Gosselin also is one of the 12 voters for the AP 32, the weekly ranking of NFL teams conducted by the Associated Press.
They played their last three games without their two best players, QB Kyler Murray and WR DeAndre Hopkins, and managed to win two of them to maintain the best record in the NFL at 9-2.
This week he plays the Atlanta Falcons, against whom Brady engineered the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, rallying the Patriots from 25 points down for their record sixth Lombardi Trophy.
That includes a 3-0 record this season with his rushing touchdowns against Pittsburgh, Chicago and the Rams. The last time Rodgers rushed for a touchdown and the Packers failed to win was Nov.
Jim and his Michigan Wolverines defeated Ohio State on Saturday to win the Big Ten East, then John and his Baltimore Ravens upended the Cleveland Browns Sunday to hold onto first place in the AFC North with an 8-3 record.
Eight of his nine Super Bowl teams ranked in the Top 10 in scoring defense, including all six of his Super Bowl champions.
The Chiefs were among the NFL’s best at ball security the last two seasons en route to a pair of AFC championships and a Lombardi Trophy.
If the Bills ever return to another Super Bowl, they will have a quarterback ready for the challenge of the NFC’s best team.
In the last two games, victories over Las Vegas and Pittsburgh to move the Bengals to 7-4, Burrow failed to throw for 200 yards either time and tossed just two TD passes.
LA Rams. Matthew Stafford was an MVP candidate through the first eight weeks of the season with his 22 touchdown passes to propel the Rams to the top of the NFC with a 7-1 record.
The Titans sat atop the NFL after 10 weeks with a 8-2 record but have since dropped two in a row to Houston and New England.
Since the bye, his rushing production over a five-game stretch has been on a continuous slide – 60, 51, 41, 32 and, finally, 25 yards in that Thanksgiving loss to the Raiders.
Wentz has the Colts in the playoff hunt at 6-6 while the Eagles are spinning their wheels near the bottom of the NFC East at 5-7.
He rushed for 133 yards against Minnesota last weekend to help extend San Francisco’s winning streak to three games and move the 49ers back into the playoff hunt with a 6-5 record.
The Broncos, Chiefs and Raiders have all beaten the NFC East-leading Cowboys and the Chargers lost to Dallas on a 56-yard field goal by Greg Zuerlein on the final snap of the game.
Caleb Farley was the 22nd pick by Tennessee and injuries have also limited him to three games.
Matthew Stafford of the Rams has thrown three of the pick-sixes and Justin Herbert of the Chargers the other two.
In a scheduling quirk, the Browns play back-to-back games against the same opponent – the AFC North-leading Baltimore Ravens.
The 5-6 Vikings lead the NFL with 33 sacks and are the only team in the league with at least two sacks in every game.
Jerry Rice didn’t have his first 100-yard day until his 14th game and Larry Fitzgerald waited until his 17th career game for his first 100.
Washington has rushed for 436 yards over the last three weeks to build a three-game winning streak and vault to No.
The other two quarterbacks who were selected in the top 11 picks of the 2004 draft, Eli Manning and Philip Rivers, both retired after last season.
He also has completed fewer than 20 passes in all of those starts with three combined touchdowns and four interceptions.
The last time New Orleans lost five consecutive games was in the pre-Drew Brees era in 2005 when the Saints dropped six in a row.
He has played all three of the games since Wilson’s return from injury but he has barely been an active participant.
Andy Dalton passed for 317 yards last week filling in for an injured Justin Fields – the first 300-yard passing game of the season for the Bears.
Unfortunately, New York also has an active three-game road losing streak – and the Giants play four of their next five on the road in three different time zones – Eastern .
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Miami and Jacksonville all rank in the bottom half of the league in offense.
In his last start filling in for the injured Taylor, Mills passed for 310 yards against the Rams – his second 300-yard game of the season.
Robinson went 289 carries between fumbles and now has only the two fumbles in 369 career carries.
But through 12 weeks the NFL has yet to see a punt return for touchdown — the first time since 1960 the league has gone into the month of December without a punt return for a score.
Rick Gosselin has covered the NFL for 49 years for United Press International, the Kansas City Star and the Dallas Morning News.