Burn, Baby, Burn

So I guess I'll get this Burner started...  First of all, it obviously means something if a team can go 16-0.  It's a highly impressive feat, but I think you may be onto something with that 'all or nothing' mentality.  Surely most of the sports world looks back on 2007 and remembers 18-1 more vividly than 16-0, even though it was an achievement no team had ever accomplished before.  However, this is a tricky year in the NFL.  There are more bad teams this year than many of us can count and from the look of the schedules, the Colts and Saints have already or will play most of them.  I think because of this rather large disparity between teams this year, it will take a perfect 19-0 to really impress the fanfare out there.  By all accounts, it looks like the Cardinals may very well be a division champion this year with a record of 8-8 or 9-7.  If the Saints go 16-0 and then lose to the Cardinals in the playoffs that's just going to show people that their undefeated regular-season record was more a product of them playing bad teams than them being a great team.

Personally, I think it's a little too early to get too excited about either team going undefeated.  They both have nine games left to play.  I feel like every year some team starts out hot and this is all sports writers seem to be able to talk about.  I still remember when the "unstoppable" 13-0 1998 Broncos rolled into the Meadowlands to take on the lowly 5-8 Giants and ended up losing 20-16.  Like I've said before, I'm a firm believer that on any given Sunday any NFL team can beat another team, so there's a long way to go.  Although I think it'd be great if BOTH the Saints and Colts went 16-0, ran the table in the playoffs, and met up in the Super Bowl.  Wouldn't that be great for football?  Two 18-0 teams, lead by the two best quarterbacks in the league, battle for the Super Bowl and NFL supremacy?  Anybody else think that?  Anybody?  Hmm?  Okay, no cream...

-Dave