NFL Week 1 Takeaways: Who's REAL and Who's in TROUBLE?

I sat there before the games yesterday and pondered whether I should just bet all the unders.

Because remember last week we said, listen, offenses start slowly and it's going to be low scoring games.

I'm glad I didn't do it.

I stayed pat, but gosh.

There's a there are a lot of scoring.

And, you know, Femi, it was kind of a lot of games like the Bills Texans.

It was old school scoring.

I mean, it was physical football and it was running the football and there are more teams.

that are starting to run the football and the running backs coming back and everything is cyclical in this game.

And, and I think that you can see that the offensive styles are changing.

And I think, you know, the Rams kind of started it with the three tight end look, but a lot of teams, so many teams are playing to, to high safeties that, that teams are starting to take advantage of it and running the ball.

And I think you see the teams with the really good running backs playing are using them and, and doing well.

And, and it gives them a big advantage.

Speaker 3 05,0 Yeah.

I saw over on Twitter, Ryan Paganetti, who's a former NFL strategy and analytics coach worked with the Eagles, the Jaguars and the Raiders.

He was talking about the under center usage by offenses.

And he tweeted that on normal situations, his first and 10 normal situations Offenses were under center 66.5% of the time, which is up from 45.9% in week one of last year.

That's a more than 20% jump higher than every full season rate since 2012.

You talk about the old school is back.

We're going right back under center, Marty.

Line it up.

Fullback usage is up.

And these defenses, at least in the early going, don't know how to react to it.

And, you know, under center family, people forget like for young quarterbacks, it really does help your footwork dropping back in, in, in setting up is in, in, you know, when you're in the pocket, you get it, you turn, but your fundamentals, I think when you're under center, your, your, your mind's more on when your drops and your fundamentals and setting up correctly.

So I like, I'm glad to see more under center play and, and, uh, There were a lot of good games yesterday, and, you know, it comes down to the last four minutes, and to me, four-minute offenses, you have to be able to run the ball and keep the ball, and that's what the good teams do.