CzabeCast

After a solid 13-5 regular season my "Lock of the Week" it gets harder from here. Only 4 games, all good teams, and some slim point spreads. Undeterred, I forge ahead with Mr. X by my side, trying to sort out Saturday and Sunday's games. Also, Reuben Foster update, how "Da Pope" sounds alot like SNL sketch character Nathan Thurm, and more!

Mike Tomlin survives amidst the Antonio Brown chaos in Pittsburgh. How much of it is his fault? I talk to two big anti-Tomlites today. RIP three legends of the 70's and 80's: The Captain, Mean Gene, and SuperDave. Alex Ovetchkin is skipping the All-Star game, and I can't get behind that.

File this under "they don't make 'em like they used to" but looking back at the 1984 North American box office, it looks like the 1927 Yankees of film. So how come it seems like we might only get 2 or 3 good flicks per year now? Antonio Brown wants a trade, but keeps buying crazy jewelry. Scott Van Pelt puts his beloved Redskins on blast, re-thinking "running QBs" in the NFL, and glass and metal in your foods.

If an NFL team was penalized 4 spots of draft position each round for a relatively minor league rules infraction, that team would likely scream bloody murder! And yet... simply winning a single meaningless game sometimes achieves the same penalty. When will coaches and teams wake up? Black Monday claims 1/4 of the league's coaches. Drama in Pittsburgh. New Year's Resolutions. Andy Pollin on the state of the Redskins. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy we have a 4-teamer, and I'd even be okay with it expanding to 8. Although I am not sure it will "solve" too many of the current gripes, nor deliver a more compelling product to watch. Truth of the matter is, college football just isn't the NFL. The Redskins dump a deuce at home to finish the year. Kirk does the same in Minnesota. NFL playoffs are set. Dana White body bags little nerd Darren Rovell.

So I was explaining to my lovely wife and daughter why certain football fields this time of year look better than others. They were rather amazed. I also told her that my inept team's field is garbage because they put basically no money into it. It all started when I told them that a quartet of high paid marketing suits had been given their walking papers by Dan Snyder today. It was quite a discussion. Also I chat about post-Christmas returns, debate the relative "brilliance" of Aaron Rodgers in Seattle during the NFC Title game choke. And more. There's always more, people, you just gotta click "play."

What's the saying... "damned if they do... damned if they don't?" I think the Redskins did the RIGHT thing in letting a fake "leader" go after repeated warnings to keep things "in-house." But sadly, Redskins fans deep and abiding hatred and mistrust of the organization's suits, that they have somehow made this guy into a martyr. Amazing. LeBron James and his turbulent week on social media. Czabe's two tech toys from Santa. A nerdy guilty pleasure, and a hard life lesson in criminology.

If you ever wanted to know the brief, and un-official history of my family's Christmases through the years... boy have you come to the right place! I hope you had as many wonderful boyhood memories as I did, and loving parents like mine. A happy childhood is a gift that lasts forever. I will always be grateful for mine!

When the head coach says that phrase, it would behoove the entire organization to believe it. Many Redskins loss are hare-brained. Some are comical. Some, shameful. A rare breed is the TRUE "heartbreaker" like this one was. A masterfully executed gameplan, which came undone at the very end. Pity. 

11:00 - The Skins Heartbreak in Tennessee
17:02 - The Many Ways They Are Indeed, "Not Good Enough"
36:39 - Seahawks Clinch, Playoff Picture
56:02 - Aaron Rodgers Earns His "Leadership Badge"
102:00 - Taylor Lewan vs. Josh Norman

Those were the famous words of one Jeff George when he was the starting QB for the Washington Redskins, circa 2000. Of course, for HIM, leadership wasn't over-rated. He needed to show some of it, if nothing more than to dilute his earned rep as an aloof mullet wearing slinger. Aaron Rodgers, however, doesn't need to prove anything. Which is why him playing anymore this year, is madness. But.... looks like the madness is going to happen. There's a big announcement buried in this episode, plus a little "easter egg" of a hint. Don't say I didn't tip you off!