File Under: You Can't Be Serious

Andrew Perloff, whose column on how everyone who ever played for the Vikings is overrated was the topic of a previous FireJayM post, writes now on the 10 most dysfunctional offseasons. 2007 was a great offseason if you like dysfunction--lots of off-field and draft drama and lots of teams (including my beloved Bears) whose offseasons spell serious trouble for the up coming season.

Guess who's #1?

1. Chargers - San Diego fired Marty Schottenheimer because he didn't get along with general manager A.J. Smith despite last year's 14-2 mark. And coordinators Wade Phillips and Cam Cameron left for head coaching jobs.

Excuse me? Baking powder? This is an offseason that has seen the Falcons trade away their backup QB only to have their already controversial starting QB fall under suspicion of DOG FIGHTING. This is an offseason that has seen the Titans lose their Pro-Bowl CB and return man for the entire season and perhaps for the rest of his career for deciding to "make it rain" and get a bouncer paralyzed. This is an offseason that has seen numerous Bengals arrested and suspended, an offseason that has seen the Bears' Pro-Bowl linebacker threaten to hold out and one of their key defensive linemans drunk-drive his way off the team. This is an offseason that has seen teams like the Dolphins make draft debacles that threatened to shake their fan base and team morale.

All this and Perloff is getting hot and bothered by the Chargers firing their notoriously-shitty-in-the-playoffs coach after he coached shitty in the playoffs, and losing their supplemental coaches (which is something that ALMOST ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN THE HEAD COACH LEAVES)???? You've got to be kidding me. This is #1? A FUCKING COACHING CHANGE?

And a coaching change for the team with arguably the best talent on both sides of the ball in the NFL? More than Michael Vick's traveling animal show? Pacman Jones serenading strippers to the strains of gunfire? Tank Johnson's arsenal? The Bengals trying to audition for a real life longest yard?

Unreal.

Oh and there was also this gem:

7. Packers - First, the Packers had to wait to see if Brett Favre would come back, then they didn't draft the players Favre wanted. It's not easy to see where Green Bay is going in the post-Favre era.

Well, Andy, they've spent the last two drafts, as well as their offseason free-agent acquisitions, getting top notch defensive talent. Let's try again: Where does Green Bay seem to be headed in the post-Favre era?

It's really not a brainbuster there, Clyde...