My opinions on the Seahawks defensive coordinator has changed over the years. In 2005, his first year on the job, the Seahawks were all about simplicity, lots of young kids and solid veterans, the scheme was simple, a lot left over from the days of Ray Rhodes. Rhodes tampa two scheme was pure, for better or worse, there wasn't a lot of adjustments or attemps to trick the opposition. It was about discipline, gap control and quality tackling. Go back and watch those games, they were smart, not extremely talented, but very physical. After playing the Seahawks in 2005, Tiki Barber, having spent his life in the "Toughest division in the NFL", declared that it was the most physical game he'd ever played in. This coming from a guy who played the Eagles twice a year and went against the greatest defense of the last twenty years in the Super Bowl in 2000. Coincidentally the Seahawks took this solid defense and made its way to the Super Bowl. John Marshall's scheme in the NFC title game was nothing short of incredible, but, as I mentioned in my previous post, even the worst coaches have their moments.

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Saints over the Raiders: The Raiders will score points because their offense, dispute the lazy, overweight and undisciplined linemen, actually has some weapons. However, the Saints are a borderline playoff team royally pissed about last weeks loss.

Colts over Ravens: It will be about as pretty as an eight car fatality accident, but the Colts will scrap and claw their way to victory. Joe Flacco isn't a winner just yet.

Jets over Bengals: No defense, no Palmer, no chance. The Jets continue to inflate their record against sub par competition.

Bucs over Panthers: A ticked off Jeff Garcia starts at quarterback, I still don't know why he was benched in the first place. Would Brian Griese be in the NFL if his father didn't hand the ball off and run bootlegs on the NFL's only undefeated team.

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I missed posting last week, maybe it was depression settling in or something. But it gets hard to write about football when all i see every week is depressing.  However, I did get to watch the UW OSU game from the Don James Center, which I could watch the Huskies lose every game by 60 and the experience would still be enjoyable. Anyways, I thought the Huskies played their second best game of the year, behind only the BYU game. Against Arizona, they were asleep, Oklahoma destroyed them and Oregon redefined the term "men vs boys".  Aside from a couple of breakdowns containment-wise, the defense played relatively well. They did fairly well in gap control and you can certainly tell that the defensive line is improving, they held their own at the line of scrimmage until they wore down in the second half which, despite lots of substituting, they don't have a lot of depth on the line.  One thing this defense lacks, is speed, all of the guys in the back seven are good athletes, but take angles like they are still the fastest guys on the field, which they aren't.

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I get tired of hearing about "BCS Busters". They are nothing other than relatively insignificant little teams begging for scraps from the table, despite how undeserving they are. Oklahoma's laziness and stupidity and a wide level of utter bullshit on Boise State's part is the sole reason we still hear about these teams. If they had to play in a major conference, they wouldn't be mentioned. They would be an afterthought on the level of vanderbilt and baylor. One of the good parts of a playoff system would be the fact that it would utterly refute the idiotic notion that these teams have that they are the best in the country. Despite playing a far weaker schedule, they use their record as currency to knock teams with inferior records, but who play in major conferences, out of bowl g

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