If you’re like me, you’re one of those people that gets annoyed by Bill Belichick always putting Tom Brady as “probable” each week and listing that he has a shoulder injury. It’s annoying because a.) just tell us the truth and b.) he’s on my fantasy team, and I’m just waiting for the guy to be really injured.

Well, Brady’s shoulder is feeling fine, but he hasn’t played in the preseason yet. And the reason? A foot injury. Maybe one similar to last year during the playoffs.

Asked if he would have played had the game been during the regular season, Belichick said Sunday night, “Well, it’s not a regular-season game.”

When asked if he would characterize Brady’s absence as precautionary, he said, “I wouldn’t characterize it.”

Thankfully, Bill Belichick cleared up all the confusion and shed some light on the injury. I hope that dick goes 18-0 again and loses to an Eli Manning type.

It’s the early odds on team’s chances to make the Super Bowl. What are your team’s chances? Just look below. My team, the Falcons, well, they’re pretty much as long a shot as there is, and at 100-1, I think that’s kind of unfair (this one should be somewhere in the thousands or millions). Pats at 7-2? Chargers at 7-1? I like that action. . .

Arizona Cardinals 50 - 1
Atlanta Falcons 100 - 1
Baltimore Ravens 75 - 1
Buffalo Bills 50 - 1
Carolina Panthers 40 - 1
Chicago Bears 35 - 1
Cincinnati Bengals 60 - 1
Cleveland Browns 25 - 1
Dallas Cowboys 6 - 1
Denver Broncos 50 - 1
Detroit Lions 80 - 1
Green Bay Packers 25 - 1
Houston Texans 60 - 1
Indianapolis Colts 7 - 1
Jacksonville Jaguars 12 - 1
Kansas City Chiefs 100 - 1
Miami Dolphins 100 - 1
Minnesota Vikings 18 - 1
New England Patriots 7 - 2
New Orleans Saints 25 - 1
New York Giants 15 - 1
New York Jets 35 - 1
Oakland Raiders 50 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles 20 - 1
Pittsburgh Steelers 15 - 1
Saint Louis Rams 75 - 1
San Diego Chargers 7 - 1
San Francisco 49ers 80 - 1
Seattle Seahawks 25 - 1
Tampa Bay Buccanneers 40 - 1
Tennessee Titans 40 - 1
Washington Redskins 50 - 1

In a shocking moment of the steroid era, even if it is a moment that no one will really care about, Terry Bradshaw came clean and admitted using steroids in the 70’s to help heal faster.

“My use of steroids from a doctor was to speed up injuries…and thought nothing of it. It was to speed up the healing process, that was it. It wasn’t to get bigger and faster.”

The Big Lead points out that this won’t raise a whole lot of commotion, but also wonders what would happen 30 years from now if Tom Brady came clean and said he used steroids. Better yet, what would happen if he came clean and said he knew the defensive plays before the snap was called?

Wait a minute. . .

There’s never enough Madden 09 previews, and with that said, I present you with yet another. As long as these things keep popping out, I’m going ot keep showing them.

I posted the original trailer, but this one seems to be the actual gameplay, which is so much more revealing than the closeups that come out at first. Enjoy.

It’s not often I side with anyone who wears a Patriots uniform, but in the case of Nick Kazcur, who was recently busted having a shit-load of pain pills, I’m going to stick up for him. The guy gets his ass kicked day in and day out, and I don’t think poppin’ some pills is completely intolerable.

I do, however, question the guy wearing a wire after being busted for having these pills months ago, especially now that it’s gone public. Evidentially, he signed an affidavit to help get him off the hook, and worked with the FBI to bust Daniel Ekasala. He had this to say.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, bro,” Kaczur said on the front porch of his Attleboro, Mass., home, according to the Globe. “I don’t know where this is coming from. I don’t know what you are talking about.”

My guess is he knows exactly what they’re talking about, but may be fearful of his life. The guy he’s dealing with wasn’t exactly slinging home-made meth or anything super hard, but most people that sells hundred of (fill in the blank here with a drug). . . well, they’re generally not the ones you’d bring home to mom.

Here’s a look at Madden 09, which features Brett Favre on the cover, which is probably bad for Brett. Before, Madden only ruined a person’s statistics. Now, it’s gonna mess up sonmeone’s fishing trip on a nice Saturday.

Joey Porter is known for jumping down people’s throats at the drop of a hat, and he’s very quick to call out the Pats, whom cheat like something that cheats a lot.

The star linebacker believes there should be an asterisk next to the Pats Superbowl victories.

“They [the Patriots] cheated, there should be an asterisk. They cheated and they got caught,” the All-Pro linebacker, who spent eight seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers before joining Miami in free agency last season, said in an interview on “NFL Live.”

“Why, if you have nothing to hide, would you destroy [the evidence]? That’s how I’ve looked at it from the beginning. Why destroy something that doesn’t have to be destroyed? Let everyone know what was on the tapes. Why would you destroy them so fast?”

This should lead to some sort of gang fight instigated by Porter come September.

Matt Walsh finally sent those tapes to the NFL, and if Roger Goodell hasn’t already destroyed them, we may get some new evidence.

The list of the Walsh tapes indicates that the Patriots taped offensive and defensive coaches in regular-season games against the Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and San Diego Chargers. The team also made video of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2002 AFC Championship Game.

There was no tape of the walk-through against the Rams, but, honestly, who cares? They taped a game that got them to the Super Bowl (Pittsburgh), which, in my opinion, should be punishable by death.

The day after the draft, and it’s time to see who the winners and losers are. I’m not one who believes you can pick winners and losers the day later — I think it takes two years, not three, like most of the experts say to see who really won — but with that said, I will say this: Tennessee, m’friends, you were losers. They drafted Chris Johnson in the first round, a halfback who’s fast, and that’s about it. In the fourth round, they drafted William Hayes, who wasn’t a player expected to be picked in the full seven rounds.

Aw, such is life; we’ll know more of who won and who lost when the season starts, but for now I cling to the hope that Matt Ryan’s a combination of Michael Vick (without the animal abuse, of course), Brett Favre (without the interceptions, of course), Tom Brady (without being a dick, of course), Dan Marino (without the anger, of course), and Peyton Manning (without being a, you know, a Manning, of course).