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Truth can be an inconvenient thing and perhaps no more so than Bernard Pollard's bleak assessment of the NFL's future days before the Super Bowl's glitz is unleashed.

Bernard Pollard likes to talk and loves to hit.
The NFL's dandy dozen is set _ and truth be told, a little scared.

Two yards from a touchdown on third down, Tom Brady took the snap and fell to the turf curled around the ball, happy to settle for a field goal.

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots put this game — and the New York Jets' ugly season — away early.
Vince Lombardi, not to mention Woody Hayes, would love what the 49ers, Patriots, Texans, Chiefs and Giants have been doing recently. It might be longer than three yards and a cloud of dust, but those teams have run to daylight enough to make the ground game viable in the NFL again.

Tom Brady led New England on six consecutive second-half touchdown drives and the Patriots rolled to a 52-28 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

The Falcons gladly took advantage of a short-handed Chiefs defense Sunday.
Season opener or Super Bowl, every game is a big game to Bill Belichick.
LSU remembers how close unranked Tennessee came to pulling off the upset a year ago.
After three weeks of Tom Brady's record-setting passing, the Patriots finally put some balance into their offense.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. _ Three trades. Two youngsters added to a group of old running backs. One potential successor to Tom Brady.

LSU leading rusher Stevan Ridley said Tuesday that his "innocence was maintained" now that the NCAA has cleared him to play in the Cotton Bowl.

LSU running back Stevan Ridley may be forced to miss the Cotton Bowl against Texas A&M because of an academic violation.
LSU coach Les Miles and the fifth-ranked LSU Tigers can't escape reminders of how they botched the final seconds of last year's 25-23 loss at Mississippi.
"We're trying to play perfect football. That's impossible, of course," Ridley said. "But when you make a mistake, you best believe that this is one place it's not going to slide."
"We pounded away on a great defense, and they finally gave in a little," Ridley said.
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