- Good for the Seattle Seahawks. At 7-9, they made the playoffs on a technicality, but they looked a lot better than a couple of those 10 and 11 win teams did this weekend.
- My dad always said that there was nothing more exciting in football than a long run from scrimmage. Marshawn Lynch proved that big time with that run on Saturday. The TD by the Chiefs Jamaal Charles was a nifty one, too, but that run of Lynch's was one for the ages.
- Speaking of the Chiefs, man did they stink up the joint. Everybody points the the NFC West with its 7-9 champ as a lousy division, but how good could the AFC West be if the Chiefs were the best of that lot?
- How does Ray Lewis keep on playing so well? He's about 50 years old, isn't he? It seems like he's been around forever, and he hasn't slowed down a bit.
- If you read Peter King on si.com today, you saw him asking of Peyton Manning is starting on the downward path of his career. As I said on Saturday, the 2010 Colts are NOT the Colts that were so dominant in past years.
- With his team down 21-10 midway through the fourth quarter and facing fourth and a yard from the 30 or so yard line, Andy Reid went for a FG...and they missed it. I thought that they needed to go for it there. As I mentioned on Facebook last night, I would not be real thrilled if Andy Reid was the coach of a team that I rooted for.
- I think it is kind of amazing that the Eagles still had a chance to win that game right up to the very end.
- Readers know that I am no fan of Rex Ryan and the Jets, but they sure were the better team in Indy on Saturday night, and they deserved that win.
- Two awfully good match-ups in the AFC next week, both of them divisional rubber games, Jets v. Pats and Ravens v. Steelers. I'm glad that the Steelers game is the first one of the weekend. No stress in wading through two or three other games. We'll know how we stand right off the bat.
- Falcons-Seahawks and Bears-Seahawks in the NFC. Not sure how I'll pick these ones, but this much I know: the Seahawks are still a team that went 7-9 this year, and Jay Cutler is the QB of the Bears.
- Again, from Facebook on Saturday night: If I could pick one football analyst to listen to for any one game, I'll take Chris Collinsworth.
I will leave the NFL for a moment to comment on tonight's BCS Championship Game. No, this will not be a rant on the evils of the BCS, the grip of the large conference cartel over college football, the hypocrisy of Cam Newton's eligibility, and the dire need of a playoff for NCAA Division I football. Instead, I will merely point out that the two teams, Auburn and Oregon, last played a game over six weeks ago, the public has been force-fed 34 meaningless bowl games (also known as "ESPN programming"), and what was previously the culmination of the college football season, New Year's Day, passed ten days ago. Having said that, does anyone other than the two schools involved actually even care about this game at this late date?
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