Hi Folks,

Here's what happens when you sit an NFL Junkie down in front of multiple big screens with Sunday Ticket and fresh batteries in the remote.

My advice to Stuart Scott: Hurry back to Monday Night Countdown before Trey Wingo takes your job. Wingo was excellent.

Does Russell Crowe have a new movie coming out? Something about fighting on a boat? Seriously, I stopped counting after the 297th time they ran the ad trailer for Master and Commander. And that was just during the 1 pm games.

Why do the Panthers have the NFL shield instead of a Carolina logo at midfield?

Speaking of the Panthers, you had to love the "Carolina Prowler" fan. During a time out, someone from the Carolina staff sought out the Prowler, who was selected as fan of the game. Somehow, the guy wound up with a microphone that was broadcasting live to the entire stadium. The situation was 3rd and long with 10 minutes left in the 4th quarter. The Panthers were leading 20-14. The Prowler grabbed the mic and yelled, "Simeon Rice and Warren Sapp, you guaranteed a win. Well, we guarantee we're going to kick your butt." The crowd went wild. But so did Rice who quickly registered two sacks as the Bucs took the lead.

Said Center Jeff Mitchell, "It's usually (receiver) Steve Smith we're trying to keep quiet. He's talking trash to the D-line. Now we've got somebody in the stands doing it."

I said last week that with all due respect to my friends in Minnesota, I sort of agreed with the Packer fans who asked how tough one could look in a "Heidi wig". Of course that prompted an avalanche of email from Vikings fans asking how tough one could look with a block of cheese on their head. That's a pretty good point.

Nice shoe string tackle for Cleveland rookie Chris Crocker to bring down Dante Hall. Hall looked to have a sure touchdown.

It's a cruel game with little respect for it's elders. Exhibit A was Seattle's cornerback Shawn Springs as he was routinely burned Sunday.

Miller Beer is defining irony with their new ads. The world's most generic beer maker trying to convince the sheeple it's cool to be different.

Caught the golf highlights on Sports Center. Is Charles Howell, III the guy's real name or is that a joke from those wacky ESPN guys?

Congratulations to coach Dan Reeves on win # 200.

Warrick Dunn might have been right when he was complaining about not getting the ball enough.

Coaches Conundrum: Choosing between Brian Griese or Jay Fiedler.

Giving credit where it's due. Warren Sapp is one of my least favorite players. But that was a great catch he made Sunday. The fact that it was 4th and 1 and that Brad Johnson chose to throw the ball instead of running for the wide open first down made it even bigger.

Here's how it's going for the Cowboys. The camera caught a young woman waving a sign in Dallas that said, "Marry Me Tuna"

Without putting a diaper on him, I don't think it would have been possible for Bob Costas to whine any louder about Deion Sanders' water throwing incident from a few years ago. Let it go, Bob.

Corey Dillon Who? What a great story Rudi Johnson is. I wish Marvin Lewis would let him keep rolling.

Bengals cornerback Kevin Kaesviharn last name is pronounced "CASE-vih-harn". I know you've been wondering about that... Kaesviharn is a pretty good story. He was a rookie at age 25 after stints in the Arena League and XFL. He was a substitute teacher in South Dakota when he made the Bengals practice squad.

Gary Anderson's longest field goal of the season so far is only 43 yards. I'm pretty sure there's something in the league bylaws invoking a mandatory retirement if you finish a season with your longest Field goal being less than your age.

The Dolphins converted just 1-10 third-downs Sunday. Wow.

Jets backup RB LaMont Jordan did not have a carry until late in the third quarter, but was the Jets leading rusher with 69 yards on 7 carries and a TD.

You gotta do what you gotta do, but Al Davis could not have liked Sunday's play calling. Oakland opened the game with 21 consecutive running plays. The Raiders ended the game with a total of 52 rushes and 25 pass attempts.

Moss has now scored at least one touchdown in five consecutive games. Santana Moss, that is.

Like many of you with kids, I'm seeing plenty of the Finding Nemo DVD. If Random Shots ever goes to an audible version, I'll get William Dafoe to read it. Dennis Leary would be a close second.

If the ending to the Jacksonville - Indianapolis game had been a movie, you'd call it too "Hollywood". All week long, running back Fred Taylor had spoken of how he was going to run over Colt SS Michael Doss. On the game winning touchdown run, Taylor bounced into the secondary and stuffed Doss to the ground. Taylor looked back over his shoulder as he waltzed in for the score. Doss was very cool after the game though: "This is the game of football, and he got the last word with the touchdown," Doss said."He's the same great back he's been for years."

ESPN's Mike Irvin says things I can't. When offering advice to Brett Favre on where to throw the ball he said, "Find the young boy Javon running around in there."

Cardinal Goofiness. Jeff Blake threw a pass to Bryant Johnson that was ruled down short of the goal line. Arizona challenged the play claiming it was a touchdown. After review, referee Jeff Triplette ruled it was indeed a touchdown - sort of. The replay showed that Johnson actually ran out of bounds and was the first to touch the ball when he came back on the field. So Arizona was charged with a 5 yard penalty and the touchdown was nullified. Why do things like this happen to the Cardinals?

Drew Bledsoe is now 2-6 vs. Bill Parcells. You can make a case that he lets his former coach get into his head. I've got news for folks, Parcells gets in lots of quarterback's heads.

Non Football note for the week: Newest CD in the Bryant Rotation is "Get Born" by Jet. You've probably heard them on the Apple iPod commercial. Fun Rock and Roll. Sort of like the Strokes but without the hype.

Takeo Spikes talks non stop on the field. In ESPN's "Mic'd Up" segment he gets on Miami's Jamie Nails who weighs in at 360 pounds. "Your big a** needs to get on the stick. Get on the jump rope, son."

Whenever I see something like Kevin Johnson being released, I'm reminded of the Jerry Glanville line where he says the NFL stands for "Not For Long".

I'm not doubting for one second that he's one of the best linebackers in the game. Maybe one of the best ever. But is there a player in the game that embarrasses himself more during the pre game introduction than Ray Lewis?

Tiki Barber became his team's all-time leading receiver, went over 10,000 all-purpose yards for his career, and gained 158 yards from scrimmage. And had a terrible game. His two fumbles came at crucial times and the Giants lost to the lowly Falcons. I couldn't help but think of Bill Parcells comment recently, "No running back is worth fumbles. Gale Sayers isn't worth fumbles."

Chicago and Detroit got a full days work from their punters Sunday. Brad Maynard and Nick Harris combined for thirteen punts.

If Cincinnati's Rudi Johnson took his carries from Sunday and averaged what LaDainian Tomlinson posted per carry, he'd have rolled up 435 rushing yards.

On the other end of the rushing spectrum, Detroit managed 17 yards rushing. Total. Between five guys. Not to mention it was against the 29th ranked rushing defense. Good grief.

Houston running back Domanick Davis was asked if he knew much about Fantasy Football: "Not too much but people have been telling me how they have me on their fantasy teams. I'm not quite sure how it works. I just say "okay."

I like Quincy Carter a lot, but welcome back to Earth. For the fifth straight game, he failed to break 200 yards passing. This week, he wasn't even close with 116 yards on 32 attempts. But he did have 1 touchdown, no interceptions and most importantly, a win.

Footballguy favorite Rock Cartwright was outstanding Sunday. Not only did he pound the ball up the middle, six of his carries went for 8 yards or more. I said he wasn't a feature running back. I may have been wrong.

How could you not be cheering for Doug Flutie? Across the country, there are kids running around sandlot fields that don't look like they're having as much as Flutie did Sunday. He did it all. From the jump pass (the guy still has springs) to the trip over his foot avoiding the rush. He made the defenders look silly trying to catch him.

Demoted quarterback Drew Brees must have been dying inside but he sure didn't show it. He looked as happy as everyone else on the sidelines. I don't know what you do long term there with Brees. But I guarantee you that the Chargers aren't looking much past this Sunday right now.

Redskin coach Steve Spurrier did a tough thing when he gave up some play calling control to offensive coordinator Hue Jackson. Said Spurrier, "I kind of benched myself a little". Although he was very clear that the 4th and 1 call was a Spurrier call. And the touchdown pass where Ramsey lateraled to Rod Gardner who threw to Trung Canidate had Gainesville written all over it.

How does a guy like Ricky Proehl beat the entire Tampa secondary deep?

Outside linebacker Jason Gildon became the Steelers' all-time sack leader on Sunday. That's pretty impressive considering that L.C. Greenwood and "Mean" Joe Green were # 1 and # 2.

Oakland's Rod Woodson was asked if coach Bill Callahan has "lost" the team, as cornerback Charles Woodson claims: "As long as (Callahan) comes here to 1220 Harbor Bay, he'll find the team. I'm pretty sure you can't lose 53 guys. We're not playing hide-and-seek here."

Congratulations to the Washington offensive line. Quarterback Patrick Ramsey entered the game having been sacked a league high 26 times. The big news is that he finished the game having been sacked 26 times.

Giants linebacker Mike Barrow wasn't happy after the loss to Atlanta: That was just about as embarrassing as it gets."

The calendar says mid November and right on cue, Jim Fassel is fighting for his job again.

Bold prediction of the week: If Rudi Johnson sees most of the carries Sunday, I think the Bengals will beat Kansas City. Chad Johnson may be the only guy in America who's with me there but if you're going to go out on a limb, go way out.

Brett Favre doing the Keith Jackson talking to Keith Jackson was pretty funny.

Here's a very cool story about 49er running back Kevan Barlow: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/pressman/031110.html Barlow often spends his off day visiting inmates in San Quentin. Stacey Pressman writes of entering the prison with Barlow and passing through the metal detectors, "It's my first time in prison. And I'm scared. I look over at Kevan and ask, "Any idea what T.O is doing today?' Instead, I'm spending the day diagramming the trap play with Hannibal Lecter."

Chris Mortensen's reported the Rams are concerned about Marc Bulger's psyche. I can see that. He's making some pretty ugly decisions and throws lately. He seems like he might be a guy that starts seriously considering the "do I really deserve to be here?" question.

Note to Troy Hambrick: I'd hold off on buying that big house in Dallas if I were you.

Game time temperature in Green Bay Monday was 39. Brett Favre shows up at the stadium wearing shorts.

Tampa defensive end Greg Spires is finally admitting what I said weeks ago when I offered that the Buccaneer defense simply doesn't scare anyone: "(It) used to be teams struggled to get a first down against us. I don't know if the same sense of fear (by opponents) is there right now." I think it's pretty safe to assume we can forget about that "greatest defense in history" talk.

Jumping back one week, I'm amazed anyone is talking about Bill Belichick's decision to take the safety in Monday night's week 9 matchup. The score was Denver 24, New England 23 with 2:51 left in the game. New England had the ball and it was fourth-and-10 from the 1 yard line. Clearly, the Patriots were going to punt. Would they rather punt from their own end zone or from the 20? People are talking like taking the safety was some sort of genius move. In reality, anything but taking the safety would have been the bonehead move of the week. The two points didn't matter. He had no choice.

I like Jake Delhomme and I think he's doing a great job leading the Panthers. But watching the game winning drive Sunday, he threw some prayers out there that happened to be answered.

Did you catch the guy in the stands for the Cowboys game with the Dallas Cheerleaders outfit on? It wasn't pretty. I'm not sure there are many stadiums in the league where that would fly.

Green Bay's Darren Sharper had me rolling before Monday Night's game doing the "Reg" from ESPN's video game: "Do I play football? Every day I do." My wife had to ask me what was so funny about that.

It was pretty windy before the game in Green Bay Monday night. John Madden was reporting from the field before the game and his hair was doing the Heat Miser thing.

I love the new Citi identity theft ads. All three are great but my favorite is the girl in the hair salon with the guy's voice talking about "his robot. My GIRL robot. This is going to be the best prom ever."

Hold the phones, the Shark Tooth hats are back. Guess I know what I'm giving for Christmas this season. That's a joke. Please tell me you knew that.

Watch out for the Eagles. To be 6-3 after playing as poorly as they've played makes them dangerous.

Is Todd Heap the new Ed McCaffrey? It seems every week he's getting slobberknockered by some defensive back. For anyone interested, "slobberknockered" is in the Joe Bryant dictionary.

I wondered if anyone would reply to the ESPN Trivia question last week. I stopped counting at 1,000 replies. The question was "ABC stands for American Broadcasting Company. What does ESPN stand for?"

It's actually sort of a trick question. The most popular answer was Entertainment Sports Programming Network. But that's not it. From their website http://espn.go.com/sitetools/s/help/espn-faq.html#ESPN "It doesn't stand for anything, but the story is this...When ESPN started in 1979 we were the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (thus, ESPN). However, the full name was dropped in February 1985 when the company adopted a new corporate name --ESPN, Inc.--and a new logo." Not surprisingly, a bunch of you folks answered correctly. As promised, I picked five correct winners at random (actually, I let my 2 year old daughter pick) and Footballguys hats are heading their way.

Here's how weird week 10 was: Brett Favre had just barely twice as many passing yards as Rudi Johnson had carries.

I take back all the good things I said about Minnesota's pass defense. I was right with my initial impressions early in the year. They're still bad. They've got more holes to fill than the Titanic.

Washington's John Hall still wears his chinstrap around his throat. Why does he do that?

Here's a weird way to gain 2 yards on 2nd and 9 and make a first down: The ball was on the 18 yard line. Washington's Patrick Ramsey's pass was intercepted by Damien Robinson. Robinson returned the ball to the 2 but Washington's Laveranues Coles caused a fumble that was recovered by the Redskins in the end zone for a touchback. Next play was first and 10 from the 20.

Cincinnati has four players with the last name of Johnson on their roster. I'll let you make your own joke there.

Dorsey Levens vultured another touchdown from Tiki Barber Sunday. Is Levens the 2003 version of Stacy Mack?

Question for Miami coach Dave Wannstedt: That seat getting warm yet?

You sort of expect to see Randy Moss make the one grabs but Jim Kleinsasser made a beautiful one handed reception Sunday. It wasn't long ago that we were calling him "hands of stone".

Let's assume Sunday wasn't a fluke. How long can 41 year old Doug Flutie play? Warren Moon and Steve Deberg both played well beyond that age.

Ricky Williams is making improvement. In week 9 he rushed 13 times for 36 yards. Sunday, he rushed 13 times for 37 yards. Sorry, I know that's not funny.

If you're the Giants facing Atlanta, you hate to see the backup quarterback starting. New York lost to the Doug Johnson led Falcons in 2002 and Sunday, Kurt Kittner beat them.

As if you need more proof that the Brian Billick Doghouse is not a good place to be - #2 quarterback Chris Redman's been leapfrogged by Anthony Wright who will start this week's game in place of injured Kyle Boller.

If you use the criteria for MVP as the guy who means the most to his team, you'd have to give serious consideration to Detroit's Jason Hanson. You don't often see a kicker carry a team but that's what you're seeing with Hanson.

I know I'm supposed to make the connection between Shockey and "G-Shock" but the watch ads are terrible.

David Boston owners should send Doug Flutie a thank you card.

An all too familiar sequence for Bills fans: Bledsoe drops back. Bledsoe is sacked. Bledsoe fumbles.

Hard Luck Awards:

Sometimes it's better to just not know.

That'll do it for today, Folks. Here's to Football.

Joe

Joe Bryant is an owner of www.footballguys.com You can usually find him on Sunday afternoon staring at the Sunday Ticket broadcast muttering "this is so cool..."

Thanks to Footballguys Bob Harris, David Dodds, Jeff Haseley, Dave Lau and Jay Parillo for the help on this one.