The dust settled in the fourth week of the 2017 regular season, the season quietly completed 1/4, following the cold last week, only 8 teams this week retreated at home, such as the Patriots, Falcons and other giants have lost, this article takes you back to this week's cold goal, and how the only victorious Chieftain maintained a complete body.
Los Angeles Rams 35-30 Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys suffered two straight defeats and their first home defeat of the season. In the first half, the Cowboys led 24-13, relying on the old cliché of winning this season, slashing 133 yards on the road, including substitute running back Alfred Morris with a 70-yard long-range rush, Izekiel Elliott rushing 56 yards 1 touchdown receiving 41 yards 1 touchdown performance, the score lead is not surprising, and the ball control time Cowboys accounted for 60%. In the defensive group, it is well known that Jerid Gough has made great progress, but he is still struggling in the face of pressure on the rush pass, the Cowboys only have 1 tackle in this game, but also let Gove in the face of pressure 11 passes 3, most of the pressure appeared in the early part of the game, making the Rams attack quite unsmooth.
According to McVeigh's original expectations, the Cowboys this season's defensive front line broke out, it is estimated that it is difficult to break through, it is basically impossible to kill the blood road from the road, so the opening Rams almost gave up the road attack, in fact, from the second quarter, the Rams have adjusted, the attack tentatively let Todd Gurley try to break through the middle of the road, did not expect the Rams to attack the front line one-on-one cover actually worked frequently, hanging on the third gear of the sports car Gelley showed the nature of the beast, although there is no super performance, but every rush has a good effect, Coupled with Tavin Austin's piecemeal play at the running back position, the Rams connected the overall attack with the road.
In the pass attack, Gove has suffered from the cowboy rush pass, knowing that it is difficult to have a chance to send a long pass, so he gradually increased the proportion of short passes, and sent the ball out early before the cowboy rush pass came. Although the lack of long-pass bombardment of the golden knife, but the ram's extremely effective attack, the cowboy defense collapsed in an instant, and even they could not imagine, facing the same offensive front, creating pressure is like chopping melons and cutting vegetables, but the other side takes the initiative to get up on the road cover, the cowboy defensive front line is fully suppressed, coupled with the absence of Sean Lee, so that the cowboy in the second layer of the catch is greatly discounted.
Offensive end, I don't know if the first half is too easy, the second half of the Cowboys' offensive call is a bit "toddler", they are not using the road attack control time to ensure victory, but crazy use of passing, Prescott held the ball for a long time to observe, which allowed the Rams defensive front to use enough time to break free of the Cowboys gold offensive front line obstacles, Aaron Donald contributed 9 times this game to pressure, Michael Brocks is also the best rushing performance in the past five years (1 tackle, 3 impacts, 1 rush pass), Such a rushing pass performance has caused Prescott to be forced out of his pocket and pass the ball on the move, and at this point, the gap between him and Russell Wilson is really not a star and a half. By the time he remembered that he still had Elliott's Ace in his hand and forgot to play, and then wanted to fight out, Elliott's body was already cold.
In the fourth quarter, when the Rams' road attack was fully fired, gove reloaded, with a bullet pass after a false run, and a long pass with Cooper Karp hit the cowboy defensive backline, the cowboy lost one or the other, in fact, the game has long been out of control. The Cowboys once recovered a touchdown with Dez Bryant's personal attack on Chumaine Johnson, but Todd Goerley could not stop it, even if he conceded a free kick, he could not stand up to 3 points per wave of offense, and the Cowboy did not talk about defensive points.
Both sides play a good half, but the first win is not a win, this battle can be seen, Sean Lee's absence on the cowboy defense impact, like this defensive change is not much, all by the star to play the defensive group, really can not be less ah.
Buffalo Bills 23-17 Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons suffered their first defeat of the season! And it was at home to a humble opponent like Beal. As I said in last week's column, the Falcons' defense is improving today, but the offense may be slightly regressive, and this season's winning formula is based on first-class offense + so-so defense. And the loss of this game, there are problems in attack and defense.
As said last week, this season due to other receiving weapons are obviously not as good as last season, just like ten years ago, the same city basketball team Atlanta Hawks also has a basketball player abbreviated as JJ (Joe Johnson) needs to do everything for them, Matt Lane's dependence on Julio Jones is beyond repetition, the first half of the game is indeed so, single-handedly rely on Julio, long passes or Julio, in a quarter and a half of 4 passes 30 yards cut. Then Julio was uncomfortable with his hip muscles and went back to the locker room to review the injury before halftime, and at that point in time, it could be seen that the Falcons were struggling to attack, but Matt Lane was forced to exert his full strength, and the attack was still operational.
The second half reignited, the Falcons fans almost fainted, not only Julio could not come back from this game, even the second external receiver Mohammed Sanu also had to miss the second half because of a hamstring injury, the Falcons without the first two external receivers seemed to really not be able to function, at the beginning of the second half, a capture of the ball, a pass to Taylor Gabriel 's "howitzer" was intercepted, in addition to team training, "Iceman" has never experienced the absence of the first two external receivers, after two minutes of confusion, the offensive coordinator Saakisian made adjustments , let the two big running backs Freeman and Coleman as the core of the attack, whether it is rushing or catching the ball around the two, so that the Falcons can win the touchdown to equalize the score, but the final loss is still the Falcons' desperate counterattack in the last quarter, Justin Hardy and Ryan's cooperation is not tacitly missed passing, and Austin Hooper's catch offhand caused a copy that buried the game.
The slightly improved defensive game this season also showed a childish side. The road defense is also so-so, especially center-back Dion Jones has repeatedly "monitored" Beal quarterback Taylor Taylor, so that Taylor basically did not play his own strengths in running. In this game, the Falcon rushed to hand over the report card of 3 tackles, but in addition, there were only 6 other times to interfere with Taylor's passing, and in the positioning attack and defense, the Falcon corner guard group against Bill's outer receiver group had a clear alignment advantage, and the game did not let Bill catch the ball group get too many opportunities, but some other alignments, there was a big problem. As said last week, the Falcons have a number of "precocious" defenders who entered the second grade, plus three rookies who entered the league this year, and the composition of the Falcons defense group this season is mostly composed of young people in the first and second years. The second-year big brothers, facing LeShaun McCoy's "old disco", Keanu Neil, Dean Jones, and Devon der Lie Campbell all made mistakes in the defensive run, and they were all shaken to the north. The most tragic is rookie linebacker Duke Riley, who missed two missed tackles in the defense and staring, and was also hit by a long pass in the process of opposing the old near-end forward Charles Clay. The Falcons' entire linebackers and security guards were unable to deal with Clay's vertical attack, which eventually caused the loss on the side.
The loss of this game will not affect the Falcons' season plan, after all, the two external receivers are minor injuries, especially Julio Jones's hip injury can return to the line of fire in the next game, but the problem exposed by this loss is that the defensive group against the experienced attackers is obviously inexperienced; and the offensive group has adjustments in the face of extreme unexpected situations, but the adjustment amplitude and reaction speed are not enough to cope with the playoffs.
Carolina Panthers 33-30 New England Patriots
Focus on the Patriots' second defeat, the Patriots offense met the Panthers defense is not dominant, not that the Panthers' defense in the top five in the first three weeks of the data ranking is so strong, but there are some headaches in position and strategy, as the team with the most ferocious long pass in the first three weeks of the season (it is a bit incredible throughout Brady's career), this week against the Panthers who may be the most favorite in the league to play cover 2 area defense, the Patriots look very uncomfortable. Just last week with a long pass to catch the ball "carp jump dragon gate" to kill the Texan Brandon Cooks, this game is almost equal to stealth, not the Panthers' cornerbacks dominate the single head, but whether Cooks from the left or the right, Black Panther cornerback James Bradberg's attitude towards Cux is quite "awe", never wanted to stare at Cux deadly, but each gear of staring at the defense is "compulsive three points" back 5 yards, Cooks wants to turn around to receive short passes, casually! But if you want to rely on speed to attack vertically, there is no way! Coupled with the Panthers' two security guards in the backcourt for the two wings is extremely high, the first three weeks of the season 22 passes 11 of the long pass, this game only 5 passes 1. Abolishing the long pass is equivalent to abolishing the patriot's offensive leg.
The Panthers have the strongest linebacker group in the league, not one of them. The Patriots look good in the running guard group, just like Goku meets Rulai, and can't get up. The use of patriots running backs is no different from last season, Gillisley's appearance (last season's blunt) is equivalent to telling the other side to rush the ball, James White's debut is basically a pass, the lack of confusing use of soldiers makes the Panther linebacker group almost do not have to use too much brain, the whole game Luke Kickley cut the third highest career 13 tackles, without any missed tackles, his staring defense only lost 42 yards, basically equivalent to receiving the ball and putting it down. Third-year Shaq Thompson quietly began to replace Thomas Davis as a three-stop defensive linebacker, defending against nine tackles without any misses. Two super linebackers sat in the middle of the road, and the Patriots' advance after some attempts to catch the ball with ultra-short distances were all snuffed out by the Panther linebackers in the cradle.
The first three weeks of The Panther stats are pretty, but the three opponents are only the 49ers, Bill and the Saints, the Panthers defense is like an overheated goulash, accompanied by a fiery "pepper" (veteran Julius Peppers contributed 6 times of pressure), and the skin is thick, the Patriots spend some time patiently chewing, always able to swallow, and then in the fourth quarter of the chase, the Patriots showed "full love", the result was not relying on long passes or equalized.
I would say that what really made it difficult for the Patriots to swallow in this game was that the Panthers' third-to-last offense in the league in the first three weeks actually played against the Patriots in Falkesburg.
Cam Newton's unstoppable tendency to cut down the 50th touchdown that broke the quarterback's rushing touchdown record, and the Patriots knew that Newton was going to hold the ball hard, but he couldn't stop it. But Newton passed 316 yards this time, and considering that the Patriots made their opponents 350+ twice and 300+ twice in the first three weeks, the Patriots had a lot of problems in this season.
The two teams had a big deal in the offseason, the Panthers gave the rushing passer Kony Erie the equivalent of White to the Patriots, did not want the Patriots to abandon Erie before the start of the season, such "righteous moves" were bad in this game, the outside rushers Dietrich Wise and Trey Flowers were almost equivalent to the white roll, fortunately, the inside Adam Butler, Malcoon Brown and Lawrence Gay (three gears of defensive interception) jointly contributed 7 times, and the Patriots only created 13 pressures in the 33rd long pass. In addition to 2 tackles and 1 deliberate throw, Newton completed 7 of his 10 pressed passes. In addition to letting Newton pass, there seems to be some problems with the alignment.
The Panthers' first two external receivers Kelvin Benjamin 196 cm and Devin Fontechez 193 cm, while the Patriots' first two horn guards Steven Gilmore 185 cm and Marcon Butler 180 cm may be enough against other teams outside the takeover, but facing the Panthers twin towers, it is completely suppressed. In the first 27 minutes of the match, number one outsider Kelvin Benjamin didn't even pass a single ball. But after the two big picks began to take turns to single out, the Patriots began to be overwhelmed, not to mention Gilmore and Eric Rowe lost two consecutive sets of staring at people and missing touchdowns, as well as consecutive fouls in the last minute to let the Panthers continue to take the first attack, and finally lost the game with free kicks.
Christian McCaffrey added up to less than 50 yards, but when it comes to his all-rounder use, I didn't expect Mike Shura to use him so "unbridled", the league's notorious catch-up runbacks: Darren Swifts, Danny Woodhead, Giovanni Bernard, but the difference is that these players almost only play as running backs, rarely swim to the outside position, and McCafrey? He may be the only running back on the court, but will often move to the outside receiver, groove position, if the Panthers send two running backs, it looks like McCaffrey will be the outside takeover, but he will sometimes swim to the back as a cornerback, and even, when there is a quarterback who is good at pushing the ball with the ball, McCaffrey will also serve as a cover. He couldn't be defined by any position on the court, giving the Panthers endless changes in offense and making the Patriots invincible. By the way, the opener Patriots also lost to another external all-round X-Men, Terrick Hill, which is unfortunate enough.
In the Brady era, in addition to this season, the Patriots have started a season with two wins and two losses, which are 03, 05, 12 and 14 seasons, of which seasons 03 and 14 won the final Super Bowl. Again, it doesn't matter what the Patriots do in September and October, but until winter is approaching, the Night King Brady and his Army of the Dead are the real force.
Washington Redskins 20-29 Kansas City Chief
If the "next dog" wants to win the strong team, there must be three axes, killing sticks, the first wave of red skins in the opening game announced a long pass, in fact, Marcus Pitts has given three points to Terrell Prair, but Pryor is just a shoulder dangling and desperately rushing to the end zone, "Captain Kirk" made a inappropriate long pass decision in the situation where Peters was completely focused on Clear, but this pass was the perfect pass that crossed Pitts's fingertips and fell into The hands of Plyre. In the first half, both sides played fairly well, especially red skin, gritting their teeth and fighting hard with the chief, making almost no mistakes.
After the first three weeks of the regular season, the whole league has learned about the Chiefs' offensive routines, and the red skin is even worse, after all, the chiefs are now playing with the reading option offense, but five years ago, the red skin became the initiator of bringing this college offensive system into the professional league. To deal with this set of attacks, Redskin used a very large front-line defender to deal with Karim Hunter's vertical dash to limit his starting speed, while Tyrick Hill's drifting running position, Redskin's strategy was not to send special people to keep an eye on, but a large number of areas to keep an eye on, and whose turn was to stare, plus Redskin had two excellent interior guards, Hill was also very uncomfortable. Except for Alex Smith's "rejuvenating" ball-holding advance, which scared Redskin out in a cold sweat, Redskin made few mistakes in the first half.
At the end of the second quarter, Josh Norman's injured departure changed the game.
The first is that the security guard is constantly drawn to the outside to supplement the defense, and Travis Kelsey has repeatedly directly killed from the middle of the road to complete the mid-range long distance. This was followed by a significant reduction in defensive discipline, with consecutive low-level fouls in the redskins early in the third quarter, allowing the Chiefs to score a touchdown. Finally, when the Chief discovered the change in the alignment of the outside receiver - cornerback, Bashod Brilan became the number one cornerback after Norman's injury, the Chief began to put away the reading option to attack, but instead used the normal routine, almost "bullying" with Hill like a normal outside receiver, on the outside with speed to single out Brilan, thus achieving a great advantage in alignment. The tightly tied anti-running fence, after intently guarding the entire first half, also began to loosen in the second half, and Hunter's vertical attack ability was enough to use speed to skim the entire redskin defense.
The Chiefs' defense wasn't perfect either, with top passer Justin Houston rotating to keep an eye on Vernon Davis at the beginning of the third quarter, which was clearly not a reasonable set of counterpoints, and Captain Kirk seized the opportunity to send a long pass. Then in the fourth quarter the Chiefs could have securely closed the game defensively, but they paid too much attention to the catcher's attention, but instead let Cousins go, allowing the latter to rush out of the big yard with the ball in a row and finally equalize a minute before the finale.
In the final moments, Alex Smith was like a real MVP, not rubbing the number of yards with a "lewd" run, but a 37-yard long pass to seal the throat with blood. Again, Norman's departure completely collapsed redskins' originally complete defense, losing consecutive long passes in the last minute, ultimately leading to defeat.
At the end of the first month of the new season, the Chiefs became the only team in the league to remain unbeaten, but it can also be seen that their road to winning is getting more and more difficult, which shows the cruelty of the professional league, the victory of this game does not mean that the Chiefs are really invincible, and what is more terrifying is that the Chiefs adjust to the unfavorable situation and the ability to respond to the unexpected time of the scene. Although the playoffs are still far away, I have a vague sense that the Chiefs must have done a lot in the bayonet playoffs.
After this week, the Patriots and the Jets had the same record, and the three inconspicuous teams of the Rams, Bill and Black Panthers were upset this week, and even quietly climbed to the top of their respective divisions with a score of 3 wins and 1 loss.
(Editor: Yao Fan)