FanHouse Leon Lett

Each week in the NFL, there are players that impress and players that distress. One week a certain quarterback might toss four touchdowns and run around pointing skyward, while the next he's laying on his back, holding his facemask as the other team returns one of his three interceptions for the game-winning score. With that in mind, here's Studs and Duds.

Studs

Miles Austin, WR Dallas (10 catches, 250 yards, 2 TDs) -- My mom, for arguments sake, is probably the nicest person you'll ever meet in your entire life, and I'm not saying that in a "she's my mother so of course I think so" sort of way. It's true. Very, very true.

The now 0-15 Lions have many believing that a winless season is not only possible, but probable. This is 0for08, FanHouse's eye on the Detroit Lions and their quest for a winless season.

Fellow FanHouse-r Bruce Ciskie touched on this earlier but the fact is that the Detroit Lions haven't won a game in Wisconsin since 1991. That means that in the Lions' quest to not be 0-16 for the season, they will have to win in a state they've lost in 17 straight times (18, if you count their playoff loss at Lambeau in 1994).

The 0-15 Lions take on the Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday.

Their last win in Wisconsin was a season before some guy name Brett Favre arrived in Green Bay. Favre would never lose to the Lions at home during his entire stay as a Packer. It was also the season Detroit won their last playoff game and wound up in the NFC Championship game. They'd lose to the eventual Super Bowl Champion Washington Redskins.

A week ago, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decided to re-reinstate "Adam" Pacman Jones after a 30-day stint in a Boston-area rehab facility. Jones won't be allowed back on the field until Dec. 7, when the Cowboys travel to Pittsburgh.

He returned to practice yesterday and, assuming Jones can somehow avoid trouble for the next 13 days, he'll be available for Dallas' December playoff push.

Former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman (and the lucky devil who gets to spend 17 days a year watching football with Joe Buck) isn't impressed. In fact, he thinks bringing Jones back is "an absolute mistake." Via the Dallas Morning News' Barry Horn:

"I don't know why they are bringing him back," said Aikman ... "I just think that is an absolute mistake. The players won't say it ...I sense players don't want him back...On the field he didn't help them in the return game, which is really where he was supposed to help them, and teams targeted him in pass defense.

He was confused out there on the field. So there really isn't anything he did as a player that warranted another chance by the organization or at least maybe taking another risk on him. Who knows maybe he comes back and helps this team. I just don't see it."

Thanks to DeSean Jackson and his inability to properly celebrate in the end zone last night, it got us here at FanHouse thinking, where does this play rank in dumbest NFL moves of all time?

The selection process is tough, because there are a ton of factors. You have referees botching the coin flip, NFL players celebrating straight to the ambulance, and others that just aren't sure which direction they're going. All of these are problematic, and all will find themselves in the list. So, without further ado, let's get to the best of the brainless!

Leon Lett -- Super Bowl XXVII and 1993 Thanksgiving Game -- It really takes a special person to make this list twice, but I guess Lett is that special. In one of the biggest botches ever in a Super Bowl, Lett recovered a fumble against the Bills in the fourth quarter, and as he waddled to the end zone, he decided the 10-yard line was the perfect spot to start the celebration. Little Don Beebe knocked the ball out of his outstretched hand, forcing a touch-back and a place in the Moron Hall of Fame. Previously that year, Lett actually lost a game for the Cowboys because of his clumsy maneuvers. Up 14-13 over the Dolphins with just seconds left in a snowy game in Dallas, the Cowboys blocked Miami's field-goal attempt and as everyone with four ounces of common sense stayed away from the ball, Lett slid in, hitting the football, thus making it live. The Dolphins recovered on the one-yard line, kicked a game-winning field goal, and forever made Lett a true Thanksgiving Day turkey.

This would've made much more sense if Pacman Jones had said, "I want to get my hands on a time machine and go to Dallas, mid-90s." He would've fit right in with Michael Irvin and Leon Lett. But Jones isn't that clever. He is smart enough to know that his future probably doesn't lie in Tennessee and thinks the Cowboys might be a better fit.

Coach Jeff Fisher on Friday said the Titans still haven't decided on the future of suspended cornerback Pacman Jones.

Jones apparently isn't going to be upset if he's not back in Tennessee. Appearing in a video shot by rollingout.com, Jones responds to a question about where he will be in 2-3 years.

"Hopefully 2 Pro Bowls. Hopefully I can get out of Tennessee. I want to go to Dallas,'' Jones said. "So we'll see how it goes and I am just going to keep my head up.''

The Tennessean reports that Jones' remarks appear to from be several months ago. Not sure if that changes anything, particularly since Jones was out of football for the 2007 season after commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him for violating just about every NFL code-of-conduct policy during his two-year career.

The thing is, Jones was one of the league's best cover cornerbacks in 2006. Although Terence Newman is a top-5 corner, and Anthony Henry is underrated, you can never have enough good defensive backs. It just seems like talk at this point, but if Jones does end up in Dallas, the local strip-club economy can expect surge in revenues. Because for Pacman, it's all about giving back to the community.

In one of my blogs, a reader made an interesting comment about the very strange blocked punt call in the Chiefs vs. Chargers game last Sunday. ppatel wrote:

I think the Chiefs were robbed in their game against Chargers yesterday (December 17, 2006). Look at NFL rulebook: http://www.nfl.com/fans/rules/kicksfromscrimmage and look at item number 4. It states offensive team can recover a blocked punt but retains possession only if they gain enough yard to get a first down.

Thank you for the well thought-out comment. Unfortunately, the rule you are referencing only applies to punts that do NOT pass the line of scrimmage. Although I share your sentiment, once I got over my fury about how the refs hosed the Chiefs, I thought rationally and realized that the ruling actually makes complete sense.

For those who don't know about he play we're referencing, in yesterday's Chiefs vs. Chargers game, Bernard Pollard blocked a punt deep in Chargers territory. The ball wobbled a little past the line of scrimmage, Chiefs' special teams player Derrick Ross touched the ball, and San Diego recovered the football. I think a lot of living rooms and bars were stunned when the ruling was that the Chargers would retain possession and get a first and 10.

Stupid rule, right? Actually, it's not.