I think the simple counter to that ridiculous argument is "What was Von Miller doing in during the last few minutes of a blowout?". It's not as if injury risk applies only to the winning team.
Thank you. When does this ever happen?There is really no good argument that you should put in a backup quarterback when your starter is healthy IN THE GODDAMNED PLAYOFFS.
What was the coffee point?My wife wanted to respond to one of his coffee points once, so we wrote him an email. He used it, got my first name wrong, then wrote that we had to be wrong because his regular barista at Starbucks said so.
"What a jerk," my wife said
Which got lost in the shuffle of "Spygate" because the 60 minutes thing was turned into the F-U thingThey let one get away because they couldn't keep it together for a full 60. So they concentrated on the full 60. Nothing mysterious about it, and it's lazy and/or disingeuous not to incorporate that into the story.
Ever worked a union job? When I bagged groceries in high school (Stop&Shop is unionized!), I got told to slow down and take it easy by some of my esteemed colleagues. Not that I'm god's gift to bagging groceries (maybe I was just clumsily breaking egg cartons), but it's emblematic of a mentality you'll see in a lot of situations where there's an adversarial relationship between management and labor, and labor doesn't want management to raise the standards that everyone is held to.And of course there's the fact that football players are professionals who take pride in their work. Is there any other profession where people are chastised for beeing *too* successful at their job?
You seriously just wrote that while you worked at Stop and Shop, your natural grocery bagging skills were so high that you found yourself the flashpoint of the never ending war between the grocery baggers and The Man in the office at Stop and Shop?Ever worked a union job? When I bagged groceries in high school (Stop&Shop is unionized!), I got told to slow down and take it easy by some of my esteemed colleagues. Not that I'm god's gift to bagging groceries (maybe I was just clumsily breaking egg cartons), but it's emblematic of a mentality you'll see in a lot of situations where there's an adversarial relationship between management and labor, and labor doesn't want management to raise the standards that everyone is held to.
I doubt the same holds true for professional athletes, to whom there are huge personal returns for having a little marginal skill advantage on their colleagues. But it might hold true for sportswriters.
Pretty sure that was Slater, which made the decision all the more puzzling.e. Not a good decision by Brady, trying to wedge one into Welker with Webb in front of him and Bernard Pollard over the top, supplying more help. Webb's acrobatic pick set up a Baltimore score.
It was Edelman.Things I think I think: PK got this one wrong:y
Pretty sure that was Slater, which made the decision all the more puzzling.
He really tried to brush off the fact that 60% of the OL is different by saying Light and Scarnecchia are still there. I think the even bigger issue that he's ignoring is that the 2011 Patriots are not a deep-ball team. They're a lot more of a short-intermediate throw offense than they were when they had Moss running deep. The kind where you don't generally need to hold the ball nearly as long.In his most recent MMQB - Tuesday, he chooses no less than three letters (out of six) that go out of their way to praise him for being awesome.
What a douche. Even if he liked the questions, he could easily have edited those parts out (and added another question, maybe).
He also says that the Patriots may face trouble from the Giants pass rush, because even though the Pats' O line was great against Baltimore, NY got to Brady 4 years ago, and the teams are the same as they were then.
That seems to be the way it goes for Mailbags. Three-quarters are Simmons' mailbags are from readers writing like him, thinking like him, out-and-out praising him or a combination of all three. I think it was two weeks ago where the first three or four emails were from people begging him to write a mail-bag. It's no surprise that King follows that same template.In his most recent MMQB - Tuesday, he chooses no less than three letters (out of six) that go out of their way to praise him for being awesome.
What a douche. Even if he liked the questions, he could easily have edited those parts out (and added another question, maybe).
OK, that's an interesting theory. Let's see the breakdown.First, a word about how both teams are going to spin this as a totally different game than the one four years ago, with each team having so many new players and each team in a totally different place. Yes, one word: bunk.
OK, so 23/106 = 21.7%. So only about 80% of the teams weren't there before. Swimming start we're off to.Players on the two teams back for The Rematch Bowl: 23.
Good point. I thought Kraft tackled like shit that day, and I doubt Mara can run the ball so effectively this time around.Owners back for the The Rematch Bowl: All (Kraft, Mara/Tisch).
Draft final-say men back for The Rematch Bowl: Both (Belichick, Reese).
Hey, something relevant! Great!Head coaches back for The Rematch Bowl: Both (Belichick, Coughlin).
Starting quarterbacks back for The Rematch Bowl: Both (Brady, Manning).
I'm curious...why leave the other 80% of the line out of this equation? This wouldn't be cherry-picking to reach an assinine conclusion would it?Left tackles back for The Rematch Bowl: Both (Light, Diehl).
Somewhere, future Hall of Famers Richard Seymour and Michael Strahan are giving you the finger but wondering deep down if it's mean to pick on someone so stupid.Key defensive linemen back for The Rematch Bowl: All (Wilfork, Tuck, Umenyiora).
Sure, they aren't the same person, but they DO have the same name. And you know what rhymes with "same name"? "Same game". Point, set, and match.Ventrone brothers on the New England roster for the first game and the sequel: Two (Ray for the first, Ross for this one).
That's what bothers me about King, I read him once a week (I don't have the patience to read him two times). And he's always putting stuff off until the next day. And I understand that it drives more eyeballs to the page, raises his page hits, etc. But at the same time, he's Peter King and he writes for Sports Illustrated. He's not John Jackoff from www.footballrules.com where he needs these teasers. Simmons or Neyer or other writers with large internet presences (for one) don't do this, ESPN rarely does it, Deadspin doesn't do it and I'm pretty sure that CBS Sportsline doesn't do it.I love how he just waved away any lack of effort by saying, "Aw, you'll get that later in the week."
A) As if that couldn't be said in any week ("oh, why talk football on a Monday? Let's talk about other shit instead and save it for later.").
B) As if the two (substantive analysis on Monday AND later in the week!) are mutually exclusive; and
C) It's the Super Bowl. This should be to King what tax season is to accountants: all out effort.
Instead he literally spends more time talking about things he has eaten and intends to eat than the biggest game of the year which takes place in 6 days.
What an asshole.
I won't even get into his defense of his old college buddy who made the inappropriate tweet about the owner of the Browns and got pulled from his beat writer jobQuote of the Week II
"I never had too much hospitality here, until I went for it on 4th-and-2. Since then, I've been greeted in a lot more friendly manner than I ever was in the past."
-- Patriots coach Bill Belichick, upon arrival in Indianapolis Sunday evening. The Leno line comes from his view that the natives must love him since the Patriots went for it, and failed, on 4th-and-2 in their own territory with a late lead against the Colts in 2009.
Coffeenerdness: "Hey, hope I make 'Coffeenerdness!' '' Marc, my barista at the Starbucks Canal Place in New Orleans, said to me the other morning. Well, let's just see how you made my latte first ... Hmmmm. Yes. Very good. Marc, you are quite worthy of Coffeenerdness. Seattle, give this man a raise!I can't even imagine what his 'fans' are like. I mean, who are the people who read his column and nod to themselves, all while thinking 'Peter, my friend, I could follow your coffee/beer/moralizing adventures wherever they may go'?
"Spin"?King is out of his goddamn mind. I thought his intro to MMQB today was an attempt at farce, but nope...he's actually seriously writing this:
First, a word about how both teams are going to spin this as a totally different game than the one four years ago, with each team having so many new players and each team in a totally different place. Yes, one word: bunk.
He posted MMQBT this morning....Meanwhile, the fat fuck hasn't written anything in 24 hours.
What a joke.
I thought that the story was REVENGE? Wasn't that agenda he established yesterday?"my biggest concern at these things is the ability to find the story, develop it postgame with the coaches and players I speak with, and then trying to write it the right way through the night after the game."
That was so 24 hours agoI thought that the story was REVENGE? Wasn't that agenda he established yesterday?
Thats about as in depth as PK gets these days. Its pathetic.He has a 4 minute video up today.
He wears a pink shirt and is fat.
Key points:
1) Matt Light is important, but he's probably fucked because Jasone Pierre-Paul is going to rape him.
2) Another big problem for the Patriots is their shitty secondary, in particular Sterling Moore.
3) "I don't want to be lazy [in picking my 'X-factor' for the Giants D] and pick a Cornerback, but it's going to be whatever Cornerback Tom Brady picks on."
Blah blach blach....etc...
I can't believe this guy gets paid to do this.
I saw them at Fenway Park enjoying white wine spritzers and champagne coolies. giggling at how little work they actually do.Has anyone ever seen Peter King and Nick Cafardo in the same place at the same time?
To be fair, I have never thought of him as a strategy/analysis type guy. He has always been more of the "insider" type, dealing with contracts, roster decisions, draft picks, etc. As an analyst, he brings nothing to the table (other than beer and coffee, which is good in its own way, I guess)Thats about as in depth as PK gets these days. Its pathetic.
No shit. It's already Thursday and I have no idea what Brett Favre is saying, doing or thinking right now. Get on it, you lazy fuck....Meanwhile, the fat fuck hasn't written anything in 24 hours.
What a joke.
He's only as good as his sources and it sure seems like he has jackshit in the Giants and Patriots organizations. The players and execes he sucks up to (Favre, Manning, Polian) are pretty obviously the same guys who give him is best stuff.To be fair, I have never thought of him as a strategy/analysis type guy. He has always been more of the "insider" type, dealing with contracts, roster decisions, draft picks, etc. As an analyst, he brings nothing to the table (other than beer and coffee, which is good in its own way, I guess)
King has mentioned Belichick hasn't spoken to him in 4 or 5 years.He's only as good as his sources and it sure seems like he has jackshit in the Giants and Patriots organizations. The players and execes he sucks up to (Favre, Manning, Polian) are pretty obviously the same guys who give him is best stuff.
He had a kind of snotty tweet about it--someone told him that the Cleveland paper was right for taking Tony Grossi off the Browns beat after Grossi slammed the Browns' owner in a tweet, and King said something like " Belichick has refused to speak to me for five years-does that mean I shouldn't be able to cover New England?"King has mentioned Belichick hasn't spoken to him in 4 or 5 years.
The interview with Todd Haley for offensive coordinator was a courtesy interview.
There's a sense Haley's too tough to get along with. That plus the fact that, on his way out of Kansas City, he implied to the Kansas City Star that the team was bugging his phone. Leveling unfounded accusations against your employer (and if there is anything to them, then let's have the proof) to the media is not a very good way to get a job in a league where other teams think those who own and run the Chiefs are good men.
I did have to go to Boston for a doctor's appointment, and stayed at the Westin Copley Place. A tad pricey, at $251.10 for the night. Then I got my surprises that aren't very surprising anymore with the final bill: $14.31 state tax, $15.07 city tax, $6.91 Convention Center tax (but I didn't use the Convention Center), $46 for parking. That's $82.29 extra. That's what happens when you stay in city hotels. At least they threw in the health club, unlike some hotels that shall remain nameless.
Like fucking hell he stepped foot in the health club.Are you allowed to complain about costs when you stay at the Westin Copley for a doctor's appointment?
Sure. We don't have doctors in New York city.Are you allowed to complain about costs when you stay at the Westin Copley for a doctor's appointment?
Yeah, I thought he had a place in the South End.I thought he moved to the Boston area a couple years ago (I want to say South Shore somewhere). Or was that just a summer home thing?