![]() ![]() San Francisco has outscored teams in playoff position by 102 points in six games - including losses to Cleveland and Minnesota. Only two teams in NFL history have ever had three wins by at least 23 points against teams that made the playoffs with Kansas City doing it in 2021 and Green Bay in 1996. The Niners now have four wins by at least 23 points against teams that are currently in playoff position, having also beaten Pittsburgh 30-7, Dallas 42-10 and Jacksonville 34-3. San Francisco handed Philadelphia its second loss of the season with a 42-19 victory that featured six straight drives for the 49ers that ended in touchdowns. ![]() The San Francisco 49ers have been at their best against the toughest competition. ![]() New York has taken 69 sacks so far this season for the second most through 12 games to the 73 taken by the Eagles in 1986. The issues for the Giants revolve around a poor offensive line and quarterbacks who hold onto the ball too long. The Jets have scored only 10 offensive touchdowns, the fewest through 12 games since the 1993 Bengals also had 10. They are the only two teams since at least 2000 to have losing records after 12 games, while allowing less than 20 points per game to opposing offenses. The Jets (4-8) are allowing 19.6 points per game - excluding defensive and special teams scores - and the Patriots (2-10) are even better at 18.6. Making matters worse for the Jets and Patriots is the fact that their defenses have been playing at a high level for much of the season. Sportradar has tracked over-unders for the past 15 seasons and that would be the lowest total in that span, beating the 32.5 for a Saints-Browns game in Week 16 last season and a Browns-Steelers game in Week 14 of the 2009 season. With the Steelers set to start Mitch Trubisky at quarterback and the Patriots likely going to Bailey Zappe for a second straight game, the over-under for the game has been set at 30.5 points, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. New England will try to break that streak on Thursday night against Pittsburgh in a game projected to have few points scored. The last team to do that was the Chicago Cardinals, who lost four in a row when allowing 10 or fewer points each game in 1938 when players still wore leather helmets and teams ran the ball more than twice as often as throwing it. The Patriots had lost 10-6 to the Colts and 10-7 to the Giants in the previous two games. New England has been shut out twice at home for the first time ever after losing 6-0 to the Chargers last week and is the first team since 1938 to lose three straight games while allowing 10 or fewer points in each of them. The Jets rank 30th at 14.3 points per game, followed by the Giants at 13.3 and the Patriots and 12.3 - marking the first time since 2011 that three teams scored fewer than 15 points per game in the first 12 contests.Ĭoach Bill Belichick's Patriots are easily the worst of the three offenses as the lowest scoring team through 12 games since the 2011 Rams were at 11.7. It's been more than a decade since the NFL featured three offenses as challenged as the ones for the New England Patriots, New York Jets and New York Giants.īlame it on quarterback injuries, bad rosters, poor coaching and downright bad play, those three teams rank at the bottom of the NFL in scoring. ![]()
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