NFL Week 6 Early Leans & Stats of the Week
Chances are if you’re reading this you’re already aware that Derek Anderson of the Cleveland Browns “led” his team to victory on the back of a 2 for 17 performance at Buffalo. The Football Outsiders guys have some things to say about that here. In short, there have been some equally bad performances by winning QBs in the recent past. Not much time this week, so jumping right in…
1) Cedric Benson leads the NFL in rushing.
2) Philadelphia is 11-0 coming off of a bye week under Andy Reid.
3) Peyton Manning has 300+ yards passing and at least one touchdown pass in every game this season. He leads the NFL with 1645 passing yards.
4) 34 year old Redskins linebacker London Fletcher leads the NFL in tackles with 59. No other player besides Browns LB D’Qwell Jackson has more than 50.
5) The Oakland Raiders are the first team since at least 1960 to have under 200 yards of total offense in four straight games.
6) 49ers punter Andy Lee has 35 punts through 5 games putting him on pace for 112 on the season. The NFL record for punts in a season is 114.
7) Carolina has a -9 turnover margin this season.
8) New England is 18th in average scoring (20.8 pts/game) despite having run the most plays from scrimmage of any team in the NFL (351).
9) The Rams outgained the Vikings 400 yards to 377 but still managed to lose by 28 points. They have only scored three touchdowns all season.
10) Denver is 5-0 in real life, but also 5-0 versus the spread this season. Their under has also hit in every game this year. New England was the first team to score two touchdowns in a game versus the Broncos this season.
11) The Buffalo Bills have had 31 different players flagged for penalties this season.
12) This week will be the sixth straight week the Washington Redskins play a winless team.
Early Leans
San Diego/Denver over 44. Clearly I don’t read my own blog. San Diego showed last week versus Pittsburgh they can’t stop the run without Jamaal Williams and that Philip Rivers guy is pretty good.
Houston @ Cincinnati -4.5 Texans can’t run the ball and I don’t see how they’re going to be particularly effective throwing it against Joseph and Hall.
Atlanta/Chicago over 46. Do you think Atlanta’s offense has to run laps or do pushups whenever they don’t score against their defense in practice?
Carolina @ Tampa +3 Not sure if I’m the only person that thinks these two teams are equally horrible. If it’s even close, Tampa is a home underdog being shunned by the public, which should be good enough on its own.
