corner last season he moved over to safety and essentially played Patrick Chung right out of a job. Now he's quietly become one of the better safeties in the league and it will be interesting to see how he grows as a player this year.

From there we'll see how well Alfonzo Dennard and Kyle Arrington handle the additional defensive back spots, although Dennard's future is a little murky at this point due to his current legal woes. Rookie Logan Ryan had a good preseason and finished leading the team in tackles with 14, and also had four passes defensed, including an interception he returned for a touchdown. So he'll probably also factor into the mix.

In the end it would be great if they could just shut everyone down,in three out of the last four years with Jeff Howe of the Boston Herald pointing out yesterday that Ben Roethlisberger (2004), Mark Sanchez (2009), Colt McCoy (2010) and Russell Wilson (2012) are among the players who were able to accomplish that. We talked about the Patriots giving up the big play and Wilson is a name that comes to mind, as he beat them with a 46 yard throw with just over a minute to go in week six last season. Hopefully the Patriots have better luck against Manuel and keep his name out of this mix this week.

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Denver went to a fast paced no-huddle offense in the first half of their meeting against the Rams this season, and it seems they'll be doing