GOLDBERG: Mediocrity reigns atop NFL
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Lovie Smith is delighted his Chicago Bears won the first two games of their three-game Northeast road trip. He should be, because those wins just about locked up home-field advantage in the NFC.
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Bears general manager Jerry Angelo has a much shorter resume than his Colts counterpart, Bill Polian. He also owns the one thing Polian still hungers for &#151; a Super Bowl ring.
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Whoopi Goldberg's intermittently funny but sluggish evening of comic portraiture is a show in desperate need of a stringent theatrical intelligence.
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It's going to take a really good team to stop the red-hot Philadelphia Eagles. Right now, mediocre is a reach for the Chicago Bears.
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The fates have not been kind to the last four Super Bowl runners-up.
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The Seattle Seahawks are considered one of the NFL's biggest disappointment this season. Matt Hasselbeck believes they're headed in the right direction.
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It&#39;s hard to know what to do with Terrell Owens, laugh at him, or rebuke him and bemoan his comportment as further evidence of the extinction of sportsmanship.
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Just another confusing day in the world of the stumbling bumbling Buffalo Bills, who can&#39;t even pass the torch between running backs without fumbling the darn thing.
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When the Jets turned on the film of last week&#39;s Seattle-New England game, what they saw was obvious: The Seahawks did dumb things.
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The NFL's newest mini-millionaire isn't quite adjusted to that reality yet, but it'll be an easier adjustment than the one he made four years ago.
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For most of us these days, football is nothing more than a TV show, a snappy montage of familiar uniforms, highlight plays and stat lines.
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Pass pressure has been poor, tackling sloppy and the intensity of earlier this season absent. Players appear tentative, confused and surprisingly ordinary.
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It&#39;s November, so the networks must be in search of ratings. &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; played along this week with a sexed-up skit - a punt straight out of the old-school send ups of sports stereotyping.
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Stadiums were filled to capacity. TV ratings were high. In most ways, this was another great season for the NFL. Except for this: America's favorite league took some serious hits to its image.
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Shaun Alexander has a message for the many folks who say NFL exhibitions mean zilch. Some words for those who will see the defending NFC champion Seattle Seahawks throttling the ragged Oakland Raiders in the final preseason game Thursday night as unrevealing and insignificant.
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In the new, salary-cap N.F.L., you donât have to be great to win the Super Bowl.
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Perfection is the impossible dream in the NFL. No matter how hard you try, there will be some weeks when things don&#39;t go as planned.