Final 4 of Experienced Coaches

After the insane Indy-Pittsburgh game, I was left speechless. Indy didn’t deserve to win the game but certainly had an opportunity to. After Bettis’s fumble, the Indy player who recovered it should have run near the sideline, but instead Roethlisberger tripped him up. I just felt bad for Tony Dungy who can’t stop amassing a playoff record that resembles Marty Schottenheimer.

Turning now to the NFL’s Final 4, you have to go back to 1984, to find a final 4 full of coaches who already had visited the Super Bowl ( Don Shula’s Dolphins beat Chuck Noll’s Steelers ; Bill Walsh’s 49ers beat the Mini-Ditkas.) Yes, I wasted 5 minutes to figure that out. Anyways, both games should be really interesting. And if the stats prove anything, 1 of the 2 road teams is going to win during this Championship weekend, as has happened every year since 1998…

Pittsburgh @ Denver-
Pittsburgh is just playing out of their minds right now! I give them credit for that. However, there’s something about Mile High that I expect is part of the reason for the multitude of Patriot miscues, and that should boil over to this week as well. I also believe that Denver will be able to adjust better to the Pittsburgh blitzes than Indy did.
Pick: Denver

CAR @ Seattle-
I’ve ridden the CAR all year, and there’s no stopping me now from picking them again. Deshaun Foster is injured I realize, but in the words of the great announcer, Troy Aikman, during last week’s game “that offensive lines create holes large enough for any person to run through.” Nick "Quick" Goings, Brad "Vaccuum" Hoover and whatever other RB they have will be fine as long as the offensive line stays healthy. And that is why the CAR is going to go into Seattle and reveal the Seahawks as pretenders. Despite popular opinion, CAR is more than capable of providing offense aside from Steve Smith. Granted, Steve Smith will not be able to put up another week like he did against Chicago. I also just wanted to say “au revoir” to the Chicago Bears by providing a riddle: What do the Olympics and the Chicago Bears have in common? Every 4 years, they have a party! In 2001, the Chicago Bears overachieved, and then lost after obtaining a 1st round bye, just like in 2005. See ya in 2009!
Pick: CAR

And in the end, we will have a Super Jake Bowl – Jake “The Snake” Plummer vs. Jake “The Man” Delhomme!

Last Week: 3-1
Playoffs: 7-1