NFL Week 6 blowouts rundown: Jordan Love is an upper-echelon QB, Saints D is bad, Lions meant to embarrass Dallas

The classic catchphrase “any given Sunday” did not have any place in the NFL in Week 6. In a league where most of the games are normally close and coming down to the last few minutes, there were seven games decided by 14 or more points, and most of them were never close at any point.

Seeing so many blowouts in one week is a surprise worth examining, especially as the season approaches the midpoint and the playoff picture becomes clearer. Let’s take a quick look at things that we learned, and things we already knew, from each blowout win this week.

Packers 34, Cardinals 13

What we already knew

The Cardinals defense is still in the early stages of a major rebuild. Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon has tried just about every style of defense that you can think of and nothing is really seeming to work. According to TruMedia, the Cardinals allowed a success rate (50% of the yards needed on first and second down, 100% on third and fourth down) of 55% this week — firmly in the Very Very Bad tier. This is going to be a long season for the Cardinals defense, but we knew that.

What we learned

This isn’t necessarily a “new” thing to learn from this game, but Jordan Love is playing spectacular football right now. He’s nearly cut his sack rate in half from last season and he’s still a source of big plays for the Packers offense. Their decision to give him a market rate contract despite such a small sample size looks smarter by the week — this guy is already an upper-echelon quarterback.

Buccaneers 51, Saints 27

What we already knew

Uh. This game was so weird it’s hard to even know what to do with it, but we did see a recurring trend of the Saints’ offensive line being unable to consistently open rushing lanes as they struggle with health and depth up front. Alvin Kamara did his best in tough circumstances, but it wasn’t necessarily surprising to see Vita Vea give them the blues a few times.

What we learned

OL. There’s just so much that happened here —…

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Publish date : 2024-10-14 17:30:31

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