The Award Section

	Chris Chambers tormented the Bills all afternoon on Sunday, totaling 238 receiving yards and one touchdown. AP

Offensive Player of the Week

(tie) Miami WR Chris Chambers. Incredible day, obviously. And clutch, at the end. Fifteen catches, 238 yards, the winning touchdown, on a four-yard pass from Sage Rosenfels with four seconds remaining. Miami 24, Buffalo 23.

Buffalo WR Lee Evans, for one of the best quarters a receiver has had in years. In the first 14 minutes of the loss at Miami, Evans, the first of two Buffalo first-round picks last year, caught touchdown passes of 46, 56 and four yards from rallying second-year quarterback J.P. Losman. With 1:14 left in the first quarter, Buffalo had a stunning 21-0 lead. Weird game. Buffalo won the first quarter 21-0. Miami won the fourth quarter 21-0.

Defensive Player of the Week

(tie) Dallas CB Aaron Glenn. You're not going to see a more clutch game from a cornerback, in victory or defeat. This 12-year vet could not have had many -- or any -- better games in his Jets, Texans and Cowboys career. With the Giants up 7-0  midway through the second quarter, Manning threw an inside fade to Plaxico Burress, but Glenn stepped in front of him and, three yards deep in the end, made the pick to stop the drive. In the third quarter, with the Giants backed up near their goal line, Glenn made the kind of interception corners dream of, diving fully parallel to the ground, right in front of Burress, and catching it before flopping on the ground. "We had a pretty good battle out there,'' Burress told me later. "I got him, he got me. Great football.'' You can say that again. Great football.

Tampa Bay CB Ronde Barber, for his three interceptions in the 10-3 win over New Orleans in Baton Rouge. Did you see the first one? A line shot from Aaron Brooks and Barber snatched it out of the sky one-handed!

Special Teams Player of the Week

(tie) New York Giants P Jeff Feagles, who dropped the first of his six punts on the day on the Dallas 2-yard line, and his last one on the Dallas 4, after it hit at the three and bounced sideways. Both punts were downed by David Tyree. The way Feagles hit those punts, you'd think he'd been playing this game for a while or something.

New England S James Sanders, for one of the best open-field kickoff tackles of the year. Adam Vinatieri booted a waffler that landed in the arms of Jets cornerback Justin Miller, at the New York 13. Miller took four strides and boom! Sanders laid into him after only a 7-yard gain. Perfect form, perfect chase.

Coach of the Week

New England coach Bill Belichick. For a little thing, because the little things are what make Belichick pretty good at his job. The situation: 1:11 to play, third quarter, Jets-Pats slugfest. From the Jets' 49, Tom Brady had just thrown an apparent completion to Kevin Faulk. But Faulk had the ball fly out of his grip one step into his run as he was being tackled by a Jet. The ball rolled toward the sideline, and Faulk pounced on it. It was ruled a catch on the field, a 6-yard gain to the Jet 43. But Belichick could see it was, let's just say, a dubious ruling, and he yelled something that looked like, "Go! Go! Go!'' Brady ran to the line, got the five offensive linemen set quickly, took the snap against a totally unprepared Jets defense and rambled over right guard for six yards. Two more seconds and the Jets would have known enough to throw the red flag for the replay. But they got to keep the 6-yard gain and got six more yards on top of that.

Goat of the Week

Buffalo Bills. Well, maybe all but London Fletcher and Lee Evans. There is something seriously wrong with a team that blows a 23-3 lead in the last 12 minutes of a game to a team with a 4-7 record.

Quote of the Week

"I'm happy. I'm as happy as I've been for a long time.''

-- Miami coach Nick Saban, after the Dolphins scored three touchdowns in the final 12 minutes to erase a 23-3 lead and win, 24-23.

Son of Quote of the Week

"I'm no Shakespeare. I can't describe it.''

Buffalo quarterback J.P. Losman, on the loss to Miami.

Factoid That May Interest Only Me

I am so glad Sean Landeta is back in football. He'll punt in his 21st consecutive NFL season when he takes the field for the Eagles tonight. He was a rookie when I was a rookie Giants beat writer for Newsday in '85, and I have quite a few good stories about Landeta. But my favorite is that after Donna Rice had her few minutes of fame with Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart, causing him to drop out of the '88 presidential race, Landeta dated the comely Ms. Rice.

A witness to history. Landeta would love to be known that way.

Aggravating/Enjoyable Travel Note of the Week

I did not travel on Sunday. I had my first home game of the year, driving nine miles east to the Meadowlands. But I did live vicariously through Jason Cohen, my HBO compatriot and Inside the NFL production manager, who is a hopelessly addicted Browns fans. He travels to Blondies, a bar in Manhattan which is home to Browns games every Sunday, and there, with a Cleveland-loving crew, looked on in horror as first-round pick Braylon Edwards went down with what looked to be a serious knee injury. The Browns, as you know, have been snakebitten with injuries to stud receivers (see Kellen Winslow Jr.).

"Braylon goes down,'' Cohen reported, "and the following exchange goes down with two guys next to me.''

First fan: "Welcome to Cleveland, Braylon.''

Second fan: "Just hope he can run by next September.''

First fan: "Now Kellen has a bunkmate.''

I know this: Thousands of similar sentiments were spat out at bars across this great land of ours when Edwards went down. Guarantee.

Stat of the Week

Jay Feely field goals missed in the last eight days: four.

Jay Feely field goals missed in the previous 344 days: three.