NFL Week 15

Here I go. To much time on my hands at work again. Week 15 brings sadness as I watch another season end with the Texans out of contention and looking to next season.

Just a few things that stuck out this week.

Those damn Steelers keep pulling victories out of their asses. Last week it was the Dullass Crygirls and this week it was a favorable TD call against the Baltimore Ravens. I think it was a piss poor call by the ref to overturn the ruling on the field. The criteria for overturning a call is indisputable visual evidence that a call is wrong. Replays don't show where the ball is. It should have been stuck outside the goal line. Bad call but I still don't think replay should be banished or tinkered with.

The Giants are in some trouble. Looking like heavy favorites to repeat, they are now on a two game losing streak and looking lost. How much is it injuries and how much is it missing Plaxico Burress and any hangover affects from the whole fiasco? Probably all of the above.

Jim Zorn stated that he feels like the worst coach in the league. Don't sweat it, Jim. Herm Edwards and Jack Del Rio are still employed. You're at worst the third worse coach in the league. What you have to worry about is owner Daniel Snyder ousting you after one season. The Washington Redskins are Snyder's real life fantasy team and he treats it as such. When Jerry Jones turns into Al Davis, Snyder turns into Jerry Jones. Snyder is an idiot. There has been no stability to the organization since he took over. Until he puts his ego aside and hires real football management, a once proud Redskin organization will continue to be dysfunctional. Maybe I should start calling the Cowboys the Oakland Raiders Central and the Redskins Oakland Raiders East.

Last week there was word that Herm Edwards was probably getting another year in KC. With the resignation of Carl Peterson, Edwards may be out soon too. A new GM usually wants to bring in his own coach and considering Edwards' record, a new GM would be wise to bring in a new coach.

If Edwards is fired and Texans defensive coordinator Richard Smith is let go, I'll have scored the hat trick this year. Matt Millen was the first....come one Edwards and Smith.

Player of the Week: Who else but Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson. He made the Tennessee Titans defensive backs his little bitches in going 207 yards on 11 catches and one TD. Honorable mention goes to Texans RB Steve Slaton. He's the only RB to rush for 100 or more yards against the Titans....and he's done it twice....

Joe Pisarcik/Carson Palmer Players of the Week: The entire Tennessee Titans organization. 1.)Fat Albert Haynesworth. He talked smack all week about how quarterback Matt Schaub was weak and that they planned on knocking him out of the game in the first quarter. Further stating that they were going to hit Schaub so hard that he would be looking for the defense instead of looking downfield for his receivers. Paybacks a bitch, isn't it Fat Albert? Fat Albert was the one dragged off the field after a Texan lineman fell on his fat ass. He's out for the regular season. 2.) Jeff Fisher. Not so much as not going for the field goal near the end of the game but the play call for it. Kerry Collins channeled his inner Vince Young and looked like crap most of the game. The Titans have the second best running duo in football. So Fisher decides to trust Collins off target arm for the first down. At least let your best players try to make the play. 3.) Running backs Chris Johnson and LenDale White. The two were kept in check by the Texans defense and never did any serious damage on the field. As one Texan defender put it,"Dash and smash turned into crushed and smushed." 4.) Vince Young. I watched the Son of Zeus the whole game. He isolates himself from the team. Whatever end of the field the action was going on, all the bench players were standing on that side and watching the action. Young would stand as far from them as possible and watch from there. When the action shifted he would move away from the bench players and stand alone as far away as possible. Only a couple of players would talk to him during the game and I think a waterboy or low level coach would talk to him a couple of times. 5.) Bud Adams. He drafted Vince Young. Enough said. 6.)Cortland Finnegan. He's just a little douchebag cheapshot artist. His helmet to helmet hit to Schaub was about as ugly as it gets. In the same series he speared TE Owen Daniels. That should have gotten him ejected from the game. 7.) All the dorks wearing Vince Young jerseys to the game. They looked like a bunch of idiots with the jersey of the back up quarterback. 8.) Richard Justice. Why Justice? For his column on Vince Young and the statement that Young is loved "unconditionally" in Houston. Major props to all those that wrote him and put comments that he isn't unconditionally loved. Justice, Rich Lord and Jerome Solomon usually have cat slap fights to see who gets to orally pleasure Vince Young first.

I gotta admit I liked what I saw from the Texans this week. The Titans came in with a street brawler's mentality and tried to beat up on the Texans. I don't blame them. In the past, the Texans would have folded up like a card house and curled into the fetal position. This time they fought back. The Titans tried to set the tone early and Texans linemen had no problem getting up and push, shove and hit back after a play was over. Like Lance Zeurlien of the Houston Chronicle said, the Titans are one of the five nastiest teams in the league and the Texans played them at their
own game and won. I'm damn proud of the Texans for playing like that. How many teams out of playoff contention would have bothered to get into a fist fight game like this? Not to many. Hopefully this is something they can build on and keep up next year.

I think that's about enough for this week!