NFL Analysis: Week 4 Recap
Denver looks unstoppable, New England, Seattle and New Orleans stay unbeaten, and surprising Kansas City is also in the 4-0 club. TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis closes out Week 4 with a run through all 15 games…
Denver looks unstoppable, New England, Seattle and New Orleans stay unbeaten, and surprising Kansas City is also in the 4-0 club. TheSportsNotebook’s NFL analysis closes out Week 4 with a run through all 15 games…
The Philadelphia Eagles are the only NFC East team that hasn’t gotten a rush of positive publicity at some point in the first four weeks of the NFL season. The Redskins are riding the wave of RG3 hype. The Cowboys played their brilliant opening game in New York. And the Giants hammered Carolina with several second-stringers in the lineup. Philadelphia, meanwhile, turns the ball over, barely escapes games and its quarterback and head coach both are under the gun. But it’s Philadelphia that’s alone atop the NFC East with a 3-1 record, while their rivals are all 2-2.
There are six games on the NFL Week 4 schedule that will be seen by either all, or at least good chunks of the country, with the AFC East dominating the early Sunday window, and the NFC East ruling the roost in the prime-time Sunday-Monday slots. After previewing the undercard games yesterday, let’s dive into a preview of the national TV six-pack…
Normally we begin our NFL previews here at TheSportsNotebook each week by leading with the Thursday night game, but I’m not going to do what the game is as demonstrably awful as this week’s Cleveland-Baltimore game is. Just being in prime-time isn’t enough to make you the lead story, so for NFL Week 4 we’ll drop the Browns-Ravens in with the rest of the undercard games—those that won’t be seen much beyond the local market). Here’s a look at the nine games that include tonight, plus those that will be mostly televised locally…