Tom Brady Named AFC Player of the Week After Dismantling The Bills On Sunday

For his best performance so far in 2012, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady earned his first AFC Player of the Week award of the young season. In New England's (2-2) 52-28 win over Buffalo (2-2) on Sunday, he was 22 of 36 for 340 yards, 3 TDs and 0 INTs with a four-yard touchdown run. ESPN gave him a quarterback rating of a nearly flawless 96.5 while the NFL's complicated metric scored it a 120.1.

The ironic part was that this was Brady's 21st such honor, tying the NFL record of none other than Peyton Manning who just so happens to be coming to Gillette Stadium on Sunday (4:25 p.m., CBS) with his new team-the Denver Broncos (2-2). Can you say ratings bonanza? One of the best quarterback rivalries that the league has ever known gets renewed for the first time in nearly two years since Peyton sat out last season with the Colts following neck surgery.

Brady, who received three Player of the Week awards in 2011, has now thrown for 300-plus yards in three straight games (48th of his career) and needs only one more 300-yard game to tie Hall of Famer Warren Moon for seventh place all-time in NFL history.

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