All scoring plays in the NFL are supposed to be reviewed upstairs. Apparently, the guys upstairs didn't look very hard at Trindon Holliday's punt return for the Broncos, because he let go of the ball before he crossed the goal line.

Like DeSean Jackson did years ago when he let go of the ball as he celebrated a touchdown against Dallas before he crossed the goal line, Holliday showboated a bit at the end of his punt return for a touchdown. He appeared to let go of the ball as he stepped in the end zone, except replays showed that he dropped the ball before he actually scored.

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If this is just the Giants' annual trick of looking really bad in midseason, only to turn it on for the playoffs, they're really taking the midseason slump part of it to a new extreme.

A week after the Giants looked pretty bad in a home loss to Pittsburgh, the Giants looked flat-out awful in a loss at Cincinnati.

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The Giants' day didn't start very well as the defense completely lost A.J. Green on an easy 56-yard touchdown catch — one of Andy Dalton's career-high four touchdown passes — in the opening minutes.

The Giants never got on track. They were down 14-3 in the first quarter. Any hope of a comeback was flushed by a pair of poor interceptions by Eli Manning in the third quarter. By the end of the third quarter the Bengals led 31-6, and the final was 31-13.

That isn't the look of a Super Bowl team, but the Giants have struggled in October and November before, and come alive late in the year. And the beauty of this mid-season swoon is that the rest of the NFC East is so poor, nobody is there to challenge the Giants atop the division. Every other team in the NFC East was at least two games under .500 coming into this week's action.

The San Diego quarterback starts to get frustrated, he throws some interceptions, gets more frustrated and forces some more mistakes to totally bury the Chargers. Then he usually caps off the day with some dismissive motion to coach Norv Turner on the sideline.

Rivers had three touchdowns in the first half against Tampa Bay, but one of his worst decisions of the season - and there's a few to choose from - turned the game against the Chargers in the fourth quarter. With the Chargers trailing 24-21, Rivers rolled right and was about to go out of bounds when he threw it back into the field of play. The throw might have been justified if there was a Chargers receiver even close to where he threw it. There wasn't.

The Raiders-Ravens game started to get a little chippy in the second half as Baltimore opened up a huge lead. The Raiders took their fourth personal foul penalty of the game on a late hit on Ray Rice. Oakland cornerback Joselio Hanson decided being down 24 points was the right time to start a trash-talking war with Anquan Boldin.

Maybe that led to John Harbaugh's decision to call a fake field goal despite leading 41-17 in the third quarter.

The Saints' trade to get the 28th pick of the 2011 NFL Draft to select running back Mark Ingram looks bad for a couple reasons. First, Ingram has been shockingly ineffective. Second, the Saints already had a back in Ingram's mold who has shown to be everything Ingram is not.

Chris Ivory's 56-yard run against the Falcons is better than anything Ingram has done in one-and-a-half NFL seasons. He showed a great power-speed combination as he got into the open field, made some moves to get free along the sideline, then finished off the run with an impressive, vicious stiff-arm to cornerback Dunta Robinson.

(US Presswire)The four undefeated contenders for the BCS Championship Game lost a member on Saturday.

Alabama's loss to Texas A&M makes what Notre Dame, Kansas State and Oregon did on Saturday that much more impressive.

Those teams are getting opponents' best shot every week. Alabama gave in to that pressure, but the other three won with ease.

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Penn State has good reason to be angry after its loss to Nebraska.

A bang-bang play at the goal line was ruled a Penn State fumble. After reviewing a replay that clearly showed the Nittany Lions scored before the ball was knocked out, the official ruling was ... a Penn State fumble.

The call made for some angry Nittany Lions, and we can't say we blame them for feeling that way.

(US Presswire)With the way Louisiana Tech can score, it shouldn't be surprising that some of its offensive players are in the NCAA record book.

Quarterback Colby Cameron now holds the FBS record for consecutive passes without an interception. Russell Wilson, who played for NC State and Wisconsin, set the record of 379. Cameron passed that mark in the first quarter, and pushed the record to 419 by the end of the night.

Cameron may not have been the most impressive offensive player for the Bulldogs on Saturday against Texas State.