Gathering late matches for the second week of the 2025-26 season

Carolina Panthers @ arizona cardinals
The Cardinals of Arizona survived a third quarter of 24 points to a 27-22 victory against the Panthers of Caroline, whose miraculous return effort did not succeed. Although Caroline scored 22 points unanswered in the second half and recovered a kick on the side, it would not be enough to win a victory.
It was a disastrous beginning for the panthers. The quarter-arre Bryce Young gave the ball on a band of band band that was picked up and returned three yards for a touch to put the panthers in a 7-0 hole with only 1:33 disappeared in the match. During their next possession, Young launched an interception that was returned to Carolina 48 Yard Line, which set up a goal attempt of 29 yards to do it 10-0.
The panthers finally settled and gathered a journey of 55 yards which led to a basket after the standby point of the series at the nine meter line of Arizona. Bryce Young connected with the Wideout Tet McMillan recruit for a 40 yards in possession. He had six catches for 100 yards in the match.
The score has passed until the second quarter, when the cards reached another goal in the field to extend their advance at 13-3.
Arizona has found the goal area just before half-time. The Cardinals quarterrier, Kyler Murray, struck the large receiver Michael Wilson on a touch of 11 yards to increase the advance to 20-3 just with four seconds to play before the break.
The cards kept the pedal on the half-time metal. The tight winger Elijah Higgins made two catches for 45 yards, which finally led to the Ballon bearer James Conner, by two meters to increase the advance to 27-3. Upon entering this game, Higgins had a take for three meters on the countryside.
The panthers responded to the challenge with a furious return effort. Bryce Young found the wide receiver that the Renfrow hunter for a TD pass of two yards to reduce the advance to 27-9 after a failed conversion in two points. It was the first reception of Hunter Renfrow’s Touché since January 7, 2023, when he was a member of the Raiders of Las Vegas.
Carolina continued to put pressure on Arizona. Bryce Young launched his second pass of a touchdown of the day, this one to the Ballon carrier Chubbard Hubbard, to reduce the gap and make 27-15 after the failure of the conversion in two points. Bryce Young had 328 yards by the pass, three affected, an int and an escaped lost in it.
The cards sweated once again after the Caroline Panthers marked on a pass of a hit of a Yard in Hunter Renfrow, which makes it 27-22. He finished the match with seven receptions for 48 yards and two affected.
Surprisingly, the panthers were not made. They recovered their attempted kick on the side, giving the offensive a chance to take the lead. However, on a 4th and 15th year, Calais Campbell dismissed Bryce Young to finish the match.
With the victory, the cards have been 2-0 for the first time since the 2021-22 season, which also marks the last time they have made the playoffs. This victory also improves the global record of NFC West at 7-1 in the first two weeks of the season, the only defeat being the victory of the first week of the 49ers of San Francisco over the Seattle Seahawks.
Denver Broncos @ Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis colts beat the Denver Broncos 29-28 thanks to a winning basket of the game and a call for wild penalty on the second match of the competition.
The colts first tried a basket of 60 yards that their kicker missed at the expiration of time. However, the broncos were penalized for a personal lever fault, which advanced the ball of 15 yards and allowed the colts to try the basket again winning once without Itigence. Indy has struck the second attempt, improving its 2-0 record for the first time since 2009.
In a match that included two of the best defenses we saw in the first week, it was the offenses that were the story of the game. These squads combined for 57 points and 797 yards.
The quarter-Arrière of the second year of the Broncos, Bo Nix, easily exceeded his poor performances from last week by launching three passes in the first half of this match. His first TD, a 23 yards in Marvin Mims, put Denver in the lead 7-3.
After a goal on the Indianapolis field to reduce the advance to 7-6, the colt ball carrier, Jonathan Taylor, picked 43 yards on a short pass to give Indy possession of the ball on the 11-meter broncos line. A few games later, the quarter-Arrière Daniel Jones plunged into the goals area for a touch of a yard and an advantage of 13-7.
Denver would breaks together two consecutive touching training sessions of 67 and 50 yards, respectively, which allowed the Broncos to resume the advance and increase 21-13. One of these TDS was captured by the Wideout Troy Franklin recruit, giving him his first hit in career at the NFL level.
However, Indy would not stay below. The colts moved the ball of 81 yards in just 1:32, which set up a pass of a touch of seven yards from Daniel Jones to Jonathan Taylor to do it 21-20 at halftime. It was the first JT TD take since week 13 last season.
The offensive fireworks were continued in the third quarter. Denver marked a touchdown in his first series of the second half on a rush to five yards by portify JK Dobbins. It was his second TD precipitated in as many games.
The defense of the Broncos, which had a summit of six bags last week, did not total its first disassembly of Quarterrière until more halfway in the third quarter. It would be a well-timed bag, however, because he forced the colts to settle for a basket and a deficit of 28-23, this is how things would be held to start the fourth quarter.
One of the biggest defensive games of the match occurred at the start of the fourth quarter, when Denver’s defense forced a turnover on Downs on a 4th and 2 in the midfield. The colts were 0/2 on the attempts of fourth descent this afternoon.
Indy’s defense did not hesitate when the chips were broken. An overturned BO Nix pass for Wideout Courtland Sutton was intercepted by Cam bynum security, ending a journey that could have made a two -score match.
The impressive afternoon of Jonathan Taylor resumed when Indy’s offensive took the ground. He rebounded an outside transfer and picked up 68 yards to bring the ball into the red zone. However, the defense of the broncos was strong and forced a goal on the ground to do so 28-26. Jonathan Taylor had 215 yards in total and two affected in this match.
The Broncos were fortunate to improve their lead, but Will Lutz missed an attempted goal in the field of 42 yards which would have given Denver an advantage of five points.
Daniel Jones, who had 316 yards by the pass, was linked to Wideout Alec Pierce for a third conversion, which allowed the colts to try a winner of 60 yards. Indianapolis missed the test, but the broncos were reported for a personal fault, which brought the ball closer to 15 meters and allowed the colts to try again at 45 yards, which Indy did.
Philadelphia Eagles @ Kansas City Chiefs
The Philadelphia Eagles outstripped the Kansas City 20-17 chiefs in a revenge match of Super Bowl Lix. With defeat, the chiefs will start a 0-2 season for the first time in 11 years.
Unlike the Super Bowl, this game was much closer. He helped that he took some time to one or the other of the offenses to get things done. This competition started with three consecutive clearances of clearance followed by a missed basket.
With a little less than five minutes in the first quarter, the action fell back. Philly orchestrated a training of 52 yards which was crowned with a touch of 13 yards by Saquon Barkley, his second TD precipitated from the season. He ended the day with 94 yards in total and a touch on the ground.
The Kansas City chiefs applauded the Eagles. Patrick Mahomes rushed to 22 meters to go to the 29 meter of Philly line. However, he took a bag of 11 yards on the 3rd drop, forcing them to settle for a basket and a deficit of 7-3.
Patrick Mahomes made him occur with his legs on the next KC offensive series. He picked up 19 yards on consecutive races, including a touch of 13 yards to give the chiefs their first advance of the day, 10-7. At no time during the Super Bowl, Kansas City had an advance on Philly.
The Eagles recovered the ball with 2:24 to do in half-time, which would be enough time to assemble a route of 38 yards which allowed the Philadelphia Botter Jake Elliott to reach a basket of 58 yards while time expired to attach things to 10-10 before half-time. Interestingly, Patrick Mahomes led all the players in the yards on the ground in the first half with 60.
The chiefs wanted to maintain the momentum in the third quarter, so they chose to do so in 4th and 1 on their own line of 35 yards. However, this decision came back to bite them after being stuffed for a loss of one meter. Although the defense only granted two meters, it would be enough to establish a successful goal of 51 yards to put Philly forward 13-10.
The defense of the Eagles once again returned to Patrick Mahomes. During a 2nd and a goal in Philly’s Six, Patrick Mahomes launched a pass which bounced from the hands of Travis Kelce and was intercepted by the security of Andrew Mukuba. He returned the int to the 41 yards line of the Eagles.
During the next game, the chiefs were reported for a mask mask penalty, which helped the Philly offensive to go to the Kansas City field. Finally, the Eagles obtained the ball on the line of a yard, where they attempted their famous Tash push game on a 3rd and a goal, but it was stopped by the chiefs. Philly tried the play again in fourth position, with a better result this time while Jalen Hurts found the goal area to extend the advance at 20-10 with 7:48 to do in the fourth quarter.
KC would once again mark a long game of bombs. Patrick Mahomes struck the wide Tyquan Thornton receiver for a touch of 49 yards to reduce the advance to 20-17 with three minutes to do in the match. Thornton has recorded games of more than 35 yards in consecutive matches.
Unfortunately for fans of the chiefs, the Eagles would get the ball and never return it. They executed a perfect three-minute journey to close the match and go to 2-0 this season.
* Author’s note: All information and statistics are followed in real time and is provided by the game broadcaster, nfl.com and ESPN.com *




