USA TODAY's Jarrett Bell takes a glance at the appulse of three key developments from
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Identity check: The accomplished two weeks, Minnesota Vikings active aback Adrian Peterson has rushed for 305 yards on 51 carries, with three touchdowns.
During the aforementioned span, Brett Favre has befuddled for one TD and bristles interceptions.
Unlike the abnegation for alternate funds, accomplished achievement absolutely ability be the best indicator of approaching after-effects as the Vikings chase for the bendability bare on breach to be a accepted adversary again.
10 QUESTIONS: How important were aboriginal wins for Vikings, Cowboys?
When the division began, drillmaster Brad Childress maintained that he wasn't abiding which character his breach would carry, whether it would be a pass-first operation or run-dominant.
Last season, they leaned pass-happy with active plays on aloof 44% of the snaps and Favre throwing a career-low seven picks. But with Favre's bottom-feeding passer appraisement (60.4) saddled by six interceptions that about bout his absolute from all of aftermost division and a abridgement of accent with an injury-depleted accepting corps, the Vikings are advantageous that Peterson (70 rushes, NFC-high 392 yards) is active as admitting he is out to prove a point.
An 80-yard touchdown dart to ice Sunday's achievement adjoin Detroit and highlight a 160-yard, two-TD achievement fabricated absolutely the big-play statement.
Now the Vikings charge their amazing abettor to authority up and conceivably alike the after-effects of 2008 — back Minnesota ran on 51% of its snaps to actuate Peterson to an NFL hasty acme with 1,760 yards.
Missing component: Vincent Jackson or Marcus McNeill?
With the San Diego Chargers bottomward to 1-2, it may assume analytic to advance that the arrangement squabbles — which accommodate the boxy negotiating approach of accepted administrator A.J. Smith— that accept larboard two Pro Bowl players abeyant accept appear with ample cost.
Not so fast.
With Philip Rivers casual for a career-high 455 yards at Seattle, the Chargers accept the NFL's No. 1 breach and second-ranked casual attack.
Undoubtedly, Jackson, who averaged 17.2 yards per bolt in 2009, could add a big-play element. And while Brandyn Dombrowski has been a able backup at larboard tackle, McNeill's absence hurts continuity.
Still, it's absolutely accessible that neither Jackson, McNeill or alike LaDainian Tomlinson (now a Jet) is the amateur the Chargers absence most.
Try Kassim Osgood, the appropriate teams captain who anchored to Jacksonville during the offseason as a chargeless agent, gluttonous to aggrandize his role and appear as a receiver.
Without Osgood — who becoming Pro Bowl selections the accomplished three seasons as the ace bang coverer — the Chargers accept accustomed three touchdowns on bang returns. They rank aftermost in the alliance for bang coverage, acceptance an boilerplate drive alpha of 37.4 yards.
Both losses concluded with Rivers aimlessly battlefront abroad in the red zone. Without the continued returns, the amateur ability accept concluded with a less-stressed quarterback demography a knee.
Adversity's Team: It's too bad that Hard Knocks, the HBO miniseries based on the New York Jets training camp, didn't extend throughout the absolute season. Imagine the ratings.
Last week, the ball amidst baroque receiver Braylon Edwards and his DUI arrest. Before that, the argument complex the analysis of TV Azteca anchorman Ines Sainz. Add a arrangement (since-injured all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis) and accent (coach Rex Ryan), and it has been a amaranthine alternation of events.
Even acclaimed fan "Fireman Ed," has gotten into the act. Ed Anzalone was answerable with simple advance stemming from an argument with a New York Giants fan.
Let it not abstruse the best cogent development on the acreage the accomplished two weeks, as the Jets defeated the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins to bind the AFC East race: the maturation of second-year quarterback Mark Sanchez.
"The Sanchise," has rebounded blithely from a abominable season-opening achievement adjoin Baltimore, back he acquaint an NFL-worst 56.4 passer rating. Now Sanchez, who accursed three TD passes in the back-to-back wins, ranks sixth in the alliance with a 104.9 mark. And he's yet to bandy an interception.
With a allegiant aegis and solid hasty game, Sanchez was advised the Jets' better catechism mark back the division began. That catechism is crumbling fast.
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Identity check: The accomplished two weeks, Minnesota Vikings active aback Adrian Peterson has rushed for 305 yards on 51 carries, with three touchdowns.
During the aforementioned span, Brett Favre has befuddled for one TD and bristles interceptions.
Unlike the abnegation for alternate funds, accomplished achievement absolutely ability be the best indicator of approaching after-effects as the Vikings chase for the bendability bare on breach to be a accepted adversary again.
10 QUESTIONS: How important were aboriginal wins for Vikings, Cowboys?
When the division began, drillmaster Brad Childress maintained that he wasn't abiding which character his breach would carry, whether it would be a pass-first operation or run-dominant.
Last season, they leaned pass-happy with active plays on aloof 44% of the snaps and Favre throwing a career-low seven picks. But with Favre's bottom-feeding passer appraisement (60.4) saddled by six interceptions that about bout his absolute from all of aftermost division and a abridgement of accent with an injury-depleted accepting corps, the Vikings are advantageous that Peterson (70 rushes, NFC-high 392 yards) is active as admitting he is out to prove a point.
An 80-yard touchdown dart to ice Sunday's achievement adjoin Detroit and highlight a 160-yard, two-TD achievement fabricated absolutely the big-play statement.
Now the Vikings charge their amazing abettor to authority up and conceivably alike the after-effects of 2008 — back Minnesota ran on 51% of its snaps to actuate Peterson to an NFL hasty acme with 1,760 yards.
Missing component: Vincent Jackson or Marcus McNeill?
With the San Diego Chargers bottomward to 1-2, it may assume analytic to advance that the arrangement squabbles — which accommodate the boxy negotiating approach of accepted administrator A.J. Smith— that accept larboard two Pro Bowl players abeyant accept appear with ample cost.
Not so fast.
With Philip Rivers casual for a career-high 455 yards at Seattle, the Chargers accept the NFL's No. 1 breach and second-ranked casual attack.
Undoubtedly, Jackson, who averaged 17.2 yards per bolt in 2009, could add a big-play element. And while Brandyn Dombrowski has been a able backup at larboard tackle, McNeill's absence hurts continuity.
Still, it's absolutely accessible that neither Jackson, McNeill or alike LaDainian Tomlinson (now a Jet) is the amateur the Chargers absence most.
Try Kassim Osgood, the appropriate teams captain who anchored to Jacksonville during the offseason as a chargeless agent, gluttonous to aggrandize his role and appear as a receiver.
Without Osgood — who becoming Pro Bowl selections the accomplished three seasons as the ace bang coverer — the Chargers accept accustomed three touchdowns on bang returns. They rank aftermost in the alliance for bang coverage, acceptance an boilerplate drive alpha of 37.4 yards.
On Sunday, the Chargers never overcame Leon
Washington's second-half runbacks of 101 and 99 yards. In the
season-opening accident at Kansas City, Dexter McCluster's 94-yard punt
acknowledgment TD fabricated a difference.
Both losses concluded with Rivers aimlessly battlefront abroad in the red zone. Without the continued returns, the amateur ability accept concluded with a less-stressed quarterback demography a knee.
Adversity's Team: It's too bad that Hard Knocks, the HBO miniseries based on the New York Jets training camp, didn't extend throughout the absolute season. Imagine the ratings.
Last week, the ball amidst baroque receiver Braylon Edwards and his DUI arrest. Before that, the argument complex the analysis of TV Azteca anchorman Ines Sainz. Add a arrangement (since-injured all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis) and accent (coach Rex Ryan), and it has been a amaranthine alternation of events.
Even acclaimed fan "Fireman Ed," has gotten into the act. Ed Anzalone was answerable with simple advance stemming from an argument with a New York Giants fan.
Let it not abstruse the best cogent development on the acreage the accomplished two weeks, as the Jets defeated the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins to bind the AFC East race: the maturation of second-year quarterback Mark Sanchez.
"The Sanchise," has rebounded blithely from a abominable season-opening achievement adjoin Baltimore, back he acquaint an NFL-worst 56.4 passer rating. Now Sanchez, who accursed three TD passes in the back-to-back wins, ranks sixth in the alliance with a 104.9 mark. And he's yet to bandy an interception.
With a allegiant aegis and solid hasty game, Sanchez was advised the Jets' better catechism mark back the division began. That catechism is crumbling fast.
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