2026 Week Seven Score Report

Well, that was a week...

• Didn't think that many points were scored this week, but they got to 632 for the 14 games, 45.14 per game.
• 4,924 points in 107 games.  46.01 is now the scoring average.
• 176 penalties this week.  12.5 per game only.  Season:  1,659, 15.5 per game.
• Most penalties through seven weeks:
• To no one's material surprise, Green Bay retains the top spot.  (7th seed in NFC)  Their -20 penalty differential is also second-worst in the league.
• Cleveland is second.  (3rd seed in AFC)
• Baltimore is third.  (#8 seed and out in the AFC), and they are the team with the worst differential, -25.
• Houston and the Jets are fourth and fifth.
• Least penalties through seven weeks:
• Indianapolis, on average, with only 5.2 penalties a game, 36 in 7 games.
• Minnesota has the fewest raw, with 34.  (#1 seed in the NFC, last undefeated team in the league)
• Detroit is third-least.  (#6 seed in the NFC)
• Kansas City is fourth-least.  (#1 seed in the AFC) Even with only 41 penalties in six games, they have had 37 committed on them!  Only Detroit has fewer, with 36.
• Pittsburgh is actually better on average, with only 42 in 7 games with no bye yet.
• Best differential?  Tennessee, a tie between Las Vegas and Minnesota, and Dallas.
• Home teams were 5-8 this week.  51-49-1 for the season, 15-24-1 the last three weeks.
• In a marked departure from the season, seven of the 14 games this week finished outside one score.  66/107 games now have finished within one score.
• Four of the seven were non-competitive, never within one score in the fourth quarter.  One of them that was "competitive" was quite bizarre.  Cincinnati was 14-13 up on Baltimore to start the 4th.  35-13 at the end.   
• And, with the lack of games within one score, many of the specialties were also rare this week.
• Only 3 games had Cliffhangers, and it was 5 total Cliffhanger events:
• Double in Cleveland. Tennessee tied with a field goal at 58 seconds, Cleveland wins it with a field goal at the gun.
• And Houston tied the Giants at home at :52, the game went to overtime, Houston went 3 and out and got the ball rammed down their throat in a minute and a half.
• 45 such scores in 25 games this year.
• And only 1 Last Chance Miss, marking the 39th game this year that a team missed a chance to feasibly tie or win in the last two minutes.  And that was an onside-kick miss, which I do count, even as rarely as they are converted.