Ok, DKnyj, you asked for the numbers comparison between Kellen Clemens’ first eight games and some other standout quarterbacks, the premise being none really shined early. Note: For simplicity, these are the respective quarterback’s first eight games, not necessarily first eight starts because some started but for whatever reason didn’t finish games or did not start but played most of a given game. Enjoy.

Also, this is not an endorsement of one candidate, not that Eric Mangini, Mike Tannenbaum, or you for that matter, are perched on seat edges waiting for me to weigh in. I will, but I’ll wait until passes actually get thrown in minicamp, training camp and in the exhibition games. Besides, any such knee-jerk response from here before the competition even begins might bring a stern Sue Simmons-like rhetorical beatdown. I, for one, am glad I'm not on camera at all times. Cut Simmons a break. Anyway, those stats:
comp-att-yards-TD-INT
Clemens – 117—224—1,414—4—9
Aikman – 109—213—1,388—8—13
P.Manning – 161—292—1,873—11—16
E.Manning – 95—197—1,043—6—9
Bradshaw – 65—158—972—3—15
On a related note - kind of - media availability for this week’s OTA is Thursday. Besides keeping tabs on Clemens/Pennington, I’ll be interested in who is opposite Darrelle Revis at corner and what alignments we’ll see at linebacker, among other things. Chris Baker is not there, but that was expected. There are other stories as of now to write from the voluntary offseason program. On Thursday I do expect to see a somewhat chastened Erik Ainge, who probably had to watch the Simmons clip on loop after being a bit too forthcoming for the Jets liking in regard to disclosing injury info. Ah, rookies. [And keep in mind, this was a minor surgery on the broken pinky on his throwing hand Ainge played with all of last season].
Finally, the world’s most famous team video guy, Matt Walsh, met with Roger Goodell this morning. Bob Glauber, our NFL columnist, is covering the story for Newsday and will have updates on Goodell’s press conference. Bill Belichick got off easier than he should have, and his explanation of “misinterpreting” the taping rule was as laughable and dishonest as Roger Clemens’ “he misremembers” line about Andy Pettitte, but it’s time – barring any new evidence – for this story to end.