Starting with an addendum to the Dud of the Week.
That performance by the Denver Broncos was an embarrassment to the league. It won't make the stand for the award, but that gets at least a mention.
Not that the game wasn't basically certain for the Chiefs and Mahomes to begin with -- including, according to vlogger Tom Grossi, showing Taylor Swift SEVEN TIMES in the first three quarters.
- Another way you can probably think the game was rigged. They needed 41 points to tie the record for the most points in a Week 1. (791)
- They got exactly 41 points for the 791 total. And that was after a 13-10 and 27-7 pair of games to start it.
- Another interesting statistic from Reddit: For the first time in league history, a 16-game week has ended with every game having a different point differential.
- Home teams were 10-5 this week, including every game late window on forward except the Chargers.
- 3 Cliffhangers this week -- Three instances in two games in which a tying or winning score comes in the last two minutes or overtime (Buffalo, double in Detroit),
- 6 Last Chance Misses -- in which any play in the last two minutes feasibly can tie or win the game but is missed. However, that was only in four games. Washington missed a tying two in the last two minutes, then the onside.
- And then we had a four-bagger in Detroit. Cliffhanger for the Saints at 1:07, a field goal missed at the gun for the Saints. An overtime touchdown for Detroit, but with the new rules, New Orleans could get the touchdown back -- but then missed the two-point conversion to win it. 2 Cliffhangers, 2 Last Chance Misses
- 6 games were non-competitive, in which the game never got within eight points in the fourth quarter.
- And 2 more were within 8 at some point in the fourth quarter, but finished outside it, meaning half the schedule ended up comparative blowouts.
- And the final 3 games finished within 8, but, in all three cases, the winning team had the ball for more than the final two minutes.
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