Granted, it's the exhibition season but this game is the one where most teams give their starters the most work. Next week the starters will play very little, if at all. So it's the one exhibition game that can give you a glimpse of the possibilities. Soooooooo....Tom Brady sat out again tonight, and the Eagles' starting defense held the Pats' starting offense to 56 yards in the first half. The one drive the Pats had that resulted in 3 points in the half was helped by a pass interference call.

As if that weren't enough the Eagles' starting offense moved the ball pretty well even without Kevin Curtis and Reggie Brown. They scored 10 points and had another TD overturned on replay when it was ruled that Hank Baskett didn't have control of the ball before he broke the plane of the end zone, changing a TD to a fumble out of the end zone and a touchback.

Late in the first half after the Pats' FG Quintin Demps took the ensuing kickoff 101 yards fora TD. The Pats went 3 and out, punted, and DeSean Jackson ran the punt back 76 yards for a TD on the final play of the half.

Boston fans had better start praying madly for Brady's health.

Perhaps Gisele Bundchen is a fifth columnist!

She may be sprinkling saltpeter on Tommy's oatmeal in the morning!

Oh...those dastardly dames!!!

The rookies on the Eagles' team looked pretty good last night...

But we'll see how they do against the Giants!

Given the dearth of starting QBs in the league and therefore backups, I'd say pretty much no team can afford to lose their starter for any great length of time. Most of the playoff contenders would be in serious trouble-the Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, Seahawks, Colts, Chargers, Steelers, Jaguars, Jets and Saints. And then there are the teams that are considered playoff contenders with shaky/unproven starting QBs to start with like the Packers and Vikings.

True. But only one team has 19-0 trademarked.