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- Billy McMullen, Samie Parker, Courtney Taylor, and Logan Payne.
Everyone who's heard of one of those guys, raise your hand
Now, now, keep em up so I can count...
nobody?
Yeah, me either. Those are the four active Wide Receivers on the Seattle Seahawks' roster.
Perhaps I'm basing my opinion on familiarity, but I'd take any 4 of the Bears 6 receivers over those 4 schlubs any day of the week. Arizona's going to win the NFC West.
- It's funny to me that Vince Young has realized what many in the national media still fail to, that he's bad at football.
- If you're New England, don't you have to feel like Hubris has come to bite you in the ass? I'm not one who actively roots against the Pats, I actually kinda like Bill Bellechek and his whole "cold, heartless, arrogant, bastard" personality. I still think they're one of, if not the best team in football, but Matt Cassel? Really? That's your backup plan? I understand you can't go out and sign a mulit-million dollar backup, but there are better options than Matt Cassel. Like Chris Simms, who they weren't interested in.
Back when the Favre saga was in the "maybe he'll take 20MM from Green Bay to go away" phase, I told a few people that if I was the Pats, I'd have called him and asked if he'd be interested in being Tom Brady's backup. If Favre had a price to go away, maybe he had a price just to stay off the field. The Patriots would have given him the BEST chance to win another title, and there would have been plenty of opportunity for him to play when they were up 55-7 in the 4th quarter.
Now realize, I don't think Favre ever, ever, ever would have agreed to this, but it would have been worth a phone call. Regardless, I'm sure the Pats can still win the Superbowl with Matt Cassel (seriously) but they could be in a much better position if they'd have signed a known commodity to back up Brady.
- I'm so pissed at the Bears for resigning Fred Miller. What the hell, guys? Fred Miller blows. Keep Kirk Barton and go with it. He's a backup tackle. Offensive tackles are so expensive that your #3 is almost certainly going to be bad. It's so much better to be bad and young than bad and old.
- I can't wait for MNF this week. Eagles at Cowboys? Yes sir!
- Kudos to the Falcons. At no point this season did I ever think they'd look as impressive as they did on Sunday. It just goes to show, the more things change, the more they stay the same the Lions still can't win on the road.
- I really enjoyed watching the Giants on Thursday night. They remind me of a late 80s early 90s NFL team... I can't fully qualify this. The Jacobs/Ward combo has a lot to do with it. The last team I remember who succeeded with Thunder/Thunder as their 1/2 combo were the Bettis/Fuamatu-Ma'afala Steeler teams. Again, though completely unqualifiable, this Giants team feels more like it would fit in Tecmo Super Bowl than any other team in the league.
- I think Denver will beat San Diego, San Francisco will beat Seattle, Buffalo will beat Jacksonville and Cincinnati will beat Tennessee.
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Horrible, horrible, horrible coaching today by the Bears. Carolina made adjustments to Chicago's offense, defense, and the refs during halftime. The Bears? Crawled into their hole...
Can you please explain why New England has to feel like "hubris" bit them in the ass? Or is that just your way of using a fifteen-cent word instead of the more pedestrian "karma?" See, I always thought hubris meant excessive pride. I guess the constant "team first" attitude the Patriots preach is just a front.
Also, why would the notoriously stingy Pats sign someone like Chris Simms when they have a solid backup who's been immersed in their system for three years? The Ravens didn't even want to sign Chris Simms. The TITANS don't even want Chris Simms, and they DID sign him. Their QB is on suicide watch, and the Titans are going with Kerry Collins over him. I don't see how he's obviously a "better option" than Cassel.
I wouldn't use the word karma because I don't believe in such a concept. While I will be the first person to say that doing something just because "that's the way it's done" is a terrible, terrible idea, there's a REASON why most teams carry 3 quarterbacks. Primarily because you can dress the third one but still not have him on the active roster.
The fact that New England has only carried two the past few years smacks of a team that feels like they've got the system beat just because of the top end of their QB depth chart. That’s where I feel like it’s their hubris coming back to bite them. You can’t tell me the 4th or 5th guard or the 11th DB or the 9th LB or whoever that 53rd guy on the roster that probably never dresses is a better option than a 3rd QB when the 2nd QB is a guy who’s never taken a meaningful snap in the NFL.
You can’t tell me that the Pats – a team which I would assume still has championship aspirations - wouldn’t rather have a more known commodity. Regardless of how well he knows the system, or how much mop up work he’s done, it’s not the same thing as coming in and starting and being expected to win the game, or put/keeping the team in(to) a place to win the game.
For the record, I’d say the exact same thing about the Colts and Sorgi if Manning went down.
Actually, I can tell you that the Patriots would rather have Matt Cassel than a "more known commodity." Know why? Because they HAVE Cassel instead of a "more known commodity." I don't know how good he's going to turn out to be, but I don't think they made that choice because they had no other options.
With regards to your comment that they feel like "they have the system beat" by only carrying two quarterbacks: the Patriots DID have a third quarterback at the start of this season. It was Kevin O'Connell. Once Brady went down, they remedied the situation immediately by re-signing Matt Gutierrez. He was the third quarterback in '07. Vinny Testaverde was their third quarterback in '06. And the first man to convert a drop kick in an NFL game in 60 years, Doug Flutie, was their backup QB in '05.
MY for the record: according to Rotoworld, there are five other teams besides the Colts who are currently carrying only two quarterbacks: the Texans, Jaguars, Broncos, Giants, and Saints. None of those teams are the Patriots.
I will of course defer to you, but are you SURE that Cassel was on the 53 man roster when Flutie and Testeverde were on the team? I thought for sure those guys were the #2s, and that Cassel was on the practice squad. I'm also pretty sure save the one year they had Jim Miller that before 06 it was just Brady and Rohan Davie.
But I still disagree that they wouldn't rather have a more known commodity. I think they made the choice to go with Cassel in hopes of emulating the mid-90s Packers mold, the one that netted them a great return on their draft pick investments in Mark Brunell, Aaron Brooks, Matt Hasselbeck and one other guy I seem to be forgetting, probably one of the Detmers or Huards.
Hindsight may very well prove the Patriots right on this one, that's what good scouts are paid to do, but no matter how good Cassel ends up being it still doesn't mean that this isn't a gamble.
I guess my overarching point, if you'll pardon my hackneyed analogy, is this: If you're still trying to win the Super Bowl, and you had the option; there's no WAY you'd pick quarterback Sarah Palin over quarterback Joe Biden.
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