i think singletary could keep his job if the niners make a playoff push, which at 4-7 and one game back of a playoff spot, isn't a pipe dream.
btw, there should be a rule, if you fail to get to 8 wins, you are dq'ed, and replaced with the next wild card team. this is just like the 2005 nl worst, with the padres barley finishing over .500.
it is interesting that the south is now the power division in the nfc, although fox isn't realizing that quite yet, still shoving the east down our throats. the south has always gotten the short end of the stick. maybe it's because it was the reject division when it was first formed.
Singletary, I hope we keep him. He's our only hope to get the division, which will still be a terrible record. I agree that 7-9 teams don't deserve a shot at postseason, like the Jets did many years ago and probably some others.
And the NFC South? Are you kidding about them not being noticed? It's all that I hear about on Bay Area sports radio and you had the entire west coast pulling for New Orleans last year (I am wearing my Saints cap as I type this, indoors). And I am convinced you probably had the whole country outside of the opposing team's city (and I don't think Hurricane Katrina hurt in that respect). If New Orleans can get some good news, with the hurricane, awfully slow recovery from that, and overall economic depression, then somehow the city can represent America and in a way the Saints' spirit did.
The two best teams, combining both records and who they have beaten and their records, are you and Atlanta, especially Atlanta as Macdawg has pointed out. The AFC leaders largely played dogs and may even be dogs themselves.
The powershift from the late-2000s (Giants Super Bowl, Saints Super Bowl, Atlanta so far) through now, is going to the NFC no doubt. And right now with the drought in two NFC divisions, the NFC South is picking up the slack.
But before you with the champion Saints and Macdawg with his NFL leading Falcons can claim total NFL superiority, watch out for Tampa Bay, also NFC South. Two other teams that can haunt the NFC and may have a late push may be the Eagles and the Bears. If the Bears were in your division, I don't know if they would be doing as well. I think the Eagles are probably better than the Bears overall, but the Eagles can use more consistency. I am not sure about GB or the Giants, but they have good records, too. Whoever wins the NFC will most likely face the Jets in the Super Bowl. Sanchez is young and already seasoned and his youth will make him less prone to injury and at his age, he already knows what the postseason can be like. Continue to see Sanchez as a threat to any team that faces him. He could be the AFC's next Tom Brady over the next few years.
Remember the last time the NFL and sports fans laughed at Tampa Bay (going back to that)? I was a typical SF Bay Area person thinking our local Oakland Raiders would roll over Tampa Bay. But TB won the Super Bowl in a convincing and violent fashion. It's football after all.
