NFL Week 9 Footnotes
- Whoyda thunk it? Through seven games, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were about as threatening as a sock puppet, and yet they came out yesterday and handled the Green Bay Packers -- who were in desperate need of a pick-me-up after the Favre game. Whoops. And not only did they beat the Packers, they did it in some of the most infamous uniforms in history: their original duds from the 1976 season, the year they lost all 14 games. But hey, you gotta stick with works. After all they have a 1.000% winning percentage in the creamcicle unis this season.
- Colts coach Jim Caldwell is the first coach to begin his career with eight straight wins since George “Potsy” Clark, who did it way back in 1931 for the Portsmouth Spartans – who are today’s Detroit Lions. Meanwhile, Dallas Clark finished with 14 receptions – one shy of the record for tight ends. So much for having a drop-off after losing Tony Dungy.
- Cincinnati is 6-2 for the first time since 1988, when they last went to the Super Bowl. Give them credit – week after week after week, they’re always going up against a tough opponent and have continually come away from it unscathed.
Randy Moss and Terrell Owens are now tied for second place on the all-time touchdown list with 140 TD’s. Jerry Rice, with 197 touchdowns, is way out in front in first place. If either player has a chance to match Rice it’s Moss, who has a beautiful thing going with Tom Brady.
How schizophrenic are the Arizona Cardinals, or rather, how schizophrenic is Kurt Warner? On week after throwing five interceptions in a loss to the Panthers, Warner threw five touchdowns and zero interceptions in Sunday’s crushing of the Bears. Warner is the first player in 31 years to throw a five-TD game directly after a five-INT game.
New Orleans is 8-0 for the first time in franchise history. Their 303 points through eight games is 28 less than the 2007 New England Patriots had in their first eight games. The Pats had some low-scoring games in the later half of the year though, so the Saints should be more than capable of making up the scoring deficit.
As pointed out at the SB Nation meta site, Peyton Manning is the first player in NFL history to accomplish 40,000 yards in a single decade.
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