Category: Face of Defeat

Divisional Playoff Weekend’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Norv+Turner&iid=7575200″ src=”a/9/8/0/New_York_Jets_f8ed.JPG?adImageId=9174624&imageId=7575200″ width=”380″ height=”260″ /] Well, are we surprised this happened? Not that Norv blew up which we’ll get to in a second but with a playoff field ripe with inexperienced head coaches and head coaches that you may not trust to do your laundry, […]

Wild Card Weekend’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=New+England+Patriots&iid=7510775″ src=”4/a/a/c/Baltimore_Ravens_v_516f.jpg?adImageId=8914754&imageId=7510775″ width=”380″ height=”253″ /] The biggest surprise of wild card weekend proved to be the relative ease of which the Baltimore Ravens disposed of the New England Patriots.

Week 17’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=dallas+cowboys+philadelphia+eagles&iid=7453646″ src=”f/c/9/0/Eagles_vs_Cowboys_655b.JPG?adImageId=8798593&imageId=7453646″ width=”380″ height=”625″ /] Most of the general football population was shocked at the demolition in Dallas yesterday as the Eagles coughed up a number two seed, bye week, and the NFC East crown in one fell swoop during a Week 17 24-0 beatdown […]

Week 16’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Jim+Caldwell&iid=7435067″ src=”c/1/0/e/New_York_Jets_bc33.jpg?adImageId=8696337&imageId=7435067″ width=”380″ height=”495″ /] While he was starting to approach a realism level similar to that of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, Jim Caldwell does really exist. The Colts elected to eschew going for the perfect season and mailed it in during a […]

Week 15’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Todd+Haley&iid=7371803″ src=”f/4/1/1/Buffalo_Bills_v_0e25.jpg?adImageId=8510436&imageId=7371803″ width=”380″ height=”253″ /] Nothing spells bad season like dropping back to back home game to teams with a combined 8-20 record. Todd Haley’s Chiefs not only lost to Cleveland yesterday but managed to surrender over 200 all-purpose yards to TWO players, which is […]

Week 14’s Face of Defeat

Things don’t figure to get easier for Dallas with games at New Orleans, Washington and at home with Philly on the horizon. We very well could be watching the last days of Wade Phillips as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. After all, doesn’t someone have to be held accountable for this?

Week 13’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Mike+Tomlin&iid=7327871″ src=”e/1/0/2/Oakland_Raiders_v_b263.jpg?adImageId=8079359&imageId=7327871″ width=”380″ height=”251″ /] The man who said the Steelers would unleash hell on the opposition during the month of December had the tables turned on him Sunday. The Oakland Raiders…let me repeat…THE OAKLAND RAIDERS went into Heinz Field and pulled out a last-second […]

Week 12’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=Colts+Texans&iid=7159484″ src=”c/5/7/2/Indianapolis_Colts_v_4693.jpg?adImageId=7955162&imageId=7159484″ width=”380″ height=”262″ /] Want to know how not to make the playoffs? Blow two consecutive divisional home games including one while leading by 17 at one point. Well played Texans, well played. See you in ’10.

Week 11’s Face of Defeat

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=ben+roethlisberger&iid=7112781″ src=”f/f/8/2/Chiefs_vs_Steelers_4206.JPG?adImageId=7762408&imageId=7112781″ width=”380″ height=”245″ /] While this week’s honor by all means should go to Eric Mangini for essentially coaching the Cleveland Browns into a loss yesterday, he did get a ton of help from fellow Brown Hank Poteat for PUSHING a receiver out of […]