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6. I think it won't be long before Mike Shanahan goes to Jay Cutler. If this were a normal week instead of a microscopically short one, I'd guess it'd be this week. Jake Plummer, who missed way too many chances against the Chargers and finished just 13 of 28, probably has to play very well at Kansas City Thursday night to keep his job.

7. I think it was only what -- 10 days ago? -- that Chad Johnson was biting his tongue so hard it must have been bleeding. He hated his role as a co-number one with T.J. Houshmandzadeh, and he wondered what he did to get in the offensive doghouse. Apparently nothing. In his last two games, he's caught 450 yards worth of passes from Carson Palmer, breaking the NFL two-game-receiving-yardage record (John Taylor, 448, 1989). And he did it with a bad hammy in New Orleans on Sunday. "I've never been hurt in my career,'' he said after the game. "I don't know what it feels like. But after I hurt it, I just got up and tried to make it go out of there, and I went back in and I was able to play.'' Any chance the hammy keeps him out this week at Cleveland? "I'm playing,'' he said. "If I have to play with one leg, I'm playing.''

8. I think this is what I liked about Week 11:

a. Thomas Jones is a harder runner and a more elusive one than Cedric Benson. Just watch the first series of the second half

b. The Jets are the real thing defensively. Chad Pennington ... well, that's another story.

c. Great, gutcheck victory by Jeff Fisher's team in Philly. The Titans were winning that game even without the McNabb injury. There's something to be said for being tough on your guys and firing the repeat offenders, but Pacman Jones had a 90-yard touchdown on a punt return to put the game out of reach, and Albert Haynesworth played well on run downs in his return from a five-game suspension. It's 2006. You're going to have miscreants. Still not sure if Fisher has given Jones too much rope, but he's giving the kid a chance to turn his life around.

d. New England-Dallas Super Bowl. Belichick-Parcells. After the Pats and Cowboys win by a combined 56-14, you've got to think it's at least remotely possible.

e. Brian Urlacher has the same kind of impact on Chicago's defense that Mike Singletary had on his.

f. Is Mike Nolan a good coach or what?

g. And how about that suit? "I did it for one reason,'' he said. "To honor my father [former 49ers coach Dick Nolan] and the other coaches who came before me.''

h. I know it doesn't count for much in the grand scheme of things, but Buffalo's win over Houston, on a 15-yard TD pass from J.P. Losman to Peerless Price, is the kind of win NFL Films needs to put very dramatic music over and make it a game of the week. What an uplifting win for a team that hasn't had much to cheer about.

i. The 49ers might be a threat down the stretch. They held Seattle to 96 first-half yards and have a no-name defense with some very physical guys.

j. This is one of the things I like about Tom Brady. After the game, we talked, and the first thing he said was about Lambeau Field: "I loved playing here. It was great. Running out of the tunnel before the game, you really feel it. It's unlike any other place I've played. How about this: We're up 35-0, late in the fourth, and I look up in the stands. The fans are still there. And no boos. I hope I can play here again.'' Pats aren't back till 2014. Hey, Favre will still be playing. Will Brady?

9. I think this is what I didn't like about Week 11:

a. Terrance Copper, you're fumbling yourself out of a job, young man. Two big coughups in two weeks is no way to go through life, young man.

b. For a tall guy, Vince Young sure doesn't see the field very well, from the looks of it.

c. Two very close friends got no sleep last night: Andy Reid and Brad Childress.

d. Jim Mora the dad learned something about the media this week -- you don't agree with a radio host who suggests your son's quarterback is a coach-killer, which apparently he did. Because it's just going to make things very hot for Jim Mora the son.

e. The Falcons are cooked, Michael Vick comments or not.

f. For the first time, I see a serious chink in the Saints' armor. That defense late in the game against Cincinnati was what we all thought it was in the summer.

g. Joe Gibbs, 20-24 in his reincarnation. Sad.

h. Speaking of sad, aren't you glad you weren't on that 3.5-hour Lions' chartered flight back to Detroit last night?

9a. I think this is my fondest memory of Bo Schembechler. In 2001, I trailed TV-analyst-turned-NFL-exec Matt Millen on a scouting trip for a Sports Illustrated story. We went to Ann Arbor for Pro Day at Michigan. Millen, who'd been recruited out of high school by Schembechler but chose Penn State instead (great story: Millen verbally committed to Michigan, then backed out out when Penn State, his favorite school, closed the deal), got close with Schembechler over the years because of their shared love of the game. When Millen walked into the Michigan football offices and saw Schembechler, the old coach loved seeing Millen out on the scouting trail, and Bo said: "Matthew! Don't you love it! Don't you just love it!''

10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:

a. The Bob Knight tenth-of-a-slap under the chin bothers me, but not enough to go nuts over. Yes, he should not lay an angry hand on a student. But this was the equivalent of a shove of a kid out onto the floor. Shouldn't happen, but not a mega-controversy.

b. I am a House-aholic. And the two post-World Series episodes have only increased my ardor. Hugh Laurie is brilliant.

c. I saw Babel, which makes the very surprising total of two movies during a football season. It was ... uh, mildly interesting. Far too long (2 hours, 22 minutes). Two thoughts: Did the editor get lost on his way to the final production? And the far-flung connectivity of the three stories based on one rifle just isn't very interesting. Sorry, a deaf-mute girl in Tokyo is totally, absolutely irrelevant to the story.

d. Coffeenerdness: Elliott Kalb is the stats maven for the HBO and NBC shows I work for, and he shares my affection for coffee. But he rebels against pricey Starbucks, saying: "A cheaper, and in many ways, better, option is coffee from 'On the Run.' You can fill up a 20-ounce cup -- I prefer to mix black coffee in the too-sweet French-vanilla cappuccinos -- and do so for under a buck. Not to mention stealing a few ounces by sipping and refilling before paying.'' Duly noted, Mr. Stats.

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Big, important night for Eli Manning, who's been just a 50-percent thrower in his last four games, and goes into a hornet's nest to face the Jags' defense. Jacksonville has  two home shutouts this year -- 9-0 over the Steelers, 41-0 over the Jets. More significantly, here's how they played in the last three weeks: 35 opponents possessions, one touchdown, four field goals.

Jacksonville, 16-14.