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

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!

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:

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

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:

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

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