Oh, Goody.

We ended the season on a high note. 9-7. Whoopty-doo. Does this mean we're the best team not to make the playoffs? Just like the old days? Oh, wait, there's the Giants and Bucs, so we're the third best team not to make the playoffs, which is certainly impressive. Oh wait, the Radiers beat us twice, so you could make the case that they're better. But we are definitely better than the Jags. Take that Jacksonville! That's going to make things very awkward when we have to share a stadium in Los Angeles in a couple years. A few things of note:

Apparently, the team was allowed to stay in San Diego for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning before heading out to Cincy last week. That, to me, is horseshit. Yeah, I know it sucks to have to work on holidays...for you and me. If I made as much money as your average football player and went in knowing full well that holiday games were a part of the deal, then I think I go ahead and suck it up and get to Cincy on Friday like any other football week. That was a must win game, and in case you weren't paying attention...

The Chiefs lost yesterday. Now, a lot of people will rightfully say that the Chiefs weren't playing for anything, so who knows how that game would have gone if the playoffs were still on the line? However, and it's important to note that the Raiders swept the division and had their first non-losing season in forever, so it's not entirely far fetched to think that they might have pulled off that game yesterday, regardless. We'll never know for sure, just like we'll never know for sure if this team might have won a Superbowl with Drew Brees under center if he had never been injured...

Playing in a meaningless game at the end of the year, just like Philip Rivers was yesterday. Seriously, I know that the organization is desperate to make people believe Norv is a winner, but you just don't take silly chances like that when nothing but gay pride is on the line. If you're in the playoffs, you rest your stars. If you're out of the playoffs you do the same. The same people who were crying about Brees five years ago were defending the decision to play Rivers yesterday. Hell, one moron said to me and CJ that Brees getting hurt lead us to Rivers, so it was a good decision even then. Yeah, well who's waiting to replace Rivers? This is reason #1,268 why San Diego probably doesn't even deserve to have a team. Number #1,267 was...

That the local affiliate chose to show the Pittsburgh-Cleveland game instead of the Oakland-KC game in the 10:00am slot. I assume this was some effort to punish the local fans of those teams, but hey, they played and they deserve the attention. I can't count how many times over the years the local programmers would forgo big games to show the Chiefs play some meaningless contest against the Lions or some other such nonsense. What a total lack of class to switch gears yesterday to show a game with the most negligible of playoff implications. Thankfully, the Steelers so thoroughly manhandled the Browns that I believe the local station switched to the Chiefs-Raiders at halftime anyway. Also, that's likely to be the last meaningful game between the Chiefs and Raiders for a while, since...

Word around town is that Al Davis will be showing Tom Cable the door this offseason. And why wouldn't he? A couple of years of consistency in the coaching staff have lead the Raiders back to the precipice of success. Time to burn the whole thing down. I have to believe that Davis probably feels that since the Raiders are marginally less terrible, and he himself was able to fade into the background for the most part this season, that he may be able to lure a more exciting coaching candidate to Oakland. Maybe he's thinking Fisher or Harbaugh, but the end result is more turmoil in Oakland so watch for them to sink back into worthlessness for now. Speaking of being worthless...

What was Malcolm Floyd doing on the field yesterday? Couldn't drag himself onto the field for a must win game last week, but the coaching staff let's him suit up for that pointless exhibition yesterday? For what? To get Norv his third winning season? Terrible. Floyd, yer cut...

And Sproles? Cut...

The rest of you are okay...

Except you Weddle and Kaeding. Yer both cut.

One last thing, Thanks, NFC West, for making San Diego's 8-8 team from a couple years back look slightly less embarrassing. AJ approves. By the way, Charlie Whitehurst is going to be quarterbacking in the playoffs. AJ drafted him, so I guess you have to put that in the "pro" column when weighing AJ's genius. I hope Chuck wins the Superbowl. If a 7-9 team with an ex-Charger back-up wins the whole thing, I can finally quit football forever and not even feel bad about it. Especially if that 7-9 team is the filthy Seahawks! Go Chuck!!!