Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson won the NFC offensive player of the week award for his excellent performance in last weekend's victory over Arizona.
With Frerotte sidelined because of a back injury, Jackson had the best performance of his career in a 35-14 victory against the Arizona Cardinals. Jackson completed 11 of 17 passes for 163 yards and four touchdowns with a 135.5 passer rating.
Jackson is the first Vikings quarterback to earn NFC offensive player of the week honors since Daunte Culpepper in 2005. Culpepper won it after completing 23 of 31 passes for 280 yards and two touchdowns in a victory against Green Bay on Oct. 23, a week before he suffered a season-ending knee injury.
Jackson's four touchdown passes Sunday were the most by a Viking since Culpepper's four-touchdown performance against Green Bay on Nov. 14, 2004. Jackson threw his touchdown passes to four different players.
I'm quite surprised, because Jackson's performance (good as it was) lacked the sort of eye-popping heroics that usually draw the award. He was the very model of a modern game manager, but didn't look like John Elway or Dan Marino while doing so.
Posted by Nicholas at December 17, 2008 09:41 AM
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