Mike Zimmer is a sentimental favorite in Cincinnati. He sadly lost his wife to cancer last season and the team rallied around him. His defense last season helped push the Bengals to the AFC North title, and he’s near-universally praised as a good coach and a good guy. Just don’t ask him about Bobby Petrino, who now runs Arkansas’s football program in the SEC. Zimmer was on Petrino’s staff during his very short run with the Atlanta Falcons, a job that Petrino famously left without so much as notifying any of his assistants.

“He’s a gutless bastard. Quote that. I don’t give a s—,” Zimmer said Wednesday, according to Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer.

When Zimmer was told that [a] responsible news organization may not be able to use “bastard,” Zimmer responded:

“How about this, gutless MF. You can use that.” via PFT.

I can’t help but admire a man that doesn’t mince words, but honestly, what sort of company out there is shying away from the word “bastard?” It’s not like kids are even reading news sites these days anyway. They’re all snorting cough syrup and reading Harry Potter books watching Harry Potter movies. They’re all bastards. Believe it or not I’m really good with kids. I was VP of personnel when I worked out of the Nike “office” in Indonesia.

I really think that if Broncos coach Josh McDaniels was a few years younger, he never would have gone into coaching football, but instead would have spent his formative years in a college computer lab, learning HTML while fiddling with his GeoCities site (uh, not speaking from experience or anything). Because his mastery of the F word is terrific. And if you’re curious about McDaniels’ abilities at winning motherfugging games, his Broncos had lost four straight before finally righting the ship last night, beating the Giants, 26-6. The Giants, apparently, were content to lose this motherfugging game; New York now have dropped five of their last six. Tip of the unbuckled belt to Last Angry Fan.

There were no big shockers in the two other NFL games from Gobble Gobble Day: Green Bay threw for 348 yards while blowing out Detroit and Oakland got stomped by the Cowboys. Pat yourself on the back if you started Donald Driver (142 yards receiving, 1 TD) or Miles Austin (145, 1 TD) in fantasy this week. And if you didn’t, well, maybe a cold turkey sandwich will make you feel better. Because there’s nothing better on the day after eating a metric ton of turkey…than more turkey.