NFL Week 7 Footnotes

by ZombieMonta on Oct 26, 2009 3:00 AM EDT in News

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Yesterday’s Vikings-Steelers game featured the first fourth quarter in NFL history to contain three touchdowns of 70 or more yards. Interestingly enough, none of the three TD’s came with the scoring team’s offense on the field – one was a kickoff return from Percy Harvin, one was a fumble recovery off of Brett Favre, and the other was an interception from Favre within the final two minutes.
With their 46-point performance against the Miami Dolphins, the New Orleans Saints are on pace to break the 2007 Patriots' scoring record. Through six games, the Saints have produced a terrific 238 points. Through the same amount of games, the '07 Pats had scored 230 points.
With 462 receptions, Jason Whitten moved into ninth place on the all-time reception list for tight ends. He is currently tied with ex-Jets TE Mickey Shuler.
The New York Giants record streak of starting the same five offensive lineman is over. With Kareem McKenzie's groin injury, the streak stopped at 38 games.
Brett Favre had been absolutely perfect in the red zone prior to the fourth quarter of yesterday’s game (10 TD’s, 0 INT’s). The interception that passed through the hands of Chester Taylor was his first of the year when he got within the 20 yard-line.
The four TD’s Chicago allowed in the first half of their 45-10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals was the most they had given up in franchise history. Now that the Bears are 3-3, you can be sure to hear some panic in the streets of Chicago today, even though their losses were all at the hands of some pretty tough opponents.
John Carney passed George Blanda for the third most points in NFL history. Only Gary Anderson and Morten Andersen have scored more points. Carney is still 431 points behind Gary for No. 2 all-time. Those three are the only players in NFL history to tally over 2,000 career points.
Courtesy of Sean Leahy of USA Today: "The Jets rushed for 316 yards in the 38-0 win at Oakland (after losing Leon Washington, likely for the year, in the first quarter), which gave them 634 yards rushing in the last two weeks. They became just the second team to rush for 300 yards in consecutive games since 1960."

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Peyton Manning

also barely missed out on matching the record for consecutive games with 300 yards passing. Of all the teams to break that streak it was the hapless St.Louis Rams. Go figure. He may still find a few more records to his name by the end of this season.

by rzor on Oct 26, 2009 11:27 AM EDT reply actions