Jackson named NFC Defensive Player of the Week

[MadCardDisease]

NEW YORK (Ticker) - Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Dexter Jackson, who left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the downtrodden Arizona Cardinals, and quarterbacks Jake Plummer and Kerry Collins were among the NFL Players of the Week announced Wednesday.

Returner Dante Hall of the Kansas City Chiefs was honored as the AFC Special Teams Player for the second straight week.

Jackson had a team-leading 11 tackles and the game-clinching interception of Brett Favre in Arizona's 20-13 upset of the Green Bay Packers last Sunday. Favre drove the Packers to the Arizona 7 in the final seconds, but was picked off in the end zone by Jackson to end the game.

It is the first NFC Defensive Player of the Week honor for Jackson, who earned MVP honors in Super Bowl XXXVII last January with two interceptions in the Bucs' 48-21 win over Oakland.

Plummer made his first home game with the Denver Broncos a memorable one, throwing for two touchdowns and running for another in a 31-10 rout of the Oakland Raiders on Monday night.

Plummer won the NFC Offensive Player of the Week award just once in six years with Arizona. It took him just three games with Denver to earn AFC Offensive honors.

Collins passed for 276 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Giants to a 24-21 overtime win at Washington on Sunday. In his ninth season, Collins won the NFC Offensive Player of the Week award for the fifth time.

Hall returned a punt 73 yards for a touchdown in Kansas City's 42-14 rout of Houston last Sunday. The previous week, he returned a kickoff for a touchdown in a 41-20 victory over Pittsburgh.

Hall became the first AFC special teams player to win consecutive weekly awards since Tennessee kicker Joe Nedney in Weeks Five and Six of the 2001 season.

End Adewale Ogunleye of the Miami Dolphins earned his second AFC Defensive Player of the Week award. He posted seven tackles, including two sacks, in Miami's 17-7 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Tom Tupa of the Buccaneers took NFC Special Teams honors. He averaged 50.7 yards on seven punts in Tampa Bay's 31-10 win at Atlanta on Sunday.

 

[Mr.Dibbs]

Congrats Mr. Jackson, he is for real.

 

[Dback Jon]

First,
Major congrats to Dexter - well deserved!

Second - a major FU to the writer of this piece -- can't someone write a story without taking jabs at the Cards?

who left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the downtrodden Arizona Cardinals

What does describing the Cards as "downtrodden" add to the story?

And then:

Plummer won the NFC Offensive Player of the Week award just once in six years with Arizona. It took him just three games with Denver to earn AFC Offensive honors.

Well, Jackass, how many NFC player of the week Honors did Jackson win at Tampa Bay? It only took him just three games with Arizona to earn it here!!

 

[Jttsaz]

Congrats Dex...Hope to see more of those honors in the comming weeks!

 

[pinnacle]

at the game sunday...dexter was injured on a play (he returned the next series)..as he was leaving the field (after the trainors were with him a few minutes) he walked past the packer huddle...he stopped at the huddle and had a few things to say....they reported after the game that dexter had stopped to tell favre and the rest of the offense that his injury was not serious and he would be returning shortly - just in case they were concerned (they obviously were wishing he would go away)..it was classic..

 

[MAKTEN]

Originally posted by pinnacle
at the game sunday...dexter was injured on a play (he returned the next series)..as he was leaving the field (after the trainors were with him a few minutes) he walked past the packer huddle...he stopped at the huddle and had a few things to say....they reported after the game that dexter had stopped to tell favre and the rest of the offense that his injury was not serious and he would be returning shortly - just in case they were concerned (they obviously were wishing he would go away)..it was classic..

I saw that watching the game from home. The camera zoomed in on his mouth and he said "I aint goin' no where, I'll be back, don't worry"...some thing to that effect...He was talkin smack, I was hoping he'd be back in shortly to back it up. Well....you know what happened!!

 

[Rats]

Originally posted by MAKTEN
I saw that watching the game from home. The camera zoomed in on his mouth and he said "I aint goin' no where, I'll be back, don't worry"...some thing to that effect...He was talkin smack, I was hoping he'd be back in shortly to back it up. Well....you know what happened!!

I'm suprised someone had not brought that up until now. That was great seeing a Cards DB...talk smack like that. Who was the last guy we had on D with that kind of passion for the game....Williams? never talked smack. Mcdonald? Tuff as nails but no smack. Tillman? nope...Who. Dexter is exactly what a young improving D needs. Mckinnon overachieves but we need guys like Dexter.

 

[CardsRep03]

Should Jeff Blake have been up for some type of player of the week honor? Or am I just being a homer? DOH! I mean he played hurt, ran for a TD, threw for another and threw for 273 yards. Pretty damn good. Maybe one more TD and he would have gotten it. Any way, I thought he did a hell of a job on Sunday. Especially against the mighty(used to be anyway) Packers.