Commanders @ Patriots · Week 2

WEEK 2 · FINAL

THE READ

Patriots win the turnover battle and the game

Commanders could not stop handing it over, and Patriots made it count — 24-18. Drake Maye threw for Patriots — 11/17, 210 yards, 2 TD. Marcus Jones got after the quarterback for Patriots — 2 sacks. On the ground: Commanders 67, Patriots 8.

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THE WIDER PICTURE

Team	SRS	SOS	MARGIN	TO +/-
Commanders	-1.2	-3.4	+2.2	-4
Patriots	+6.0	-2.6	+8.6	+7

SRS is how many points a side beats an average team by once you account for who they played — beat a good team by 3 and it counts for more than beating a bad one by 20. SOS is how hard that schedule has been. Full table.

Patriots — AFC #6 · 6-4 Commanders — in the hunt · 5-5 Playoff picture →

IN THE BOOTH

Luca Santana Analyst

This was a tighter game than the scoreboard suggests—New England and Washington basically matched each other in total yards and neither team blew the other away—but the Patriots won because they didn't beat themselves. The Commanders turned it over twice and got nothing back, and when your margin is 6 points in a 42-point game, that's the whole difference.

Daniel Keller The numbers guy · replying

New England won a game it had no business winning—Drake Maye completed 11 passes for 210 yards while the Patriots managed 8 rushing yards, yet Washington's 2 giveaways meant the Commanders spotted them a win despite being the better team on paper.

They only ever read the box score and this league's own numbers — none of them has a source, and none of them can report anything that did not happen.

Drake Maye

Patriots

11/17, 210 yards, 2 TD

Marcus Jones

Patriots

2 sacks

Jeffery Simmons

Commanders

2 sacks

WHAT DECIDED IT

On the ground Commanders 67, Patriots 8 Commanders

Through the air Patriots 210, Commanders 152 Patriots

Giveaways Patriots 0, Commanders 2 Patriots

Total yards Commanders 219, Patriots 218 Commanders

THE ROOM Final. The recap is below.

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THE MATCHUP SCOUT every number below is counted from the export or read off the roster — nothing is inferred about playcalling

LEAGUE DATA counted by Madden, and arithmetic on top of it

Balanced Pass 59% · Rush 41% · 24.0 scored, 21.8 allowed

8.1 yds/att 63.5% completions 4.7 yds/carry 299.5 yds/game 1.5 giveaways/game 5.1% sack rate last 5: 3-2

Primary weapon: Chris Olave WR — 28% of the receiving yards · DEPENDENCY MODERATE

SAPPHIRE METRICS QB efficiency 64 · Aggressive Balance 91 Ball security 58 Back usage 30% QB runs 5.0/game

PERSONNEL off the roster — unit averages, best starters only

QB 87 WR 83 TE 79 RB 82 OL 81 DL 84 LB 84 DB 86

Best: Jeffery Simmons DT 95 Fastest: Chris Olave WR 93 SPD 7 at star dev or better

YOUR NOTEBOOK what you wrote about them — private, and never a Sapphire statistic

HOW THEY PLAY the man, not the franchise — only weeks the record attributes to him, this season

Checo

Patriots · his last 8 games

Balanced

Pass / run61% / 39% Points for / against27.1 — 16.4 Margin+10.8 Giveaways a game1.9 Sacks taken7.0% of dropbacks Lead backTreVeyon Henderson · 8.9/g Top targetKyle Williams · 30% QB carries2.6 a game

gokublack444

Commanders · his last 8 games

Balanced

Pass / run58% / 42% Points for / against23.4 — 24.2 Margin-0.9 Giveaways a game1.5 Sacks taken5.3% of dropbacks Lead backAshton Jeanty · 11.9/g Top targetChris Olave · 28% QB carries4.2 a game

Counted from the weeks each man actually held his team — so a franchise that changed hands is not credited to whoever has it now. Nothing above is a playcall: the export does not carry those, and neither does this.

THE SERIES gokublack444 against Checo — the men, not the teams

Checo leads it 1-0. Checo won the last one.

1 meeting avg 18.0 — 24.0 biggest: 6 pts to Checo

S2 · week 2 gokublack444 18 — 24 Checo CHECO

Only meetings Sapphire can attribute to both men are counted — a Madden export never says who owned a team last season, so the series starts where the record does.

MATCHUP ADVANTAGES unit averages against each other — inside three points is a push

Commanders receivers vs Patriots secondary 83 v 88 PATRIOTS

Patriots receivers vs Commanders secondary 83 v 86 COMMANDERS

Commanders line vs Patriots front 81 v 83 EVEN

Patriots line vs Commanders front 84 v 84 EVEN

Commanders backs vs Patriots run defence 82 v 82 EVEN

Patriots backs vs Commanders run defence 86 v 84 EVEN

Commanders passer vs Patriots secondary 87 v 88 EVEN

Patriots passer vs Commanders secondary 97 v 86 PATRIOTS

TOP PERFORMERS

Drake Maye QB Patriots 210 pass yds

Jayden Daniels QB Commanders 152 pass yds

Hunter Henry TE Patriots 86 rec yds

Chris Olave WR Commanders 71 rec yds

A.J. Brown WR Patriots 60 rec yds

Jeffery Simmons DT Commanders 2 sacks

Marcus Jones CB Patriots 2 sacks

Koi Perich FS Patriots 1 INTs

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BOX SCORE

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Jayden Daniels QB	14/24	152	1	1	2	23	73.6

PATRIOTS

PLAYER	C/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	SCK	LNG	RTG
Drake Maye QB	11/17	210	2	0	3	41	146.6

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	TD	BTK	YAC	LNG	FUM
Jayden Daniels QB	7	43	6.1	1	0	10	12	1
Ashton Jeanty HB	8	24	3	0	1	13	13	0
Antonio Williams WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Ted Hurst III WR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0

PATRIOTS

PLAYER	CAR	YDS	AVG	BTK	YAC	LNG
TreVeyon Henderson HB	6	11	1.8	0	6	5
Kyle Williams WR	0	0	0	1	0	0
Drake Maye QB	2	-3	-1.5	0	3	0

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	LNG
Chris Olave WR	4	71	17.8	0	4	23
Chigoziem Okonkwo TE	4	32	8	0	13	19
Ted Hurst III WR	3	30	10	1	11	16
Ashton Jeanty HB	2	12	6	0	11	11
Antonio Williams WR	1	7	7	0	2	7

PATRIOTS

PLAYER	REC	YDS	AVG	TD	YAC	LNG
Hunter Henry TE	4	86	21.5	1	15	32
A.J. Brown WR	3	60	20	0	17	41
Kyle Williams WR	2	46	23	1	22	36
TreVeyon Henderson HB	1	14	14	0	8	14
Zachariah Branch WR	1	4	4	0	1	4

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	PD
Sonny Styles MIKE	4	0	0
Nick Cross FS	2	0	0
Germaine Pratt SAM	2	0	0
Jeffery Simmons DT	2	2	0
JuJu Brents CB	2	0	0
Kamari Lassiter CB	1	0	0
Odafe Oweh REDG	1	0	0
Brian Branch SS	1	0	1
Calijah Kancey DT	1	1	0

PATRIOTS

PLAYER	TKL	SCK	INT	PD	FF	TD
Craig Woodson SS	5	0	0	1	0	0
Marcus Jones CB	4	2	0	1	0	0
Christian Gonzalez CB	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ji'Ayir Brown SS	3	0	0	0	0	0
Robert Spillane MIKE	2	0	0	0	1	0
Namdi Obiazor WILL	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gabe Jacas LEDG	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yhonzae Pierre REDG	1	0	0	0	0	0
Carlton Davis III CB	1	0	0	0	0	0
Koi Perich FS	0	0	1	0	0	1
Bear Alexander DT	0	0	0	1	0	0

COMMANDERS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Tyler Bass K	1/1	1/1	50

PATRIOTS

PLAYER	FG	XP	LNG
Andres Borregales K	1/1	3/3	50

RECENT FORM

Commanders

W 35–0 vs Dolphins WK 1

Patriots

L 17–23 vs Bills WK 1

TEAM STATS

Commanders		Patriots
219	TOTAL YARDS	218
152	PASSING YARDS	210
67	RUSHING YARDS	8
2	SACKS ALLOWED	3
3	SACKS MADE	2
2	GIVEAWAYS	0
0	TAKEAWAYS	2

Bold is the side that won that line. Giveaways come off a team's own offensive rows and takeaways off its own defensive rows — two separate payloads, so they need not tie out against each other.

ALL-TIME HEAD-TO-HEAD

0 COMMANDERS — 1 PATRIOTS

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