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NFL training camps are opening around the country with Tom Coughlin firmly on the hot seat and Eli Manning still having to prove himsel ...
... Oops, that was last year. Sorry.
Coughlin, Manning and the New York Giants open camp today in Albany, N.Y., as the defending Super Bowl champion ... and the primary reason NFL preseason predictions aren't worth squat.
All we know for sure is it's 2008 and Brett Favre is retired; Chad Johnson will never, ever play in Cincinnati again ...
... Oops, that was last month. Sorry.
All we know is it's 2008, the NFL's 89th campaign, and ...
• The New England Patriots are coming off the worst 18-1 season in NFL history.
• The Detroit Lions will celebrate their 75th year in Motown by going 0-for-XLIII in Super Bowl visits.
• Rex Grossman will be good. Rex Grossman will be bad.
• The best division in football is the AFC South, where even the Houston Texans have a shot at making the playoffs for the first time in their seven-year history.
• The Dallas Cowboys open camp Friday with Wade Phillips firmly on the hot seat and Tony Romo still having to prove himself.
Unless, of course, they win the Super Bowl in Tampa 191 days from today.
MARK CRAIG

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| Date/Opponent | Time | W | L | Score |
| Sep 13 - at Cleveland | 12:00 PM | 1 | 0 | 34-20 |
| Sep 20 - at Detroit | 12:00 PM | 2 | 0 | 27-13 |
| Sep 27 - vs. San Francisco | 12:00 PM | 3 | 0 | 27-24 |
| Oct 5 - vs. Green Bay | 7:30 PM | 4 | 0 | 30-23 |
| Oct 11 - at St. Louis | 12:00 PM | 5 | 0 | 38-10 |
| Oct 18 - vs. Baltimore | 12:00 PM | 6 | 0 | 33-31 |
| Oct 25 - at Pittsburgh | 12:00 PM | 6 | 1 | 17-27 |
| Nov 1 - at Green Bay | 3:15 PM | 7 | 1 | 38-26 |
| Open | ||||
| Nov 15 - vs. Detroit | 12:00 PM | 8 | 1 | 27-10 |
| Nov 22 - vs. Seattle | 12:00 PM | 9 | 1 | 35-9 |
| Nov 29 - vs. Chicago | 3:15 PM | |||
| Dec 6 - at Arizona | 7:20 PM | |||
| Dec 13 - vs. Cincinnati | 12:00 PM | |||
| Dec 20 - at Carolina | 7:20 PM | |||
| Dec 28 - at Chicago | 7:30 PM | |||
| Jan 3 - vs. NY Giants | 12:00 PM |
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