Well, Sunday was a bad day to be a Cowboy. Real bad. The Green Bay Packers utterly embarrassed the Dallas Cowboys 45-7, on a balmy November evening at Lambeau Field. And that score does not accurately reflect just how awful Dallas was. It was as if the entire team just got up to get some nachos halfway through the first quarter and never bothered coming back. The (lack of) effort was epitomized by Dallas cornerback Michael Jenkins displaying his best Deion Sanders impression in obviously and deliberately avoiding any attempt to tackle Greg Jennings on his way into the end zone. Like most other observers, I don't understand what's with this team. I have a couple theories, most involving too many Cowboys stars reading their own pre-season press clippings and believing their own hype, but I can't say anything for certain. Well, except for the fact that I don't think firing Wade Phillips - as happened Monday afternoon - and replacing him with the offensive coordinator who orchestrated a grand total of seven points Sunday night, will do much to right the ship. I think the Cowboys are at the point were they seriously need to look at firing some players. I'd like to suggest starting with Terrence Newman and Michael Jenkins.
As bad as it was to be a Cowboy, it was worse to be Randy Moss. After publicly insulting a Minneapolis restaurant owner providing lunch to the team, then professing his undying love to his former Patriots teammates after stinking up the joint against New England last Monday night, Moss found himself on the waiver wire Tuesday morning, and on an airplane to Tennessee by Thursday night. In case you're counting, that makes three different teams and two Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks in five weeks. Anybody remember when this guys was just really good at playing football?
Over the past three games, the Cleveland Browns have defeated two Super Bowl champions and gave a third a run for its money. Last week the Saints went down in flames as Drew Brees threw two interceptions to the same linebacker for 12 points against. Sunday afternoon it was Tom Brady's turn. Brady, and ten other guys named Moe, could muster on 14 points against a Cleveland team that posted 34 of them, and did it with guys named Peyton Hillis, Chansi Stuckey and Colt McCoy. Seriously. Chansi. Oh, and how stupid must the Denver Broncos feel at this point? They traded a running back that cannot be tackled, for a quarterback they don't even want warming their bench. Oddly enough, that probably isn't the dumbest thing Josh McDaniels had done since taking over as head coach.
I realize I'm probably the only person east of Boise that cares about this, but how can the Seattle Seahawks continue to be so terrible? Less than five years ago this teams was getting screwed out of a Super Bowl victory by some of the worst officiating in the history of officiating. What happened? How do you go from a 12-4 record and four consecutive NFC championships to getting torched by a total of 74-10 by the Raiders and Giants over the course of two weeks? I understand it can get a little dreary out there, but come on. They get forty feet of snow in New England, and that doesn't seem to bother them. Get it together!
While we're discussing atrocious football teams, how can the Chicago Bears still be leading their division? The only thing that team does well is throw interceptions and fumble the football. I guess it helps that they beat the Lions on a stupid technicality and survived a Buffalo Bills home game in Toronto (what?). If someone had told you at the start of the season that by week nine, the Colts and Bears would have the same record, you would have shipped them off to Siberia. Yet, here we are.
I don't think these words have been uttered since 1984, but right now, the Oakland Raiders might be playing the most exciting football in the league. With a quarterback nobody wanted, receivers nobody's heard of, and a defense nobody respects, they are a half game out of first place in a completely upside-down AFC West. Not too shabby.
Speaking of a quarterback nobody wants, how about those Washington Redskins, huh? Look, I don't know that I care that Mike Shanahan benched Donovan McNabb last week. He's the coach, so I guess he can make whatever personel decision he wants to. But I can't help but question the wisdom of benching a four-time conference champion, six-time pro bowler and Super Bowl quarterback, and replacing him with one Rex Grossman - who promptly turned the ball over the Ndamukong Suh for the game-sealing touchdown. Then, to make things worse, Shanahan delivered no fewer than three different - and let's be honest, bogus - explanations as to why he did so. Rumor has it that Shanahan the lesser does not now feel and has never felt that McNabb is suited to the offense he wants to run. Hmm. If that's the case, perhaps the Shanahans should have spent millions of dollars recruiting someone other than the guy they apparently never wanted. I guess the statement is true; Washington really doesn't work.
Finally, to all the NFL fans in London and around the United Kingdom. On behalf of all of us here in America, I apologize for saddling you with the San Fransisco 49ers and Denver Broncos. I swear we can do better than that. Hope fully next year we'll send you something interesting. Like maybe the Bengals and the Lions, or something like that. Kidding. Just messing with you.
the broncos would feel stupid...except that josh mcdaniels is running that goat rodeo, and he obviously has no clue that he could do anything wrong. what a dope. i want more embarrassing broncos losses, as fast as possible, so that mcdaniels can be jettisoned and we can replace him with someone who can actually evaluate NFL level talent. his appalling conceit is balanced only by his enormous stupidity.
ReplyDeleteas for the bears, they suck and it's hilarious. Lovey "rex is our quarterback" Smith is going to drive this thing into the ground...no offensive line, plus no wide receivers, plus a QB who neglects fundamentals, plus an OC who is as hard-headed as Josh McDaniels equals disaster in Chi-town.