[gusmahler]

The bad news is obviously that our chance of winning the NFC West just plummeted.

The good news is that all the teams ahead of us in the Wild Card race also lost. In fact, they all sucked. New Orleans caught up to us, but we play them in a couple of weeks. So we still have a somewhat decent shot of getting to the playoffs. Unfortunately, we'd probably play Tampa Bay, who killed us a few weeks ago.

Should also add that I would be very surprised if Rackers is still with the team in 2008. Olindo Mare is the only regular NFL kicker with a worse FG percentage.

Same is true for the punter, Michael Barr, currently the worst punter in the NFL by gross average.

I doubt that they'll be replaced this season (though I bet the Gramatica brothers are warming up somewhere).