NFL Week 1 Players of the Week

I usually include this with my weekly NFL thoughts. Since I wrote it before the two Monday night games were played I wanted to wait the games out.

NFL Line of the Week
Payton Manning QB Indianapolis Colts
40 completions on 57 passes for 433 yards and 3 TDs. A new record for attempts and surpassed 400 yards for the fourth time in his career. What made this the Line of the Week is that the Colts still lost. Which brings me to the next category.

NFL Player of the Week
Arian Foster RB Houston Texans
Foster carried 33 times for 231 of the Texans 256 yards enabling them to finally get the Colt monkey off the team's back. It is only the first game but if nothing else it gave the Colts and the league something to think about.

JaMarcus Russell Player of the Week
Mark Sanchez QB NY Jets
The Jets went on Hard Knocks, built up the defense, settled the contract hold out of Darelle Revis and talked a big game. They forgot one thing in the process. NFL teams still need to move the ball and at the very least make teams respect the pass game. The Jets didn't really try to get down field with the Ravens. Sanchez posted a JaMarcus Russell like line of 10 completions on 21 attempt for 74 yards and no TDs.

Joe Pisarcik Player of the Week
Alex Barron OL Dallas Cowboys
A holding call on the play with the game winning touchdown ended the game for the Cowboys. Barron committed the infraction and there was no question that it was the right call. In a mistake filled game for the Cowboys, Barron merely finished off a lackluster night all around for Dallas.