Programmatic non-fit

Vikings coach Brad Childress might have come up with the quote of the year, if not the decade in the NFL. When asked why did he cut Randy Moss, he said Moss was a programmatic non-fit. Thats so cool! I am going to start using this term everywhere. I have always wondered if I was a programmatic non-fit in this World. But thats neither here nor there. Coming back to Chilly, I have always disliked him since last year. I thought he has been sounding a little arrogant and way too self-important ever since he started winning with Favre last season. But I love him now! As weird as it sounds coming from a football coach, thats the best description for Moss. Considering that Moss's recent issues range from disrespecting the head-coach to yelling and screaming at the caterers, "programmatic non-fit" sounds fitting - pun intended. I was shocked that they actually went ahead and cut him after trading the Pats a 3-Rd round pick for him. Moss is still a threat in the field and of course a threat to caterers and other off the field apparently, but still, Chilly had no business cutting him. Apparently he didn't tell his ownership either. So the ownership went out and interviewed the players to see if they should hold onto Moss and fire Chilly instead! Chilly better put his house in Minnesota on the market. Even before the Moss mess, Chilly's time there was coming to an end soon, but the Moss fiasco will seal his fate for sure. Favre is done too. That team is in a world of trouble, and most of it self-inflicted by either Favre or Chilly or both.

This has been a strange week in the NFL newswire. Mike Shanahan benched McNabb last Sunday for the final 2 minutes and gave a weak excuse that Rex Grossman, of all people, had a better handle on his 2-minute drill and hence was inserted into the game. The only good handle Rex has his own - sexy Rexy. Dude usually takes planned 10-minute drives and makes them a quick and dirty 2-minute drill - typically featuring a 3 and out. So Shanahan's comments were strange at so many different levels. Shanahan sounded like a "programmatic non-fit" after that comment. He then came back next day and made it worse. He said he pulled McNabb because he was not well-conditioned for a 2-minute drill. Now Terrell Owens is referring to McNabb throwing up during the Super Bowl and is agreeing with Shanahan. Here's a good rule of thumb in the NFL. If TO is agreeing with you, you are saying something stupid. I think Shanahan could have just said McNabb was benched because of his performance and things would have been so much better. It sounds like Shanahan came up with something initially to make it sound better than a good old benching, but later decided to throw McNabb under the bus anyways. Weird! Even Tom Brady got sucked into the stupidity of this week as he suggested he doesn't make any decisions in New England and if they listened to him, Lawyer Milloy and Deion Branch would have never left. He was answering a question about whether the Pats should claim Randy Moss off waivers. Brady said all this with a smile and didn't end up stirring any controversy, but it sounded a little odd coming from a "programmatic fit" like Brady from the ultimate program - hoody's Pats. Hoody is go well put-together, even Moss had high praise for him after last week's loss and that was actually the start of the issues for Moss and Chilly - at least publicly.

If only the games tomorrow are as good as the action during the week, life will be good.