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The Colts, unlike past editions, are for real.
The Dolphins are weak at wide receiver and Jay Fielder’s past performances have to be evaluated with this knowledge.
Nonetheless, Brian Griese looks more like a big-time quarterback than Jay Fiedler.
If Ricky Williams is saving it up for a playoff run someone needs to tell him that the time is NOW!
The Dolphins are not motivated by their home-town crowd (all three loses this year are at home).
While the Ravens won it all a couple of years ago with absolutely no offense, it’s unlikely that can happen again; the Panthers just need to be able to score a few more points a game and they will be golden.
Stephen Davis is the best running back in the NFL this year.
Steve Spurrier was foolish in letting Davis go, and undervaluing him when he had him.
Despite his numbers, Steve Smith just never looks like a big-time receiver. Plus, his maturity level is below sea level.
It’s remarkable that Dom Capers, the Texans coach, has had success with two entirely different franchises with two entirely different types of teams. His old Panthers team was just that, old and composed of veterans; the Texans are very young and the future looks quite bright if he can hold this team together.
Domanick Davis, Texans running back, looks like the very real thing.
What do we really want? Flawless, sanitized, uncontroversial, scrutinized replay reviewed calls, or, controversial, sometimes legendary judgment calls that cause debate among sports fans for years to come?
Expectations are everything; Callahan, whose life-support line is being monitored by an aging motorcycle punk with a penchant for black, is the failure of the year with a team that makes Larry King look vital, while Steve Mariucci, who must be a lot of fun at Happy Hour, is comfortable at two wins and six loses.
Is Joey Harrington the next Rick Mirer, and what are they doing on the same field together in the same game?
Marty Shottenheimer’s better days are in the distant past.
Doug Flutie and Rick Mirer playing on the same day? Watch the sky – those solar flares may mean more than we think.
Where did Anthony Thomas go for all those weekends last year when he couldn’t run through a Donald Rumsfeld paper maché doll?
Chris Chandler (38 years old) and Flutie (41) must make Joe Theismann feel like he got out too early.
The Bears’ coach, Dick Jauron, is going to have to finish at .500 in order to return (you can’t say you’re building for the future with Chris Chandler as your QB).
They’re complaining about Leftwich’s fumbles … how about not letting him get hit from the blindside by a 6′6″ 310 lb. guy? That could help…
In the category of doing the most with the least Brian Billick is probably the best coach in the NFL, but he doesn’t look like the kind of guy I’d want to go on a Fun Cruise with.
No matter how many times I see Ray Lewis in interviews, commercials, and in games, I still have a hard time figuring out how a 6′3″ 255 lb. mountain of strength is involved in a midnight brawl in which someone is killed and still gets to go home and sleep in his own bed.
The Ravens will go into the playoffs and lose in the first round; but at least they will go into the playoffs.
The Jags are building for the future; it’s just too bad it has to be on the grave of Mark Brunell who gave them so much and is now forgotten.
Kerry Collins may be the best QB that no one ever says anything good about.
Chad Pennington may be the best QB in the NFL period.
The Giants may be getting ready to put on their patented second half blitz.
The Jets need a receiver bigger than 5′8″.
Curtis Martin should be every young football player’s role model.
If the Jets still had Lavernues Coles as their WR they would be awesome.
All three Florida teams gagged this week, but watching Chucky-boy (’I'm a genius coach’) Gruden spit up on his shoes made this game stand out from the others.
The Saints are the most unpredictable team in the NFL.
There are times when Jim Haslett looks like he has absolutely no idea where he is.
Brad Johnson’s numbers always look great, but I just don’t think he has that Arnold Schwarzenegger charisma thing going.
Thankfully for these two teams, the Panthers lost; if they had won, and gone 7-1, it would be all over.
The Saints knew what they were doing when they let Ricky Williams go to Miami and kept Deuce McAllister.
If you can’t run, you can’t win, as the Steelers demonstrated.
What will Pittsburgh be like in the middle of winter without a competitive football team? I shutter to think…
For some reason it doesn’t feel like Seattle will be able to hold onto their lead in the NFC West.
The year was 2001 and the Steelers passed on Tomlinson, McAllister, Barlow, Henry, Bennett, Buckhalter, and Shipp; in 2002 they passed on Portis.
If the Cards can keep you under 20 points they will beat you.
The mark of a good team is how they do when they travel; the Bengals are not a good team yet.
How do the Bengals find a way to get Carson Palmer into a game?
Neither one of these teams is going anywhere this year, but you’ll be able to tell what next year is going to be like by how they do over the next eight weeks.
Hey, Danny boy, do you think you hired the wrong coach?
There is so much criticism of Spurrier at this point, it almost makes you feel that he bought it upon himself…?
Parcells is a great coach, but, this team is not that good and the month of November will prove that.
I thought Chris Collinsworth was going to leave the booth and go down and smack Spurrier upside the head.
Dallas should be hearing the Eagles’ footsteps right about now.
James Thrash, Freddie Mitchell, Greg Lewis, and Todd Pinkston … do any of these names make you think Pro Bowl?
McNabb’s receivers (above) have been and continue to be a collection of second-stingers, and McNabb has been the problem? Give me a break…
Even though the Eagles are not really that good (Buckhalter will dictate just how good they are), the Cowboys and Giants are not much better.
Dan Reeves, Marty Shotenheimer, Bill Callahan, and Steve Spurrier should be checking out upcoming openings in the college ranks.
You can’t win if you only gain 9 yards on the ground.
St. Louis is not the same team on turf.
The platoon of Hearst and Barlow seems to be working (over 150 yards on the ground this week).
Have people figured out how to play Terrell Owens (two receptions)?
The Rams need Faulk badly.
This division is the most competitive in the NFL; the Seahawks, Rams, and 49ers are going to come down to the last couple of weeks in the season all able to win the NFC West.
At this stage of his career Favre needs to be motivated to be at his best; he was motivated last night.
Sometimes you just wish that things came a little bit harder for Randy Moss; his extraordinary talent belies him when the going gets tough.
Mike Tice, Minnesota head coach, is a class act, and contrary to the popular opinion at the time, his replacing Denny Green as coach was not an interim move; Tice will go on to to be a legendary coach in the NFL.
Carolina wants to keep winning and end up with a better record than the Vikings; then, if they both get into the playoffs, the Vikings will have to play outdoors in Carolina, a distinct advantage for the Panthers.
Tom Brady may be hot-and-cold, but when he’s hot, he’s a lot of fun to watch.
Bill Belichick’s decision to take a deliberate safety was a fantastic call in a game that was important for both teams.
Denver’s injuries at linebacker don’t bode well for the second half.
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