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Question: Ed, do you agree with Mike Tomlin giving the players a week off?

Will Fernandez, Freehold, N.J.

BOUCHETTE: Here's what I wrote about that on my blog at PG Plus yesterday: It's almost the middle of the season, so I can see the rationale here. A week away might do them all some good, provided they can stay out of trouble. But then, as Matt Spaeth and Jeff Reed showed, and Santonio Holmes before them, you don't need to head out of town during an off week to get into trouble.

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