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KC fears for Bengals' head coach Marvin Lewis but likes the Cowboys and the Colts in Sunday's games.

'Bungles' in big trouble as they head to Giants Stadium

Sky Sports is your home for NFL again this year and as ever, Kevin Cadle is our man at the helm. Every week here on skysports.com he will call Sunday's live triple-header, but don't forget there is more live action behind the red button. But before sitting down to Sunday night heaven, let KC mark your cards...

Cincinnati @ NY Giants

The Bengals are 0-2 and believe me, 0-3 is ready to go! This might just be the last game for coach Marvin Lewis and this team. It's tough to say just where he has failed but defensively it just hasn't gone well. Don't forget Marvin got the job on his defensive prowess and that just hasn't been displayed at any time by the Cincinnati Bungles. And the one thing they could always hang their hat on was some sort of offense, but now even that ain't working, they got no defense and that's the two top ends of your football team and when they just ain't happening together, you know you got problems. The Giants are 2-0 but right now things are still happening slowly. As we said before the season they are not getting a whole lot of respect for what they accomplished but they are just ticking along. Eli Manning and his offense haven't really got firing just yet, but they know how to win football games. Justin Tuck (pictured) is still sacking people like he was last year when Osi Umenyiora and Michael Strahan were there, so he hasn't been missed. Strahan leaving could have hit them hard but they still had Justin and Osi. Then they lost Osi and you feared the worst but fair play to Tuck, one man's trash is another man's treasure and as soon as one of them slips up, someone else comes in and he is still doing what those Giants defensive ends do best. CADLE'S CALL - If you thought the Giants beating New England was a big upset, the Bengals winning this one would be massive. But it ain't gonna happen.

Jacksonville @ Indianapolis

It was a good win for Indianapolis last week, particularly the way they did it coming back down the stretch and doing it at the end of the game. That was a big victory for them, but then they lose Bob Sanders for six weeks, the reigning defensive MVP. That means they need the rest of the defense to show up, they are going to need to come up with a pretty professional game. But the good thing for the Colts is that Jacksonville have so many men missing, so many injury problems, it just gives the home team that little extra edge. The Jags have pretty much lost their whole offensive line; most teams only hold seven offensive linemen on their rosta, so if you lose three, that's practically half. If that happens you gotta go out on the street and get a man in to do a job that he don't know - because that line is like a team in itself. Maurice Jones-Drew (pictured) has his own injury troubles he is just getting over, so that plus that line problems is why we just haven't seen him and the Jags running game yet. Put those two factors together and their whole formula just doesn't work. Offensively they struggled for a little bit against Minnesota but then Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne and Anthony Gonzalez started to get it together and came up with some big plays. We are still waiting for Joseph Addai to get the running game going, but this offense has only been together for two weeks because Peyton wasn't really able to play in pre-season. CADLE'S CALL - I think the Colts are starting to come around. The Jags just have too many men missing to go to Indianapolis and win.

Dallas @ Green Bay

I like the Cowboys here because you have to say going into this game, they have played the tougher opposition in week's One and Two. Green Bay is also 2-0 but they are coming off that win against a Detroit team that is really still not a football team this season - they just imploded at the end of that game last weekend. Dallas is going to be ultra-confident after that victory over Philadelphia, so they will understand the things they need to do and can do. Right now their preparation for this big game has been more beneficial - even though they have lost Roy Williams, which is gonna hurt them. Terence Newman should be back to boost their defense and we know he can play and of course Pacman can do a good job and they can always switch Anthony Henry back to safety, so their pass defense looks like it can deal with Green Bay in this football game. All those moves can help them deal with that Green Bay passing game, so I still like Dallas here. Offensively I like the Cowboys' options as well. On Monday night the first half was all about Terrell Owens and then the second half they shifted the focus on to Jason Witten (pictured). You gotta say TO did his job, not so much catching the ball in the third quarter but what he does so well is open doors for other people, because defenses have to worry about TO. And when you've got Marion Barber, Patrick Crayton and Witten - and Witten is one of the best, if not the best tight ends, if not the best, in the NFL - to do their thing and you can't stop them all. It's been one helluva start for Aaron Rodgers, taking over from you-know-who. The people at Green Bay know about his abilities and what he can do, because they see it every day, but I am sure they are overly-pleased with what he has done so far this year. They will still be trying to iron out those little flaws he has in his game but hey, nobody's perfect! But this will be a big test for Rodgers, because you gotta think that Dallas defense is going to put more heat on him than he's had to deal with in week's One and Two. It will be interesting to see how he does when adversity comes because he really hasn't had to show us how he deals with it as a qyarterback. When it's going well, anyone can ride with that. CADLE'S CALL - I like Dallas here. They have played the better teams and will be better prepared because of that.