So much to bitch about today.
I can go off about the CBA, but that’s something Goodell needs to fix in the next few weeks. The numbers don’t lie, the money is there to make everyone happy. If you lock them out, just look what it did to baseball, it took steroids to even make it relevant again. And worst of all, I don’t know what happens to my fantasy football season! If you pull a Keanu Reeves on us, does that mean the next great QB of the Doves is…Joe Germaine?
I can go off about the Hall of Fame and how it completely baffles me that one of the 3 most dominant defensive linemen of his era is not in the Hall. Throw in Deion Sanders and arguably he’s a Top 4 defensive player of the 90’s. It can’t be because he played a non-glamorous position like Reggie White or Bruce Smith where he could rack up the sacks because John Randle got it. Don’t blame the market or the team’s history because Rickey Jackson got in. Rickey Jackson? And come on, Rickey Jackson before Sam Mills? And don’t say he doesn’t have the stats or awards, heck in a year when his team went 2-14 he was the Defensive Player of the Year. You know you’re a badass when you win DPOY when your team only wins two games! So how the filth flarn flarn filth is Cortez Kennedy not in the Hall of Fame? Dr. Z, Mort, Peter King, somebody explain this to me.
I can go off on how the Colts made me look bad on my prediction. You made Coach Dungy look bad too, not just me. But we should’ve known all along. Going all the way back to the early 90’s, say it with me now Peyton-Manning-can’t-win-the-big-one. Back at UT we knew the Vols were gonna go 11-1, with that one loss to the Gators. Now in the NFL we know if the Colts are playing the Chargers or the Patriots no Super Bowl for you. It’s easy like that. Who needs a handicapper?
What I do want to say is this, how did Peyton Manning go from being on the verge of becoming the Greatest QB of All-Time if he won on Sunday to becoming the Greatest QB of All-Time that can’t win when it counts? And how did Drew Brees just solidify himself as one of the Greatest Ever? Ummm…Brees and Peyton Manning have the same amount of rings, one. And uh, Brees has only been to the playoffs three times in his 9 year career as a starting QB. So let’s say that Drew Brees has joined the elite group of Great QB’s with one Super Bowl win that includes Peyton Manning. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves on Drew Brees just yet.
Back to Manning. I just don’t understand him and the Colts. That undefeated season sure sounds good now doesn’t it? I mean when Coach Caldwell said we’re interested in the championship not going undefeated, if you go undefeated doesn’t that mean you won the championship? Last time I checked they never gave the trophy to the team that lost! You play every game to win. Your goal should be to win 19 games. Not 18 wins and hope that it’s week 17 that you lose. Manning and the Colts just don’t know how to prepare and play after byes. And more so after long layoffs, the bye week in the first round of the playoffs and the extra week off before the Super Bowl. When are the Colts going to learn that resting players actually has a negative effect? Go back to 2006, the Colts go into the playoff as the sixth seed I believe. They had to play every week and win down the stretch. Win in week 17 and they’re in. They played the whole season, every game, and look what happened, by golly George they won the Super Bowl. What happens every year they go 14-2 or 13-3? They wrap up the division title, and first round bye with nothing to play for and Jim Sorgi or Curtis Painter get a chance to play. That’s not how you play the game, that’s not how the game was meant to be played and that’s why it keeps coming back to bite you in the ass. Everyone says the Hoody has no sportsmanship and he’s a prick for running up the scores in games. The Hoody does it the right way. He has rings to prove he knows what he’s doing and he’s coaching the game the way it should be played. Don’t believe me, look what happens to the nice guys like Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy that mess with the football gods. The one year they played the game right, they were rewarded.
I’m done, but on a side note I really, really wanted to hate on Brett Favre this morning. Partly because I think he’s the most overrated QB in NFL history, but mostly because just about everyone says or thinks that Brett is the Greatest and hates on Peyton Manning. Especially following the game, all of a sudden Peyton Manning is this QB with an awful playoff record, great regular season record and one teeny tiny Super Bowl win to show for it. You know what? Yes, there’s another QB with an awful playoff record, great regular season record and one teeny tiny Super Bowl win to show for it. And his name is Brett Favre. By the way Manning holds the edge in the two most important stats for a QB in my book yards per attempt and INT’s thrown per attempt 7.7 to 7.1 and 2.8 to 3.2. There’s also this QB who’s known as an athlete, not a QB, and all the so called experts of the game say he can’t read a defense to save his life and is only good because of his legs. Well Mike Vick has a 3.0 INT per attempt percentage, which is a tad better than Favre. Oh and remember when his Falcons went into Lambeau and beat Favre’s Packers?
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