But the Lions looked at McMahon's tendency to scramble rather than pass, and reminded themselves of his poor touchdown-to-interception ratio at Rutgers and thought twice.
At airfields where aircraft operate in very poor visibility, touchdown-zone lighting is provided over the first 900 metres (3,000 feet) from the runway threshold.
But this season has bedeviled Favre, from the injuries that precipitated his poor play (10 touchdowns, 18 interceptions) to the implosion of the Vikings — who will almost surely miss the playoffs — to an N.F.L. investigation into whether he sent lewd photographs and suggestive text messages to a woman when they worked for the Jets in 2008.
He caught a 1-yard pass for his third touchdown when poor Sheldon Brown was inexplicably left isolated on Fitzgerald, who goes to Tampa having already blown the great Jerry Rice out of the record book, with 419 postseason receiving yards.
The resulting catch would have gone for a touchdown had Flacco, the poor lanky bastard, not ended up tripping over his own feet in excitement.
The Cowboys made the game safe early in the third quarter when Joseph Randall broke two poor tackles to run in another touchdown.
In hindsight, Rex Ryan said Friday, he wished he did not call the all-out blitz on third down that Tebow recognized, processed and evaded, darting outside the Jets' poor containment for a 20-yard touchdown.
Given the poor play of quarterback Ricky Stanzi, one more touchdown by the visiting Hoosiers could have brought the Hawkeyes' charmed season crashing down.
Concerns about Manning have risen with each poor performance — he has thrown only one touchdown pass in four games — and Coughlin said he asked Manning whether he was dealing with any sort of physical problem.
Four minutes into the second period the hosts grabbed their third touchdown, with Easter claiming Williams' poor clearance and feeding Yarde.
Their defense, thanks to some uncharacteristically bad tackling and poor angles to the ball, gave up touchdowns of 70 and 60 yards to Greg Jennings and Adrian Peterson.
