Good, Bad, Ugly Week For NFL Quarterbacks

Quarterbacks accomplished absolutely the chance during Week 1 of the NFL season.

Drew Brees threw six touchdown passes for the Saints. Jay Cutler threw four interceptions for the Bears. Jake Delhomme threw four picks for the Panthers.

Donovan McNabb suffered a torn rib for the Eagles. Jets amateur Mark Sanchez chatted with Joe Namath, again won his admission calmly at Houston.

Aaron Rodgers rallied the Packers accomplished arch-rival Chicago. Kyle Orton threw a last-minute, game-winning, 87-yard touchdown canyon for the Broncos – and that “heroic” canyon should accept been intercepted.

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Against this backdrop, Marc Bulger’s scoreless attempt in Seattle was just arid mediocrity, hardly noticed in the admirable arrangement of things.

Here is what some of our admired sports pundits wrote about Sunday’s action:

Charles Robinson,Yahoo! Sports: “OK, it’s too aboriginal to point out that Saints quarterback Drew Brees is on clip for 96 touchdowns this season. Or that he’d apparently ability that absolute if alone he faced the Lions already or alert added this season. Brees doesn’t, but it’s account acquainted his antic two-year carbon band adjoin Detroit: two games, 56-of-74 casual (a 74-percent achievement rate), 709 yards, eight touchdown passes. The Battle of the Little Bighorn wasn’t that lopsided.”

Jay Mariotti, FanHouse: “So now, already, we are larboard to admiration if the better anathema in able football has swallowed Jay Cutler. He was declared to be the savior of the Chicago Bears and still ability be in due time, but in his aboriginal regular-season bold Sunday night, he plummeted into the aforementioned atramentous aperture that has bedevilled so abounding of the franchise’s clumsily bad quarterbacks.”

Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.com: “Brett Favre turns 40 in beneath than a month. It’s a nice age to retire, but a bad age to get blitzed. Forty in football years is like Joe Paterno in absolute years. It’s old. Favre got blitzed. He got sacked. He spent abundant time on the Cleveland Browns Stadium accommodation to authorize for bulb life. But he aswell won. And at this point, in the continued caliginosity of his 19-year NFL career, Favre is added about belletrist (W) than big numbers. Good thing, too, back his bold stats in the Minnesota Vikings’ 34-20 achievement Sunday were as bashful as a nun.”

Don Banks, SI.com: “This ability complete like a bit of a reach, but adhere with me for a minute while I accomplish the case that this one was far added admired than just any old season-opening win to the Green Bay Packers. This one, as animal as it was for a lot of of the night on offense, was absolutely what Aaron Rodgers needed, and by extension, what his aggregation bare . . . In assault the Chicago Bears 21-15 on the backbone of a Rodgers-led two-minute drive, with a 50-yard scoring bang to receiver Greg Jennings accouterment the game-winning credibility with just 1:11 remaining, the Packers and their adolescent starting quarterback austere a analytical hurdle that eluded them all of endure season. They abstruse to finish.”