MMBSD: SuperCharged Analysis

There are very few consistencies in life: death, taxes and confusion over how Kevin Costner still gets movie roles. The NFL at times seems to have even less consistency. Sure you can set your watch to the consistently increasing bad officiating and Maurice Carthon's (pictured at right) continuing attempt to garner a lock for world's dumbest man not living in Washington D.C. This week's dumbest of the dumb moves was on third and inches he decided to go with a toss-sweep option to pass play using the backup fullback (Lawrence Vickers) while on the opposition twenty yard line. Yes nothing says great coaching than placing the ball into the hands of a rookie fullback and having him read pass coverage while in the red zone. For all those loyal MMBSD readers, I emplore you, write the State Department to have Carthon deported to a place where he fits in...like the French Army.

Nonetheless when boiled down to a lot of the inconsistency that seems to permeate the NFL, well in hindsight actually makes a great deal of sense. Since back seat driving is all about hindsight, (the should'ves, the could'ves, the what in the world was I thinkings) let's check out the list of why on the surface things that don't make, do make sense.

1) Giants over 'Skins - Did we really get fooled into thinking that somehow Mark Brunnell resembled a professional quarterback? Really? Yes its a little surprising that the Giants morbid sackattack was revived. However the Redskins secondary has been victimized all year by the big play and thats something Manning to Burress specialize in. Factor in Brunnell was distracted over his worries about Medicare Part D and you get a predictable beat-down.

2) Tampa Nearly Pulling Off the Upset- Tampa despite using first time starter Gradkowski put a pretty big scare into Team America (who needed Reggie Bush's first touchdown of his career to get the win). However Gradkowski is out of University of Toledo. Toledo is a MAC team which has somehow become one of the elite conferences for NFL QBs. MAC quarterbacks have increasingly found starting jobs to showcase their skills, which for a conference not guaranteed a BCS bid is impressive.

3) San Diego beat down Pittsburgh - Actually this one was obvious. The Super-Chargers don't lose while wearing the powder blue. They're unstoppable. I'm not sure if those jersey's are laced with PCP or imbued with the souls of 100 dead Aztec warriors (which mainly helps with pass protection) but the old school uniforms are the way to go. Obviously the defending Super Bowl Champs only hope for reviving their season is benching MAC product Roethlisberger for MAC product Omar Jacobs (who's on the practice squad).

4) Philly beat down Dallas - Those folks that overlooked Philly this year missed an important fact....Philly's defensive line is healthy. Last year the defensive line was in various forms of breakage but a healthy line is a dominant line for Andy Reid. Philly carved up the inside of Dallas' line forcing statuesque (in a bad way) Drew Bledsoe to reach for that Liza Manelli strength pain killers.

5) Indy escapes with their life (barely) - Another close for the Colts. Something is just not clicking on this. Manning only threw for 166 yards against a defense that gave out frequent flier miles the previous week. I realize this team is undefeated but does anyone really think this is an elite team at this point?

A Few Other Thoughts (That don't involve sucking up to Starbucks)
Chris Carpenter on short rest pitching a great game to clinch to guards third straight to trip to the NLCS. That's what makes baseball playoffs special. The Buckeyes easily rolled to an early lead on Bowling Green. However rather than running up the score on the obviously over-matched team, Tressel put the brakes on. Its something that bothers me when the Browns or Stoops or Carrolls of the world need to the humiliate opponents in order to make themselves look better. The Sweatervest however took the classy approach to winning and slowed things down. Yeah ,I'm annoyed that Texas won the Red River Classic, but can anyone imagine the amount of complaining Oklahoma would have put up if their only loss was the controversial one to Oregon? Finally, a belated congratulation is in order to our benevolent co-editor, Gutsy. Gutsy secured gainful employment after he graduates in the spring. Which frankly is a lot more than we say about the other co-editor...get a real job Sandwich....get a job.