Welcome to the official discussion thread for the 2006 NFL season. Statistically, a significant number of STOCKcentral users are/will also be football fans, so this is the place to vent, analyze, and brag.

I'll kick things off with some Week 3 observations:

1. Eli Manning may eventually be better than his big brother, if only because he doesn't blame his teammates for his own mistakes (partially because the role of team malcontent on the Giants is already filled by a rotation of Jeremy Shockey and Plaxico Burress). They looked like a high school team against the Seahawks. I don't think Vegas will even take bets on whether or not this is Tom Coughlin's last season as coach.

2. Pittsburgh isn't great team, wasn't last year, and has the potential to miss the playoffs this year. Not because of the players, but because of the coaching staff. For some reason, it's verboten in blue-collar towns like Pittsburgh and Chicago to expand the offensive playbook beyond "three yards and a cloud of dust." You know why the Steelers won the Super Bowl last year? Everyone forgets that Roethlisberger passed for something like 40 million yards in college. Granted, he's rusty, but he can pitch it around as well as any QB in the league. How about a play-action on first down every once in awhile, huh?

3. There's something wrong with Tom Brady. It's not the Deion Branch divorce - you're telling me that the coolest calmest QB since Joe Montana can't concentrate on playing because one of his recievers got traded? Please. No, it's something more. I'm thinking (and I really really really hope I'm wrong) that it's an injury of some kind. His accuracy is way down, and on more than a few plays last night, he looked like he was impersonating Jon Kitna. These are things that keep me up at night.