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spt_NFL_playoff_monkeys[i-1].body = "If you&#146;ve ever been a consistent B-plus student, then you know how it feels to be a coach held up as a disappointment despite consistent regular-season success.<p>Why didn&#146;t you get an A? Why didn&#146;t you get to the Super Bowl? Don&#146;t tell us you&#146;re doing better than most everyone else -- we expect more out of you.<p>The five coaches with playoff monkeys to shake off their backs are all greatly accomplished in the regular season &#150;- but that&#146;s not enough to move to the high honor roll. That&#146;s true even for the two coaches who have won Super Bowls &#150;- because their post-title records have called into question just how responsible they were for their teams&#146; successes.<p>So can any of them erase that reputation for not quite reaching A-student status? We&#146;ll soon find out. If nothing else, the nation&#146;s B-plus students are feeling these coaches right now.";

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spt_NFL_playoff_monkeys[i-1].body = "<headline/><p><b>Resume: </b>Tampa Bay, 1996-2001; Indianapolis, 2002-present.<p><b>Regular-season record: </b>114-62. Last year he became only the sixth head coach to win 100 regular-season games in his first 10 seasons. His Colts have won four straight AFC South titles.<p><b>Playoff record: </b>8-8.<p><b>Closest call: </b>Three conference championship appearances. If the replay official hadn&#146;t (stupidly, dunderheadly, scandalously) overturned a Bert Emanuel catch that would have put Tampa Bay deep in St. Louis territory in the NFC championship game, Dungy&#146;s 1999 Buccaneers probably would have made the Super Bowl. If Tom Brady had never been born, the 2003 and<br>2004 Colts could have made the Super Bowl as well.<p><b>Knock on Dungy: </b>He&#146;s too a nice a guy, too even-tempered, to inspire his team for a title run. Both he and his present quarterback have suffered the indignity of watching his orange-clad team win a title the season after he left.<p><b>What Dungy has: </b>A spectacular quarterback in Peyton Manning, two Hall-of-Fame receivers in Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, a rising-star rookie running back in Joseph Addai, a clutch kicker in Adam Vinatieri -&#150; and a defense so awful, Ron Dayne looked like an All-Pro against it. The Texans &#150;- the Texans! -&#150; during their Week 16 victory held the ball so long, the Colts had only seven possessions, one of which was an end-of-the-first-half kneeldown. In Week 16, Chicago and Detroit each had eight possessions &#150; in the first half.<p><b>Will win if: </b>The NFL immediately bans running plays.";

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spt_NFL_playoff_monkeys[i-1].body = "<headline/><p><b>Resume: </b>Green Bay Packers, 1992-98; Seattle Seahawks, 1999-present.<p><b>Regular-season record: </b>147-93. Only one losing record (the 2000<br>Seahawks) in 15 seasons as a head coach.<p><b>Playoff record: </b>12-10.<p><b>Closest call: </b>Won the Super Bowl with the 1996 Packers. Since then, has lost two Super Bowls, with the 1997 Packers, and last season&#146;s Seahawks.<p><b>Knock on Holmgren: </b>Like Parcells and Reid, Holmgren has shown that a coach is better off left preparing the meal than choosing the groceries &#150;- and that a coach only looks like a master chef if his buyer finds him the perfect ingredients. With Ron Wolf picking players for him in Green Bay, Holmgren was 75-37 in seven seasons, along with 7-5 in the postseason, and missed the playoffs only once -&#150; his first year with the team. In eight seasons in Seattle, where he took on general manager duties, Holmgren is 71-56, 3-4 in the postseason, and missed the playoffs three times. It&#146;s no accident that the Seahawks only started winning consistently once Holmgren gave up the GM job after the 2002 season. So now that Holmgren is free to concentrate on preparing the meal, he should hope that his grocery buyer will find him another Brett Favre -&#150; because as time goes on, Holmgren is looking like he should rank third at best as the reason for the Packers&#146; success.<p><b>What Holmgren has: </b>A squad that makes last year's Seahawks Super Bowl team seem like it played 20 years ago. Running back Shaun Alexander and quarterback Matt Hasselbeck have spent the year either injured or not looking close to their Super Bowl-run form. The defense also has slipped measurably since last year. A three-game losing streak was not the momentum Seattle looked for entering the playoffs, and although the Seahawks advanced to the second round, they didn't look good doing it.<p><b>Will win if: </b>Even in the relatively wide-open and comparatively weak NFC, Seattle will need Alexander and Hasselbeck to regain their mojo in a hurry, and will need every opposing quarterback to play like the bad, turnover-prone version of Rex Grossman.";

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spt_NFL_playoff_monkeys[i-1].body = "<headline/><p><b>Resume: </b>New York Giants, 1983-1990; New England Patriots, 1993-96; New York Jets, 1997-99; Dallas Cowboys, 2003-present.<p><b>Regular-season record: </b>172-130-1. Ranks ninth all-time in regular-season wins, and is the only coach to take four different teams to the playoffs.<p><b>Playoff record: </b>11-8.<p><b>Closest call:</b> Won two Super Bowls with the Giants, sure. But since then, he&#146;s been to the Super Bowl only once -&#150; a loss with the 1996 Patriots.<p><b>Knock on Parcells: </b>In next year&#146;s annual Beloit College survey detailing the life experiences of the newest crop of college freshman, it will say &#147;they have no memory of Bill Parcells as a Super Bowl-winning coach.&#148; That&#146;s because post-Giants, Parcells has won only three playoff games, while former assistant Bill Belichick has won three Super Bowls. Six out of his 11 post-Giants seasons, Parcells&#146; teams haven&#146;t made the playoffs. It makes some wonder whether Parcells has been coasting the reputation he established with the Giants. Or whether Belichick&#146;s success means Parcells is less a Giants coaching legend than he was a latter-day Jim Lee Howell &#150;- the New York coach who won the 1956 championship with the help of two assistants named Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry.<br><!--<br><b>What Parcells has: </b>A team that a few weeks ago looked like a contender with the emergence of quarterback Tony Romo and a strong, active defense. But then Dallas got blown out &#150;- at home -- by New Orleans and Philadelphia, giving Terrell Owens 25 million reasons to spout off about the lousy offense and otherwise cause dissension. Wide receiver Terry Glenn, who also played for Parcells in New England, got into the finger-pointing act, too, and he had a few million fewer reasons to do it. Surely, Parcells didn&#146;t like what she had to say.<p><b>Will win if: </b>The drop-happy Owens can hold onto a pass once in a while, the defense reverts to midseason form, and Romo shows that he&#146;s an anchor like Roger Staubach, and not a flash-in-the-pan like Clint Longley.-->";

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spt_NFL_playoff_monkeys[i-1].body = "<headline/><p><b>Resume: </b>Philadelphia Eagles, 1999-present.<p><b>Regular-season record: </b>80-48. Won four straight NFC East titles, 2001-2004. Survived Terrell Owens imploding his 2005 team. Survived the threat of Donovan McNabb&#146;s injury imploding his 2006 team, which rallied to be in contention for an NFC East title and give Reid his sixth playoff appearance in eight seasons.<p><b>Playoff record: </b>8-6.<p><b>Closest call: </b>His 2004 Eagles lost the Super Bowl to New England, 24-21. The previous three seasons, Reid&#146;s Eagles had lost in the NFC championship game.<p><b>Knock on Reid: </b>His allergy to running the ball has put his team at a disadvantage in the postseason -&#150; and sometimes in the regular season, too. Early this season, the Eagles lost three games where they held late leads.<p><b>What Reid has: </b>The antihistamine for Reid&#146;s running allergy has been Brian Westbrook. Entering Week 17, Westbrook had a career high 1,214 yards, only 60 yards away from breaking Duce Staley&#146;s 1999 mark for most rushing yards under Reid. Plus, Westbrook has already set career highs in receptions and receiving yards. Reid also has the steadying hand of Jeff Garcia, who guided the Eagles back from the brink after McNabb tore his right knee -&#150; his third season-ending injury in five seasons.<p><b>Will win if: </b>The Eagles have a late lead, and Reid remembers Westbrook is on the roster.";

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spt_NFL_playoff_monkeys[i-1].body = "<headline/><p><b>Resume: </b>Cleveland, 1984-88; Kansas City, 1989-98; Washington, 2001; San Diego, 2002-present<p><b>Regular-season record: </b>200-126-1. Leapt from tied for eighth (with Chuck Knox) to sixth in career regular-season coaching victories. With that 200th win, Schottenheimer became the fifth coach to have 200 regular-season wins. The other five: Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau and Paul Brown. So Schottenheimer&#146;s name someday should be affixed on either a stadium (Lambeau, Brown), an expressway (Shula), a team facility (Halas) or a long-running, Fox-aired, non-Simpsons cartoon&#146;s middle school (Landry).<p><b>Playoff record: </b>5-13. In his first season as Chargers&#146; coach, Schottenheimer passed Bud Grant as the coach with the most regular-season victories never to have won a championship. (Though Schottenheimer did win the 1965 AFL title in his rookie year as a Buffalo Bills linebacker.)<p><b>Closest call: </b>The Drive. And The Fumble. Out of respect for the good people of Cleveland, we&#146;ll just leave it at that.<p><b>Knock on Schottenheimer: </b>That his conservative &#147;Martyball&#148; chokes his players in the postseason, causing them to lose in the most excruciating ways possible. And it&#146;s not just that his Cleveland defense couldn&#146;t stop a 98-yard, John Elway-led drive in the 1986 AFC title game, or that he failed to put the glue on Earnest Byner&#146;s hands that would have stopped him from fumbling away the 1987 game. (So much for respecting the good people of Cleveland.) The last three times a Schottenheimer-coached team has had an opening-round home playoff game, it has lost -&#150; none by more than four points. It so happens San Diego will have an opening-round playoff game this year.<p><b>What Schottenheimer has: </b>Probably the best team he&#146;s ever coached, featuring LaDanian Tomlinson, maybe the best all-around running back anybody has coached, and Shawn Merriman, maybe the best linebacker in the NFL today (when he isn&#146;t serving steroid-related suspensions).<p><b>Will win if: </b>If? If? Even Schottenheimer on his worst, let&#146;s-play-for-a-40-yard-field-goal-by-our-rookie-kicker-day can&#146;t screw this up! Or can he?";

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