The Hunt For April

There is one week left in the NFL regular season, and it's winding down to a photo finish. Just who will win the Race for Reggie? Well, if it ended today, the Texans would be placing Domanick Davis on the trading block and hiring the seamstress to fit Mr. Bush in blue with red trim. Here's how it looks now...

Houston 2-13
New Orleans 3-12
New York Jets 3-12
Green Bay 3-12
San Francisco 3-12

Houston can clinch the top spot with a loss this sunday when they battle fellow dwellers the 49ers. A win would not only cost them potential season ticket holders, but would cloud the picture and force math geeks to decide the fate of Reggie.

New Orleans is arguably the worst team in the NFL. The Packers drubbed them by 49 points way back in week five, so should the Packers and Saints both finish 3-13 would the Saints hold a futility tie breaker over them? The answer is no, tie breakers are determined by strength (or lack there of) of schedule, and as of right now the Saints have played the weakest schedule of the five teams in contention. Because it is the NFL's belief that if you struggle while playing inferrior competition you must be really bad and really need the top pick, the Saints would be the winners.

The Jets are also a terrible team. By looking at their record and play, you'd never know their head coach is Herman Edwards, but the NFL is weird like that. When Brooks Bollinger is leading your offense, an offense that I should point out features Cedric Houston, Jericho Cotchery, Chris Baker, a washed up Laverneus Coles and a highly overrated Just McCariens, looks like the defense better be scoring points for ya.

The Packers may just give the Jets a run for their money in terms of comically bad offensive players and names. Brett Favre's greatness regardless of what you hear from critics, has continued this year. Favre is tanking games and doing everything in his power to makesure he's lining up under center with Reggie Bush behind him next year. There is no other logical reason as to why else he has looked this bad. Well not unless you factor in that he's lost:

Javon Walker
Bubba Franks
Ahman Green
Najeh Davenport
Samkon Gado
Terrence Murphy
Robert Ferguson
Mike Flannigan
Rivera and Whale before the season even started

Now lets realize that he has thrown passes to:

Donald Driver
Javon Walker
Ferguson
Franks
Chatman
Donald Lee
David Martin
Mark Tauscher
Andre Thurman
Rod Gardner
Jamal Jones
Tony Fisher
ReShard Lee
Henderson
Gado
Green

And handed it off to:
Green
Gado
Davenport
Lee
Walt Williams
FisherNoah
Herron

Yes his decision making has been aboslutely unfathomable, but he's playing with no talent around him and wisely realizes this is a bad team and winning won't help them. I'm glad that Favre is such a competitor and doesn't care about stats so much that he's willing to put a blemish on his otherwise hall of fame career by giving Vinny Testaverde a run for his money in terms on interceptions in a season. (If you're scoring at home, he has 28 and trails Vinny by 7...)

The Niners have a bad record and are a bad team, but unlike the Saints they play really hard. This scares the dickens out of me as a Packer fan.

The Docket

Seattle at Green Bay
Buffalo at NY Jets
New Orleans at Tampa Bay
Houston at San Francisco

Prognosis

As a Packer fan, the prognosis isn't good. Seattle has locked up every thing already and may rest Hasslebeck and Alexander after a quarter or even drive. Howeva, the Seahawks' reserves are without question better than any team we can put on the field, I mean c'mon people have you not been watching this team for the past 4 months? The Seahawks pick up the W.
Green Bay: 3-13

Neither the Jets nor Bills have anything to play for. The Bills already beat the Bengals last week. That was thier Super Bowl. Vinny starts and the Jets pick up a costly win.
New York: 4-12

Tampa is fighting for the Division crown. They're actually fighing for their playoff lives too. Factor in who they're playing. This is a no brainer. Not only are the Saints bad, but they always lay down at the end of the season. Who does Jim Haslett have naked pictures of?
New Orleans: 3-13

I really hope CBS puts their top crew on this game because for all intents and purposes, "The Bush Bowl" is the game of the week. The Niners have shown fight, and the Texans have had a propensity for "losing" close games, or just games period lately. Gee mysteriously Kirs Brown misses badly on an easy field goal attempt. Somehow they blow a 21 point lead in the 4th quarter. Then all of a sudden when the Packers pick up a win and give them some breathing room they win a game? I'm not buying it. Houston knows what's at stake here and they won't let this oppotunity slip away. San Francisco 24 Houston 6.


PROJECTED WINNER: THE HOUSTON TEXANS

So there you have it, we're still waiting on the final number from California and Texas, but we here at the Brew City Beat are going to go ahead and Project the Houston Texans as the newest employer of Reggie Bush.