In Peter Kings Monday Morning Quarterback column on SI.com, the longtime Sports Illustrated scribe declares Chucky to be the "Coach of the Week." Joe's not so sure.

Joe has long been a proponent of Peter King’s “Monday Morning Quarterback” on SI.com. But this week Joe isn’t so sure King wrote the column while totally sober.

King suggests Chucky is the “Coach of the Week.”

After the 30-27 overtime win in Kansas City, which made Gruden the winningest coach in Bucs history (Gruden 57 wins, Tony Dungy 56), Ronde Barber hugged Gruden at midfield and congratulated him for surpassing the coach Barber loves. Later, from the team bus, Barber said: “I told my wife before the season, ‘I’ve now played for coach Gruden longer than I played for coach Dungy,’ and we were both amazed. He told us at halftime we’d have to do something special in the second half to win.”

They did, rebounding from the biggest deficit (21 points) to win a game in club history. Gruden has the Bucs at 6-3 at the bye, and he knows what his team of veterans and young players needs. He gave them seven days off, a rarity for a team when it has a bye. Did you hear the hoarse Gruden after the game? His larynx needs a bye.

So by King’s logic, a mute would be a good coach because he couldn’t talk? Look, a “Coach of the Week” doesn’t have a gameplan that allows his team to be in such a hole as the Bucs were yesterday. In Joe’s eyes, a coach who has done his job has his team prepared. Did the Bucs look prepared in the first half?

Jim Mora of the NFL Network said it best yesterday when he suggested the Bucs did not look ready to play.

That’s hardly “Coach of the Week” material.