The NFL's Average Team

If you have read any of my stuff from the past I talk about the Want a bees at times.  They are the average team that dreams of the day being the New England Patriots but something always seems to get in their way and most of the time it is their own feet.

That first team of average is the Dallas Cowboys.   They are the darlings of NFL TV networks.  About every three weeks they play so well that the media is picking them as the next Super Bowl champion but by the next week they have lost to the winless Tampa Bay Bucs.

The next great average team is the New York Jets.  The news media of New York thinks. That if you live across the East or Hudson River you don't know how to live and you know nothing about sports because all the great teams reside in Giant or Jets land.  The Jets can beat New England one week and get blown out in St Louis.

Then there is San Diego.  Yes they have a great excuse. The worse stadium in the NFL but they even though they have a top five NFL quarterback they always manage to give up a 95 yard drive to lose on the last play of the game or fail to get 30 inches in three plays.

Now this brings us up to the Carolina Panthers  who very seldom are good enough to be considered want a bees.  They ride a six game winning streak which includes the 49's and Patriots back to back. Yes it is time to call the Panthers the next great team of the NFL. If they are as great as the Cowboys are Jets then they are in line for the big flop this weekend against the Dolphins.

If the Panthers are as great as we wish the to be then this Sunday's game with Miami just may be the biggest game the Panthers have played since their Super Bowl game a decade a go.  If they are really the Chargers or Cowboys then they will find a way to lose.  Should they win then Sunday week is the next biggest game in this Panther decade.