Top 10 Week 7 NFL Late Game Notes

> Mark Sanchez said he wanted to get his mojo back this week, and scored on a QB draw and a really nice deep ball to David Clowney when the Raiders were getting Clownied all over the field. But in general, I'm looking at a guy who, in ten years, has a chance to be ten years older, and make me think of Joey Harrington. Not impressed.

> Atlanta started their road game in Dallas with a 16-play, 80 yard touchdown drive, eating up 8.5 minutes of clock and making the Jerruhsoleum crowd go straight to muttering. And then, they more or less crapped away the rest of the game. Not a common game pattern, that.

> JaRuss's seventh pick of the year was a dying quail that's about as big of a gift as you will ever see at this level. His third and final turnover of the day was a terrible ball into the end zone that Darrelle Revis made a highlight film catch on. If there is a QB that is less aware of the bliz, or less able to get away from it, or less likely to make a good decison on the move... my Lord, JaRuss is just unspeakably bad. We will be studying him, for ages to come, for the full package of his awfulness. But the footage may end here, as Bruce Gradkowski took over the rest of the way. Somewhere, Jeff Garcia is laughing. Hard.

> According to Jerruh Jones, the Roy Williams trade is still going to work out fine. I quite agree, really. But then again, I'm not a Cowboy Fan. Two drops and counting for the new Terrible, and when he finally caught a ball, he got called for PI. Heckuva job, Jonesy!

> On one truly marvelous play, Tony Romo scrambled, fumbled, and looked concussed, though to be fair, it's hard to tell a difference between Romo in full faculties and Romo impaired. Sadly, the rest of the day didn't go like this.

> With no timeouts left, 5 seconds on the clock and the ball on the Falcon 5, Romo escaped multiple rushers and flips a touchdown for their 17th straight unanswered points and a startling 17-7 lead. Gah, Falcons. If they get the sack, no points and a 10-7 game with booing Cowboy Fan. Game-changer.

> I'm sure there's a reason why someone would watch the Bills and Panthers. But none of them involve football being entertaining.

> Jason Snelling looked a lot better carrying the ball than Michael Turner for the Falcons. I'm not sure if this means Turner isn't what he was last year, though he had a tolerable fantasy day thanks to a third-quarter touchdown. But for a guy that some people were claiming was the #1 RB in fantasy this year, um, he's really not.

> Now that the league has changed the rules on what you can do with an onside kick, it's really a nearly pointless play. Honestly, I can't see this working against a defense that knows it's coming more than 5% of the time.

> If there's a bigger bunch of quitters in the NFL than the Oakland Raiders, I haven't seen them. I also await your frenzied defense of your laundry, Raider Fan who gave me crap for demeaning their win last week...