lucky for the Steelers, they don’t have to play the Lions or the Rams. Losing to the Raiders and Browns in consecutive weeks might be the most embarassing follow up season for any Super Bowl champion in history.

The kid with the gun bigger than his head was priceless.

Biggs at the Chicago Trib reported that nose tackle B.J. Raji has been speaking some provoking words about Kreutz. We’ll see how Kreutz responds on the field.

…but if you want to talk about coaches who need to lose their jobs, I think Del Negro fits the bill pretty solidly.

He definitely needs to complain less to the officials, but they need to call those obvious PI penalties where a defender goes through a WR to get to the ball. I don’t really trust Lovie to do it for him. Does Lovie really talk at all during a game? He’s the epitome of a figure-head.

All Fundamentals Team.

First year with the team, new defensive scheme, four games left in the regular season and the defense is ranked 1st in the league? That’s pretty impressive, indeed. The thing I wonder about is with all of the praise Lovie and Ron lavished on Mr. Capers in the article, did the Bears organization make even a casual attempt to bring Capers on board as DC for Chicago? Seems like at the time he was available it was a need to be addressed for the Bears. Maybe they did try and I just didn’t hear about it. Anybody know?