TEN THINGS I THINK I THINK

	Bills quarterback Kelly Holcomb completed 18 of 26 passes for 172 yards and two TDs in a win over the Jets on Sunday. AP

1. I think these are my quick-hit thoughts of Week 6:

a. In what surely was the Strange Football Paragraph of the Week, an AP dispatch out of Buffalo in Wednesday's USA Today discussed the Bills' quarterback duel between new incumbent Kelly Holcomb and J.P. Losman thusly after Holcomb led Buffalo to a win over Miami: "Coach Mike Mularkey was also happy with Holcomb's performance, but insisted it wouldn't be the determining factor in who will start Sunday against the Jets.'' What, pray tell, would be the determining factor? How Losman played in training camp? Which candidate fetched him a latte from Starbucks before Wednesday's practice? That struck me as the strangest thing I've read in a long time. That a quarterback's B-plus game at a position where the team had been getting F performances would not determine whether he would get another start. That's called a coach trying to snow the media right there.

b. I don't see how Dennis Green goes back to Kurt Warner, not when Josh McCown's completed 66 percent of his throws for 777 yards the last two games.

c. The Broncos played like they were shot out of 45 cannons.

d. I hope Tedy Bruschi's making the right decision. I have a feeling he is. I know it's fashionable in my business to rip what Bruschi is about to do -- come back to play football eight months after having a minor stroke, but I can't put myself in his shoes, and I can't blindly rip a doctor who says Bruschi's not at risk by playing football.

e. Vinny Testaverde sure looked 42 in Orchard Park, didn't he?

f. Better than Tommy Maddox looked, though. Talk about throwing a game away.

g. Did the Vikings put a 37-cent stamp on that game and drop it into a mailbox near Soldier Field or what? I didn't see it, but it sounds pretty bad.

2. I think one of the best things that comes into my e-mail box a few times a week is the daily press-conference transcript from Patriots coach Bill Belichick. He is sometimes thoughtful, sometimes condescending, sometimes snippy and often times, perhaps unintentionally, pretty humorous. Two examples from last Wednesday's briefing:

Reporter: Is there one thing that ties all the Denver backs together?

Belichick: "Yes. They gain a lot of yards.''

Reporter: The thin air -- does that have any effect at all on players who haven't played there before?

Belichick: "I think it will be the same thickness on our side of the field as on theirs.''

Oh, that wacky Belichick.

3. I think this is what I liked about Week 6:

a. The San Antonio crowd. Raucous, excited and it bothered the Falcons' offense.

b. The University of Texas marching band. Just terrific. Played a melody of Beatles songs while morphing into formations of the state of Texas, a longhorn, a star and the capital "T'' Texas logo. The standing O was deserved, kids.

c. Warrick Dunn. He slipped and fell on a third-quarter carry at the Alamodome, got up, and bulled for six yards. Overall, I can't name three backs in football better than Dunn, try as I do almost every week.

d. Eli Manning. He is absolutely unshakeable.

e. Tatum Bell. He made that monster run between the tackles, not around end.

f. Anybody else think Jake Plummer's 1-yard right-rollout TD pass to Kyle Johnson in the second quarter against New England looked eerily similar to "The Catch" from Montana to Clark?

g. Carson Palmer, 27 of 33. Ho-hum.

h. A very physical Denver defense. It might be Shanahan's most physical one ever.

i. Dallas sticking with it.

j. Santana Moss. He's making beautiful music with Mark Brunell.