Week 8 Recap - Pt. 2

PATRIOTS 52, REDSKINS 7: Are you serious? You might as well just give yourself a loss every time you face somebody who owns Tom Brady. He's unreal, and so is his team. You still have to explain to me how the Skins let Mike Vrabel slip into the end zone for his TD catch. He's now caught 10 NFL passes in his career, each for a TD. I'm not going to say anything else because all this Boston stuff is making me ill right now. And there's nothing on the Skins' side worth mentioning, other than Chris Cooley's TD in garbage time. Whoop-de-doo.



CHARGERS 35, TEXANS 10: I thought my satellite reception was acting up when I kept seeing Antonio Gates and Antonio Cromartie touchdowns on the Red Zone Channel on Sunday. Then I realized San Diego was just dominating this game. They didn't need to do a whole lot either after jumping out to a big lead. Philip Rivers attempted only 11 passes, and new Bolt Chris Chambers caught two of them (second only to Gates' three receptions), one for his first TD as a Charger. Pretty small sample size to figure out the role he'll play, but it was encouraging to see them go to him in the red zone, and Vincent Jackson had no catches, if that tells you anything.

SAINTS 31, 49ERS 10: The Saints look like the old Saints (the old Saints of last year, not to be confused with the old old Saints, who sucked). It helps when Drew Brees can connect with big Marques Colston for three TDs. You didn't give up on them, did you? ... Meanwhile, should you give up on Frank Gore (12 carries, 41 yards)? Well his ankle's obviously bothering him, so sure, I'm worried, but I'd consider using him against Atlanta as long as he can practice this week. We'll see.

JAGUARS 24, BUCCANEERS 23: Not much stands out in this one, just a bunch of decent efforts. A few annoying TDs - LaBrandon Toefield runs one in for the Jags instead of Maurice Jones-Drew or Fred Taylor, and Michael Bennett scored on one of just two carries while Earnest Graham did the dirty work. Joey Galloway had a nice day thanks to one of his trademark 58-yard scoring bombs.

BILLS 13, JETS 3: I was expecting a big more out of the Jets in this one, like, gee, I don't know, a touchdown. Kellen Clemens got his chance but didn't do anything with it, so who knows where that QB controversy is headed. ... Speaking of which, the Bills have one of their own now that newly appointed starter Trent Edwards got hurt and J.P. Losman was effective in his absence. It helped that he was able to throw one of these to Lee Evans, who's now had two nice games after really getting on everyone's nerves in Weeks 1-5. I'd probably start him the next two weeks against the Browns and Dolphins and see what happens.

TITANS 13, RAIDERS 9: I'll spare you the ugly details of this one and focus on one interesting area, the Tennessee backfield. LenDale White is the go-to guy, as his career-high 133 yards would indicate, but don't discount rookie Chris Henry, who many thought would win the job outright at the beginning of the year. Henry now has 105 yards and two TDs in the two games he's dressed for while Chris Brown (ankle) sits. Gotta take a good look at him in deep leagues.