2022 NFL Week 7 Score Report

That was a strange week, and you'll see it throughout this report.

• 44.36 points per game this week.  (Last year:  42.77)
• Season average for the seven weeks:  43.41.  (Last year:  47.29 -- and it was over 50 the last two years before that.
• Home teams were 9-5.  58-47-1 for the year.  (Last year:  9-4 for 51-53)
• Interesting Wk 7 2022 Stat #1:  Home teams got through the first seven games to finish with victories.  Only the Jets and Giants won as road teams in the early block.  5 of the 7 road teams in the second half of games to finish (Jets, Giants, late block, Sunday night, Monday night) won.
• Over was 7-7 this week for 44-63-1.  (Last year:  5-8 for 47-59-1)
• ATS:  7-7 for the week, 44-59-3 for the year.  (Last year:  7-6 for 50-57.)
• Straight up:  Favorites were 9-5 for the week, 63-42-1 for the year.  (Last year:  9-4 for 67-40)
• Team with more penalties was 5-6 for the week, 41-54-1 for the year.  (Last year:  5-7 for 45-50)
• 167 penalties for the week, almost 12 a game.  (Last year:  144 in 13 games, just over 11)
• Season total:  1,305 in 108 games, just over 12 a game.  (Last year:  1320 in 107)
• Interesting Wk 7 2022 Stat #2:  NO Cliffhangers at all.  Last time that happened:  Last year Week 10.  (Two for 27 for last year.  22 total for this year.)
• Six games finished within one score.  63 for the year.  (Last year had only five for 50.)
• Only three non-competitive games for 24 for the season.  (Last year had EIGHT for 41 total.)
• Interesting Wk 7 2022 Stat #3:  ALL SIX GAMES which finished within one score had at least one Last Chance Miss:

1. Thursday night had a last minute onside attempt by New Orleans.
2. Cleveland had a tying 60-yard field goal attempt blocked after a penalty at the two minute warning.
3. The Packers tried to Stanford-Cal their way home and almost got there!
4. The Giants beat Jacksonville by about a half yard as the final pass was downed in bounds inside the Giant 1, Jacksonville down six.
5. The Broncos got a Double Last Chance Miss:  First one was a flagrant refball on a missed horsecollar-pass interference to fail one drive at 1:55.  Then a miss in the end zone with a half-minute left on fourth down.
6. Sunday nighter, the second of two Pittsburgh late interceptions was a toe-tap job down six in the endzone for Miami at :25. 

• 41 for the year.  (Last year:  None for 24.)
• Interesting Wk 7 2022 Stat #4:  To give an indication of how crappy this week was, including some of the upsets:  Of the 14 games to be played this week, fully SEVEN finished within three hours.  Five of the seven early Sunday games finished under 180 minutes -- the Raider game with 58 points finished in only two hours and 50 minutes.  And the Monday nighter finished in 2:58.  I'd love to get an idea of how rare a week like that is in the last few NFL years.  Old-school, you used to have your starting times at 1 and 4 Eastern.  Now, the games usually get so long, some of the late starts are staggered to 4:05 -- others to 4:25!!!