There are bad Sundays, and then there are Sundays that force everyone to recheck the numbers. Nfl Scores Yesterday landed firmly in the second category for the Bears, who followed a 59-point explosion in Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season by managing only three points in a loss to the Vikings. That is a 56-point drop-off, the sort of swing that does not just look ugly — it screams that something has gone badly wrong.
And the weirdness did not stop there. The Bengals went to the Texans and did something they had not done in 65 consecutive games: they shut out the touchdown. That is the kind of streak that eventually becomes its own burden, because once it ends, it tells you how rare the feat really was. Sunday in Week 2 was full of those statistical jolts, the sort that make Next Gen Stats and NFL Research feel less like background noise and more like the real headline.
The Bears' nosedive was the loudest alarm
Caleb Williams exited the Bears game late in the fourth quarter with a hamstring injury, which only made the afternoon look worse. Chicago did not merely underperform; it crashed from 59 points to three. In a league where week-to-week volatility is normal, that is still an astonishing drop. The Bears looked nothing like the team that had lit up Week 1, and the scoreboard made the point with brutal clarity.
There is no polishing that up. A team cannot score 59 one week and then three the next without inviting serious questions about consistency, execution, and whether the first performance was an outlier rather than a foundation. If you were searching for a reminder that early-season numbers can lie, the Bears provided it in the harshest possible way.
The Bengals ended a streak that had become almost unbelievable
The Bengals deserve attention for a very different reason. By not allowing a touchdown at the Texans, they ended a 65-game streak. That is not a small footnote; it is a meaningful marker of how difficult it is to sustain any defensive trend in the NFL, let alone one that lasts across that many games.
Elsewhere, the Bills still carry an active streak of allowing at least one touchdown in 47 consecutive games, which helps underline just how exceptional the Bengals' run was before Sunday. The league is built on swings, but some swings are so extreme that they define the day. The Bears' 56-point drop-off and the Bengals' streak ending at 65 consecutive games were exactly that kind of evidence.
So if you were skimming NFL Scores Yesterday for ordinary box-score noise, this was not the place to find it. Sunday in Week 2 was a reminder that the NFL can still produce numbers that feel almost absurd when placed side by side. One team collapsed, another broke a long-running streak, and the rest of the league was left to reckon with a slate that was far stranger than it first appeared.
