Week 8 2006

[backrow]

Offense

Todd Heap TE Ravens: 3 catches for 47 yards and a TD

Matt Jones WR Jaguars: back from injury (finally) but unfortunately had to play with Garrard... he still was the teamn leading receiver with 2 catches for 32 yards

Dallas Clark TE Colts: 6 catches for 67 yards

Ben Utecht H-Back Colts: 2-12

Tony Scheffler TE Broncos: biggest game of his fledgling career, 4 catches for 51 yards, team high

David Kircus WR Broncos: 1 huge gcatch for 45 yards, had another couple of looks but ball never got to him...

Jason Witten TE Cowboys: his best game of the season: 6 catches for 80 yards, including a big 26 yarder and 16 yarder to convert 3rd and 12 and his first TD catch of the season. it was about time

Anthony Fasano had 3 catches for 11 yards

Heath Miller TE Steelers: just 2 catches for 10 yards

Jeremy Shockey TE Giants: slow game for him 3 catches for 15 yards, also dropped 2 passes

Owen Daniels TE Texans: huge game for this rookie player, 2 catches over 20 yards, 9 catches for 99 yards and 2 TDs! and it is his 4th and 5th TD of the season, who would have guessed that he will be Texans scoring leader?

David Anderson WR Texans: he actually played on special teams, had 3 returns for 30 yards average

Eric Johnson TE 49ers: 3 catches for 40 yards

Drew Bennett WR Titans: 1 catch for 23 yards...

Mark Campbell TE Saints: 4 catches for 42 yards

Joe Jurevicius WR Browns: no catches

Kevin Curtis WR Rams: 7 catches (team high) for 79 yards and a 6 yard TD! almost doubled his yearly totals...

Heath Evans FB Patriots: 35 yards on ground... on 1 carry!

Defense

Chris Hovan DT Bucs: 7 tackles, 3 for loss or no gain, his best game this season

Brian Urlacher LB Bears: 1 tackle and 1 interception

Todd Johnson S BEars: in his first start of a season he had a great game with some big hits; 5 tackles, 2 forced fumbles!

Derek Smith, Jeff Ulbrich LB 49ers: 5 tackles each

Kyle Vanden Bosch DE Titans: 6 tackles including 2 sacks, 1 FF

Travis LaBoy DE Titans: 3 tackles, sack and a forced fumble

Peter Sirmon LB Titans: 10 combined tackles

Scott Fujita LB Saints: 8 tackles

Scott Shanle LB Saints: 8 tackles

Brian Young DT Saints: 3 tackles

AJ Hawk LB Packers: team high 9 tackles

Aaron Kampman DE Packers: another great game, Aaron had 8 combined tackles including 2 sacks, which makes him NFL leader in sacks with 8.5!

Kevin Kaesviharn SS Bengals: how quickly did this great player got relegated to backup and phased out...

Justin Smith DE Bengals: top Bengals tackler of the game, Justin had 12 combined tackles (he's a D-end!)and 0.5 of a sack

Caleb Miller LB Bengals: second leading tackler of Bengals in this game, 9 combined tackles

Keith Brooking LB Falcons: team high 9 tackles

Patrick Kerney DE Falcons: 2 tackles 1 sack and 1 forced fumble

Mike Vrabel LB Patriots: 7 tackles, 1 interception

Jared Allen DE Chiefs: 3 tackles, and even though he didnt have a sack he had a big interception in 4th quarter, unfortunately he fumbled it on return

Stuart Schweigert SS Raiders: 5 tackles

Matt McCoy LB Eagles: 6 tackles and FF

Sean Considine SS Eagles: another great game, 7 tackles and recovered fumble

Rob Meier DE Jaguars: 4 tackles, half a sack

Aaron Smith DE Steelers: 4 solo tackles

Josh Thomas DE Colts: 3 tackles, Matt Giordano, safety had 2 solo tackles

John Lynch FS Broncos: 6 combined tackles

Brandon Chillar LB Rams: 6 tackles

Brian Russell FS Browns: 4 solo tackles

Eric Smith FS Jets: 1 tackle, 1 interception


Comments

Gruden succeeded in phasing Alstott out completely, giving him no touches in this game, not even on 3rd and 1 (rush for a loss by Williams) nor 4th and 1 (playaction pass, QB almost sacked, incomplete). this costed Bucs a game and a season. what an idiot, to let his ego get in a way...Edited by: backrow

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Matt Jones is back on the field, which should calm the nerves of a few of our posters. He has 2 catches for 32 yards so far.

Finn has an 8 yard catch for the Giants so far, and Shockey has a 9 yarder.

 

[lumsdenpower]

Ok i don't like Vick..but he put a big game today..
Oh by the way nice interception by Urlacher..
David Anderson is the kick returner for the texans!Edited by: lumsdenpower

 

[backrow]

yeah but Garrard is bad news for Jones (and every other receiver)... he will try to run it, lacks accuracy and makes bad decisions... runningbacks are his favorite targets...

and btw the savior Young just had his first pass to Drew Bennett - 7 minutes left into the game

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Urlacher had the Int but just one other tackle. Hunter Hillenmeyer had 2 tackles.

Mike Karney caught a 9 yard pass for the Saints, while Todd Heap had 3 catches for 47 yards and a TD.

Shockey had 3 catches for 15 yards.

Matt Jones had 2 catches for 32 yards.

 

[backrow]

just updated stats, so far after the 1 pm games...

how is Merriman playing? shouldn't he have had a suspension?

Kevin Curtis sighting! a catch for 22 yards!

 

[ocaamikedm11]

Kircus just had a long reception too..

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Kircus has a 45 yarder and they just went for him in the endzone. TE Tony Scheffler has 2 catches for 34 yards as well.

 

[Guest]

Merriman is appealing so I guess he can play. That sucks the stupid black team Ravens beat the Saints.

 

[GreatLakeState]

Not too worried about Urlacher's #s, as it didn't look like the 49ers offense had enough plays to allow for many tackles.

 

[ocaamikedm11]

Bears defense dominated again...they're going to be tough to beat... is that white safety for the colts playing a lot more recently(Giordino is it)? I don't remember him playing at all really earlier this year..

 

[backrow]

at least Heap had a decent game

 

[Colonel_Reb]

I wish the Bungals had beaten Atlanta, but it was good to see the Faclons kickers get so many points. Morten had 3 field goals and 2 PATs.

Here's the 42 yarder.

Brooking and Kerney

 

[backrow]

Bears defense dominated again...they're going to be tough to beat... is that white safety for the colts playing a lot more recently(Giordino is it)? I don't remember him playing at all really earlier this year..

yeah, he's playing a lot today. 2 tackles so far

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Heap getting one of his 3 catches.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Scheffler had 4 catches for 51 yards and a 3 yard run. Dallas Clark had 6 catches for 68 yards and Ben Utecht had 2 grabs for 12 yards. John Lynch had 6 tackles and John Engelberger had a tackle. Josh Thomas had 3 tackles and Giordano had 2.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Peyton went over 35,000 yards passing in his 135th game, only one game after Dan Marino who was the fastest QB there. Peyton also had his 37th 300+ yard passing game.

Dan Kreider had a 9 yard catch, Heath Miller a 5 yard catch, and Zach Crockett had 3 runs for 7 yards. Edited by: Colonel_Reb

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Anthony Fasano had a nice catch but it was called back thanks to two black blocking penalties!

Witten has a catch too. If the game stays close, I think Romo will go to his TEs often.

 

[backrow]

yeah, hopefully Romo will appreciate his talented TEs more.

stats updatedEdited by: backrow

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Dang, Hoover fumbled. I bet he doesn't get another carry all year.

 

[backrow]

it was on a kick return

 

[Leonardfan]

Eric Smith S NYJ got the first INT of his career

 

[Colonel_Reb]

He had a punt return, but they didn't count his run because he fumbled.

Anyway, it looks like Witten will be used by Romo, as well as Anthony Fasano, unless something changes. It was also good to see Ole Miss alum Kris Mangum get a 14 yard catch. I remember watching him when he was in college.

 

[Leonardfan]

Romo looked very good, I was impressed. He looks for Witten and Fasano alot more than Bledsoe did. As long as he leads the Cowboys to victory over the media darling McNabb ill be happy.

 

[Don Wassall]

Peyton Manning was simply magnificent today.