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No question Faulk is up there w/ Eddie George at the top of the RB list. Bruce Smith & Marcellus Wiley should provide a good pass-rush though. Oh wait.....it's not 1999 anymore?

Screw the Patriots - that's a bunch of crap. FYI - Drew can't come through anywhere not named "the ralph".

Agreed - the letdown theory for the Steelers made no sense to me last week since the Eagles came in 7-0....but they can definitely be ripe for the upset this week on the road. Paco - I believe with the exception of last year, pretty much all of Favre's problems vs. the Vikings have come in the dome.

Screw that - we've been making teams earn it for 4 years. How about walking into somebody else's house and unexpectly WINNING A GOD DARN F***ING GAME JUST ONE TIME. OK - I'm fired up now. If I see anyone in a Brady t-shirt tommorow I'm going to knock their teeth out.

Name a worst starting RB than Antowain in the AFC last year. Tough to do, isn't it? Probably Eddie George? MAYBE William Green? That's pretty much it, right?

The Pats will probably win this game, but stop telling me Corey Dillon was the reason you got your ass kicked a couple weeks ago. You had no running game in the previous 3 years either.

Barkley is great. Never saw him as a guy who was different for the sake of attention - I just think he tells it like it is.

Change your signature - I just barfed all over my desk.

Lots of action this week: Houston +9 @ Indy Tennessee -5 vs. Chicago Wash -3 vs. Cincy GB -4 vs. Minn I feel confident about winning 3 of these 4.

If the Pats are able to run the ball, the Bills have no chance and everything else goes out the window. For the sake of pre-game discussion, you really have to assume that Dillon will be held under 100 yards; otherwise the outcome is a sure thing. I personally don't see Dillon winning this game, but if he does run through Adams, Williams, Fletcher & Spikes, then hats off to him. I don't think the Bills will be as passive defensively as some are saying. Blitzing with Coy Wire in coverage didn't work, but they will likely try it again with Milloy. As bad as the secondary played in the first game, I like their chances of holding up better than I like the chances of our front four getting any kind of a pass-rush against a good OL. Remember Schobel was a non-factor in the first game, and I'm not confident of Kelsay having two good games in a row. Marcia has dramatically improved his downfield throwing lately and they're not necessarily a dink&dunk offense anymore like they were 2 years ago, so you have to put pressure on him. Then again I don't know why we're talking defense. Really, hasn't the outcome of every Bills game for the last 3 years been directly related to how well the offense plays, with very few exceptions?

Hmm, maybe Tasker didn't get the boot. I do remember him getting hit on a punt return before the ball got there and there was no flag. So the next time the Bills punted, he whacked the 49ers return guy early as if to say "if you don't call it on them then it shouldn't be a flag on us". Of course, there was a flag on the 2nd one. He was irate at the ref; but maybe they kept him in the game.

I also like Maher as a comedian, and liked his old show on ABC even when I didn't agree w/ him, although recently him and his ultra-liberal crowd on HBO have just annoyed me. The funniest thing is that he was just making fun of O'Reilly's suit a couple weeks ago

Rothlisberger is for real, but I think LeBeau has done a good job for the Steelers masking some weaknesses defensively that good teams will begin to exploit in the postseason. So I will say Pats-Eagles, although I agree with the below comments on the Eagles & the NFC. I'll never trust Philly until they learn how to stop the run.

Right now the film is a communication tool to express the truth and educate people. The first time somebody calls him out on his bullstevestojan, he'll change his mind and call it an editorial.

I might take Vick too, but when you throw in LTD - the best RB in the league when he's healthy - it's an easy call IMO. But to each his own - I've already debated this extensively. Shouldn't have brought it up.

I would be more skeptical of Brees if he was just playing modestly good, but the guy has been flat out incredible this year. Highest scoring team in the league with a lousy WR core and a gimpy Tomlinson - that's unbelievable. Think Atlanta would take Brees/Tomlinson over Vick right now?

I would agree that they're not in as bad of shape as people think. Fortunately if Ricky does come back it won't be with the Dolphins, their OL is still bad and they will almost certainly have to start gutting their defense after this year. Come to think of it, maybe they are that bad. Their passing game could be dangerous though if they get a decent QB and a healthy David Boston to go along w/ Chambers, Booker, and McMichael. As for college QB's, I like Rodgers from Cal - who completed 20+ passes in a row vs. USC's tough defense. I'm not so sure about Leinhardt.

That was 95 - Bruce Smith had a monster game and Steve Tasker of all people was ejected from that game.

Nice post - you couldn't be more right about Ted Washington. Jeff Wright was like a safety playing nose tackle.

Which was not the case in the Pats-Rams game last week. Picking up an interference flag vs. the Jets a couple weeks ago because the DB complained? When does that EVER happen? It's a judgement call and those flags are NEVER picked up unless they realize that the ball was tipped (which it was not in this case). Also there was that Bears game a couple years ago where a Pats player was tackled right at the 1st down marker on a 4th down play in a 2 minute situation. Not only did they give them the 1st down without a measurment, but they also stopped the clock for no reason (nobody called a time out). Dick Jaron said he had never seen anything like it before - either measure, or keep the clock running.

I think that is the biggest key. The left embraces their extreme nuts more than the right does. I saw an Indiana senator (D) last night who sounds like he'd be a good candidate next time around. Hilarious interview - he kept dodging '08 election questions and O'Reilly kept firing back: "so do you think you can beat Hillary?"

I can see it now: McGuire: "You wanna talk about a game full of one-sided botched calls. You wanna talk about 2 teams on opposite ends of the officiating totum pole - watch this replay". Theisman: "I had a chance to sit down and have dinner with Walt Coleman last night and he emphasized to me that Buffalo will not win this game under any circumstances". Patrick: "I hear Suzy has an update on the latest screw-job. Suz?" Kolber: "Thanks Mike. I spoke to Paul Tagliabue and he said that because London Fletcher thought about hitting Tom Brady, that's a 15 yard penalty and an automatic 14 points under section IV of the rule book. Nobody has ever heard of this rule before, but it is a rule. Back up to you guys in the booth."

I agree. Clarrett may be a bitter punk, but you're naive to think that this stuff doesn't go on at OSU, or anywhere else. These quasi "investigations" are a joke - nobody is going to bend over backwards to find the booster in question or verify anything.

Isn't McAuliff from Syracuse?

I hope it hurts when he dies.