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CARDINALS - Will they still be hungry, or just full of themselves?
Aeneas Williams inadvertently made the point during last year's playoffs. Fresh off a brutal smothering of Michael Irvin, Williams set his sights on doing the same to Randy Moss. While Moss did not have a career day, he was far from silent and enabled the Vikings to run up the score early and coast to a berth in the NFC Championship game. The key for this team is to not listen to the media who have already declared them the next winners of the NFC East, and realize they are a team that needs to scrap it out, not mail it in.
COWBOYS - How did a team built on speed get to be so slow?
It has been six long years since Jimmy Johnson left to first pursue a career in the broadcast booth and then resurrect the Dolphins. Since then, the Cowboys have seemingly lost the ability to stretch the field, turn the corner, and if Deion fails to make a full recovery from a serious toe injury, run with the other team's receivers. Between age, free agency and injury, the Cowboys can no longer run away from the competition. The time has come to either try a new approach. or find some new players.
EAGLES - If I knew Andy Reid, could I hold for place kicks?
I once saw Doug Pedersen take an 0-4 team, and spark them to their first win in a streak that would last until the end of the season. Unfortunately he only started two of those games, the team still didn't make the playoffs, and it was for the New York/New Jersey Knights in the early days of the old World League of American Football. Since then, Pedersen has held the clipboard for two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, Dan Marino & Brett Favre. Although he was the quarterback on the field when Miami took the lead in the game where Don Shula broke George Halas' record (ironically in Philadelphia), Shula moved quickly to bring in forty-something quarterback Steve DeBerg to replace him as starter. I don't know what it all means, but if I were Donovan McNabb, I wouldn't get too comfortable on the bench.
GIANTS - Has Jim Fassel learned how to handle a quarterback controversy yet?
Jim Fassel goes into his third season with his third different starting quarterback, and conventional wisdom says he will have a fourth one next season. First there was Dave Brown, Dan Reeves personal scape goat who came to Fassel with more baggage than a six month location shoot of a movie starring Zsa Zsa Gabor and Imelda Marcos, and self-esteem issues that make Richard Lewis look like Muhammad Ali. Next there was Danny Kanell, the savior of the 1997 season who accomplished more with mirrors than the inventor of the fun house. When the league caught on he couldn't throw the ball more than twenty yards downfield, that cleared the decks for Kent Graham to drive the team back to .500, including an improbable win over then undefeated Denver. Can he pick up where he left off? If so, Jim Fassel's life will get a lot easier. If not, Fassel will be faced with yet another difficult decision; when to give up on Graham and put in his five million dollar back-up, Kerry Collins. Of course, that decision may be made for him; remember Dave Brown's torn pectoral muscle got Danny Kanell into the line-up.
REDSKINS - Was the Cooke family the real reason they couldn't stop the run?
An obscene amount of money was spent last year to bring in Dana Stubblefield and Dan Wilkinson, and the Redskins still couldn't stuff the run. Well, in response this year, Washington lost their owners and their General Manager (clearly they were the problem). If the situation does not improve dramatically this year, Norv Turner may be taking a page out of Dave Wannstedt's playbook and go calling on Jimmy Johnson for a job. |
