It's a cold, lazy Sunday afternoon, and I'm laying here feeling sick and grouchy. So, it's a perfect time for Old Man Mosher to get out his defective football thinking cap and start spouting off about the first eight weeks of the season.
Most Overrated Teams and Players:
- Chicago Bears - who have these guys played? The only opponent remotely approximating a professional football team were the Vikings, and the Bears barely won that. Every other game has been more like beating up on a bunch of cripples from a NCAA Ju-Co squad. I'm not impressed. It doesn't hurt that they are playing one of the easiest schedules in the league. This team has no credibility.
- Brian Urlacher - this isn't just my opinion, either. According to SI's recent poll, the people who play against Urlacher consider him the second most overrated player in the league (after Terrell Owens.) Not a bad player, but not great, either. Let's see him and his cohorts take on a real, actual working offense first. They haven't yet this year. And probably won't until the playoffs.
- Atlanta Falcons (and Michael Vick) - Another bunch of pretenders who haven't done anything. But of course, the national media continues to fawn over them, their Mickey Mouse faced coach, and their scatter-armed, scatter-brained "quarterback" Michael Vick.
- New York Giants - a crybaby running back who can't wait to get the season over with, a QB whose completion percentage continues to hover around 50%, a beat up defense that leaks like a sieve, and a coach who still thinks he's in the Marine Corps, not a sports league.
- Terrell Owens - not only is his brain shoved three feet up his butt, he's breaking down physically as well. He hasn't played a full season in four years. The Cowboys would be wise to find some reason to put him on IR and bring a blind Mexican WR up from the taxi squad. It'd be an improvement.
- David Carr - yeah, his team is only 2-4 and will be very lucky to win four or five games this year. But Carr is playing very well, thanks to the fact that for the first time in his career he has a real coach (Gary Kubiak.) He could have been destroyed like Cleveland destroyed Tim Couch, but Carr has hung in there physically and mentally and now has the chance to show his talents. On a side note, Chris Palmer has been ordered by a federal judge to never come within 100 miles of a quarterback ever again.
- New Orleans Saints (and Drew Brees) - after nearly having his shoulder removed from his body by John Lynch and the Broncos last December, Brees is playing very well. I seriously had wondered if he'd ever be able to play again. I don't give a crap about Reggie Bush. Brees is the reason this team is doing so well and might actually make some noise in the playoffs. Guess Nick Saban isn't nearly as smart as all the pundits keep making him out to be, the 'Fins sure could use a real genuine QB right now.
- Minnesota Vikings - after all the crap this franchise has gone through the last few years (Randy Moss, Dante Culpepper, StripperBoatGate, WhizzinatorGate, Koren Robinson... the list goes on and on...) I figured they'd be down and out for years. Very nice job by Brad Childress. True, they play in probably the worst division in the league, but even so, I don't think anyone expected more than a 5-11, 6-10 record out of these guys.
- Philadelphia Eagles - gotta feel for Donavan McNabb. He's playing some of the best ball of his career (well, up until the last couple of weeks), but an inept defense, shaky running game and lousy offensive line have torpedoed his efforts.
- Arizona Cardinals - yeah, the offensive line is lousy. Really lousy. But there's still too much talent for the team to be 1-6. Particularly in the weak NFC West. Dennis Green should never be allowed to coach again. What an incompetent bozo.
- Dallas Cowboys - I guess I am guilty (like everyone else) of greatly overrating the Tuna's ability to handle T.O. Not to mention overrating their running game and defense. They'll still pull a playoff appearance out of all this crap, but that's it.
- Seattle Seahawks - don't let the 4-2 record fool you. This team is falling apart at the seams right now. Even before Alexander and Hasslebach got injured, the soon to be former NFC champs were looking mighty wobbly.
- Jacksonville Jaguars - like the Ravens of the past few years, a wonderful defense is being wasted by a completely inept offense. When will they get it through their heads that Byron L. is not starting QB material? When will they draft receivers who can catch the ball?
- Oakland Raiders - just suck, baby! There's a reason why no one wanted to hire Art Shell for all those years. There's a reason why Aaron Brooks got dumped. And there's one single reason this time will continue to suck: Al Davis. The man has probably been medically dead since 1985. Who the hell are the other "owners" over which Davis owns the controlling interest? A bunch of pygmies from Africa that he had murdered in 1964?
- Pittsburgh Steelers (and Ben Rothlisberger) - the champs have turned to chumps, the carriage has mutated into a discounted rotting pumpkin, and Cinderella has transformed into a 55 year old, five dollar an hour hooker. This should surprise no one. The Steelers only chance of getting into the playoffs is to bench Big Ben indefinitely and pray Charlie Batch doesn't have nightmare flashbacks to all those years in Detroit.
- Washington Redskins - couldn't happen to a more deserving franchise (ie, Dan Snyder). Joe Gibbs is in WAY over his head. Anybody who names 97 year old QB Mark Brunell as his starting QB two years in a row has obviously been sniffing far too many NASCAR fumes. Clinton Portis, overused and ill-suited for Gibbs 1982 style offense, will be dead by sometime in 2007.
- Art Shell - old, out of touch and clueless.
- Joe Gibbs - ditto.
- Jon Gruden - his ego and lousy personnel management skills have finally caught up.
- Bill Parcells - can't hack it any more.
- Jeff Fisher - this is for his own good. He's a good coach who deserves better than the. Titanic sized wreck the idiotic Bud Adams has turned this franchise into.
- Marty Schottenheimer - another playoff choke awaits when he yet again forgets that back in the late 30's, the forward pass began to be used at times.
- Dennis Green - let him go retire in Arkansas, where he can sit on a ramshackle porch with Nolan Richardson and bitch and whine all he wants.
