Dogs beware

This is Michael Vick's world and the rest of the NFL is just living in it. He says dogs are welcome in his new world, but I am not convinced yet. But the guy has been awesome on the field and is a legitimate MVP candidate. Everything he touches or involved in turns to gold this season. The game of week 15 was clearly the Eagles win over the Giants. They were down 31-10 with just 8 minutes to go in the 4-Th quarter and Vick brought them back to tie the game. Then with just a few seconds to go for OT, DeSean Jackson took a ill-advised punt to the house to give the Eagles an improbable and shocking 38-31 victory. Punter Matt Dodge had no business kicking it to Jackson in the first place. This was against a good team and a great defense in the Giants.

Vick has been part of several such jaw-dropping performances this season. The only thing that could have made this better for him is if he had thrown a "buzzer beating" 80 yard TD instead of Jackson scoring on the punt return. Vick has slowed down a little bit since that great game he had against the Redskins. The Giants game was in some sense the mirror image of that game. He scored a load of TDs in the first few minutes against the Redskins and now in the last few minutes against the Giants. He is a legitimate MVP candidate and the other top contender is Tom Brady. Brady has been near flawless this season and Vick is not far behind. I don't love or hate Vick these days, but it's amazing how quickly we forgive athletes if they play well on the field. He got a massive standing ovation at the 76'ers game against the Lakers and even Kobe had to stop and look.

Pittsburgh and NY Jets played a great game and the Jets came through 22-17 to stop the bleeding for now. It was an impressive win and it reestablishes them as a contender. Sexy Rexy can now go back to humoring us with more stupid quotes. Speaking of Sexy Rexy, the other Rexy (Grossman) started for Washington and had a good game. I am not sure what Shanahan is doing with Donovan McNabb, but Mike has benched him for the rest of the season. McNabb's agent is saying he has never been disrespected quite like this and I have to agree, McNabb is a star QB and treat him with some respect for God's sake. I don't know what Shanny is trying to do with these moves. Shany has not won a single playoff game since he benched my man Jake Plummer in favor of the baby-faced Cutler. I would chalk it up to bad karma.

In life, showing up is half the battle. If you consistently show up, regardless of what you do, you will do well because most people don't even show up. Brett Favre definitely scores big on this front. I was shocked to see him start the Monday nighter against the Bears after sitting out just 1 week. Unfortunately, he got beat up again and is probably done for the year now. The disastrous season continued for him as the Bears then crushed the Vikings 40-14. In other big games of the week, Ravens beat the Saints and the Colts beat the Jaguars to show them they are still the big boss in that division. Tim Tebow started for the Broncos and God shed some tears of joy resulting in some rain in Oakland. Run DMC and the Raidas won easily, but Tebow did rush well and threw and rushed for a TD each.