What’s Hot and What’s Knott in Football – Week 11

By Rhys Knott

One-score games are hot in Week 11; 10 games ended within seven points in another wild week of the 2025 NFL season! 

Elsewhere, in no particular order, Brock Purdy, Bryce Young, Josh Allen, Sean Tucker and Jordyn Brooks are all hot. The Bernabeu isn’t really hot; it looks like an Amazon warehouse from the outside, but it’s certainly something. 

At the other end of the spectrum, everything about the Cardinals, the Ravens’ and Panthers’ pass protection and the facilities at MetLife must be very Knott. 

It wouldn’t be a week of the 2025 NFL season without another new Knott uniform. 

Hat tricks are hot again in Week 11. And Mike Vrabel’s Patriots demonstrated exactly why the old “doing the basics” cliche is important.

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What’s Hot in Football – Week 11

Now, about the new and improved Bernabeu. It’s not much to look at from the outside, but inside it looks like a spaceship. The Spaceship from Alien: Earth, but a spaceship nonetheless.

Nothing is hotter than one of Kyle Brandt’s “Angry Run” nominations. Darnell Washington’s angry run is so hot that the Packers defenders can still feel the heat!

You may think that all professional football teams can do the basics. It’s the complicated things that separate good teams from bad, right? Wrong. The Patriots didn’t really try anything complicated against the Jets. When they tried an end-around, Tyler Baron stopped Demario Douglas for a five-yard loss! 

Drake Maye’s 8.3-yard pass average is his lowest since the Week 3 loss to the Steelers! The longest completion Maye made was a 26-yarder to Demario Douglas, and that was his shortest long pass of the season. The second-year signal-caller didn’t even have to run against a very poor Jets defense; his 0.5 yards per run average is his lowest of his young career! 

The Jets, on the other hand, did not execute the basics effectively. After an almost floorless 8-minute drive to begin the game, they proceeded to go 3 and out on three occasions! Seven of their final eight drives ended with the Jets surrendering possession!   

Aaron Glenn seems like an intelligent man who knows what it takes to win football games, but he’s incapable of communicating that to the rest of the franchise in a way that they can understand! 

TreVeyon Henderson is hot in week 11. The rookie running back followed up his demolition of the Buccaneers in Week 10 with 93 total yards in Week 11, but most importantly, he notched the first hat trick of the week! 

Henderson scored two rushing touchdowns and hauled in a six-yard touchdown pass from Drake Maye as the Jets’ defense struggled to stop the rookie.  

Christian McCaffrey joined TreVeyon Henderson in the two-touchdown runs, one-touchdown-reception club. So did Sean Tucker. 

The Buccaneers running back racked up 140 yards from scrimmage! Tampa Bay still lost by 11 points despite Tucker’s three scores. 

Josh Allen had a hat trick of touchdown passes and a hat trick of touchdown runs. He narrowly missed out on a hat trick of interceptions, too. That guy really can do anything!

Brock Purdy returned from the foot injury he suffered in Week 2, and the Cardinals welcomed him with open arms. George Kittle was pleased to see him, too. The tight end hauled in two scoring passes as he caught six passes for 67 yards. 

While we’re talking about hot quarterbacks, Bryce Young joined Allen with a hat trick of TD passes, but he threw 15 more passes than the Bills’ signal caller. 

Young had to leave the field injured on two occasions though!

Jacoby Brissett eclipsed Young’s 45 passes with 57 attempts of his own (two of them resulted in picks)! That meant Michael Wilson ended the game with a league-leading 185 receiving yards (!!), but Jonathan Gannon’s Cardinals are an abomination, and we shall never speak of them again (well, we might if they get any worse)! 

The surprising part about Young’s monster day is that the Falcons haven’t had issues defending the pass in 2025. Drake Maye threw for 221 net yards against them in Week 9, but that was one of the young superstar’s quieter games. 

The Colts ran for 323 yards when they played the Falcons in Berlin, so Jeff Ulbrich was desperate to correct that. Too desperate as it turns out.  

Rico Dowdle and company only managed 67 rushing yards on 25 attempts. Luckily for Dave Canales, Bryce completed passes to nine different pass catchers and averaged 14.5 yards per completion! 

Tetairoa McMillan recorded 130 receiving yards and had two touchdowns, but that barely deserves a mention.

What does, however, deserve a mention is Jordyn Brooks’ 20 tackles! Admittedly, he had an overtime period to get that number, but it’s still five more than anyone else managed this week! 

Not only does Brooks lead the league this week, but he also leads the league with 125 total tackles this season! The 28-year-old is on pace for 194 tackles this season! All of which begs the question, how do the Dolphins have a –43 points difference? 

Football nauses unite, players learning as the season goes on is very hot. Players learning from playing Madden is football nerd heaven. So, Nick Cross crediting his one-handed pick against the Chargers is absolutely hot! 

Mack Hollins’ Week 9 costume was quite something, but his Week 11 outfit simply must be applauded.  

Let’s talk hot throwback uniforms. The old school Giants’ unis might be undefeated, but that’s mainly because they remind everyone of a time when the Giants weren’t absolutely terrible. 

The Rams’ Midnight Mode uniforms are very hot, too. They don’t actually look like a Rams’ uniform, but Sean McVay’s guys just look hot in anything.

The tush push, or more specifically, officials’ inability to call a false start during the tush push, is very Knott, but how do we feel about the mascot tush push? They might just be hot, even if it is against small children! 

And, in a more nebulous manner, former Jaguars defensive backs C.J Reavis and Tevaughn Campbell, along with former Dolphins linebacker Micah Johnson, are all smoking hot after winning the Grey Cup in a nail-biting finish! Well, they’re metaphorically hot, the weather in Winnipeg got distinctly chilly, with a top temperature of just 1 degree!

What’s Knott in Football – Week 11

It beggars belief that this needs to be said for a second time in 11 weeks, but spitting at people is just so Knott. Don’t do it, kids! 

Tackling your teammate as he is about to make an interception is absolutely Knott. That’s exactly what Jets safety Tony Adams did as Qwantez Stiggers positioned himself underneath a Drake Maye beep ball. 

On the other sideline, the Patriots’ Nor’Easter uniform is an odd combination of a faded jersey that looks like a stonewash Canadian tuxedo and white pants. That’s a great look if you’re clubbing in Essex, but in the NFL, white pants at home are most definitely Knott. The Jets made it even worse by wearing all white. 

We need to talk about these Bills helmets, too. That Bison looks like it’s been coloured in by a toddler! Nobody has ever seen a red bison in Yellowstone, so Knott!

And while we’re ripping the Bills for being Knott, check this interception out.

Officials not being able to tell the difference between a neutral zone infraction and a false start is Knott too. It’s kinda ironic when it’s happening on a tush push, though. 

After some egregious misses in 2024 (at least two of which were on poor Sam Darnold), we thought the officials had given up on missing blatant face masks, but here we are. That’s plain as day. What are the zebras up to? 

Dan Campbell’s aggression on fourth down was absolutely Knott, too. He can be forgiven for not going for long field goal attempts, given the absolute gale that was blowing in Philly and New Jersey. But when you’ve gone 0 for 4, you need to mix it up a little, or you’ll end up going 0 for 5 like Campbell’s offense did. We love you, Dan, but biting kneecaps will only get you so far. 

On the subject of the gale in New Jersey, watch how Younghoe Koo’s extra point attempt was diverted to LaGuardia for an emergency landing! 

We’re staying in New Jersey to award the prize for the most Knott thing to happen in Week 11, if not the entire 2025 season! Apparently, the toilets are really difficult to find in MetLife! We’re all that dude on the right. 

RHYS KNOTT

NFL/FANTASY FOOTBALL ANALYST

Rhys has been watching the NFL for 30 something years and still hasn’t managed to pick a team to support. When he’s not fixatED on pass rushers you can find him blithering on about most sports on Twitter @wrhys_writes

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