The Detroit Lions should not be chasing a fumbled punt like kids rolling Easter eggs on the White House lawn, and Randall Cunningham shouldn't be doing his imitation of a man disarming a bomb every time he accepts a center snap. Calling an audible has to be elementary by now, particularly for a 15-year veteran quarterback, but if the New England Patriots had spent any more time in Dan Marino's lap, he'd have to adopt them. They were laughing at our plays. Nothing wrong with that. It took a sense of humor just to allow the drowning 9-7 Dolphins into this tournament, and it wouldn't be amazing to see them there again next season after they've had time to develop new methods of relaying signals.
Smoke seems to be an option.
There was only one exciting game played over the weekend and no good ones, which might suggest that the NFL's playoff bar has been set so low that only Warrick Dunn can scoot under it anymore. It's getting harder all the time to take the first round seriously, and that's just the players. Yeah, that and a quarterback. So there will be no Barry Sanders at Lambeau Field this weekend, just the Buccaneers, who were clearly the lesser of two evils on Sunday. This is how it should have started in the first place.