LET’S GO TO THE NFC NORTH.  THE LIONS AND THE VIKINGS.  A COUPLE OF TEAMS.  I DON’T KNOW IF THEY’RE GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD TEAMS OR IF THEY’RE GOING TO BE POOR.  THEY’RE KIND OF HANGING AROUND THE MIDDLE.  SEESAWING.  SEESAWING.  EACH TEAM NEEDED THIS WIN TODAY.  VIKINGS NEEDED MR. CHRISTIAN TO STEP IT ON UP AND HE DID.  LOOKS LIKE THE CHRISTIAN PONDER OF OLD.  JARIUS WRIGHT, 54 YD. SCORE.  CHRISTIAN PONDER THE BACK FOOT.  I SEE THAT, THE DECISIVENESS.  BACK FOOT.  LET THE BALL GO.  KNOWING WHERE HE WAS GOING WITH THE FOOTBALL.  JARIUS WRIGHT 2 TDS.  THIS IS ALL ABOUT A.P. THOUGH, ISN’T IT THIS GAME?  IT ALWAYS IS.  PLAY ACTION.  NOT ON THIS PARTICULAR PLAY BUT…  DEVIN__ ON 2^ND AND 7 SETTING UP A GLENN WALSH F.G.  SEE HOW DECISIVE HE IS WITH THAT FOOTBALL?  THAT SCANNING THE FOOTBALL… KNOWING WHERE HE WANTS TO GO WITH IT AND LETTING IT GO.  LETTING IT RIP.  PONDER COMPLETED 75% OF HIS PASSES TODAY.  MATTHEW STAFFORD  TO CALVIN JOHNSON FOR 50 YDS.  MEGATRON.  NOW IF HE CONTINUES TO DO THAT, JUST GOES UP AND GETS THE BALL AT ITS HIGHEST POINT, HE’S UNSTOPPABLE.  GIVE IT TO HIM AGAIN.  GIVE IT TO BRANDON PETTIGREW.  LIONS TRAILING 16-10.  WELL IT TOOK THEM A LONG TIME ONCE AGAIN TO GET THEIR OFFENSE ON TRACK.  JUST 3 PTS. SCORED IN THE 1^ST HALF.  THAT’S BEEN THEIR M.O. NOT OF THE LAST COUPLE OF WKS. BUT CERTAINLY THE MAJORITY OF THE SEASON.  CHRISTIAN PONDER ALSO HAS A PRETTY GOOD YOUNG T.E. BY THE NAME OF KYLE ­­__.  YOU KNOW WHAT MR. CHRISTIAN WAS DOING?  HE WAS DEALING ON 3^RD DOWN TODAY.  HE WAS.  WHAT WAS HE DOING ON 1^ST DOWN, TOM?  IT WASN’T AS GOOD STATISTICALLY.  NOW WAIT A SECOND.  THERE WERE SOME MOMENTS WHERE THEY HAD KEY PLAYS ON 3^RD DOWN THAT MR. CHRISTIAN DELIVERED.  STAFFORD TO JOHNSON 25 YDS.  SO YOU GOTTA PICK AND CHOOSE.  YEA, YOU GOTTA LOOK INSIDE THE STATS EVERY NOW AND AGAIN.  YOU HAVE TO DIG DEEP.  TITUS YOUNG TD. MADE IT 24-17.  ADRIAN PETERSON, HE’S GONE.  THE THING ABOUT IT IS THAT IMAGINE WHAT NEXT YEAR IS.  IF HE HAS A YEAR LET THAT ..GET EVEN MORE HEALTHY.  HOW EXPLOSIVE HE’S GONNA BE.  HE’S EXPLOSIVE NOW.  HE’S OVER 1,100 YDS. THIS YEAR.  AMAZING.  OVER 1,000 FOR THE FIFTH TIME IN HIS CAREER.  THERE’S CALVIN JOHNSON AND THAT BALL’S OUT.  FUMBLE CAUSED BY JAMARCUS SANFORD AND RECOVERED BY THE VETERAN ANTOWANE WINNFIELD.  YEA.  WHEN YOU’RE IN THE TRAIL POSITION YOU CAN’T PUT THE BALL ON THE GROUND.  ONCE AGAIN, CALVIN JOHNSON A BIG DAY.  12 CATCHES.  207 YDS. AND A TOUCHDOWN.  BUT THE DAY BELONGED TO THE VIKINGS AS THEY GET BACK ON TRACK AT HOME.

01:12:55 – ATLANTA FALCONS @ NEW ORLEANS SAINTS

THE FALCONS AND THE SAINTS.  MATT RYAN IS 15-0 IN HIS CAREER WHEN HE THROWS AT LEAST 3 TDS.  DREW BREES HAS A TD. IN 51 STRAIGHT GAMES.  DID YOU THINK THIS GAME WOULDN’T HAVE A TD FROM DREW BREES?  1^ST QUARTER, SAINTS TRAILING 10-ZIP.  HERE GOES CHRIS IVORY.  WHO CAN MAKE SENSE OF THIS BACKFIELD?  STIFF-ARMS DANTE ROBINSON.  LOOK AT THAT.  THAT IS A MAJOR LEAGUE DOUG MARTIN STIFF-ARM.  LOOK AT THAT RIGHT THERE.  AND HE IS INTO THE END ZONE.  TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS.  CHRIS IVORY.  BURST PAST JOHN ABRAHAM AND ASANTE SAMUEL DOWN THE SIDELINE.  CUTS BACK ACROSS THE FIELD AND BREAKS AWAY FROM ROBINSON FOR THE SCORE.  GET OUT OF MY FACE!  56 YD. TD. RUN.  THE LONGEST OF HIS CAREER.  2^ND QUARTER NOW, FALCONS TRAILING 14-10.  3^RD & GOAL AT THE SAINTS 2.  14^TH PLAY OF THE DRIVE.  MATTY ICE, TONY GONZALEZ.  TOUCHDOWN.  THE 100^TH CAREER TD. RECEPTION FOR TONY GONZALEZ.  HE IS THE 8^TH PLAYER ALL TIME TO REACH 100.  YOU THOUGHT HE MIGHT GET 100 TODAY THE WAY THEY WERE PLAYING ON OFFENSE.  SO SAINTS HAVE THE BALL LEFT.  40 SECS. LEFT TO GO.  IT’S DREW BREES.  IT’S JIMMY GRAHAM WHO IS IN FOR THE 14 YD. TD.  YES, JIMMY GRAHAM IS ALL THE WAY BACK FROM HIS INJURY.  HE EVEN SPIKES IT OVER THE GOALPOST LIKE HE USED TO.  SAINTS LEAD 21-17.  GRAHAM 89 YDS. AND 2 SCORES IN THE 1^ST HALF.  3^RD QUARTER NOW.  SAINTS DRIVING AGAIN.  DREW BREES, MARCUS COLSTON OUT OF HOFSTRA!  JUST BECAUSE IT WAS WHERE I GREW UP.  7 YD. TD.  SAINTS LEAD 28-17.  COLSTON’S TD. #55 OF HIS CAREER.  TIES THE FRANCHISE WITH DUCE MCALLISTER.  4^TH QUARTER NOW.  FALCONS HAVE THE BALL.  MATT RYAN AGAIN.  TONY GONZALEZ.  6 YD. TD.  FALCONS BACK IN IT TRAILING 28-24.  EVERYBODY’S SPIKING OVER THE GOALPOST.  TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.  HE GOES UP HIGH OVER CURTIS LOFTON AND ROMAN HARPER.  AN 11 PLAY, 91 YD. DRIVE FOR THE FALCONS.  SAME SCORE.  NEXT FALCONS POSSESSION.  MATT RYAN FINDS JULIO JONES.  I DON’T KNOW IF ANYONE CAN THROW THE BALL HIGHER THAN MATT RYAN.  I’M BEING SERIOUS.  WHAT A GRAB OVER JABBARY GRIER.  LEADS TO A 20 YD. MATT BRYANT F.G.  FALCONS TRAILING 28-27.  2 FALCONS POSSESSIONS LATER, TRAILING 31-27 FOLLOWING A GARRETT HARTLEY F.G.  MATT RYAN, TONY GONZALEZ FOR 17 YDS. DOWN TO THE SAINTS 28.  NEXT PLAY, 1^ST & 10 AT THE SAINTS 28.  JAQUEZ ROGERS GOES FOR 18 YDS. DOWN TO THE SAINTS 10.  3 PLAYS LATER WITH A BUCK 56 LEFT, 2 TIMEOUTS REMAINING FOR THE FALCONS, 3^RD & GOAL.  MICHAEL TURNER IS STOPPED FOR A LOSS AT THE 1.  HAPPENED TO HIM A COUPLE OF TIMES DURING THE GAME.  SO THE NEXT PLAY THE SAINTS GO FOR IT.  EITHER, THE FALCONS GO FOR IT ON 4^TH & GOAL FROM THE 2.  MATT RYAN LOOKING FOR RODDY WHITE.  INCOMPLETE.  THEY TURN IT OVER ON DOWNS.  WATCH AGAIN.  HERE’S JABBARY GRIER GETTING A SMALL MEASURE OF REVENGE.  ACTUALLY A BIG MEASURE BECAUSE IT CLINCHED THE GAME.  GETS JUST IN FRONT OF THE BALL TO MAKE THE PASS FALL INCOMPLETE.  WATCH IT ON THE REPLAY.  TONY GONZALEZ WORKED HIS WAY OPEN BUT RYAN WAS LOOKING FOR RODDY WHITE.  RYAN BUMMING, HOPING FOR 1 LAST SHOT.  FALCONS HAVE THE BALL FOLLOWING A SAINTS PUNT.  24 SECS. LEFT.  RYAN GOES DEEP FOR RODDY WHITE WHO IS OPEN.  HE’S OPEN BUT IT’S JUST OVERTHROWN!  THEY COULD’VE WON THE GAME.  RODDY WHITE CAN’T BELIEVE IT.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  HE GETS LOOSE AND IT’S JUST OVERTHROWN A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WHITE HAD TO TURN AROUND, STOP HIS ROUTE.  SO IT COMES DOWN TO THIS NEXT PLAY.  16 SECS. LEFT.  THE FALCONS GOING FOR IT ON 4^TH DOWN.  RYAN THROWS TO TONY GONZALEZ AND IT’S INCOMPLETE.  SAINTS WIN 31-27.  THEY CELEBRATE AT THE END OF THE FALCONS PERFECT SEASON.  GONZALEZ BUMMING ON THE BENCH AND RYAN LEAVES THE FIELD FOR THE FIRST TIME A LOSER IN 2012.

01:16:53 – NEW YORK GIANTS @ CINCINNATI BENGALS

FIRST HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY.  THE GIANTS AT THE BENGALS.  ANDY DALTON BENGALS LOOKING TO END AN 0-4 STINT.  THAT’S NOT BAD.  THAT’S ALRIGHT.  14 PEOPLE WERE ON-HAND TO WATCH IT.  WATCH HIS EYES POP OUT OF HIS HEAD RIGHT ABOUT NOW BECAUSE A.J. GREEN IS THAT WIDE OPEN.  WHAT IS COREY WEBSTER DOING?  I KNOW IT’S A BROKEN COVERAGE BUT IT LOOKS LIKE…HOW IS THE BEST RECEIVER LEFT OPEN?  I MEAN HE’S THE GUY WHO SHOULD HAVE DOUBLE-COVERAGE.  I MEAN WHAT IS HE DOING?  AND THEN YOU JUST STOP.  THIS IS KIND OF IN A NUTSHELL HOW THE GIANTS PLAY FOR 60 MINS. ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FOOTBALL.  EXACTLY.  NEXT GIANTS POSSESSION, SPECIAL TEAMS LET THEM DOWN.  ADAM PACMAN JONES.  DOESN’T FUMBLE.  NOT GONNA GET LIT-UP, SO YOU KNOW WHAT’S COMING.  BIG RETURN.  NICE COVERAGE.  SPIN MOVE AND THERE HE GOES.  61 YDS. SETTING UP 1^ST & 10 AT THE GIANT 11 YD. LINE.  WHEN YOU’RE IN A FUNK, THESE TYPES OF THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU; AND THE GIANTS HAVE BEEN IN A FUNK SINCE THE 2^ND HALF OF THAT STEELERS GAME.  JUST CAME OFF.  DID NOT LOOK FOCUSED AT ALL.  THEY DID NOT IN ANY FACET OF THE GAME.  ANDY DALTON’S FIRST TD. PASS WAS TO A WIDE OPEN A.J. GREEN.  HE REALLY FIT THAT ONE IN THERE TO ANDREW HAWKINS WHO ALSO MADE AN EXCELLENT CATCH.  HE DID A LITTLE ONE-HANDED CATCH.  THE CINCY BENGALS MADE PLAYS TODAY AND THE GIANTS DID NOT.  PERIOD.  END OF STORY.  ELI MANNING, OFF. COORD.  WHAT’S HE THINKING RIGHT THERE?  SUNDAY?  GAME DAY?  WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?  WHAT AM I DOING WRONG, IS WHAT HE’S THINKING.  HE HASN’T THROWN A TD. PASS IN 2 WKS.!  HAKEEM NICKS THERE FOR 16 YDS. SETTING A 1^ST & 10 AT THE BENGAL 25.  4 PLAYS LATER, 21 SECS. LEFT.  MANNING TO MARTELLUS BENNETT.  ONE FOOT OUT.  ONE FOOT IN.  TUCK.  BUT HE’S GOTTA HAVE BETTER AWARENESS OF WHERE HE’S AT ON THE FIELD.  TOM COUGHLIN EXCITED ABOUT SOMETHING THE F.G. UNIT..  YES, HE IS.  YEA BUT, PAUL, YOU’RE GONNA SEE AS THESE HIGHLIGHTS CONTINUE, TI’S GONNA BE ELI THROWING THE FOOTBALL.  THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET IN A HOLE EARLY ON.  YOU BECOME ONE-DIMENSIONAL.  OR WHEN YOU SEE GIANTS R.B.’S RUNNING THE BALL.  YOU’RE GOING TO SEE FUMBLING.  HOLDING, HOLDING, HOLDING AND EVENTUALLY JUST FLIPPING IT TO PAT SIMMS.  THAT USUALLY DOESN’T WORK OUT WELL, GUYS.  I MEAN ONCE IN A BLUE MOON MAYBE; AND TOM COUGHLIN’S CERTAINLY NOT HAPPY WITH THAT.  ELI’S IN A RUT, AND I HAVE EVERY BELIEF IN THE WORLD THAT HE’S GONNA COME OUT OF THIS FUNK BUT RIGHT NOW HE’S IN A RUT.  3^RD DOWN & 8.  IT’S JONATHAN GOING UP AND GETTING IT BY JERMAINE GRESHAM.  10 YD. BENGAL SCORE.  WE TALKED ABOUT THIS KID A FEW WKS. AGO, GRESHAM.  BIG DUDE MAN.  HE’S A BIG KID.  GOOD ATHLETE.  MORE PLAYS LIKE THAT BENGALS NEED FROM HIM.  BENGALS UP 24-6.  HERE COMES THE GIANT OFFENSE AND ELI MANNING IN TROUBLE.  ANOTHER INTERCEPTION.  THAT ONE PICKED OFF BY NATE CLEMENS.  YEA, AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNISTIC BENGAL SECONDARY; AND WHENEVER THAT FRONT 4 OF THE BENGALS…I MEAN THEY COULD BE ONE OF THE BEST DEF. LINE GROUPS IN ALL OF THE AFC ONCE THEY GET GOING AND START PUTTING THAT PRESSURE ON YOU.  ANDY DALTON ALREADY WITH 3 TD., PASSES.  GO AHEAD AND MAKE IT 4.  EXCELLENT CATCH BY THE ROOKIE OUT OF RUTGERS, MUHAMMAD __.  AGAIN, THIS IS JUST, YOU SAW GRESHAM MAKE A PLAY.  NOW YOU SEE SANU MAKE A PLAY.  DEFENSIVELY, YOU ARE SEEING THE FRONT 4 OF THE BENGALS MAKE PLAYS.  YOU’RE SEEING THEIR SECONDARY MAKE PLAYS.  THAT WAS THE KEY, AND THE GIANTS JUST, THEY DIDN’T LOOK LIKE THEY WERE INTERESTED IN PLAYING 60 MINS. OF FOOTBALL TODAY.

01:20:19 – OAKLAND RAIDERS @ BALTIMORE RAVENS

RAIDERS/RAVENS.  WHEN DOES JOE FLACCO PLAY WELL?  AT HOME.  THAT MEANS DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER.  CARSON PALMER COMING OFF A 414 YD. DAY A WEEK AGO.  WOULD BE TOUGHER SLEDDING TODAY.  RAIDERS OPENING DRIVE OF THE GAME.  RAIDERS GO FOR IT ON 4^TH & 1.  CARSON PALMER CAN’T HANDLE THE SNAP.  THAT IS WHAT WE CALL AN OMEN.  RAVENS 2^ND POSSESSION OF THE GAME.  UP 3-ZIP.  FLACCO LOOKING FOR ED DIXON DEEP DOWN INSIDE THE 10.  FLACCO WOULD PUNCH IT IN HIMSELF FROM 1 YD. OUT.  2 PLAYS LATER RAVENS LEAD 10-ZIP.  2^ND QUARTER, RAVENS UP 10-3.  FLACCO LOOKING DEEP FOR JACOBY JONES.  NICE LITTLE RAINBOW OF A PASS.  JONES IS WIDE OPEN.  DOWN TO THE 30 YD. LINE.  4 PLAYS LATER 1^ST & GOAL FROM THE RAIDERS 5.  FLACCO LOOKS FOR DENNIS PITA.  A WELCOME BACK DENNIS PITA.  BEEN MISSING SINCE WEEK 3.  IT’S HIS 3^RD TD. OF THE SEASON.  RAVENS UP 17-3.  RAIDERS HAVE THE BALL NOW TRAILING 17-3.  BALL IS TIPPED AND PICKED OFF BY PAUL KRUGER.  RAVENS WOULD GET A JUSTIN TUCKER F.G. OFF THE INTERCEPTION.  TAKE A 23 LEAD.  OH, A NIGHTMARE FOR PALMER ON THAT KRUGER PLAY.  SEE NIGHTMARE, KRUGER.  SEE WHAT I DID THERE?  ENSUING RAIDERS POSSESSION.  RAIDERS TRAILING 20-3.  DARIUS HEYWARD BAY MAKES THE CATCH AND EXPLODES INTO THE END ZONE.  A 55 YD. TD.  RAIDERS JUST SCORED IN THE FINAL 2 MINS. IN THE FIRST HALF IN EVERY GAME THIS SEASON.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  ED REED COMES OFF INJURED ON THE PLAY.  GRABS HIS RIGHT SHOULDER IS HAYWARD BAY.  SCOOTS FOR THE END ZONE.  RE-AGGRAVATED HIS SHOULDER ON THE PLAY.  REED PICKED OFF HIS 60^TH CAREER PICK LAST WEEK.  3^RD QUARTER, RAVENS OPENING DRIVE OF THE HALF.  THEY’RE UP 27-10.  MAKE IT 34-10.  HERE GOES TORY SMITH.  GONNA WANT TO COVER TORY SMITH I THINK.  THAT MIGHT HELP DEFENSIVELY WHEN YOU GAME PLAN.  RAVENS UP 34-10.  FLACCO IS HAVING A HUGE DAY.  RAIDERS GET THE BALL BACK.  PALMER TRYING TO ANSWER BACK.  DENARIUS MOORE, HIS 2^ND CATCH OF THE GAME.  30 YDS. AND A TD.  RAIDERS TRAIL 34-17.  PALMER GOES FOR 368 & 2 TDS., AND A PICK ON THE DAY.  SO ANOTHER BIG DAY THROUGH THE AIR FOR CARSON.  ENSUING RAVENS POSSESSION.  4^TH & 8 ON THE RAVENS 22.  PHILIP ADAMS MUFFS THE PUNT.  RECOVERED BY VERNON __ __.  NOTHING GOING RIGHT FOR THE RAIDERS ON THIS ONE.  THEY RECOVER.  NEXT PLAY 1^ST & 10 ON THE RAIDERS 20.  FLACCO GOES BACK TO TORY SMITH.  THIS TIME FOR A 20 YD. TD.  AT LEAST THE RAIDERS COVERED HIM ON THAT ONE.  FLACCO WENT FOR 3:41 WITH 3 SCORES THROUGH THE AIR AND ONE ON THE GROUND.  BIG DAY FOR HIM.  THEY GET THE BALL AGAIN LEADING 4^TH & 3 ON THE RAIDERS 7.  SAM KOCH TAKES THE SNAP AND GOES IN FOR THE 7 YD. TD.  IT’S HIS FIRST NFL SCORE ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.  RAVENS GO UP 48-17.  LOOK AT RAY LEWIS.  HEY, THIS IS THE RAVENS TEAM I’M USED TO.  4^TH QUARTER, IT’S THE RAVENS UP 48-20.  JACOBY JONES, 108 YDS. AWAY.  NO, THEY TAKE IT OUT.  AND THERE GOES JACOBY JONES.  OFFICIALLY 105 YDS. FOR THE SCORE.  THE LONGEST RETURN IN RAVENS HISTORY.  BREAKS THE RAVENS FRANCHISE RECORD FOR PTS. SCORED.  THEY WENT 55-20.  MOST PTS. ALLOWED BY THE RAIDERS IN A GAME SINCE 1981.  I WOULD DANCE WITH THE MASCOT TOO.  WHY NOT?  55-20 YOUR FINAL.

01:23:52 – BUFFALO BILLS @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

BILLS AND THE PATRIOTS.  RYAN FITZPATRICK, 1-5, HIS CAREER AGAINST THE PATRIOTS.  TOM BRADY HAS NEVER LOST AT HOME TO THE BILLS.  ONE OF THESE THINGS WOULD HAVE TO…OH, WAIT A MINUTE.  THAT’S NOT REALLY ONE OF THESE THINGS HAVE TO GIVE.  2^ND QUARTER, PATRIOTS BALL LEADING 17-10.  2^ND & GOAL FROM THE BILLS 2.  TOM BRADY LOOKING FOR ROB GRONKOWSKI BECAUSE WHO ELSE IS HE LOOKING FOR FROM THE 2 YD. LINE?  GRONK CATCHES THE FADE FOR THE TD.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  ACROBATIC GRAB BY GRONKOWSKI.  COMES DOWN, PROTECTS THE FOOTBALL.  PATRIOTS LEAD IT BY THE SCORE OF 24-10.  AND THEN GRONK SPIKE.  GRONK GOOD.  BILLS HAVE THE BALL.  SAME SCORE.  36 SECS. LEFT IN THE HALF.  RYAN FITZPATRICK TO SCOTT CHANDLER WHO HAS FEASTED ON THE N.E. PATRIOTS THIS SEASON.  BILLS TRAIL AT HALFTIME 24-17.  3^RD QUARTER NOW, PATS BALL LEADING 24-17.  BRADY SACKED BY MARCEL DARIUS AND KYLE WILLIAMS FOR A LOSS OF 7.  BRADY AFTER THE PLAY SHOWING HIS FRUSTRATION WITH JULIAN EDELMAN.  TOM BRADY LIKES TO DO THAT.  HE LIKES TO YELL WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN.  AND THAT WAS A BAD THING.  YOU SEE I GOT SACKED ON THAT?!  NEXT PATRIOTS DRIVE, SAME SCORE 3^RD & 2 FROM THE BILLS 18.  BRADY GETS TO DANNY WOODHEAD OUT OF THE BACKFIELD WHO SCOOTS INTO THE END ZONE.  18 YDS. OUT.  WOULD BE REVIEWED BY THE BOOTH.  IT WOULD STAND.  PATRIOTS LEAD 31-17.  BILLS TURN NOW.  4^TH & 4 ON THE PATS 27.  FITZPATRICK.  STEVIE JOHNSON CATCHES IT FOR 13 YDS. AND A 1^ST DOWN.  BELICHICK JUST CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT HE IS SEEING ON THIS ONE.  LEADS TO A 1 YD. FRED JACKSON TD.  BILLS TRAIL 31-24.  4^TH QUARTER, BILLS TRAILING 34-24.  1^ST & 10 FROM THE PATS 13.  FRED JACKSON TAKES THE HANDOFF.  GETS DOWN TO THE PATRIOTS 1 BUT HE FUMBLES.  BALL COMES OUT BEFORE HE GOES DOWN.  YOU KNOW THE RULING ON THE FIELD WAS DOWN BY CONTACT.  BILL BELICHICK WOULD CHALLENGE THE PLAY.  DON’T MAKE ME… I’LL THROW THIS AS FAR AS I HAVE TO.  WATCH THE REPLAY.  SURE ENOUGH, BALL IS OUT BEFORE FRED JACKSON COMES DOWN.  CALL WOULD BE REVERSED.  PATRIOTS BALL.  NEXT BILLS DRIVE.  TRAILING 34-24, RYAN FITZPATRICK.  DONALD JONES FOR THE 2 YD. SCORE.  HE’S BEEN HOT LATELY.  BILLS TRAIL 34-31.  SO NOW IT’S THE PATRIOTS TURN.  THEY HAVE THE BALL SAME 3^RD & GOAL.  BRADY LOOKING FOR DANNY WOODHEAD.  LOOKS RIGHT.  THROWS IT INTO THE GROUND.  INCOMPLETE.  THAT WOULD LEAD TO A STEVEN GOSKOWSKI F.G.  PATS LEAD 37-31.  THIS MEANS 1 LAST CHANCE FOR FITZMAGIC.  BUCK 15 LEFT TO GO.  2^ND & 10 FROM THE APTS 34.  DUMPS IT OFF TO FRED JACKSON WHO CUTS ACROSS THE FIELD.  LOSES THE BALL.  MAD SCRAMBLE FOR IT BUT THE BILLS RECOVER.  JACKSON WOULD LEAVE THE GAME AFTER THIS PLAY.  LOOKED A LITTLE WOOZY.  BEING HELPED OFF THE FIELD.  WATCH THE REPLAY.  JACKSON GETS HIT BY BRANDON SPIKES.  BUT THE BILLS WOULD RECOVER TO RETAIN POSSESSION.  41 SECS. LEFT TO GO.  1ST & 10 AT THE PATRIOTS 29.  THE BILLS STILL LOOKING FOR THAT LAST GAP SCORE.  TOM BRADY SAYS, “OH, ALMOST DONE.  WE ALMOST HAD IT.”  HERE’S THE DUMP-OFF TO C.J. SPIELLER.  SPIELLER TAKES IT FOR THE 1^ST DOWN.  GAINS 14 YDS. DOWN TO THE PATRIOTS 15.  FITZMAGIC, COULD BE PULLING A RABBIT OUT OF HIS HAT!  33 SECS. LEFT TO GO.  FITZPATRICK LOOKING FOR SCOTT SCHADLER.  OH, BACK OF THE END ZONE!  JUST CAN’T GET A HANDLE ON IT.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  THIS WOULD’VE BEEN AN   ACROBATIC PLAY TO END ACROBATIC PLAYS.  ALMOST HAD IT.  ONE HAND ON IT.  NEXT PLAY, 28 SECS. LEFT TO GO.  STILL PLENTY OF TIME FOR THE BILLS.  FITZPATRICK LOOKING FOR T.J. GRAHAM.  INSTEAD FINDS DEVON MCCORDY WHO DOWNS I TIN THE END ZONE.  PATRIOTS HAND ON TO WIN IT 37-31.  JUST ANOTHER N.E. VICTORY.

01:27:52 – TENNESSEE TITANS @ MIAMI DOLPHINS

TITANS AND THE DOLPHINS.  JAKE LOCKER’S 1^ST GAME BACK SINCE BEING HURT AGAINST THE TEXANS WK. 4.  RYAN TANNEHILL, DOLPHINS HAVE LOST 3 GAMES BY 3 PTS. EACH THIS SEASON.  1^ST QUARTER.  MIAMI’S BALL, NO SCORE.  REGGIE BUSH RUNS RIGHT.  PRETTY GOOD GAIN.  BUT HE FUMBLES.  TITANS WOULD RECOVER.  TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.  MCCORDY TAKES THE BALL OUT.  MAKES THE RECOVERY.  REGGIE BUSH WOULD NOT SEE THE FIELD AFTER THAT.  KEPT HITTING REFRESH ON MY STATS GOING, “BUSH, NO, HE’S JUST NOT IN THE GAME.”  ENSUING TITANS POSSESSION.  CHRIS JOHNSON RUNS RIGHT.  21 YDS. LATER, LOOKS LIKE HE’S BACK TO BEING THE OLD C.J. 2K.  1^ST DOWN TITANS ON THE DOLPHINS 7 OF MIAMI.  PRETTY GOOD AGAINST THE RUSH.  3 PLAYS LATER IT IS 3^RD & GOAL ON THE 9 YD. LINE.  JACK LOCKER LOOKING FOR KENDELL WRIGHT THE ROOKIE.  9 YDS. LATER HE’S IN THE END ZONE.  TITANS LEAD 7-NOTHING.  REGGIE BUSH.  YES, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.  MY FUMBLE LED TO THIS TD.  ROOKIE FROM BAYLOR LEADS ALL ROOKIES IN RECEPTIONS THIS YEAR.  NEXT TITANS POSSESSION STILL 7-0.  JAKE LOCKER TRIPS, SCRAMBLES.  THIS IS WHAT JAKE LOCKER DOES WELL.  20 YDS. ON THE GROUND.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  IN THE BACKFIELD HE TRIPS.  THE TURF MONSTER GOT HIM.  BUT HE GETS UP AND STILL RUNS FOR THE 1^ST DOWN.  TITANS HAVE THE BALL ON THE DOLPHINS 45 YD. LINE.  4 PLAYS LATER IT IS 4^TH & 2 ON MIAMI 37.  JAKE LOCKER LOOKING FOR SOME MAGIC.  SCRAMBLES UP THE MIDDLE FOR 5 YDS. AND A 1^ST DOWN.  TITANS GET IT AT THE DOLPHINS 32.  2 PLAYS LATER THEY HAVE THE BALL ON THE MIAMI 17 YD. LINE.  IT IS THE 7TH PLAY OF THE DRIVE.  CHRIS JOHNSON STOPS.  BACK.  NO, I’M GONNA GO HERE.  AND, YEP, YEP, AND TOUCHDOWN.  I THINK C.J. 2K IS BACK EVERYBODY.  REPORTS OF HIS DEMISE GREATLY EXAGGERATED.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  THIS IS JUST SOMETHING HE DOES THAT NOBODY ELSE CAN.  HE’S BOTTLED-UP, AND USING THAT ACCELERATION SPEED, JUST GETS AWAY FROM EVERYBODY INTO THE END ZONE.  1^ST 100 YD. RUSHER AGAINST THE DOLPHINS SINCE 2011, WK. 2, AND THAT WAS BEN TATE.  2^ND QUARTER DOLPHINS HAVE THE BALL 3^RD & 1 ON THE 47.  TANNEHILL LOOKING FOR CHARLES CLAY.  INSTEAD HE FINDS COLLIN MCCARTHY.  THE TITANS DEFENSE GETS IN THE END ZONE.  THE MUCH MALIGNED TITANS DEFENSE IN THE END ZONE!  21-NOTHING.  IT WAS 108 PASS ATTEMPTS FOR RYAN TANNEHILL BETWEEN PICKS.  3^RD QUARTER, TITANS BALL, UP 24-3.  LOCKER LOOKING FOR KENNY BRITT.  YEA, YOU KNOW WIDE RECEIVERS WILL GET INVOLVED IN THIS GAME SOMEHOW.  DOWN THE MIDDLE, HE IS WIDE OPEN FOR A 28 YD. GAIN.  TAKES IT DOWN TO THE 21 YD. LINE.  IT’S 3 PLAYS LATER, 3^RD & 15 ON THE DOLPHINS 26.  LOCKER’S GONNA LOOK FOR JARED COOK ON THIS PLAY.  JARED COOK WHO WILL PLAY GREAT, AND THEN DISAPPEAR, AND THEN PLAY GREAT, DISAPPEAR.  THE APPEARING ACT OF JARED COOK IN THE END ZONE FOR THE TD.  TITANS UP 31-3.  LOOK AT THE CONCENTRATION ON THIS PLAY FROM COOK.  THE BALL OVER HIS SHOULDER.  BACK SHOULDER.  STILL COMES DOWN WITH IT.  4^TH QUARTER DOLPHINS BALL.  SAME SCORE.  RYAN TANNEHILL LOOKING FOR JABBAR GAFFNEY.  DOLPHINS CAN BE GETTING IN THE END ZONE.  NO.  INSTEAD, ZACH BROWN STEPS IN FRONT.  2^ND TIME IT HAPPENED IN THE GAME.  COULD THEY GO ALL THE WAY FOR…NO!  RYAN TANNEHILL SAVES THE TOUCHDOWN.  NO PICKS THIS LAST 4 GAMES.  3 ON THE DAY FOR TANNEHILL.  THE TITANS WIN IT BY THE FINAL OF 37-3.

01:31:38 – SAN DIEGO CHARGERS @ TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS

SAN DIEGO/TAMPA BAY.  COULD DOUG MARTIN RUN FOR MORE THAN 250 YDS. AGAIN?  THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING.  PHILIP RIVERS COMPLETED 90% OF HIS PASSES AGAINST K.C. BUT THAT WAS AGAINST K.C.  CHARGERS OPENING POSSESSION OF THE GAME.  NO SCORE.  3^RD & 10.  PHILIP RIVERS THROWING TO DENARIO ALEXANDER WHO STAYS ON HIS FEET AND THERE HE GOES!  BREAKS TO LEONARD JOHNSON TACKLE.  80 YDS. FOR THE TD.!  AND LOOK AT HIM HOT DOGGING INTO THE END ZONE.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  THIS IS A PHENOMENAL INDIVIDUAL PLAY.  ESCAPING THE TACKLE AND STAYING ON HIS FEET.  LOOK AT THAT.  KNEE DOES NOT TOUCH THE GROUND AND HE GOES.  CHARGERS UP 7-0.  ALEXANDER WAS JUST SIGNED A COUPLE OF WKS. AGO.  SO THE BUCS GET THE BALL 2^ND & 10 FROM THE S.D. 48.  FREEMAN DUMPS IT OFF TO DOUG MARTIN, AND THERE GOES THE MUSCLE LAMSTER, 42 YDS. DOWN TO THE 6.  RUNS THROUGH THAT WHEEL.  SEE, WE SHOULD DO MORE HAMSTER WHEEL STUFF.  YOU KNOW, MUSCLE…  BUCS WOULD SCORE ON A DALLAS CLARK TD. 2 PLAYS LATER.  GAME IS TIED AT 7.  CHARGERS HAVE THE BALL.  RIVERS PLAY ACTION.  LOOKS FOR ANTONIO GATES WHO LOOKS TO BE BACK.  ATHLETIC BIG LEAPING PLAY.  CHARGERS UP 14-7.  THE 53^RD RIVERS TO GATES TD. OF THEIR CAREER.  2^ND QUARTER, 2 CHARGERS POSSESSIONS LATER LEADING 14-10.  MIKE CYPHERS PUNTING FROM HIS OWN 38.  DAKOTA WATSON BLOCKS THE PUNT.  ADAM HEYWARD SCOOPS IT UP, AND HE GOES 29 YDS. FOR THE TD.  CYPHERS IS BANGED-UP ON THE PLAY BUT IT’S THE TD. THAT GOES TO T.B.  THEY WOULD LEAD 17-14.  WATCH IT AGAIN.  PROTECTION BREAKDOWN AND CYPHERS JUST GETS DRILLED.  IT IS THE FIRST PUNT BLOCK OF CYPHERS CAREER.  SO THE CHARGERS HAVE THE BALL 1^ST & GOAL FROM 3 AFTER A DRIVE.  RIVERS CONNECTS WITH MALCOLM FLOYD AFTER THE TD.  CHARGERS GO UP 21-17.  BIG SPIKE BY MALCOLM FLOYD.  THE LAKERS COULD USE HIM.  RIVERS WAS 8 OUT OF 8 ON THE DRIVE.  16 OUT OF 18 IN THE FIRST HALF OVERALL FOR 3 SCORES.  1^ST QUARTER, BUCS BALL.  STILL TRAILING 21-17.  THEY’RE GONNA GO FOR IT ON 4^TH & 1 FROM THE 50.  JOSH FREEMAN ON THE QB KEEPER.  NOT JUST ONE.  I THINK IT’S ED FOR 4 YDS.  1^ST DOWN AT THE S.D. 46.  2 PLAYS LATER, 1^ST & 10 FROM THE 15.  FREEMAN, TAQUAN UNDERWOOD.  TOUCHDOWN.  BUCS UP 24-21.  A 6 PLAY, 59 YD. DRIVE.  TONS OF OFFENSE.  YOU HEAR THE FIREWORKS.  IT WAS AN OFFENSIVE FIREWORK KIND OF DAY.  CHARGERS HAVE THE BALL.  RYAN MATTHEWS HIT AT THE LINE BY QUINCY BLACK.  BLACK IS INJURED ON THE PLAY.  VERY SOMBER MOMENT.  STADIUM HUSHED.  BLACK, WATCH THE REPLAY.  GOES DOWN IN THE HEAP.  THEY COLLIDE HELMET-TO-HELMET.  BLACK IS CARTED OFF BUT, THE BEST THING YOU CAN SEE, GIVES A THUMBS UP SIGN GOING OFF THE FIELD.  ALL GOOD THOUGHTS FOR QUINCY BLACK.  THERE’S RYAN MATTHEWS GIVING HIS ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR BLACK AS WELL.  4^TH QUARTER NOW, SAME CHARGERS POSSESSION.  IT’S 9 PLAYS LATER.  RIVERS IS FLUSHED FROM THE POCKET.  ROLLS RIGHT.  LOOKS AND FINDS LEONARD JOHNSON OF THE BUCCANEERS, AND HE GOES 83 YDS. FOR THE TOUCHDOWN.  A KILLER PICK 6 FOR THE S.D. CHARGERS.  BUCS GO UP 31-21.  JOHNSON, AN UNDRAFTED ROOKIE OUT OF IOWA ST.  I DON’T KNOW WHAT RIVERS IS LOOKING AT ON THAT PLAY.  EVERYBODY WAS COVERED.  SO THE CHARGERS LOOKING FOR SOME LAST MINUTE MAGIC.  YOU SEE HE WAS ABLE TO STAY INBOUNDS RIGHT THERE.  PHILIP RIVERS.  YEA, I KNOW.  SHOULDN’T HAVE THROWN IT.  I KNOW.  3^RD & 6 AT THEIR OWN 34.  LOOKING FOR EDDIE ROYAL.  BALL IS BATTED UP IN THE AIR AND ROYAL COMES DOWN WITH THE CATCH.  ENDS UP WITH A GAIN OF 20.  DRIVE WOULD END WITH A NICK NOVAK F.G.  LOOK AT IT AGAIN.  BOUNCES A HELMET.  I GOT IT.  ONE OF THOSE PLAYS YOU SEE ON THOSE BIG FOOTBALL FOLLIES VHS TAPES THEY USED TO SELL.  SO THE BUCS HAVE THE BALL NOW 3RD & 5 FROM THEIR OWN 37.  FREEMAN LOOKING FOR VINCENT JACKSON.  BROKEN UP BY LEONARD JOHNSON.  BUCS FORCED TO PUNT.  FREEMAN ON THE DAY WOULD GO FOR 210 AND 2 TDS.  SO HERE’S THE CHARGERS TRAILING 31-24.  RIVERS IS PRESSURED.  UNDERTHROWS TO MARIO ALEXANDER.  INTERCEPTED BY LAQUAIN LEWIS.  HIS FIRST CAREER PICK.  BUCS HOLD ON TO WIN 34-24.  PHILIP RIVERS 337, 3 TDS., 2 PICKS, AND THE CHARGERS FALL TO 4-5.

01:36:11 – DENVER BRONCOS @ CAROLINA PANTHERS

BRONCOS/PANTHERS, PEYTON MANNING 419 CAREER TDS.  ONE BEHIND DAN MARINO’S 2^ND ALL-TIME OF 420.  CAM NEWTON AND THE PANTHERS.  HEY SUPERMAN.  2-6, TRYING TO TURN THEIR SEASON AROUND.  2^ND POSSESSION, NEWTON SACKED BY VAUGHN MILLER.  SOMETHING YOU WOULD SEE REPEATEDLY OVER THE COURSE OF THE DAY.  MILLER SAID HE’D DO THE SUPERMAN CELEBRATION OF HE SACKED HIM, AND HE DOES IT, AND HE FLIES AWAY.  PANTHERS NEXT POSSESSION, SAME SCORE.  A MEASURE OF REVENGE FOR CAM NEWTON.  FINDS A WIDE OPEN GREG OLSEN FOR THE 4 YD. TD.  PANTHERS LEAD IT 7-0.  WATCH THE REPLAY.  GREAT EFFORT BY OLSEN WHO SELLS THE BLOCK AND THEN JUST SLIPS OUT OF THE BACKFIELD.  IT’S NEWTON’S 6^TH STRAIGHT COMPLETION TO START THE GAME.  FIRST TIME IN HIS CAREER HE’S DONE THAT.  2 POSSESSIONS LATER BRONCOS STILL TRAIL 7-0.  IT’S LIKE IT’S INDY ALL OVER AGAIN.  PEYTON MANNING, BRANDON STOKLEY, TD.  4:20.  TIED WITH DAN MARINO.  OH DANNY BOY, THE PIPES… ENSUING PANTHERS POSSESSION.  LAST PLAY OF THE 1^ST QUARTER.  HERE’S ELVIS DUMERVIL.  GREAT EFFORT.  KNOCKS THE BALL OUT OF CAM NEWTON’S HANDS.  NEWTON WOULD EVENTUALLY RECOVER THE FUMBLE.  GREAT PLAY BY DUMERVIL BUT, TAKE ANOTHER LOOK ON IT.  DUMERVIL, WHO FORCES THE FUMBLE, GETS INJURED ON THE PLAY.  HE WOULD LEAVE THE GAME WITH A SHOULDER INJURY.  2^ND QUARTER, NEXT PLAY 4^TH & 13.  BRAD NORMAL PUNTING TO TRINDEN HOLLIDAY.  AND HE TAKES A HOLLIDAY ROAD.  SEE WHAT I DID THERE.  HOLLIDAY ROAD… UP THE SIDELINES.  DOES HE STAY INBOUNDS?  LOOKS LIKE IT.  HOLLIDAY’S INTO THE END ZONE.  2^ND STRAIGHT GAME WITH A TD. FOR HOLLIDAY.  TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.  LET’S SEE IF HE STAYS INBOUNDS.  FEET ARE IN.  GOOD CALL.  BUT TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.  HOLLIDAY CELEBRATES AND LOSES POSSESSION BEFORE HE CROSSES THE GOAL LINE.  THAT SHOULD’VE BEEN OVERTURNED.  IT WAS NOT.  TOUCHDOWN STANDS.  17-7.  3^RD QUARTER.  HERE’S SOMETHING YOU HAVEN’T SEEN HARDLY EVER.  CLIP AND SAVE THIS.  IT’S PEYTON MANNING GETTING SACKED.  NOT ONLY DOES HE GET SACKED BY CHARLES JOHNSON, HE FUMBLES.  THE PANTHERS RECOVER.  1^ST TIME MANNING IS SACKED IN 145 PASS PLAYS.  PEYTON MANNING WALKS OFF AND SAYS, “YEA, LET’S MAKE SURE THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN AGAIN.  I REALLY DIDN’T LIKE THAT AT ALL.  DIDN’T HAPPEN TO ME A LOT AT INDY.  I DON’T WANT IT NOW.”  NEXT PLAY, PANTHERS BALL.  1^ST & 10 THEIR OWN 28.  NEWTON PRESSURED BY VON MILLER, ROLLS LEFT LOOKING FOR BRANDON LAFEL.  THROWS IT WHILE HE’S FALLING DOWN.  UP STEPS TONY CARTER AND HE GOES 40 YDS. FOR THE TD.  BRONCOS LEAD BY THE SCORE OF 24-7.  TAKE A LOOK.  EVERYBODY’S DOING THE SUPERMAN THING.  HE JUMPS THE ROUTE.  STEPS IN FRONT ALL THE WAY TO THE END ZONE.  NEWTON 2 INTERCEPTIONS ON THE DAY.  ALSO DID THROW FOR A COUPLE OF TDS. AND WENT FOR 241 YDS. AND ONE CROOKED CHINSTRAP.  2 POSSESSIONS LATER, BRONCOS STILL UP 24-7.  WILLEST MCGAHEE RUNS FOR 7 YDS.  HIT BY GREG HARDY.  HE FUMBLES.  CHARLES GODFREY RECOVERS.  PANTHERS BALL ON THEIR OWN 22.  WILLEST MCGAHEE, BIG BALL CONTROL ISSUES ON THE DAY TODAY.  ENSUING PANTHERS DRIVE.  CAM NEWTON RUNS UP THE MIDDLE.  HIT BY VON MILLER IN THE BACKFIELD FOR A YOUTUBE HIGHLIGHT MILLER’S GONNA WATCH FOR THE NEXT 30 YRS.  4^TH QUARTER, PANTHERS TRAIL 27-7.  CAM NEWTON LOOKING TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN OUT OF THE END ZONE.  INSTEAD, MIKE ADAMS GETS HIM FOR THE SAFETY.  BRONCOS LEAD 29-7.  7 SACKS OF CAM NEWTON.  THE MOST IN HIS CAREER.  AT LEAST HE WAS SAFE ON THE EXERCISE BIKE.  3:36 LEFT TO GO.  BRONCOS UP 29-14.  MANNING LOOKING FOR 421.  HE’S GOT DEMARIUS THOMAS WHO IS PUSHED OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 5.  135 YDS. RECEIVING FOR THOMAS.  COULD’VE BEEN 421 FOR MANNING INSTEAD.  HE’S OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 5 AND THAT WOULD CLEAR THE WAY FOR RONNIE HILLMAN WHO CAME IN DIRECTLY AFTER WILLEST MCGAHEE FUMBLED ON THIS DRIVE.  HE TAKES IT INTO THE END ZONE.  THE FIRST TD. OF HIS CAREER.  BRONCOS WIN IT BY THE FINAL OF 36-14.  SO PEYTON MANNING WOULD HAVE TO WAIT 1 MORE WK. AT LEAST TO BREAK DAN MARINO’S RECORD.  JOHN FOX, A HAPPY HOMECOMING. BACK TO CAROLINA

01:40:31 – INDIANAPOLIS COLTS @ JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS

A FRESHLY SHORN ANDREW LUCK, BY THE WAY.  ABOUT 3 DOZEN COLTS WHO SHAVED THEIR HEADS IN SUPPORT OF HEAD COACH CHUCK PAGANO WHO IS, NO DOUBT, WATCHING AT HOME.  HIS LEUKEMIA IN REMISSION.  PROBABLY DIDN’T LIKE WHAT HE SAW ON THIS PLAY.  LUCK PICKED OFF BY AARON ROSS.  BUT, AND THERE’S A BUT.  ANDRE BRANCH HIT HIM NOGGIN-TO-NOGGIN.  SO THE PLAY IS NULLIFIED AND THE COLTS DRIVE IS ALIVE AS WE TURN THE PAGE TO THE 2^ND QUARTER AND A BIG PLAY HERE BY THE LEAGUE’S LEADING RECEIVER.  REGGIE WAYNE ON THE RECEIVING END OF THE 21 YD. LUCK PASS AND THE COLTS HAVE A 1^ST DOWN AT THE JACKSONVILLE 8; AND 2 PLAYS LATER THEY HAVE A TD.  NO OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR ANDREW LUCK SO HE JUST TAKES IT IN HIMSELF.  THEN HE CELEBRATES GRONKOWSKI-STYLE, KIND OF.  DOESN’T REALLY SEEM TO WANT TO HURT THE FOOTBALL THERE THOUGH.  BUT HIS DAD LIKES IT.  A HIGH-5 IN THE STANDS FROM OLIVER LUCK.  WOULD’VE LOVED TO HAVE SEEN HIS REACTION TO THIS PLAY.  LUCK GOING DEEP TO JOHNNY AVERY WHO GOES TO THE NEXT LEVEL.  JUST CRAZY THAT CATCH.  JUST OVER AARON ROSS WHO WOULD’VE BEEN POSITIONED TO MAKE A PLAY THERE.  DOESN’T INSTEAD.  44 YD. GAIN.  THE COLTS ARE IN THE RED ZONE THREATENING ONCE AGAIN AND, ONCE AGAIN, IT IS GOING TO BE ANDREW LUCK TAKING IT IN ON THE GROUND.  4^TH & 1.  IT’S HARD TO TELL REALLY IF HE DOES GET IT IN.  IT’S RULED A TD. ON THE FIELD.  IT LOOKS LIKE HE LOSES THE BALL IN THE AIR BUT HE GAINED CONTROL AND SEEMINGLY GETS THE NOSE OF THE BALL ACROSS THE PLANE.  THERE’S NO OFFICIAL REVIEW SO THE TD. STANDS, AND MIKE MALARKEY DOES NOT LIKE THAT.  HE PICKS UP AN UNSPORTSMANLIKE PENALTY THERE.  JAGS DON’T DO ANYTHING WITH THEIR NEXT POSSESSION.  SO WE PICK IT UP WITH THE COLTS NEXT POSSESSION WHERE THE JAGUARS DO DO SOMETHING.  DUANE LANDRY WITH THE PICK HERE.  LUCK HIT AS HE THROWS.  LANDRY LATERALS TO CHRIS __ FOR A LITTLE EXTRA YARDAGE, AND WHO WAS THERE TO MAKE THE TACKLE THERE?  THE FUTURE OF THEIR FRANCHISE GOING IN TO MAKE A HIT.  AND HE GETS A PAT ON THE HEAD ON THE SIDELINE, NOT AN EARFUL.  THEY CAN’T AFFORD FOR HIM TO GET HURT CHRIS.  IN THE 3^RD QUARTER BLANE GABBERT, SPEAKING OF HURT, HE INJURED HIS NON-THROWING SHOULDER IN THIS GAME.  HERE HIS THROWING SHOULDER NOT SO GOOD.  PICKED OFF BY DARIUS BUTLER.  HIS 1^ST INT. SINCE ’09 WHEN HE WAS WITH THE PATS.  INDY FORCED JUST 3 TURNOVERS COMING INTO THIS GAME.  THEY GOT 3 ON THURS. NIGHT FOOTBALL.  IN THE 4^TH, LUCK DID SO MUCH DAMAGE WITH HIS LEGS IN THIS GAME LOOKING FOR ANOTHER 1^ST DOWN, AND HERE COMES LANDRY.  GOES UP HIGH AND HERE COMES THE LAUNDRY ON LANDRY.  AND AFTERWARD, A NICE LITTLE MOVE OF CLASS.  AS LANDRY SAID DURING ONE OF THE COMMERCIAL BREAKS.  HE CAME OVER, HE SAID, “LISTEN, I DIDN’T MEAN IT.”  ALL IS WELL AND ALL IS WELL FOR THAT TEAM AS THEY IMPROVE TO 6-3 OVERALL.  THEY’VE TRIPLED THEIR WIN TOTAL FROM A YEAR AGO.  ANDREW LUCK NOW HAS TWICE AS MANY WINS AS PEYTON MANNING DID IN THE ’98 SEASON.

01:43:38 – NEW YORK JETS @ SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

PETE CARROLL, MARK SANCHEZ USED TO BE TOGETHER AT USC.  HANDSHAKE.  HUG.  HOW YOU DOING COACH?  GOOD TO SEE YOU.  THAT DOESN’T SEEM AWKWARD.  DID ANYONE LET THE AIR OUT OF THE FOOTBALL TODAY?  IT WAS A WET FOOTBALL THOUGH.  IT WAS A WET FOOTBALL.  RUSSELL WILSON THREW IT PRETTY WELL.  WOW!  HE THREW THE AIR OUT OF THE FOOTBALL.  HE DID.  GOLDEN TATE, EXCELLENT CATCH.  38 YD. TOUCH.  I GOTTA GIVE GOLDEN TATE SOME CREDIT BECAUSE I’VE ALWAYS CALLED GOLDEN TATE A BODY CATCHER.  DOESN’T CATCH THE FOOTBALL WITH HIS HANDS VERY WELL BUT HE WENT UP AND MADE A PLAY THERE.  WILSON DECIDES TO KEEP IT BUT HE WON’T KEEP IT FOR LONG.  THE BALL EVENTUALLY ENDS UP ON THE GROUND.  MUHAMMAD WILKERSON RECOVERS.  21 YD. SCOOP AND SCORE.  BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WAS?  WHAT WAS THAT?  THEIR ONLY SCORE OF THE DAY.  THAT MEANS THE OFFENSE DIDN’T PUT ANY PTS. ON THE BOARD.  NO.  PETE CARROLL HEXED MARK SANCHEZ OUT THERE WITH THE PREGAME HUG.  SANCHEZ NOW LOOKING FOR HIS T.E. DUSTIN KELLER.  NAME RICHARD SHERMAN A LOT THIS YEAR.  THEY’RE GONNA CALL AGAIN RIGHT THERE.  AND YOU KNOW WHAT’S SO DEFLATING ABOUT THAT BESIDES THE FACT HE HAD A CHANCE TO GET POINTS AND DON’T GET IT?  LOOK HOW MUCH TIME MARK SANCHEZ HAD TO FIND AN OPEN RECEIVER OR JUST RUN THE FOOTBALL.  WHY WAS IT THROWN LATE TO THE FLAT?  BAD DECISIONS.  3 OF 3 TODAY FOR 8 YDS.  IS IT HIS TIME?  DO YOU THROW GAS IN THE FIRE, TOM?  TEBOW TIME.  JUST HAD A LITTLE EXTRA GAS.  THEY FIGURE THEY’D THROW IT ON THE FIRE.  IT’S NOT, NO.  STRIPPED BY RICHARD SHERMAN.  JASON JONES RECOVERS.  PETE CARROLL AND RICHARD SHERMAN OBVIOUSLY PRETTY FIRED-UP ABOUT THAT ONE.  SEAHAWKS BALL.  6 PLAYS LATER, GOLDEN TATE GETS THE PITCH THIS TIME.  HE SAYS SIDNEY RICE IS OPEN.  OH BOY.  THAT CAME OUT A SPIRAL BUT IT WAS A SHOT PUT!  TALK ABOUT A MEDICINE BALL.  RECESS.  HE’S JUST GONNA WIND IT UP AND HEAVE IT?  WAS THAT A JAVELIN?  WAS THAT THE HAMMER THROW?  WAS THAT THE SHOT PUT?  HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THAT?  RECESS, 3^RD GRADE.  RECESS.  TOUCHDOWN.  SO REX RYAN AND THE JETS, 3-6.  AS DARREN POINTED OUT, NO OFFENSIVE TOUCHDOWNS.

01:45:47 – ST. LOUIS RAMS @ SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

BY THE BAY BETWEEN THE RAMS AND NINERS.  WE’RE IN OVERTIME.  IT’S THE ROOKIE GREG ZORN FROM 53 YD. OUT TO WIN IT IN OVERTIME.  HOWEVER, OH!  GONNA HAVE TO GO MAKE IT AGAIN.  SO NOW, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE PLAY CLOCK WAS TICKING.  OH, THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE.  SO NOW YOU GOTTA KICK IT FROM ALMOST 60.  NOW WE KNOW ZERLINE’S BEEN GREAT.  AN AMAZING ROOKIE THIS YEAR.  JIM HARBAUGH’S SITTING THERE…THANK YOU.  SO, DO WE HAVE A WIN?  NO.  WE’VE GOT COMPLETE HIGHLIGHTS COMING YOUR WAY ON GAME DAY FINAL.

01:46:37 – DALLAS COWBOYS @ PHILADELPHIA EAGLES

BOTH TEAMS 3-5.  FIRST TIME IN 22 YRS. BOTH SQUADS COME INTO THIS MEETING SUB-500.  THERE’S A LOT OF PRESSURE ON ROMO AND VICK.  IS THERE A GRAY COMING OUT OF THERE.  HE HAS A RIGHT.  1^ST QUARTER VICK TO RILEY COOPER.  LOOK AT THIS EFFORT.  GOOD LOCATION WITH THE THROW.  NICE ONE-HAND CATCH BY RILEY COOPER.  CONCENTRATE ON THE BALL AND GET BOTH FEET DOWN NOW INBOUNDS.  HE DOES.  DOES HE POSSESS IT THROUGH THE PROCESS?  YES.  TOUCHDOWN.  EVERY SCORE IS REVIEWED IN THE NFL.  HE’S LOVING LIFE.  IT’S 7-ZIP.  BUT THEN TONY ROMO TO FELIX JONES.  HOW MANY MISSED TACKLES CAN YOU HAVE IN 10 YDS.  4, 5, 6.  YOU CAN’T STOP COUNTING UNTIL YOU GET TO 7 WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF PTS.  SEE, WHAT HAPPENED…YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT.  THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ON THE SIDELINE.  SAME SCORE IN THE 2^ND QUARTER.  NOW KEEP AN EYE ON MICHAEL VICK WHO’S GONNA SCRAMBLE.  YOU ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT MICHAEL VICK WHEN HE’S OUT OF THE POCKET BECAUSE THAT HAPPENED.  BANGED HIS HEAD ON THE TURF THERE.  JAY RATLIFFE THEN FALLS ON TOP OF HIM.  SO THERE’S ANOTHER 300 POUNDER ON TOP.  AT LEAST.  AND THEN VICK PRESSURED.  THROWS IT AWAY BUT ERNIE SIMMS TRYING TO HOLD HIM UP ON THIS PLAY.  HE ENDS UP FALLING, HITTING THE TURF AGAIN, AND THAT WAS IT FOR MICHAEL VICK WHO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A CONCUSSION.  OH BOY.  SO NICK FOULS , A 3^RD ROUND PICK, OUT OF ARIZONA.  THEY’VE BEEN BEGGING TO SEE HIM IN PHILLY.  WELL, GUESS WHAT?  HERE HE IS.  YOU’LL GET YOUR CHANCE.  THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT.  DO YOU WANT WHAT YOU’VE GOT WHEN YOU GET WHAT YOU WANTED?  DOWN 10-7.  YEA, WHAT HE SAID.  ALRIGHT, SAY IT REAL SLOW.  ALMOST PICKED OFF BY ORLANDO __ WHO HAD …  REMEMBER WHEN WE PRACTICED THIS IN TRAINING CAMP?  YEA.  THE 3^RD QUARTER, STILL 10-7.  FOLES, PLENTY OF TIME HERE FROM THAT MUCH MALIGNED EAGLES OFF. LINE.  LOOKING FOR JEREMY MACLIN WHO IS … MAKE A PLAY.  BUSTED COVERAGE!  IT LOOKS LIKE A PUNT.  HE GETS SO OPEN, PRIME.  IT HAD TO BE A BLOWN COVERAGE.  GREAT THROW BY THE YOUNG QB.  EAGLES TAKE A 14-10 LEAD.  2 COWBOYS POSSESSIONS LATER, ROMO …JUST KEEP IT ALIVE.  HOUDINI!  LOOK AT THAT!  TWICE!  DAVID BLANE TO MILES AUSTIN FOR THE 25 YD. GAIN.  YOU KNOW TONY ROMO GETS CRITICIZED SO MUCH FOR KEEPING PLAYS ALIVE, THEN MAKING A MISTAKE.  NOT THERE.  HE’S A GUNSLINGER.  AND HE GUN SLINGS IT AGAIN.  DEZ BRYANT BATTLING THROUGH INJURIES.  THAT’S A MAN SIZED PLAY.  THAT’S WHAT WE EXPECT OUT OF DEZ BRYANT.  MAKE THE BIG PLAY IN THE END ZONE TO SCORE POINTS.  WE’VE SEEN HIM DROP THIS A FEW TIMES.  THIS ONE’S A GREAT CATCH.  ONCE AGAIN, ALL SCORING PLAYS ARE REVIEWED.  DID THE BALL MOVE JUST A LITTLE BIT?  THEY SAY NO.  NO.  GREAT FOCUS.  ANDY REID CAN’T BELIEVE IT.  WE’RE TIED AT 17.  ONTO THE 4^TH.  IT’S UP TO NICK FOLES, THE ROOKIE.  HE’S THE FIRST ARIZONA QB TO THROW A PASS IN THE NFL SINCE 1973.  THAT AIN’T A GOOD ONE AS IT’S PICKED OFF BY ANTHONY SPENCER.  HOWEVER THERE’S A FLAG ON THE FIELD AS MAURICE CLAIBORNE CALLED FOR HOLDING RILEY COOPER.  AWAY FROM THE PLAY.  HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PLAY.  SO FOLES GETS AWAY WITH ONE THERE.  LATER IN THE DRIVE THE EAGLES PUNTING ON 4^TH & 8.  WADE HARRIS RETURNING.  1 OF 2 REASONS.  EITHER IT’S A BIG PLAY OR A BOO BOO.  ALL THE PUNTER NEEDS TO DO IS GET TO THE SIDELINE AND MAKE A CUTBACK.  PUNTERS AREN’T PEOPLE.  78 YDS. ON THAT SCORE.  ANDY REID ..  JASON GARRETT AND THE COWBOYS ARE UP 24-17.  EAGLES TRYING TO COME BACK.  FOLES LOOKING FOR DESEAN JACKSON BUT IT’S TIPPED AND PICKED BY BRANDON CARR, 47 YDS.!  YOU WANT WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU GET WHAT YOU WANTED.  THERE YOU GO.  31-17 AT THIS POINT.  HEY, YOU’RE GONNA THROW A ROOKIE WHO’S PROBABLY NOT GETTING A WHOLE LOT OF REPS IN PRACTICE, RIGHT INTO THE FIRE.  HE GETS A SCOUT TEAM.  SCOUT TEAMS… THAT’S IT.  IT’S NOT A CARD.  THIS IS NOT A CARD, KID.  UNDER 3 MINS. TO GO.  FOLES HITS DEMARIUS JOHNSON.  THIS IS A BIG PLAY.  32 YDS.  GETS IT DOWN TOWARD THE GOAL LINE.  ROB RYAN.  HOW DID HE FALL?  HE CAN’T QUITE UNDERSTAND IT.  SO NOW 1^ST & GOAL.  STANLEY __ .  HE GETS IN…  WE HAVE A 1 POSSESSION GAME.  FOR THE EAGLES MISS THE EXTRA POINT.  SO THEY’RE DOWN 8.  SO WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?  WELL, YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO ONSIDE KICK.  AND DON’T KICK IT TO JASON WITTEN WHO HAS THE MOST RECEPTIONS IN COWBOYS HISTORY.  HE’S GOT PRETTY GOOD HANDS.  GOOD EXECUTION OF THE HANDS TEAM.  COWBOYS WOULDN’T GO 3-OUT.  SO ONE LAST CHANCE.  YOU ONLY GOTTA DRIVE THE LENGTH OF THE FIELD WITH UNDER A MINUTE TO GO.  BUT THIS AIN’T GOOD EITHER.  CHURCH’S MONEY ON THE GROUND.  JASON HATCHER FALLS ON IT AND THE …HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS?!  A HUGE WIN IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE.

01:51:27 – HOUSTON TEXANS @ CHICAGO BEARS

MIKE, WE’LL TRY AND HELP BACK YOU UP.  I DON’T KNOW.  YOU’RE DIGGING YOURSELF A HOLE HERE.  HERE’S THE RAIN.  HERE’S THE…MICHAEL SAYS WE SHOULDN’T EVEN PLAY IT.  NO, I DIDN’T SAY DON’T PLAY IT BUT I’M JUST SAYING, AS WILL SAID, AND KUDOS TO HOUSTON FOR WINNING THE GAME.  CHARLES TILLMAN’S WIFE’S ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY ON MONDAY.  SHE’S, THE WATER BROKE OVER SOLDIER FIELD.  HOPEFULLY HERS WON’T UNTIL MONDAY.  THAT’S A GOOD ONE.  SO JAY CUTLER LOOKING TO KELLEN DAVIS …HAD IT THEN LOST IT!  THAT’S THE WAY TO BRING IT.  …LED THE TEAM …TO HAVE A MAN LIKE … LED TO A TEXANS F.G. WITH A 3-0 LEAD.  NEXT BEARS DRIVE ON 4^TH & 1.  MICHAEL BUSH GIVES IT UP.  WATCH THIS GUY.  RECOVERS IT.  IT’S A TURNOVER …  WHO WAS HE THROWING IT TO, DANIELLE?  YEA, DANIELLE MANNING.  WELL, YOU KNOW, HE’S PLAYED FOR THE BEARS.  THAT’S SOMETHING.  WHY WOULDN’T HE FIND URLACHER?  WHAT WAS THAT?  FORMER TEAMMATES.  THEY’RE JUST BEING FRIENDLY.  THEY AIN’T GOT TIME FOR THAT RIGHT NOW.  O.K.  WE GOT TIME FOR THIS.  TIM JENNINGS.  IF HE DON’T GO TO THE PRO BOWL IT’S NOT GONNA BE A PRO BOWL.  THAT’S CALLED TURNOVER PING-PONG.  YEA.  IT’S 3-3 AT THIS POINT.  CUTLER TRYING TO GO FOR THE FIRST DOWN.  WE GOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF PROBLEMS ON THIS PLAY.  THAT WAS A CLEAN HIT.  OH!  FIRST OF ALL, WE GOT A FLAG FOR THE PERSONAL FOUL.  PLUS, CUTLER WAS OVER THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.  THEY’RE OFFSETTING PENALTIES.  CLEAN HIT.  BUT CUTLER CONTINUED THE DERIVE EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A LITTLE DINGED ON THE HIT BY TIM DOBBINS.  3 PLAYS LATER CUTLER TO BRANDON MARSHALL BUT IT’S PICKED BY KAREM JACKSON WHO’S HAVING A GREAT YEAR.  YEA, THEY’RE FOCUSED ON BRANDON MARSHALL.  HOUSTON DID BUT BRANDON STILL HAD A PRETTY GOOD DAY.  CUTLER’S STILL IN.  3^RD QUARTER, CUTLER IS OUT.  CONCUSSED!  JASON CAMPBELL IS …  MISSED THE PLAY.  I THINK THE PLAY THAT HE REALLY GOT HURT ON, IT WAS THE ONE THAT HE RAN FOR THE 1^ST DOWN.  NOT THAT PLAY.  WELL HERE IS A 45 YD. GAIN TO BRANDON MARSHALL.  LED TO A 24 YEAR OLD RODDY GOLD FIELD GOAL.  SO THE BEARS ARE DOWN JUST 10-6.  4^TH QUARTER, UNDER 6 TO GO.  SCHAUB…LOOKING FOR GARRETT GRAHAM.  OH THAT’S A .. MAKES URLACHER MISS.  A GAIN OF 11 LED TO A SHANE GRAHAM F.G. AND A 7 PT. LEAD WHICH IS HUGE IN THIS WEATHER.  THAT WAS HUGE RIGHT THERE.  URLACHER HAS TO MAKE THAT PLAY AND MAKE THAT A LONGER F.G. OR MAYBE EVEN A PUNT.  SO NOW 3^RD & 11.  CAMPBELL TO KELLEN DAVIS!  WHY IS IT THAT GUYS LIKE JOE CAMPBELL NEVER MAKES THAT PLAY?!  I MEAN JASON CAMPBELL…  KELLEN DAVIS.  HE HAD HIS HANDS ON THE BALL.  WELL HE’S GOTTA GET THAT BALL DOWN, MAN.  THERE WAS SOMEBODY ELSE.  COME ON MAN.  YOU GOTTA GET THAT BALL DOWN.  THERE WAS SOMEBODY UNDERNEATH.   THERE WAS NOBODY THERE!  ALRIGHT, SPEAKING OF UNDERNEATH, YOU’VE GOT BRANDON MARSHALL FOR 8 YDS. THERE.  THAT WAS ON 3^RD & 16.  SO NOW ON 4^TH & 8 WHAT DO YOU DO?  THROW IT AT LEAST 9.  CAMPBELL INCOMPLETE LOOKING FOR MATT FORTE.  AND IN THE SLOT.  THE TEXANS IMPROVE TO 8-1.  BIG ROAD WIN, AND WADE PHILLIPS, THAT DEFENSE CONTINUES TO GET IT DONE.