Week seven flash!

The Steelers endured about 9 months without their starting QB. The Dolphins have gone over 4,000 days without a franchise signal-caller. And while they show moments of brilliance with defense, run schemes and pass blocking, they just can't unify anything. This is due to the lack of a strong offensive leader.

Ed Reed is back. That's not great news for football outside of Stabimore. Ed Reed's essence could be what the dirty birds need to put it all together. Truthfully, they should be the team to beat. And while it seems like the offense has been the unit to stall out, just wait for them to relax into the game knowing that they have the best secondary in the AFC. It will happen.

As a sidenote: has anyone else noticed what a murderous fatty Ray Lewis has become? He's always been bulky, but holy cannoli! He's Levon Kirkland level chunky! Lewis has basically forsaken any moves he once had for sheer massiveness, and the ability to stop and kill anything that comes towards him.

The Colts are old men who can still win. Think Boston Celtics, circa 2008-2013. These guys really shouldn't be playing contact sports, but the thing is they're all still really good. This week Dallas Clark went out with a season ending injury. My guess is that this won't be a back breaker for Indy. Manning has never had a problem grooming a young receiver and making sure he works his ass off into the starting rotation. Clark was a good, if overvalued weapon in the Colt playbook. Undersized TE, with far better receiving than power skills; excellent at running routes that crossed the field, or split to the corner. Had the decided advantage of being the safety valve for the best passer in history, ever, while running under two or three of the best WRs in the game, at any time.

James Harrison is still a dirty thug, no matter what Josh Cribbs said. In case you missed it, Cribbs -- one of the TWO guys Harrison concussed in a matter of THREE minutes -- said this week that #92 didn't do anything wrong. For as much as he's haunted us, I really do like Josh Cribbs. As Jim Brown said "he's a spiritual force." He plays the game the right way. He never shies away from anything, and he makes violent plays, especially for a return specialist. That said... he's wrong. James Harrison did do something wrong. Hitting a man in the head with a hard object is wrong. There was an incident in minor league hockey where a head hit was so brutal, the police prosecuted it. This is fair and well and good. Just because something's a sport, doesn't mean we, human beings, are allowed to commit murder, or near murder or attempted murder.

It strikes me as funny... you'll hear a lot from our dads about how football is no longer manly. How the good old days in the 70s or 60s or even 50s were what football was really about. Now, if you've ever watched clips from any of the Steelers' 70s Super Bowls, you'd know how fantastically awesome and chilling some of those old-timey hits were. QBs were regularly slammed into the ground; WRs were hit in the legs before they were close to the ball; O-linemen had their heads slapped by 300 pound men as they tried to stay set. It was a brutal fucking display of no regulation, steroids, and baby boomer lust for gratuity.

Great.

Now let's make a rule that says you can't murder a person in the head.

If James Harrison wants to play Jack Lambert football instead of Roger Goodell football, that's going to be difficult.