Finally emerging from a  weak week entangled with the flu. Ugh ....I've been out of all loops pretty much except the kind that repeat over and over in a fevered state, but when I put the NFL network on tonight I saw that the Revis rumors are still going strong. I can't see it happening with this administration. Infatuation with any single individual can't come at the expense of blowing up team salary structure and longer term planning. It just doesn't make sense at all other than on the football field! If he's close to his standards of play. But getting it done without real risk of futurer complications looks near to impossible. Signing a Sanders or Woodson was a simple thing compared to what the process is today.

Last year the team seemed to have that short but intense infatutation with Peyton Manning, so it's hard to say for sure that Revis might not be considered as the key missing ingredient for next year by some and therefore pursued irrationally. But I doubt that will happen. The Manning situation was really a one-of-a-kind temptation that few would resist pursuing to it's logical conclusion.

The NFL Network had an interesting feature on Tom Landry. From visionary innovator of futuristic strategies to a man of the past and stuck in a system no longer effective. I really wonder how Bill Walsh would have evolved had he been a head coach of the same team for twenty nine years? Landry was (fairly) celebrated for many years for coming up with new stuff - 4 - 3 defense, 'Flex defense,' offensive line stance shifts, New applications  of the shotgun, innovative 'gadget' plays and so on. To him it was always about the 'system' rather than the individual. But his teams really should have won much more than they did. I found it interesting when they showed that he lost a championship game (I think it was 1966) to the Packers on the last play by being too cute and complex with a pass rather than running from near the goal line. And the next season, the Packers were in the exact same position (ice bowl game) and won with the run. Different conditions, but it got me to once more enter another fevered loop of replaying the last Superbowl series and wondering, 'what if.' The Niners certainly had a complex and sophisticated enough a running scheme to not be intimidated or lack confidence in using it at least a little. I guess this loop will now be entrenched for perpetuity in my reel of sporting nightmares. Of course we have the '81 Bengals as a counter-argument, but everything is now mere conjecture.

Has any team ever had offensive and defensive co-ordinators at the same time with the stature of Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi? Both destined for multiple championships and Superbowls. The mid-fifties Giants managed to keep the two together long enough to win some NFL titles.