My4Albany

While my picks were a little foggy, a few things are crystal clear following Wild Card weekend:

- In a year when there was no, true offensive player who deserved NFL MVP honors this season, Baltimore's Ed Reed should have won the award, and we saw why again on Sunday. Reed is the leagues most talented and most dangerous player, and I'll take that over any QB or RB anyday. No one player sets a tone or leads by example than Reed. And when he's got the ball in his hands he's as elusive as any WR.

- While all the talk this week will be about BIG Brandon Jacobs, two of the NFL's smallest RB's made all the difference this past weekend. Brian Westbrook and Darren Sproles were the difference-makers for the Eagles and the Chargers in their victories and their combined weight is probably less than Jacobs. At this time of the year, especially late in games, small and quick can be more valuable than big and strong.

- Kurt Warner's flea-flicker TD bomb to Larry Fitzgerald in Arizona's win over Atlanta should silence, once and for all, critics who always ask "why did he thrown into double-coverage" whenever a QB takes a shot down the field at a WR who is blanketed by DB's. If ther ball is put in the right spot, and your WR is more talented than those two DB's combined, than I have no problem with a QB making that throw. QB's can't always target WR's who are singled-up.

- Finally, off the field, Boston College's threat/promise to fire coach Jeff Jagodzinski if he interviews for the Jets job is a bit extreme, but it illustrates the frustration schools/teams fell about coaches not fulfilling their contracts. Jagodzinski has done a nice job in his two seasons with the Eagles, but clearly this is a "line in the sand" issue for BC. On the other hand, you can't blame a coach going after a better job. It'll be interesting to see if Jagodzinski takes the interview, and if BC follows through with it's threat. If both happen, it could be looked at as a milestone event in school/coach relationships.