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- Braylon Edwards is correct that he will be booed when the Jets play in Cleveland this weekend. He is incorrect in thinking that he doesn't deserve his reputation for dropping the ball. After all, that's not like a rep for running hard or anything -- dropping the football is an easily quantifiable statistic, even if Derek Anderson is the guy throwing you the ball. Either you hold onto it or you don't. What makes his pre-Browns game behavior so bizarre is that by any account, Edwards should be humbled and thrilled that he got a chance to go somewhere else and pick up DUIs play football. And instead, he's just trying to hate on a city that deserves nothing more than pity when it comes to sports these days.
- The only thing better than player-on-media crime? Coach-on-media crime, which happened Wednesday night when Jim Schwartz decided to call Tom Kowalski's report that Matthew Stafford's done for the year "irresponsible."
- Mike Shanahan might be ready to poach another Eagles QB after all -- he has some praise-filled words for Michael Vick (whom the Redskins have been linked to next year). Hopefully before he brings Vick into the fold in D.C. he'll sign Donovan McNabb to a three-year deal first.
- Rex Ryan has instituted a new "pushups for penalties" rule in Jets practice -- and said penalty includes owner Woody Johnson and GM Mike Tannenbaum, who were forced to do pushups every time the Jets committed a penalty too. We need video of this ASAP.
- Brian Cushing is going to maybe move back to strongside linebacker after spending some time in the middle. Not that it really matters for Houston, since people have stopped bothering trying to run against them and now just have opposing quarterbacks throw the ball as high and as far as they can on every single play. Or at least that's what it feels like.
- No discipline coming for the officer who got an autograph from Ray Rice after not writing him a ticket for having windows with tint that's too dark.
- Percy Harvin missed practice Wednesday because of migraines. Sidney Rice, of course, remains injured. Everything's coming up Hank Baskett!
- For Jimmy Clausen, the biggest thing he needs to do to succeed is just "getting comfortable." Really.
- Poor Dolphins -- they got away with Randy Moss not doing anything against them, then thought they were done with him. Not so fast, my friend!
- Eben Britton is gonna need three months to recover from shoulder surgery. Which is approximately how long my fantasy teams have suffered because I drafted Maurice Jones-Drew. Yes, I'm selfish. Whatever.
