His team got slaughtered yesterday in the final regular season week of the 2008 NFL football. The Philadelphia Eagles overcame daunting odds to capture an NFC wild-card spot with a......

Sometimes a player's coach can appear to do well taking over for a hardass who's already whipped the team into shape, as Phillips did last year. But it usually doesn't last. Especially not with a T.O. in the locker room.

That team needs another hardass in charge post haste.

GOOOOOO, FISH!

HA HA, OLD MAN FAVRE!

NEVERMORE, RAVENS!

Lovie Smith inherited a team good enough to go to the Super Bowl a couple years ago on the strenghth of one of the 1-3 best defenses in the league.

Not satisfied with (that's code for "too arrogant to retain") Ron Rivera as D coordinator he brings in his buddy Bob Babbich. Now the mighty Bear defense looks like Boo-boo and Yogi more interested in pik-i-nick baskets than defense, giving up 31 points in a do or die game.

Babbich has got to go, and if Lovie doesn't know it, he's got to go too.

Of course, if you like the intracacies of the bend-then-break defense.........tune in some time.

But this team was in the playoffs two years in a row and 13-3 last year

It's a parody league...there are bunches of teams that were bottom of the barrel that turned it around in a year or two...and there are many that went from the top down. I just can't wait to see who the Lions get with the Dallas pick...and how long it takes to ruin his career.

Now why would that upset anyone?

Well, the Rams did win a Super Bowl in 2000 and went to the big game in 2001.

NO FAIR, James!!! As if 2 yrs of excitement can make up for 45 yrs of unrealized expectations!

My favorite years were in the mid 70's, the "Cardiac Cards", watching Dierdorf, Dobler and crew trashing defensive linemen and linebackers left and right (Hart only got sacked 11 times that one yr...74?) and their opponents kept complaining about how "dirty" they were ("He BIT ME! HE WAS CHEWING ON MY LEG!!!" (speaking of Dobler)) They never got past the first round, but they were NEVER out of a game, somehow you always thought they could still pull it out.

2000 for the Lambs was just plain... magical. I remember after they beat the Giants (game 8, I think) I was coming out of a hardware store and had a conversation with a guy about the game (I had listened to it on the radio) and he was just so convinced. I was still very doubtful, I had been thru too much of this before. But still, he was so sure, and you had the whole Kurt Warner story going, and Marshall Faulk, and Isaac Bruce, and Tory Holt... I started paying real attention after that. And it really was magical...

Imagine for a minute, the star quarterback is knocked out in the preseason. The back up (who was stocking groceries 2 yrs before) comes in and becomes the catalyst for the "Greatest Show on Turf"???? You can't write that kinda sh*t.

And it all ended with Mike Jones making "the tackle"... a no name guy making the most important play to end the most exciting Super Bowl in history.... Magical.

But St Louis is St Louis, and we all know where it went from there. Kurt Warner got discarded like an old worn out shoe after a couple of years, Mike Martz never got the credit he deserved, Isaac Bruce.... I don't even wanna talk about that. And it only got worse from there. (and I haven't even brought up London Fletcher)

Here's to the 2nd pick in '09!!!

Sorry James, as a long time St Louis fan with relatives from Dallas, I have had to suffer some 45 yrs (since I became cognizant of football)of torment... The best thing that ever happened to St Louis was exporting Bill Bidwell to wander in the desert for 40 yrs...

Well, the Rams did win a Super Bowl in 2000 and went to the big game in 2001. If you're talking about the Cardinals, who left for Arizona 20 years ago, I'll grant that they're a perennially bad team. But they don't have high expectations, either, since their owner doesn't spend money. Jerry Jones may be a lousy GM but he's an aggressive owner who spends what it takes to bring in talent.

Oh wait a minute, at least those guys get a high draft pick (assuming they haven't already traded it away) for their mediocrity... Dallas? They miss out on the playoffs, AND get the 27th pick in the first round....

HAHAHAHAHAheeheeheehee.... There is justice in the world after all.

Sorry James, as a long time St Louis fan with relatives from Dallas, I have had to suffer some 45 yrs (since I became cognizant of football)of torment... The best thing that ever happened to St Louis was exporting Bill Bidwell to wander in the desert for 40 yrs...

My only hope is that with the recent coups ousting Jay Zygmunt and John Shaw, and putting Bill Devaney firmly in charge, we can have an actual football game in the EJ dome that isn't college or high school.

9-6 looks pretty damn good from where I sit.

Sure. And if Phillips had taken over a lousy team, I wouldn't have expected him to weather a lot of key injuries and go better than 9-7 against a touch schedule. But this team was in the playoffs two years in a row and 13-3 last year (granted, also under Phillips).

markm in Michigan