Items of note for Sunday and beyond...

Jahvid Best, Savior?

Jahvid Best is not now nor will every be Barry Sanders. The comparisons are starting to come out before the poor kid has even taken his first hand off in a real NFL game. Right now, Best is a rookie speed back with good hands and very questionable durability issues.

He hasn't run for 2000 yards in a season, not even 200 yet. But he has potential, boat loads of potential.

Let's let him score his first touchdown, finish his first big breakaway run in the endzone...lets let him do that for a few seasons, before we start anointing him the next great back.

Nathan Vasher, Savior?

The Lions worked out six year pro cornerback Nathan Vasher yesterday as a possible addition to the weakest area of the team. Vasher has a very good pedigree, but seems to have lost a lot of his luster. Vasher has 19 career interceptions in his six years while playing for the Bears and the Chargers.

Will he be an upgrade? Who knows? Many say that he's lost the aggressiveness which made him such a ball hawk early in his career and that's led to his recent journeyman status.

Fact of the matter is, he will not be signed before the Bears game because of rules in current Collective Bargaining agreement. These rules state that if a player is signed and plays in the first game of the season, his entire yearly contract becomes guaranteed. In signing Vasher after the first game, the Lions can then pay him on a game to game basis and if it doesn't work out, there isn't much of a financial hit to the organization.

Who's going to win on Sunday?

Well, technically, I will. Why? Because I've picked both the Bears and the Lions, unless a meteorite hits the stadium in the third quarter, somebody's going to win. Here's my firm belief, I really like the Lions to win, but I will not jinx them.

I simply have too many questions about the Lions secondary. I don't think they can cover anybody and that means that eventually, when the DL starts to get tired, Cutler will be able to get some time and score a lot of points.

And afterall, this is the Lions--on the road, where they've lost 20 straight--which definitely gives me the fear.

Bears 38, Lions 21.