A Wild Week 6 in The NFL

First, I'm going to send a shout-out to my boy Chuck and his blog Chuck's Corner it's a much more established blog than yours truly's. He knows his sports, PLUS he's really good for you die-hard College Football fans.

What a Week 6 it was for the NFL. We saw a few upsets and we saw a few players emerge this past week.

First we had the Redskins, who were riding high after notching consecutive road wins over NFC East division rivals the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. Maybe the Redskins were, perhaps, riding a bit too high and managed to overlook the lowly St. Louis Rams a bit. St. Louis went into the half leading 10-7 by way of Oshiomogho Atogwe's 75-yard fumble return off Offensive Lineman Pete Kendall on a crazy deflected pass. St. Louis then mustered 2 Josh Brown field goals in the 3rd quarter to take a 16-7 lead. Then Washington responded with a Shaun Suisham field goal and Clinton Portis 2-yard TD run to take the lead 17-16. The Rams completed a 43-yard pass from Bulger to rookie Donnie Avery down to the WAS 16-yard line, after a hilarious Richie Incognito unsportsmanlike conduct penalty made it a 49-yard field goal attempt to win it and, as he often does, Josh Brown drilled it as time expired. Rams win 19-17, and party like it was 1999, after their first win of '08.

Another crazy finish was in Atlanta where the Falcons stunned the Bears at the bitter end of the game to go to 4-2 on the year and a tie for first in the NFC South. With 0:11 ticks left Bears QB Kyle Orton connected with WR Rashied Davis on a nice play seemingly ending the game, but in the words of Lee Corso, not so fast my friend. The Falcons took the squib kick and had 0:06 seconds to work with. Matt Ryan, who I am a big fan of, made a heck of a toss with a defender in his face to Michael Jenkins to get down to the 31-yard line, and somehow manage to keep a second on the clock. This set up a Jason Elam game-winning 48-yard field goal. Falcons win 22-20.

There was a great finish in Houston, as the Texans got their first win of the '08 campaign. The win coming on what looked like a QB draw on 4th and 2 in the waining seconds of Sunday's game against the Miami Dolphins. Texans win 29-28. This was an important victory for the Texans after that choke job last week against the Colts, in the emotional home opener.

Perhaps the wildest of them all were in Phoenix, where the Cowgirls went down to face, arguably, the best team in the NFC in the Arizona Cardinals. The Cards led 24-14 in the fourth quarter, then Romo hooked up with Marion the Barbarian on a swing pass for 70 yards and a score. Then a three and out by Arizona gave Dallas the ball and after a few plays and mass confusion on part of the refs, because of Travis LaBoy getting injured and not being able to get back onside, the Nick Folk of the Cowboys drilled a 52-yarder to send it to OT. In OT, the Cowboys went three and out, and then Sean Morey of the Cardinals blocked the punt and Monty Beisel recovered in the endzone. Cards win 30-24.

In the Monday Night affair, we had the Cleveland Browns get a big victory over the Champs 35-14. This was a big win for them and we could possibly see the Browns get that high-octane offense from last season rolling once again. They got a great game from Derek Anderson(18/29 for 310 yards and 2 TD's) and it's about time too. Braylon Edwards also was a big target for Anderson, BEAST MODE, reeling in 5 for 154 yards and a score.

I liked a lot of the things I watched this week. The Cowboys, Bears, and Patriots all lost and the first two in a wonderful, heart-breaking fashion, and the Pats got blown out, which is nice as well. It was also nice to see the banged-up Packers snap the skid against the banged-up Seahawks, heading into the showdown vs. Indy this weekend here in Wisconsin. My Raiders got annihilated, but they're a mess anyway. If I could give out a weekly award it would be to either Matt Ryan for his performance or Derek Anderson for his.

See ya 'round