In other coaching news, the Rams have hired the now former Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to become their new head coach. Spagnuolo’s defensive schemes helped the Giants defeat the Patriots and their highest scoring offense ever in the Super Bowl last year. Spagnuolo is at least taking over a team that had some wins last year, but the Rams were still a terrible 2-14 team.  However, they do have the third pick in the draft. The Rams have a great offense but just need to fix their defense, which was pretty horrible last year.

            The Jets have named former Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan head coach. He is taking over a team that was within the grasp of making the playoffs this year, but choked at the end of the season last year, mostly in part to Brett Favre playing terribly. I feel bad for Ryan though, because now he has to deal with all this Favre drama… whether or not he is going to retire, whether he still has it in him, does he still have the skills to be an NFL quarterback, If I were Ryan, I wouldn’t want to deal with that, and I would just let Favre go away, or tell him to make up his mind already.

            The Packers have found their new defensive coordinator, Dom Capers. Capers was the Patriots special assistant secondary coach last year, but two years ago he was the Dolphins defensive coordinator. After hiring Capers, Head Coach Mike McCarthy said the Packers are changing their style of defense, going from a 4-3 defense, to a 3-4. Which means, instead of having four defensive lineman and three linebackers, they will now have three defensive lineman and four linebackers. That means that this offseason the Packers are going to have to get some different linebackers, and some different offensive lineman. Hopefully the Packers picked the right man for the job, because their defense was absolutely terrible last year and that was 90 percent of the reason why they were 6-10 last year.

            The Eagles have come out and said that Coach Andy Reid and QB Donovan McNabb are going to be Eagles next year, after months of speculation that McNabb was going to be traded and Reid was going to be fired. I have to ask though, why was their ever any speculation? McNabb is a borderline Hall of Famer and Reid has lead them to the playoffs a ton of times.  Neither of them deserve the bashing they are getting from Eagle’s fans… Hey… after getting benched this year, McNabb only lead the Eagles to the NFC Championship game. There are plenty of teams who would love to have McNabb on their team, and I think the Eagles are taking that for granted.

            Oh, am I forgetting something? Yes, that’s right!  The Cardinals and the Steelers are playing each other in the Super Bowl. Plenty of people expected that the Steelers could make it, but the Cardinals? No way. No one expected the Cardinals to go anywhere in the playoffs, after all they have never been to the Super Bowl and are one of the seven teams that have never won the Super Bowl. That’s why we love the NFL though right? You never know what is going to happen and you have to expect the unexpected.