The Rules For Winning in the NFL

Pretty self explanatory. Some good stuff, some wit. I like it. It's from UltimateNYG, a Giants blog, and I found it courtesy of our friends at Windy City Gridiron.

The Rules For Winning in the NFL

Some key points:

1) Do not draft a “versatile” player in Round 1 of the draft. “Dominant” should be there, not versatile.

8) Do the unpredictable. Once you are predictable you are dead.

15) The only thing the prevent defense prevents you from doing is winning.

16) The only thing the prevent offense prevents you from doing is winning.

16a) The Kenny Holmes Rule- the only thing worse than the prevent offense is the prevent offense when your defense is exhausted/impaired by injury.

17) Players are told to play for 60 minutes. Yet who benches the head coach when he only coaches for 50?

18) The Fassel Rule of Prevent: It is always the coach’s fault when a large lead is blown/the game is lost.

24) # of headcases <= strong head coaches. (If you have a strong head coach you can have up to 1 head case in the locker room. If you have a weak head coach you cannot have any. A strong head coach with 2 head cases means a locker room infestation and problems.)

25) The Phil Simms Rule- You must stretch the field on offense. If you do not/cannot pass the ball >20 yards down field, LBers and Safeties will choke off your offense.

Thanks Chilly. Hell of a guy, that man.

Well sports fans, let's be glad that this is not the be-all, nor the end-all. I mean, we have Adrian Peterson. He alone makes up for at least half of those points, right?