roethlisberger, peyton manning, all at 1-2. mike, i had a friend of mine ask me today here in town, at what point are you going to ask my mayock if joe flacco is an elite quarterback. mike: you re going to drop that in my lap? i think there are seven franchise quarterbacks heading into this year. i think three or four banging on the dr joe flacco, cam newton, and maybe matthew stafford if he can stay healthy. here comes joe flacco. mike: brad, to take that one step further, my definition is somebody who can lead you to a super bowl, win the game and be the guy. brad: right. mike: in the modern super bowl era, you can point to trent dilfer with balance more, and maybe tampa bay the year they were so dominant with bread johnson as the two, quote, pain managers. all the rest were dominant franchise quarterbacks. if you don t have him, you re not winning in this league. brad: alex? alex: we had that conversation on the field before this game tonight, whether or not
the morning. week 7 full of huge upsets. first the saint, they re super bowl champs. browns didn t care. they beat them up big time. yes, check out this 68-yard run by reggie hodges. he s the punter. it s the longest run by a punter since the mergeer in 1970. that includes practices when they re on the run. cleveland goes on to win 30-17. it was three int s for drew brees and in denver, oakland raiders scored the points most ever in franchise history. raiders win 59-14. and gretchen, you probably want to for your own you know what sni? bret favre thought he d have one other dramatic victory in his arsenal. it didn t happen against his old packers. this coming back to the final replay. vikings trail by four when favre, back to the end zone, or does he? touchdown!
really? that s probably one of many moments like that in that relationship. anyway, let s talk about this. president obama takes his economic and political message to rhode island today as the last full week before midterm elections begin. doug lazader joins us live from washington with a preview. good morning to you, doug. good morning, guys. the president is going to woonsocket, rhode island today to tour america webbing, a relatively small company there but we ll be talking about different initiatives that the administration has undertaken to try to grow some jobs, new loan initiatives be tax cuts and things like that but it s to send this message that the white house in the president s estimation is not anti-business. it may be a tough sell in a state like rhode island, the unemployment rate there is nearly, nearly 12%. so that s a state that has been particularly hard hit in this recession. the real reason, though, the president may be taking this trip is to attend