--Bobby Petrino now joins the ranks of Nick Sabin and Larry Brown as coaches you can't trust. Less than 24 hours after losing to New Orleans, Petrino phoned in his resignation as the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. Then within a couple of hours he is holding a press conference and being introduced as the new head coach at the University of Arkansas, saying "how happy" he was. What a fraud and a joke he is! I wouldn't let my 18 yr. old anywhere near any program that he was associated with. He obviously can't be trusted to tell the truth and what is Arkansas going to go in a year or so when he goes looking for another job. He has also succeded in burning bridges for both himself and possibly other coaches who want to make the jump to the NFL. If you were an NFL general manager you are going to think long and hard about getting burned by yet another college guy who thinks he can coach with the big boys. Some coaches can handle professional athletes, some cannot. There is no shame in that. The shame is that Bobby Petrino can do neither. Hope you go 2-9 next year.
--Speaking of the Falcons, owner Arthur Blank deserves much, much better than the hand he has been dealt this season. Blank is one of the class owners in the NFL and he has had to suffer through being lied to by and losing Michael Vick and now being lied to and abandoned by Petrino. Blank and the veterans on this team deserve much better, especially a guy like Warrick Dunn, not only one of best RB ever in the game but an upstanding citizen as well. I'm not a big Falcons fan but I hope they make the right move, get the right coach and make the playoffs next year. And when they do, I hope Blank sends Petrino a big bouquet of "Kiss my ass".
--If the Patriots get a chance to run the score up this weekend, you better believe that they will. The animosity that continues to fester between coaches Bill Belichek and Eric Mangini may reach a peak this weekend when the two meet. Look for this game to get very ugly very early and stay that way.
--I just knew we couldn't get through the NFL season without a T.O. meltdown, at least of sorts. T.O took some potshots last week at former coach Bill Parcels. Not a good move T.O. ESPN analyst and former NFL WR Keyshawn Johnson took T.O. to task for trying to denigrate the legendary Parcels. Johnson reminded T.O. that if the Cowboys win the Super Bowl this year, Wade Phillips might be the head coach but Bill Parcels built this team. Tony Romo, Marion Barber, Jason Witten, Terrance Newman, Julius Jones and yes, you, T.O. were brought to the Cowboys under Parcels. So T.O. did what T.O. does best, he then proceeded to take a shot at Johnson, trying to compare their careers and basically calling Keyshawn out. Now Johnson was known to run his mouth a bit as a player, but I have to say that as an analyst, I have found him refreshingly candid and pretty spot on in his assessments of both players and teams. It's interesting to note that both Tom Jackson and Emmit Smith both echoed Johnson's sentiments. T.O., don't take on a legend. You're not there yet.
--Tomorrow baseball is slated to release the Mitchell report which will in detail reveal what has been discovered during its 20-month long investigation. The sad thing is that with all of this time and money invested, more than likely nothing will come of it. The biggest fish in the pot, Barry Bonds, has already been indicted on federal charges and the rest is just window dressing. The fact of the matter is baseball, and more sadly the fans, really don't care.
--And last but not least, Jim Rome has to have the most annoying sports talk show on the air. Remember a few years ago when then-Rams QB Jim Everett kicked his ass on the air for referring to him as "Chrissy Everett"? God, I wish someone would do that again. In reference to this weekend's Pats-Jets game, Rome used the terms, "street creed", street rep" and "curb stomping". Someone please shut him up!!!
Have a great week!!
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