NFL 2010: What We Learned from Week 10

Still winless: the Detroit Lions, on the road (0-25 and counting)

Still employed: John Fox, Brad Childress

Still scoring: the Philadelphia Eagles

First off, congratulations to the Buffalo Bills. They have been close all year, even though they've largely been outmanned, and they've kept fighting.

Meanwhile, the Lions got some 'splainin' to do (thanks, Ricky). They haven't won on the road since Matt Millen was confusing draft picks with tooth picks. They have played well at home, even though it hasn't completely translated to their won-loss record, but they won't truly have turned a corner until they can venture into hostile territory and leave with a victory...

...something that the New England Patriots might know a little bit about. There are reasons why we trust the Patriots more than, say, the Chicago Bears right now, even though full disclosure demands that I note their identical records. The difference is that the Patriots went into Pittsburgh and pimp-slapped a wounded-but-still-good Steelers squad, while the Bears got to abuse a thoroughly dysfunctional Minnesota Vikings team in Chicago.

Still, I will say this about my beloved Bears: if they make the playoffs, they won't have backed in. Their next seven games are the kind of games that will truly tell us what kind of team we have here.

That is not a question that we should have about the Atlanta Falcons. Yes, it was at home, but the Baltimore Ravens are not a team that one simply walks over. While much has been made of Roddy White's push-off (which wasn't called) that led to the game-winning touchdown, the fact is that the Ravens had a full football game to do the kind of things that would have rendered White's personal foul moot. They very nearly did, but Atlanta was thatmuch better.

I don't know that anyone would be eager to visit either team's desmesnes in January...

Josh McDaniels, all is forgiven. Seriously. Your team got crushed at home by your divisional rivals. You then coached 'em up (thanks, Steve) and crushed a pretty good Kansas City Chiefs squad in the very next game. Calling that a bounce-back would be an understatement. I actually believe that this game is a pretty good indicator that you are, in fact, the right man for this job, and I will no longer campaign against you...unless, of course, you turn around and exhibit the kind of knuckleheadedness that led to last season's 'finish'...

I can only believe that morbid curiosity on Zygi Wilf's part is the only reason why Brad Childress is busy drawing up a game plan against Green Bay, because it can't be the way Chilly had his guys prepared for the Bears.

There were two kinds of substitute teachers in high school. The first kind, usually fresh out of Liberal University, came into the classroom full of discovery ideas and activated learning activities and group work...and, by the end of the day, was reduced to smoking crystal meth with the freshmen under the bleachers.

That'd be Wade Phillips.

The second kind was the gym teacher, usually some ex-marine with a high-and-tight and a serious hard-on for anyone disrespecting his authority. Any monkeyshine in his classes were met with the kind of reprisals that are legendary to this very day.

That'd be Jason Garrett.

The truth is that both of them were subs, because Jerry Jones' next trick will be convincing Jon Gruden Brian Billick to come to Dallas.

Mirage - defined as the Houston Texans. That's all we can say when so little is routinely done with so much. At what point does this cost Gary Kubiak his job, because this team is under-performing yet again.

Could Troy Smith save Mike Singletary's job? Let's see him string together performances like he put on last weekend first.

...aaaaaaand I'm OUT like Chad Pennington...