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I went 4-0 picking against the spread in the 4 p.m. games yesterday, and also hit with Dallas last night.

Now the bad news: I lost Thursday night's game and went 1-8 in yesterday's early games, my only correct selection being Green Bay over Chicago.

They don't call me "Mr. Consistency" for nothing.

The Arizona Cardinals are an intriguing team with all those weapons on offense, but they did a horrendous job with clock management late in the fourth quarter yesterday and were lucky it didn't blow up in their faces.

With about 2:25 left in the game and the Seattle Seahawks out of timeouts, the Cardinals passed on second-and-14 while clinging to a six-point lead. Incomplete. Clock stopped.

Kurt Warner completed a short pass to Anquan Boldin on third down, but Boldin went out of bounds. Clock stopped. Bring on the punting unit.

The Seahawks ended up with the football and a free timeout, with the two-minute warning approaching. Fortunately for Arizona, Matt Hasselbeck's pass was intercepted.

Run on second-and-14, and you reach the two-minute warning. Run again on third down and you leave the Seahawks precious little time after the punt. And that's assuming you don't pick up the first down.

They couldn't stop the clock. Why should you?

I remember when the trend in the NFL was for teams to split carries between two backs, keeping both fresh and wearing down defenses. Now it's become increasing popular to go with a three-pronged attack.

The Ravens do it. The Giants do it. And the Cardinals are doing it with Edgerrin James, rookie Tim Hightower and J.J. Arrington.

I'm guessing that James hates the arrangement. Just a hunch.

Here's why people don't gamble: The Steelers were favored by 4 ½ over the Chargers. They scored an apparent touchdown to take a 14-10 lead with a few seconds left - with the conversion kick or two-point conversion pending - but it was called back because of a holding penalty. So they settled for a field goal, giving them the lead, but still not allowing them to cover (which made everyone who took the Chargers very happy).

On the Chargers' final play, they lateral the ball all over the place out of desperation, fumble it, and watch Steelers safety Troy Polamalu scoop it up and ramble in for the touchdown with no time remaining. Now the Steelers are covering. Now the people who took the Chargers are breaking furniture.

After a long delay, officials determined that one of the laterals was illegal. The points came off the board, and the Steelers settled for an 11-10 victory. They didn't cover. No reason to split the coffee table in half.

(Anyone know where I can buy a coffee table? And does the name change if you're more likely to rest a beer on it?)

Now the NFL says the points should have counted and the Steelers should have won, 18-10. And somewhere in Pittsburgh, a love seat is being dragged into the front yard and set on fire.

The St. Louis Rams have been outscored, 75-3, in the first half in their last two games. I'm no expert, but that's pretty bad.

And Orioles manager Dave Trembley thought he had problems trying to get his starters through a scoreless first inning.