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Thanks in large part to a London game and a pair of Monday Night Football games, all of which featured entertaining playoff teams, the meat of the Sunday slate in Week 7 of the NFL season was a bit of a snoozer. Bad quarterbacks permeated multiviews all around the country as some teams ascended and cemented themselves as contenders and others hit rock bottom with embarrassing losses.
This list of losers from Week 7 is consistent with some of the losers in the NFL over the past couple of seasons. It was a bad week for some of the worst franchises in football, but which ones cracked the list of losers?
The Raiders and Dolphins are getting grouped together after a day where both of them were embarrassed by AFC foes. The Raiders managed less than 100 yards and only recorded three first downs (one by penalty) against the Chiefs in a 31-0 loss.
On the other hand, Tua Tagovailoa threw three more interceptions — less than 10 may be okay for Mike McDaniel — and was benched in a 31-6 loss to the lowly Cleveland Browns. The Dolphins now sit at 1-6 on the season, and the only mystery left with how their season is going is how many more Mike McDaniel coaches. If the answer is more than two, I would be pretty stunned.
At this point, this era of Dolphins football seems to be over. McDaniel is almost certainly on the way out, while Tagovailoa may be in his last year starting for the franchise and is on an awful contract. Tyreek Hill is likely gone after his season-ending injury, and it’s clear that things are going to get worse before they get better in South Beach. Sunday was rock bottom for an operation that seemed so promising just a few seasons ago.
On the other hand, the Raiders are just getting started with this era, and it already feels over before it really even got started. Geno Smith, who just got a big contract from Las Vegas this offseason, looks like one of the worst quarterbacks in football, and there is just no sense of cohesion with Pete Carroll’s squad in his first year as head coach.
An injury to Brock Bowers isn’t helping matters, nor is a lack of talent throughout the defense. But if things continue like they did on Sunday, it’s going to be a long season with an even longer list of questions to answer afterward.
The vibes couldn’t have been better in New York heading into Week 7, as Jaxson Dart had led the Giants to a pair of wins in his first three starts and was coming off of an absolute beatdown of the Eagles in prime time. Brian Daboll and company continued to ride those emotions into the Mile High City for a clash with the Denver Broncos, as New York...
