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Rumors are saying that Saban's wife is really sick and that's why he retired. Take that with a 50 pound bag of salt.

Former Toledo Rockets head coach, Nick Saban, announced his retirement today. In his time as the head football coach at the University of Toledo, Saban had a winning percentage of 82%. Legend has it that after his wildly successful coaching stint at Toledo, Saban went on to have a fairly decent career coaching football at other colleges. We wish Coach Saban well in his future endeavors...wherever he is.

Mike Vrabel isn't a bad choice either.

Do you mean he never had any season with more than 7 losses in 14 years? I ask because most teams don't keep a coach who is losing 7 or more games a season for 14 years.

The gut-wrenching part is what will make it hilarious. Hope is the worst thing we can have as Browns fans. Only stoic cynicism will deliver us. Expect the worst, be pleased, and more importantly, surprised if it doesn't happen. This is the way.

Yeah, I got nothing...

Cleveland vs. Houston Miami vs. Kansas City Pittsburgh vs. Buffalo Green Bay vs. Dallas Los Angeles vs. Detroit Philadelphia vs. Tampa Bay

Playoff picks: The Browns lose to Houston in a gut-wrenching, yet hilarious fashion. That's it. That's all I got.

Congrats, Gary. Enjoy it.

My formula doesn't include the "It would have to be 20 degrees warmer just to be all cold" temperatures.

I'm not betting on a Joe Barry defense, I'm betting on the recent playoff history of the Dallas Cowboys.

Once it hits 15 or lower, I don't know why they even bother with giving the temperature. It's not like 14 degrees is noticeably warmer than 4 degrees. They should just call it all cold and save everyone the trouble.

I don't. The weather forecast for Saturday in KC is 14 degrees. Probably even colder than that by game time. I don't think the Dolphins offense is built for that kind of weather.

Bold prediction: The Packers send the Cowboys home next week.

The refs are undefeated.

Around here, most of us are fully convinced.

Turns out the Eagles are the Jaguars of the NFC - a total mirage.

I'm halfway home.

Every year there is at least one "win and in" team who just needs to beat a bad team to get into the playoffs and they end up losing. This year that team is the Jags.

Bold prediction: Jacksonville loses to Tennessee tomorrow, the Steelers derp their way into the playoffs and end up knocking off the #2 seed because us, that's why.

Definitely the Jags.

We'll see. It will be nice if they win a game or two, but I have zero expectations. I'm just along for the Watson-free ride. I learned a long time ago that the worst thing a Browns fan can have is hope.

You'd think with all the QBs that have started for Browns, this would have happened long before now.

For the moment, at least. Or the end truly is nigh. Either way, I'll take it.

The Browns are starting their fifth QB of the season - the immortal Jeff Driskel - and it's not because of the usual Browns stuff. It's because they're locked into the #5 seed in the playoffs. Seeing this team sit everyone because they're in the playoffs is something I haven't seen since...now that I think about it, I don't recall ever seeing this. All I can figure is that the end is nigh.