Luck, Wilson highlight strange, amazing QB week

Sunday was all about the quarterbacks. Most weeks are. But this was one of those memorable weeks of football where what we saw at quarterback was fairly incredible.

For good, for bad and for bizarre. And not necessarily the ones we expected. Considering that Drew Brees had kicked off the week with a five-pick game against the Falcons, we should have known to expect the unexpected.

But to have …

Andrew Luck rallying the Colts from down 12 points at his own 15-yard line with 4:02 remaining. Russell Wilson bootlegging and slinging his way to 136 passing yards, two TDs and 67 rushing yards in the second half and overtime, beating the Bears on their field, where Luck and many others have failed before. Mark Sanchez leading all passers in New York — with 97 yards — and then getting benched. The week Tim Tebow was inactive. With the Jets turning over to Greg McElroy. Wow. And we thought the circus was just about wrapped up in New York. Colin Kaepernick looking like a phenom the past two weeks and a phantom of himself in an error-marred loss at St. Louis that suddenly opened the NFC West back up. Nick Foles matching Tony Romo nearly throw for throw and appearing to have his Eagles on the march for their first victory since baseball season (September actually) when fellow rookie Bryce Brown fumbled the ball away. Charlie Batch, three days from his 38th birthday, emotionally hugging Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin after what probably was his final NFL start: a 276-yard, one-TD, one-pick gut check, outplaying Joe Flacco and winning in Baltimore, where the Steelers have won only two of their past seven trips. Cam Newton playing like the 2011 Newton … and the Panthers losing to the Chiefs. Brady Quinn, who hadn’t thrown a TD pass since Dec. 6. 2009, nearly three years ago, leading the grief-stricken Chiefs to a victory on a field a few hundred yards away from where their former teammate, Jovan Belcher, shot and killed himself just minutes after he murdered the mother of his three-month-old son.

… well, words fail to explain all of that.

Two rookie quarterbacks winning at Chicago and Detroit and becoming the first pair of first-year QBs to each throw a game-winning TD pass in the final minute of regulation or overtime is enough of a major story for one day.