It's getting downright silly. Some of the headlines I read make me chuckle, others just make me laugh out loud. Here are some examples:

Falcons Vick Still a Mystery

They're kidding right. What's the mystery? He sucks.

The guy is a RB trying to play QB. There's no mystery there. Get over it.  A two game tease and the apoligists were ready to call him Jonnny U on roller skates. Six years in he's got a 75 QB rating. Those are sub-Maddox line numbers.

On the other hand, he averages 7.2 yards a rush. Hmmmm.

 

Favre hurts elbow nerve, status unclear

Here's Favre's status. He's an underachieving whiner who hasn't won anything in a decade, loses more games than he wins and still holds his franchise hostage every spring. 

I don't wish serious injury on Favre, or anyone for that matter. But a little sit down would at least give GB a chance to see what, if anything, they have in Aaron Rodgers without a media circus or a John Madden Coronary, whichever comes first.

Brees throws for 510 yards  . . . . . .  and loses to Bengals

There must be a sliding scale for QB passing yardage and victories. I don;t know where it tips, but I'm guessing 272 yards. Even though I'm unsure of the tipping point (thank you Malcolm) I am sure that 510 yards passing usually means bad things, man. If you're throwing that much, it means you're not catching up.

Cowboys hand Colts their first loss

Shocker, huh? As if this one didn't have upset written all over it. Parcells team is playing for its life and Dungy's crew is probably thinking "its better to lose in November than in January. In this NFL, with a 16 game schedule, it's almost impossible to imagine a team going undefeated. Does this mean the Boys are better than Indy? No.

By the way, the legendary Bill Parcells is 30-28 as coach of the Cowboys. He really adds weight (but doesn't he always) to my theory that recycled coaches are never quite what they were the first time "round.

What would shock me is if Peyton Manning broke out the "protection problems" excuse this early in the year.

Big Ben's Heroics help Steelers Escape Cleveland

Even down ten with less than five minutes to go, I knew Pittsburgh would win. Why? Bill Cowher's SB is playing the Browns, he never forgave them for cutting his medicore #### lose, as a player and as a coach. Besides, the Steelers always get rich off of cellar dwellars and Cleveland is, well, Cleveland.

And this was the same magic Roethlisberger was pulling out of his #### all of last season and the year before. Critics who have been calling Roethlisberger a "game manager" evidently never saw his early comeback wins against DAL and JAX. Roethlisberger, when his brain is properly situated, is an extraordinary comeback QB.

It was also probably the week BB should have returned to starting after the accident, the appendicitis and the concussion.

Losman, Price lift Bills to Stunning win Over Texans

I repeat, stunning. If I had read, "man flips switch, light comes on" that would be more stunning than any team beating the Texans. Maybe the Texans were stunned, but the rest of America knows this is business as usual.

Patriots Snap Skid

Would someone please wake the media ans tell them that:

A) It isn't 1995

B) Brett Favre sucks

C) Lambeau Field is every bit as threatening as Reliant Stadium these days

On a more serious note:

I'm sad to see Donovan McNabb get hurt, again. He's been knocked out 3 out of the last 4 seasons and may be saddled with "injury prone" added to his resume. This makes things even more difficult for the Eagles in that no team relies more on its QB than Philly. On the plus side, Garcia is well fitted to the offense and the team won't have to scale back the playbook unless Garcia gets hurt (only a 75% chance of that) or they want to throw a pass of more than 7 yards.

Trent Green made a triumphant, if not spectacular return to the Chiefs. It's nice to see a team err on the side of protecting a QB's brain. It was clear that Green had fully recovered from the vicious bell ringing he received early on.

Speaking of vicious shots, the NFL could and should make a good case to review about 6 or 8 shots that Cleveland took on Roethlisberger this weekend after the ball was released. The roughing rule is pretty simple and the Browns broke that rule in every imaginable fashion (short of taking off BB's helmet and punching him with brass knuckles). He took the 2nd biggest beating since Moonpie in the Houston-Tokyo Rollerball game. It's a good thing they didn't wrap an arm aorund his ankle like Aaron Smith did to Drew Brees last week. That would have been roughing.

Hey everybody, lay the hell off of Rex Grossman. Here's why:

The Bears are 9-1

Grossman throws the sweetest deep ball in the NFL this side of Carson Palmer.

The guy is essentially 3 games into his sophmore season.

He could throw six picks and get sacked 11 times in a quarter and still not be rattled.

What were the Bears last year without Grossman?

Last but not least:

I have to sidle up next to my padnuh, TB and call for some change in NFL coaching. Specifically, QB'ing for many teams has risen to the level where QB"s not only could, but should be calling their own plays. Watching Pittsburgh do nothing for 3.5 quarters and then score three TD's from the no huddle was just another example of why the best play callers are often the ones who execute the plays.

Sure it's not for everyone, but is there any doubt in anyone's mind that Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Chad Pennington, Trent Green and quite a few others could call as good a game or better than their OC's? And wouldn't it be a great way to teach and train younger QB's to get a feel for the game? At the very least, we'd waste fewer stupid time outs because a QB isn't allowed to check down.

Bradshaw speaks often of how his recivers would tell him that they could break loose on a given play, and he didn't always call it right away but "saved it for when he needed it".  Great play calling is an art, and Bradshaw always seemed to call the "big-play" play in the big games. Why, because he was connected to the game on every level, rather than being an administrator. I think that many NFL teams would be well served by at least gving their QB's the chance to reconnect to the game. Contracry to the opinion of many coaches, the games are not won on the sidelines.