Week 6 saw the end of the NFL’s unbeatens.
Mercury Morris, Bob Griese and the rest of the 1972 Miami Dolphins can rest easy, probably in a large recliner with a bottle of Schlitz nearby. Their status as the only undefeated team in the Super Bowl era will remain intact at least one more year. Both the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers lost as significant road favorites, leaving us a regular season with a bit more intrigue as even the most impressive looking teams of 2023 have proven fallible.
But I’m not here to talk about them. I want to talk about four awesome things that might have flown under the radar. Like how Eric Bieniemy is taking a quarterback who’s roughly as far as you can get from Patrick Mahomes and making him a valuable piece of an efficient offense. Or how Ohio’s NFL teams are punching way above their weight classes defensively when they need it most.
And, you know what, let’s talk a little about wideouts blocking downfield. Hell yeah.
These are the four things I liked most about Week 6.