Is this the beginning of the end?

I probably am harping on this way too much, but I can't get over the fact that Jamie McMurray is outside the top 35 in points.

Well, scratch that, not so much that it's Jamie McMurray, but that it's Jamie McMurray in a Roush-Fenway car in 36th place.

McMurray must have made a deal with the racing devil. He got caught up in a wreck at Daytona, spun at Vegas, wrecked at Atlanta and wrecked at Bristol. However, it wasn't like he was running exceptionally well when he had his incidents anyway.

I've always felt that McMurray was a good, but not great driver. He did come exceptionally close to making the Chase in a Ganassi car, and did win in one of his first Cup starts subbing for Sterling Marlin. (However, I think 2002 goes to show that the Ganassi cars were the class of the field that year, not Sterling Marlin and Jamie McMurray)

He did win last season, just barely beating Kyle Busch to the stripe at the last "old car" race at Daytona. But besides that win, McMurray's tenure at Roush has been nothing special.

I can't help but wonder if this is the beginning of the end for McMurray. It's long been rumored that Greg Biffle would be the driver on the chopping block when the four team limit goes into effect, but with Biffle's performance right now, it looks to me that McMurray is the one that's going to go away.

McMurray is just four points out of 35th, so if he does qualify for the show next Sunday, he's more than likely going to get back into the top 35, unless he keeps wrecking. But even if he does easily time into the field March 30th, I think the clock is counting down on McMurray's Roush-Fenway tenure.