Someone Smarter Than I Must Explain This
Blaine Gabbert was traded on March 11 from the Jags to the 49ers for a sixth-round pick.
Matt Schaub was traded on Friday from Houston to Oakland for a sixth-round pick.
Their career stat lines:
Age W-L Comp. % TD-Int. Rating Approx. Pick* Matt Schaub 32 46-44 64.0 130-84 89.9 171 Blaine Gabbert 24 5-22 53.3 22-24 66.4 195
* Approximate Pick is the estimated pick, based on similar drafting positions in 2013, that the Raiders surrendered to get Schaub and the Niners gave up to get Gabbert.
I’d be worried about Schaub, a lot, because last season it looked like he had Steve Sax disease—it appeared he was aiming many of his throws, and his decision-making was way off compared to his history. But the stunner in this comparison is not really the sixth-round pick the Texans got for a quarterback who hit a wall so smashingly in 2013. It’s that Jacksonville GM David Caldwell got anything at all for Gabbert. Lucky for him, San Francisco sees something in Gabbert that GM Trent Baalke thinks his coaching staff can salvage.
Why do I think that King's point in posting this isn't to talk about the deals for the players (I mean, it's a 6th round pick for a backup QB. Who gives a shit? That's like paying $1,000 for a used car for your high school kid to use for a year; it doesn't warrant this type of analysis), and more that King just wanted to say some mean things about a couple of QBs?
“I’m a servant leader....’’
— Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, to the NFL Network on Friday, about why he thinks he should be the first pick in the May 8 draft.
Not sure what a “servant leader’’ is, but it sounds pretty unselfish
A)
LMGTFY
B) I am pretty sure what condescension is, and King is full of it ("This kid uses some smart-sounding term that I, Peter King, am not aware of. Therefore, I'm going to snidely take him to task while approving of his overall sentiment because, well, it's pretty unimpeachable.)
C) The irony is that Bridgewater pretty much explained, right there, what "Servant leadership" is, but King was too keen on looking smart that he looks dumb. Yet again.
“We can land a man on the moon but can’t find this plane on earth… smh”
— @DougBaldwinJr, the Seattle wide receiver on the Malaysian jet that has been missing for 17 days and is presumed lost in the Indian Ocean.
I KNOW! RIGHT?! SO WEIRD!!!
Mr. Starwood Preferred Member Travel Note of the Week
Tweeted from the Orlando International Airport on Sunday afternoon by free agent safety Ryan Clark: “Why do people who are in Zone 4 line up in front the gate when they announce they are getting ready to start the boarding process?”
That, friends, is not the travel question of the week. It is the travel question of the millennium.
This is not a question about why people act that way. The answer to that question is obvious and two-fold. 1) people will always do what's best for them, including taking shortcuts if there's no appreciable chance of any negative consequences, and getting on board to find ample room for your overhead bag is becoming more and more of a uncertainty; and 2) there is never any negative consequence that stems from lining up early because airlines are woefully inconsistent about the zone announcements. Sometimes they do it by zone, sometimes they ignore zones, sometimes they do "zone 1" and then 2 minutes later "all other zones". Also, in the, probably, 100 flights over the past 8 years or so, I think I've seen maybe 2 instances where a gate agent actually called someone out on the zone thing.
So, in a nutshell, there you go. Until airlines start cracking down on the Zone boarding stuff, passengers won't pay attention.
Holy shit! I just answered the
Travel Question of the Millenium!
But, really, that's not what this is about. What this is about is King wanting to bitch about people cramping his style as he tries to get through the Sky Preferred/Alliance line (presumably arriving as the plane is already boarding so he can savor his Sam Adams 22 ounce (couresy of SI!) until the last drop over at the Olde Brewhouse in the E terminal. He arrives, sees everyone crammed around the gate, and has to huff and puff and whisper under his breath as he tries to get to the gate so he can say "First class!"
In other words: what the flying fuck does Peter King care if people from Zone 4 are trying to get a space on the plane? He should have been ready to board a full ten minutes (prior to families with kids, and prior to Zone 1) before the peons even sniff the jetway. If Peter King was doing
his part to make flying a smooth process, he wouldn't need to care what everyone else was doing.
