(6:46 PM) | Brad:

Continuing the Weblog's Slide Into The Puerile Depths of Pop Culture Obscurity

• Fantasy football owners of Joey Galloway, be very very wary. I've seen this before. He is one of the ultimate in fantasy teases. You bench him, and he ends up torching New Orleans for 135 yards and 2 TDs. You start him next week, and he gets two balls for 40 yards and a fumble. I'm telling you, beware.
  
• Braylon Edwards hasn't been in the league long enough to develop a hard and fast reputation, but the Browns definitely have. I don't see him doing quite so well against Oakland next week ... and, I think Oakland will get its first win of the season.
  
• Speaking of which, good people of Oakland, please don't show up to the Browns game next week -- or any other games this season for that matter. I really don't want to get stuck with the Raiders on my tv every week. It's bad enough I'll have to avoid the 49ers winning ugly every week. (Is there a worse looking 2-0 offense than the Niners?)
• Speaking of ugly, the AFC West may very overtake the NFC North for ugliest (but most competitive) division in football. (In fact, this year's NFC North might be one of the most interesting divisions. After two weeks, which of those teams would you count out of making the playoffs in the NFC?)
  
• I hate to think it, but the Steelers might win the AFC North with relative ease.
  
• I really wish LaDanian Thomlinson had a blog so he had an immediate outlet to whine after every loss. It's a good thing he wears the tinted glass on his helmet, otherwise we'd see him crying after every failed third down against the Patriots.
  
• If the Bengals don't fire their defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan this season, and possibly even Marvin Lewis, two things should happen: a) fans should turn in their season tickets, and b) the first-team offense should refuse to take the field. I love that I actually read some columns talking about the "surprising" Bengals defense stopping the Ravens last week. Back up. Read that entire sentence. They got a bunch of turnovers from.... the offensively inept Baltimore RAVENS. It's shocking that they gave up 500+ yards to the Browns -- nobody knew they were that bad -- but c'mon. Some perspective, please.
• I was ready to crown Indy the team to beat after they destroyed the Saints last week. Well, not so fast. Indy is still great, don't me wrong. They look about as good as they were at the end of last season (which, is a couple of steps below where the Patriots are now, but hey!). It's just beating up on this Saints team doesn't look to be a big deal right about now. It almost makes me wonder if everybody took it easy on New Orleans last year, via NFL mandate. I'm not saying that people threw games. Save that for the NBA. Just eased back, so as not to blow them out of the water early in the game. Make it exciting in the fourth quarter. If you win in the fourth fine ... but keep it close. Remember, the Saints were a couple of late stops and scores away from a losing record last year. Hmmm.
• I was asking somebody before the Chargers game ... why is everybody so big on them in the first place? They hire Norv Turner? And then, outside of Gates and Thomlinson, what other weapons do they have? Are any of their WRs even starters in your fantasy leagues -- the true measure of a championship caliber team?
  
• A friend's observation from last night: "John Madden is so precious. Everyone else has reached the point of being so bad, that I actually enjoy him now."
• Edgarrin James = Pro Bowl comeback season? Great game for him yesterday, and he actually looked nice and fiesty in the Cardinals otherwise abysmal loss against the 49ers last week.
• The Houston Texans should campaign the NFL to switch conferences. Who could beat them in the NFC right now?
• Quentin Jammer has such a kickass good porn name for such an overrated corner.
• Unrelated: Eat My Black Meat 2 on Spice is a little pricey.
• I may not leave my wife for Feist, but I would certainly invite her into the relationship. Interestingly, upon revealing this to a friend with whom I was watching last night game, he pointed out to me that my porn fantasies almost always revolve somebody who resembles my wife. Aww. Love ya, honey!
• Not entirely apropos of nothing, during the 49ers-Rams game, the announcers kept using the term "muff," as a kind of shorthand for "muffed punt." I need to rewatch the telecast, but I swear I remember the announcer say, "That's the second muff of the day," "They're all over the muff," and "They recovered the muff." Unfortunately, I did not hear, "All these guys here (circling them on the screen) dive for the muff, and miss it."
  
• So, the kid in the new psychadelic Peyton Manning ad ... that's his inner child? Huh? Oh ... and yes, Marvin Harrison in the tank of sharks, clearly some kind of subtle indication of him staying in the closet because of his homophobic head coach. Clearly.
  
• Ben Stiller just needs to go away. Maybe he'll learn from Owen Wilson's mistakes. Cut WITH the wrist, Ben. WITH.
• And LAST (unless MNF is esp. noteworthy), we need to start a pool to see how long it takes ESPN to cut the cord on the Emmitt Smith experiment. He just forgot the last name of the Redskins QB, and then couldn't then w/in minutes, couldn't remember which team the Eagles were playing. Kevin Everett is clapping his hands right now better than Smith is w/ basic football knowledge recall.
  

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