You may have read that some genius predicted that Green Bay would be mediocre if they went with Rodgers over Favre.....yep, it was me who said it and it's me who is standing by it.

The Green Bay Packers are an average football team, they remind me in a lot of ways of the Denver Broncos in the Jay Cutler era....you know....tons of supposed quarterback talent and yet nothing at the end of the day to back up all the wishful thinking.  Like Cutler, Rodgers has certainly looked great at times...and then without warning he cannot seem to sustain it. Not to pick on Rodgers too heavily, MOST NFL quarterbacks playing today are not capable of playing that position with greatness....such players are few and far between.  Look  at the list of players who are exceptional and you'll get the picture....

Starting at the top is Brady, followed by Manning (funny you no longer KNOW which Manning huh?), relax I mean Peyton, then there's Drew Brees and I guess we should add Eli Manning to the list....then there are the "supposed to be" stars...

Philllip Rivers--Tony Romo--Donovan McNabb--Jay Cutler---Vince Young--David Garrard--Jake DellHomme---all really talented guys who have not yet demonstrated that they can get it done in terms of winning it all

The point is that Green Bay may still luck out with Rodgers, he seems like he has the ability....but...the point here is that YOU ALWAYS STAY WITH A PROVEN WINNER over a kid with potential....Brett is old but the guy can just flat out play, he's got a ring and while he was in your fair hamlet your teams were always at or near the top of their division and always always always in contention....

On that very point I have heard that the New York Jets went from hapless bordering on hopeless to first place and in contention at week 13 in less than a year due to the addition of several veteran players including one quarterback who was dealt by Green Bay.  Kind of an older guy with a difficult last name.....Fav-rah is I guess how you pronounce it.... well it seems that this Favre guy has taken a poorly coached and undisciplined team used to losing and made them a contender for a Superbowl....In contrast---Green Bay is losing games that they used to win, they are inconsistent in the extreme easily pummelling the Bears and then getting humiliated by the Saints....beat the Colts lose to the Falcons....it all adds up to a young quarteback on a team built to wiin now which makes the decision to jettisoon Favre inexplicable....

This year we have cancelled annual voting on the "Dumbest #### In The Universe Contest" as we have a winner who cannot be disputed...

Armed with a 36 Million dollar contract, a $2.00 brain and some form of a handgun....this year's undisputed "DUMBEST #### IN THE UNIVERSE" award goes to Plaxico "the Flesh Wound" Burress who managed to shoot himself, literrally and figuratively, in the #### (they said thigh but #### works so much better) with an illegal handgun while at a NYC club over the past weekend....he almost killed scores of people if people reacted the way I did....nearly laughed myself unconscious when that little gem flashed across the tube.....what an ####....no wait....what a stupid ####....

Here's the test for the Giants----fire him and stand for something or pull a Jerry Jones (smile when you say his name it helps to mispronounce his name the way that he does) and look the other way---you'll stand for nothing, you will in fact be as complicit in this jerk's idiocy as Jerry is in PacMan's de####able life and actions.....CUT HIM TODAY>>>>TOMMORROW IS TOO LATE!

I have Restrained Myself Most of The Year Because Every Time You Mention Tony Romo or Peyton Manning In Anything Other Than Glowing Terms I get Lunatics who Rant on About Just How Wonderful Both Of These Guys Are....

Well I suppose this weekend should have put an end to that nonsense.  I sat at Gillette Stadium Saturday night and witnessed the most recent coronation of the greatest quarterback to ever play the position.  26 for 28 is just the statistical part of the picture, numbers aside, did anyone who is not a rabid Jags fan think that Tom Brady would allow the Patriots to lose that game?  He was, simply put, in complete control in the familiar setting of an all or nothing playoff game against what is probably one of the top three teams in the AFC.  Even still,  Brady would have been perfect had Wes Welker and Ben Watson not dropped balls which hit BOTH of them on the hands...and let's face the facts, the Jags had their way with the New England secondary especially in the first half. David Garrard looked for all the world like a diamond at Quarterback, he did everyting well enough to win that game...except for Brady he does win that game....

The tds, the yards, the clutch play, the arm, the perfect season....all of it compels one, and only one conclusion.  Tom Brady is finishing up the best season ever by a quarterback and when he is measured against a resume of 3 superbowl rings and the legendary play he has shown...he is the Best Ever before he does another thing like win a 4th or 5th ring.

Now what were you all (I suppose I should say "Y'all") saying all year long about Tony Romo?  He was the best since Staubach, he was going to make who forget about Troy Aikman?  There comes a time when you have to realistically assess a quarterback's play and in the case of Mr. Romo I suggest that the ONLY statistic that needs to be considered is this:  What has boy wonder done with the balll in his final possessions the past two seasons?  When Dallas was poised to win yesterday, you remember...when they got the ball back on their own 43 with about 7:00 minutes to play only down by 4, what did this supposed Great do?  I like the 14 yard sack, you know the one where he was standing outside of the pocket with time and DID NOT get rid of the football, or maybe his most shining moment came when he stood bolt upright with average pressure and launched the ball out of bounds....gee Tone...I think I read somewhere that that's a penalty and gee...I think it's a loss of down and 10 yards....yep...it sure was....But the poor play was evident throughout the 4th quarter, when the Giants D picked up the intensity Romo faded....with about 12:00 minutes to go on a 2nd and 8 at the Dallas 44 he was sacked for a 5 or 6 yard loss, then in a thrid and long he failed to convert....this is not the stuff of Staubach or Aikman....

In his last three games Mr. Romo has looked exceptionally average and one would think that at this time of year with a team with that talent you'd get a better effort.  Barber was a stud, hat's off to TO and Terry Glenn for playing in pain, Jason Whitten is in my opinion the best possession tight end in the game and he played well again....the line did let Romo get ####ed around a bit but so what, these were not the 75 Steelers you boys played....they were a team you handled easily TWICE this season whose Quarterback looked like he was on YOUR payroll the way he kept trying to give you the ball back.Your defense certainly played well enough to win the game, hell they were stopping the Giants when it counted and gave your offense the balll back TWICE in the final 7:00 minutes....Jeez Louise that was poor and 80% of the blame rests with that Dreamboat you have at Q....

The most vocal homers are the Indy fans who are, maybe were, convinced that Peyton Manning was so great that only a fool would argue the point.  It's a funny logic that they use....of course Peyton and the Colts are the best because they play in the BEST division in football and they win it year after year....HUH?  Then they say, well hey we beat New England last year so doesn't that prove that Peyton is better, he won one crucial head to head with Brady so that's it...Of course, that logic misses a few key points....name the premiere receiver on Brady's 06 team.....Jabbar Gafney or Reche Caldwell?  Name the four healthy starting D backs in the base defense?  Oh wait, they did not have 4, they were down to three and were using a wideout as the fourth.  What was going on in the Pat's defensive huddle last year...oooohhhh I know ...two of the linebackers were trying to keep their lunch down due to the flu that worked its way through the team....and even then...it took a mystery pass interference call to get you the win....and you saw it again yesterday, the officials did everything in their power to make sure that Peyton advanced...horrible calls.....all day long.   It has become so much the norm in Indianapolis that long incompletions ARE automatic interference calls that these guys complain on balls that were 5-6 yards underthrown....please for next year boys can we implement a NO MORE WHINING policy?  The Chargers beat you TWICE and the Patriots beat you in the Dome and let's face it, you got outclassed by the Chargers back ups and were going to take a bad beating next week even if you could have won yesterday...which, of course, you didn't.  To add insult to injury, name the tailback and Quarterback who put you away yesterday, c'mon boys, name then without looking at the box score...and enjoy this little statistic this long cold off season....Peyton the Conqueror was 9/19 in passing attempts in that CRUCIAL fourth quarter...10 incompletions...10 and you still had a chance to win...really just a shame.....Listen, there is no question about it, Peyton Manning is the second best Quarterback in the game and he is far better than the #3 guy....my point earlier in the year which has been proven beyond a shadow of doubt is simply that he is NOT Number 1...that guy plays for New England...he's still playing also.

Pardon me while I chuckle quietly for a minute or two.....

Next weekend should be interesting but it's going to really hurt if the Chargers and the G-Men lose....gee whiz..what would that mean?  Hey that would mean that maybe Dallas and Indy were really not that good after all....yuk yuk....hey Tony have fun in Cabo...Peyton we'll see plenty of your smiling, only a mother could love ya, mug on the 3000 commercials you've got going.....Maybe next time you should look AWAY from Clark in a crucial 4th down situation....we all saw the commercial that's why Norv had him covered.....