It's playoff time!

It's playoff time!

With the college football season coming to a close, it is now time for me to get excited about pro football. A few weeks ago, I was ready to pencil in New Orleans and Indianapolis for Super Bowl Sunday. Now, I'm not so sure. Both organizations pulled the plug early this season and rested its starters---New Orleans in Week 15 and Indy in Week 16. And many of this year's postseason teams followed suit---namely the Arizona Cardinals. There's a lot of football left before the two surviving teams head for the showdown in Miami on Feb. 7, I'm not sure which of the remaining twelve teams has momentum on their side.

I guess if I had to pick one with a little "mo" on their side, I'd go with the Dallas Cowboys. I will once again get behind my Arizona Cardinals, but to be honest with you, I'm not all that sure Warner and Company can get past the Green Bay Packers. The Cardinals, of course, rested many of their starters last Sunday, as it turns out, they didn't pull the plug soon enough on a trio of players. Wide receiver Anquan Boldin has a sprained left ankle, defensive end Calais Campbell a broken left thumb and cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie a bruised left kneecap. The question: Will those three key players take the field on Sunday? That scenario probably has the Las Vegas odds makers in a frenzy. And, with out question, it has the Arizona fans squirming. My goodness, Boldin has over 1,000 receiving yards this season and Rodgers-Cromartie has six interceptions.I'm not saying it is bad strategy to pull starters once you've clinched a playoff spot, but if you're going to pull them...pull them all and get them out of there. You might lose 60-0, but you (the coach or organization, I mean) already decided to lose the game anyway.

A lot of decisions have been made over the last couple of weeks, some good, some bad, now we'll see who makes the right decisions down the stretch. As pro football fans, we get to sit back and watch the powers to be take the heat and make those gut-wrenching decisions. That's what they get paid for!