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The third full Sunday of the 2024 NFL season is officially in the books, and somehow the Pittsburgh Steelers are still undefeated.
The Steelers are 3-0 even though they’ve had one big issue this year: They’re having trouble scoring touchdowns.
Pittsburgh has only scored three touchdowns this year and getting to 3-0 with that kind of scoring output is almost unheard of. As a matter of fact, it’s been 36 years since we’ve seen any team pull that off. The last team to start 3-0 with three or fewer touchdowns was the 1988 Buffalo Bills. The Steelers would probably be thrilled to replicate Buffalo’s season and that’s mainly because the Bills ended up making it all the way to the AFC Championship game that season.
So that else happened in Week 3?
Let’s check out 13 more of the wildest stats from Week 3 (via CBS Sports research unless noted):
Rams do the impossible. During his time with the 49ers, Kyle Shanahan had NEVER blown a second-half lead of 14 points, well, before Sunday that is. Going into Week 3, Shanahan was 50-0 in that situation — he had WON 50 GAMES IN A ROW — but he’s now 50-1 after the Rams came back from a 21-7 deficit to win. The win also ended a streak of 101 straight losses by the Rams in that situation. Andy Dalton pulls off a feat that no QB had accomplished this year. In this first start with the Panthers, Dalton threw for 319 yards and three touchdowns, making him the FIRST QB in the NFL this year to throw for at least 300 yards and three touchdowns in the same game. Sam Darnold makes history in Minnesota. Darnold threw four TD passes in Minnesota’s 34-7 win over the Texans, making him the first QB in Vikings history to win the first three games of the season AND throw multiple…
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2024-09-23 15:11:57
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