I'm pretty excited already about all the new quarterbacks. Culpeppy on the Dolphins, Brees on the Saints, Griese on the Bears as soon as Rex goes down in the preseason; the AFC West took a step back, as Phillip Rivers and Aaron Brooks will be starting for the Chargers and Raiders, which is fine by me.
There are some nice rule changes: you can challenge plays even if they were downed by contact, there are more rules for safety including low tackles and horse collars, and the playoffs are going to remain at 12 teams. Seriously, how dumb are the Chiefs for proposing to increase the number of playoff teams, when you were the last team to miss the playoffs. Even if you think the idea is good (which it isn't) it just looks like they are whining about missing the playoffs (no comment). The fact is if the Chiefs had beaten either the Cowboys (which came down to the last play) or the Giants (which was an ugly behind the woodshed beatdown) they would have made the playoffs and the Steelers would have been left out. It's funny that the Champs had to win their last game of the season just to edge the Chiefs for the 6th wild card spot.
But c'mon, don't reign in the celebrations. Everyone loves them. No one is hurt by them. Let em dance.
you didn't even mention the kitna/mccown combo in d-town.
ReplyDeletei thought it was a little whiny-ish of the chiefs to add a playoff team in each conference, but it's still a good idea.
curbing celebrations: bad idea