- Wade Phillips, Norv Turner. They're the same coach. Two sides of the same mediocre coin. Have any coaches ever done less with more? Norv's team squeaks into the playoffs because the AFC West is terrible and Wade's team chokes in the biggest way imaginable to miss the playoffs. How does a team get waxed 44-6 in a must-win game and still keep its head coach?
- Dallas has some big time house cleaning to do. First, TO needs to go. He wasn't much of a force this year and he's too much of a headache to have so many dropped passes.
- Romo is the most anti-clutch quarterback ever. He's the A-Rod of QBs. I can't get over the sad sack look he had all throughout the second half of that Philly game.
- Who have the Chargers beaten this year? They didn't beat a single team that made the playoffs, and their win over New England came when Cassel was still getting his feet wet.
- The other thing people don't talk about with this Chargers team: Tomlinson belongs on the side of a milk carton. He's rushed for 100 yards in only two games this year. He had a very pedestrian 3.8 yards per carry this year. This team does not have a running game.
- Picks for the first round of playoffs: Miami over Baltimore, Indy over San Diego, Philly over Minnesota, and I really want to say Arizona over Atlanta but I just don't trust that Arizona can stop Michael Turner. So Atlanta over Arizona.
- For a warm weather teams, home field doesn't present that much of an advantage this time of year. Who doesn't want to play in San Diego or Miami in January when the weather is perfect? Miami has a great home field advantage in September and October when the humidity wears cold weather teams out, but later in the year, I imagine that teams must love playing in the comfortable Florida weather. Same goes for San Diego.
- Miami over Baltimore because I don't trust Joe Flacco starting his first playoff game on the road and I think Sparano and company will have enough tricks up their sleeves on offense to pull it out. 13-10, Miami over Baltimore.
- The Rat got fired in Denver. Can't say he hasn't had it coming, but it's still a huge shock. I just got used to the seeing Shanahan shrug off bad seasons and late disappointments. Denver could have kept him on if they got a new GM to help with the personnel. They've swung and missed on too many draft picks and free agent signings the past few years.
- Keep Tom Cable
- Browns, hire Scott Pioli and the one-time Mangenius to right the ship.
- I can't believe the Bills kept Dick Jauron. With Romeo and Rod Marinelli both out of work, Dick Jauron is unquestionably the worst NFL head coach. He's too conservative to be an effective coach. He punts on fourth and short at midfield, he runs when he should be passing and he has JP Losman pass when Marshawn Lynch has 127 yards on the ground and only needs a first down to ice the game. I wrote earlier about a terrible sequence he had in the Browns game. He's had one good year his entire coaching career. 7-9 the last three years, which means at least he's consistent, but I think the Bills have the talent to do better than that. They're a 10 win team with a competent coach.
- Non-football thought: For years, Pizza Hut has ignore trying to make good pizza and has instead tied its fate to the marketing of gimmick pizza (stuffed crust, Pizza Mia, etc.). Now they've decided to make a gimmick pizza that resembles good pizza. The Natural features real tomato sauce and pepperoni. What a novel concept.
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