NFL Week 9: Winners, Losers and Overreactions

Last Updated on Novembro 10, 2026 6:41 pm by Erwin Noguera

Fifteen NFL Week 9 games missed their total by an average of 10.2 points. Four of them missed by more than twenty.

Green Bay and New England combined for 72 on a 44.5. Houston and the Chargers put up 66 on a 40.5. Detroit and Miami managed 28 on a 50.5, and Buffalo and Minnesota 29 on a 46.5.

One underdog won outright all weekend. Green Bay at New England, and the Patriots were only laying three and a half. Favourites went fourteen and one straight up and eleven and four against the spread.

And the best defence in football allowed twenty-three points, gained 178 yards, and went nought for eight on third down.

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Week 9, Against the Numbers

Seven overs, eight undershot, and almost nothing in the middle. Dallas at Indianapolis was the closest call of the week; the Cowboys missed their number by half a point.

Vencedores

Green Bay and the quarterback. Jordan Love went 23 of 29 for 372 yards and three touchdowns (79.3% completion with no turnovers) in a 45-27 win at New England. Christian Watson caught seven for 171. Green Bay gained 478 yards and did not give the ball away once. They are 6-3.

Houston, violently. C.J. Stroud threw 21 of 35 for 384 yards and five touchdowns, 10.97 yards per attempt, in a 44-22 win at the Chargers. Kayshon Boutte caught four for 125 and two scores. 485 total yards. It was the most points scored by anybody in Week 9.

Buffalo, on the road, against the best defence in the league. 23-6 at Minnesota, and they did it by refusing to give the ball back: 42 minutes and 32 seconds of possession against 17:28. James Cook carried 31 times for 107 yards. That is a twenty-five-minute possession advantage, which is how you beat a defence you cannot out-gun.

Jacksonville, again. 33-10 at Baltimore pushes their point differential to plus 108, best in football by twenty-nine over San Francisco. They now rank fourth in scoring and second in defence, the only club in the league inside the top four on both sides of the ball.

And the Giants, quietly. They won 19-11 at Philadelphia with 243 total yards. J.J. McCarthy went 12 of 19 for 127. Abdul Reese had three sacks and twelve tackles. At 5-2-1, they are the only team in the NFC East above .500, and they did this on a day their offence produced almost nothing.

Perdedores

Minnesota, comprehensively. 178 total yards. Nine first downs. Zero for eight on third down. Three turnovers. Carson Wentz went 8 of 25 for 81 yards with two interception, 32.0% completion, and 3.24 yards per attempt. Justin Jefferson caught three passes.

They still have the best defence in football at 14.50 points allowed a game. They are also twenty-seventh in scoring at 18.25 points per game. A twenty-six-place gap between the two rankings is not a wobble; it is the shape of the team.

Nova Inglaterra. Four turnovers. Drake Maye threw three touchdowns and three interceptions. They were laying three and a half at home and lost by eighteen. They were the only outright favourite to lose all week, and they did it while gaining 387 yards, which is the tell. The yards were there. The ball was not.

The Chargers, who are now 0-8 with a minus-98 point differential, are the worst in the league. They score 15.12 a game, thirty-second of thirty-two, and concede 27.38, twenty-eighth. Justin Herbert threw for 193 yards. There is no longer a part of this team that is working.

Arizona scored three points. 198 total yards, four of thirteen on third down, and (the part that makes it worse) zero turnovers. They did not give the game away. They simply could not move.

And Philadelphia. Eleven points at home, 220 yards, five of eighteen on third down. At 2-7, they are the third-lowest-scoring team in the NFL at 16.44 a game, and they spent the trade deadline selling Jordan Davis to Jacksonville for a first-round pick.

Reações exageradas

“Minnesota are frauds.” They are 6-2 and concede fewer points than any team in football. They had one catastrophic night against the highest-scoring offence in the league, with a backup-calibre performance at quarterback. The offence is a genuine, structural problem (it is why their name was attached to Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones at the deadline), but a 6-2 team with the best defence in the NFL is not a fraud. It is an unbalanced contender.

“Houston are back.” They are 3-5. One 485-yard afternoon against a winless team does not undo seven games. Their differential is plus seventeen and ninth in scoring is a real number, but so is three and five.

“Green Bay are contenders now.” They are 6-3 and twelfth in scoring at 24.00 a game. Jordan Love was magnificent for one afternoon against a defence allowing twenty-three a game. Come back when they do it against a top-ten defence.

“The Chargers are the worst team in football.” By point differential, they are, at minus 98. But hold that thought for twenty-four hours; ESPN’s FPI makes them a 55.6% proposition at Baltimore on Monday night, against a market that prices them at 34.3%. That is a 21.3-point disagreement, the largest we have recorded this season, and it is pointing at a winless team. We are not betting it. We are also not going to pretend the model is obviously wrong when it has been right more often than we have.

“New England has a quarterback problem.” Drake Maye threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns. He also threw three interceptions, and the team had four giveaways. One game in which a quarterback produces both the best and the worst numbers on the field is the least informative kind of game there is.

Onde nos enganamos

We were not, this week, and it is worth being precise about what that does and does not mean.

All four of our Week 9 predictions had the right winner, and all four sides were covered. Jacksonville at Baltimore, Buffalo at Minnesota, San Francisco against Las Vegas, and Chicago over Tampa Bay.

The Tampa Bay call is the one that matters. We published an 8.1-point model-market gap in the Buccaneers’ favour and took the model, as our rule requires, while still predicting Chicago to win the game. Chicago won by three. Tampa Bay covered the 6.5. Both halves landed, which is the first clean test the rule has had since we wrote it down on November 3.

Madrid cashed twice. Cincinnati covered the -3 by winning 34-17, and the total of 51 came in under 52.5. We sized the under at half stakes and said at the time it was the lower-conviction half. It was, and it still won.

The miss is on Jacksonville–Baltimore, and we are marking it rather than burying it. We wrote that “the nine-point drop in the total is the bet, not the side,” which pointed readers at a total without ever naming which side of it we wanted. Our own predicted scoreline, 27-10, implied the under. The game finished 33-10: 43 points, two and a half over the number. A sentence that identifies the interesting market without committing to a direction is not analysis, and we should have written it properly or left it out.

O único número que realmente importa

10.2 points. That is the average distance between the closing total and the actual score across all fifteen games.

Four games missed by more than twenty. Green Bay and New England went 27.5 over. Houston and the Chargers were 25.5 over. Detroit and Miami were 22.5 under. Arizona and Seattle were 20.5 under. Only three games finished within three points of their spread.

This is what a league looks like when it has sorted itself out, but the numbers have not caught up. Favourites went 14-1 straight up and 11-4 against the number, which says the market knows who the better teams are. A 10.2-point average miss on the totals says it has no idea how those games will actually be played.

The practical read for Week 10: sides are being priced accurately, and totals are not. Seven of this week’s fourteen games already clear our four-point model-market threshold, five of them pointing at the favourite. If there is value left on this board, it is on the over-undershot, and it is in the games where the two offences are least alike.

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