With Week 6 upon us, things appear to have settled down and we’re talking about football again. That’s not to say that the very real issues of domestic abuse or drug use within or outside of the NFL are forgotten or can be ignored. They can’t.

It’s just that we’ve managed to go a few weeks without having it be the center of everything.

I skipped last week as I ramped up for a new job, so assume I owe everyone a beer and please see Aaron Nagler about it when you next see him in public. He’s got that big time SI money now so he’ll be fine!

For myself, I have begun writing for NJ.com and covering college basketball. It’s mostly New Jersey stuff like Rutgers and Seton Hall, but I get to write about the Big Ten and Big East as well. It’s a great gig and I hope you drop by at some point (I even tossed in some Wisconsin love today).

Anyway, this weekend I will be covering the Philadelphia Eagles-New York Giants game for Sports on Earth so I’ll have something on it Monday as well.

And with that nonsense out of the way, let’s take a look at what has been going on around the NFL this week.

Los Angeles Bound?

Sources told ProFootballTalk.com this week that the NFL expects a team to relocate to Los Angeles in “the next 12-24 months”. The Mayor of LA says it could happen in the next year, which PFT thought was sooner, despite the fact that mathematically, a year is made up of 12 months, and would therefore fit into the NFL source’s 12-24 months.

Math challenges aside, we’ve heard this song and dance before and as a former resident of LA, I can only roll my eyes and say “I’ll see it when I believe it.”

The city of LA has shot itself in the foot numerous times when trying to secure a replacement for the Raiders and Rams and I don’t expect the city leaders to be less foolish this time than any other time before. The San Diego Chargers have already made noise that they might fight any team in LA, which they say now represents “25 to 30 percent” of their business, which to me really just means “we need more money from any relocation fee.”

Teams use LA as leverage for new stadiums and guess what? All three teams named (Rams, Raiders and Chargers) are angling for a new stadium! Fancy that.

For what it’s worth, I reached out to someone close to the situation who told me it’s ass real as it ever is and puts chances “at 50/50 the Rams try something.”

Again, I’ll believe it when the moving trucks arrive in LA.

I will say this – LA is capable of supporting a franchise. It did so for many years with both the Raiders and Rams, until Rams owner Georgia Frontiere made it clear the Rams were leaving. The Raiders struggled only when the product on the field struggled, but it’s fans are terribly loyal and the LA-base still flies up to Oakland for home games.

It could work.

But it will never happen because LA always finds a way to screw it up or teams aren’t really all that serious.

Or both, really.

How Did Jerrah and Jimmah not kill each other?

Seriously, how did Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson not stab each other when they were both in Dallas? The two have squabbled off and on for years, this week about whether it was Jerrah’s or Jimmah’s idea to trade Herschel Walker for a truckload of picks in 1989 which set the basis for the great Cowboys teams of the 1990s.

Really, it doesn’t matter. The trade is still one of the biggest and most interesting trades the NFL has ever seen (aside from the great Ricky Williams Saints Swindle). Walker played well for the Vikings, but the picks the Cowboys acquired were used to get some of the great Cowboys players like Emmitt Smith, Alvin Harper and Darren Woodson.

Trades like this don’t happen anymore in part because teams see how bad it is to give away picks. Heck, Washington did it for Robert Griffin III most recently and while it’s not a disaster, it doesn’t seem like it has been a winning scenario.

Nowadays, people won’t pay top dollar for an older player no matter how good and teams end up cutting them.

TURN DOWN FOR (JJ) WATT

Special thanks to SaxNStrikeouts on Twitter for the title – it’s his hashtag.

J.J. Watt is inhuman.

Here’s hoping that no matter where your football allegiances lie, you can appreciate the insane skill we get to see 16 Weeks out of the year when Watt takes the field.

I say 16, because on average we may not see a lot of him in the post season if the Texans don’t do something about the rest of the team.

Watt will probably end up amongst the best ever to play defensive end in the NFL, though I will stop short of comparing him to great players from years past.

I will say if he does make Canton, they have to have do the bust with his bloody forehead and face