The NFL's Worst of Week 15:The Sad Sack Seven:

A special sad sack salute to Jerry Jones and his Dallas Cowboys. Jerry makes money as an owner but has proven to be a mixture of Matt Millen and meddling George Steinbrenner at his worst.

Ever since Jimmy Johnson left, Jerry Jones has had a knack of picking precisely the wrong talent for the Cowboys.

Now Jones rides with Romo—Tony Romo. No longer do Cowboy fans hope for shades of Roger Staubach or Troy Aikman. They just pray for a poor man's Danny White.

1) Detroit Lions 0-13

Has there ever been a football franchise so fruitless for so long? The talent is so stripped that if George Plimpton was still around, the Lions would be trying to coax him into coming out of retirement.

And the Paper Lion never would have flipped the fans the bird.

"I believe in the invisible," Coach Rod Marinelli said Monday.

Coach Rod would be better off paraphrasing another old Lion.

"Marinelli, like Mongo, is just a pawn in the game of life."

2) Cincinnati Bengals 1-11-1

Even though he has gone 8-23-1 in his last 32 games, Coach Marvin Lewis's job is considered safe. 

If the NFL has a year without a salary cap, it's expected Brown's Bengals will roll back payroll far below the league minimum to save money, which begs the question, why bother even playing?

For that matter, why bothering attending either?

3) Kansas City Chiefs 2-11

Herm Edwards has dropped 20 of his last 22, and Arrowhead is increasingly empty. Herm is happy, though, saying he is playing with a college team.

The Chiefs were playoff caliber when Herm took the helm, but the Team Terminator took care of that.

Old Chief head coach and now defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham's defense is as bad and boring as Herm's offense, producing an NFL record for futility—six sacks so far this season.

Who pays to see this bad bunch?

4) Seattle Seahawks 2-11 and St Louis Rams 2-11 [tie]

Bill Walsh would lament the fall of the west, and these two teams are going to be down deep into the twenty teens.

5) Oakland Raiders 3-10

Team trainwreck not only lacks direction, but the sad sack Silver and Black lack a coherent team brain trust.

No team in league history has flopped with more free agents in a short span than the current Raiders. All that money spent and so little talent on the team.

Raider rumors say owner Al Davis' antics are being caused by bizarre Brazilian Doctors who are treating him with the drug Ibogaine—the very same drug that was rumored to have once driven Edmund Muskie mad.

6) Jacksonville Jaguars 4-9

Has a head coach ever seemed as disinterested in a game as Jack Del Rio? Has a coach ever seemed so disconnected with his team as he does with his Jaguars? Jacksonville Jack ought to sit on the corner of the bench and fiddle with his iPod.

7) Cleveland Browns 4-9

If Marty Schottenheimer returns, the Browns are guaranteed a first round playoff exit. Old Marty could have piloted the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers to a decade of disappointing first round playoff losses if given the chance.

That's just how Marty rolls.