I hope not everyone was like me last week, staying up long hours into the night memorizing popular bible verses so I could understand Tim Tebow’s press conferences the rest of the season. Tebow’s bandwagon began snowballing each day after Tebow’s heroic overtime win over winless Miami week 7 when Denver turned a 15-0 deficit with less than three minutes to go, into a miraculous 18-15 comeback victory. Tebow threw for 121 of his 161 yards in the final 5:23 to force OT, highlighted by his pressure packed run for two points with just 17 second left to tie the game. Tebow was making the types of electrifying plays he was making at the University of Florida where he won two national championships. It’s no wonder why he was capturing the nation’s attention faster than “David after Dentist”.

Seven sacks, three fumbles, an interception and 45-10 blowout to Detroit later and the devout Christian had suddenly gone from God’s chosen quarterback to Pontius Pilate.

Tebow was harassed by a Detroit defense that was third in the league in sacks, and had his weaknesses severely exploited. The best way to beat a team keying on pressuring your quarterback is throwing the ball downfield, which Tebow failed to do. His slow release cost him much velocity on plays where Detroit’s defensive line had already beaten their blockers, and had Tebow getting off throws just as Lion defenders were hitting him. His passes were fluttering downfield and turned into jump-balls down the field.

Just two games after Tebow was granted the starting job from head coach John Fox, the Broncos might already be planning life after Tebow.

The Rams kept the party going on in St. Louis over the weekend, just four days after the Cardinals won their 11th World Series Championship, beating the first place Saints 31-21. Steven Jackson ran for 159 yards, and two touchdowns, in what seemed like his first great game since the last Summer Olympics.

The last time A.J. Feely had won a game as a starting quarterback, Debra Lafave was still teaching reading in central Florida. Feely had not started a game in which his team won since December of 2004.

A week after hanging 62 points on Indianapolis, the Saints could only put up 283 yards of offense on the NFC’s worst team. Drew Brees was picked off twice and had his lowest passing total of the season, while not completing a single pass over 25 yards.

Baltimore used 24 second half points to erase a 24-6 halftime deficit to Arizona, to keep serve with the Steelers and Bengals at only 2 losses in the AFC North division. Kevin Kolb threw an interception in his 6th consecutive game, and only completed ten passes. Kolb is 24th in the league in QB rating after signing a six-year, $65 million contract in late July. Kolb has only eight TD passes in seven games, has been sacked the second most times in the league, and is angering more people in the state of Arizona than Senate Bill 1070.

Ray Rice ran for more touchdowns (3) that game than he had during the entire season (2) in a year which has only seen the Ravens rank 19th in the league in rushing yards.

The New York Giants continued their three-month long pre-season, beating another team with a record below .500, this time surviving against the 0-7 Dolphins. The win marks the sixth time in seven games that the Giants have played a team without a winning record. Luckily the NFL doesn’t equate its standings using a BCS formula, because the computers probably wouldn’t go for the G-Men. In only one of the Giants seven games have they led the entire way.

Eli Manning has thrived with the weak schedule, totaling the 3rd best QB rating in the league.

The Steelers finally climbed Mount Brady, after having failed every time since Halloween of 2004. Tom Brady was held to under 200 yards passing for the first time this season, and managed to hook up with Wes Welker six times for only 39 yards. Ben Roethlisberger torched the NFL’s worst defense for 365 yards passing in a wire to wire victory for Pittsburgh. New England’s defense has surrendered 424 yards of offense per game, 20 more than the team right ahead of them in 31st place. Boston hasn’t seen defense this bad since Brian Scalabrine and Eddie House played for the Celtics.

Spoiler alert if you didn’t see the score to this game yet, but Indianapolis was defeated again. This time in a 27-10 loss in Tennessee which probably seemed like a nail biter to Colts fans after their 62-7 laugher week 7 to New Orleans.

I’m beginning to think that Curtis Painter could be a legitimate candidate for most valuable player considering the fact that he has the ability, when given the chance of course, to give his franchise the first pick in the NFL Draft year after year. What team wouldn’t love the first pick in future NFL Drafts? Stanford’s Andrew Luck has been getting comparisons to John Elway, and would be the obvious first pick of any draft. Curtis Painter might be the only guy in pro football right now who can guarantee you players like Andrew Luck in every off-season.

Painter needs to establish his identity in the NFL. And I’m not talking about whether he’s a pocket passer, or scrambler, I’m talking about whether he’s a thrower or a chucker. I’ve haven’t seen balls thrown that worse since the Mayor of Cincinnati threw out the first pitch at the Reds opening day game in ‘07. Painter is on pace to throw for less than 2,500 yards and 12 touchdowns this year in a full season. His QB rating for the first half of games this season is a respectable 92.1, compared to an Akili Smith-like 62.1 in the second half. Talk about the Colts tanking when the game is on the line.

The surprise of the week landed in Philadelphia as the Eagles curb-stomped the Cowboys 34-7. The Birds compiled nearly 500 yards of offense, averaging 6.3 yards a carry on the ground. LeSean McCoy ran for 185, and now is second only to Adrian Peterson in rushing yards atop the NFL rushing chart. McCoy has totaled at least 100 yards of total offense in every game but one for the Eagles, who lead the NFL in total yards, and who have won consecutive NFC East division games to climb back into the playoff hunt.

Dallas has lost three of four and looks like a bigger pretender than Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye. Demarco Murray went for 74 yards on only eight carries, a week after hitting the Rams up for 253, but couldn’t get much more work as the Eagles had already gone ahead 24-0 at halftime.

Dallas, Philadelphia, and Washington are now dead-locked at 3-4 in a tie for second place in the division. You can also say the three teams are tied for dead last in the division as well.
Dallas loses more on Sunday Night than “Pan Am”. The Cowboys have now lost five consecutive games on Sunday Night Football.