The Jets benched Chad Pennington after the team got off to a 1-7 start last season. John Iacono/SI

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6. I think on a day when nothing of any substance whatsoever happened, the journalist of the day was Gary Myers of the New York Daily News, who got two nice tidbits -- Jets owner Woody Johnson said the jobs of coach Eric Mangini and GM Mike Tannenbaum are safe through the 2009 season, and the Jets have no intention of shopping Chad Pennington, though it sounds like Pennington would love to be shopped. He can't feel very good about the fact that the Jets held a private workout recently with Matt Ryan, though that's got to be a classic do-your-homework deal.

7. I think the playoff-reseeding idea will not pass. Too many owners (and two coaches I've spoken with) think it devalues division championships.

8. I think I feel for one owner here -- John Mara of the Giants. It's going to sound silly to have mercy on an owner, particularly one who is two years from occupying a shiny new stadium. But here's a guy who is sick about what he knows he's going to have to do, which is to make some segment of his decades-old fan base (maybe 30,000 or 35,000 fans) pay for personal-seat licenses in the new stadium.

Imagine a season-ticket holder since 1952 getting a letter in the mail asking for $25,000 (I made this number up; I don't think the Giants know yet how much they'll charge per seat, nor how many seats they'll make the season subscribers cover) for every season ticket. I've known Mara for a while, and I can tell you this is something that will keep him up nights. But in this climate, with the economy being what it is, the Giants and Jets will both have to charge the fans chunks for this billion-dollar stadium.

9. I think these are the three owners who I hear will throw a scare into the group if there's ever an uncapped year, which is scheduled to be 2010: Dan Snyder (Redskins), Woody Johnson (Jets) and Jerry Jones (Cowboys). I could see Snyder and Johnson, but Jones hasn't been the kind of crazy spender historically who should make other owners quake. I can't see him being Steinbrennerian.

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

a. Welcome to the world, Nelson Charles Bensel. You are destined to wave the Saints pompoms someday.

b. Coffeenerdness: Glad I have played such a major role in the life of New York Giants president John Mara, who informed me Sunday evening that I have hooked him on lattes. There are worse things in the world to be addicted to, John.

c. The more quotes I read from Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer, the more I think she majored in Paranoia in college. In case you don't follow the women's game, Stringer hasn't stopped complaining since the brackets came out -- both about being placed in the same bracket with top-ranked Big East rival UConn and also about being sent to Iowa, where she used to live and coach, for the first round of the tournament. "People in New Jersey should be outraged,'' Stringer told Steve Politi of the Newark Star-Ledger about being bracketed with UConn.

There are things to be outraged about in this world, coach, but who you play in the Elite Eight of the women's basketball tournament is not one of them.

d. Driving up the street in Montclair, N.J., the other day, I saw a forlorn Brent Sutter, the Devils coach, slowly walking home with a couple of CVS bags in his hands. Forlorn because he was three games into a five-game losing streak, with no offense in sight. Not your fault, coach.

e. Baseball predictions (not to be taken remotely seriously): American League playoff teams: New York, Cleveland, Detroit (Wild Card), Los Angeles. National League playoff teams: Atlanta, New York Mets (Wild Card), Milwaukee, Arizona. World Series: Cleveland over Arizona in six. MVPs: Manny Ramirez, Boston; Johan Santana, New York. Cy Youngs: Justin Verlander, Detroit; Santana.

f. Fourth place, NL MVP voting: Yunel Escobar, shortstop, Atlanta. You'll see.

g. Manny Ramirez is going to have one of his greatest years ever, the result of a winter of conditioning at Athletes Performance Institute in Arizona. But he's also going to drive me out of my mind with his idiotic posing on long non-homers, which will reduce his total bases by 20. He's already turned one triple into a double in one of the Japan games.

h. I have now seen 30 Family Guy episodes and I am doubtful the writers were sober for more than three or four of them. If you're allergic to howling, don't be around me when I watch that show.

i. Finally got to an exhibition game Friday in Fort Lauderdale. O's-Mets. This is going to be one bad Orioles team. The pitching could be historically bad, and I mean 105-loss bad. The Mets? They better not get too hurt.

j. Hey, Jerome Bettis: Look at you and Barack Obama! How about that -- a kid from Detroit who grows up and shows the Democratic leader in the clubhouse around his adopted state. Very nice.

k. Your ball park looked tremendous on TV last night, Washington. I know it's a controversial place because of the $611 million cost, but that was a gorgeous sight to behold.

l. How amazing to see the NFL owners so captivated by the end of the Davidson-Kansas game Sunday inside the reception to open the meetings. Amazing that in the span of a couple of weeks someone few of us knew (Stephen Curry) could become a near-mythic figure. As one owner told me: "We're this interested in the college tournament, yet I haven't seen an NBA game all year, and [couldn't] care less.''