Sunday Recap – NFL Football Week 6

October 18, 2009, Posted by Christopher at 1:43 pm

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Welcome to the week 6 recap of the NFL Football season !

This segment includes game highlights, scores, and analysis from this weeks games, In addition to fantasy football highlights and a few fantasy studs.

Consider leaving a comment at the end of the post and let all of us know how your Fantasy Football team is doing !

This post will be updated Monday night with the Monday Night Game results.

MONDAY NIGHT GAME

Denver Broncos 34
San Diego Chargers 23

This game came down to special teams play. Eddie Royal (WR, Den) returned a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns and Darren Sproles (RB, SD)returned a punt for a touchdown. Denver has now taken a VERY commanding lead of the AFC West Division.

Fantasy Studs:
* Kyle Orton (QB, Den) – 229 yards, 11 rush yards, 2 TDs
* Tony Scheffler (TE, Den) – 101 yards, 1 TD
* Eddie Royal (WR, Den) – 2 return TD’s – if your league counts them

Pittsburgh Steelers 27
Cleveland Browns 14

Not an overly surprising result here. What IS somewhat surprising is that the Ravens and Bengals also lost today so the Steelers move into a 2 way tie with the bengals for first place in the division. Big Ben Roethlisberger (QB, Pit) had another big day today (over 400 yards) as the Steelers stuck to the air and again failed to have any single rusher over 100 yards. Pit racked up 543 total yards to Cleveland’s 197 and also controled the clock 13 minutes longer then the Browns. What is scary is that Pit had FOUR turnovers, with 3 fumbles coming on their last 3 possessions of the third quarter.

Fantasy Studs:
* Ben Roethlisberger (QB, Pit) – 417 yards, 2 TDs, 1 int., 1 fumb. – (113 rating)
* Hines Ward (WR, Pit) – 159 yards, 1 TD
* Santonio Holmes (WR, Pit) – 104 yards

Houston Texans 28
Cincinnati Bengals 17

This is somewhat shocking. With the way the Bengals had been playing I figured they might just roll right over Houston. Aside from the second quarter, the Bengals put up no numbers on the scoreboard. Matt Schaub (QB, Hou) just tore up Cincy while Houston gained nearly 200 more total yards and held on to the ball 13 minutes longer then the Bengals.

Fantasy Studs:
* Matt Schaub (QB, Hou) – 392 yards, 4 TDs, 1 int. – (124 rating)
* Steve Slaton (RB, Hou) – 43 rush yards, 102 rec. yards, 1 TD, 1 fumb
* Andre Johnson (WR, Hou) – 135 yards
* Owen Daniels (TE, Hou) – 78 yards, 2 TDs

Detroit Lions 0
Green Bay Packers 26

Yep … who didn’t expect this game to turn out this way. Nothing really to talk about, except to mention the hamstring injury to Daunte Culpepper (QB, Det) that forced third stringer Stanton to enter the game. The scary part is that aside from the first quarter the Packers didn’t / couldn’t score a touchdown. Interesting.

Fantasy Studs:
* Aaron Rodgers (QB, GB) – 358 yards, 2 TDs, 1 int., 1 fumb.
* Donald Driver (WR, GB) – 107 yards

St. Louis Rams 20
Jacksonville Jaguars 23

OVERTIME. This game really came down to a battle of the running backs with the Jags chewing up over 200 more total yards then the Rams.

Fantasy Studs:
* Maurice Jones-Drew (RB, Jac) – 133 rush yards, 45 rec. yards, 3 TDs, 1 fumb
* Steven Jackson (RB, StL) – 50 rush yards, 78 rec. yards
* Mike Sims-Walker (WR, Jac) – 120 yards
* Torry Holt – (WR, Jac) – 101 yards

Baltimore Ravens 31
Minnesota Vikings 33

This game featured a rather wild 4th quarter … 34 points scored in 15 minutes … that saw the Ravens come storming back and almost win the game. This game featured a lot of fantasy studs and over 800 yards of total offense …

Fantasy Studs:
* Joe Flacco (QB, Bal) – 385 yards, 2 TDs – (109 rating)
* Brett Favre (QB, Min) – 278 yards, 3 TDs – (136 rating)
* Ray Rice (RB, Bal) – 77 rush yards, 117 rec. yards, 2 TDs
* Adrian Peterson (RB, Min) – 143 rush yards, 23 rec. yards
* Derrick Mason (WR, Bal) – 97 yards, 1 TD
* Sidney Rice (WR, Min) – 176 yards
* Visanthe Shianco (TE, Min) – 48 yards, 2 TDs

NY Giants 27
New Orleans Saints 48

Smashed. The battle of the unbeaten teams goes to the Saints. New York just could not stop them. New Orleans had almost 500 total yards and had a time of possession advantage of 13 minutes. Eli Manning (QB, NYG) did not have a very good day completing only 45% of his passes and ending with a 61 rating, 1 TD, i int., 1 fumb. There were definitely some studs in this game … so let’s just get to them.

Fantasy Studs:
* Drew Brees (QB, NO) – 369 yards, 4 TDs – (156 rating)
* Hakeem Nicks (WR, NYG) – 114 yards, 1 TD
* Marques Colston (WR, NO) – 166 yards, 1 TD
* Lance Moore (WR, NO) – 78 yards, 1 TD
* Robert Meachem (WR, NO) – 70 yards, 1 TD

Carolina Panthers 28
Tampa Bay Bucs 21

Carolina finally found their lost running game … and a good thing too because Jake Delhomme (QB, Car) stunk the place up again. Delhomme finished with a 42 rating on only 65 yards and 2 ints. The Bucs … well … I just really don’t know what to think of them.

Fantasy Studs:
* DeAngelo Williams (RB, Car) – 152 rush yards, 20 rec. yards, 2 TDs
* Jonathan Stewart (RB, Car) – 110 yards, 1 TD

Kansas City Chiefs 14
Washington Redskins 6

This was, basically, and evenly matched stink factory. Since their were no touchdowns in this game, there really were no true “fantasy studs”, so I am going to skip that section. I will make a mention that Dwayne Bowe (WR, KC) had 109 receiving yards and Clinton Portis (RB, Wash) had 109 rush yards and a fumble. Portis, by the way, may or may not have an ankle injury ? Good for field goal kickers I suppose …

Fantasy Studs:
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Philadelphia Eagles 9
Oakland Raiders 13

Whaaaa ? Oakland won ? Huh. The Raiders “D” played well and JaMarcus Russell (QB, Oak) picked up his game … ever so slightly. Russell ended with a 68 rating on 224 yards, 1 TD and 2 ints. Hey … at least he didn’t fumble. If you look at the stats you will find that almost all the passes with to the TE and running backs. The check-down or dump-off receivers. The wide receivers really were not a factor. Don’t know if that was because of Russell or because of the Philly secondary … but it might be bad if Russell is playing scared …

Fantasy Studs:
* Brian Westbrook (RB, Phil) – 50 rush yards, 91 rec. yards.
* Zach Miller (TE, Oak) – 139 yards, 1 TD

Arizona Cardinals 27
Seattle Seahawks 3

The Seahawks just got man handled in this game. Down right pitiful performance gaining only 128 total yards, 0 for 11 3rd down conversion, and losing the time of possession battle by 25 minutes. Larry Fitzgerald (WR, Ari.) put in a good performance nailing 100 receiving yards and 1 TD.

Fantasy Studs:
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Tennessee Titans 0
New England Patriots 59

Opppss … wipe out ! Wow, I think this can definitely be considered a new low for the Titans. Kerry Collins (QB, Ten) ended with a pathetic 4.9 rating on NEGATIVE 7 yards. As for the Patriots … they rolled with ease. Tom Brady (QB, NE) broke a record by throwing 5 touchdown passes in a single quarter. He probably could have broken the single game TD record if he didn’t leave the game … but then again, why risk injury ?

Fantasy Studs:
* Tom Brady (QB, NE) – 380 yards, 6 TDs – (152.8 rating)
* Chris Johnson (RB, Ten) – 128 rush yards
* Laurence Maroney (RB, NE) – 123 rush yards, 10 rec. yards, 1 TD
* Wes Welker (WR, NE) – 150 yards, 2 TDs
* Randy Moss (WR, NE) – 129 yards, 3 TDs

Buffalo Bills 16
NY Jets 13