Ahmad Bradshaw is out indefinitely, Willis McGahee is no lock to return Sunday while it’s anyone’s guess when Felix Jones will be back.

On Wednesday, we looked at how the division leaders stack up in terms of total defense. So today we decided to see how the eight first-place teams stack up when you take into account their overall ranking for both total offense and total defense. One thing to note is that there isn’t a great deal of balance among these teams. and only two of the division leaders — the Steelers and Texans — rank in the top 10 of both categories.

Tom Landry was a stone-faced icon, a “football god on Earth,” according to Skip Bayless. So what made the legendary Cowboys coach tick? Peel back the mask with Thursday’s premiere of “A Football Life: Tom Landry” on NFL Network.

Quite a few solutions to the curious case of Chris Johnson are floating around.

Bengals rookie QB Andy Dalton seems very underwhelmed over his “Red Rifle” moniker.

With featured fantasy running backs in short supply, Jason Smith runs down some of the league’s RB committees to determine who the best options are going forward.

The guys have the latest on who to start and who to sit in Week 9 including what to do about Tim Tebow and Philip Rivers. In the second hour, they talk to Steve Wyche about DeMarco Murray’s fantasy value and why you need to pick up Joe McKnight if your running backs are letting you down.

It took T.J. Houshmandzadeh all of one practice to draw a strong conclusion about the Raiders.

The Steelers may not have created the template to stop the Patriots, but they clearly saw in their film study an effective strategy already in place and executed it to perfection.

Playbook analysts Sterling Sharpe, Joe Theismann, Brian Baldinger and Matt Millen make their picks for Week 9.

Week 9 of the fantasy quarterback rankings sees a new name slip into the top five, while Ben Roethliberger makes the list despite a potentially difficult matchup.

There was an interesting note this week in the NFL Media research packet pointing out that the top eight teams in the NFL in total defense all come from the AFC. Pretty crazy, considering it used to be that the NFC was known for rugged defense and the AFC was known for high-scoring aerial attacks.

Andre Johnson, Sam Bradford and Fred Davis were either limited or missing from practice Wednesday, but all hold out hope of playing Sunday. Fantasy owners, however, might want to consider contingency plans.

If you missed Monday’s night’s Halloween thriller in Kansas City, tune in to NFL Network Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET for an enhanced replay of the Chargers’ devastating overtime loss to the surging Chiefs.

Brian Billick and Jim Mora discuss the most interesting topics around the league, including how Norv Turner should get the Chargers back on track, what Jerry Jones should say to Rob Ryan and how Marvin Lewis has turned around the Bengals.