Coffin Corner Kick Resumes

Okay. So we're back online and doing our best to catch up during what is perhaps the busiest part of the football season. To organize my thoughts, I'll be using this post to keep up with all the storylines I've missed. After this is finished I'll maybe write some posts on the larger ones or the ones I know most about... I'm sure you get it.  

In No Particular Order:

1. Baltimore hires Jim Harbaugh as Head Coach. Jason Garrett had declined the position.
2. Giants and Patriots are meeting in Arizona for a little game called the Superbowl.
3. Tony Sparano is Miami's New Head Coach.
4. Jason Garrett, the man everyone is talking about, is not a Head Coach. 
5. Consolation columns for the Cowboys abound. 
6. Deion Branch is getting major knee surgery. 
7. Norm Chow, offensive coordinator for the Titans was fired by phone.
8. Mike Zimmer is the new captain of the sinking ship that is the Bengals Defense. I'm going to always maintain that Marvin Lewis, hired as a defensive head coach, is ultimately responsible for the failure of this unit. Just because the offense performs doesn't mean he's a good coach either. Any team with Palmer, Johnson and Houshmanzadeh (spelled without looking it up) can score. That team will not win until Lewis is out of there. 
9. Vince Young is possibly a bust. (In no way do I agree with this, just giving some perspectives.) 
10. Wade Phillips might be this season's Marty Schottenheimer (but not really, at least if Jerry Jones has one brain cell thinking about his team instead of vengeance for the playoff loss).
11. Holmgren won't actually retire. 
12. Eddie Murphy is prescient. 
13. I'm voting this man for "Mustache of the Century." As for the story... I dunno. I guess if you feel strongly about seeing Lawrence Tynes? His two previous misses lead me to believe that perhaps it was Eli Manning's game, and cutting to him was the right decision.
14. I think this is how everyone outside of the Boston area feels.  
15. Brady is questionable for the Super Bowl. 
16. The Dallas Cowboys coaching staff has moved to Miami. 
17. Tony Dungy will be leading his team from Tampa this year. Following the example of the most successful coaches, such as Joe Gibbs, who used to sleep in his office (and famously woke up one morning, wished a "Happy New Years" and said: "Is it January already?"), I don't see this leading to a lot of success here. Despite the extreme example already provided, it's no secret that being a successful Head Coach is one of the most demanding jobs on the planet. Not being in the same city as your team is probably not a recipe for success. 
18. Giant Upset? Or Patriot Perfection? History offers two very different stories. 
19. In case you get your football info from other places (in addition to here, of course) and feel inundated by coverage about Brady's boot, this man has a cure for what ails you. 
20. Something to consider if you're following the Redskins Head Coach hunt. 
21. Don't pay attention to the rankings, but read this so that you can impress your friends when... let's say... Stephen Spach... makes some improbable catch and you can pretend to recognize him. 

Well, 21 items and three days of research later, I feel all caught up. I hope you are too. At this point I hope you realize that line about "busiest part of the football season" was just a little bit of sarcasm, excessive coverage of Brady's boot (which we have mostly ignored) abounds. My time apart from you scared me as well, but don't worry. We're together again. I'll be with you in the coming week with something approximating regular updates. Of course, Superbowl picks and a live blogging experience will follow. I'd like to remind you that we are still at 100% for publicly called picks, although we've only done three games. 

In what is possibly my first and only advice to my gambling audience, bet on the Patriots to win, but I will eat my hat if they cover the spread.