let's start right there with marion barber. how's the team handling him this week and what are the chances we'll see him monday night? >> carefully, considering what you said in the open. they're deep in running back. we don't need to remind everybody how tough marion barber is and of course he wants to play. he's day to day with that quad strain. good thing they have an extra day, considering that they play on monday night, for him to heal, get treatment, that sort of thing. we're going to keep an eye on how he practices, if at all, in the days leading up. with felix jones the guy they want to get the ball to more anyway, 96 yards and just seven carries last week, he proved how capable he is of handling the workload they're not going to put marion barber out in week three and reaggravate an injury when they need him long term. chris: they're taking on the panthers monday. let's move on to l.t. ladainian tomlinson missed just the second regular season game of his career with the ankle injury just last week. is he playing agains

and again, for the trivia buffs, it's marion barber, stadium's first touchdown. it was a good game, good watch, albeit very tough on the host. >> my hat's off to the giants team and also to the cowboys for the kind of football game that they played, too. they battled, they came back, we came back, you know, it was one of those type of games right to the wire. >> i am disappointed for jerry, because you know, i wanted to win this one for him. i mean our team, i think, overall wanted to because he's such a great owner and he's -- you know, he's put this out for us, basically, for the dallas cowboys. so i do feel bad about that. >> guys have been working hard and putting themselves in a position to have a successful season, but i kind of took that away today. if the guys keep doing what they're doing, keep getting better, keep grinding it out, we'll keep going and going forward and i'll improve. and i'll fix this and we'll be better tomorrow. i'll be better. chris: well, let me take you next level with eli manning, masterful going down field. he completed 12-16 pass

this morning confirmed cowboys running back marion barber is nursing a quad strain. league sources told espn.com barber hopes to play against the panthers monday night. floyd mayweather according to his tax attorney the man called money mayweather agreed to pay $5.6 million in back taxes and did so before the i.r.s. tapped into his purse before fighting juan manuel marquez. we begin with a sad, entirely avoidable story for an nfl star. >> plaxico burress from super bowl hero to a number at rykker's island. he gets the two years he pleaded to back in august. burress pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon after shooting himself in a manhattan nightclub with an unlicensed weapon. now he does his time. all right, sal paolantonio was in the courthouse today and joins us now from new york. give us an idea of what happened inside the courtroom today. >> very, very emotional scene. plaxico burress joined his lawyer at the defendant table and realized he needed to say one last goodbye to his wife, tiffany, and to his son. so he asked his lawyer to ask the judge for

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marion barber, day to day with a strained quad muscle heard late in sunday's loss to the giants.had 124 yards on 18 carries. and matthew berry, he's already moved on to week three. >>> before you make your roster claims for week three, i got a question for you. what do tom brady, aaron rodgers and kurt warner have in common? less fantasy points this year than byron leftwich. 275 yards in back-to-back starts, it means good fantasy numbers for leftwich. wide receiver now and if he keeps this up, he won't be known as the other steve smith. over 200 yards and a score through two games the giants' steve smith is legit. and with marion barber banged up, tashard choice will get a lot of playing time for a cowboys team that leads the nfl in rushing yards. i want to remind you every sunday morning, we have last-second injury updates, everything else you need to win. it's fantasy football now, 11:30 a.m. eastern until kickoff on espn.com and this sunday, on tv, espn2. >>> if you want to read more on the patriots game that should be good and the boston sports news, log on to espnboston.com.

marion barber, day to day with a strained quad muscle heard late in sunday's loss to the giants.had 124 yards on 18 carries. and matthew berry, he's already moved on to week three. >>> before you make your roster claims for week three, i got a question for you. what do tom brady, aaron rodgers and kurt warner have in common? less fantasy points this year than byron leftwich. 275 yards in back-to-back starts, it means good fantasy numbers for leftwich. wide receiver now and if he keeps this up, he won't be known as the other steve smith. over 200 yards and a score through two games the giants' steve smith is legit. and with marion barber banged up, tashard choice will get a lot of playing time for a cowboys team that leads the nfl in rushing yards. i want to remind you every sunday morning, we have last-second injury updates, everything else you need to win. it's fantasy football now, 11:30 a.m. eastern until kickoff on espn.com and this sunday, on tv, espn2. >>> if you want to read more on the patriots game that should be good and the boston sports news, log on to espnboston.com.

marion barber. off he goes. he'll come up lame and the ball gets loose. hamstring or quad injuries cannot cause a fumble. barber comes out of the game. put in felix jones. seven carries, 96 yards to put the cowboys up one. giants' ensuing drive. manning, very cool in this thing. find his boy manningham. 25-38, 330 yards for eli. look at it again. jay ratliff gets a hand up on it. manningham has it. lawrence tynes will line up for a 37-yard field goal. the owner watching. his kick sub and it is good. but the giants have not won the game because we do another one of those things where the coach calls a time-out. if you want to see what it looks like. wade, he has the guy's attention. call it right now. all the stuff you saw didn't count. we'll try it again. lawrence tynes wilburn off the second on the clock, for the win, 33-31, g-men. the owner is not happy with how it turned out. huge disappointment for dallas and a huge win for new york. interestingly enough, the giants won the first game they played at texas stadium in 1972 and they like the road, 16-3 a

marion barber injured sunday night against the giants. will he play next monday night?on espn against carolina. and the u. they have their swagger back. how coach randy shannon and a young q.b. has miami back in the top 10. - ( rock music playing ) - ♪ lights out... introducing bud light lime in cans. - ♪ shoot up the station... - the great taste of bud light lime - now goes wherever you need it to. - ♪ tv's dead ♪ where's there to run? darlin', don't got to worry ♪ - ♪ you're locked in tight - only the superior taste of bud light lime, with a refreshing splash of one hundred percent natural lime flavor, - puts you in the summer state of mind. - ♪ darlin' ♪ don't got to worry, you're locked in tight... ♪ one taste and you'll find the summer state of mind. - bud light lime. - ( vocalizes ) >>> the second thing we know after two weeks of the nfl season is that the new york giants have found two receivers to replace the one big one they lost in plaxico burress. after two games, mario manning han and steve smith have combined for 29 catches, 422 yards and three touchdowns.

other injuries, marion barber a quadriceps injury.ndy thomas out for the year with a torn right triceps. coming up shortly, colts and dolphins on "monday night football." there is ricky williams, how will he run against that colts defense that still doesn't have bob sanders? time for another feature we do on "mike & mike in the morning." it is called "grill golic" your chance to ask questions to the big fellow. first is from howard in mobile, alabama. golic, who will have the best pro career, matt ryan, joe flacco or mark sanchez. >> you would love me to say mark sanchez, but i am not. i will say matt ryan of the falcons. all of these guys are doing well. matt ryan shows great poise. no sign of a sophmore slump. tony gonzales coming over helped that. excellent running game. i love his presence in the pocket. crisp throws. does not stare down receivers. reads defenses extremely well. i think he will be the best of the three. >> out of your mind. sorry. next alex in south bend, indiana writes is jimmy clausen the best passing quarterbac

. >>> tough news in dallas, cowboys without marion barber because of his quad injury. barber, one of the toughest runners in the game suffered an injury in the 35-yard run in the fourth quarter sunday night on the of loss to the giants. >>> still ahead, the world champs have been bumped from the top spot from the nfl power ranks. find out who is the new king of the hill. >>> and fantasy owners, if you're looking for a free agent to add to the (commentator 1) here's tiger woods, doing what he does best, setting up, preparing (commentator 2) he does it better than anyone else makes all the difference jim wait, i think he's ready once again, excellent choice we've come to expect nothing less he can see us (announcer) prepare you skin with gillette's new line of hydrating body wash. it has 3 times more hydrators that lock in moisture and help eliminate dry skin is that gonna be cash or credit? check we only take little checks. what does greatness taste like? steps up. heaves the ball. step up and order a miller lite aluminum pint. with a wide opening to deliver that true p

marion barber. off he goes. he'll come up lame and the ball gets loose. hamstring or quad injuries cannot cause a fumble. barber comes out of the game. put in felix jones. seven carries, 96 yards to put the cowboys up one. giants' ensuing drive. manning, very cool in this thing. find his boy manningham. 25-38, 330 yards for eli. look at it again. jay ratliff gets a hand up on it. manningham has it. lawrence tynes will line up for a 37-yard field goal. the owner watching. his kick sub and it is good. but the giants have not won the game because we do another one of those things where the coach calls a time-out. if you want to see what it looks like. wade, he has the guy's attention. call it right now. all the stuff you saw didn't count. we'll try it again. lawrence tynes wilburn off the second on the clock, for the win, 33-31, g-men. the owner is not happy with how it turned out. huge disappointment for dallas and a huge win for new york. interestingly enough, the giants won the first game they played at texas stadium in 1972 and they like the road, 16-3 a

cowboys ran for 251 rushing yards in the loss to the giants, marion barber 124. felix, 96. they lost and as we saw in monday night, the dolphins control the clock for 45 minutes, racked up 239 rushing yards and they also somehow lost. so four teams rushing for at least 200 yards but three of them lose, that's crazy talk. consider that for 2005 to 2008, teams that rushed for 200 yards won 90% of the time. 119 of 132 games. so far in '09, six teams have rushed for 200 yards and only three of them have won. there is three fundamental truths to football. you run, you stop the run, and you don't turn it over, you're going to win. except this year. is this an anomaly or is this seeds of change? >> this is after two games. slow down, big fella. >> just checking. >> look after six games and see what happens. >> your defense stays fresh this is one of those fluke things that happens occasionally. >> the last year alone, to show you how different things have been, two games in, you rush for over 200 yards last year, 36-2. so far this year, 50/50. >> two of the three teams turned the

marion barber, gone. factor back. we've got a blown out wheel. actually, it's a quad strain mri.put him inside the 10. then felix jones will finish this off. maybe after all the turnovers and all the problems, it can be salvaged. it's 31-30. perhaps they left too much time on the clock for eli manning. they started with a holding penalty. so from first and 20 to third and six, steve smith, who had ten catches in the game. manning on a second and ten. all kinds of time to kevin boss for a first down. both the giants and cowboys try to create so much pressure, neither team got a sack in this game. sometimes you get lucky. jay ratliff, who played a great game, actually got his hands on this. it goes right to manning ham, who also had ten catches in this game. that put the giants in field goal range. they would milk the clock. after a time-out that negated one game-winning kick, lawrence tynes says call another one, i don't care. i'm good. that's the game winner. jerry not happy as the giants walk out a winner 33-31. as we go next level. eli manning by distance thrown, if you look at

when you look at their roster, tony romo, everybody knows who he is, marion barber, everybody knows whois, even roy williams, they didn't know him in detroit, but now they know him, and dermarr russ waiver, and you say, they've got a lot of stars. but sometimes you just become a star by putting the star on your helmet. you become, you know, famous at a certain level, but you're not excellent as a player. there's a difference between being well known as a dallas cowboy and all that comes with that legend and actually winning on the field. and when you say wade phillips, and i don't mean to disparage the guy, but the answer to your question to me is, when wade phillips becomes a more accomplished coach, and i want to qualify that. he's very good. he's just not excellent. and he was good in buffalo, but not excellent. he's been good in other places and not excellent. and that team, the cowboys, is a good team, but i don't see that little extra thing there other than the money that surrounds them in the new stadium that they're playing in that makes me want to call them a champion. >> don't

marion barber. off he goes. he'll come up lame and the ball gets loose. cause a fumble. barber comes out of the game. put in felix jones. seven carries, 96 yards to put the cowboys up one. giants' ensuing drive. manning, very cool in this thing. find his boy manningham. 25-38, 330 yards for eli. look at it again. jay ratliff gets a hand up on it. manningham has it. lawrence tynes will line up for a 37-yard field goal. the owner watching. his kick sub and it is good. but the giants have not won the game because we do another one of those things where the coach calls a time-out. if you want to see what it looks like. wade, he has the guy's attention. call it right now. all the stuff you saw didn't count. we'll try it again. lawrence tynes wilburn off the second on the clock, for the win, 33-31, g-men. the owner is not happy with how it turned out. huge disappointment for dallas and a huge win for new york. interestingly enough, the giants won the first game they played at texas stadium in 1972 and they like the road, 16-3 away from home now in their last 19