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ABOVE THE EARS (SOME MUSINGS)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Chip Kelly\u2019s Eagles offense was impressive on Monday night. The Redskins\u2019 defense looked bewildered, inept, and slow, particularly in the first half. The Eagles\u2019 defense looked vulnerable in the second half. Two questions: Can the offensive players maintain that pace and their health each week? Will the opponents figure out the system and stop the offense? It was certainly a good opening night.<\/p>\n

2. Everyone (Cincinnati, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland) is tied for first place in the AFC North. They all LOST!!<\/p>\n

3. I wonder what the ratings will be for Rafael Nadal\u2019s impressive US Open victory on Monday night. Are football fans, also, tennis fans? Or an entirely different audience?<\/p>\n

4. Central Florida takes on Penn State this week. The Knights are pushing their major sports to improve enough to play anybody. They played before 20,000 people last week. It will be over 100,000 this week.<\/p>\n

5. Speaking of crowds, the Notre Dame-Michigan game on Saturday produced the largest crowd in college football history \u2013 115,109. The previous high was in 2011 when (you guessed it) Notre Dame played at Michigan \u2013 114,804. If they played each other every week at Michigan, they would draw approximately 1,265,000 fans a season!<\/p>\n

6. More numbers \u2013 The Catasauqua football team is averaging 51 points a game and 414 total yards of offense. They scored 62 points last week.<\/p>\n

NFL PICKS FOR THIS WEEK<\/strong> (11-5- Week One: 69%)
\nNew England
\nPhiladelphia
\nBaltimore
\nHouston
\nIndianapolis
\nBuffalo
\nAtlanta
\nGreen Bay
\nDallas
\nChicago
\nNew Orleans
\nArizona
\nOakland
\nDenver
\nSan Francisco
\nCincinnati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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