Monday morning NFL recap week 4

Steelers play tonight. Wow. Exciting MNF game between 0-3 teams. Who's staying up for that?

Other: Sunday was full of lead changes, interceptions, fumbles, and fun. I love Sundays when I don't give a damn about who wins or loses.

• Let's start with the best fumbling, bumbling of Sunday--and trust me there were tons--The best, however, goes to the Lions/Chiefs in the early game. On the opening play in the second half, Detroit forced a fumble on the kickoff and recovered the ball. They blew down the field to the red zone where Stafford threw the ball into the back of the endzone to Kenny Golladay, who made the catch and tiptoed both feet in bounds. Awesome touchdown. But wait! Instant replay showed Golladay being tackled, falling, and oops, the ball bobbled in his arms as he hit the ground. Ruled incomplete pass. (Tough being the receiver catching touchdowns on that complete the process rule when runners only need to cross the goal line with the ball no matter if their feet aren't anywhere near the endzone). 
• But Detroit had more downs, so they continued to try for the TD. Matt Stafford ran the ball when he had no open receiver and...fumbled. Ball recovered by the Chiefs.
• Then--listen, this just kept going--Kansas City fumbled the ball. Detroit recovered. Stafford handed the ball to Kerryon Johnson for a run into the endzone. Johnson lost the ball on his way to the ground, inches from the goal line. The ball rolled around, getting hit by limbs in the mass of bodies either pushing or tackling until it rolled out at the goal line. The Chiefs Bashaud Breeland scooped up the ball and, encouraged by his teammates, and no whistle ran 100 yards down to the other endzone. I mean, this was crazy stuff.CRAZY. 
• No whistle was blown on the play because--get this--this was the same officiating staff who made the oopsy-daisy whistle blow that screwed the Saints. Lesson learned, I guess. 
• The NFL Redzone did a Rich Gannon and John Gruden flashback that was quite entertaining, especially since Gannon was the analyst for the game. The video showed Gruden screaming at his quarterback, who replied with the old FU. Gannon snickered at the video but made sure to let us know how much he respected Gruden with a story about how his coach was always the first person he sought out after the game. Uh-huh, so much respect, Gannon, how about, "Totally not cool on my part disrespecting my coach. He should've washed my mouth with soap after that game." Kids are watching...
• Some vicious stupidity in the early games. The Pats hit the Bills Josh Allen helmet-to-helmet as he was a defenseless runner. So totally unnecessary. Then we had the Lions T.J. Hockenson thinking he was an Olympic hurdler. He jumped over two Chiefs defenders, one who grabbed Hockenson's foot, twisted, and as Hockenson came down, he landed head first. I genuinely believe both those men were out for a few seconds after. Did we not learn anything from Ryan Shazier????? Maybe Shazier should make the rounds in the lockerrooms reminding everyone of what could happen. Jeez. Both Allen and Hockenson were out of the game with possible concussions. 
• Then there was Brown's OBJIII and Ravens Marlon Humphrey, who thought they were on the playground. Acting like little kids, they threw punches and messed with each other until Humphrey had enough, threw Beckham to the ground and began choking him. I mean...really. The refs should've tossed them out of the game instead of throwing flags that offset one another. Is this really the kind of behavior we want to see from players? Beckham was covered most of the game and had zero yards.
• The refs did make a call on the Bears after they picked up a Vikings fumble and ran it into the endzone. A couple Bears players didn't like the way the Vikings had tackled Buster Skrine, so they came in and started pushing and shoving the Vikings. A ref threw the flag on the Bears, and that offset the touchdown. That ref sides with me. Stop the playground boy nonsense.
• Nifty little gadget play, although I prefer to think it was just smart eye to eye contact and making a play in the Chiefs/Lions game. The Chiefs Mahomes was under pressure. He scrambled, threw to Travis Kelce, who, before he could be taken down by a Lions defender, lobbed the ball back to where Shady McCoy was behind him and open. McCoy ran the ball and made the first down. 
• Kudos to Kenny Golladay, who I've labeled the Toe-Tapper of week 4. First, he did the toe-tapping catch in the endzone that was overturned due to the complete the possession rule. Then he got his touchdown with an easy catch. But then in the fourth quarter, he did the toe-tapping, drag the foot right in the left corner of the endzone that was remarkable. Such good footwork from Golladay. 
• Kudos to the Buffalo Bills, who refused to give up against the Pats. I've never seen such scrambling. This game had it all. Fumbles. Interceptions. Grounding. Vicious Hits. The Bills Josh Allen was knocked out of the game, and the backup Matt Barkley kept on chugging. I thought maybe they'd get it done, but Barkley got hit from behind mid-throw, and the Pats intercepted.
• Chicago's Mitch Tribisky took off running in the first quarter, but he didn't secure the ball, waving it around in one hand like he might decide to throw it after all, which was ridiculous since he was past the line of scrimmage. He didn't hear me screaming at him to protect the ball, so of course, the defender popped out the ball, but also, Tribisky was hit and knocked out of the game with a shoulder issue. Listen, QB's, if you're going to run, commit to it, protect the damn ball, head for the sidelines, and if you see you're going to be hit, go down.
• Congrats to one of the good guys--Arizona's Larry Fitzgerald, who passed Tony Gonzalez for the second leading receiver in the NFL with 1,326 behind the great Jerry Rice.