The 2007 NFL season is young, but it has already been full of surprises. The Saints are bad again, the Packers are good again, but most notably, the passing game is becoming the new recipe for success.

In the last two NFL seasons, Shaun Alexander and LaDainian Tomlinson helped re-write the single season rushing record books in back-to-back years. Through three weeks this season, Tomlinson, the reigning MVP of the league, is averaging a putrid 2.3 yards per carry.
Along with putting the reported cases of depression among fantasy owners with the top pick in their respective drafts at roughly 100 percent, he’s set a terrible example for the other running backs in the league who wanted nothing more than to be like LT last year.
Larry Johnson followed suit by averaging 2.8 yards per carry, and similar to Tomlinson, under 50 yards per game. Other studs like Steven Jackson and Frank Gore are struggling as well, but their rushing averages of 3.4 look Hall of Fame worthy by comparison.
In Green Bay, the Packers didn’t even have a running back rush for over 100 yards through the first three games. Yet, without anything even closely resembling what might be considered a running game, teams are still having success. Well, at least the Packers are. With teams focusing on their aerial attack, we thought we’d come up with a list of the best quarterback/wide receiver combos in the NFL today. In honor of the greatest quarterback of them all, Brett Favre, we’re listing the top seven passer-catcher combinations. Wait...what do you mean he’s not number seven? Ah, screw it. Here’s the top seven anyways.

7. Tony Romo to Terrell Owens, Cowboys Yeah, yeah, Romo is best known for fumbling a snap and T.O. is best known for... well... snapping. Still, this fledgling pair is hard to stop, even though they’ve been hooking up for just under a year.

6. Drew Brees to Keith Bullocks and all other Saints opponents; Saints, Titans and every other team the Saints play
A Monday Night Football audience watched Brees throw four picks against the Titans, including three to linebacker Keith Bullocks, giving Brees a total of seven interceptions through three games.
Brees is finding out that playing the quarterback position is a little harder when the NFL doesn’t rig the schedule so that your team has an improbable year and makes the playoffs in the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster.

5. Tom Brady to Randy Moss, Patriots Similar to Romo and Owens, these two are relatively new to working together. Also similar to Romo and Owens, the wide receiver in this particular combo has been known to, well, I don’t want to say snap, but... yeah, snap is the word I’m looking for here.
Temper or not, after three weeks together Moss was on pace to break the single season record for receiving yards and touchdowns, while Brady was on pace to break the passing touchdown record. I spy a pretty good combo in New England, and, as we all know, so do the Patriots.

4. Rex Grossman to Bernard Berrian, Bears Just kidding.

3. Carson Palmer to Chad Johnson, Bengals Palmer and Johnson have hooked up for touchdowns so many times that even Ocho Cinco is running out of ideas for end zone celebrations. For the ill-informed, Ocho Cinco is a nickname Chad Johnson gave himself because he’s number eighty-five and ocho cinco means eighty-five in Spanish. Wait... actually no, no it doesn’t.

2. Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison, Colts One of the best combinations of all-time, these two were finally able to add rings to their fingers in February. And no, not from a commitment ceremony. The rings were from winning the Super Bowl.
In case you’re unfamiliar with Manning, just watch any television commercial ever made, ever. As for Marvin, he’s unlike any of the preceding receivers on this list because he’s not a dic...addicted to running his mouth.

1. Brett Favre to anybody, Packers Nobody has done more with less over the years than Favre, and although he currently has a Pro Bowl caliber receiver in Donald Driver, anybody he throws to could be considered the best combo out there. Except for Bubba Franks, of course.

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