Well the Steelers bowed out of the playoffs more gracefully than I expected. In the days leading up to the game I had them as losing by 21 points. On the day of the game I softened up a bit and called them losing by 14 points. So I consider a defeat by 2 points to be a small victory.
Let’s just hope Tomlin learns from his mistakes in that game, we have a good draft with nothing but offensive lineman, and we hire a circus freak as a second kicker who can kick a ball 200 yards out the back of any endzone. If we can do that, we can win next year.
That game was damn near the only one I picked correctly last week. I took Washington (lost), Jacksonville (won), Tampa Bay (lost), and San Diego (won). So I’m sitting at 2-2. I’d have to go back and check but I think I pretty much ended up at .500 last post season so I can see my trend continues.
For the record I think New England and Indy win this weekend as well as Dallas and Green Bay.
I think Indy wins the AFC and Dallas wins the NFC.
I think Indy takes it all and makes it 2 in a row.
But now I turn my attention from the active game to the offseason – the game within the game. The first few coaching vacancies (Atlanta, Miami, and Baltimore) didn’t interest me much. Who really cares who fills in for those shitball teams? But when Joe Gibbs stepped down my Bill Cowher radar went off. I think I’ve said it here in the past but I expect Bill to go to an owner with very deep pockets when he goes back to coaching. That narrows it down to Jerry Jones in Dallas, Daniel Snyder in Washington, and Randy Lerner in Cleveland. That’s why I was so big on Jones using Wade Phillips as a pawn (until Wade fucked up his master plan by having the best team in the NFC!).
I also think Cowher would be smart to come back in the NFC and I think he knows that. The NFC is still pretty weak compared to the AFC and if a team was to institute some hard core, smash mouth football featuring a punishing running game they could cut through the NFC like a hot knife through warm butter. That’s Bill Cowher football right there.
So now I focus on Washington: Daniel Snyder has more money than god and can afford to give Cowher $6+ million a year. He also has a terrific running back tandem in Clinton Portis and Ladell Betts. Cowher could take this team and turn them into a powerhouse.
Therefore even though he gave Arthur Blank that bullshit line about staying out of coaching for another year, don’t be surprised if Cowher is the Redskins head coach in 2008. In fact if you want to make a bet on it, give me a call.
-David
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I think your right at .500 still on the predictions. I'm now rooting for Brett Favre, who I've never been a huge fan of, but damnnit if I don't despise Rivers and Brady, and don't much like Eli Manning. And in a strange way, it seems like Green Bay's kind of an underdog...sort of.
Your Cowher prediction seems logical. I guess Gibbs probably sealed his fate when he took two timeouts in a row and got penalized, losing them the game. But I'm not sure Campbell isn't the next Kordell Stewart. He appears to have QB potential, but will he be a franchise QB?
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