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Sean Taylor clearly has no sense of right and wrong. This is hilarious.

[Deadspin]

Cross-posted from my other blog.

Whoops. Well, I guess I wasn't totally right about the Bears winning.* I'm pretty disappointed, so I can only imagine how actual Bears fans must feel right now. Sorry guys. I've got to say, I'm feeling very lost and confused now that Peyton Manning has won it all. Especially when you consider that Vinatieri missed a short kick in an important game, the world makes a little less sense now.

It is pretty great how racism is finally over, though.

Anyway, the countdown to the first day of Redskins season has begun. I think Rocky McIntosh is just about ready to make The Leap.

^* Devin Hester didn't let me down, though.

Cross-posted from my other blog.

No time for a real post so here are a few bullet points:

• Jason Campbell:
  Obviously, we should have had this guy in earlier. Why is it that these decisions seem so obvious to most fans and sportswriters, yet escape the coaches who can actually implement them? I think it comes down to ego. Gibbs had bet his reputation on rehabilitating the franchise, with Brunell as his QB--replacing him meant admitting he screwed up one of the most important decisions the head coach has to make. Which leads me to my next point...


• Duckett:
  It's great that Ladell Betts ran for over a hundred yards. But I thought we had finally learned our lesson here. Seven rushing attempts backing up our backup running back is not great. I'll take the win and shut up, but this team has a terrible habit of keeping the best players on the bench for no clear reason. Might be time to change that.


• Redskins in general:
  It sure is too bad that we have no chance whatsoever of making the playoffs. It's very sad, because the NFC East is a shambles this year. A merely competent season would have probably won us the division. I won't bother mentioning it again, though--all we can do from here on out is try to improve for next year (and maybe keep the Giants out of the playoffs).


• Mike Vick:
  Enormous dickhead. Can someone explain to me why an NFL team would insist on sticking with a perennial loser with a bad attitude and herpes? He is a total coach killer.


• Junior Seau:
  The Boston Globe is reporting that Seau "appeared to break his arm" in yesterday's game. That's sort of like saying that the Hindenburg appeared to catch fire in 1937. His arm broke. In half. It looked like he had an extra elbow. It was Theisman-esque, and they'll never air it again. I have DVR and I couldn't bear to rewind and watch it again. Man, was that ever ugly.

Cross-posted from my real blog, which you should really be reading instead of this! I work my fingers to the bone putting together a nice blog for you and your friends and this is how you repay me! Anyway, this is the exact same entry as the blog post so you shouldn't bother clicking on this.

The Redskins still can't play defense, but Duckett averaged over five yards per carry and Campbell was good. This means, of course, that I'll have to start next season with high expectations yet again, and almost certainly have my hopes dashed by week seven again... but I can live with that. Just please, please, please, leave Brunell on the bench forever. It's sort of liberating to not have to worry about winning or losing (since we're completely toast, playoffs-wise) and just get to think about whether we're getting better in the big picture. Maybe Clinton Portis will have enough time to actually be healthy before next season starts, and our receivers will learn to make catches, and our offensive and defensive lines will learn to block, and our cornerbacks will learn to cover receivers, and, and, and Joe Gibbs can ride into the stadium astride a glistering unicorn!

Jay-Z's new album, Kingdom Come, comes out tomorrow. The first single, "Show Me What You Got," produced by often-namechecked Just Blaze, is pretty terrible. But the title track, also produced by Just Blaze, is pretty awesome. You can viscerally feel Danger Mouse's influence on hip-hop production, and it is a good thing. Word on the street (i.e. Amazon's editorial review) is that the last half of the album is a lot more experimental--collaborations with various people, including Coldplay's detestable Chris Martin--and I'm a bit apprehensive about that. But we'll see. I may write more about this album if I listen to the whole thing and determine that it is excellent or awful. You can interpret radio silence as a tepid review.

Tomorrow afternoon I fly to Denver, Colorado, to spend Thanksgiving with my family. I get back to Boston on Sunday.