Michael Strahan has 132.5 sacks in 14 seasons with the Giants. Tom Berg/WireImage.com
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5. I think the biggest story a week from today -- because we'll all have OD'd on Vick by then -- will be the holdouts from sea to shining sea. The fact that the cap has risen so much makes a contract that looked so rich five years ago look meager now. It always happens that way, but now the situation is exacerbated with the meteoric rise of the cap.

Michael Strahan, for instance, signed his current contract on Sept. 5, 2002, a seven-year deal with $15.6 million in bonuses. Those bonuses have long since been spent -- some in his very public divorce settlement -- and he is in year six of the contract, when he's due to make $4 million in base salary, with a $500,000 roster bonus. The mitigating factors in Strahan seeking a new deal: He turns 36 in November, he's missed 15 games due to injury in the past three years, and he has sacked the quarterback just 18.5 times from 2004 to '06 -- when he's played 33 games. I expect Strahan will find the going tough if he holds out from Giants' camp. He won't be the only one.

6. I think Matt Schaub, who is going to be an above-average NFL quarterback under Gary Kubiak in Houston, will always be known as The Other One That Got Away in Atlanta (don't forget Brett Favre began his career as a Falcon). But I can't kill the Falcons for dealing Schaub for two second-round picks a year before they would have gotten nothing for him. What I can fault the Falcons for is having their franchise player around for six seasons, and, allegedly, now finding out he'd been involved in dogfighting for all of those six years. How do you not know that? If I'm Arthur Blank, the one thing I'm doing is calling in my security people and asking: "Just what am I paying you for?''

7. I think I'd like to ask the Jacksonville Jaguars, who have plenty of cap room, exactly why they're waiting to pursue, and sign, free-agent quarterback Daunte Culpepper. I can't think of any reason why Culpepper should not land there. And don't tell me the Jags don't want to ruffle Byron Leftwich's feathers either.

8. I think this is the biggest training camp of John Fox's coaching career.

9. I think I wondered this week if that new football league -- you know, the Mark Cuban league -- would take Vick as its marquee player. Don't scoff. Imagine the TV ratings that league would get with Vick quarterbacking the New York Whoevers on Opening Night 2009.

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

a. I find it incredibly hard to believe anyone can go to a place and cheer for one dog to rip the neck of another dog open so the dog will bleed to death. Please. I need to know this: What kind of person does that? And why are these people allowed to walk free and breathe the same air that normal human beings breathe?

b. Not that I'm questioning what planet David Ortiz has fallen off, but the catcher for Kansas City, John Buck, who starts about 65 percent of the time and has 121 fewer at-bats, has as many homers, 16, as Ortiz.

c. The following players, four months into the season, have more home runs than Ortiz, who hit 54 last year: Dan Uggla, Brandon Phillips, Carlos Pena, Chris Duncan, Jimmy Rollins, J.J. Hardy, Jack Cust, Brad Hawpe.

d. Theories, anyone? And don't give me the stuff about his right knee being sore. That's not his plant knee.

e. At least Terry Francona came to his senses about not starting Julian Tavarez after five straight bombs.

f. Next time you see me, ask me about my extraordinarily fun time in a 10-and-under girls softball game in Saddle Brook, N.J., on Friday night. Space limitations, and legal reasons, prevent me from spilling here. But human beings under pressure can sure react in some strange ways.

g. In the 22 hours between 7 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday, the Yankees played Tampa Bay twice. In the Yankees' 16 innings at bat, they scored 38 runs and had 56 runners reach base -- on 45 hits, 10 walks and one hit batsman. Imagine averaging 3.5 baserunners per inning over two games.

h. Shouldn't the Devil Rays secede? They're a great argument for copying the European soccer model of the worst three teams each year in the top pro soccer division being demoted in favor of the best three teams in the second division.

i. Coffeenerdness: Amazing how many Peet's fans came out of the woodwork in the past few days. You know what? Not one negative e-mail or comment to me about Peet's. It's universally lauded as a great coffee and maker of a great latte. I just wish Peet's was in more places I frequent.