NFL Week 8: Steve Young is calling

Uh, I'd rather have 16 losing seasons than finish 0-16. [/Pirates fan spin]

 

Oh, how I miss looking forward to seeing Barry Sanders run wild on someone while my parents prepared the turkey ...

 

That would actually be a good thing for the franchise, since it would:

1) Preserve for time immemorial the incomparable incompetence of Millen, with a golden 0-16 season as his final sendoff and legacy;

2) clinch the No. 1 draft pick, which they could then parlay into additional picks to build up strength in both lines;

3) pretty much mandate the firing of the hopelessly over-his-head Marinelli and his whole incompetent inbred incestuous staff;

4) strongly encourage the hiring of somebody completely outside the organization as the new GM, instead of an insider with the stink of Millen already on him; and

5) provide a powerful impetus to blow up the whole thing down to bedrock, to get rid of each and every last player possible from the Millen regime, probably a necessity before the team can ever get competitive.

 

How about having both? [/any Lions fan]

(Lions will be halfway to 16 consecutive losing seasons after this year).

And at some point, maybe they want to consider spending a pick on a top flight, franchise QB. When your career passing yardage leader is Bobby Layne, who last played 50 frickin' years ago, you have been the clubhouse leader of fail at that position. Not much use to draft wide receivers if you don't have someone to throw it to them.

 

I agree. There's more to this, I'm sure, but Cleveland has had a half-dozen staph cases over the past few years. Maybe they should clean the mens room more often.

At the same time, the suspension is another move by the league -- however temporary -- to take back the asylum from the inmates.

 

Don't hold back now...

 

They've tried this numerous times: Chuck Long, Andre Ware, Joey Harrington ... they suck at drafting quarterbacks just as well as they suck overall.

 

Even more ridiculous -- Browns players are treated by The Cleveland Clinic, one of the most respected hospitals in the universe. I think the Clinic's rep is really taking a hit over these staph issues.

But while the staph problems have come to the forefront recently (Winslow, LeCharles Bentley, Joe Jurevicius, Brian Russell, Braylon Edwards, Ben Taylor), they date way back in Browns history. Pro Bowler Jerry Sherk saw his career (and nearly his life) ended by staph in 1979. He barely played after that. Maybe there's something in Lake Erie.

 

The Lions' sucking IS tradition.

 

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08296/921898-100.stm

Terrell Suggs is an idiot.

Apparently, he said on a radio show that the Ravens had bounties on Rashard Mendenhall and Hines Ward when they played the Steelers a few weeks back. The rematch should be fun.

 

PO just clutched his avatar and doesn't know why.