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Matt Cassel to get tagged

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Matt Cassel answers his cell football

Yep, the smartest organization will franchise tag Matt Cassel. This way he cannot leave for Free Agency and if Tom Brady is not ready to go, then Matt Cassel will take over. If Tom is ready then the New England Patriots can trade him for another great player.

How do they do it?

Following up on a report in the National Football Post, ESPN reported yesterday that the Pats will apply the tag to Cassel for a little more than $14 million. Franchising Cassel will give the Patriots some protection in the event starting quarterback Tom Brady [stats] is not ready to go because of knee surgery.

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We all laughed when Matt took over for Tom Brady, but Matt threw for 14 touchdowns in his last 7 games. The Pats only lost 5 games.

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No self respecting Lions fan would watch

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Have you heard? Matt Millen, former big time losing GM of the Detroit Lions, may return to TV as a football analyst. Hard to believe since he knew nothing about football and proved in many years in a row.

Rumor has it that they are looking for a wide receiver to be the other analyst in the booth. That is a joke, ok, sorry if you are a Lions fan. Wait a minute, you can’t be, there are no Lions fans left in the world, except me.

Oh, and by the way, there are no self respecting Lions fans, so what does Matt have to worry about.

But maybe everybody can just forget about all that and he’ll make a TV comeback. NBC will formally announce Monday that Millen — who appeared in the network’s studio Saturday — will join NBC’s Super Bowl coverage. On that show Saturday, Millen suggested he wasn’t initially qualified for his job — and deserved to be fired.

NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol, in a statement, said “many of us have been blessed with second chances” but Millen was picked up because he’s “one of the very best football broadcasters of his generation.”

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Peyton Manning MVP, it happens

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Peyton Manning win NFL MVP

Yawn, Peyton Manning won the MVP.

The sun shined in Michigan today. Wow! Now that is news.

But Peyton wins MVP? Were you even talking Colts this year? No, they went on a run at the end of the season and now they look really good, but were you even talking about Peyton?

NFL Peyton Manning factoid - In 11 seasons of NFL football, Peyton Manning has thrown for over 3,700 yards every single year. Unreal.

Drew Brees threw for 5,069 yards, second only to Dan Marino on the all time list, but his team faltered. Jay Cutler had a monster season for Denver, but they had no defense.

Michael Turner, DeAngelo Williams, Adrian Peterson, Clinton Portis all had great years, but not great great years.

So what do you do? Well, we could just give the MVP to Peyton Manning. They did have that incredible run.

This has been a most unusual season for the Colts, who normally have the AFC South just about clinched by Thanksgiving. Manning had two operations on his left knee in the preseason, cutting into practice time, blunting his usual precision as a passer and, eventually, leading to a 3-4 start.

Peyton Manning recovered from his early struggles to lead the Colts to nine straight victories and a wild-card berth.

From there, with Manning getting sharper by the week, the Colts won nine straight games to secure a wild-card berth and a meeting Saturday night with San Diego.

In that streak, Manning is 209-of-290 for 2,248 yards and 17 touchdowns, with only three interceptions. He extended his NFL record with his ninth 4,000-yard season and finished with 27 touchdown passes, 12 interceptions and a 95.0 passer rating.

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Brett Favre drives away Cowher

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Rumor has Bill Cowher turning down the Jets job, because Brett Favre is the quarterback. Apparently Coach Cowher is adverse to a risk taking quarterback at the helm.

“There’s no way he’s taking Brett Favre as his quarterback,” the insider said of Cowher.

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They never even got around to talking money.

Not to worry, the list of potential Jets coaches is 9 miles long.
Brian Schottenheimer
Bill Callahan
Marty Schottenheimer
Mike Shanahan
Steve Spagnuolo
Mike Holmgren
Jim Fassel
Bill Parcells
Santa Claus
Barney

And the list goes on.

The coaching carousel seems bigger than ever this year.

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DeAngelo Williams sends me to defeat

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DeAngelo Williams

Now you would think with an 8 point lead going into the last game of the Fantasy Football playoffs and Steve Smith of Carolina on my team that victory is in the bag.

But my stinking opponent had DeAngelo Williams in the Carolina vs. Giants game.

Should be no problem, the Giants don’t give up a lot of rushing TDs.

And DeAngelo Williams has no history of scoring tons of TDs. Except this year he went from 4 touchdowns to 18 touchdowns. He is awesome.

Now to be fair to my player, Steve Smith, a perennial All Pro, if the game was this week instead of last week then victory would have been mine, but that is not what happened. Smith does have 43 receiving touchdowns in his career.

Williams had 4 touchdowns and over 100 yards against the Giants and 34 fantasy points and the Squibster lost and upset bid at first place.

Here are their report cards from Charles Chandler of the Charlotte Observer.

RUNNING BACKS – A
DeAngelo Williams continued his late-season roll, making some amazing cuts. His 178 yards tied him for the second best single-game rushing performance in team history, and he also set a new single-season team record (1,515). Jonathan Stewart (56 yards) ran hard, too, getting away from four tacklers on a 16-yard gain. He also scored a TD. Kudos to fullback Brad Hoover for another good game blocking.

RECEIVERS/TIGHT ENDS – A
Steve Smith saved the day again with his acrobatic catch of a 39-yard pass to set up John Kasay’s game-winning field goal. Muhsin Muhammad had his third consecutive game with 70 or more receiving yards, and D.J. Hackett pitched in with two key catches after being inactive the previous three games.

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NFL Coaches in unemployment line

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Detroit Lions - Rod Marinelli - gone
No talent and no imagination and too many relatives.
0 - 16 kind of says it all.

Cleveland Browns - Romeo Crennel - gone
Couldn’t do it with a hot and cold Derek Anderson or an up and coming Brady Quinn.

Crennel went 24-40 in four seasons with the Browns, who entered 2008 with huge expectations but collapsed amid a series of injuries and uneven play on offense and defense. They didn’t score an offensive touchdown while losing their last six games and posted their fifth season of at least 10 losses in six years. source

New York Jets - Eric Mangini - gone
37 years old, the Jets off to a great 8 - 3 start, Brett Favre with something to prove, and they lose to a bunch of the sad sack teams.

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Lions perfect

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My best friend RonB calls me up and excitedly exclaimed “They did it! They did it!”

You mean the Lions lost, right?

“Yeah, they did it. 0 - 16. They have the losingest Coach in Rod Marinelli, the losingest owner in William Clay Ford, and the losingest GM’s in Matt Millen and Mayhew.”

The worst record in NFL history, a dubious distinction that will permanently stain everyone involved.

The Lions lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-21 on Sunday, making them the first team to go winless through a 16-game season. The 1976 expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14) were the last NFL team to complete a season without a victory.

“I’ve got to live with this,” center Dominic Raiola said. “I’ve been here eight years. This is on my resume.”

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So why is RonB so happy? And what does the B stand for?

Ahh, RonB is happy because as Lions fans we no longer have to agonize over any one game, because we lose all games. It is not a downer to lose anymore, it is an upper. We did it!

RonB is happy because you can often not even watch the games on TV; he chose radio, because they are mostly blacked out at home.

RonB is happy because some kind of change must happen.

Oh, and the B? That shall remain a mystery.

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Merry Christmas to all

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First off, Merry Christmas to everyone. If you don’t celebrate Christmas then just know that some good cheer is coming your way from me. Can you feel it?

Sometimes it is so much fun writing this stuff and other times life is really busy and it becomes hard. It is you readers that make it fun.

This past year, your intrepid author fought off cancer and survived. The cancer was non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and the cure involved chemo and radiation therapy. Missed a whole year of my day job and yet kept on blogging with a lot of help from a lot of people including B5media. Special mention to Kori Ellis, my blogging boss and Dave Kindervater the other football blogger at EMQB.

Kori writes a cool Fantasy Football blog called Fantasy Kickoff.

They are just two of the many B5 media bloggers and employees that helped out this past year.

Can’t let this blog end without mentioning my two sport talk friends Art and RonB. They are constantly bringing stories to my attention that just have to come out. Thanks Art and RonB.

The year is ending with my broken ring finger on the mend. Oh, yes, fell off a ladder at 3 feet in the air and somehow managed to break my finger. Do you know how hard it is to type with a broken finger? It takes twice as long.

There is a lot to be thankful for in my life and wanted everyone to know it.

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Lions just plain pathetic

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Try this out at your job.  Lose.  Lose everything in sight.  Lose until your boss recognizes you as the biggest loser of all time.  Win nothing.  Win nothing at all.  Have all your employees basically give up.  Have all your supporters give up.  Become the laughingstock of your industry.

Then…Get rehired.

Owner William Clay Ford said in a released statement Sunday that “he expects both Tom Lewand and Martin Mayhew to return to the organization next season.”

Lewand is the Lions’ chief operating officer. Mayhew was promoted to general manager after Ford fired Matt Millen three games into this season.

Before the Lions suffered a 42-7 loss to New Orleans and became the first NFL team to reach 0-15, Ford told Booth Newspapers that Lewand and Mayhew would help him hire another executive, with their roles yet to be defined. He also said he had not made up his mind whether to fire coach Rod Marinelli.

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William Clay Ford is making a big mistake.  It is really questionable as to whether Mayhew will be able to clean house and cleaning house is definitely needed.  Ford just seems to defy logic all the time.  It is like he hates the fans or something.

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Drew Brees 351 yards

Please stop guessing how many yards Drew Brees will throw for.  That opportunity ended Saturday night.  The potential winner has been sent an e-mail.  Squibster is awaiting his response.

For the guy that guessed correctly after the game was over, nice try, no cigar.  For those that guessed incorrectly after the game ended, well…hmm, uhh, can’t think of anything snappy to say.

Anyway, thank you to everyone that tried.  When the official winner responds back, the name will be announced.

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