Week 10's lesson for our overreactions column is about overreacting too soon.
If you overreacted too soon to the Giants' fourth-quarter comeback, you had to backtrack when rookie running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. fumbled the ball away on the first play of overtime and handed Carolina the win. If you overreacted to the Broncos' final drive to get into position to beat the unbeaten Chiefs on a last-second field goal, you were stunned when the Chiefs blocked the kick to somehow keep their undefeated season alive. And if you thought Sam Darnold's three interceptions were going to lead to a Vikings loss in Jacksonville, you must have been startled when Mac Jones tapped you on the shoulder and asked you to hold his beer.
Yeah, we're all supposed to play to the whistle. But if we did that here in weekly overreactions -- where we judge a few potential takeaways as legitimate or irrational -- what fun would we be able to have? Anybody can wait until the season is over and tell the people what was real and what wasn't. It takes a special kind of crystal ball -- one that resets every week, in fact -- to try to figure it out in real time. So here goes for Week 10.
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