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Week one in the preseason and woes are expected. As Peyton Manning exited to the sidelines the Colts prospects as backup quarterbacks came to the field. From one of Jim Sorgi’s first throws a sideline camera would show Peyton Manning shaking his head. If Manning would have been wearing a voice headset he would have been going off more than once.

Unless your name is Ben Roethlisberger the first thing you’re looking towards as a rookie quarterback is your second season. For Alex Smith, he might be looking for his second team after his second year if he does not turn around a disastrous rookie year. Perhaps he worked out some of the bugs that plagued him last year, because he looked nothing like a number one draft pick. Often though quarterbacks that have struggled as bad as Smith did his rookie year never turn around.

For years the Eagles were in the playoffs and in the NFC Championship title game. They finally eclipsed that and reached the Super Bowl a few years ago, but now things are completely different. For all of those great years McNabb has put up, people seem to be still doubting him. When will it stop?

The Chargers have been a great source for a fantasy quarterback. Now that has changed with basically a rookie as their starter, in third year quarterback Philip Rivers. Is he worth drafting in fantasy leagues this season or just keeper leagues? If so, how much could you expect to get out of him.

He may have went through some injury prone seasons and seem to be on the down side of his career, but McNair is no where done. Now a Baltimore Raven, he enters a situation that was in desperate need for a quarterback of his abilities. Do not be shocked to see a sudden revitalized Jamal Lewis, and oh a Ravens defense return to the extraordinary level that was gone last year.

The ins and outs of the NFL can be glamorous but also short lived. One minute you could be comparable to Trent Dilfer, as a winning Super Bowl quarterback. A journeyman like Dilfer is past from team to team in his career, with little intentions by those teams of maintaining a future interest. The money is great in the NFL but the stresses of always looking over your shoulder are the obvious necessities of competition. With free agency playing a bigger role every year and the NFL Draft growing as an seven round talent feast; athletes that some would never think would be looking over their shoulders are.

It was obvious the Detroit Lions wanted to part ways with Joey Harrington. They repeatedly gave Harrington chances to succeed, and even brought in three supposed young standout wide receivers. They even want as far as trying to supplant Harrington by expecting Jeff Garcia to win the job over, and that did not pan out either. All of us knew that something was wrong when the Lions benched Harrington on Thanksgiving Day for Garcia, who was playing and played much worse than Harrington the entire season.

Party on the beach till the break of dawn…welcome to Miami. Daunte Culpepper won’t have to worry about bye week opportunities to have a blast down south. Worrying about Culpepper’s behavior off the football field though is the least of Miami’s worries.

Rumors swirling of Daunte Culpepper being traded or even the ridiculous suggestions of being released to relieve cap expenses are absurd. Sure the handful of games Culpepper played in last year were horrendous, but don’t forget the conditions of change he was facing. He lost a valuable offensive coordinator that is now the St. Louis Rams head coach in Scott Linehan, and lost his main go to guy in Randy Moss. Added to that the Vikings were trying to patch together a running back situation that was comparable to the Arizona Cardinals last season.

Vince Young is the man right now. Life as an athlete, often tags that title. Young will soon learn, how quickly that will change.