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Tom Brady is on pace for 61 touchdown passes this season. AP

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Offensive Players of the Week

New England QB Tom Brady. The Miami-New England game began at 1:01 p.m. Brady's first incompletion came 74 minutes later, at precisely 2:15. He finished 21 of 25 for 354 yards with a career-high six touchdown passes and no interceptions. Brady is playing his position with the magic of Montana, Unitas and Graham combined.

Chicago QB Brian Griese. He played superbly on the last drive of a game the Bears had to have to save their season, and very well under pressure all day. He drove the Bears 97 yards in 1:52 under constant pressure from Philly defensive coordinator Jim Johnson, finishing the game-winning drive with a deceptive and smart 15-yard TD pass as he deliberately underthrew Muhsin Muhammad with Eagle safety Sean Considine all over him. You can't say enough good things about Griese, who completed 27 of 41 for 322 yards. He's won at Green Bay and Philadelphia, and has completed 63 percent of his throws in relief of Rex Grossman. This game proved this is his team the rest of the year.

Defensive Players of the Week

Seattle DE Darryl Tapp, who was a singular tour de force in the Seahawks' 33-6 rout of the moribund Rams. He tied a franchise record with four sacks and added five tackles, three quarterback hits, a pass defended and a forced fumble. A pretty nice game, even though it came against a Triple A offensive line, which is what St. Louis' patchwork unit is.

Houston LB DeMeco Ryans. There can't be a better second-year defensive player in football. He set the tone for a game that was vital to the Texans' playoff hopes, breaking through the Tennessee line in the middle of the first quarter, sacking quarterback Kerry Collins, forcing a fumble, grabbing the loose ball and rumbling 26 yards with it untouched. The Texans lost this ridiculous game, but Ryans was in Collins' grill all day, with 11 tackles, two fumble recoveries and a quarterback hit in addition to his sack and strip.

New York Giants DE Michael Strahan, whose 2.5 sacks and three quarterback hits were like a bygone performance, the kind of virtuoso deal he used to put up most Sundays. He played like a relentless pest, teaming with bookend DE Osi Umenyiora to constantly harass San Francisco quarterback Trent Dilfer.

Special Teams Players of the Week

Tennessee K Rob Bironas. Amazingly, Wikipedia had the Bironas bio updated at 4:39 p.m., less than 15 minutes after his single-game record eighth field goal went through the uprights in Houston. Eight field goals -- in one game. The final kick, a 29-yarder at the gun, gave the Titans a totally absurd 38-36 victory. For the record, the distances weren't other worldly, but a record of this magnitude is a record nonetheless. Bironas converted from 52, 25, 21, 30, 28, 43, 29 and 29 yards.

New England CB Willie Andrews. The 2006 seventh-round pick from Baylor blew open a remotely competitive game between the winless Dolphins and unbeaten Pats. After Miami scored to cut the Pats' lead to 14-7, Andrews, one of about 1,000 kick returners in the Bill Belichick era, took a shallow popup from kicker Jay Feely at the Pats' 23 (Wonder why you're not on the Giants anymore, Jay?), and dissected the Dolphins kicking team, running straight up the gut for a 77-yard touchdown. Midway through the second quarter, with the game having turned into a rout, Andrews chased a punt deep into Miami territory. Very, very deep, in fact. He downed it at the Miami one. What doesn't this team do phenomenally well?

Coach of the Week

New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo. In his first year as the Giants' defensive boss after years studying the art of the blitz under Jim Johnson in Philadelphia, Spagnuolo struggled to get his players going early in the year. The Giants allowed 80 points in their first two games, to Dallas and Green Bay. "A lot of people get beat up by Tony Romo and Brett Favre,'' Giants defensive end Justin Tuck said via the cellular after the game. "We knew we had a good defensive plan and just stuck with it.''

The G-men are on a five-game winning streak, and much of it is due to the defensive pressure that comes from the four pass-rushers -- Strahan, Umenyiora, Tuck and Mathias Kiwanuka. The Giants have sacked the quarterback a league-high 23 times in the last four games, and they owe thanks to Spagnuolo and his bold calls.

Goat of the Week

Tennessee S Calvin Lowry. All Lowry had to do, with Tennessee up 35-29 with 1:05 left and the Texans making a desperation heave toward the end zone, is knock the Sage Rosenfels pass down in the end zone. But no. Lowry went for the interception, waiting for the ball to fall into his hands. One problem: The ball was complete for the Texans ... for a touchdown.

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