Faceoff: Disinvite turkey Lions? Who's stuffed? Super NY?

CBSSports.com pro football writers Pete Prisco and Clark Judge face off weekly throughout the season.

Pete Prisco	Clark Judge
Should the NFL keep Detroit in the Turkey Day rotation?
No. But I also don't think Dallas should be in the rotation every year either. Why not move the games around? I know there are traditionalists who think otherwise, but shouldn't every team get a chance to host a Thanksgiving game? Why not flex the game like they do late in the season with the Sunday night games? We could feature some good games on Thanksgiving, which would get some amazing ratings. The logistics might be tough, but the NFL could make it work. Pick the teams three weeks out. That's plenty of time. The Cowboys are always intriguing, but they play Seattle, who is not. Tennessee is a good team, but they're a small-market team that plays a not-so-appealing style of football. Adding a night game on the NFL Network is a good idea. Cardinals-Eagles is the most intriguing game of the three. Arizona throws it around and has fun doing it, while the Donovan McNabb mess makes the Eagles a good story. Can you imagine how bad those fans will be if he starts slow? Let all the teams enjoy Thanksgiving. Tradition be damned.	Yes. I'm all for tradition, but the NFL told you what it thinks of tradition when it took regular-season games to Europe and implemented flex scheduling. I'm tired of seeing the Lions get hammered every year, and while I know that will change some day (uh, won't it?), I'm tired of waiting. This is a league that is all about ratings, marketing and revenue, and I guarantee there are no ratings and little revenue to come from another Detroit loss. So let's see if we can hammer out a compromise, Lions' fans. Keep your team on Thanksgiving, but make it and everyone else that day subject to flex scheduling. If the Lions stink ... OK, when they stink ... you move them to the NFL Network where the carnage isn't visible in all parts of the country.

Who or what should be stuffed?

I'd like to take the Wildcat offense -- which my dad insists is the single wing from his days playing football -- and stuff it ... right in a garbage can. I hate it. It's nothing but a big gimmick. Why take the threat of the pass out of the offense? Quarterbacks are the highest-paid players for a reason. The thing I don't get about it is why it sometimes works. If I defended it, I would do two things. I would play zero coverage -- which means no safeties deep -- and attack the line of scrimmage. I'd also blast the quarterback when he lines up wide. Every single snap that he was lined up as a decoy or blocker, I'd tell my defensive backs to take a shot. Make him hurt. Make him pay for the gimmick. The first time a team loses a quarterback in the Wildcat formation is when we'll never see it again. The Patriots stuffed the Miami Wildcat last week, the second time they saw it. There was no surprise this time like the first time the teams met. By the end of this season, the Wildcat will be in mothballs with the rest of the stupid innovations that work for a while and then fade away. The media loves these gimmicks. Let the quarterback play.

Pacman Jones. Let's hope that lifetime ban threat is for real because you, I and football fans everywhere are tired of hearing about this guy getting mixed up with the law. I don't fault Pacman this time as much as I do Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones. He knew what Pacman was all about, yet he still was willing to roll the dice on him. C'mon, Jerry, you should know better. The guy's a bum, a recidivist who turns a season into a police report and a locker room into the next front-page headline. Pacman keeps telling us he's not as bad as we imagine, and he could be on to something. He might be worse. I mean, anyone who gets into trouble with bodyguards protecting him from himself doesn't need another chance. He needs a shrink.

What are the chances of an all-New York Super Bowl?

It's looking better and better every week, but I doubt it will happen. The Giants are clearly the best team in the league right now. They can run it. They can throw it. They can pressure the quarterback. And they've done it before. They know what it takes. I think they will make it. The Jets' victory over the Titans served notice that they are among the elite in the AFC, but I'm not sure they get there. They will likely have to win again at Tennessee if they are to get to a Super Bowl. They are two games behind with five to go. That means that if both teams do get byes and win their divisional playoff games the Jets will play at Tennessee. The Jets lost at Oakland. That's enough to temper the Super Bowl talk some. But I do think both the Jets and Giants have a chance. If recent history taught us anything, though, it's not to expect the expected. The Giants were proof of that last season.

I'm not a believer, and I'll tell you why. The Jets have a minefield to navigate before getting there. The consensus is and has been that the Giants are the most complete team in football, and I'd like a show of hands from those people who think they don't emerge as the NFC representative. There, that settles it. Now look at the other side: In the AFC there are threats everywhere, including the Jets. Winning consecutive road games in Buffalo, New England and Tennessee is awfully impressive and may mean Gang Green is last year's Giants. But there's still Tennessee. And Pittsburgh. And Indianapolis. The Colts are the team I would fear because Peyton Manning is getting hot, they have a soft schedule in front of them and Bob Sanders is getting healthy. I like the chances of a Manning vs. Manning Super Bowl as much as I do a Gotham Bowl.