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NFL Week 3 had so many ugly turnovers thanks to terrible QB play

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From Will Levis to Jalen Hurts to Anthony Richardson, NFL QBs are cooking up some awful turnovers in Week 3.

With the NFL now into the third week of the 2024 season, many analysts are wondering: Where has the passing game gone?

Passing touchdowns are down, passing yardage is down, and that has led to some wondering if the two-high coverages that have grown in fashion are eliminating the passing game … and need to be eliminated themselves.

To that, we say: Run the football again.

Putting that aside, an early scan through the third week of the NFL season has shown us something else.

Some ugly turnovers.

For example …

Will Levis has already delivered some head-scratching turnovers this season. First was a Week 1 Pick-Six that led to his mid-play “surrender cobra,” perhaps the first true meme of the 2024 NFL season. Then came a Week 2 turnover that had everyone — including his head coach — wondering what he was thinking.

This Pick-Six he threw early Sunday to the Green Bay Packers might not have been as bad as those, but it was not exactly great!

PICK 6!

Jaire Alexander high steps his way into the end zone for the @Packers TD!

: #GBvsTEN – Sunday on FOX
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— NFL (@NFL) September 22, 2024

Jalen Hurts delivered a pair of turnovers for the Philadelphia Eagles in their game against the New Orleans Saints, perhaps the biggest surprise early this season. First was this end zone interception:

Tyrann Mathieu INT!

: #PHIvsNO on FOX
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— NFL (@NFL) September 22, 2024

Then came this disastrous fumble, shortly after the Eagles crossed the 50-yard line and into Saints’ territory:

Saints defense forces another turnover!

: #PHIvsNO on FOX
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— NFL (@NFL) September 22, 2024

Sunday’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears featured two of the league’s youngest talents at quarterback, Anthony Richardson and Caleb Williams.

Both of them threw some head-scratching interceptions.

First was this from Richardson, on a 3rd-and-goal play early in the second quarter:

Bears pick it off in the end zone!

: #CHIvsIND on CBS/Paramount+
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— NFL (@NFL) September 22, 2024

But then Williams, on Chicago’s ensuing possession, did this:

On the route like ketchup on a hot dog.

CBS pic.twitter.com/04ZvSGDRYw

— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) September 22, 2024

The games in the early window have yet to hit halftime, but we are already seeing some ugly football here in Week 3.

And maybe some Cover 2 as well.

Updates:

And we are back in the second half of the early-window games, however, Richardson is picking up right where he left off in the first half

THAT’S how you start the second half

: #CHIvsIND on CBS pic.twitter.com/ny5LweAcNu

— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) September 22, 2024

That … was a missed throw that brought out the boo birds at Lucas Oil Stadium.

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