A week in the NFL that actually looks pretty tame. Of course therealj stole my upset pick of the Raiders over the Vikes but it looks good from here other than maybe GB over Tampa. It's hard to think of last year's champs loosing 3 in a row but they aren't doing anything well right now. One thought I have about the league is how much of a coaches league it has become. The tallent level is so close from top to bottom, examples are the Raiders and Dallas. Last year Oakland rolls along and makes the Super Bowl while Dallas looked like a team in need of a major rebuilding. This year Dallas picks up Parcells who didn't even bring his usual gang of players with him and turned the team around. The difference between this year and last year is execution in all 3 major areas of the team, little things that other teams miss are huge issues with that man. Oakland on the other hand rode out last year on Gruden's playbook and wanted people to believe that he was not the genius he was implied to be...then came the Super Bowl. After that the coaching staff thought that it would be best to devise their own plan. With their pass only offence and changes to the defensive scheme, the once promising head coach and coordinators managed to alienate their team and cause an unbelieveable fall. The good thing for them (in a twisted way) is that they despise their coach so much that they will continue to fall apart and get a great draft pick, hopefully Tampa continues their free fall so that they can have the #1 and 2 picks in the draft, imagine that.
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