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If it’s Saturday, it’s time for Danielle Moinet. OK, any day works in that regard. The former Chicago Bliss defensive back of Lingerie Football fame has her NFL picks for Week 5. She is 13-7 for the season after going 3-2 last week. Her Week 5 selections: Philadelphia over Buffalo, New Orleans over Carolina, Arizona over Minnesota, New England over the New York Jets and Chicago Bears over Detroit. For her complete comments, you can go to turdferguson.
Danielle Moinet may no longer be playing in the Lingerie Football League, but her Chicago Bliss photos live on.
Don’t tell Vince Lombardi (assuming dead people are capable of listening), but losing isn’t everything. Certainly not in terms of reaching the NFL postseason.
Since 1990, 22 teams that started 1-3 or worse and made the playoffs:
1990 New Orleans (1-3)
1990 Philadelphia (1-3)
1991 New York Jets (1-3)
1992 San Diego (0-4)
1993 Green Bay (1-3)
1993 Houston (1-3)
1995 Detroit (1-3)
1995 Philadelphia (1-3)
1996 Dallas (1-3)
1996 Jacksonville (1-3)
1997 New York Giants (1-3)
1998 Buffalo (1-3)
2000 New Orleans (1-3)
2001 New England (1-3)
2002 Atlanta (1-3)
2002 Tennessee (1-3)
2002 N.Y. Jets (1-3)
2002 Pittsburgh (1-3)
2004 Green Bay (1-3)
2005 Chicago Bears (1-3)
2007 San Diego (1-3)
2008 Minnesota (1-3)
Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers leads the NFL with a 124.6 passer rating this season. He posted a 100+ passer rating in the first four games (132.1, 119.9, 111.4, 134.5). With a 100+ passer rating on Sunday night at Atlanta, he will become the fifth player with a 100+ passer rating in a team’s first five games of a season since 1970. Consecutive games with a 100+ QB rating to start a season:
8: Tom Brady, New England (2007)
6: Carson Palmer, Cincinnati (2005)
5: Roger Staubach, Dallas (1976), John Hadl (Los Angeles Rams, 1973),
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick last week became the first player in NFL history with at least 400 passing yards (416) and 75 rushing yards in a game. Vick has 4,858 career rushing yards and needs 71 more to surpass former Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham (4,928) for most rushing yards by a quarterback.
Randall Cunningham: 4,928
Michael Vick: 4,858
Steve Young: 4,239
Fran Tarkenton: 3,674
Steve McNair: 3,590
New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker leads the NFL in receptions (40) and receiving yards (616). He needs eight catches and 89 receiving yards Sunday against the New York Jets to record the most receptions and receiving yards for the first five games of a season:
The two remaining unbeaten teams in the NFL reside are the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers of the NFC North. If the Lions –., who are hosting their first game on Monday night since Oct. 8, 2001 — defeat the Bears and if the defending Super Bowl champion Packers (4-0) win Sunday night at Atlanta, it would mark the second time since realignment in 2002 that two teams in the same division started 5-0, joining the AFC East’s New York Jets and New England Patriots in 2004.
The New England Patriots have won 18 consecutive regular-season home games. THey host the New York Jets on Sunday. With a win, New England can tie the San Francisco 49ers (1996-1999) for the fifth-most consecutive regular-season wins at home all-time.