NFL Opens Week 5 With 5 Winless Teams and 2 Bye-Week Clubs
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Updated · CNN · Oct 8
NFL Opens Week 5 With 5 Winless Teams and 2 Bye-Week Clubs
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Oct 8
Summary
Week 5 begins with five 0-4 teams still searching for a first win and the season’s first bye weeks taking Kansas City and Carolina off the schedule.
Monday’s Buffalo-Los Angeles game headlines the slate: the Rams rallied from a 3% win probability to beat Philadelphia, while the Bills blew a halftime lead for the first time in 22 such games.
San Francisco visits Seattle in another marquee matchup, with Brock Purdy leading the NFL with 11 touchdown passes and the 49ers not allowing a sack through four games.
Detroit enters Arizona carrying one of the league’s sharpest contrasts—an offense ranked fourth in scoring and a defense allowing 31.8 points per game, near historically bad territory.
The week opens Thursday with Tampa Bay at Dallas, where the 0-4 Buccaneers turn again to rookie Jalon Daniels while the Cowboys try to build on a 2-2 start.