NFL Week 11: In four weeks we can put TEBOW!!!! in the headline

Clayton is reporting that Orton won't report if the Chiefs claim him.

 

I wouldn't go quite that far. So they finish 9-7 and he gets in over an undefeated Mike McCarthy?

 

We are arguing the theoretical now, because they aren't going 9-7 ... but say they swoon badly and finish 11-5. Yes, Harbaugh wins the award. They have made no personnel moves of note from a team that went 6-10 last year and hasn't had a winning record since 2002, with a quarterback who had been considered one of the all-time busts in the league, and he created a playoff team out of thin air. McCarthy is coaching the defending Super Bowl champion.

 

Playing in the NFC West does no harm.

 

They have played two division games thus far. They have also beaten the Giants, Lions and Bengals, the last two on the road.

 

I don't even want to think about what it would take for Harbaugh not to win the award. If they go from 9-1 to 11-5... I don't know... It would still be a great turnaround, but do you give Coach of the Year to someone who finishes the season 2-4?

I think based on the way the season started, Harbaugh needs 12 wins to win the award.

 

They also obliterated a Bucs team that just gave the Super Bowl champs a scare.

 

The Seahawks are in decent playoff contention in the NFC at 4-6. They have done everything they can to play themselves out of contention. That's how strong the conference is.

 

I would respond to this if I had any idea what it means or how it applies to any previous point.

 

As long as we're dealing in hypotheticals, then -- and this is strictly a hypothetical -- suppose Denver keeps this thing going. Suppose the Broncos beat slumping San Diego, less-than-mediocre Minnesota, the Cutler-less Bears, crumbling Buffalo and often horrendous KC and lose only to New England the rest of the way.

Fox would have then taken a brutally bad team and turned it around to a 9-2 finish (which might even get it into the playoffs in that division) by scrapping his entire offense and radically reshaping it to fit the limitations of his differently-abled quarterback -- who, incidentally, no one in the entire league believes can be successful in the NFL.

Just saying Fox would have to be considered, even if Denver loses two of the last six.

 

I think there would be enough Tebow-hate and people who don't like the way Fox is winning that it would keep the votes off.

Also the 49ers were down with the Broncos last year, made few off-season moves -- and, again, ALEX SMITH is a good NFL quarterback now. That alone puts Harbaugh in the running for Coach of the Decade.

 

I'm saying it's a shitty conference. I won't make time for 1,000-word posts, I'm sorry. But I'll try harder, just for you.