Welcome to NFL 2020. Hope you brought your quarters. Defense is all but illegal, and pinball scoring is a mandate.
Week 4 got off to a juicy scoring start Thursday night when the Broncos and Jets — two dead-end teams on a road to nowhere — found a way to score 65 total points. And the points kept coming in the early wave of Sunday’s slate, as the eight games featured 87, 69, 64, 58, 54, 54, 52, and 48 points.
Vegas can’t set these totals high enough. It’s the highest-scoring opening quarter in NFL history, and the point bettors are having a ball.