How did this week's air and ground performances stack up to the epic performances of yesterday?FedEx Air nominees, In the ' over the in the NFL's kickoff game, Brady connected on 19 consecutive pa ses from end Marcedus Leech Jr. Jersey of first quarter to start of fourth quarter. That was three shy of an NFL record held by three players: Joe Montana (22 straight completions in 1987 vs. the ), Mark Brunell (22 straight in 2006 vs. the ) and David Carr (22 straight in 2006 vs. the ). The Week 1 triumph gave Brady 161 career wins as a starting quarterback with one team, eclipsing Brett Favre's 160 wins with the . Brady also improved to 12-2 in season openers, the second-best winning percentage among quarterbacks in the era behind (9-0 with the ), (6-1 with the and ) and Bill Nelson (4-1-1 with the and ). , Rivers' next touchdown pa s will place the quarterback above the field general of the prolific for most in franchise history. With two touchdown pa ses in the ' over the , Rivers is now tied with for the most ever for a QB (254). With Ricky Seals-Jones Jersey 35 completions and 404 yards pa sing, Rivers became just the second quarterback to complete 35 or more pa ses for 400 or more yards in a season opener; the other is , who had 40 completions for 433 yards in against the . , How valuable is Palmer to the ' cause? Consider this ... Arizona went 6-0 with Palmer starting last season, and then 5-5 after he suffered a season-ending injury. Since that injury, the scored fewer Angela Aycock Jersey than 20 points for eight consecutive games (Week 11 through a wild-card playoff lo s to the ). That was the longest such streak by any team in 2014 and the longest such streak for the since 2012. FedEx Ground nominees, Hyde's 168 yards rushing in the ' 20-3 win over the marked the highest regular-season rushing total for a player in the past five seasons. It topped 's 158 yards from and Gore's 153 yards from . The ' high-water mark from the past five years was 's 181 yards rushing (a playoff record for a quarterback) in the ' over the in 2012.Hyde already has more than half of his rushing yardage total from his rookie season of 2014 (333 yards). , Ivory's two touchdowns provided the nece Zach Williams Jersey sary scores to . That score represented the largest margin of victory in a season Kendric Pryor Jersey opener for the in 18 years, dating back to a 41-3 win over the in Bill Parcells' coaching debut with the team in 1997. , Forte had 100-plus rushing yards (105 to be exact) in the first half for the fourth time in his career and first time since 2011. Forte's efforts weren't enough to prevent the from reversing the team's fortunes against the . After , the have lost four consecutive games to their ancient rival, and 10 of their last 11 games (that's including ). Follow Jim Reineking on Twitter .