Super Bowl MVP Nick Forress gives advice to the league’s backup QB
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- Giants rookie QB Jackson Dart won his first NFL start on Sunday, but it was costly.
- The Kansas City chief was the direct beneficiary of the Giants’ upset victory.
- Elsehwere, the NFL is not in just two undefeated teams.
32 things we learned from the fourth week of the 2025 NFL season:
0. Still, the number of NFLs registered by New Orleans Saints QB Spencer Lattler has also won his 10th Pro Start, which is also his 25th birthday. However, Rattler and his team did not appear to be ignored by the Buffalo bill in western New York with a 31-19 loss. If the game was blown away this season, that was it.
1. The number of NFLs registered by New York Giants rookie QB Jackson Dart took Sunday’s first pro start, winning the team that beat the previously undefeated Los Angeles Chargers. Dirt threw a touchdown, ran a touchdown and passed the in-game concussion protocol, which forced new backup Russell Wilson to the field for a few snaps.
2. However, the collateral losses around the Giants Boltz game were extensive. In other words, the ACL torn apart by multiple reports is suffering from budding Titan superstar WR Malik Narvers. The on-field partnership with DART lasted all half before it was suspended until 2026.
2a. The chargers that lead the AFC West also remained a serious setback. OTJoeAlt lost in the first quarter to an ankle injury wearing walking boots after halftime. Alt is written with the tackle on the left. He was competently protected at Notre Dame after pro bowler Rashawn Slater ruptured his patellar tendon at training camp and knocked him out of the lineup until 2026.
3. The impact of their upset went even further for the chargers who saw their divisional leads shrink into one game… The Kansas City chief suddenly sat on a very healthy 2-2 (though Bolt beat them in week one).
4. However, the Chiefs smoked the Baltimore Ravens 37-20 on Sunday afternoon, with QB Patrick Mahomes throwing four TDs for the first time in nearly two years. Suitable for an explosive second-year WR Xavier – he led KC with both 38 rushing yards and 83 receiving yards in the first full game of the 2025 season – healthy.
5. Conversely, after falling 1-3, it is Raven who appears to be in very serious danger. To win the Super Bowl 60, many — rising — hands up, they’re already spiraling in QB Lamar Jackson (hamstring) and defense blown away by injuries.
6. Philadelphia Eagles – perhaps a bit quiet considering they are defending champions? – Continue to defeat the team after knocking off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-25 in the only matchup of the 3-0 team over the weekend.
7. The Eagles and the bill are heading into week five as they are the only undefeated in the league.
7a. Philadelphia started 4-0 in 2024 three of the past four seasons.
7b. The Saints and Tennessee Titans are currently only 0-4 teams, but either the New York Jets or the Miami Dolphins will be joining Monday night.
8. However, the Eagles are consistently inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Their passing game (112 yards, not the second half) and passing defense (272 net yards) will return to the witness protection program in Tampa on Sunday.
8a. The more troublesome star WR AJ Brown appears to be back to his feelings after a right-wing game a week ago. However, Brown has garnered 7 yards for two of his team’s best nine targets in Tampa.
9. Even All Pro Pom Berkley, who comes out of what was probably the biggest season a running back had, has 237 rushing yards – total – In four games.
9a. Barkley was 255 yards last season… in one game.
10. But definitely the best is the Philadelphia special team. That group opens up Sunday’s score by returning a 35-yard blocked punt for a touchdown.
11. The Eagles became the first team in league history on each OptaStats, scoring consecutive touchdowns via punts or field goal blocks. They closed out a Week 3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, slamming two fourth-quarter field goal tries, and the second came back to pay dirt to pay for the dirt by DT Jordan Davis, £336.
12. Up until four weeks, Atlanta Falcons RB Bidjan Robinson, Buffalo Bills RB James Cook and San Francisco 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey scored at least 100 yards from scrimmage in all games.
12a. Robinson had a career-high 181 yards (106 people, 75 rushing) on Sunday, scoring once as he returned to the victory column after Atlanta was left blank in week three.
12b. By earning a TD and collecting 135 yards from scrimmage, Cook became the fourth player since 1990, earning at least 100 yards from scrimmage and At least touchdowns in each of his team’s first four games.
13. Las Vegas Raiders rookie RB Ashton Janti has had sorrow in the space before, not rushing for more than 63 yards in the game before Sunday. However, against the Chicago Bears, he broke a 64-yard TD run as part of a 155-yard breakout performance from scrimmage and three TDs. Congratulations and props.
13a. Jacksonville Jaguars rookie CB/WR Travis Hunter probably isn’t given enough grace and patience. And frankly, he still doesn’t have the same breakout performance as Jeanti. However, the dominant Heisman Trophy winner made some great catches among his three grabs for a career-high 42 yards in the 49ers loss on Sunday. It’s coming.
14. The number of consecutive regular season games the Bills have won at Highmark Stadium after surviving Saints on Sunday. Buffalo scored at least 24 points on all of them.
15. The NFL’s first regular season game in Ireland turned out to be a thriller. The Pittsburgh Steelers, owned by the Irish Rooney family, avoided a fourth-quarter comeback by the Minnesota Vikings at Dublin’s historic Croke Park.
16. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s number of international games will ultimately be seen on the schedule annually.
17. Goodell said on Saturday that he hopes to expand the league’s footprint to Asia soon, but did not identify where the league is targeting its target on the world’s largest continent.
18. The NFL will play its first regular season game in Australia and Rio de Janeiro in 2026.
19. The league has played seven international games this season. Sunday’s match in Dublin kicks four consecutive weeks in which the league plays four weeks in each of the next three games based in London.
20. The league will make its debut in Berlin and Madrid in November.
twenty one. Have you already put in a fantasy exemption wire claim for the Houston Texans RB Woodymark? The USC rookie entered Sunday for 90 yards from scrimmage in three games and scored a score. For the Tennessee Titan, he posted a total of 119 yards and two TDs. Two defensive AFC South Champions ultimately scored their first victory in 2025.
twenty two. They haven’t won yet – and in some way, the Titans, rather than their records show? Rookie QB Cam Ward and WR Calvin Ridley may be among the players you send to the exemption wire.
twenty three. It’s also worth wondering if Tennessee’s second-year coach Brian Callahan is the first in his ranks to hit the exemption wire this season. The Titans appear to be gradually getting worse by the week, and Ward didn’t contain his embarrassment after Sunday’s defeat.
twenty four. Back at the Bucks, he beat the Eagles on six of his past seven meetings before Sunday, and still deserves great credit. They followed 24-3 before halftime and 31-13 late in the third quarter, but they made the game. how?
twenty five. Tampa Bay QB Baker Mayfield, the injured biceps, and all became the first players to throw two TD passes in the same game, covering at least 70 yards.
26. Bucs K Chase McLaughlin also connected with a 65-yard field goal before halftime, the longest in the history of the NFL that occurred outdoors. McLaughlin also excavated 58 yards on Sunday.
27. Also, on the positive side of Bucs, which will stay at the top of the NFC South, All-Pro Lt Tristan Wirfs and WR Chris Godwin made their 2025 debut on Sunday after a long injury rehabilitation.
28. Bills QB Joshu Allen is the league’s governing MVP and continues to carve out the place of signatures in NFL history. He accounted for three touchdowns (two, one on the ground) on Sunday, matching his former MVP Cam Newton (45) with at least one pass. and Hurry up TD.
29. All four weeks, we didn’t see AFC South have a 3-1 team – neither of them based in Houston – ranked among the (very immature) top five seeds of the conference. Naturally, we’re referring to the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguar.
30. If WR Adonai’s Mitchell mistake isn’t made on Sunday, the Colts could be 4-0. He celebrated what was a 76-yard TD catch early and lost the ball in the end zone before breaking the goal. Touch back. If he’s too young to learn from DeSean Jackson, Mitchell had to internalize the lesson, saying that his teammate Jonathan Taylor made a similar mistake last season.
30a. On the second pick a year ago, Mitchell is still waiting for his first NFL TD.
30b. For a good measure, Mitchell’s penalty was only available for two minutes to play, and the game neutralised what was Taylor’s 53-yard TD run. The Colts were forced to punt, and the Rams scored a game-winning TD on the next snap.
30c. But let’s lock the loss completely on Mitchell. Daniel “Indiana” Jones had something like a revival with two INTs against LA.
31. And how long before the Cleveland Browns give one of their rookie quarterbacks to the shot, Dillon Gabriel and Chedure Sanders? Veteran starter Joe Flaco committed three turnovers in a batting loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, with Gabriel inserted for his second mop-up obligation in three games.
32. Although not to be followed at the end, Vikings CB Isaiah Rogers wears the second jersey in the clip below, but was recorded at 23.32 mph in Sunday’s game. The fastest players have started posting since the next generation of statistics began accumulating such data in 2017.
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