Other thoughts

* I don't normally root for the Patriots, but today I was hoping they would put 70 on the Titans. If you saw any of this game, you knew that the Titans quit the second they got off the bus. And when a team so blatantly doesn't even compete, I want that team to be completely embarrassed. Had the Titans simply forfeited, they would have left with more dignity than they did by playing.

* The bloom is officially off the Mark Sanchez-Rex Ryan rose. They've lost three in a row now, and today's loss was the worst. You cannot, absolutely cannot lose to the Bills if you want to seriously compete for the AFC East title. Mark Sanchez was terrible today, and Rex Ryan's team lost to a Bills team that went with Ryan Fitzpatrick at QB in the 2nd half due to a Trent Edwards injury. That is embarrassing. I'm starting to think the Patriots and Dolphins will be the ones competing for the AFC East, and that the Jets are pretenders. In retrospect, beating the Titans wasn't impressive at all, and the Texans are so schizophrenic that beating them isn't really impressive either. So the Jets only good win this year is against the Patriots.

* The Eagles should hang their heads in shame as well. Kudos to the Raiders for actually competing this week, but no way no how should they be able to beat the Eagles. Andy Reid should take the brunt of the blame, as he completely abandoned the run game despite the passing game not producing a whole lot. And that 86 yard TD by Zach Miller was a complete embarrassment. Miller's a good player, but he should never be able to run 86 yards.

* Remember when the NFC East was a beast? The Redskins are on a weekly mission to be the league's worst team, the Eagles lost to the Raiders and the Giants lost big to the Saints. Not a good day. Only the Cowboys on a bye week can feel good about themselves right now.

* Speaking of the Redskins, please just fire Jim Zorn and put him out of his misery. The poor guy has no support from his own team anymore, and made the move of the desperate by benching his QB. Once you bench your QB, there's only one higher head that can roll and that's your own. The Redskins are a hugely flawed roster, and the problems go all the way to the top. So let Zorn go with at least a shred of dignity left, and please bring in some proper people to run the personnel department. Going into the season with that offensive line is a disgrace, and openly trying to replace your QB didn't help either.

* It's time to stop thinking of the Ravens defense as being any good, because they're not. The Vikings had a 100 yard rusher and receiver (Sidney Rice had an amazing 176 yards), and the Ravens' secondary is rather weak. The Raven's defense is living off reputation alone right now; that is not an impressive unit at all. With that said, Joe Flacco is pretty good and Ray Rice can play as well; he has impressive balance and ability to stay on his feet. This is the team Brian Billick always wanted, only Brian Billick isn't there anymore.