The Raiders have a chance at sweet revenge against Chuckie and the Bucs tomorrow. I’ll be watching that game down here, as the Bucs are the local team. I’m also lucky enough to see the Jets/Dolphins game as they play at 4 and the Bucs play at 1.

If the Jets lose, or the Patriots and Ravens win, the jets are out of the playoffs, Mangini will no longer have much respect in NY, and Bret Favre should retire whether or not he likes it. Favre is just too old to go a whole season anymore. And when his arm gets tired, he becomes just an average QB at best. Pennington might never have had much of an arm, but if I’m not mistaken he’s the most accurate passer in the entire history of the NFL. The Pennington/Favre will officially prove a huge mistake if the Jets lose tomorrw - or the Pats and Ravens win.

For the Raiders, our good host’s team, the end of the year can’t come soon enough. It’s time for a complete overhaul of the Radiers team, from top to bottom, like what happened last offseason in Miami. It’s time Al Davis got out of the way and make room for the new batch of young guns setting the trends in today’s NFL. Getting rid of Kiffin was like changing the oil on a car engine with a cracked head. Pointless. And contrary to the opinion of our good host, these days, for hardcore disiplinarian coaches the NFL stands for Not For Long. The proff? The NY Giants. Perrenial playoff loser Coughlin changed his ways after the 2006 season, after finally learning that today’s players are grown ups who make big bucks and don’t tolerate being treated like college kids, won the Superbowl and looks primed to do it again this year. It’s one thing to crack down on abusive, criminal or divisive personalities in the lockerroom, it’s another thing to treat a proffessional team of grown men like goofy college kids. If Davis thinks some stern new disiplinarian will turn things around in Oakland, then he still never learned the lesson of the Madden years - treat the players with respect, and even the craziest of them will play and behave well for you.

I think we all learned a big lesson about Bill Bellichick this year - yes, he is a genius, but no he’s not some kind of giant-brained, undefeatable alien. I think we also learned something about Kurt Warner - he’s the most underrated QB of the modern age. And I think we learned that the Ford’s football team needs a bailout even more than the their car company. Even the most hardcore laizzez faire conservative would probably agree with that! Even the federal government could ruin that team better than the Fords.

Some more things we all should have learned this season…

Plaxico Burress is an idiot.

Terrell Owens can never go more than one year without acting like a complete &^%$#@!.

Life really is just about half luck and half what you make of it - just ask the Chargers and the Saints. Talk about bad luck! Just how many close games can a team lose?

Kerry Collins age is catching up to him.

Don’t be surprised to see a Manning brothers Super Bowl. It very well might happen.

JMJ