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The good, the bad and the ugly of Week 2

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Monday, September 15, 2008

Last week I journeyed alone to a distant mountaintop -- OK, a distant parking lot -- and beseeched the football gods to give me a manly man coach. Here is last week's column on cowardly NFL coaches kicking instead of going for it. What to our wondering eyes does appear but the Denver Broncos, down 38-37 to San Diego with 24 seconds remaining, going for two and the win rather than passively kicking and proceeding to overtime. Mike Shanahan, who styles himself as The Ultimate Leader, made a bold l ...

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