What they said during the NFL shows Sunday, compliments of the networks:

CBS' Shannon Sharpe on 49ers coach Mike Singletary: "First of all, Vernon Davis is not a child.  Second of all, he is not your child.  You do not send a grown man to the locker room for what he did.  For you to dress him down in front of 70,000 fans in the stadium, and to dress him down again in front of the media, is unacceptable, Mike Singletary.  First and foremost, it’s not just Mike Singletary, it’s all the coaches. When you talk to the players, those are grown men.  A lot of them are husbands.  A lot of them have kids.  And they are the head of their households.  For you to treat him like a kid is totally unacceptable.  He did nothing wrong.  Just the series before off an interception, Vernon Davis chased a guy all the way to the end zone when everybody else had stopped running. He chased a guy all the way down.  Even though he didn’t negate the touchdown, he showed hustle.  For you to dress him down like you did because he got an unsportsmanlike conduct, that wasn’t he reason you lost the game and negate the fact that  y’all played your worse game of the year." 

CBS' Bill Cowher on Singletary: "Right now, you’re in a situation where coaching doesn't entitle you to anything.  You have to earn trust.  You have to earn credibility. That comes with time.  You were a great player.  You're in the midst right now of trying to gather that.  What he did may have set him back.  That remains to be seen but I don't think it was the right start."

ESPN's Tom Jackson on going undefeated: “Going undefeated becomes problematic for a coach. You think about last year – and I know it’s fresh in our minds – there was a team undefeated last year and the team that won the Super Bowl, lost six football games. Who was happy at the end of the season? You don’t want to go into the 14, 15, 16th week of the season saying, ‘We’ve got to go undefeated.” Lose a game in there so you can relax.”  

ESPN's Mike Ditka disagreeing: “That logic doesn’t work. In that case everyone should lose the first game and go undefeated the rest of the year."

NBC's Cris Collinsworth on the Giants: "They can run the ball with anybody in the history of the league."

NBC's Peter King on Bears fans hoping quarterback Kyle Orton isn't out for long: "I don't think they want to see another chapter of Rex Grossman."

NFL Network's Warren Sapp: “The Cowboys are willing to assign blame, but forgetting that this is a team.  When your quarterback is out, have your special teams pick up, have your defense play better.  The Giants are a team, the Cowboys are looking for someone to blame.”

Fox's Michael Strahan on the Giants' Plaxico Burress: “When everyday, win or lose, the media is asking you about a guy who’s not playing by the same rules as you are, as a player you reach your boiling point. I think the team is reaching their boiling point. There have been a number of guys who have tried to talk to Plaxico. But through the Giants have done a really good job of staying focused.”

Fox's Curt Menefee on NFL teams making reactionary decisions: “It absolutely amazes me the impact that sports talk radio and the Internet has had on the mind-set of people in the National Football League. That’s why we have already seen three head coaches, one defensive coordinator, and a GM fired in the first eight weeks of the season. If you had enough conviction to stay with these guys during the offseason, then you owe it to your franchises’ stability to go with them at least half a season, don’t you?  Why let Larry from Longmont on Line 3 influence your decision?"