Koy Detmer made $90,000 last week, which isn’t staggering for an NFL player … unless you consider he did little more than stand around for three Minnesota practices.

The Vikings signed him as a reserve quarterback because they weren’t sure Tavaris Jackson and Kelly Holcomb were healthy enough to back up Brooks Bollinger. But when Jackson proved he was OK, Minnesota cut Detmer.

He didn’t leave empty-handed. He received a game check of $42,352.94 and termination pay of $48,000. Not a bad gig.

¢As good as they are, the Dallas Cowboys have been flagged for 10 personal fouls. And Wade Phillips is not happy about it. So the coach has gone to unusual lengths to curtail the problem. This week, he asked his players to sign a pledge they will not commit any more personal fouls.

Although Phillips told his players they didn’t have to sign it, they all did.

“I want their word they’re going to try to do the right thing,” he told reporters. “It may be silly. I was serious about it, and I think I feel like I needed to do something they’re going to respond to.

¢With all their injuries, the Colts have had to tap into special-teams players to fill the holes on offense and defense. That’s made their shaky coverage teams even more suspect, as the football world saw last Sunday when San Diego’s Darren Sproles returned a kickoff and punt for touchdowns.

Since the start of the 2006 season, the Colts have given up seven returns for TDs – among them Chicago’s Devin Hester running back the opening kickoff in Super Bowl XLI.

¢Pittsburgh is ranked No. 1 in defense and No. 5 in offense, but coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t need to look far to find a sobering weakness. The Steelers’ special-teams units are not good at all.

Or, as Tomlin delicately put it: “One thing that is for certain: We stink as a kickoff coverage unit.”

¢In a conference call with Jacksonville reporters this week, San Diego running back LaDainian Tomlinson used the nifty moves he usually reserves for the field when asked whether he missed fired Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer.

Tomlinson didn’t give a firm answer.

“I have always been a person that doesn’t dwell in the past,” he said. “So for me, there’s no reason to miss them or talk about them not being here, because they are not here. That won’t do anything for the team and myself. I try to focus on what we try to do out here (now).”