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Unbelievable second TD catch. [edit: should have been second TD catch, still having an amazing game after not having much time to work with Sanchez / learn the playbook] I hope some day people are talking about him in the same breath as Randy Moss (ala dead in Oakland, stars again after traded to New England).
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jaggs

October 12th, 2009 at 11:08 PM ^

and called down on the 1, but an awesome catch nonetheless. edit: yeah, though his knee was down, it didn't appear there was contact from a defender. Should have been a TD.

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tmiller

October 12th, 2009 at 11:03 PM ^

He is not officially down til he gets touched, and that didn't happen till after he went into the endzone. The Ref didn't mention when he was touched. Am I wrong here?

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naberiusx

October 12th, 2009 at 11:05 PM ^

I benched him in my ppr ffl not thinking he would already be a prime target in ny. Shame on me. I lost my game by 8 pts and he wouldve delivered the win had i left him in. Great to see him doing well, and Henne is having the best game of his young career. 12 of 15 122 yrds and a td. Go Blue! Normally Id have 0 interest in watching these 2 teams, UM gives us a game worth watching!

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tmiller

October 12th, 2009 at 11:24 PM ^

just killed a 41 yard kick. I think it would be fitting if the Tuna draft the Space Emperor to blast kicks. Miami is not that far from Cape Canaviral, so it wouldn't be that far for Zoltan to come from his second job at NASA plotting star charts.

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WichitanWolverine

October 12th, 2009 at 11:38 PM ^

this is the best NFL game i've seen in a while. we have 5, count 'em 5, starters in the game. all are playing great (cept for harris maybe). henne is nearly perfect. feely is perfect. jake is man-handling people. and braylon is getting his swagger back. i love it. go blue.

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tricks574

October 12th, 2009 at 11:48 PM ^

It had everything. As a Michigan/Denver fan, excellent NFL football this week. Perhaps the greatest I can remember. For a week with so many bad games and bad matchups, my Broncos, and the MNF game were both great. I love football so much.

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Big Shot

October 13th, 2009 at 3:08 AM ^

It's about time bray-bray got a real QB. Derek Alexander and Brady Quinn are terrible QB's (Sorry Irish but you and I both know that Brady Quinn was a beneficiary of the ND hype machine).

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ross03

October 13th, 2009 at 9:43 AM ^

I don't disagree that much of Braylon's lack of success was self-made but how much of it has to do with playing for a shitty team, with shitty QBs that can rarely get you the ball? Consider that his official stats in CLE this year are 1 drop. He was targeted only 22 times through 4 games and 10 receptions. That means only 45.5% got caught. Now some of those might have been catchable but not official drops, but Jesus his QBs suck, and I'm sure his concentration suffered with all the losing etc. Much more "normal" numbers when comparing receivers is 55% caught - which is what his stat line was against Miami - and I think we all can agree Sanchez threw some nice balls that Braylon made even better plays on. Also consider that last year - his indisputably bad year, he had 16 drops - or a 1/game clip. Bad no doubt. But through 5 games this year Santonio Holmes has 5 drops and is being hailed as Roethlisberger's (however you spell that) great new weapon. I'd argue that 5 drops on a good PIT team with a great QB is worse that 16 drops on a crap team. Also note Robert Royal for Cleveland has 5 drops through 5 games and only 8 catches (ok he's a tight end but jesus that's pathetic)...worse than Braylon and on the same team. Michael Clayton is also on pace with 5 drops through 5 games and he's only been targeted 30 times and has 10 catches - far worse than Braylon. The "great" TO has 4 drops through 5 games and only 12 catches and a 44.4% catch/thrown to rate. It seems Braylon isn't alone, and it also seems that receivers with bad QBs tend to have more drops. I think he'll continue to excel as he gets more looks, which will keep his head in the game, and he knows if he's open he'll actually have a chance of getting the ball to him without getting killed/maimed, etc. He still needs to work on drops, as that has been his achilles heel for a while, but I think he'll be fine.

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