Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999

Trends, tips and timely stats — Week Two

By Art Edelstein

• The Falcons have lost eight consecutive Monday-night games dating back to 1981.

• Atlanta’s last four Monday-night losses, all at home, are by a combined score of 161-47.

• The Steelers are 1-5 vs. the pointspread in their last six home openers.

• Including the playoffs, the Bills have dropped four straight games vs. AFC East rivals.

• The Bengals have not started a season by covering the pointspread in their first two games since 1992.

• The Eagles’ 24 points in their Week One loss were more points than the team scored in any game last season.

• Buccaneers RB Warrick Dunn has not scored a TD since Week Nine of last season and has scored just two TDs in his last 23 games.

• Cardinals WR Frank Sanders has not scored a TD in his last seven games dating back to last season.

• Lions QB Charlie Batch has thrown nine TD passes and only one interception in his last seven games dating back to last season.

• QB Kurt Warner’s 316-yard passing performance in Week One was the first by a Rams signalcaller since Tony Banks’ 401-yard effort in Week 10 of the 1997 season.

• Cowboys QB Troy Aikman’s five TD passes in Week One marked the first time he had thrown more than two TD passes in a game since Week One of the 1997 season. He threw none the following week in ’97.

• Chargers QB Jim Harbaugh should have no trouble improving the team’s TD-to-interception ratio. With Craig Whelihan and Ryan Leaf at the helm, San Diego threw 19 picks and only three TD passes in its last five games of ’98.

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