49ers RB LaMichael James injured an elbow. OLB Cam Johnson sustained a thirdquarter shoulder injury and didn't return.T. Beernerdness: Saw two baseball games last week, one at Yankee Stadium and one at CitiField. I will now grade the beer selection.

"This is where you want to be. We always talk about finishing and playing your best football at the end of the season. That's what we're doing now," Manning said.Khan and the franchise have become the most visible face of a growing field in football: advanced analytics. Once mainly baseball domain and glamorized by the book it has now made its way to the NFL. Where baseball has been revolutionized by quantitativebased analysis, football is facing an insurgency.

Dave Pear played the final two years of his NFL career with a broken neck, and he has had 10 spine surgeries to go with his artificial hip. Conrad Dobler, once considered the meanest man in football, has had nine knee replacements. Greg Koch sometimes