With just three days to prepare for Thursday night’s game against the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin isn’t letting himself think about the long-term implications of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s left knee injury.

Whether Big Ben is back in four weeks, six weeks — or if he needs less or even more time to recover from the sprained medial collateral ligament and bone bruise — doesn’t change the fact that Michael Vick will be running the huddle in the near term.

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The numbers never lie, but the Washington Redskins hope they do or else the giddiness that accompanied the team’s win over the mediocre St. Louis Rams, coupled by implosions and injuries to each of the ‘Skins three NFC East rivals, will have lasted four days. But throw out game plans, talent, injuries, a manageable 3.5-point spread, the outlier statistics from Weeks 1 and 2 and all that other garbage to focus on some more valid stats. And those, listed below, do not