1.  Although he threw three touchdown passes, including Jerry Rice's first touchdown pass from a quarterback this season, Grbac was not especially sharp.

2.  Any plan that's saved up even a sliver of national championship implications for the FSU-Florida game can't be all bad.

3.  Defensive players positioned within a yard of the line of scrimmage will no longer be able to flinch to draw an offensive player into an illegal procedure penalty.

4.  Defensively and offensively, it's not stable.

5.  Defensively it wasn't much better for the Giants.

6.  Defensively, we're not close to being the same.

7.  Denizens of the Internet chat rooms where the stock has been popular are not so sure.

8.  Dennis Erickson is not on the hot seat.

9.  Denver quarterback John Elway was not reluctant to disclose his opinion about the coaching abilities of both men.

10.  Defiance simply is not in my nature.