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The Awards Section

Offensive Player of the Week

Miami RB Ronnie Brown. He didn't have a game against New England. He had a career. The Patriots have been alive since 1960, and no running back had ever rushed for four touchdowns in a game against them -- until Brown did it Sunday. Brown, taking advantage of a smart offensive scheme that featured multiple direct snaps from center to him, threw a touchdown pass to Anthony Fasano out of the shotgun formation, with Pennington playing wide receiver as a decoy. "I think we caught 'em off guard a little bit,'' Brown said. Brown finished with 17 carries for 113 yards, along with the touchdown pass.

Defensive Players of the Week

Tampa Bay LB Barrett Ruud. He's one of the three or four best young middle/inside linebackers in the game today, but no matter how long he plays and how many great days he has in this game, Ruud will never make a better play than the one he made to rob the Bears of a touchdown in the first half at Soldier Field Sunday.

Running stride for stride with Bears running back Matt Forte, Ruud watched as Kyle Orton's pass settled into Forte's hands. Ruud punched the ball free as he stumbled backward, then clutched at it once; it fell toward the ground, and as he fell to the ground, he grabbed the ball three inches from the ground and signaled to the back judge he had the ball. All in about two seconds. An amazing play. For the day, Ruud led the Bucs with seven tackles and added two passes defensed.

Philadelphia DE Juqua Parker. I could pick almost any Eagle after their nine-sack burial of Roethlisberger. Parker had 2.5 sacks, five tackles (two of them for loss), a forced fumble, a pass batted down and four quarterback hits. That's a career day for the man formerly known as Juqua Thomas. He changed his name in April to honor his late father, whose last name was Parker.

Miami LB Joey Porter. Three sacks, a forced fumble, three tackles for loss among six overall tackles, and a whole lot of backing up of his big midweek words. Porter and the Miami front seven made life miserable for Matt Cassel for three hours.

Special Teams Player of the Week

Philadelphia P Sav Rocca. The stats looked modest -- five punts, 44.4-yard average -- but his net was 43.4 yards (meaning only five return yards) and he boomed a punt 75 yards in the air in the second half that pinned the Steelers; he punted from his own one and it landed at the Steeler 25, giving him credit for a 64-yard punt. His next punt was 54 yards to the Pittsburgh 6. His last was 37 yards to the Pittsburgh 7. "You don't very often talk about a punter being a weapon, but he was tonight,'' said Andy Reid.

Coaches of the Week

Minnesota coach Brad Childress. You've got to hand it to Childress. He was ripped in some circles for a panic move, pulling Tarvaris Jackson after only two games -- and after an entire offseason of planning for Jackson to take the reins. But Childress called Jackson into his office last Tuesday, saw a player who was afraid of making mistakes (something Jackson admitted to him], and decided to pull the trigger in favor of vet Gus Frerotte.

"You've got to have the mentality of a serial killer at quarterback sometimes,'' Childress told me Saturday. Maybe coldblooded would have been a wiser choice of words, but you get the point: You can't be skittish in the job, and that's what the Vikes saw in Jackson in the last couple of weeks. In any case, Childress went to Frerotte, and he gave the Vikings a steady-handed 16-of-28 performance in a 20-10 season-resuscitating win.

Miami quarterback coach David Lee and offensive coordinator Dan Henning. You had to see the Miami game plan to believe it. According to Ronnie Brown, Lee, in his previous job as an Arkansas offensive assistant last year, used the funky single-wing stuff with the direct handoffs, and he incorporated it into the Miami game plan this week, with Ronnie Brown taking the shotgun snaps and Pennington at wide receiver. On Sunday, they ran it eight times, by my count.

Henning's got the reputation of a play-calling dinosaur, but the 66-year-old coaching vet drew up an imaginative one at New England and incorporated this oddball formation, with the direct snaps to Brown in the shotgun, one of which he used to throw an option pass from Brown to Anthony Fasano for a touchdown. Henning also had enough movement in the pocket for Pennington to make sure the Patriots couldn't always aim for one spot in their pass-rush.

Goat of the Week

Kansas City QB Tyler Thigpen. Through 19 minutes of the Chief debacle at Atlanta, Thigpen was one of 10 ... for minus-one yard, with an interception. And three minutes later, he threw another pick. How'd you like to be Herm Edwards this morning, convene a meeting of the coaching staff, and wonder aloud: "We got anybody to play quarterback the last 13 weeks?''

Thigpen, skittish and ill-prepared, looked like a lost sheep against a team in the same sort of rebuilding mode (though much further along, obviously) and finished 14-of-36 for 128 yards, with one touchdown, three picks and a fumble.