Five quick takes on Week 10 in the NFL:
1. Drew Brees continued his climb up the standings in the record books and kept New Orleans in the driver’s seat for homefield advantage in the NFC playoffs by leading the Saints to a 51-14 rout of the Cincinnati Bengals. Brees threw three touchdown passes to move ahead of Brett Favre with 509 for his career. Favre had 508. Tom Brady, who didn’t throw a touchdown pass in a loss to the Tennessee Titans, is at 505. Peyton Manning is on top at 539.
Five quick takes on Week 10 in the NFL:
1. The New Orleans Saints have to avoid a letdown against Cincinnati after their big victory over the Los Angeles Rams last week and avoid looking ahead to next week’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles. This is a sandwich game for the Saints, who are now in pole position in the battle for NFC homefield advantage in the playoffs. They don’t figure to get careless enough to lose to the 5-3 Bengals.
The return of Leonard Fournette from his ailing hamstring is the big storyline for the Jacksonville Jaguars in Sunday’s game at Indianapolis.
The Jaguars are hoping that they will be able to return to their power running game with him in the lineup.
One factor, though, has been overlooked.
Is Fournette really a key to the game?
Last year, he didn’t play in the first game and Blake Bortles threw for 330 yards and a touchdown while T.J. Yeldon ran for 122 yards on nine carries. The Jaguars scored 14 points in the first quarter and won 27-0.
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Five quick takes on Week 9 in the NFL:
1. The Los Angeles Rams became the last unbeaten team to fall when they lost to the New Orleans Saints, 45-35, and now the Saints have the tiebreaker edge on them if they tie for the best record in the NFL. The game also featured the second puzzling call by Rams coach Sean McVay in as many weeks. A week ago, he got away with taking the field goal for a two-point lead and giving Aaron Rodgers the ball with two minutes left to drive for the game-winning field goal. McVay got away with that when Ty Montgomery took the ensuing kickoff out of the end zone and fumbled. Against the Saints, McVay went for a fake field goal with the game tied 14-14 and didn’t make it, although the officials appeared to have blown the call. Still, it will be interesting to watch McVay’s decisions in the playoffs.
Five quick takes on Week 9 in the NFL:
1. The first week in November is usually one of the highlights of the season. The World Series is over and the holidays are still a few weeks away. The season is half over and the NFL tries to stage some of its best games to kickoff the second half of the season. And Sunday night, it has its best attraction of the season– the New England Patriots vs. the Green Bay Packers. Tom Brady vs. Aaron Rodgers. For star power, it doesn’t get better than that. And they’ve only met once in their careers (at Lambeau Field, when Rodgers won), and unless they play in a Super Bowl, they won’t meet again for four years if they are both still playing then. Since neither quarterback has a great supporting cast, this could come down to which one plays better and which one has the ball last.