It’s just another manic Monday. I wish it was Sunday. ‘Cause that’s my funday. My I don’t have to runday. It’s just another manic Monday. -The Bangles
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Like my main Frank Gifford always says,”Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.” Well, did you survive? Huh? Did ya? Good. Now let’s see who else survived. Let’s see who else stayed alive. Ah ah ah ah stayin’ alive. Shall we? Sure we shall.
Chris Johnson stayed alive. Stayed alive in the MVP hunt. MVP! MVP! MVP! What a year this cat is having. Yesterday, Every Coach’s Dream scored on an 85-yard touchdown. Big deal? So what? I’ll tell you so what. I’ll tell you that tied Jim Brown’s 46-year-old NFL record for rushing TDs of 50 yards or longer in one season of five. I’ll also tell you Every Coach’s Dream now has more touchdown runs of 85 yards or longer this season than any other NFL player recorded in his entire career. Ya heard? More touchdown runs of 85 yards or longer this season than any other NFL player recorded in his entire career. Yikes. The Honorable mention goes Barry Sanders. Uh-memba him? Barry Sanders scored three TDs on runs of at least 80 yards (all in 1997), but none of his TDs was as long as any of Johnson’s three longest this season. How about that? Heres some more Chris Johnson goodness:
- Chris Johnson gained 154 yards in the Titans’ 20-17 win over the Cardinals, to finish the month of November with 800 rushing yards. That is the highest monthly total in NFL history – not just for November, but for any month. The previous record was 797 yards by Ricky Williams in December 2002.
- Chris Johnson gained 154 yards on 18 carries against the Cardinals, marking the sixth straight game in which he (a) ran for at least 125 yards, and (b) averaged at least 5.0 yards per carry. That’s the longest such streak in NFL history, breaking a mark set by Jim Brown in 1958.
If that don’t make an MVP season, I don’t know what does.
You can have your Roger the Dodger Staubach. You can have your Jim Harbaugh. Heck, you can have your John Elway. You can have your cake and eat it too. No you can’t. I just said that ’cause it fits. You can have all those guys. There’s a new sheriff in town and his name ain’t Reggie Hammond. No it ain’t. It’s Peyton Manning. It’s that six-five, 230-pound quarterback with the laser rocket arm. It’s the guy, who yesterday, rallied from a 17-0 deficit to post a 35-27 win at Houston. It’s the guy who now has led his team to a regular-season victory after trailing by at least 17 points for a record five times. That’s the guy I’m talking about.
Speaking of John Elway, I give you Chris Redman. He of the last minute winner winner chicken dinner. You may remember Redman from his days at the University of Louisville. The days when he completed his college career as the NCAA Division I-A career leader in passing completions and attempts. Well, he picked up right where he left off. Sort of. Subbing for the injured Matt Ryan, Redman completed only 10 of 25 passes in the fourth quarter, but his 5-yard toss to Roddy White, with 23 seconds to play, gave the Falcons a 20-17 win over the Bucs. Hooray Chris Redman! Redman became the first player in the last 20 seasons to throw as many as 15 incomplete passes in the fourth quarter of a victory. Ain’t that something?
Two weeks after the star running back suffered his second concussion of the season, the Eagles’ star wide receiver suffered his first. Yes, Desean Jackson suffered his first concussion yesterday, but not before he did something else. Not before caught a 35-yard touchdown pass in the Eagles’ 27-24 win over the Redskins. You may say pfffft! Feh! 35 yards? Yes, it was the shortest of Jackson’s eight TDs this season, but nonetheless, it enabled him to match Randy Moss and Devin Hester for the most TDs of 35 or more yards in one season during this decade. That’s not all it did. With that touchdown, Jackson also broke the single-season Eagles record in that category set by Tim Brown in 1962. Get well soon Desean. They need you.
With thunderbolts and lightning, we’ll light up the sky. We’ll give it all we’ve got, and more with the Super Charger try! San Diego Super Chargers. San Diego Super Chargers. Sounds so nice, I said it twice. Get the papers, get the papers. LaDainian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates. Antonio Gates and LaDainian Tomlinson. They go together like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong. Remembered for ever like shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom. Went together yesterday. Went together scoring two touchdowns apiece in the Chargers’ 43-14 win over the Chiefs. It was the third time that Tomlinson and Gates both scored multiple TDs in the same game, equaling the most such games by any teammates in NFL history. This is one team I do not want to see in the playoffs.
Brass Bonanza:
The Brass Bonanza Award is given to the Sunday’s biggest loser. Brass Bonanza was the Hartford Whalers fight song. Need I say more? This week’s Brass Bonanza goes to none other than Jake Delhomme. Delhomme threw four interceptions in the Panthers’ 17-6 loss to the Jets. Bad enough in and of itself, but it was the second game this season in which Delhomme was picked off four times and failed to throw a touchdown pass. Bad enough in and of itself but no player had two such games in the same season in more than 20 years since Warren Moon did it in 1986. And know this, Jake Delhomme is no Warren Moon. Hey, Jake: This Brass Bonanza is for you:
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Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
