10 Things from Sunday Funday: Week 13

1. “Davone Bess is the the Bess receiver in the NFL”, says the guy next to me. Wow. That’s good. That’s unthinkably clever and good. I just asked him to write for us at the Pigskin Docs. He politely declined and told me he was too good for this site. And I agree.

2. So this happened Saturday to Brian Kelly, but I was thinking a great way to spice up the NFL would be to increase the Gatorade/Water cooler dumps on the coach from once after a big win, to every time something good happened. You know?! I think it’d be great…Touchdown!!! Water dump. Interception! Riptide Rush bath. First Down!  MJ’s fav, Citrus Cooler Dump. Hand-off! Frost Dump! Successfully executed snap! Tiger Focus Cool Fusion Splaaaaashh! Makes me laugh thinking about the coach running around in a rain coat and the camera cutting to the sideline every play, and how annoyed he’d start to get. Man, this was a dumb post.

3. Imagine a scenario in fantasy fooball when your down 7 points and your opponent has your receiver’s quarterback, and there’s only time for one more play. You’re pretty much done, right? Not so fast. If you didn’t see the Brees INT/Meachem strip for a touchdown play, check it out. What a crazy series of events. Brees throws a pick over the middle, which may have hit the ground first, Moore returns it about 20 yards before Robert Meachem strips him and takes it back the other way for a touchdown! Play is challenged, Call stands. Wow. INT Brees – 2. Meachem strip on the return, takes it to the house, +6, you win! Wow! Just when your think your down out of the playoffs, the Saints pull off the INT/Strip play and send you there with the Wild Card! Now, there’s finally a play to root for these impossible situations. Incredible! Or I guess you could  just root for an end around or a reverse. I guess I didn’t think of that. That’s probably easier…But not cooler. And cooler is the best way to win.

4. I mentioned above that Brees’ pass may have not been intercepted after it appeared to hit the ground, and it was indeed challenged, but by the Redskins! Probably the one time a coach would ever challenge that his DB didn’t intercept the ball. “Oh come on. There is no way he caught that ball, says Jim Zorn probably to the ref, “He’s not talented enough to make that catch, sir. Have you seen us play this year? You haven’t seen us play this year. No catch sir,. Incomplete, Saints ball, man, Not good enough to catch it, Saints Ball.”

5. ZERO picks between Cutler and Delhomme this week! Not one. Jay played the Rams and Jake didn’t play. But I mean still! Zero Picks is zero picks!

6. While watching Peyton orchestrate another TD drive on Sunday I got lost in thought for a moment. This guy is just hard to wrap your mind around. With the speed of the game today, with the size of all the players and their first-rate work out programs, facilities, nutrition plans, diet plans, access to advanced scouting reports, instant information from computers, and the scrutiny from the over the top 24/7 media frenzy, it’s amazing how he’s able to remain so cool and calm and so much better than everyone else. 100-200 years from now, when people read about him, they’ll talk about him like they do Babe Ruth. He’ll be mythical.  “Man it must have been cool to see Peyton Manning play football back then.” Yea, it was. It really was. Peyton is already a legend and he’s still alive, and still playing. That just doesn’t happen. It’s Jordan-like. I mean, even teams and great players can look ordinary sometimes, (Vikings and Favre, last night) but Peyton man, Peyton is hard to understand. Every year, with whatever 10 guys are out there with him, he gets it done. Best I’ve ever seen.

7. My friend and I were discussing where we might watch the Chargers/Browns game in the afternoon while a lady friend of ours was attempting to derail our plans with a movie night. Here is a real excerpt from our conversation:

“Guys C’mon, all you do is watch football.”

“Yea well, sometimes we sleep.”

“Well, errr, what time is that game at?

“It’s at 3″

“PM?”

So yes, in her mind, the possibility of a 3 AM Monday morning NFL game in Cleveland actually exists.

8. Head Coach Hot seat: Jim Zorn, Lovie Smith, Eric Mangini, self titled under-appreciated Wade Phillips…

Mike Tomlin…

Bill Belicheck.

9. “Did Mike Sims-Walker have another late night hook-up or what? Is he even playing?” Yells my buddy after a no-show, zero catch first half. Well I laughed, at least.

10. A user comment from warriorking on NFL.com about the play of his Dallas Cowboys.

“Well i guess they were missing four starters in the defense.. but yah that cant be an excuse.. how they play in the postseason will determine how far they go.”

How they play in the postseason will determine how far they go, he says. Wow. That’s..wow…That’s really good. I couldn’t agree more. As you may have guessed, I have already sent him an email asking him to write for us at the Pigskin Docs.