The Road To The Super Bowl

- After last night's dreadful loss to the 49ers I have written off Seattle as a Super Bowl contender. My pick in the NFC is New Orleans. I know that Chicago will have home field advantage and it will be tough for New Orleans to go play in bad January Chicago weather. BUt do you really think the Bears can get to the big game with Rex Grossman at QB? I don't. I like Drew Brees and the Saints special teams to get them past the Bears.

In the AFC I am sticking with Baltimore. The Colts have proven that they would get killed by both San Diego and Baltimore because of their awful run defense. I think the Chargers would be the favorites at this point and will probably get home field advantage but the Raven have to running game and the defense to stop them. And they also have a quarterback who has been to a Super Bowl in Steve McNair. I think Chargers QB Philip Rivers is the real deal but when you have two evenly matched teams in the playoffs you always take the team with experience at QB.

- A hilarious tale of the tape.

- It shouldn't come as a big shock that Allen Iverson has not been traded yet. Sixers GM Billy King is one of the worst in the business and blew his best chance to trade AI over the summer. Now everyone in the league knows he is going to have to settle for 60 cents on the dollar. But the real issue is that Iverson can make a bad team better, but he absolutely will not make a good team better. I've said before he is incapable of giving up the ball and deferring to other players on a good team. People will say he can now because he has matured but I still say no way he can do it.

- The Jays offering Vernon Wells a monster contract was a brilliant move. They will now know exactly where they stand with him. If he signs it that's great. If he doesn't sign it they should trade him immediately and get the pitching they need and move Alex Rios to center field. And Wells would also be the one who looks bad if he left Toronto, not JP who tried to sign him.