I don't know what he means by that second one either, but it almost sounds like some of the arguments the Pats made earlier in the season---we play 60 minutes, so when we get to a game where we have to, we're ready.
None of which has anything to do with Hines Ward's propensity forHines Ward is Wes Welker with twice as much natural athletic talent and a better football IQ (played QB at UGA in addition to lining up wide, in the slot, and in the backfield at various times). I'm sorry that you dislike him, but he is a very good player and he is fun to watch.
Uh, that makes perfect sense. Just as a muscle needs to be tested instead of rested to increase its endurance and can lose that endurance if if it goes too long without being worked, so can players conceivably lose their ability to last a full game if they've gotten too much rest. I'm not saying that the Bucs were in fact too rested, nor that, if they were, that's why they lost. But to suggest King 's argument doesn't make sense is just wrong. It does make sense.WTF:
Talking shit, whining, and bending the rules makes you a good player?
Jesus...Hines Ward is a very good player because he's big, athletic, and makes good plays. His relative "grittiness" or "gutsyness" and all that shit is pure crap.
How King can print this sort of stuff without knowing how dumb it sounds amazes me.
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I have no explanation for this, other than the suspicions [sic] that had the Bucs won, you'd be talking about how the Giants made a big mistake in playing the Patriots hard. This makes no sense: the players were rested, so they got worn out?
King's argument, then, makes sense only if it is assumed that the only way the players could have worked out enough to maintain their endurance is if they participated in actual games. It is my understanding that players are generally held out of games as an injury-precaution; that the "rest" is really a break from the dings, bumps, and bruises that come with full-contact performance. I don't think (I could be wrong) that they players were kept out of their regular routines of work-outs and drills.Uh, that makes perfect sense. Just as a muscle needs to be tested instead of rested to increase its endurance and can lose that endurance if if it goes too long without being worked, so can players conceivably lose their ability to last a full game if they've gotten too much rest. I'm not saying that the Bucs were in fact too rested, nor that, if they were, that's why they lost. But to suggest King 's argument doesn't make sense is just wrong. It does make sense.
This was posted about 10 minutes ago. What?Doozy of a doubleheader of defeat Sunday for the Manning clan. Peyton's Colts go down at home against the Chargers, and Eli's Giants can't quite pull the upset at Dallas. We not only lost any shot at a Manning versus Manning Super Bowl, but that Eli versus Philip Rivers Super Bowl showdown is off the board, too.
And it's still up at 10:00 PM.This is from Don Banks, but, uh, is he fucking losing it?
This was posted about 10 minutes ago. What?
At risk of a thread hijack, I found this note in Banks' column to be pretty asinine.This is from Don Banks, but, uh, is he fucking losing it?
This was posted about 10 minutes ago. What?
I guess Banks likes to be able to get a sense of one's aura while evaluating them.Maybe the most amazing thing I heard all weekend was that the Atlanta Falcons hired Patriots director of college scouting Tom Dimitroff as their new general manager without ever interviewing him in person. He conducted his interview with team owner Arthur Blank and Falcons team president Rich McKay via satellite last weekend. All other GM and coaching candidates met with the duo face-to-face.
I suppose you can score one for technology in this instance, but I find it remarkable that Blank, in essence, turned over the direction of his franchise to someone who he had never spent time with in person. To a degree, you could say Dimitroff was hired by the Falcons sight unseen (except on a TV screen). I can just hear Blank say to his new hire on his first day of work: "Oh, you looked a little heavier on TV.''
EDIT: Anytime someone says "I don't know. I don't know yet," as an answer to a question whether or not he'll retire, it means "Yea, I'll come back. But I want to be showered with attention, first."• A week ago, Joe Gibbs, Tony Dungy and Mike Holmgren weren't on anyone's firing line. By the end of this week, they all might be unemployed.
• I think Dungy's gone. I'm waffling on Holmgren, but if I had to put a latte on it, I'd bet he's gone, too.
Yeah, he obviously means quit. By why say "firing line"?drleather, he means that Dungy might retire (not fired).
Continiuing with the ambiguously homo-erotic word choices:Seems that the Packers have this 2007 tradition that started the first week of the season. Instead of a rookie getting the donuts at Stadium Bakery across the street from Lambeau Field, coach Mike McCarthy gets a few dozen the morning before each home game. And in the team meeting and the quarterbacks/wide receivers meeting that morning, the donuts are devoured.
One of the donuts is a plain, small, crescent-shaped brown thing, with a couple of small ridges. Glazed. When McCarthy brought them in at the beginning of the season, Brett Favre took one look at them and christened them "turds.'' A couple of times Favre has had to remind McCarthy to "remember the turds.''
On Friday morning, I went into Stadium Bakery and ordered one turd. "Aaah,'' the guy said. "You must have talked to someone from the Packers.'' It cost 60 cents. It reminded me of a regular plain donut, with a glazed frosting. Not so memorable, really, except the name it's been given in the building across the street.
a. If Pete Carroll ever gets to second base with Arthur Blank, I'm turning in my sportswriter's license. I give up. I will be ... well, let's see. What is the word beyond "shocked?'' Um, whatever that is, that's what I'll be.
http://myespn.go.com/profile/hashmarksBrett Favre doesn't believe in the SI cover jinx. But he did confirm that he's adding a guest home for Peter King.
From this morning's article, amidst all the personal life details and the fawning over personal favorites.g. Is the Seattle deal for Deion Branch turning into a full-fledged disaster or what? Two years of fairly low impact (102 catches) for a high price (a first-round pick went to New England, and $6.5 million per year went to Branch). Now he'll need ACL surgery and probably won't be ready to start the '08 season on the active roster.
h. That's still more than the Titans are getting out of Branch's former running mate, David Givens. He's missed almost all of his two Tennessee seasons with chronic knee problems, and Jeff Fisher says he might not be ready for the start of 2008 training camp either.
I'm not saying this to single him out, because I've seen other analysts claiming that Turner ran well against New England. He had 17 carries for 65 yards. That's about 3.65 yards per carry."c. Now that's the way to run the ball, Michael Turner."
I'm glad you've pointed this out. I've seen a lot of commentary saying how this exposure will really help Turner's status as he enters unrestricted free agency. I think he's a good runner, but yesterday's effort was nothing particularly head turning.From what he liked about this week:
I'm not saying this to single him out, because I've seen other analysts claiming that Turner ran well against New England. He had 17 carries for 65 yards. That's about 3.65 yards per carry.
Edit: B-acon has been replaced by something else. Good show, whomever did that.You're better than that, Kevin B-acon.
Are we supposed to think he's resolute or something?"Forty-five hundred shops!'' Hassan the carpet man tells me when I make the fatal mistake of engaging him in conversation. Hassan is Babu Bhatt, a Seinfeldian friendly man who cannot stop talking. Now he wants to sell me carpet. He has his hand pulling my arm into the shop, and I politely say I live in New Jersey and I don't want carpet.
"I lived in Secaucus!'' he explodes. "I got tired of the Lincoln Tunnel and came home!''
I try to leave. "Nonononono! What a bargain. Your wife will be furious if you do not bring home one of my carpets!''
Guess I'll be sleeping on the couch when I get home.
On my way out, the sock man accosts me for the third time. He has a five-pack of black dress socks. The first time I saw him, he asked for 10 lira ($8) for the socks. The second time, eight lira. This time: "Five! You cannot refuse now! I am giving these socks away!'' Pain in his voice. I keep walking.
King was just on Dale and Holley talking about his trip to Afghanistan. It was a pretty good interview until he compared a gritty squad leader that was smart (probably got 1600 on his SATs, hyperbole I'm sure) and fierce to guess who.... Brett Favre.
I was so pissed at that analogy I turned off my radio and didn't hear what followed. He may have redeemed himself but I didn't feel like listening to any more knob gobbling. Comparing Favre to a combat soldier getting shot at everyday with his life litterally on the line every day was more than I could bare.
And for the most part I like King.
I agree wholeheartedly. But, do you believe that e-mailng that rant directly to Peter King would have an effect? If you don't, I will.BTW, is anyone getting sick of King (Peter, not Larry) bitching about no one getting to the bottom of the Matt Walsh thing? You work for NBC, HBO and Sports Illustrated. You massage the balls of more players (they TEXT you, dude!) and allegedly have more football connections than anyone on the planet. Here's a terrific idea: why don't you stop watching dopey movies, going to Afghanistan and chugging triple-fat Latte grandes and do some fucking investigative reporting. I'm sure the world will be able to live without your thoughts on "The Family Guy", iPods and other pop culture phenomena that was introduced to the world at large five years ago.
I honestly don't think that he'd answer that particular email, but if you want to do it, be my guest.I agree wholeheartedly. But, do you believe that e-mailng that rant directly to Peter King would have an effect? If you don't, I will.
Well played.To: (JayMags71's back-up e-mail address)
From: "Peterking@si.com" <Peterking@si.com>
Subject: Thanks for your email
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Douchenozzle, eat a bag.
Peter King appeared on WEEI’s Dale & Holley show today to discuss his recent USO tour in Afghanistan. He talked about the troops, and how they use football and talking about football as a real escape from what they have to deal with from day to day.
King loves to talk, and to tell stories of the people he talks to and his experiences. Today however, he might’ve gone a little too far when he gave out the number of Special Forces platoons in in Afghanistan.
A later caller to the show, who claimed to be connected to the military, criticized King for revealing this type of information over the airwaves and suggested that someone should pull King aside and advise him that he might need to be a little more careful about the things that he talks about on the radio. Dale and Holley agreed with this counsel, with Arnold saying that he would send King an email about it
When he discovered your 'blog' in three years while drinking his Grande Dandelion-Chai-Syrup-Bean-Latte at the Starbucks across the street from his daughters campus you'd crush his gentle spirit and he'd need a weekend fishing with Brett Favre to get over it and then we'd get a special 4 page 'Fishing with Favre' MMQB full of platitudes and 'remember when you played QB better than anyone who ever lived', 'aw shucks it was my life' stories interspaced around the revelation that this show called 'Lost' is just too damn confusing and full of misery and enough sillyness to do a mans head in... But then you'd probably be more than happy to use that article in your blog so you may as well go for it, mate. I support you and promise to read your site at least twice a week.I was thinking of starting a FJM style blog devoted just to Peter King. But, I don't think that I have the time.
Please do. I'll contribute something once in awhile.He really is a dumb fuck, isn't he?
I was thinking of starting a FJM style blog devoted just to Peter King. But, I don't think that I have the time.
Oh, that was me. Sorry, I was bored.Well played.
JMOH? Or LTF?
Kings MVP Pickse. Baseball predictions (not to be taken remotely seriously): American League playoff teams: New York, Cleveland, Detroit (Wild Card), Los Angeles. National League playoff teams: Atlanta, New York Mets (Wild Card), Milwaukee, Arizona. World Series: Cleveland over Arizona in six. MVPs: Manny Ramirez, Boston; Johan Santana, New York. Cy Youngs: Justin Verlander, Detroit; Santana.
f. Fourth place, NL MVP voting: Yunel Escobar, shortstop, Atlanta. You'll see.
Ah yes, but he apparently does still hate Manny:This from a guy that said not two years ago that he thought losing Tek for an extended period of time was worse than losing Manny, and that he hates Manny.
I think what happened is that King has Manny on his fantasy team, sees that he's off to a hot start, and is now singing a different tune entirely.
I was at that game. I was mostly too busy freaking out and hugging random SoSHers to watch Manny on the basepaths but I doubt he'd have had a triple. And who gives a shit if he did, anyway?g. Manny Ramirez is going to have one of his greatest years ever, the result of a winter of conditioning at Athletes Performance Institute in Arizona. But he's also going to drive me out of my mind with his idiotic posing on long non-homers, which will reduce his total bases by 20. He's already turned one triple into a double in one of the Japan games.
Everyone over the age of 45 who used to watch the game played "the right way" when they were growing up.Ah yes, but he apparently does still hate Manny:
I was at that game. I was mostly too busy freaking out and hugging random SoSHers to watch Manny on the basepaths but I doubt he'd have had a triple. And who gives a shit if he did, anyway?
Manny posing for non-home runs isn't something that should be defended. We'll see if one of those gazing moments ends up effecting the outcome of a game; I say it will at some point.Everyone over the age of 45 who used to watch the game played "the right way" when they were growing up.
It turned them into the men they are, and they fear for the next generation and how posing for homeruns will affect their grandchildren.