Final thoughts on the 2009 NFL season

For your consideration:

** The Saints won the Super Bowl.
** Tony Romo won a playoff game.
** The Eagles had a Pro Bowl fullback.
** The East Coast is now being buried in the third major snowstorm this season.

If you need further proof that hell has frozen over, I can't give it to you.

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There are only 74 days left until draftsgiving. Right now, the draft site http://www.draftsite.com/ has the Eagles taking Louisiana Tech DT D'Anthony Smith with the 192nd pick, their final selection of the draft.

That's ridiculous. They could trade all the way down to 220 and still get D'Anthony. And taking him with Utah OG Zane Beadles still on the board? Absurd. I've never read a worse sixth-round projection two months before draft day.

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Brian Westbrook won't be on the Eagles opening day roster next year. Start getting used to the idea now.

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Players who now have a Super Bowl ring, thanks to the Saints win:
** LB Mark Simoneau (former Eagle)
** FB Kyle Eckel (former Eagle)
** CB Malcom Jenkins (Ohio State alum)
** DE Will Smith (Ohio State alum)
** QB Mark Brunell (Yes, that Mark Brunell)

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If you put down $10 on each of the Super Bowl prop bets I laid out last week ($60 total) you would have walked away with a $63.10 purse -- a hefty five percent profit. Orange really let me down, however; the Gatorade bath was classic yellow.