Unrelated Football Crap

My bias is clearly towards baseball, but here is some football stuff in the spirit of the Super Bowl

• Here's a Yahoo article talking about how Edgerrin James' gamble on going to the Cardinals has paid off. It's all fine and dandy except that NFL playoffs lend themselves to luck, and you'd be hard pressed into telling me James has benefitted from being in Arizona, averaging basically 1 ypc worse than on the Colts, whatever you want to say he went to the money and the Colts knew they could easily replace their system running back which they did on their way to a Super Bowl. A couple weeks ago Edge is asking for his release as Arizona starts slipping and now suddenly he's so glad he went to Arizona because he knew he could take them to the next step?
• Kurt Warner was replaced by Eli Manning as the starting QB for the Giants in 2004. Since then and including that year Warner's worst QB rating was 85.8, Eli's best was this year at 86.4. Warner's worst completion percentage was 62.3%, Eli's best was 60.5% this year. Warner's worst yards per pass was 7.2, Eli's best was 6.8 this year. I guess it takes 5 years for Eli to equal a 35+ year old Warner. True Warner's fumbles killed the Giants (12 in just 10 games) but I think you can live with that when considering it's a somewhat flukey number, and he's proven to be the far better passer. For all the talk about how balanced the Giants are, how great their line is, how great their running game is, it seems as though their team revolves around a guy who literally shoots himself in the leg.
• There is such a small sample size in any playoff format, let alone football, that people overreact to the results. So it's nice to see that McNabb will be back. Instead of concentrating how he's done poorly in NFC championship games, maybe concentrate how he's taken underdog teams to that game.
  
• I'd be lying if I told you I read everyone's playoff predictions but I'm pretty sure they're all wrong, so I wouldn't listen to what they have to say. With that said, the Steelers will win convincingly.