The Best NFL: NFL Week 6 Performances Given by MMQB Staff

The Best NFL: NFL Week 6 Performances Given by MMQB Staff

 

Week 6 on the NFL (NFL)schedule is almost in the books now (we still have Monday night football on the go), and the best performances deserve recognition from our

staff. Even if you’re feeling down because your team didn’t win, maybe one of your favorite players or coaches gets the ball to play from our staff. Let’s go!

Mitch Goldich: Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase. The Bengali post-Super Bowl streak ended 0-2, which happens, but for the world to truly believe that deep playoffs are the “new normal” for Cincinnati, the team needs to be able to bounce back and win games that should be during the whole season. This was the case in weeks 3 and 4 before she relegated The Raven last week.

So Sunday’s game against the Saints seemed like what the team really needed, otherwise we’d have a typical “What’s wrong with the Bengals?” media series. Perhaps the trip to the Superdome was good for the psyche. Burrow entered the building where he and Chase won the national title. wearing the catcher’s LSU jersey. The stat sheet looks pretty clean (Burrow: 28 of 37, 300 yards, three TDs, no loss; Chase: seven catches, 132 yards, two TDs), but this game was no cakewalk.

The Bengals conceded two goals in the second half and needed 10 points in the last four minutes to put everything aside. The stars came together for the game of the day: 60 yards catch and rush for the final score. Cincinnati now has plenty of games to win to get back into the top of the AFC playoff picture. These bank wins are necessary before the season-ending games with the Chiefs and Bills.

Bengali quarterback Joe Burrow reacts after Cincinnati beat the Saints 30-26 in Week 6.
Burrow reacts after the Bengals overcame a 10-point deficit to beat the Saints 30-26.

John Pluym: Bailey Zappe, quarterback, Patriots. If you are a football fan, you know the Tom Brady-Drew Bledsoe story. Bledsoe is injured, Brady replaces him as the Patriots’ starter and the rest is history: New England has won six Super Bowls. We now have Zappe to replace Mac Jones, the #1 Patriot in 2021, who was out with a sprained ankle. Zappe was selected by New England in the fourth round of the April draft. He played three seasons for FCS Houston Baptist, then moved to Western Kentucky last season and started throwing for 5,967 yards and 62 TDs, both FBS single-season records.

The big reason for his elite season was his volume (686 attempts), as well as efficiency (69% completions and 78.6 QBR). I’m not saying Zappe is the next Brady. But after throwing for 309 yards and two touchdowns against the Browns, Like a near-slam of Aaron Rodgers at Lambeau Field a few weeks ago, Patriots coach Bill Belichick could have made an interesting decision, choosing between Zappe and Jones as the starting point guard.

Conor Orr: Robert Saleh, coach of the Jets. The Jets overcame a significant metaphorical hump, beating a good opponent and a top-tier playmaker on the road while receiving key contributions from native talent. These are extremely important benchmarks for a team that has been struggling with the optics of a declining professional soccer facility for nearly a decade.

Gary Gramling: Mitchell Trubisky, quarterback, Steelers. Being the first quarterback picked in any draft is no fun. He is likely to join an underperforming organization, and a scenario where someone in the industry proves to be a better player, and early in his career, is more likely than not. (That’s why every spring I fax a scathing letter to all 32 NFL teams asking them to … don’t make me pick your first quarterback draft.

And you listened, until now.) Trubisky will be in the NFL for a long time, but in Joe Montana’s football life he could have imagined that his run in the spring of 2017 would never come to fruition. After the Bears walked away from him and the Steelers brought him in as a bridge guest only to go into the regular season for a month, Trubisky is looking at something else in Chad Henne’s career. Not many attractions left.

But one of them is surely getting off the bull and throwing a game-winning touchdown in a one-on-one matchup with Tom Brady, securing the third-biggest flop of the 2022 season (after Dolphins over Bills and Trubisky — led Steelers over flares). Trubisky’s remaining race will be one of the small wins, and Sunday was one of them.

Michael Fabiano: Nora and Chase. They teamed up to distribute bananas at LSU, and their return to Louisiana as professionals was just as fruitful. Burrow finished with a season-high fantasy 32.5 points in a 30-26 win over the Saints. Chase also dominated with 32.2 points. This is the duo’s best stat for the season, and it recalled some of the great lines they produced together in 2021.

Claire Kuwana: Marcus Brady, OC, Stallions. For a while Sunday, the Jaguars seemed to have a better shot at winning the AFC South title, but the Colts coped well with a 24-0 shutout in Week Two, making the appropriate changes in their offense to win 34:27. Matt Ryan opted for shorter, more accurate passes, finishing nearly twice as many as Trevor Lawrence (42-22), even trying in Sunday’s game (and breaking the Colts’ franchise record of 40 complete games). And it paid off, with a 4-yard TD pass just before halftime, to snap a six-quarter drive (one was overtime) without a touchdown. And the game-winner came with 17 seconds left when Ryan tied Alec Pierce on third-and-13 for a 32-yard touchdown. (NFL)

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