NFL GridIron Gab Daily Digest

Our Friends at TMZ sent us the following about Saints RB Reggie Bush’s famous girlfriend:

Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, Reggie Bush, is so worried about a fan who allegedly has made it his life’s mission to hook up with Kim, he’s hired a phalanx of bodyguards to protect her.

The New Orleans Saints star, we’re told, has hired six bodyguards to accompany Kim everywhere she goes.

Kim got a restraining order earlier in the week against Dennis Shaun Bowman, who she says moved from Georgia to L.A. to be with her, even though she’s never met him. According to legal docs, Bowman has shown up to Kim’s appearances in Joker face paint and has even threatened Bush.

The restraining order requires Reynolds to stay 500 yards clear of Kim.

Well, it’s down to the final four in the NFL, and after a 4-0 week last week in the divisional round, here we go with the two biggest NFL games of the season Sunday between the two #1 seeds in the conference as they try to reach the Super Bowl,

New York Jets (9-7) at Indianapolis Colts (15-2) – The gritty Jets roll into Lucas Oil Stadium against a Colts team that overcame some demons last week with a divisional win over the Ravens at home. The focus is on the Jets with what they have done beating the Bengals and the Chargers, but to me, the clock is set to strike midnight here for Mark Sanchez and Rex Ryan. The Colts have that quiet confidence, and with Peyton Manning playing at another high level as the NFL MVP, and the defense getting no credit for how they have played most of the season, I think they avoid the letdown that San Diego had last week at home.

The key for the Jets will be if they can control the tempo and run the ball with success. They will try to play the game like last week, looking to keep it close then sneaking up at the end with a run game and an O-Line that wears you down. Problem for New York, I think this time around they will be playing from behind, like Baltimore did last week, which made their run game pretty null and void.

Look for Indy to use their short pass game to guys like Reggie Wayne and Dallas Clark, and for the run game to have a few plays late to make sure their ticket to Miami is stamped. For the Jets, the season ends, but they will be back. Indianapolis 23 New York Jets 13

Minnesota Vikings (12-4) at New Orleans Saints (13-3) – As a football fan, this to me is the game we all wanted to see from the NFC (sorry Cowboy and Cardinal fans). The #1 seed vs the #2 seed. Brett Favre vs Drew Brees. Adrian Peterson vs Reggie Bush. It’s all there for what could and should be a classic in terms of conference title games.

I am sorry Saint fans, I know your at home, and I know that you played great last week vs a tired Cardinals team that was way overmatched, but the run ends here. There’s not only a legend on the other side of the field in Favre that has one bullet left in the gun, but there’s also the fact that the Vikings have a better defense and a better run game with Peterson and Chester Taylor.

There’s a couple major factors I think the Vikings sneak this out. First, as stated above, I like the run game for Minnesota. Adrian Peterson is a back that has that ability to hit the big play at anytime, and while the Saints stopped Arizona after that first Tim Hightower run last week, I think here the Vikings O-line and run game keeps Brees off the field, giving them a solid edge in time of possession.

Then there is the Vikings pass rush, which I think will pressure some Bress mistakes. If you don’t believe me, just ask Aaron Rodgers about it, or how about last week when they put a hurtin on Tony Romo, forcing some fumbles and errors all over the place?

No doubt the Saints are a great team, and they will have their moments in this game, but for the reasons stated above, I love Minnesota to end the New Orleans party, setting up a Manning-Favre classic in Super Bowl XLIV. Minnesota 34 New Orleans 27

It’s been a wild week full of headlines for the Oakland Raiders, and as usual, no one is still sure of the status of the team and its coaching staff. Tom Cable (as of this writing) remains the coach of the team, this despite a bunch of possible replacements coming in to take his spot.

Cable has had a couple meetings owner Al Davis about his job since the season wrapped up on January 3rd. The team under Cable went 5-11 in his first full season as coach. He is 9-19 since replacing Lane Kiffin early in the 2008 season, leading the Raiders to their NFL-worst seventh straight season with at least 11 losses.

"It's still a fluid deal," senior executive John Herrera said. "The assumption is they will continue to meet on the agenda in front of us until it comes to a resolution."

Many NFL Insiders say that Cable is eventually going to be fired by Davis, yet you would think that if it was going to happen, it would have happened already. Maybe Davis can’t find the guy he wants to come in and replace Cable, or maybe Cable has said all the right things to stick around another season.

There’s really only one for sure thing for the Raiders so far this offseason, as the team this past week hired Mike Waufle as the teams defensive line coach.

I wonder if Davis has called Art Shell yet?