Williams Wall: From MCA's mouth to God's ear

After reading MCA's comment in the previous "Jared Allen" post, I thought it was worthy of it's own section for it's insight, optimism, and general prose. Sports blogging at its best. MCA, you have talked me off one ledge onto a larger ledge with a handrail.

"Alright, everybody calm down.

1. We're not losing to Detroit. Did you guys watch that game Thursday? They're much worse than they were in 2001. I know that's hard to believe, but the Lions just keep exceeding expectations of crapitude. Diesel and "Hi-Tops" (C. Taylor - get it?) go hog wild and Daunte throws a couple picks.

2. All they have to do is win one of the last three to get to 9-7. The Bears would then have to sweep to win.They can't tie us at 9-7, because we'll win any tiebreaker if they lose one of their remaining four. Please explain, MCA, you ask? My pleasure: assuming the Vikes beat Detroit and one more, should the Bears go 3-1, they're both at 9-7, even up head to head and 4-2 in the division. The third tie breaker is common opponents. We're at 4-3 against those opponents and the Bears 1-4, so we'd have to lose to Atlanta and the Bears would have to beat Jax, NO and Houston. Ahh, but if they do that and finish 9-7 that means they lost to the Pack and we don't even get to the third tiebreaker because Chicago would finish 3-3 against the division. So they have to win it outright by sweeping, and c'mon, the Bears are not capable of winning four games in a row, I don't care who they're against or where they take place.

3. The Pack can beat us if we go 2-2 and they sweep, however, as their sweep implies beating the Bears and Lions a second time and thus winning the vs. division tiebreaker at 5-1. But again, I don't see this as mattering because, despite the easy schedule they have the rest of the way, I just don't see them running the table with the way their defense is getting torched lately.

4. Think of the confidence boost the team would get from getting the Wall back for the playoffs.

5. Think of how little this or anything else would matter if we get Dallas in the first round of the playoffs."