The 8 Most Important Stats From Week 11 in the NFL: Andrew Luck's Career Year; the Eagles Super Bowl Hangover
By Jason McIntyre
3: For the seventh straight game, Andrew Luck threw three or more touchdown passes. Because Pat Mahomes, Jared Goff and Drew Brees are QBing for the three best teams in the NFL, many have overlooked Luck, who is on pace to have the best season of his career in completion percentage, TDs and QB rating.
4.1: You can call it a Super Bowl hangover, or you can call it like you see it – Carson Wentz and the Eagles offense looks horrendous. They averaged a paltry 4.1 yards per play, Wentz was intercepted three times, and the Saints totally shut down Zach Ertz (two catches on three targets).
7: The Houston Texans are the first team since 1970 to win seven straight games immediately after an 0-3 start to the season. They survived three turnovers and two missed field goals against the Redskins.
12: Rushing yards by Dalvin Cook of the Vikings in a 25-20 loss to the Bears. The Chicago defense is certainly for real. But healthy for the first time in weeks, Cook was supposed to add a dimension to the Vikings offense. He did not. The Bears had nine tackles for loss.
38: Points scored by the NY Giants, which is the most for them since November 1, 2015. That was three head coaches ago (Tom Coughlin). It was the kind of performance many expected: Eli Manning (17-of-18, 231 yards), Odell Beckham (touchdown), Saquan Barkley (142 yards, two TDs) and Evan Engram (two catches, 66 yards) all finally put it together.
96: The Jaguars had a 96 percent chance to win the game with 2:06 left in the 3rd quarter and up 16-0. But what happened after that was similar to Doug Marrone’s coaching in the AFC title game: They went extremely conservative with runs up the middle, and then lost the game, 20-16 on a Pittsburgh touchdown with :05 left.
100: For the first time since 2012, the Ravens had two players rush for 100+ yards. What’s surprising is who the players are. Lamar Jackson carried 27 times for 117 yards and someone named Gus Edwards rushed 17 times for 115 yards. The Ravens held on to beat the Bengals, 24-21.
199: Yards from Ezekiel Elliott, who dominated Atlanta as many other running backs have. He rushed for 122 yards and caught 79 yards worth of passes (on a team-high eight targets). It took Jason Garrett over half the season to realize that Zeke needs carries. In last week’s win over Philadelphia, he had 187 yards of total offense.