Week 12 Wrap

By Brett | Permalink | No Comments | November 27th, 2006 | Trackback

Alright, we know we’re getting to the party a little late in the day to talk about yesterday’s action, but we have a couple of excuses handy. First, we have a real job, that requires real work…so back off. Second, it’s taken us the better part of 24 hours to get over seeing Tom Brady juke Brian Urlacher in the open field late in the 4th quarter, which left us as speechless as the kid in “Little Miss Sunshine.” What can you say? Tom Brady just finds ways to win.

Here are a few of our other thoughts, leftover from week 12:

• OK, Donovan McNabb goes down, and the Eagles season is shot. We get it. But the way that the Eagles just rolled over for the Colts last night was embarrassing.
• This is the time when big time running backs really start taking games over. Guys like Larry Johnson, Ladanian Tomlinson, Steven Jackson, and Frank Gore are starting to do just that. It’s really pretty impressive to see. With apologies to Joseph Addai, who put up 171 and 4 TDs, we thought that Jackson’s performance against the 49ers was one of the most impressive RB performances we’ve seen this year. Yeah, it was against the 49ers, but that was a clutch performance when his team needed it. Nice job by Scott Linehan, too, of just feeding the ball to Jackson in a game when the passing game just wasn’t there.
• In the interest of full disclosure, we’re going to admit something before this next comment: Here at NFL Logue we’re complete Joey Harrington homers. How can you root for that guy, you ask? Well, he went to high school about two miles from our house, and everyone likes to see the hometown guy make good, right?. When everyone was booing him out of the joint in Detroit, we steadfastly maintained that all the kid needed was a change of scene. Now, we’ll admit that he’s far from being a flawless QB in Miami, but it was nevertheless gratifying to see him stick it to the Lions on Thanksgiving. What a pathetic franchise.
• Alright, we’re three bullet points in and are officially ready to address what happened in New England yesterday. First and foremost, this game had Bill Belichik’s fingerprints all over it. He knew the Bears were going to try to exploit the Pats injury-depleted secondary. With that in mind, the Pats were basically willing to concede yards on the ground (the Bears racked up 145 rushing yards against the #2 rushing D in the league) by keeping a safety deep and playing the run with 7 in the box. It worked to perfection, as the Bears once again proved impatient and unwilling to take what the defense was giving them in the underneath zones. Rex Grossman, he of the 4 turnover game, continues to force balls downfield. In Grossman’s defense, though, none of his interceptions were terrible decisions, although the last one was certainly dubious. His accuracy just wasn’t there, and Asante Samuel did a great job of reading the ball and jumping routes. Finally, just for the record, we’re of the mind that the Bears need to continue to ride Grossman this year. He’s the guy. He either gets it done, or he doesn’t — but putting in Brian Griese at this point sets this franchise back 4 years.
• The Panthers and Jaguars are easily the most confusing teams in the NFL this year. One week, both teams look like Super Bowl contenders. The next, the get beat by teams that have no business beating them. We’re not sure what’s going on over in the Deep South these days, but we’re relatively sure that neither John Fox nor Jack Del Rio will be winning the Coach of the Year award this season.
• Ditto Tom Coughlin, whose team pissed away a 21 point lead in the 4th quarter against one of the worst teams in the league. Hell, if we were Tiki Barber, we’d be retiring too.
• One final note. We read today that the Cowboys have cut Mike Vanderjagt and have signed Martin Gramatica. Look, Vanderjagt is clearly one of the biggest free agent disappointments this season, and he’s also clearly one of the biggest jack-offs in the league. But Martin Gramatica? Are you serious? We can’t help but think that this is going to bite the Cowboys in the ass in January.
  
  
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