{"id":24555,"date":"2014-10-15T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flacco-among-afc-players-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:40:00","slug":"flacco-among-afc-players-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flacco-among-afc-players-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Flacco among AFC Players of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jurrell Casey and Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee were selected as the AFC&#8217;s top players for Week 6.<\/p>\n<p>Flacco was named Offensive Player of the Week after throwing a career-high five touchdown passes, all in the first half of Baltimore&#8217;s 48-17 win over Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>He became the fastest player in NFL history to throw five touchdown passes in a game and finished with 306 yards on 21-of-29 passing to take home his third career weekly honor.<\/p>\n<p>Casey notched his first weekly defensive award after recording two sacks and a career-high nine tackles in Tennessee&#8217;s 16-14 win over Jacksonville. He is the only tackle in the NFL with multiple two-sack games (two) this season.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee was chosen as the top special teams player after recovering his own onside kick in the first quarter and averaging 39.8 yards over his four punts in the Colts&#8217; 33-28 win over Houston on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jurrell Casey and Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee were selected as the AFC&#8217;s top players for Week 6. Flacco was named Offensive Player of the Week after throwing a career-high five touchdown passes, all in the first half of Baltimore&#8217;s 48-17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,11,13],"class_list":["post-24555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-ravens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}