Heat turned up on two coaches

Jacksonville (1-4) lost again on Sunday and looked terrible while doing so, as usual.

So many of the postgame questions concerned coach Jack Del Rio's future.

"At the end of the day, he's not playing," Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew said. "It's not on the coach. It's sad to say that he has to take the heat, but he shouldn't because he's not out there strapping it up, going out there to play. All he can do is sit and watch.

"It ain't on him. He's not wearing a jersey number."

Del Rio is not the only coach on a seat approaching griddle-like heat. Tony Sparano is sizzling in Miami (0-4), and the latest report, courtesy of National Football Post, says Jon Gruden is on deck.

The former Eagles offensive coordinator and Oakland head man, now relaxing in the broadcast booth, has shown no inclination he wants to jump back into coaching.

But the website said it's likely owner Stephen Ross will make Gruden an offer he can't refuse.

Leslie Frazier finally got it. Tired of watching Donovan McNabb bounce passes in front of his receivers, the Minnesota coach changed it up and allowed the game's best running back to emerge from hiding and carry the team.

Adrian Peterson bulled for three first-quarter touchdowns to jump start the hideous Vikings (1-4) to their first win of the season. Peterson rushed 29 times for 122 yards, and Minnesota led by 28-0 in the first quarter.

For the second week in a row the wretched Colts have fallen apart on offense. On Sunday, Indianapolis put up 24 first-half points on K.C., then failed to score in the second half and lost, 28-24.

Indy (0-5) maintained its one-game lead on the Eagles (among others) in the race to earn the rights to Stanford QB Andrew Luck.

Drew Brees is getting a lot of credit for the near-flawless, 80-yard drive that beat Carolina is the closing minutes. But why did one of the early Super Bowl favorites need to come back against a 1-4 team? That defense still has a lot of things to work on.

Ben Roethlisberger vowed he wouldn't change the way he played despite spending the first four weeks of the season under siege. But the Steelers (3-2) used a more West Coast-style of attack against Tennessee (3-2) with Roethlisberger taking a lot of three-step drops and letting his receivers do the work.

Big Ben, who has made a career out of extending plays and looking to go deep, played it closer to the vest. The Steelers spread the field, and he did an excellent job of getting the ball out before the defense could get near his left foot, which was inside a steel-plated cleat.