MMQB Review

Here are five things I think I think about today's offering from Peter King's Monday Morning QB column:

1. I think this is a really poor choice of words.

Chicago (15-2). Good to see Tank Johnson make a huge play for the Bears, sacking Matt Hasselbeck on that big fourth-quarter series. The Bears will need him to snuff out Deuce McAllister on Sunday.

To snuff someone out normally means to kill that person usually with a gun. Tank Johnson is in trouble for weapon's possession and his bodyguard was just shot and killed at a local nightclub. If this was a pun by King - it was in really bad taste.

2. This was a great stat:

Gaffney/Caldwell find a way. In the last two weeks of playoff football, Gaffney and Caldwell have 30 catches for 337 yards and two touchdowns. Indy's Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne: have 16 catches for 180 yards, one TD.

3. A quibble - King calls Adam Vinatieri a "long-range" kicker but Vinatieri is no a "long-range" kicker. Sure he's the most clutch kicker in the history of football but he'll never set records for field goals over 50-yards and his kickoffs rarely reach the end zone.

4. I think this was obvious to everyone except Marty Schottenheimer and the Chargers offensive co-ordinator:

Tomlinson should have touched the ball more than 25 times, particularly in a close game and particularly when Rivers threw it 32 times.

The Patriots couldn't stop the Chargers running game and Tomlinson in particular. Not giving him the ball more was plain stupid.

5. Peter mentions a Rich McKay on the last page of his column but I just confirmed that is not my buddy Rich McKay from NYC.