2019 NFL Week 5 Score Report

• 46.6 PPG this week, season average now up to 44.85 (Last year:  Week:  47.27  Season:  47.94)
• Another losing week for home teams.  6-8 this week, with one game in England.  Home teams are now TEN GAMES BELOW .500 at 33-43-1.  (.435)  (Last year:  Week:  12-3  Season 51-25-2 (.667))
• Over went 8-7 for 36-42 for the year.  (Last year:  7-7-1 for 41-36-1.)
• Favorites were 7-7-1 against the spread for 32-43-2 for the year.  (Last year:  7-8 for 34-42-2)
• Favorites were 9-6 straight up for 46-30-1 (.604).  (Last year:  10-5 for 49-27-2. (.641))
• Team with more penalties was 7-6 for the week for 33-36-1 for the year.  (Last year:  4-9 for 26-38-2.)
• The 15 games this week had 243 penalties (16.2 per game).  (Last year:  198, 13.2 per game)
• Season penalty total:  1,183 (15 1/6 penalties per game).  (Last year:  1080, same number of games.  13.85 per game).
• Three Cliffhangers for 11 for the season.  (Last year: 4 for 17 total.)
• 9 games finished within one score for 42 total.  (53.84%)  (Last year:  7 for 44 total)
• 5 non-competitive games for 28 total.  (Last year:  5 for 23 total.)
• 6 Last Chance Misses for 24 total.  (Last year:  Only 1 for only 16 total.)

Some notes: 

• New England becomes the first team in NFL history to be favored on the road by 16.5 or more points twice in one season.  In fact, there have been only (according to Pro Football Reference) eight games in a which a road favorite of 16 or more has been had -- New England has had the last FOUR.
• In five games, New England is 5-0 straight up and has been favored by 16.5, 18, and 21 points in three of them.
• And New England now gets the Giants Thursday night -- and it looks like they will be at least 17 point favorites.  (And 17.5 at the Superbook -- opener was 16.5)
• Conversely, in their last two games, the Jets were 21 point underdogs to New England (and only a couple of defensive scores prevented that cover) and 14 point underdogs to Philadelphia (who easily covered).
• They get Dallas, current line is a road -9 for Dallas.
• And Miami plays Washington.  Oh...  Shit.
• The first firing of the season, as Jay Gruden was finally paroled from that mess in Washington.

Ratings from Sports Media Watch:

• FOX National:  14.9, up 5%
• FOX Regional:  10.5. up 15%
• CBS Single:  10.2, up 13%
• There has been a major change in how overnight ratings are calculated, with only 44 markets represented instead of 56.  As such, NBC is no longer reporting overnight ratings for Sunday Night Football.