Philip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers and Michael Vick all go over 400 yards as quarterbacks are putting up yards like never before. It's the second week in a row three quarterbacks have gone over 400. That's never happened before.
This is just what the game is now. Rules have changed, and it's like touch football in the parking lot before the game.
Two weeks in a row, three quarterbacks have gone over 400 yards. (And there are still plenty of quarterbacks playing, including both Mannings.)
This has never happened before.
I've got the post-1978 numbers in a sortable database. It's my belief that from 1978 to 2010, there was only two weeks in which three quarterbacks went over 400. That was in Week 3 of the 1986, when it oddly happened three times inside the same division -- Ken O'Brien and Dan Marino in a shootout, and Tony Eason of the Patriots against Seattle. So half of the quarterbacks selected in the first round of the 1983 draft.
It happened in Week 13 in 2004 (Peyton Manning, Donovan McNabb, Matt Hasselbeck).
It happened twice in the 2011, including Week 1, when there was a record four (Tom Brady, Chad Henne, Drew Brees and Cam Newton in his first game).
Now, including Week 16 of last season (Brees, Stafford, Romo), it's happened in three of the past four regular-season weeks.
--Ian Allan