The San Fransisco 49ers play the Seattle Seahawks November 12th on Monday Night Football.

This is probably not the match up the NFL was hoping it would be. The 49ers (2-6) are playing very poorly and the Seahawks (4-4) are playing decent, but most people thought they would be better, especially with Shaun Alexander.

The good thing for the Seahawks is that in the NFL, you are almost always only 2 games away from turning your season around and they are playing in the anemic NFC West. That and they are playing the 49ers.

The 49ers are last or almost last in almost every significant offensive category. They are 31st in points, 32nd in total yards, 32nd in pass yards and 26th in rushing yards. Their defense is better, but not a whole lot, 24th in points allowed, 20th in total yards, 14th in pass yards and 24th in rush yards allowed.

Look for the Seahawks rushing game to get back on track this week as they extend thier division lead.

Prediction: Seahawks over the 49ers 24-10

When is the NFL going to let the defense play again and keep games out of the hands of refs?

I just watched Green Bay vs Kansas City and Indianapolis vs New England and the refs were mugging the defenses.

The calls against Green Bay on Woodson that setup the Chiefs 2nd touchdown and the call on Bush in the back of the end zone on the two point conversion were non-existent.

Then the zebras give Indy 2 chances for a touchdown in the first half, the second of them being the most offensive.

Let them play the game already, quite having the refs decide the games.

The Colts are the Champs, and they will win this week and basically secure home field advantage this weekend.

"What about Moss?" you scream! "Vrable is a machine!" someone adds.

Yes, and yes, but people have not spent enough time watching the Colts. Moss and Brady get on ESPN every week with 80 yard bombs and press conference fashion shows, but the Colts wear teams out with long 9 minute drives. The Colts are perfect, they plod along, waiting for the other team to make a mistake while they make none.

They will keep Brady and Co. off the field for long stretches at a time before they score. If Brady comes on and answers a long drive with an 80 yard bomb, the Colts will go right back to work against an already tiring Patriots defense.

If New England should miss a pass or two, or lose a yard rushing and have to punt, Manning will trot back on the field, *poke*, *dink*, *poke* back into the end zone.

The Colts will wear out the Patriots, they will drive on them, and by the end of the game, they will break them.

Prediction: Colts over Patriots 34-30 on Sunday.

The Patriots SHOULD have run up the score against the Redskins on October 28th.

This is football, not ice skating. The Patriots are as good as they are because they play 100% every time, every down. They are dominating right now. They don't take plays off, and they punish people.

If the Patriots start taking it easy, or going soft on teams, it could become a habit, or they could get a little too much of an ego and start playing at 99%. As good as they are, not many teams in the NFL can win at 99%, and The Patriots have the Colts coming up this week, they need every edge they can get. Maybe they were practicing new plays to use against the Colts. Maybe they were showing the Colts some new looks. Who cares why, they have a right too.

The Redskins do not get to ask the Patriots to tone it down. The Redskins have to get off the field on their own. This is football, this is America, you get up and off the field on your own, with the team you came with. Don't ask the other team for help, or mercy, or pity.

To the Redskins credit, they did not say anything ill too the Patriots, it was mostly the media.

I say, let em play.

As everyone knows by now, the Giants beat Miami in London today, marking the first time a regular season game was played outside of the US.

Good idea? Bad idea?

I love it. I hope the NFL gets popular over seas. I hope England gets a team, I hope India and China get a team. I want to see this thing go worldwide.

Then I want to see US teams punch them in the nose.

Dear NYTimes, don't ever write about football again.

This drivel about Aaron Brooks is the worst kind of victimization writing I have ever seen.

Quote :"I have no doubt that Brooks’s stinging criticisms played a role in his difficulty in returning to the N.F.L."

Are you kidding me? NFL players rape, drive drunk, do drugs, beat people up in bars, murder people, and get caught with hookers the night before the Super Bowl, and they get to play. If you are better than the other players available, you get to play in the NFL, no doubt about it. You think a few comments about Katrina are going to keep you off the team?

This tool, William C. Rhoden writes

"He(Brooks) felt Tagliabue should have visited the Saints' players in the weeks after the hurricane." For what? Hugs? I'm sure whatever Saints players lived in LA were fine, they could probably afford a plane ticket or a hotel room. It was the people not making at least $250,000 a year who needed help.

Poor Aaron Brooks. According to the Times, just another victim being persecuted for speaking his mind.

Tell ya what NYT, stick to writing about fashion and Broadway celebrities and politics or even baseball, and don't ever write about football again.

As I mentioned before, I'm sick of the FOX brocasts.

Dr. Z of CNNSI thinks so too, and it saves no love for ESPN either.

Read as Z saveges the majors

While I am on the topic of Kimmel and the MNF booth, I may as well talk about the FOX broadcasts. They Suck.

I used to be a fan. When FOX first got NFL games they were innovative and exciting. Does anyone remember waiting until the commercial to see the score? Then FOX came along with the graphic showing the score all the time.

Nowadays I don't know what it is, but you can hardly even get a replay on FOX. They are more concerned with sideline announcers and all their distractions. They don't even pay attention to the game.

Look, I know I am coming off like an old bogey, but FOX is getting ridiculous.

Get two people in the booth who know football, lose the sideline announcers, and replay every play. First down markers are sweet, but I would choose a replay from a different angle after every play, and tell me what happened, went wrong.

Jimmy Kimmel was banned from MNF for his comments agains Joe Thiesman.

See FOX for the nitty-gritty.

I applaud this move. I am sick of actors coming into the booth during the game and distracting from the action.

Get out and stay out.