The 15-Play Drive

15 thoughts on week-11 in the NFL...

1. Vince Young needs a timeout. The Titans QB has a habit of acting like a 5-year old when things don't go his way. Young has never earned Jeff Fisher's trust, and Sunday was a prime example of why. There's always been an immaturity factor here. Young hasn't been able to handle adversity at the NFL level, and that's not the kind of player you want leading your team. Either Fisher or Young won't be back next season, and I'd bet my life that it'll be Young who's gone.

2. Every game free agent to be Randy Moss plays costs him more money. In 2-games with the Titans, Moss has all of 1-reception for 26-yards. That's flat out pathetic.

3. The Jets have 8-wins and 9-lives.

4. The Texans reached a new level of incompetence Sunday, and defensive coordinator Frank Bush should have been fired immediately after the game. Losing on a Hail Mary is one thing, but how they allowed Braylon Edwards to get that wide open for a 42-yard reception is beyond me. The Jets were trailing by 4 with 55-seconds remaining, had no timeouts, and somehow were permitted to drive 68-yards in 45-seconds. If that's not grounds for dismissal, I don't what is.

5. Way to lead by example Richard Seymour. I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd like to slap Ben Roethlisberger. However, you did your team no favors by getting ejected, and as a veteran you should have known better. After yesterday's performance the Raiders new motto should be "A Commitment to Ugliness."

6. Along those lines the Todd Collins award of the week goes to Jason Campbell. The Raiders QB completed just 7 of 19-passes for 70-yards with 0-TD's 1-INT and 2-fumbles before being pulled in favor of Bruce Gradkowski during Sunday's blowout loss to the Steelers.

7. I'm going Nostra-Lekas for a moment, because based on what we've seen through week-11, I believe there will be at least five coaching vacancies this off-season. Here's how I connect the dots right now...Cowboys-Jason Garrett, Vikings-Leslie Frazier, Panthers-Bill Cowher, 49ers-Jon Gruden, Bengals-Mike Zimmer.

8. So much for separation Sunday. There's still no team in the NFL with more than a 1-game division lead, and 4-divisions including the AFC East, North and South, plus the NFC North feature a 1st place tie.

9. Nobody touched you Eli Manning. You can't cough up the ball after scrambling for a first down.

10. Packers all-pro cornerback Charles Woodson joined me and Steve Torre on The Sunday Drive following yesterday's 31-3 rout of the Vikings. When asked about their success against Minnesota this season, Woodson pointed to one key factor, "We didn't get caught up in the Favre hoopla like last year." He's not alone.

11. By the way, if these are the last 2-games Brett Favre plays against his former team, they'll be performances he'd like to forget. Favre's combined numbers against Green Bay this season, 33 of 67-passing 420-yards 1-touchdown 4-interceptions.

12. Just your typical Patriots-Colts match-up Sunday. High drama in a game that was in doubt late into the 4th quarter. In fact, only one of their last 5-regular season meetings has been decided by more than 4-points. Take a look and you'll understand why the NFL schedule makers have them going head to head every single year.

2010-Patriots 31 Colts 28

2009-Colts 35 Patriots 34

2008-Colts 18 Patriots 15

2007-Patriots 24 Colts 20

2006-Colts 27 Patriots 20

13. Caught up with linebacker Jerod Mayo after Sunday's win, and he gave about as good of an answer as you'll get from a Patriots player when I asked him if this validated the defense, "A little bit, but coach Belichick is going to do what's best for the team." To refresh your memory, a year ago Pats head coach Bill Belichick choose to go for it on 4th on 2 from his own 28 with 2:08 remaining in a game against the Colts that his team was leading 34-28. The move backfired, and New England lost. Yesterday, the defense sealed the victory when James Sanders intercepted Manning at the Patriots 24-yard line with 31-seconds to go. So while Mayo wasn't gloating during the interview, Patriots players don't embarrass their head coach, you could tell he was satisfied.

14. Only the Bengals could manage to turn Ryan Fitzpatrick into Jim Kelly, Fred Jackson into Thurman Thomas, Steve Johnson into Andre Reed and this Bills offense into the K-Gun after halftime. Cincinnati built a 31 to 14 lead over the first two quarters before collapsing as Buffalo scored 35 unanswered points to beat the Bengals 49-31. It's the first time in NFL history that a team has trailed by 17 or more at the half and won by 18 or more.

15. You didn't think I'd forget this did you? Yet another overtime game yesterday that wasn't decided on the first possession. So that's 14-times the extra session has been required this season, and 13-times both teams got their hands on the ball. I'm sensing a trend here.