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What comes after seven?

How did QBs do week after their seven-TD games?

Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper and quarterback Nick Foles. (Nhat V. Meyer/McClatchy)
Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper and quarterback Nick Foles. (Nhat V. Meyer/McClatchy)Read more

MEMORIES ARE short in the NFL, and not just because of the violent head-on collisions.

Nick Foles' remarkable performance against the Raiders became a nice footnote almost as quickly as it took him to throw seven touchdowns.

By Monday night, the focus for this week's Eagles game against the Packers was on Aaron Rodgers' shoulder, not on Foles' historic performance. Even Seneca Wallace was being talked about more.

So in the spirit of what have you done for me lately, we're putting a twist on Foles' accomplishment.

He became the seventh quarterback to throw for seven scores in a game. The other six, from a fantasy standpoint, were mostly mediocre the following week. Chronologically, here's a look at what each did for an encore:

* Chicago's Sid Luckman followed up his seven TD performance in 1943 with a Tebow-like four interception outing against the defending-champion Redskins - on his 27th birthday, no less. Chicago and Washington had a neat little rivalry in this era, meeting four times in 7 years for the NFL Championship.

The most famous was the 1940 game when Chicago went to D.C. and beat the 'Skins, 73-0. (Luckman had just one TD pass that day, by the way.) In '43, about a month after Washington picked off Luckman four times, the Bears once again beat Washington in the title game, as Luckman threw five touchdown passes.

* After throwing for seven scores against Washington in 1954, Adrian Burk and the Eagles went to Pittsburgh and laid an egg in a 17-7 loss. What the Birds lacked in offense, they made up for in gate appeal. The game set a Forbes Field attendance record of 39,075 and the crowd along the outfield wall was lined up six deep. Know what they call a team that draws 39,000 nowadays? The Miami Dolphins.

George Blanda's Oilers romped Denver, 45-14, in the 1961 game after he threw seven touchdowns, but it was his defense that led the way. Houston intercepted George Herring six times and scored touchdowns on a blocked field goal and a fumble recovery. Blanda was sloppy with one touchdown pass and three picks. He did kick five extra points and a field goal, which surely helped great-grandpa's fantasy team.

Y.A. Tittle threw three touchdowns and rallied the Giants to a 31-28 win over St. Louis in 1962, but it was end Sonny Randle who stole the show with 16 catches for 256 yards.

* The Colts were the NFL's defending champs, but were coming off a stinging loss to the Jets in Super Bowl III when Minnesota's Joe Kapp torched them for seven TD passes in Week 2 of the 1969 season. The following week, Kapp competed just seven of 21 passes, but managed the game well enough for a win over the Packers. The Vikings started the season 12-0, but were similarly upset by Kansas City in SB4. Kapp had 18 career touchdown passes before his seven-score outburst. Only Foles, with 12, had fewer.

Peyton Manning started the 2013 season by throwing a seven vs. Baltimore and has hardly slowed down. The following week, he had two more as Denver ran roughshod over the Giants, 41-23. The win also improved Peyton's mark over younger brother Eli to 3-0.

Contest of the week

How many touchdown passes will Foles throw this week? As a tiebreaker, include his number of passing yards.

One Daily News fantasy football shirt will be awarded to the reader who matches his TD passes and comes closest with the yardage. Send entries to FantasyFootball@phillynews.com by noon on Sunday. Include your name and hometown; one per customer, please. The winner will be announced in next Friday's fantasy football report.

Green Bay has allowed 14 TD passes in eight games, for whatever that's worth.

Position watch 

* Quarterbacks: The surprise pronouncement that Jay Cutler has been cleared to play Sunday does not mean he's an automatic fantasy starter. He's coming back way early from a groin injury, so let him get through a game before playing him. Obviously, though, it's good for Brandon Marshall owners . . . Russell Wilson threw for 385 yards and had three total TDs in Seattle's playoff loss at Atlanta last year. He's among the group of QBs who oughta start ahead of Cutler . . . Drew Brees has seven touchdowns and five interceptions in four road games. In four home games, he has 14 TDs and two picks. The Saints will truly welcome Dallas to the SuperDome for the Sunday nighter this week.

Running backs: It took 9 weeks, but it's finally safe to use Ben Tate while Arian Foster deals with a back injury. Houston is playing an Arizona defense which is ranked fifth against the run and has given up just two rushing TDs to opposing RBs all year. Figure Tate as a flex or a low RB2 . . . It's worth repeating, but New England's Shane Vereen and the Giants' Andre Brown should be owned in all leagues. Impossible to say what kind of production they'll provide this week or next, but the upside is impossible to ignore.

Wide receivers: Calvin Johnson needs 24 yards to pass Randy Moss (8,680) for the second-most receiving yards for a player through his first 100 games. Johnson has 8,657 and is 362 yards behind Lance Alworth's record. Alworth played for the Chargers in the 1960s in the high-flying AFL, which is almost the football equivalent of Barry Bonds' holding the single-season home run record.

Final Foles note

Somebody mentioned in yesterday's chat that they dropped Foles just before last week's kickoff in order to pick-up a defense because of a bye. Ouch in a big way.

Ed Barkowitz, who is in such a bye-week crunch that he's starting Brent Celek as his tight end this week, has been writing about fantasy football in the Daily News since 2001.

On Twitter: @EdBarkowitz