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| Rookie running back David Wilson celebrates after scoring in New York's key victory over New Orleans on Sunday. Photo credit to Yahoo! Fantasy Sports. |
Because I had other things I had to get done yesterday, I
have to combine my second Monday post with my usual Tuesday post, which isn’t
all that bad really considering it’s only five games to cover, so let’s get to
it.
The 49ers were one of the few teams who easily did what they
expected to on Sunday with a 27-13 home win over the Dolphins. Colin Kaepernick
bounced back nicely from a disappointing Week 13 performance against the Rams.
The Redskins were looking for some help from the Saints, but
got none as New Orleans put up decent points but allowed Eli Manning and rookie
David Wilson to put up a 50-berger and suddenly we’re right back where we were
after Week 12, with the Giants looking like clearly
the best team in the NFC East.
New York wasn’t the only team to KO a scoreboard on Sunday.
The Seahawks demolished the Cardinals. Well, not exactly. ‘Demolished’ isn’t
nearly strong enough of a word for a 58-0 beat down on the strength of eight
turnovers by Arizona. Seattle looks more and more like a legitimate NFC title
contender every week.
Detroit took an early 14-0 lead in snowy Green Bay on Sunday
Night and it looked like Chicago would get the help they needed and a strange
Sunday would be complete, but Aaron Rodgers slowly got his team back in the
game. Calvin Johnson continued to chase Jerry Rice’s single-season receiving
yards record, but it was not enough in a 27-20 losing effort.
After a Sunday of fairly boring games – even the
Packers/Lions ordeal lacked a certain level of excitement for me – I had hoped
that the Monday Night game on ESPN would reveal itself as Week 14’s true game
of the week.
Instead the Patriots scored on each of their first three
drives while their often-struggling defense shut down Arian Foster and
contained the Texans’ passing attack. Houston’s defense settled down and kept
New England from scoring on their next four drives, but their offense had no
such luck. The Patriots did get things rolling again later and eventually
finished with 42 points against arguably the best overall defense in the NFL.
Tom Brady threw for 4 touchdowns and no interceptions and
has now done so twice more than any quarterback in NFL history and he did so on
fewer than 300 passing yards, a testament to a better rushing attack than we’ve
seen from New England in recent years. Brady also tied former Chiefs great Len
Dawson for the most starts at quarterback resulting in 40 or more points, an
impressive feat for Dawson to have his name anywhere near considering he threw
for fewer than 30,000 yards in his 19-year career.
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