Highlights from Peter King's column:
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Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers. When you do something no quarterback in history has done -- throw for more than 400 yards (408, to be exact), throw for four touchdowns (of 50 yards, 16, 17 and eight) and run for two touchdowns (from 11 and eight yards out) -- you probably deserve this august award.
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MVP of the Quarter: Aaron Rodgers, QB, Green Bay. Rodgers, of course, won the Super Bowl last year and had a terrific, borderline MVP season. Look how much better he is this year. He's on pace to be six percent more accurate, with 20 more touchdown passes, while throwing for almost 1,400 more yards. He's in the Brady-Brees-Manning pantheon now, except he has the ability to run and make tacklers miss. You don't want to blow too much smoke at Rodgers, but even if he falls off some, and just has average (for him) numbers the rest of the way, his season will be, across the board, 15 to 20 percent better than any of the three MVP seasons of Brett Favre.
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2. Cam Newton. Phenom. I find myself reaching for ways to describe what we're seeing in Newton -- the confidence, the downfield throwing ability, the command of an offense early, the knowing when to throw and when to tuck it and run. And I find this to be a way to explain his instant impact: Newton threw for 374 yards in a loss at Chicago Sunday. Last night, it was barely a blip on the highlight shows, including our Football Night in America show on NBC, because of Newton throwing for more than 400 yards in his first two games as a pro. But 374's not bad. In John Elway's first 170 NFL games, he threw for 374 yards or more once.
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Now here's something you may not know about Tom Brady.
Until Sunday, Brady had never thrown a professional touchdown pass in the Bay Area.
And Sunday, in Oakland, 29 miles from his childhood home in San Mateo, Brady passed his childhood idol, Joe Montana, on the all-time touchdown pass list. Entering the game against the Raiders tied with Montana with 273 touchdown passes, Brady threw two and now sits tied with Vinny Testaverde for eighth. (Next up, at number seven: Johnny U, with 290.)
Brady has never played at Candlestick, and his only previous game in Oakland came in 2002, a 27-20 loss to the Raiders in which he threw no touchdowns. In 2008, when the Patriots played at both Oakland and San Francisco, Matt Cassel was New England's quarterback because Brady was out after his Week 1 knee injury suffered against Kansas City.
That just seems wrong, Brady never having played in San Francisco. Brady, who was a 4-year-old kid in Candlestick at "The Catch'' game in January 1982, in fact, may never play there. According to the current NFL schedule rotation (which could change following the 2012 season, though I haven't heard any sentiment why it would), each team plays at a nonconference foe every eight years. In 2008, the Patriots had the NFC West as the non-conference division it faced that year. New England hosted St. Louis and Arizona, and traveled to Seattle and San Francisco. That would mean in 2012 the Patriots would have San Francisco and Seattle at Gillette Stadium, and play the Rams and Cardinals on the road.
Brady says he wants to play until he's at least 40, so this could be moot; he could play the Niners on the road at 39, in 2016, if the current schedule format -- and Brady's health -- hold up. But how weird would it be if Brady played from 2000 to 2015, a 16-year career, and never stepped foot on the home field of the team he rooted for as a kid?
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