NFL Notes and Trends…Week 6


Browns Kick Returner and only scoring threat Josh Cribbs

Browns Kick Returner and only scoring threat Josh Cribbs

-Tom Brady threw six touchdown passes in the Patriots’ 59-0 win over the Titans, including five in the second quarter, an NFL record for one quarter. Brady also set an NFL record for the fastest five TD passes, throwing his 2nd-quarter TDs in a span of 9 minutes, 44 seconds. The previous record was 11 minutes, 13 seconds by Daryle Lamonica of the Raiders in 1969.

-Adrian Peterson rushed for 143 yards, the highest total against the Ravens in a game that Ray Lewis played in more than a decade. The last player with that high a rushing total against Lewis and the Ravens was James Allen of the Bears in 1998 (163 yards).

-The Bills defeated the Jets despite allowing 318 yards rushing. Only one other team in NFL history won a game in which its opponent gained at least that much rushing yardage: The Redskins beat the Cleveland Rams, 14-10, in a 1944 game in which the Rams rushed for 320 yards.

-Josh Cribbs tied one record and set another with a 98-yard kickoff-return touchdown against the Steelers. Cribbs became the first player in NFL history to score on a kickoff return in five straight seasons, and his total of six KOR-TD’s tied the NFL career mark that he now shares with Mel Gray, Dante Hall, Ollie Matson, Gale Sayers and Travis Williams.

-How bout this for the Bet. JaMarcus Russell’s 86-yard touchdown pass to Zach Miller was the Raiders’ longest TD pass in more than a quarter-century – since Jim Plunkett threw a 99-yarder to Cliff Branch in 1983.

-The Cardinals held the Seahawks to 14 yards on 11 carries in a 27-3 victory at Seattle. It was the Seahawks’ lowest single-game rushing total in the team’s 34-year history. Their previous low was 20 rushing yards against the Patriots in 1988.

- Kansas City is the fourth team to record its first victory of the 2009 season against the Redskins. Over the last 30 years, only one other team that lost to four previously winless opponents: the Browns in 2003. The Redskins became the first team in NFL history whose first six opponents in a season were all winless to that point.

-Aaron Rodgers threw for 358 yards Sunday and is 5th in the NFL in pass yards per game and QB rating despite being sacked an NFL-leading 25 times. He has been sacked 6 more than the next closest QB, and Rodgers has had a bye week already. I can only imagine how much better he could be if he had even a decent O-line.

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  1. #1 by Chris Cwik on October 19, 2009 - 5:43 pm

    I hope you saw the Russell to Miller TD…awful tackling display by the Eagles. In fairness, Louis Murphy had two awesome blocks on the play. Don’t you rub The Bet in my face, I’m playing the scoreboard card.

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