Weekend Stats

This would normally fall under the "Things I learned this weekend..." category (which it still does technically) but everything I learned was from a stat. So let's start in New Orleans...


- The Saints scored 62 points last night (against the Colts), tied for most points scored in a single game since the [NFL-AFL] merger. Last team to score 62 in a game, the 1973 Falcons against... correct, the Saints.


- Last night's 62-7 win also tied the record for largest point differential in single game, 55 points. The first time a team won by that many points was in 1973 in that same Falcons v. Saints game.


- But the absolutely insane stat of that game, Drew Brees' stat line: 31 for 35, 325 yards and 5 TDs. Read it again. 31 for 35, 325 yards and 5 TDs. Brees had more TDs (5) than incompletions (4). To top it off, not only did Brees have more touchdowns than incompletions but his 5 scores matched the combined total of every new starting QB in Week 7.


- Which brings us to the Greek god, Tebowian.  Tebow led the Broncos to his 2nd career 4th qtr comeback in his 4th career start. John Elway made 18 starts before his 2nd.


- Cam Newton's 7 Rush TDs match the Panthers total from all of last season.


- Plaxico Burress' 3 Rec TDs for Jets. 2nd career game with 3 Rec TDs (Wk 1 2007 season). 1st Jets player with 3 Rec TDs since Laveranues Coles in 2008.


- The St. Louis Cardinals scored 16 runs. That matches the most points the St. Louis Rams have scored in a game this season.


- Albert "The Machine" Pujols is 3rd player with 3 HR in a World Series game. Babe Ruth (1926, 1928) and Reggie Jackson (1977).


- The Machine also had 14 total bases, most ever in a World Series game. Previous record was 12, done by Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson. (Yankees, of course).


- Derek Holland came within two outs of pitching the first complete-game shutout in the World Series since Josh Beckett's gem for the Marlins to clinch in '03. (Yankees, of course).


- The World Series is tied at 2, I'm not sure everyone knows that.


- DeMarco Murray (that is a "who?" to most of us, though not to Riley) set a Cowboys franchise record with 253 yds and the 2nd longest TD run in franchise history with a 91 yarder.


- The Rams gave up the most yards by a single player in franchise history to DeMarco Murray (253) beating the previous mark of 237 set by Jim Brown.


- As Riley eluded too, the Raiders threw 6 INTs and 0 TDs against the Chiefs, first time in franchise history. Also, 2 of those INTs were returned for TDs...


- ...that marked only the 2nd time in team history they had 2 INTs for TDs against them at home. The 1st time that happened, '98 vs. Dolphins. That also marked the last time the Raiders threw 6 INTs.


- (fret not Raider-nation) One other team in NFL history has thrown 6 INTs without throwing a TD. The 2009 Jets (none of those were Sanchez's fault, right?). They ended up reaching the AFC Championship Game.


- The "and that means what exactly?" stat goes to Roy Williams, first player in NFL history to catch a TD for both the Lions and Bears.


- UNC was one first-place vote away from being a unanimous preseason No. 1 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll.


- The NBA lockout is at day 116.




-DM