Tank Johnson is officially a Dallas Cowboy and he’s lucky to land in a State that loves them some guns! Yee haa.  After tripping up with the law and with the league over gun issues, Tank Johnson will be able to relax in Texas, possibly even discussing the merits of a Glock 24 with fellow team mates and the local citizenry.

The right to bear arms aside; this is a great deal for both parties.  Tank will arrive, following his NFL mandated suspension, right around the time the play off race is heating up.  Long before then, Dallas should have both Terrence Newman andGreg Ellis back as well.  With an explosive offense, Dallas doing anything to shore up their defense would put them near or at the top of the NFC pack and Tank’s addition might just be the final piece of a Super Bowl puzzle.

I still can’t grasp the Eagles releasing Jeff Garcia so easily in the off season. To me, it was more an issue of backing McNabb than it was about Garcia’s ability. There is a lot of finger pointing going on in Philadelphia, whose fans are known to have short memories.  It seems the recent past excellence; numerous trips to the NFC Championship and a Super Bowl appearance mean nothing.  While obvious things like poor receivers, McNabb’s injury and a bad offensive line are being singled out this year, I’d remind everyone that the Eagles were not performing well with a healthy McNabb last year.  Garcia took the team on a 5-0 run to end the season and a victory over the Giants and were a mere field goal from playing in Chicago last year for the right to represent the NFC.  Is the problem then McNabb? Or is it deeper than that?  My personal opinion is that McNabb has a certain style of play that is not the West Coast offense.  Garcia’s style is the West Coast offense.  The West Coast thing can make decent receivers look better than they are and great receivers look like rock stars.  If Philly wanted to rest their team on McNabb, they needed to surround him with better talent at the receiver position.  McNabb and Westbrook alone can’t get it done.  If Philly had insisted on keeping sub-par receivers around, they should have gone with Garcia.

The Giants…well, what can you say here?  The team seems lifeless and lost.  Eli Manning is quietly having a good year, bad shoulder and all, but that hasn’t translated into any wins and I don’t foresee one this week Monday against the Redskins.  An 0-3 start will not bode well with the shark infested media in New York. Luckily for the Giants, they have a fairly light schedule heading into their bye then get a week’s rest before facing Dallas again on November 11th.  But what if the Giants continue falling apart during this easy run?  Plan on seeing Tom Coughlin at a U-Haul dealership in midtown picking out a truck.

The Washington Redskins are 2-0, albeit a very ugly 2-0 but then again, pretty doesn’t matter, wins do.  The Skins get a decimated Giants team this week then head into their bye to shore up a few holes. The key tests will be October 28th in New England and November 18th at Dallas.  Even if Washington goes 0-2 on those two games, don’t count them out yet. They are already performing above this year’s expectations and could gel for a late season run.

My last comment is about the coaches of the NFC East.  You have an offensive genius in Andy Reid coaching a team that can’t score.  You have a disciplinarian coach in Coughlin coaching a team without discipline and you have a defensive genius in Wade Phillips down in Dallas with a very porous defense. What gives?