Bloodless Coup

Very cool.

Though of course it's the outcome of that game (for the Dolphins) that really stands out to me. That team finishing 9-7 is simply amazing. When you think about last season ... well, it's best not to. To my mind Nick Saban was clearly one of the top two coaches in the league this year - and really, probably the best - in just his first season with Miami.

here here, but i'd just like to add that i think coughlin's accomplishments with a thoroughly mediocre on paper giants team this year has been pretty singular as well. of course, now that they're fielding a bunch of linebackers who hadn't set foot on a football field in months, they're sure not to last long in the playoffs. i like them at home against carolina, but barely, and i can't see them winning two. even so, given manning's unpredictability (i still think among the current crop of young'ns (particularly, palmer and roethlisberger) that he'll prove the best long-term investment, but his youth continues to tell), the defense's early porousness, and a touch and go O-line, coughlin has gotten a lot out of this team.

and, while i'm at it, tiki is your hands-down choice for MVP if that award is going to speak to an individual's actual value to his team. it's really not even that close, or shouldn't be.

i take it i'm not the only one who thinks tiki deserves it. second greatest yardage from scrimmage . . . ever.

It boggles my mind how I have become the kind of person who cares not one whit for football anymore. I used to love it, breathe it, plan for it, sweat for it (in hot wool uniforms for several hours on Saturdays in the fall). Other sports too. I just don't know what happened. But I could care less. I don't even know what teams have moved where inthe last few years. The Houston Texans? The hell you say!?

It must have something to do with Spurrier.