Really Big Red is the 15th best coach in the NFL?

The draft is over and now NFL writers are looking for something to write about. Over at National Football Post they decided to do a head coach power ranking story. The list is a little over the place, but the one thing that drives me nuts is ranking Eagles head coach Andy Reid in the teens, come on he is a pain but he is a top level coach. Come on we all hate Andy at some point but lets be honest he is a top 10 coach.

This has to be a first

So yesterday while watching the Carolina Panthers and the Green Bay Packers game, I thought to myself wow I think that I just saw history.

During the game, Panthers' QB Cam Newton was picked off by Packers' DB Charles Woodson twice and after thinking about it for a while, I thought it may have been historical. Since Woodson was the only Heisman Trophy winner to play defense and Cam Newton won the Heisman last year, was this the first time that a Heisman Trophy winner was picked off by another? I have to think it was and if it was I don't think enough has been made of it.  

Rodgers now has his belt

So Aaron Rodgers now has his championship belt. Rodgers and the Packers beat the Steelers last night in a really good football game. Here is how newspapers in Green Bay and Pittsburgh covered the game.

OTWT Super Bowl Pick

Everyone is doing it, so why not us. Here is my Super Bowl pick for later today: Green Bay 28, Pittsburgh 31 on a last second field. If I'm wrong who the hell cares.

Professional Tailgating: One and Done Again

For the second year in a row, the Eagles made the playoffs and went out as quickly as they came in. Here are some of the sights from around the Linc yesterday.

This guy is a big Vick fan, I wonder what he thought of Vick's final pass of the game

This years theme Heart 

 Hats are nice way to celebrate a division title, but nothing beats an ice sculpture

 Balloon Eagle that got in my way all night

 You know its a big game, when there is a flag like this on the field

I hope Vick acts like a Super Hero tomorrow

I saw this on the net and could not help but post it. Mike Vick needs to be a video game hero tomorrow in their playoff game against the Green Bay Packers

It would have made a great epic movie

Wow, where do you start with the Eagles. They lost, 27-20 to the Packers, and that is the most important thing. But after one game there are still more questions then answered.

Is Kolb the right guy? Don't know because he left the game with an injury and was terrible before leaving.

Will they be able to run the ball? Don't know Weaver is done for the year.

What is Mike Vick's roll on this team? It might be a gimmick player or it could be starting quarterback.

Is the defense any good? Bradley got hurt again and while they look good, I don't know if part of that was from the Packers shutting down a little.

The one thing we did learn is that both Brandon Graham and Nate Allen held their own on defense and look like they are going to players on defense. Allen will go down in Eagles history of the Donovan McNabb player.

This game reminded me of the NFC Title game of a couple of years ago against the Cardinals, fall behind earlier and then fight to come back and just come up short. So I guess there is one good thing, we get to do it all over again next Sunday against the Lions.
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Madden Covers Through the Years

This was in an ESPN.com story about the Madden video game over the years. Love the ole school covers with just Madden on the cover, talk about an ego crazy person.

My Thanksgiving Weekend

The Thanksgiving weekend means a variety of things to a variety of people. For me it means a couple of things: stomach aches from eating too much, trips up and down the Garden State Parkway, and sports lots of it from college football to the NFL to college basketball to maybe a little NHL.

This year has been no different. Starting with the Lions and ending with Josh McDaniels saying "winning Mother Fucking game" and Brian Dawkins playing like an animal. Also on the plate was a sock that had a hole in it as well as watching various college basketball games that featured coaches in camping shirts, for some it was a good look while for others it was a fashion disaster.

Day two of the weekend started in freezing weather on the golf course. Sure I played the whole round in a woolie and under armor, I did not hit the ball that poorly. The rest of the day was more of the same college football. To end the day I listen to Mark Jones call the WVU/Pitt game and I'm dumber for it right now.

Day three has been a little calmer. It Started with the Premier League and then moved on to college football which was good but the only negative is that Matt Millen has followed me again. On Thanksgiving night he called the Giants and Broncos and on Saturday he called Georgia Tech, make him stop. He is the worst.

Day four has been full of stress, mostly from the eagles but it all worked out in the end as they beat the skins. The day started by watching the premier league game between Arsenal and Chelski, thanks gunners for helping me out. The Heels also beat Nevada for Ole Roy's 600 win wrapped up the day.

It's been a long weekend. I have watched so much sports that my eyes hurt. Also my fingers hurt from sending a ton of text messages. Just look at the labels on this post and you can tell how busy a weekend its been. I'm happy to head back to work just so it slows down my sports watching for a couple of days.

The Cover Story: NFL Opening Sunday

So the NFL season is here and there were a bunch of stories after the first week. Here are how some of the papers covered the first Sunday of the season.

Green Bay Press Gazette

The Dallas Morning News

The Intelligencer (Pa)

Philadelphia Daily News

Metro (NY)

Minneapolis Star Tribune

The Detroit News

The Baltimore Sun

The Times Picayune (La)

The Indianapolis Star

The Chicago Tribune

The Miami Herald

The Examiner (Washington DC)

The Denver Post

San Francisco Chronicle

NFL Predictions: Endy in the Outfield Style

NFC East - Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington, New York
NFC North - Green Bay, Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit
NFC South - New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Carolina
NFC West - Arizona, San Fransisco, Seattle, St. Louis
AFC East - New England, Buffalo, New York, Miami
AFC North - Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Baltimore, Cincinnati
AFC South - Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Houston, Tennessee
AFC West - San Diego, Oakland, Denver, Kansas City

NFC Wild Card Round
Dallas (Wild Card) vs. Arizona (NFC West)
Minnesota (Wild Card) vs. Green Bay (NFC North)

NFC Divisional Round
Minnesota vs. Philadelphia (NFC East)
Dallas vs. New Orleans (NFC South)

NFC Championship Game
New Orleans vs. Philadelphia

AFC Wild Card
Cleveland (Wild Card) vs. San Diego (AFC West)
Oakland (Wild Card) vs. Indianapolis (AFC South)

AFC Divisional Round
Indianapolis vs. Pittsburgh (AFC North)
Cleveland vs. New England (AFC East)

AFC Championship
Pittsburgh vs. New England

Super Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia

Super Bowl Champions - Philadelphia Eagles
Super Bowl MVP - Donovan McNabb

Trouble at the Headquarters

Few sports figures in the world make Joe Wolf's Vertical Jump's better half even flinch. But over the course of the last three weeks, the Mrs. has developed a hatred for one sports figure: Brett Farve.

While watching the world wide leader's coverage of the Farve mess, the Mrs. lost it, going on a rant about everyone favorite Southern Miss graduate.

"What an ego manic," she said then going on about how anyone could think of themselves as a fan of a player rather then a team.

"What are the colors of team Farve," she went on to say.

At the end of the rant, the Mrs. wish Farve nothing but the best at his new home, "I hope he gets hurt," she said, adding that constant reports on the Farve saga had effected her sleep over the last couple of weeks.

After two weeks of nothing but Brett Farve news on ESPN, the coverage had finally had a victim, my better half. After calming her down I told her that Ronaldo was going to return to United for the upcoming season and all she could say was: "At least it's not Farve."

Families should just shut up

Sometimes athletes keep their families to close to them and with the two biggest sports stories of the summer season that is no different. During the last couple of weeks the families of former Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre and Manchester United's Ronaldo have kept their gums from flapping about both players situations.

Rumors have come out during the last week or so that Favre wants to come back to lead the Packers, while Ronaldo has been rumored to leave the European Champions and want a move to Real Madrid, since the start of the summer.

And during the course of the last couple of days family members of each have had their say.

Scott Favre, Brett's brother, told a local TV station that his brother is ready to return.

"There's no doubt he can play," Scott Favre told WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee. "He's in good shape, he's working out, we know he can still play, he's healthy, so, if he did, it wouldn't surprise me."

Then it was Brett's mother chance to voices her opinion on her son's relationship with his former team.

"He's felt like that for the last couple of years, that the Packers didn't really want him back," Bonita Favre told WITI. "But nothing's been said. You know it's just been bits and pieces throughout the last couple of years, things that would come up, and it just didn't seem like they went out of their way to keep him. It was kind of like, 'You're done.'"

On the other side of the pond, Ronaldo family is also making their voices heard on his possible move to Real Madrid.

"Cristiano wants to keep playing at Manchester United," Ronaldo's sister, Elma Aveiro (pictured right with her brother), told the Sun. "Real Madrid keep making very strong advances for him. There is a lot of speculation in the newspapers all the time about where he will go and what he is doing but we know who he really is and what he is really up to. He wants to stay at United."

It's good to be part of a close family but sometimes families should really just keep their mouths shuts.