SI.com's Peter King thinks Bucs linebacker Derrick Brooks should be the NFL's defensive player of the week. Joe agrees!

As Joe has stated previously, he really enjoys Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback on SI.com and it should be required reading for all NFL fans.

In this week’s edition, King gloats over Bucs linebacker Derrick Brooks and explains how he is the defensive player of the week. Or should be.

All the homework — the endless, weekly, daily, hourly homework — done by Brooks over the years culminates sometimes in the kind of game he had against the Packers on Sunday. Specifically, let’s examine the first three defensive plays of the second quarter, plays that should go in the Brooks’ career time capsule.

Later in the column, King writes about how Brooks taught King something this week he didn’t know about football.

Tampa Bay has always been able to rely on Brooks’ sideline-to-sideline play in the middle of the defense; now the Bucs have a bona fide pass-rusher and defensive end who can drop in coverage, Gaines Adams, who dropped about 10 yards deep to make the interception that locked up Sunday’s win over the Packers. Watch for Brooks down the stretch. If his injury allows him to remain the instinctive player he’s always been, Tampa will be a serious threat.