#1 Stunning Performance of the week

[Pinkerton Security]

Three Stunning Performances

1. Ryan Fitzpatrick (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/8664/ryan-fitzpatrick), QB, Buffalo Bills (http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/_/name/buf/buffalo-bills)
Since Brees and Rodgers played Thursday night, Fitzpatrick was actually the most valuable quarterback to play Sunday. Let that sink in for a moment. Most of his basic numbers are pretty pedestrian: He went 17-of-25 for 208 yards. That's a 68 percent completion rate and 8.3 yards per pass. Good numbers, sure, but the best all day? The secret lies in Fitzpatrick's red zone performance. Inside the 20, Fitzpatrick went 4-of-6 for 24 yards and three of his four touchdowns. That worked out to 61 DYAR, better than anyone this week, including Rodgers and Brees. Fitzpatrick was also very effective in the third quarter, going 8-of-9 for 78 yards and 75 DYAR. That suggests some impressive halftime adjustments by Chan Gailey and company.



http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6960851/nfl-week-1-best-worst-performances




They could have even listed our run defense's great performance against Charles as stunning....lets hope the D keeps it up because McFadden is just as good.

[justasportsfan]

vote for Fitz

http://www.nfl.com/voting/players-air-and-ground

[ddaryl]

impossible to not vote Brady IMO.. His performance was the gem of the the 1st week.


Fitz was rock solid, but Brady was interstellar.... yeah it pains me but there is no denying that.

[Beebe's Kid]

I wasn't stunned

[madness]

Great stat on Fitz (http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2011/09/13/great-stat-on-fitz/)

<small>Posted by Chris Brown on <abbr title="2011-09-13T10:52:39+0000"> September 13, 2011 – 10:52 am </abbr> </small>

Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Week 1 performance was the third four-touchdown game for him since he became the full-time starter in Week 3 of the 2010 season. Only one other quarterback has had as many four-touchdown passing games as Fitz over that span.
According to the NY Times Fifth Down Blog (http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/are-bills-that-good-and-chiefs-that-bad/), Tom Brady is the only other NFL QB with as many four-touchdown games.
Since the start of last season, Fitzpatrick and Tom Brady are the only quarterbacks with three games with four passing touchdowns or more.
The two four-touchdown games for Fitzpatrick last year came against Baltimore and Cincinnati and just like Sunday’s game at Kansas City, both of those were on the road as well.

[zone]

I liked in Gailey's post game presser when asked about being on the same page as Fitz he had a smirk as if we don't even know the half of it.

It's great to see that we finally have a QB who understands what the coach wants to do and can go out and execute accordingly.

[Extremebillsfan247]

impossible to not vote Brady IMO.. His performance was the gem of the the 1st week.


Fitz was rock solid, but Brady was interstellar.... yeah it pains me but there is no denying that. I voted for Fitzpatrick. I'll never vote for a Patriot.

[psubills62]

I liked in Gailey's post game presser when asked about being on the same page as Fitz he had a smirk as if we don't even know the half of it.

It's great to see that we finally have a QB who understands what the coach wants to do and can go out and execute accordingly.
Problem is, up until now I'm not sure even our coach knew what the coach wants to do. Kind of impossible to have a QB figure it out then.

[TigerJ]

They could have even listed our run defense's great performance against Charles as stunning....lets hope the D keeps it up because McFadden is just as good.

Yeah. McFadden is a different kind of back. He's fast, but he's got size and power to go with the speed.

[madness]

I liked in Gailey's post game presser when asked about being on the same page as Fitz he had a smirk as if we don't even know the half of it.

It's great to see that we finally have a QB who understands what the coach wants to do and can go out and execute accordingly.

"Fitz is so smart,'' Chan Gailey told me. I guess he should be; he went to Harvard. "I can tell him anything once, and he executes exactly the way I want. You don't have to hammer things into him, he just gets it. And I don't know if he told you this, but he said this game was the first time he's ever finished by kneeling in the victory formation.''

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/09/13/mail/index.html#ixzz1XrQiyEuo