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Giant of the week: Plaxico Burress, WR. Playing on a bum ankle that’s bothered him since Week 1, Burress finished with seven catches for 136 yards and a touchdown. When Burress is right, Eli Manning looks so much better.

Jet of the week: Thomas Jones, RB. Complain all you want about the passing game, the defense and the coaching. But Jones did his part with 106 yards on 24 carries.

Offensive player of the week: Tom Brady, QB, Patriots. Playing against the NFL’s premier defense, Brady shredded the Steelers for 399 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions.

Defensive player of the week: Bob Sanders, S, Colts. Led the Colts with 10 tackles and throttled Willis McGahee (17 carries, 45 yards) in the Colts’ 44-20 win over a Ravens team that nearly upset the Patriots last Monday.

Special teams player of the week: Texans kickoff returner Andre Davis scored a 97-yard touchdown on the first play of the second half to give the Texans a 21-7 lead. Houston held off Tampa Bay 28-14.

Comeback of the Week, Part I: Cowboys 28, Lions 27. Dallas rallied from deficits of 20-7 in the second quarter and 27-14 in the third quarter to beat Detroit, clinch the NFC East and give Lions fans one more reason to wonder why they put themselves through this misery every year.

Comeback of the Week, Part II: Chargers 23, Titans 17. The Bolts were down 17-3 in the fourth quarter and came up with two touchdowns to send it into overtime. LaDainian Tomlinson wins it in OT with a 16-yard touchdown run.

Coaching second-guess: Eric Mangini, Jets. After scoring a touchdown to make it 17-12 and then recovering an onside kick, the Jets got to the Browns 20 and were faced with a fourth-and-10 with 1:45 left and all three timeouts intact. But rather than go for the first down, Manigni goes for the field goal and another onside kick, which the Browns recover. Sorry, coach. Gotta go for the first down and then try and stop ‘em on defense if you don’t make it.

“Who knew?” award, Part I: Ryan Grant, RB, Packers. The undrafted free agent who went from the Giants to Green Bay for a sixth-round pick in the preseason continued his spectacular play with 156 yards and a touchdown in Green Bay’s blowout win over the Raiders.

“Who knew?” award, Part II: Broncos rookie free agent Selvin Young ran for 156 yards on 17 carries in the Broncos’ 41-7 win over the Chiefs. Of course, this result will only inflict further pain on our Lance, because it means the 6-7 Broncos will continue dying a slow death until they’re officially out of the playoff race.

Statistical anomaly of the week: (Oh, do we love using the word “anomaly. And now that resident genius and Neil Best fave John Philips is reading our stuff, even he might be impressed.) Usually when a team loses the time of possession by a 34:43-25:17 margin, it means they’ve lost. Not the Patriots. They smacked the Steelers 34-17 by having Tom Brady throw 46 times and running the ball only nine times. And with all those drop-backs, you’d think he’d have been sacked a bunch of times. Not once.

Stat that makes you go, “Huh?”: Vikings rookie running back Adrian Peterson, who led the NFL in rushing after last week, was held to just three yards on 14 carries against the 49ers. Fortunately for the Vikings, Chester Taylor came through with 101 rushing yards and a touchdown.

Spread of the week: After thrashing the Steelers at home yesterday, the Patriots have been installed as 24 ½-point favorites over the Jets on Sunday at Foxboro. To which we ask: Only 24 ½?

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