2022 NFL Week 3 Score Report

Either tonight, overnight, or tomorrow, I will do the Politicals, where I have a BUNCH of thoughts regarding Week 3 in specifics, and the 2022 season so far in general.

In short:   HOO BOY...

• Only 40.625 points per game this week.  (Last year:  45.375  Two years ago:  OVER 52!)
• Season average:  42.083 PPG.  (Last year:  47.333.  Two years ago:  50.958)
• Meaning scoring is down over five points a game through three weeks year over year -- and two years ago, almost NINE points a game down.  There's a very simple answer to it.  See if you can figure it out before I post it!    
• Home teams 8-8 this week, same as last year.
• Season:  Home teams:  25-22-1.  Last year:  23-24-1.  Two years ago:  25-22-1.
• The Over was actually 8-8 this week!  18-29-1 for the year.  Last year:  5-11 for 20-28.
• No fewer than three of the eight games which went Over this week did so by only half a point (I use the Caesar's Sportsbook numbers from the Gamecast pages on ESPN for these purposes.)
  
• Against the Spread:  5-10-1 for the week, 18-27-2 for the year.  Last year:  7-9 for 18-30.
• Straight Up:  Losing Week for the favorites.  7-9!!  26-20-1 for the year.  Last year:  9-7 for 27-21.
• Team with more penalties was 5-8 for the week, 21-22-1 for the season.  Last year:  5-6 for 20-21.
• Only 10 1/2 penalties per game this week.  168 accepted flags.  568 total for the 48 games so far, 11.83 per game.  Last year:  195 for the week, 629 for the season.
• Only two Cliffhangers this week (that wasn't where the league got you this week, Football Nation America!).  12 for the year.  Last year:  5 for 11.
• Here's a hint to what they did:  11 of the 16 games were within eight points.  Only ONE was outside two scores -- and it was JACKSONVILLE!  29 of the 48 games so far have been within one score.  Last year:  5 for 22.)
• Three non-competitive games, 13 for the season.  Last year:  5 for 17.
• Here's the big stat:  SEVEN Last Chance Misses, and six of them didn't involve a Cliffhanger as well.  19 for the year.  (Last year, only one in the third week and nine for the first three.)  I'll address this more in a comments post, which might actually be separate from the Politicals, now that I think of possible length.