The Boys are still rolling. The Tigers are picking cotton.
As I examined earlier last week, the Cowboys have a tremendous remaining schedule. After beating the Packers last Thursday, the Boys essentially wrapped up the difficult portion of the season.
Also winning on Sunday in the NFC, the Buccaneers won without Garcia. McCown threw for over 300 yards and managed the game just well enough for the Bucs to win a physical game in New Orleans.
The playoff picture is looking a lot clearer with the NFC contenders being the Cowboys, Packers, and Bucs. Yes, the Bucs. The Bucs remaining schedule is very favorable and Gruden has positioned this team for success.
In the AFC there are three great teams in New England, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville. Yes, the Jags are a great team.
Of those six, I still maintain the Boys will be facing the Patsies in the Super Bowl. Peyton had a great year last year, but this year it is all Brady in the AFC.
On another subject, I was amazed by the Monday Night game. Boller made a phonomenal scramble to create a 53 yard passing play in the first quarter that I did NOT expect to see. An amazing play.
Other than the offensive breakdowns provided by Jaws, I must say again how lackluster this new MNF crew is. Tony K is a complete disaster and PTI has NO place on the halftime show. It is horrible to suffer through every week. Pure torture.
I'm sure right now in hell, Satan has a high-def theatre room dedicated to PTI in which he plays the show over and over with all the commercial breaks edited out for added torture.
Well, that's all I have left in me today. That's as positive as I can be today. I have to fill in for my boss tomorrow, so I'm off to bed for now. I hate these late games. I miss living in Washington and being on West Coast time.
Then again, as my wife called and complained about the flurries in Baltimore tonight I was still running the AC because it was 85 degrees this afternoon. Hope you enjoyed the trip honey, I went to the beach and got sunburned today.
I can't stand Michael Wilbon, living in Washington, I used to read his post all the time and think to myself "who is this clown", and then all thes sports journalist started wanting to become TV personalities (Around the Horn, PTI), ESPN shows like this has created the abnoxious sports journalist, and TV personality when then are supposed to be reserved for talk radio where I could call these guys up and give them a peace of my mind. But on ESPN, they just go unchecked. I miss Michael Irvin, there is no one to check Steve Young, etc anymore. It is payback this week, and Romo should shread these Lions as they lose 5 straight, where are all the Lions fans?
brian, i'm not sure if you can say the "Tigers are picking cotton". isn't that insensitive to tigers? doesn't that make them somehow lesser than lions or bears? oh my. ck ur mail to see my reasoning. i agree that the most amazing thing about MNF was that Boller looked like the QB that people thought he could be, until he threw that INT. i agree that PTI is terrible, but i'm starting to like Kornheiser, because he asks touchy questions that a lot of the other guys wouldn't. an example was asking Shula about the "Asterisk comment".
hogger - I'm just peeved that the 6th ranked Mizzou Tigers have to play an unranked team in a bowl. Win or lose, I wanted them in a bowl worthy of this year's effort.
GO MIZZOU!
No, I did not throw darts at an atlas and pick my teams. I grew up a DIEHARD, Texas-bred Dallas Cowboys FANATIC. I went to Mizzou during the Larry Smith and Norm Stewart years, but now I live on a beach in South Florida.
I'm a published #### talker and once did a story on Jason Sutherland getting a sex change in order to join the WNBA. That was of course, in no way true, but funny enough for an April Fools edition of the school paper.
Favorite Teams:
Dallas Cowboys, Missouri Tigers, Tampa Bay Rays.
Oh and... All Hail The Big 12!
