5. I think the easiest thing this morning is to rip the tar out of Jets fans for cheering when Chad Pennington got hurt. Let me join the chorus. What a sickening, shameful display.

6. I think this is what I liked about Week 1:

a. The Colts' recent drafts.

b. Eli Manning. He played with poise and hit his open receivers with the kind of accuracy (28-of-41, .683) he'll need this season if the Giants are to have a chance to wins shootouts with good teams. They're going to need to do that, because that secondary looks awful.

c. Tony Romo. He's going to be worth the money, Jerry Jones.

d. The incredible, diving, Web Gem-type 47-yard touchdown catch by Jacksonville rookie wideout John Broussard in the first quarter of his NFL career.

e. There is more of a gap between the best team (New England) and the rest of the division in the AFC East than in any division in football.

f. Eric Weddle is not a good addition to the San Diego secondary. He is a great addition -- and well worth the three draft choices it took for San Diego GM A.J. Smith to move up in the second round to get him. Weddle saved the Chargers four points in the second quarter Sunday, blitzing and wrapping up Rex Grossman in the red zone, causing him to throw an incomplete pass and forcing the Bears to settle for a field goal.

g. Tennessee played really well at Jacksonville. "We spread it around,'' offensive coordinator Norm Chow said Sunday night. "That's what I like. LenDale White started out running well, then Chris Brown [175 yards] gave us some great yardage on a hot day against a good defense.'' It's pretty good when you win like that and don't even get a B game from Vince Young.

h. Antwaan Randle El might have had the best receiving game of his life (162 yards) against Miami, and it's not just because of his numbers. He looks like a complete receiver now -- running excellent routes and making people miss when he catches it.

i. Adrian Peterson is going to be Tarvaris Jackson's best friend in Minnesota. You have to like Sunday's defensive effort too -- six sacks against the Falcons and two interceptions returned for touchdowns. Bring on the Lions.

j. Against a much-improved St. Louis defensive front, Carolina rushed for 186 yards, and a lofty 4.9 yards per rush. John Fox is going to be off that very warm seat in a hurry if the Panthers continue to run the ball like that.

k. Ben Roethlisberger played with the confidence and the verve and the accuracy of two years ago. Not many people looked better in Week 1 than Big Ben.

7. I think this is what I didn't like about Week 1:

a. The Saints' cover-ability on Colts TE Dallas Clark. You defensive coaches down there do much scouting?

b. Steve Jackson lost two fumbles last year. He lost two fumbles in the first 37 minutes of this season.

c. J.P. Losman's got to give the Bills more than 97 passing yards on a relatively nice day in Buffalo. The Broncos don't have the Chargers' D.

d. Cleveland's first series Sunday: Jamal Lewis for 2, Frye incomplete pass, Frye sacked, new punter Paul Ernster fumbles the punt snap and gets off a wobbly 15-yarder. On fourth down, Cleveland had three penalties declined -- a hold, an illegal formation and ineligible receiver downfield.

e. The Jets did nothing right against New England. That playoff season of 2006 looked mighty fluky. How do you let someone take a ball eight yards deep in the end zone and let him run it back for a touchdown -- without any real challenges along the way?

f. Terence Newman's going to be plagued with that plantar fasciatis for the entire year. It caused him to be inactive against the Giants. When your secondary loses its best player, get ready for some tough weeks. Good thing the Cowboys face the aerially challenged Dolphins and Bears the next two weeks

8. I think Randy Moss is going to be one of the compelling stories of this season. He had a what-did-you-expect attitude after the game. The answer to that is, we had no idea what to expect. Said Moss: "Before today, because I was hurt, Tom didn't have all his toys to play with. Now that he does, the sky's the limit for him.'' If Moss has 14 relatively healthy games, there is going to be a great football team ... and I mean great, that gets eliminated before the AFC championship weekend.

9. I think these are my college football thoughts of the weekend:

a. I thought there was something fishy about calling that Michigan loss to Appalachian State the biggest upset in college football history. The reason everyone called it that is because Michigan was ranked fifth in the polls, and Appalachian was a Division I-AA team. But what kind of poll is taken seriously when it rates teams before they've played a game? A bunch of sportswriters call Michigan the fifth-best team in the country, and when the Wolverines lose, it's an upset, obviously. But at the start of a season, no result can be the biggest upset of all time. And now that Oregon walked into Ann Arbor and kicked the dog out of Michigan, it's certainly not even in the top 20 of upsets. Michigan might stink.

b. Oregon's total yards in its 39-7 win at Michigan: 624.

c. Watched Colt Brennan for a half, the second half of Hawaii's roller-coaster 45-44 overtime win at Louisiana Tech Saturday night, his eighth straight game with 400 yards passing or more. (Read those last few words again. Imagine having eight 400-yard games in a career. This guy throws for 400 every week.)

Five-cent scouting report: Hawaii runs basically a run-and-shoot offense, with the quarterback and wideouts playing short-distance pitch-and-catch. Brennan has a slightly unorthodox three-quarter throwing motion, and the Louisiana Tech defense knocked down three or four passes at the line of scrimmage. Hard to say how he'll fit in a conventional NFL offense, but the things he has going for him -- toughness, accuracy

d. Hawaii's football team leads the nation in hair.

e. Notre Dame (0-2) does not have a relative gimme until Navy in Game 9, with Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, UCLA, Boston College and USC in the next six weeks. The Irish, 30- and 21-point losers in the first two weeks, can't start 0-8. Can they?

f. The Irish have 22 first downs in eight quarters.

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

a. Coffeenerdness: We have a barista in the family. Mary Beth King is spending part of her senior year tending coffee bar at The Barge at Colgate. She and her roomies seem to be staging a mini-boycott of the Starbucks in the spanking-new library on campus. Seems they're partial to Green Mountain Coffee, and don't want Starbucks in town.

b. I don't understand Fashion Week.

c. Jacoby Ellsbury. Ichiro Lite, maybe. Interesting ballplayer.

d. Hard to imagine a baseball player playing better for five months than Alex Rodriguez is. What a year.

e. One of the great things about living in New Jersey is the 946 Italian restaurants you pass as you go through your life over the years, and one day you pass one and say, "I should really try this place,'' and then you try it. And you see it looks like a place where The Sopranos should shoot if they ever shoot again, and you have one heck of a meal, and you think, "How could anyone ever criticize New Jersey life?''

Who I Like Tonight, and I Mean Tony Kornheiser, Greenberg and Golic

Remember when Seinfeld said he had a hankerin' for some Doublemint gum? Well, that's America tonight.

Baltimore 24, Cincinnati 17. Brian Billick enters the season with a mini-chip on his shoulder about the media and public view of the NFL pennant race. "The way I hear it, it's San Diego, Indianapolis and New England, and all the rest of us are playing for fourth place,'' he said one recent afternoon in his office. "San Diego's the most talented team in the league hands-down, right? New England's already made reservations for [the Super Bowl in] Arizona, right? All of that gives the rest of us a little motivation.''

Actually, the Ravens won't need much motivation for this game. Ray Lewis and the whirling-dervishes on Baltimore's defense will play like their pants are on fire. If the Ravens hold the Bengals under 20, I guarantee a win.

San Francisco 20, Arizona 13. Alex Smith has a new offensive coordinator, Jim Hostler, and two new wideouts, Darrell Jackson and Ashley Lelie. Tonight, we'll begin to find out if that's good enough to narrow one of the widest touchdown gaps in the NFL last year; the 49ers allowed 46 touchdowns and scored but 29. Smith played every series last year, and he managed only 16 touchdowns. That simply has to improve -- vastly -- if the Niners are going to be playing for the NFC West title.