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The Once-Over: Week One

Week 1 NFL Preview Get ready for Broadway Brett. After weeks of hype, Brett Favre makes his regular-season debut in a Jets uniform against the Dolphins. Fittingly, it's Chad Pennington, the quarterback New York cast aside, who will be calling the signals for Miami. Al Pereira, Getty Images Marion...

Shawne Merriman Says His PCL Injury Could Be 'Career Threatening' If He Plays

So, there's been plenty of talk about the woes of Shawne Merriman; he has a PCL injury and it's much worse than we originally thought. Not good news for either him or the Chargers.Turns out though, that it might actually be worse than we could even have imagined before."It could be career-threatening if I did (play),"...

Eli Manning and Philip Rivers Story Comes Together Again

There are tons of storylines in today's AFC/NFC Championship games. One that hasn't gotten much press but is rather interesting is that the Giants and Chargers are led into today by quarterbacks that were dealt for each other. Remember that the theme heading into the 2004 NFL Draft was that Eli Manning didn't want to play...

Titans Deny They Tried to Take Out Chargers' Shawne Merriman

FanHouse's J.J. Cooper wrote earlier this week that Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman believes Titans head coach Jeff Fisher ordered his team to go after him. Apparently, so Merriman thinks, this was in retaliation for the former Maryland star knocking Tennessee quarterback Vince Young out of the game last Sunday....

Maurice Jones-Drew Is Just a Great Tackler

You've probably already seen the video of Maurice Jones-Drew laying the lumber (not to be confused with laying the pipe) on Jamal Williams Shawn Merriman. But that wasn't the first big hit Jones-Drew has delivered this year.The above video came at the tail end of the Saints' 41-24 win over the Jaguars. Quinn Gray threw an...