Be it because defenses collectively seemed to throw up their hands this weekend, or because it sometimes takes a few weeks for players to knock off the rust, Week 5 was a beautiful and restorative weekend of football that featured a handful of the greatest games of the season as well as some of the best individual plays we’ve seen all year.
The sheer unfathomable nature of Lamar Jackson’s touchdown pass, or Patrick Mahomes’ first down scramble, or any other of the hundred beautiful plays we were pummeled with over the course of 13 hours on Sunday, bodes well for the next few weeks to come. A defensive evolution is always going to prompt an offensive counter evolution, or, at the very least, force the best individual playmakers to evolve again.
