[ Esp - Eng ] NFL | Opinión | Mis impresiones de la Semana #1 🏈 Opinion | My impressions of the Week #1

Week 1 of the regular season came to an end with the 1st Monday night game on 12-09-2022, celebrated between the Denver Broncos vs. Seattle Seahawks, where the Seahawks, as the home team, achieved a close victory in the last quarter of the game 17-16. Let's remember that the weekly calendar starts on Thursday and ends on Monday; therefore, in this post, we will present the data and game situations that we consider most relevant, based on the official statistics of the NFL. To do so, we will make a comparison between the American and National conferences.

To begin this summary we will start with the American conference, then we will do the same with the National conference, it should be noted that this post is a personal opinion of the author, based on personal assessments and summaries of the games seen of the teams that faced each other in week one of the regular season 2022-2023.

To enter into context, we will remember which teams make up each division of the American conference: East | Miami Dolphins | Buffalo Bills | New England Patriots | New York Jets. North: Pittsburgh Steelers | Baltimore Ravens | Cleveland Browns | Cincinnati Bengals. South: Houston Texans | Indianapolis Colts | Tennessee Titans | Jacksonville Jaguars. West: Los Angeles Chargers | Kansas City Chiefs | Denver Broncos | Las Vegas Raiders.

Got that Mahomes Magic touch ✨

— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) September 14, 2022

As we can see in the table above, the best performance was in the western division, where there were 2 winning teams, Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs, as well as 2 teams that lost their first game. Kansas City's performance stands out in our opinion, as they were the team with the most touchdowns (44 points) in the 2 conferences, due to the impressive performance of quarterback (QB) Patrick Mahomes, who was the week 1 leader in yards thrown with 360 and touchdowns with 5, which earned Kansas City a 44-21 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Patrick Mahomes' passer rating for the game was 144.20%, which speaks for itself of the dazzling offensive performance of the highest-paid player in the world of sports.

On the other hand, the division with the worst performance was the South, which was the only one in the American conference with a negative point differential (-7). It should be noted that in this division there was the first and only game tie of Week 1, the teams that did not have a decision due to the tie were: Houston Texans who tied against their rival Indianapolis Colts at 20 points, both franchises also had the same amount of points against (20). Again, the Cinderella of the NFL, the Jacksonville Jaguars would be the team with the worst performance in this division, since it was the team that scored the most (28 points), together with the tie mentioned above, which contributed to the South division having an unfavorable performance in our opinion.

Next we will talk about the National conference, so we will proceed to mention the 4 teams that make up each division. East: Philadelphia Eagles | Washington Commanders | New York Giants | Dallas Cowboys. North: Minnesota Vikings | Chicago Bears | Detroit Lions | Green Bay Packers | South: New Orleans Saints | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | Atlanta Falcons | Carolina Panthers. West: Seattle Seahawks | San Francisco 49ers | Los Angeles Rams | Arizona Cardinals.

#TomBrady pic.twitter.com/puIoCkspwx

— NFL (@NFL) September 12, 2022

To talk about the best and worst performance of the National Conference divisions, we will use, as we did with the American Conference, the point differential statistics, as we can see in the table above, the best performance was obtained by the South Division, which obtained a positive balance in point differential (+14), in our opinion, the best performance corresponds to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers franchise, who beat the Dallas Cowboys 19 to 3, and where the lord of the 7 rings, Tom Brady, stands out as usual when he plays, he completed 18 of 27 pass attempts for a percentage of 66.66% | in the air passes he threw 212 yards, had 1 pass interference and threw 1 touchdown to leave his passer rating at 87.30%.

Regarding the worst performance in the National Conference, the same in our opinion corresponded to the Arizona Cardinals team, belonging to the west division, because it was the team that scored the most points, and the one with the highest negative points difference in week 1 in the entire NFL, therefore, the Arizona franchise is the one that sinks the national franchise with its performance, taking it to the darkest labyrinth with a negative balance of points with (-52), the game they lost against Kansas City had a score of 21 to 44, which causes the significant and negative difference of points (-23), this game was in which the quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw 5 touchdowns. Arizona's quarterback, Kyler Murray (QB), had an honorable performance throwing 193 yards, 2 touchdowns, and finishing with an acceptable passer rating of 99.30%, what Arizona had against them was that the defense did not work, allowing them to score 44 points.

Finally, in our opinion, the best performance of the 1st week of the regular season is in the American Conference in the West division, and specifically, in the Kansas City Chiefs, which stands out for being the team with the most versatility in the offense, defensive and special teams by being the team with more points scored (44), more touchdowns with 6, more air yards per pass 360, and more touchdowns pass 5, as well as the impressive passer rating of its quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, who ends week 1 with a blazing 144.20% in his performance.

As a curious and cabalistic fact, we can see that the difference in points in both conferences was 38 points, with the difference that for the conference with the best performance it was positive and for its rival it was negative. Another additional fact that emerges from analyzing each of the tables shown in this post, is that the American conference had 345 touchdowns vs. 328 of the National Conference, but in point difference, the difference is high (59 points) disadvantaging the national conference with 366 points against vs. 307 of the American conference.

Below we share with our readers the selection of the players for week 1 of the season, it should be noted that this designation is made jointly by coaches, analysts and critics accredited to the NFL and the general public, so that once the choice is defined, the league proceeds to make the corresponding announcements on its website and centralized social networks. In this opportunity the league announced 3 players for each conference, for the American Conference was favored: Quarterback Patrick Mahones (QB) of Kansas City Chiefs, the defensive back of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Minkah Fitzpatrick, and the young rookie of the Cleveland Browns, (Kicker - Special Teams) from Louisiana State University, Cade York. For the National Conference, the winners were: New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley (RB), Seattle Seahawks linebacker Uchenna Nwosu (LB), and Philadelphia Eagles defensive back Zech McPhearson (DB).

The AFC Players of the Week 👀@PatrickMahomes | @minkfitz_21 | @YorkCade pic.twitter.com/JF1uhSKPZW

— NFL (@NFL) September 14, 2022

The NFC Players of the Week 👀@saquon | @UchennaN_42 | @ZMcphearson pic.twitter.com/SGBX1dyZP4

— NFL (@NFL) September 14, 2022

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