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Happy Christmas Eve everyone! I'm going to roll out a gimmick I've been thinking about doing for a while, I call it "headline tuesday." Basically, every Tuesday I will log on to ESPNs main page and write some abstract thoughts about some of their main headlines. Lets do this.
Fake Headline: NBA cancels Christmas Day slate, cites pathetic match-ups. Commissoner Stern considers flexing games from March.
Man I wish they could flex some future games for those first three abominations. How about Getting Indiana-Miami, Portland-OKC, Suns-Mavs, we can leave Houston-San Antonio and Golden State-LAC as they are, come on David, you can do it! Alas, on to the actual headlines.
Headline # 1: Romo Gets Epidural
Essentially Tony Romo is getting an injection to see if he can play this week and potentially help the Cowboys make the playoffs. This story just irritates me on so many levels. This Cowboys team (despite what Jerry Jones may tell you) is not very good, I think we can all agree on that. Whether they get bounced in week 17 in a do-or-die game against the Eagles or the first wild-card game of the playoffs is the only pertinent question left here. So why then risk the long-term health of the quarterback you just signed to a seven year extension? Shut him down for the season, let him get healthy and come back stronger next year. If Kyle Orton manages to pull off some playoff magic along the way so be it, but I don't think this Cowboys team can win the Superbowl this year, simply not worth the risk in my opinion.
Headline # 2: Nets' Pierce Fined 15K for Flagrant on Hill
Alternate: Garnett Says Nets Still Lack Identity
Two for the price of one! Man, what a sad season for the Brooklyn Nets. This team was supposed to challenge Miami? At the rate they are going they wont even make the playoffs and to make matters worse, they will have no draft picks in one of the best lotteries of all time. The way this organization is being run is an absolute joke. At this point the classy thing to do would be to trade KG and Pierce to teams that actually have a chance of making the playoffs, don't let their career end like this, please Billy King, if anyone can make this team worse its you.
Half-baked trade idea: KG + Pierce + Deron Williams to the Suns for at least 2 of their picks, one of Dragic/Bledsoe and Emeka Okafor's expiring contract. Of course, there is no way in hell the Suns do this but I thought I'd throw it out there.
Headline # 3: Garret Not Coaching For His Job, Jones Says
Ugh, nobody likes you Jerry Jones!
Headline # 4: D'antoni: "Find Another Team If Discouraged"
Man has it finally sunk in to Laker fans that they probably will not make the playoffs this year? The fact that their winning percentage without Kobe Bryant is higher than the percentage of winning with him speaks volumes about how wacky this Lakers season has been. Lakers fans: Settle down, you have had an incredible amount of success and have been spoiled by having some of the best players ever play for you. The Lakers' management baffles me as well. The smartest course of action would be to shut Kobe and Nash down for the year, trade Gasol for picks + assets and luck into a franchise player (the most Lakers thing ever). After all that is done sign Westbrook and Love and boom! Instant-contenders (Don't think that this can't happen). Luckily for us, the Lakers are satisfied being a 10 seed and stupid enough to believe that they can make serious noise in the playoffs. Let's enjoy this while it lasts, it does not happen often to this franchise.
Headline # 5: Bettman Upholds Ban for Bruin's Thorton
Good job Gary! Well done! I would have suspended him for longer.
Headline # 6: 49ers foil Falcons, grab playoff berth
This game made sure that some crazy scenarios (including the Seahawks dropping to a 5-seed, the Saints not making the playoffs, and Arizona winning 11 games and not making it to the playoffs) are all in play for week 17, most of them are really unlucky and the big losers here are Cardinals fans who really may have the scariest team. A real shame that they peaked in a season where the NFC has so much quality teams.
This is a video that pinpoints exactly the moment Cardinal fans had their hearts ripped in half.
See you next Tuesday for more headlines.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Patriots Report: Week 6
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What a day of football! First we were treated to a Lions 49ers game (who would ever have thought that this would be the marquee match-up of the day? The teams were a combined 9-1 with the one loss in OT) that featured a Montana-esque throw from Alex Smith to win the game. Following that, we saw two coaches (well really only one, the media says they had to be separated but it looks like Harbaugh is just trying to get away from the lunacy of Jim Schwartz) get into a post game argument with team officials having to step in, how great would a playoff game be between these teams? Also to coach Schwartz, you've been trash talking, yelling, and intimidating teams sense the season started you can't tell me that you're getting upset about what you love doing kind of sucks when it happens to you doesn't it? Schwartz was just bitter that his team lost, and over-reacted to a harmless pat/slap on the back. At that point Harbaugh could have said "nice game coach" and I still think Schwartz would have snapped. The real shame here is that the confrontation will overshadow the 49ers performance. They held Megatron to no touchdowns, extended their streak of not allowing rushing touchdowns or 100 yard rushers and themselves ran for 200+ yards. In the process Alex Smith threw a pass that if Manning or Brady threw you would have to clean the post-game rooms following the analyst's reaction (I will let you figure out what would need to be cleaned) this team is legitimate!
Enough about San Francisco though, this is called the Patriots Report and was the second game of FOX's double header and it might have been better than the one preceding it. The Patriots and Cowboys came in knowing that Buffalo lost to the Giants so a win for the Patriots would give them the sole lead in their division, and the Cowboys needed to keep up with the Giants (and maybe the Eagles). The general consensus was that this would be some sort of 41-38 affair with defense taking a back seat. It is really funny how the consensus can be so wrong sometimes. The Patriots easily played the best defensive game of the season while their offense put out its worst performance of the year. I think that they will be happy with the result because they now know that if their offence fails them they can hang around with their defense. Furthermore, the Patriots now head into a BYE week riding a 3 game winning streak. This gives coach Belichick 2 weeks to patch things up on the defensive side of the ball and if they manage to do that, they will have earned 'contender' status. I wont hit you with boring stats anymore, I will just offer thoughts from now on (unless the stat in question is a major one). The only thought worth mentioning this week is the brilliance of Tom Brady. Did anyone else have trouble remembering Brady just destroying a team with execution in a 2 minute drill? This is part of that mystique that the Patriots lost and this is another indication that they may be regaining it, this felt like the early 2000's Patriots: keep it close with defense, let Brady win it for us at the end, Considering that this won them 3 Superbowl's Patriots fans should be happy to see it again. There is still a very long way to go for New England, but today they took steps in the right direction, even if it meant doing things the old way.
Some information: Luka is MIA due to being swamped with exams, expect articles about the Eagles from him when he finishes them all (or attacks a helpless TA).
-Daki
What a day of football! First we were treated to a Lions 49ers game (who would ever have thought that this would be the marquee match-up of the day? The teams were a combined 9-1 with the one loss in OT) that featured a Montana-esque throw from Alex Smith to win the game. Following that, we saw two coaches (well really only one, the media says they had to be separated but it looks like Harbaugh is just trying to get away from the lunacy of Jim Schwartz) get into a post game argument with team officials having to step in, how great would a playoff game be between these teams? Also to coach Schwartz, you've been trash talking, yelling, and intimidating teams sense the season started you can't tell me that you're getting upset about what you love doing kind of sucks when it happens to you doesn't it? Schwartz was just bitter that his team lost, and over-reacted to a harmless pat/slap on the back. At that point Harbaugh could have said "nice game coach" and I still think Schwartz would have snapped. The real shame here is that the confrontation will overshadow the 49ers performance. They held Megatron to no touchdowns, extended their streak of not allowing rushing touchdowns or 100 yard rushers and themselves ran for 200+ yards. In the process Alex Smith threw a pass that if Manning or Brady threw you would have to clean the post-game rooms following the analyst's reaction (I will let you figure out what would need to be cleaned) this team is legitimate!
Enough about San Francisco though, this is called the Patriots Report and was the second game of FOX's double header and it might have been better than the one preceding it. The Patriots and Cowboys came in knowing that Buffalo lost to the Giants so a win for the Patriots would give them the sole lead in their division, and the Cowboys needed to keep up with the Giants (and maybe the Eagles). The general consensus was that this would be some sort of 41-38 affair with defense taking a back seat. It is really funny how the consensus can be so wrong sometimes. The Patriots easily played the best defensive game of the season while their offense put out its worst performance of the year. I think that they will be happy with the result because they now know that if their offence fails them they can hang around with their defense. Furthermore, the Patriots now head into a BYE week riding a 3 game winning streak. This gives coach Belichick 2 weeks to patch things up on the defensive side of the ball and if they manage to do that, they will have earned 'contender' status. I wont hit you with boring stats anymore, I will just offer thoughts from now on (unless the stat in question is a major one). The only thought worth mentioning this week is the brilliance of Tom Brady. Did anyone else have trouble remembering Brady just destroying a team with execution in a 2 minute drill? This is part of that mystique that the Patriots lost and this is another indication that they may be regaining it, this felt like the early 2000's Patriots: keep it close with defense, let Brady win it for us at the end, Considering that this won them 3 Superbowl's Patriots fans should be happy to see it again. There is still a very long way to go for New England, but today they took steps in the right direction, even if it meant doing things the old way.
Some information: Luka is MIA due to being swamped with exams, expect articles about the Eagles from him when he finishes them all (or attacks a helpless TA).
-Daki
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