The Soothe Sayer's Sad Future Outlook

Well the Browns won, again for the 7th time this season. My prediction of 9-7 might be way off (in a good way), but I 'll take it as long as they make the playoffs. Anyway the sad future outlook isn't for the Browns, actually they look pretty decent and Romeo is actually making some good calls as coach. When they were facing that forth down in the last minute of the game and rather than have the QB run around and fling it out of bounds or something he gave it to Jamaal Lewis and he GOT the first down and they won. I think he is finally starting to feel comfortable and he has got his players and they are finally starting to play his system. Anyway good job Browns. Now for the bad news - I think the Steelers might be in for a couple of lean years in the up coming future. This isn't just a knee jerk reaction to the Steeler's crushing, demoralizing defeat at the hands of the 2-8 Jets. No, I think they are in good position to make the playoffs and stand to do pretty well. But after hearing their new coach Tomlin in a press conference I realized that he has all of Cowher's old players and is just kind of managing them. Then he started talking about personnel in the league and I just kind of got the impression that he was gonna make some huge mistakes when it comes to drafting people. Maybe they'll make a splash in the free agent market, but that is really not the Steeler philosophy. I just have a feeling, and maybe I'm waaaaay off, but in a few years the honeymoon will be over with Tomlin and the Steelers will be looking for a new coach again. Look at Cincinnati. Besides the law of averages is against him staying for 15 years.

A side note: If you want to make a Steeler fan mad, just tell them that the accident that Big Ben was in last year was a set-up so that he could have a nose job. I can't take credit for that though, that is all Sophie. She said after he was in that accident his nose looks a lot better. And really if you think about it, a marketable player needs to look good if he is really going to cash in, but a football player can't get a nose job. No he was in a motorcycle accident and he was hit by a car and didn't have a helmet on and ... Hey wasn't Kellen Winslow in a motorcycle accident, by himself. He didn't even get hit by a car and he was out the whole season getting multiple reconstructive surgeries on his knees. But not Big Ben, he is out a couple of weeks and then he looks fantastic. Except that he had to go back into the hospital a couple of weeks later for a tummy tuck, er I mean an appendicitis. Maybe he really did have an appendectomy, think of it as karma for his earlier 'accident', think about it.