets were placed on losers like the Packers and Raiders -- and kickoff totals, according to Purdum at ESPN, on the Sunday-nighter were 6-1 Green Bay at Caesar's Palace and 4-1 Green Bay at the Westgate Superbook.
• *facepalm*  Will they never learn...  I could've told you WEEKS AGO the Vikes were winning that game!
• In a week that will make the NFL happy to put this out there:  The team with more penalties (with two games which had the same amount) was 4-10 for the week!  12-18 for the year.  (Last year, 5-7 and 11-16)
• Deadspin pointed this out, and I went to Pro Football Reference to back this up.  Detroit and Tennessee had one for the ages last week.  Twenty-nine accepted penalties, 17 on Detroit.  The 29 penalties is the most in any NFL game since the Giants and Washington had 32 in an overtime game on September 21, 2003 (and another game had over 30 within a week of that, also in overtime).  The 29 penalties is the most in any NFL regulation game since New Orleans and St. Louis totaled 31 on November 26, 2000.
• Only two Cliffhangers this week, and one of them was that 29-penalty game.  The other was Giants-New Orleans.  Seven total this year.  (Last year:  Four in Week 2, six for the two weeks.)
• Biggest story of the week was two-fold:  All of the 1 PM Eastern games plus the Thursday nighter were competitive, and only one failed to stay within one score at the end.  It looked like another week with only 2 non-competitive games, and then the Bears had to suck.  27 of the first 32 games have been within one score at some point in the fourth quarter.  (84.4%, four more than last year, which had 23 in the first two weeks and only 4 non-competitive games).
• The second part is my new metric:  SEVEN of the games finished with a Last Chance Miss.  But the only late game to do so was the LA Coliseum relaunch, with a total of 12 points and Seattle fumbling on the LA 27 in the last minute.  That makes 11 such games, with only one which was both a Cliffhanger and a Last Chance Miss.
• Eleven of the sixteen games finished within one score.  Same number as Week 1.  (68.8% for the 22/32 for the year.  Last year:  17/32. (53.1%))

And here lies the issue for ESPN:

Did someone piss off the NFL at ESPN before the season started?

If we remove the three Monday Night Football games from the equation, we have only three non-competitive contests out of the other 29, and only seven of the other 29 games did not finish within or at an 8-point margin.

Monday Night Football, so far, has had three of the worst games of the year, and only one of them was competitive, and even that one was a fourth-quarter steamroll by Pittsburgh over Washington.

So who at ESPN pissed the NFL off?