(David Grotefend) The Bloodfest is over, the initial surge as the most coveted free agents are courted by their prospective new employers. Now teams glean over the remaining talent pool, adding an element here or there, but sort of in a holding ‘wait and see’ mode. Of course, as a Dolphin fan I wanted to grade them all ‘F’s, but that wouldn’t be true or fair.

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* Speaking of Shanahan, the MNF announcing crew (more on them later) seemed to be struggling to come up with an analogy to describe his quasi-psychotic pissed-off stare as his team came unglued shortly after kickoff. Every time the camera focused on him I felt like I had seen that look before and then it hit me—it was the same look my father gave me when I was 12 years old and got caught shoplifting at Zayre’s. It creeped me out, I want to tell you. I feel sorry for Shanny’s kids.
* In the first quarter, Jay Cutler spent more time looking at his right index finger than I did at my own after the first time I got to third base with Marie P. on a memorable night back when dinosaurs still ruled the earth.
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The following is a transcript of Wednesday’s press conference after being translated by the Belichicoder V2.0, a device I invented which can take the words of Bill Belichick and determine what he would have really said had he actually been telling the truth. BB: Well, just when you think the season is really going to start kicking into high gear, the Dolphins come to town and we have to try and figure out a way to actually pay close attention to the game film and how we are going to approach building up a team that was terrible last year and might actually be worse this year. You look up and see that Taylor and Thomas are no longer part of that defense and everybody on this side of the field suddenly has far fewer skidmarks in their underwear come Monday morning. To tell you the truth, I might have given Tom the week off anyways to go see his kid or something, but now he’s practically in a body cast and more depressed than a Democrat after the whole Palin thing at the republican convention, so that’s where we are at this time. More…

The sight of Tom Brady laying on his back showed fans who have followed his pro career from it’s beginning something we’ve never seen before—the ugly sight of The King of the World with abject fear and pain in his eyes. Brady The Fearless scared out of his wits. That was a wake-up call if I’ve ever seen one. Brady, through his words and actions in his 8 years in New England, had seemed somehow impervious to the same hammer of the Gods which falls at random on other, more mortal, players, but we got reminded in a hurry that the guy is actually made of flesh and bone. He didn’t always win, didn’t always save the damsel in distress or the kitten up a tree, didn’t always maintain an ethereal cool and composure, but did it often enough so that we weren’t really sure if he was a regular human being or not.
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The second installment of our NFL preview features the running backs. I’ve chosen to rank 32 RBs, but not necessarily one from each team. Also, this is not a fantasy football ranking. Fantasy football sucks, and I’m ranking guys based more on pure statistics.