By Craig Kwasniewski and Brett Edwards
Time for another edition of Monday Morning Point Guard - NFL Edition, for clarification, Brett is in italics.
1. Denny Green should never coach in the NFL ever again! All the Raiders had to do was lose this week and they were guaranteed a 0-16 team. The best part was hearing all the Raider players react to the potential 0-16 questions. Warren Sapp was talking about pulling a TO and slitting his wrists. Funny as hell!
I know it was you Fredo Denny. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!
2. The first question I'd ask Denny Green in the press conference, "So were the Raiders who you thought they were?"
3. Four words that Steeler fans do not want to hear, "Here comes Charlie Batch!" Actually he played pretty well against ATL yesterday. I give it two weeks before he realizes, "Hey I'm Charlie Batch!" and flings three interceptions is a blowout loss.
4. My solution to the immobile Art Shell factor: Laminate a menu from a Chinese Restaurant. You know one of those that you order by the numbers, so it kind of looks like a playbook. So between every play he looks down at say "#101 - Kung Pao Chicken" or "# 67 - Cantonese Beef" and turns to nobody and yells "Number 101!!!" Suddenly you'll hear the likes of Joe Theisman saying how great a game that Shell is calling.
5. Killer stat for my fantasy football team. Ronde Barber has more touchdowns (2) than Tiki Barber (0).
6. A HUGE high-five to the TB kicker for his game-winning 62-yard field goal. This killed all of the "McNabb willed the Eagles to victory" talk and the impending media circle-jerk over the guy. That last touchdown by Philly was the worst defensive effort of this season. Westbrook took a 5-yard dink pass the distance after breaking (and you counted them with me) FIVE tackles. That play had NOTHING to do with Donovan McNabb! This is the second straight week that McNabb started off slowly, not a good trend.
7. Hey so can we postpone the whole "Steelers are back!" talk. Feel free to beat a few quality teams before you mail them the back-to-back Lombardi Trophies. Also, feel free to play a little defense.
8. Overrated and annoying trend in the NFL: icing the kicker with a timeout. Unless the 2002 Sacramento Kings are kicking a field goal, the extra time "to think about the kick" mostly never works. The only time it did was because Bill Cowher called a TO as the ball was snapped (CHEATER!!!) and the refs called off a made FG by the ATL kicker. Replays showed that Cowher was even with the snap and the refs shouldn't reward such bullshit.
9. Here's my question of the week: At the end of the first half of the IND-WAS game, the Redskins defensive player got whistled for tackling the QB too low, when it was obvious that he was dragged into a flopping Peyton Manning. Vlade Divac had an orgasm at the site of Manning's flop. So Indy gets 15 yard off the personal foul and drives for a momentum-changing touchdown.
Yet somehow in the MIN-SEA game, the Vikings defensive player literally rolls into Hassleback's knee, ending his game and possibly his season. No penalty called and Hassleback is out of the game. SEA gets blown out on a momentum changing injury.
How many more seasons will we have to put up with the NFL giving the Colts wins? Seriously, what's their appeal? We all know Manning will find a way to choke in the playoffs, so why even bother giving these guys wins.
10. Just what the hell happened to JAX? 20 entries in our knock-out pool took them (including myself) and they lose to the second worst franchise in the NFL! If Byron Leftwich was broken, then sit out the damn game. Instead we got JAX running East Coast Martyball. HOU has one of the worst defenses in the game and still JAX had to punt seven times. And yes, I AM bitter that I lost for the first time in the knock-out pool.
11. Finally, the Cardinals suck! You broke my heart Denny!
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