I think the team around Tom Brady makes him look much better than he really is. I think Brady would suck if he played on the Raiders or a team that wasn’t great around him.

Yet Grossman can’t even command the respect of most of Chicago. It can be said he didn’t screw up enough to keep then out of the SB – but it’s also true he wasn’t good enough to lead the Bears to a win when they got there.

I felt the Titans’ 10-6 finish last year was just about their limit, given their injured RB (White), their lack of speed of the receivers and the thinness of their defense.

Yes, Haynesworth is a player and obviously a leader by example and they had just enough strength to stay alive late in the season; they did much better than I expected.

The key is that the team improved two games, which was a big jump for their talent and they made the playoffs. Those two games were the make-it-or-break line in the NFL. That success will put fans in the seats and keep the front office happy.

I think Fisher had a choice: either add players as he could – and he still has salary cap room for more – and get this team up a notch for a couple of more victories and a shot at the SB; or scrap it and rebuild it from scratch around VY, aiming for the time when he will be a mature QB several years down the road. Fisher’s action tends to tell me he is playing for right now, this year and next.

It’s rhetorical whether he has made the best moves or not at this point. Some scream for the big, fast receiver; I think he needs more defensive help, because that’s more crucial in the playoffs, certainly a better OL and more depth all over.

This is the pros; VY can’t do it alone. It seemed like he did in ‘05, but the more we look at that team, the more we realize he was surrounded by a powerful cast that complemented his abilities and put him in position to do what he does best when the game was on the line: Win the game for you. When it comes down to that moment, he’s the man you want for the job and there’s only a handful of other who actually compare at that moment.

When Tennessee took VY, they were mediocre. Now they’re at the edge of contention but not anyone’s favorite to take it all the way. But if they win 11 or 12 this year and hit the playoffs again – relatively healthy – few teams will want to face them because they have one of the most dangerous players in football at the controls.

It’s not just that Vince has potential or is good or will maybe be great – it’s that on the field right now he is extremely dangerous and can do things to beat you even when you’ve done everything correctly. That is the NFL nightmare that Fisher is trying to bring into being while VY’s legs are still young and fresh. The rest is just prologue, the standard logic of normal growth, in what I see as a quite non-linear equation. Vince is the discontinuity for which you can’t account. And I see this window of opportunity not being open that long. And I suspect that is part of the motivating force for Fisher’s logic.

its college football.. half the games are against crummy teams