It was an exciting weekend of NFL football and we have everything you need to know about 15 of the 16 games played.

Big Ben Goes Down, Steelers In Trouble

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger went down and had to be carted off the field in the third quarter of the Steelers’ 12-6 victory over the St. Louis Rams.

The early reports are that it’s an injury to the two-time Super Bowl champion’s left knee and x-rays came back negative.

Ben Roethlisberger expected to miss at least 4 weeks with knee injury, source tells ESPN. He will undergo an MRI Monday; hoping ACL intact.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 27, 2015

If everything comes back good and the best case scenario is the prognosis, the Steelers will have to go four games with Michael Vick at quarterback.  Vick is obviously past his prime and he will have to face the winless, but still good Baltimore Ravens at home on Thursday, then the Steelers have their bye week before traveling to San Diego to take on the Chargers on Monday Night Football.  Finally Pittsburgh returns home to face the currently undefeated Arizona Cardinals.

Pittsburgh will be hard-pressed to win even one of those games without Roethlisberger, and with three other teams currently with the same 2-1 record as the Steelers, they can’t afford to lose too much ground in the Wild Card race.

Kicks and Giggles

The entire reason that the NFL moved the extra point attempt back to the 15-yard line was to add more intrigue to a pretty innocuous play.

That has certainly worked, as teams have already missed more extra points through three weeks (10) than they did all of last year (8).

It appears that it is affecting the confidence of kickers league-wide.

On Sunday, Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Kyle Brindza had an uneven day to say the very least.  Brindza began his day by connecting on a career high 58-yard field goal in the second period.  Then the bottom fell out.

Brindza missed his next three field goal attempts, as well as an extra point.  10 points lost for the Bucs due to Kyle Brindza’s mistakes…in a game that they would lose by….you guessed it, 10 points.

Other kickers that missed on Sunday were Baltimore’s Justin Tucker, Houston’s Randy Bullock and Buffalo’s Dan Carpenter.

Like A Fine Wine

You can scour the internet and sports talk radio each week and here countless pundits writing and talking about the lack of quality quarterback play in the NFL.  Although this is true to a certain extent, the epidemic of poor quarterbacking flushed itself out of the systems of veterans Tom Brady and Carson Palmer.

In New England’s dominating 51-17 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had a Brady-like day, including reaching a milestone by tossing his 400th and 401st career touchdown passes, becoming just the fourth quarterback ever to reach that number.

“His poise is very good,” Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley said of Brady, who completed 33 of 42 throws for 358 yards and a pair of touchdowns. “He knows the different looks. You try to create some confusion but he knows where to go with the ball and he’s got guys that make plays for him….He’s playing really well right now.”

The great wordsmith Bill Belichick had some nice things to say about Brady, as well as his kicker Stephen Gostkowski, who ran his consecutive extra points made streak to an astonishing 425.

“That takes a lot of games, a lot of snaps to do that. That’s certainly a tribute to both of them, the durability, longevity, consistent production they’ve had,” Belichick said.

“They had a good day, as they’ve had in many, many days throughout their career. I feel really fortunate to have those guys on my team.”

Meanwhile in Arizona, Carson Palmer was busy shredding apart the San Francisco 49ers.  After tearing his ACL for the second time last season, the former Heisman Trophy winner from USC has been brilliant in his return.

Palmer completed 20 of 32 passes, for 311 yards with a pair of touchdowns and one interception in the team’s 47-7 victory.

Two quarterbacks, a combined 73 years old, won their games by a cumulative score of 98-24.  Here’s one more stat: their teams are a combined 6-0.