{"id":848527,"date":"2026-09-15T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:00:11","slug":"nfl-ties-week-1-scoring-record-for-super-bowl-era-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848527\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL ties Week 1 scoring record for Super Bowl era | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tying such a mark would&#8217;ve been hard to see coming on Wednesday, when the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots kicked off the campaign with a <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/patriots-at-seahawks-2026-reg-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">13-10<\/a> defensive battle in a Super Bowl LX rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the rest of the weekend, however, took a different path.<\/p>\n<p>Offensive explosions proved the norm.\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/caleb-williams\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Caleb Williams<\/a> and the Chicago Bears <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/bears-at-panthers-2026-reg-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">dropped 59 points<\/a> on the Carolina Panthers, the franchise&#8217;s most since the 1980 season, and it&#8217;s not as if Carolina&#8217;s offense was hapless attempting to keep up. The Panthers put 37 on the board, contributing to the highest-scoring Week 1 game (96 combined points) in league history.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/lamar-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Lamar Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s Baltimore Ravens <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/ravens-at-colts-2026-reg-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">scored 41<\/a> against the Indianapolis Colts, while <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/josh-allen\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Josh Allen<\/a>&#8216;s Buffalo Bills required a similar output to defeat the Houston Texans, <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/bills-at-texans-2026-reg-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">36-31<\/a>, a somewhat shocking result, considering DeMeco Ryans&#8217; club hasn&#8217;t allowed that many points since his first year leading Houston in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars opened a large enough lead that\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/trevor-lawrence\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Trevor Lawrence<\/a> sat out the fourth quarter of a <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/browns-at-jaguars-2026-reg-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">34-10 win<\/a> over the Cleveland Browns, and the Minnesota Vikings, who defeated the Green Bay Packers, <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/packers-at-vikings-2026-reg-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">39-22<\/a>, at one point scored 22 points in 2:46 of game time during the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL&#8217;s scoring frenzy stands in stark contrast to the commonly held belief that defenses typically begin the season ahead of offenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was not so this week, leading to record-tying results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tying such a mark would&#8217;ve been hard to see coming on Wednesday, when the Seattle Seahawks and New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6255,3,6257,99],"class_list":["post-848527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}