Before, we get into the nitty and gritty of the numbers and the observations from Sunday, we need to go into some general platitudes on the game itself. The nature of good, bad, and ugly is that two of those are negative. Sunday may have been the gutsiest victory in franchise history. We know it is the only one they have won without a kicker. Dare Ogunbowale somehow kicked a 29 yarder through. This game will be about C.J. Stroud as well as it should, but they don’t win the game without that field goal.
Additionally, they were without their starting center, starting running back, one of their starting receivers, and two of their three primary safeties.