The NFL is becoming harder and harder to decipher. If you play in an office pool and have the chance to win, you're winning off of luck alone. It's not about what you know about football anymore. You'd have a better chance choosing by uniforms as opposed to matchups. I really hate cliches', but the truest cliche to date is "Any Given Sunday", and that's definitely the case. Teams you expect to dominate their opponents, end up losing. Teams you expect to lose badly, end up winning. I don't know what to believe anymore. The NFL is a major crap shoot.

With that said, I love the parity in the league. Thursday night at 7:30, the Ravens are out of the playoff picture, looking in. At 7:30pm on Sunday, they moved up to the #5 seed. Special shout outs to the Broncos, Jags, Jets and Dolphins for making all of this happen. We couldn't do it without you.

Good bless the NFL!

Best Play Of The Week- Hands down Mike Wallace's TD to give the Steelers the go ahead score to win the game against the Packers, as time expired. Dude is gone to the School of Santonio Holmes, it was eerily similar to the Super Bowl catch.


WTF Play Of The Week- By far the Washington Redskins fake FG attempt in the Monday Night game against the Giants. The sad thing is, they actually practiced this play at some point. Someone help pack Jim Zorn's bags, please and thanks.


Upset Of The Week- Dallas beating the then-undefeated Saints. No one gave the Cowboys a chance, including a few faithfuls. But in the end, they came out to play, and dominated majority of the game. Tony Romo looked as poised as I've ever seen all year, throwing for 312 yards and a TD.

Maybe the December curse is over...... well shall see what the last 2 weeks bring.

The More things Change, The More They Stay The Same- The Colts are still undefeated, beating the Jaguars in a very entertaining 35-31 win on Thursday night. Although I needed the Colts to beat the Jags to help the Ravens in their playoff spot, I secretly wanted Jacksonville to lay the smackdown on their candy asses (sorry I was watching old WWF clips of The Rock on youtube). I've said it once and I'll say it again, I hate the idea of undefeated/winless teams in today's NFL. It's kind of sacrilegious to me, especially with the parity in the league. The Colts winning is nothing new to me.

*extra point* I would give ANYTHING to make Mercury Morris go away and never come back. Every time there is an undefeated team in December, Morris pops up on SportsCenter and has to make his case on why the Dolphins are still the best. He's like the drunk uncle at your family reunion... only now it's gone from funny to annoying. Remember this rap a few years ago?!


Everyone thought the Vikings were ready to make a Super Bowl run this season, but is Favre starting to wear down?! Look, dude is 40 years old, which is like 210 in football years. The Vikes are 1-2 in December and lost to a dismal Panthers team. We saw this last season, when #4 struggled the last 5 weeks of the season with the Jets and was later diagnosed as having a torn rotator cuff. Last year I heard excuses about Favre not being protected, and I heard the same thing after Sunday night's loss. While it is a valid point, is it safe to say that Old Man Favre simply could be breaking down physically and can't play the entire season, like he used to???? I'm curious to see how the Vikings fare in the playoffs.

The Broncos lost to the Raiders. Ouch!

The Browns lost Brady Quinn for the year, but everyone knows the REAL star on that team is Joshua Cribbs. Can you imagine how poor this team would be without this guy on their roster??? Someone better pay that man this offseason, he's playing lights out football right now.

Final word of the day- Shout out to the Bengals for playing their hearts out in Sunday's game against the Chargers. Although they didn't win the game, they played their hearts out, in lieu of the sudden loss of their teammate Chris Henry. The Bengals came from behind to tie the score up at 24 in the 4th quarter but Nate Kaeding's 52-yard field goal with 3 seconds left gave the Chargers the game. Keep fighting Cincy. Chris Henry is watching over you guys.