One Crazy December...

This week was an interesting week in the NFL and in sports in general. More often than not December is the deciding month for a ton of teams...last year and this year.

1) The AFC east is an interesting situation and I really look forward to watching the Jets and the Patriots losing to the Dolphins. Each team won their last game...Jets over the Bills (because the Bills are terrible and their play calling awful, JP Losman on a rollout is the worst decision ever), Patriots roll over a bad Raiders team and the Dolphins win against a dcent 49ers team. With the upcoming schedules it is going to be an interesting road...let's look at coming weeks

Miami -- at Kansas City and at the Jets
Jets -- at Seattle, Dolphins at home
Pats -- Arizona at home, at Buffalo

So if the Pats win out and the Dolphins win out...the Dolphins have the tiebreaker. To further this whole saga is the story of Chad Pennington and Brett Favre. Chad Pennington was booted out of the Jets' locker room for old number 4 and signed with Miami...a team that went 1-15 last year. Now the final game of the season is going to be Chad v. Brett for the whole division. Fun stuff

2) The Giants have locked up the NFC East while the Cardinals have the West. But the NFC is still a compelling story, including the Giants. The Giants who looked like the most solid team in the NFL and a lock to get back to the Super Bowl have stumbled for two weeks. Wade Phillips said that the team was more predictable without Plaxico Burress...but I think that it is not the absence of Plax but the absence of Brandon Jacobs. But they are not firing on all cylinders while the Cowboys look like they have figured somethings out. I am waiting for Cowboys v Ravens for the offense to falter and TO to blow up that locker room.

The Cowboys then have to play the Eagles which could decide the wild card for the NFC. As I said before the next two weeks are going to be fun to watch...it is like the playoffs already started.

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Football is not the only thing going on right now...I would like to talk about the NBA. I don't like the NBA and I don't usually watch, I think that college basketball is more pure and that kids trying to play basketball need to learn from college not the pros. Guys in the NBA are really talented and that they can play some great basketball but often the games come down to a one-on-one battle. Example, the Lakers are down 15 at half and Kobe decides to shoot every time down the floor in the second half. Some good defense would keep long runs from happeneing.

But something happened last night that should really be recognized...Chris Paul had a steal for the 105th game in a row. He plays against the Spurs next and has a good chance of passing Alvin Robertson to be alone in the record books.

Can't wait for Manu to lose the ball...