Tom Brady finally had his breakout game this year, and all it took was a little bit of snow and a lot of hapless Titans.

Nothing frustrates me than being on the wrong end of a ridiculous performance by a player, like the six Drew Brees TD passes in Week 1 or the nearly 300 yards and three TDs by Chris Johnson in Week 2. I can deal with being beaten by a team that gets scoring from everyone, but it’s agonizing to see an opponent bailed out by a once-in-a-lifetime performance by one guy. Well, it took six weeks, but I finally found myself as the beneficiary rather than the victim of one such performance yesterday. Tom Brady’s six TD passes (including five in the second quarter) took the Thamesmen from a close contest to a 32-point lead with Vincent Jackson and Antonio Gates yet to play, preventing me from agonizing over leaving Ray Rice’s big day (194 total yards, 2 TDs) and Adrian Peterson’s 143 yards on the bench (yes, I actually benched AP). In my other league, the Outlaws of the Marsh did start Rice and rode him and DeAngelo Williams (152 rushing yards, 2 TDs) to a huge week that has the team over 100 points already with Philip Rivers and Antonio Gates still on deck.

Week 6 Highs and Lows

• If Rice can actually get consistent goal-line carries, we might be making Marshall Faulk comparisons. That’s the last running back I can remember who has displayed the kind of versatility that Rice has this season, being on pace for about 1,100 yards rushing and more than 800 yards receiving. Rice is a reliable yardage guy every week; you just have to hope his recent penchant for long touchdowns continue, because the Ravens seem hellbent on yanking him for Willis McGahee whenever they sniff the end zone.
• I didn’t think Adrian Peterson would have a lot of success against the Ravens defense, which was why I benched him this week. Boy was I wrong. Baltimore’s D is suddenly looking mortal after giving up back-to-back 100-yard games to Cedric Benson and Peterson.

The Saints’ crowded backfield illustrates exactly why fantasy football leagues should consider switching from drafting individual running backs to drafting entire backfields.
• While Drew Brees (369 yards, 4 TDs) got back on track this week, the Saints’ backfield situation became messier. Pierre Thomas and Mike Bell each had 15 carries, with Thomas getting more yards but Bell getting the touchdown. Another perfectly good backfield thrown into fantasy uselessness by the platoon system.
• If his performance Sunday against Detroit is any indication, Ryan Grant isn’t about to break out of his mediocre performance so far this season. Normally, a 90-yard day is pretty solid, but consider that this came against a hapless Lions defense that’s giving up 4.6 yards a carry to its opponents, and it still took Grant 24 carries to get to that figure.
• Even when the Panthers win, Jake Delhomme can’t get it together. He managed only 65 yards passing Sunday, completed barely 50 percent of his passes, and threw two interceptions. He’s looking like a closer who has forgotten how to throw strikes. There’s no way the Panthers stick with him the rest of the way. No matter how bad their backup QBs might be, they can’t be much worse than what Delhomme has shown thus far.
• Torry Holt is quietly putting together a solid season through six weeks. He’s on pace for just over 1,000 yards receiving despite being the No. 2 wide receiver on a bad Jaguars team, and his 15.4 yards-per-catch average would be his highest since 2001. What’s missing, however, is the scoring, as he has yet to find the end zone this season.

Just when Mark Sanchez started thinking, “Hey, this NFL QB thing isn’t so hard,” reality hits.
• On a huge day for quarterbacks (eight 300-yard games, four guys with at least three TD passes), the Jets’ Mark Sanchez turned in a clunker: 10-for-29, 0 TDs, 5 interceptions. After a surprisingly solid start, the rookie is starting to look like, well, a rookie. He has only one TD pass and eight INTs in the last three weeks after compiling four TDs and only two INTs in the first three games.
• Amazingly, the Chiefs and Raiders played good defense against teams other than each other, holding the Redskins and Eagles to single digits. I expected such futility from the Redskins, but the Eagles’ meltdown just came out of nowhere. Maybe Philly decided to start their annual November-December funk early this year.