2005 Season - Week 8

On Sunday LaDainian Tomlinson threw his third TD pass of the season. He has now thrown 4 TD passes in his career and joins an elite group of 4 players who have thrown for at least 4 TD’s, rushed for 50 and caught 7 TD’s. The others are Marcus Allen (6-123-21), Walter Payton (8-110-15) and 1960’s Green Bay RB Paul Hornung (5-50-12). Tomlinson currently has (4 passing, 64 rushing, 7 receiving). Denver became he first team ever to have a 300 yard passer (Plummer-309 yards) and two 100 yard rushers (Anderson-126, Bell-107) in the same game. Both are on pace for over 1,000 yards on the season. The last team to do that were the 1985 Browns (Mack and Byner). Cleveland haven’t had a single 1,000 yard rusher since! Brett Favre (51,584) passed John Elway (51,475) and moved into second place in the passing yardage ranking but he is still 9,777 yards behind Dan Marino! Unfortunately Brett was intercepted 5 times on Sunday by the Cincinnati defence who amazingly intercepted Culpepper 5 times in week 1 and Kyle Orton 5 times in week 3. Cincinnati play Detroit on December 18th so Lions you have been warned. Some Big Injuries. Bad news on the Franchise Player front for Paul and Aaron. Last week Paul’s 2nd year Franchise RB Ahman Green was placed on IR and this week Aaron’s new Franchise man QB Daunte Culpepper tore his ACL, MCL and PCL and could be out for a calendar year. If they want to cut them they will still have to pay them the agreed salary for the rest of the contract, meaning Aaron may have to play with a $7million budget for the next year and a half. They will have to wait until Sunday November 20th to make their changes, just prior to week 11 when Trading Day 2 will take place at BUMS HQ before Sky’s doubleheader. Hall of Fame Nominations Don’t forget to get you Hall of Fame player nominations back to me (see last weeks newsletter), by Sunday November 20th (yes that is Trading Day 2). I’ve had a few ballots back already and so far it makes for some interesting voting. BUMS on Seats. We will be HQ from 6pm on Sunday to watch the top NFC South clash as Carolina travel to Tampa Bay followed by Pittsburgh @ Green Bay. The Sunday Night game is Philadelphia @ Washington and then MNF is the big one - The Colts @ The Patriots.