by Josh Kipnis

The rules to trash talking are simple-if you are up, let ‘em have it; if you are down, shut your mouth.  But either way, beware, because the tides turn quickly.

A quarter of the way through the 2011 NFL season, we can already distinguish between the teams that have a right to rant, and the teams that are biting their tongues.

Right to Rant: Washington Redskins

Update: It's official, Kenny Britt tore his ACL and is out for the season.

Kenny Britt was having a great season. Until he turned awkwardly on his knee after a catch against the Broncos and apparently tore his ACL and MCL on a freakish play where he didn't hit or touched.

Update: Michael Vick's hand is bruised, not broken. 

Michael Vick's broken right hand will keep the Phildelphia Eagles' quarterback out of the lineup for the next 3-4 weeks.

Michael Vick's hand isn't broken after all. Updating a previous news item earlier today, the Eagles' quarterback has a contusion and deep bruise instead of what was originally diagnosed as a fracture.

During the Eagles game against the Giants, the team gave Vick's hand an X-ray, and the result appeared to be a broken bone. But apparently blood vessels can sometimes make bones look broken.

Michael Vick is having a long season. And we're only in the third week of the NFL year.

After getting knocked out of last week's game with a concussion (where he was spitting up blood), Vick was knocked out of this week's game with a broken right hand. Lucky for Vick, he's left handed, but quarterback's non-throwing hands are an important part of their play.

VIck broke his hand after taking a crushing blow from the Giants' defensive tackle Chris Canty.

Michael Vick was spitting up blood and walking off the field the last time fantasy football owners saw him. And that's not good.