The Blind Side is like the spoiled rich cousin to Precious. While Michael Oher comes from a similar downtrodden past, the film mostly ignores the bleak and bad beginnings to focus on his inspiring rise from the ashes with his Tuohy saviors. Blind Side works so well because it eschews realism in the interest of entertainment.That's just the way life is sometimes." . Smith is clearly at a loss in trying to explain his demotion. "I completed only 25 of my last 27 passes" clearly doesn't work.

His first two years have surpassed expectations with a franchise that's had very low ones for so long. The Bengals haven't won a playoff game since the 1990 season, the longest current drought and the seventhlongest stretch in NFL history. They've reached the playoffs four times in Lewis' 10 seasons with Cincinnati, going 04.."You list the pros and cons," Birk said in a phone interview. "What is best for my family? Can I do it again? Do I want to do it again