The Houston Texans....at one time a lock for the #1 seed, then they just absolutely fall apart in the last few games and now will likely be the #3 seed and the way things are going are unlikely to even win the game at home next week. Matt Schaub has just been awful, he has not been accurate, and he's had wide open deep recievers and can't get the ball there...this has let opposing defenses focus on the Texan running game. While it hurt to lose Brian Cushing, our defense has not played very well in the 2nd half of the season. Congrats to the Colts, they really came out and played well and played with some emotion. That is quite a turn around for them, Andrew Luck is really a great young QB.
Of course it could have been worse. They could have reviewed that ******** TD that they scored vs the Lions and reversed the call. They should have lost that game too.
re: NFL -There was a bigger collapse. My pal the math teacher is from NYC and he's a fanatic follower of the defending Super Bowl Champion NY Giants. He wears his Giants jacket every day and he can recite Giants stats going back to Frank Gifford and YA Tittle. Their collapse included total blow-outs by teams that appeared to have inferior talent and in the end, they didn't even make the playoffs... -In the NFL, this was the year of the impact rookie QBs. Luck, RGIII, and Russell Wilson all guided their teams to the playoffs... -The NFL draft isn't too far away now and I always question many of the evaluations of the college players. Andrew Luck and RGIII went #1 and #2 last year, but Wilson wasn't picked up until the middle of the 3rd round. - In tonight's Redskins/Cowboys game, they were talking about London Fletcher who was undrafted 15 years ago and has now led his team in tackles for 14 consecutive years and has never missed a start in all that time. Who the heck evaluated him?
I'm watching the Packers-Vikes game yesterday and a Packer running back was ruled to have fumbled at the goal line. Packer's coach McCarthy immediately challenged the ruling. However since it's a turnover, it's automatically reviewable. Sound familiar? It should that's what allowed the refs to screw the Lions on Thanksgiving. So did they invoke the same penalty for challenging an automatically reviewable play? Of course not, premier teams in the NFL don't get jobbed like the others. They DID review the play and awarded the Packers a TD. They only penalized the Packers 15 yds. What hypocritical ********!
Likewise. The Colts' rookie GM, Ryan Grigson, because of numerous injuries to starters, has had to patch together a roster full of castoffs and former undrafted free agents. While watching the Colts game yesterday, I went to my roster printout to get the name of #36, who ran back a kickoff 101 yards for a TD, and he wasn't on the roster. He had been signed 1-2 weeks ago to replace the injured kick returner. Grigson is in his 30s. He should be the leading candidate for GM of the year, but Elway probably will get it for one player signing, albeit a very good one.
Cheer up George. At least the GM of the Jets got fired. In a world that had been bidding for Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, RGIII, Russell Wilson etc. He saw the future of Jets football in the hands of Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow. Who knows? Now that he's gone, maybe the Jets will resist the impulse to draft Matt Barkley!