The Foolish Brilliance of Eli Manning A few links for your consideration, with not a single mention of the Jets' backup quarterback: Jason Lisk of The Big Lead shed some light on Eli Manning's recent stretch of "foolish" play: Manning's interceptions on Sunday in Cincinnati came from the same approach that produces his daring successes. One of the most fun projects I worked on was doing Passer Personality Types three years ago, where I looked at career numbers and created a Meyers-Briggs type test to divide quarterbacks. Eli Manning came out as a "Bomber-Fun-Vulture-Gambler" (and you'll have to read that post to make sense of that), and in fact, came out as an extreme personality type, right next to Tony Romo and Terry Bradshaw. Read the whole thing. Manning keeps chucking the ball forward, and the rest is hindsight bias. Lisk concludes: Eli Manning is a gambler, and this week, you got the bad with the good. After the bye, you may just get the good again. He might even make a play under pressure that is brilliant rather than foolish, based entirely on how it turns out. Roger Goodell gave a speech at Harvard on Thursday and cited a need to change the "warrior mentality" among players when it comes to head injuries. On the same day, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher made Goodell's point by reiterating that he would lie to avoid missing time with a concussion. Goodell can rightly point to progress on player safety measures, but is the N.F.L. really doing all it can? In some instances, is it even using common sense? Greg Couch of Fox Sports tried to cut through the public-relations smoke: Jay Cutler suffered a brain injury and stayed in the game, getting hit in the head again on the very next play. Tim Dobbins was ruled by officials to have cheap-shotted Cutler with a helmet-to-helmet blow, and stayed in the game. Can we try to stay focused on what matters here? Couch's sensible solution: "It must be an automatic ejection, and suspension, if a player is ruled to have intentionally cheap-shotted another one in the head. Cutler should have sat out, no matter what protocol said. And the league should have a concussion expert on the sidelines - as the NFL players union wants. Extra point Ken Belson of The Times quoted Goodell as saying: "I'm sure some of you have asked yourselves the same tough questions others ask: When there is risk associated with playing tackle football, why do people continue to play? It just so happens that Stefan Fatsis of Slate wrote a comprehensive report Wednesday on that second part.