2019 NFL Week Ten Score Report

Well, that was a Goodell week, and I think it sets up something very nicely coming forward...

• 46.15 points per game this week.  (Last year:  48.57)
• Season average now up to 45.24.  (Last year:  48.11)
• Home teams went 8-5 for the week, 74-69-1 for the year.  (8-6 for 87-56-2 last year)
• Three weeks ago, the year total was 13 games under .500.  Since?  29-11 for the home teams.
• Over was 7-6 for 70-75-3.  (8-6 for 72-73-3 last year)
• Only three favorites covered.  3-9-1 against the number for 62-83-4 for the year.  (Last year:  5-8-1 for 67-78-3)
• Another losing week straight up for the favorites.  5-8 straight up for 90-56-1 for the year.  (Last year:  8-6 for 95-51)
• Team with more penalties was 7-5 for 65-70-1 for the year.  (7-4 for 59-67-2 for last year)
• 190 penalties for 14.62 per game.   (144 in last year's 14 games, 10.29 per game)
• Season total for penalties:  2,126 for 14.36 per game.  (1,931 last year, 13.04)
• But here's where Goodell got his wish for the week.  FIVE Cliffhangers after only 15 in the previous nine weeks for 20 total.  (One last year Week 10 for 27 total)
• Of the 13 games this week, 10 finished within one score.  79 now for the year.  (Four games finished within one score last year for 78 total)
• Only Cincinnati's blowout loss to Baltimore was non-competitive, the 46th such game this year.  (Eight of the 14 games last year Week 10 were non-competitive, making 54 for the year.)
• And there were 8 of the 13 games which had at least one Last Chance Miss, making 46 of those games as well.  (Last year had 4, for 39 total)
• Want to know how nuts that Monday nighter was?  It was a Triple Cliffhanger (SEA FG 1:49 for the 3-point lead, SF FG essentially at the gun to tie it, and the SEA FG to win it at the overtime gun.) and a double Last Chance Miss (Seattle won the toss and was driving for a winning touchdown until a pick at the SF 5 -- followed that San Francisco missed a field goal to win it themselves with about three minutes left.  Two nervous punts later, Russell Wilson gets them close enough, and the new NFC favorite is now in focus -- for now.)

Ratings from Sports Media Watch:

• NFL National:  14.7 -- up 7% (Packers-Panthers 70%)
• NFL Regional was not available.
• NFL Single:  9.6 -- up 3% (Chiefs-Titans 51%)
• But here's the biggie:  Sunday Night:  12.9 -- up 12%, and the biggest Week 10 primetime game in over 20 years.