Coach Killers, Week 15: The Baltimore Ravens Should Be Relegated

Every week, NFL FanHouse hits the lowlights from Sunday's action, looking at those players who did the most to move their head coaches that much closer to returning to the Bed and Breakfast business.

Matt Stover, Ravens
It's sorta unfair to put the Ravens latest loss -- that's eight straight now -- on the team's only scoring threat. But Stover, one of the league's most consistent kickers, honked a 44-yard field-goal attempt in overtime. And three plays later, this happened.

For the Dolphins, they win their first game since Week 14 of the 2006 season and now everybody knows the name Greg Camarillo. The Ravens are now the biggest laughingstock in the NFL, and Brian Billick -- who may not be a great coach, but is apparently great at talking himself into at least one more year on the job -- would be just as effective if he stayed in the locker room and did crossword puzzles for three hours on game days.

Next up for Miami: they head to New England to try to extend their one-game winning streak -- and to give the crotchety old guys something to live for -- while Baltimore continues its quest for a top-5 pick in next April's draft. So far, so good on that front.

Anthony Smith, Steelers
Congrats, Mr. Smith, that's two weeks in a row you've made Coach Killers. To your credit, Sunday's effort wasn't nearly as embarrassing as last week's Patriots game, but you still got beat deep for a 55-yard touchdown that gave the Jaguars a 15-point lead to start the fourth quarter.

You made things interesting by picking off an ill-advised David Garrard pass one series later, but it wasn't enough because Fred Taylor treaded the Steelers run defense all day long.

Bright spot: Troy Polamalu returned to the starting lineup and was immediately a difference-maker. Unfortunately, he doesn't play free safety too. Steelers fans everywhere should say a prayer for Ryan Clark. Let's all hope he fully recovers from having his spleen removed and is ready to go in training camp.

In the meantime, who on Pittsburgh's defense do you think opposing offensive coordinators will game plan to exploit for the rest of the season? Hmm.

Tony Romo, Cowboys
The Simpson Factor. That pretty much says it all. (Props to a reader at The 700 Level for that one.) Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson share a turkey leg, invites her to Sunday's home game against the Eagles to show how totally awesome he is, and then plays like Nick Lachey might if he were forced into duty in a real live NFL game.

Romo finished the afternoon 13 of 36 with zero touchdowns and three picks. None more damaging than the interception he threw from his own 37-yard line with three minutes to go in the fourth quarter and the Cowboys down 10-6.

It wouldn't have been altogether surprising if Romo led a game-winning drive -- it's become almost expected at this point -- but for some reason it just didn't happen. I'll blame Jessica. And the fact that the Cowboys weren't playing the Lions. Ah, yes, those hapless Lions...

Jon Kitna, Lions
Kitna had us all going. Back when Detroit was 6-2, everybody thought the team was a shoo-in to win 10 games. That pipe dream went out the window two weeks ago. I don't know if an NFL team has ever forfeited a game, but the Lions could've saved themselves the trouble of traveling the 2,300 miles to San Diego to get absolutely blown out of the building. Detroit trailed 34-7 at the half, before losing 51-14 ... nah, that's not embarrassing.

You wanna know how bad it was? I'll channel FanHouse's Tom Mantzouranis for this one:

Let me begin with an accounting of their first five drives:

* Three and out.
* Three and out.
* One play, interception.
* Three plays, interception.
* Interception.

And Mr. Kitna threw five interceptions on the day, but only one pick-six. So there's your silver lining. That, and the season will be over in two weeks.

Herm Edwards, Chiefs
Somebody forgot to tell Kansas City that professional football games are 60-minute affairs. I don't know if this is all part of Herm Edwards' "Plan", or if it's just the same ol', same ol' with the Chiefs. I'll go with both.

After taking a 14-10 halftime lead, Kansas City came out of the locker room and ... scored just three points in the final 30 minutes. The Titans put up 16 and won easily. The game was unofficially over late in the third quarter when Vince Young pump-faked safety Jarrod Page right out of his jock, and hit Roydell Williams on a 41-yard touchdown pass to give Tennessee a 20-14 lead.

Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock thinks Edwards deserves two more years to turn things around -- and maybe he does, who knows -- but I'm pretty sure the fans might burn down Arrowhead in protest before then.

Honorable Mention: Bobby Petrino, formerly of the Falcons
Petrino becomes the first Coach Killer of the 2007 season, but he beat team owner Arthur Blank to the punch by announcing his resignation last Tuesday. Touché, sir. Of course, Petrino completely quitting on his team to return to the college game probably had a little something to do with the 37-3 drubbing the Buccaneers put on the Falcons Sunday. I mean, if Petrino was still around, Atlanta might've lost by just two or three scores, like every other week.