NFL Week Seven: Top 10 Late Game Notes

1) Mark Sanchez said he wanted to get his mojo back this week. He did, scoring on a QB draw and throwing a great deep ball to WR 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 may remind me of Joey Harrington. Not impressed.

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

3) 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 was a terrible ball into the end zone that Darrelle Revis grabbed with a highlight-reel catch. If there is a quarterback that is less aware of the blitz, or less able to get away from it, or less likely to make a good decison on the move, I haven't seen him. 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.

4) Atlanta started their game in Dallas with a 16-play, 80 yard touchdown drive, eating up eight-and-a-half 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.

5) 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 pass interference. Heckuva job, Jonesy!

6) 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.

7) With no timeouts left, five seconds on the clock, and the ball on the Falcons' five-yard-line, Romo escaped multiple rushers and flipped a ball for a touchdown. This was their 17th straight unanswered point. It gave the 'Boys a startling 17-7 lead. Gah, Falcons. If they get the sack it's no points and a 10-7 game with booing Cowboys fans. Game-changer.

8) Jason Snelling looked 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? He's really not.

9) I'm sure there's a reason why someone would watch the Bills and Panthers. But none of it involves entertaining football.

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

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