Thursday, December 11, 2008

quick thoughts as we skid towards the auto apocalypse

- Poor Detroit. Their industries are in shambles, the city still has a bad rep for producing both Kid Rock and Eminem and the Lions won't win a game this year. Plus, the Pistons continue to be vastly overrated because people can't get over their perceptions of what the team was like 2 and 3 years ago. And the Tigers? Spent money that should have gone towards the auto industry on Dontrelle Willis and finished at the bottom of the AL Central below even the Kansas City Royals.

- Fire Rod Marinelli. He seems a like a good guy and is trying to get the Lions to win one game, just one game, but it's not working. His coaching background is defense and yet, the Lions are currently winless because their defense is atrocious. The offense is good enough to win 4 or 5 games, but opposing quarterbacks and running backs have career days against this team.

- The Lakers have problems on defense. They started out the season defending so well that everyone just assumed this was a strength. It's not. Not yet, anyway. They've given up 100 points or more in 5 of their last 6 games and the only game they played stingy defense was against lowly Milwaukee.

- Which brings me to this point: the Bucks are a terrible team. Have they quit on Scott Skiles already?

- The Jets have peaked and have gone from lock to make the playoffs to probably not making the playoffs in the span of two losses. They looked like the best team in the AFC after beating the Titans, but back-to-back losses to Denver and (gasp!) San Francisco have this team and its fans reeling.

- Welcome to the bottom, Chargers. Let me tell you, as a Raiders fan, after a while you get used to it and come to accept that you won't win a thing.

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