Welcome to the Week 5 grades!
The Pittsburgh Steelers are off this week and it’d go down as one of the best bye week in NFL historical past as a result of the AFC North is falling aside. The Baltimore Ravens, who have been tabbed by most to be Tremendous Bowl contenders this 12 months, immediately seem like they is perhaps contending for the No. 1 general decide as a substitute. With their 44-10 loss to the Houston Texans, the Ravens’ season may need simply hit all-time low.
- The Ravens are surrendering 35.4 factors per recreation this 12 months, which is Eleventh-most in NFL historical past via 5 video games.
- The Ravens have surrendered not less than 37 factors in 4 of their first give video games, which makes them the primary staff in 71 years to try this.
Not surprisingly, the Ravens did NOT get an excellent grade this week. The Ravens have been certainly one of three AFC North groups that misplaced on Sunday together with the Bengals and Browns. So we’ll go forward and provides the Steelers an ‘A+’ for his or her bye week.
With that in thoughts, let’s get to the remainder of our Week 5 grades, beginning with the sport in Baltimore.
Houston 44-10 over Baltimore
New England 23-20 over Buffalo
Detroit 37-24 over Cincinnati
Washington 27-10 over L.A. Chargers
Tampa Bay 38-35 over Seattle
Tennessee 22-21 over Arizona
Denver 21-17 over Philadelphia
Dallas 37-22 over N.Y. Jets
Indianapolis 40-6 over Las Vegas
Carolina 27-24 over Miami
New Orleans 26-14 over N.Y. Giants
Minnesota 21-17 over Cleveland (in London)
San Francisco 26-23 over L.A. Rams (OT), Thursday