There was some optimism reigning for about 30 minutes, then the Leafs fell back and tried to defend their two-goal lead. Great defensive teams can get away from shutting down a game like that. However, the Maple Leafs a great defensive team they are not. They let the game get away as the Capitals pummeled them. The Caps outshot the Leafs 23-10 in the first two periods. Yet, Toronto escaped with a 2-1 lead.
Can Brock Purdy throw the football the way this offense needs him to? He couldn't do it in the 49ers' loss to the Jaguars earlier this year - Purdy's lone game between absences because of his turf-toe injury. Upon his second return, he was ripping the ball downfield against the Cardinals. But Monday night? Well, that performance raises all sorts of red flags.
In Week 12, college football said, "You're going to miss me when I'm gone." The results were consequential enough: No. 4 Alabama went down at home in the funkiest fashion imaginable, No. 5 Georgia pulled off a statement win and plenty of aspiring College Football Playoff contenders -- No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 16 Georgia Tech, No. 17 USC, No. 18 Michigan -- narrowly avoided disaster.
The San Francisco 49ers got into a pretty wild, back-and-forth-touchdown shootout against the Los Angeles Rams Sunday afternoon at Levi's Stadium. The problem was that the 49ers didn't start scoring any of their touchdowns until there were just three minutes left in the first half, and they were already down 21-0, so the end result was a 42-26 loss to the Rams. But it could have been worse.
Boy, the Falcons have really done it to themselves yet again. After a high energy win against the Buffalo Bills which reinvigorated the fanbase was followed with a disappointing defeat in San Francisco, Atlanta laid an absolute egg against a porous Dolphins team that had seemingly nothing going right for them. Now, the Birds sit at 3-4, in the middle of a highly competitive NFC, with their season in danger of slipping away right as the first winds of cold have arrived at our doorstep.
