Judging biggest overreactions for NFL Week 5 games - ESPN

It's Week 5, and offense is back! The defenses have been getting most of the love in the early portion of the 2024 NFL season, but the scoring sprouted back up again this week.

The Falcons and Buccaneers got seemingly everyone's fantasy football week off to a great start with a 36-30 overtime thriller on Thursday night. Then Sunday's early window saw the Bears, Commanders, Colts and Jaguars score in the 30s, leading up to the Ravens' 41-38 overtime victory over the Bengals. Quarterbacks were winging the ball all over the place, and teams were lighting up the scoreboards again.

We've got nothing at all against defense here, but it's no overreaction to say it's a ton of fun watching Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson slug out a classic AFC North rivalry game. Let's start this week's overreactions — where we judge a few potential takeaways as legitimate or irrational — in Cincinnati, where a bad hold on an overtime field goal attempt might have sunk the Bengals' season.

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This game was complete mayhem from start to finish… but especially at finish. Joe Burrow looked like a man on a mission all day, throwing five touchdown passes. He was 30-for-39 for 392 yards and played like a guy who knew his team's season was on the line.

Unfortunately, he threw an interception late in regulation when all the Bengals had to do was run out the clock, and the Ravens tied it on a 54-yard Justin Tucker field goal. Baltimore got the ball first in overtime, but Lamar Jackson fumbled a snap, and the Bengals got in range of a 53-yard Evan McPherson field goal attempt. The ball slipped out of the holder's hands,