Judging by their pictures in The Post the past few days, I’d have to say Jessica Alba is off to a lot better start to 2007 than poor Britney is.

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There isn’t a Giants fan alive who could have picked Boise State’s Chris Peterson out of a lineup this time last week. And there isn’t a Giants fan alive who, if the Giants get smoked today, won’t wonder, just a little, if Peterson’s schoolyard playbook might translate to the next level. If for no other reason than the comedic value of seeing Eli trying to pull off the Statue of Liberty play.

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If, as it’s been hinted, Bill Belichick’s problem with Eric Mangini is that Mangenius tried to hire people away from New England on his way out the door, that’s an interesting reason to hold a grudge, since when Belichick performed his coup d’etat on the Jets, he took everything and everybody (specifically Charlie Weis, Mangini and Scott Pioli) that wasn’t nailed down at Ewbank Hall.

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I don’t pretend to be anything resembling an NFL scout. But how anyone could have watched Brady Quinn and JaMarcus Russell play on the same field at the Superdome the other night, and not figured out that Russell is the better quarterback, is beyond me.