CAR@NO: A master of his craft

Just 13 days after he executed a similarly lame springboard leap against the Chargers during Week 5, Drew Brees — acknowledged master of the goal line bunny hop — gets credit for a touchdown with this extra-lame effort.

This third-down effort is particularly awful since Brees 1) short-arms his reach and barely extends the ball far enough to break the Great Invisible Plane, and 2) fumbles the ball on his way to the ground. Plus lands on his backside a yard short of the end zone. This play is full-bore ugly.

Interesting: Two days after this play, the team’s news site pointed to research by Pro Football Reference that showed since 2006, when he joined the Saints, Brees had through this game attempted 14 rushes from inside the 1-yard line and had recorded touchdowns on 13 of them. There’s a man who knows how to sniff out easy, dreary-to-watch touchdowns. Hocus Bogus rating: 5

BUF@NYJ: Pylon skimmer 1

Jets’ rookie RB La’Mical Perine grazes the pylon a millisecond before his right foot lands out of bounds. So it can be argued that he indeed broke the plane.

But he never touched the end zone, which we think makes this effort, however dramatic it looks, a Nix Six. Plus, since the pylon is located out of bounds, was any part of the ball over out-of-bounds airspace? If so, shouldn’t that make his reach out of bounds and thus not a touchdown. Just asking. Rating: 4.5

JAX@LAC: Pylon skimmer 2

Like La’Mical Perine (above), Jacksonville’s James Robinson makes a terrific effort to extend the ball as he approaches the goal line and graze the pylon, fulfilling the requirements of the existing break-the-plane rule to collect six points.

We would argue that, despite the athleticism displayed, Robinson never touched the end zone. He just passed through goal line airspace and landed out of bounds. Worth six points. Not in our preferred world. Rating: 4.5