JAG’s Sports Blog

The NFL and NCAA football seasons are coming down to the wire and the races are heating up. We take a look at where the teams stand and the likely playoff and bowl game scenarios in a look at football this week.

For those spectators looking to criticize the Indianapolis Colts, you’ll need to wait another week. The Colts proved they can play smash mouth football as well as playground football with a dominating defense to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 26-7 in the Monday Night game. This takes the Colts to 11-0 and continue their quest to finish an undefeated season and more importantly, lock up home-field advantage for the playoffs.

In other action around the NFL, the Chicago Bears, picked to finish last by most experts in the NFC North, ran their record to 8-3 with a 13-10 dogfight victory over Tampa Bay. The San Diego Chargers strengthened their playoff hopes with a thrilling 23-17 overtime win against the Washington Redskins as LaDainian Tomlinson scored 3 more touchdowns to raise his season total to 22. The Chargers raise their record to 7-4. The Kansas City Chiefs also kept pace at 7-4 with San Diego after an impressive 26-16 win against the New England Patriots. The Seattle Seahawks, in a search for respect around the league, defeated the New York Giants as kicker Jay Feeley, missed 3 field goals in the 4th quarter and overtime before Seattle kicker Josh Brown finished the game with a 36-yard field goal to run their record to 9-2, while the Giants dropped to 7-4 and remain tied with the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC East. The Cowboys were defeated by the Denver Broncos on Thanksgiving Day in an overtime game. Atlanta beat up Detroit in the other Thanksgiving Day game 27-7, which has eventually led to the firing of coach Steve Mariucci.

In the race for the 1st round pick in 2006, the Houston Texans (1-10) showed why they are the favorites to get the 1st round pick (Reggie Bush from USC), (more…)

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I know many fans are laughing and applauding with satisfaction that Owens got what he deserved and it’s about time that someone stood up and sent a message to T.O. and all the other spoiled athletes that think they’re so special and entitled to do whatever they want without any consequences. The question you have to ask yourself is whether Philadelphia will be a better team this year or any other year in the near future? I think the answer is no and it’s not based on winning in arbitration against T.O., but on how they will deal with the victory for this season.

The Eagles are absolutely finished in this football season and there can’t be any satisfaction in saying we’d rather lose as a team as opposed to putting up with T.O.’s negative behaviors and maybe winning some games. The Eagles could be viewed as petty and vindictive if they choose to deactivate Owens rather than releasing him. If the team keeps choosing to say they want to move on, why bother paying a player to stay at home and away from the football team. Moving on to me means cutting the strings completely, especially when your season is all but finished with your starting quarterback being done for the season physically and/or performance wise.

Many fans hate to believe this, but a lot of players on that Eagles team actually like T.O. and would have accepted him back to play. Players will probably accept more than fans, coaches and other observers might because their goal is to win and no one can question T.O.’s ability as a player. To suspend T.O. is (more…)