NFL Week 14: Jim Harbaugh's first number

Your grasp of the obvious knows no bounds.

 

That was the team that lost its first two games of the season by a combined score of 92-10. The worst of it was 51-0 at home against the Browns in the opener. I was in Three River Stadium for that one. My cousin and I started off in the 200 level, but we watched most of the fourth quarter from the front row near the 50.

They also lost by scores of 34-7, 27-0 and 20-0, but won five of their final six to sneak into the playoffs.

 

If you want to play Kaepernick or Cam Newton or guys like that, that's the sort of offense you need to run. Not drop back and wing it.

 

The 2001 Patriots pulled games out of their assess all the way to a Lombardi trophy. And they weren't that good.

 

Can we please dispense with the notion that the New Orleans Saints are anything remotely close to a good team.

Maybe next year if Sean Payton comes back, they put the whole bounty ordeal behind them, get a couple better defensive players, etc. But not this year.

I really think Roger Goodell was so outraged over the whole bounty news --- and, as someone whose job is to protect the league's billion-dollar image, understandably so --- that he more or less said "I'm going to screw that whole organization to the greatest extent possible and make an example of them so that NO ONE dares think of anything like that ever again."

 

Schedule this year is as bad as I can remember.

I know this is not a new thing, but up until around 10-15 years, you didn't schedule night games in December in places like Green Bay and New England. I may be dumber than 98 percent of the population, but even I can figure that one out.

 

Before you know it they'll be scheduling Super Bowls in the Northeast ... oh yeah.

 

No one wants to talk about how the Bears have just as good a chance as any number of NFC teams to compete for a Super Bowl? No one?

Why do I always have to be right about these losers?

 

Damn. You're starting to sound like me.

(I'm betting he punches the screen when he reads that one.)

 

If you correctly predicted that they'd lose half their defense and the few decent offensive linemen they had within a couple of weeks, cool for you.

 

Nobody would predict that.

The Bears don't have any decent offensive linemen.

 

And I'm not saying it would have been a terrible prediction. They are very old in some key spots and the injury risk is higher.

But this is the same old story in the NFL: 95% of teams will look awesome when they are healthy in week 13 and terrible when they aren't.