Inside the Numbers
Monday Night Football: Tony Romo threw 5 INTs and had a fumble. The Buffalo Bills had 3 return TDs (2 on INTs and 1 on a kickoff). Based on those numbers, who would have expected the 'Boys to emerge victorious? They did however and, to quote T.O., they won on Nick Folk's "106-yard FG" - (referring to the back-to-back 53-yarders he made because Dick Jurron called a timeout just before the 1st make).
100-yard rushers: This past week had 7 100-yard rushers and the majority (4) of them were "back-ups": Michael Turner (SD), Kenton Keith (IND) - who played in place of injured starter Joseph Addai, Sammy Morris (NE) - who started in place of injured starter Laurence Maroney and Brian Leonard (STL) - who started in place of Steven Jackson. That is even more impressive when you compare them to this week's performance of 12 yards for Larry Johnson (KC), 25 yards for Shaun Alexander (SEA) and 52 yards for Frank Gore (SF).
The starters who had 100+ yards were Ronnie Brown (MIA), Willie Parker (PIT) and Brandon Jacobs (NYG).
So far this season, there are 3 NFL RBs that have averaged 100+ ypg rushing through week 5: Lamont Jordan (OAK) 106.0 ypg, Joseph Addai (IND) 101.8 ypg and Willie Parker (PIT) 101.4 ypg. After last season's performance, can you believe that Jordan (and the Raiders) are leading the league in rushing ypg for player and team, respectively?
Pace: Tom Brady (NE) is on pace to put up the following statistics: 4426 yds (4413), 51 TDs (31), 6 INTs and 74.1% completion percentage (68.3%). (2006 league leaders in parenthesis.)
Did you know that David Carr (CAR) was the 2006 league leader in completion percentage at 68.3%? In fact, Tony Romo (despite last year's inconsistency) was 2nd best. Peyton Manning (IND) was 3rd.
Speaking of #'s, only 75 hours to the Cowboys/Pats game...we will soon find out if this game will live up to its hype...
