Thanks to a classic goal-line stand spearheaded by former Gator Alex Brown, the Chicago Bears defeated the Philadelphia Eagles to clinch my first bag write-up of the season (or ever). I promise these will get better and more creative as time goes on. I'm still trying to get my feet wet. I don't think I've ever blogged anything in my life.
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This week marked an epic moment in bag history. Although I don't think records have been kept, this must be the earliest that a bag team has fired their coach. For a bag owner to have both his team's coaches fired a quarter of the way through the season must be unprecedented. Maybe it will do Lenny some good. The Rams and Raiders can't look much worse (okay, maybe the Raiders can) so the sooner they shake things up the better. Although Haslett's first move of replacing deck-chair Trent Green with deck-chair Marc Bulger a week after the were switched out probably isn't going to help much.
So I believe the standings after Week 4 are:
Ryan 4-4
Jason 3-4
Randie 2-3
Lenny 1-7
At least Lenny won't lose ground this week since both his teams have byes. None of the bag teams are playing each other, so this might be his best chance to get another write-up this season since all of our teams could lose! Too bad the Rams and Raiders don't play each other this year...
I fully expect to be writing here again next week. Chicago is at Detroit. The Lions aren't going to be any better just because Matt Millen isn't there. They just named Bengal reject (that's the 0-4 Cincinnati Bengals) Rudi Johnson as their starting running back. They'll be lucky to get 50 running yards. And the Detroit press is saying Kitna is done.
The Dolphins are at home against the Chargers. While San Diego is indeed favored (-6.5), Miami was buoyed by the unexpected good news that Ricky Williams managed to make it through the bye week without smoking weed. I fully expect this lift to carry them to victory on Sunday. If the team can transfer that kind of off-the-field resolve to the playing field they can defeat anyone. "I'm free, what can I do?" might just become the rallying mantra for their season!!!
I read a truly awesome factoid this morning after watching Al Davis froth at the mouth for about the 15th time:
New Raiders HC Tom Cable played guard for Idaho under Dennis Erickson in the 80s. The QB he was tasked with protecting?
Scott Linehan.
You can't make this shit up.
By the way, I can't be happier that our new HC's only previous head coaching experience was at his alma mater, where he went 11-35 (.239) in four straight losing seasons (five of his losses were to Division I-AA schools, and one of his wins was against a I-AA school).
His other recent coaching experience was as the OC for Karl Dorrel's UCLA teams (Dorrel got canned because their offense sucked) and as the OL coach for the Falcons under Jim Mora (also canned).
What the FUCK is the world coming to when you desperately wish your team would have hired Paul Hackett?!?!?!?