DC is the seat of democracy in the free world and has, as it should, some of the best journalists in the country. However, sometimes they are atrocious. Try to find somone with a press pass to say something insightful about the Caps and you will get blank stares. It seems that no one at the Post has a real grasp on baseball other than Boswell. Selig is scratching his head as to why 30,000 people are paying to go to Nattos Park, but only about 10,000 people are watching MASN for free, but the answer seems somewhat obvious. And every sports journalist seems scared to death of losing their free tickets to the Skins games if they say something bad about the Redskins due to Danny Snyder, who has just about the same tolerance for free press as Joseph Stalin. Danny boy is the guy who has tried to buy up every sports radio station in the area so its all Skins all the time, but no one says anything bad about Danny and his crony Vinny. He actualy has yanked tickets from the Post after something bad was said about him. Boo-hoo for young Danny.
So when something comes out that you never heard before, it is refreshing. Did anyone else know that Zorny was a Cowboy? He has been the Skins coach for seven months now and unless I missed it, I never knew that before until Mike Wise reported it today in the Post. He played under Landry, with that stupid star on his head, before he played for Chuck Knox with the Rams and eventually Seattle. I'm horny for Zorny, and will be even more so if he can somehow figure out a way to beat Dallas Sunday. However, thinking about a Skins coach with a Star on his helmet is akin to thinking about your girlfriend or wife with a guy like, say TO, the suicidal cowboy. It just makes you feel a little sick even if it happened before you knew them.
So I'm going to help Zorny out, to get that image out of my head. I'm sure every team in the league has a little bit of a heads-up after the Miami upset over New England but it is worth a shot for a drive or two. The Skins have the perfect offense to run the "spread-wing." Ronnie Brown ran for four Tds and threw for one more after lining up for the direct snap for Miami as the QB spread out as a flanker. A hapless Miami team stomped the defending AFC champs 38-14 because of this trickery, which would not work against USC, because they are ready for it. However, at the pro level, they are not. It is worth a shot. I hate Dallas more than any other team in sports, but we have to face facts; they are the best team in the league right now. Trickery and deception has to be used to get that extra touchdown or two to beat the Cowgirls. It should be high scoring because the 'Girls secondary is about as good as the Rams, so we have to put points on the board. I think the Skins are a lot more talented than the Dolphins, Campbell is more athletically gifted than whoever plays QB for ther Dolphins, Randle El has a better arm than any other receiver in the league to take the direct snap, and Moss has the legs to outrun anyone one-on-one if the Cowboys bite in. Its worth a shot, before someone else copies the Fins and every defensive coordinator in the league installs a package to combat an offense that hasn't seen the light of day in the NFL in almost 50 years.
I had tickets to see the final home game this year at Nattos Park, but unfortunately it was rained out. I thought that this would maybe help us from avoiding the unenviable triple digit number in the loss column but we hit that tonight in Philly. Thursday was supposed to be fan appreciation night, but just like the Nattos season, it was washed out. You can redeem the tickets next year for seats to any home game, but I think there is an even better way to show appreciation to the fans. SPEND SOME MONEY! Anyone works. Sabathia is getting his arm burned out in Milwaukee right now, but any one or two big name free agents works. I love going to the ballpark but it can get painful. Hopefully our farm system is as great as it has been hyped up to be, but they are still two or three years away from making a run with the kids.
A decade ago Hockey News had Jan Bulis ranked as the 9th overall prospect in the world. No one knows who this is because he played for the Caps, did nothing with us, and obviously did nothing afterwords. The moral of the story is a lot of prospects, even the top ones, don't work out. Chris Marrero, the Nats top prospect, had a bad first half of the season, and then got hurt and missed the rest of the year. The Nats never pulled some of these guys up to see what they could do in the bigs, no matter how loudly guys like me and myself beat our drums. The Lerners need to give us a guy like Soriano who you want to drive down into Southeast to see. Zim -Zam can't do it by himself. As much as I love the guy, and as great as the opening day walkoff was, the guy didn't hit 15 dingers this year. No Nat did. Spend some money; dropping Lopez, Lo Duca, Ayala, and Rauch dropped our payroll from $55 million to $35 million. There is cash to spend. Sagging TV revenues mean nothing to anyone other than Angelos, which makes it a great time to buy the TV rights from him and put a quality product on the small screen. Zim-zam is up for arbitration; don't let it go to that, just sign him long term. And just get two stars. Its a brand new town to baseball. It probably won't put up with another 100 loss season next year.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Baby things change
Yesterday was fun again. Sweeping at home won't happen in our division, but beating up on the lesser divisions is fun, even if we didn't win by much. Campbell looked solid again, espcecially during the first drive and especially during the second half. The end of the second quarter and the storm in the second half seem predicated on one guy that Campbell was throwing too; Chris Cooley. He is a fan favorite because most Skins fans have probably never met him in person, and as soon as he started getting the ball the offense opened up. Moss is a beast who has been playing great since Cerrato essentially traded for Lav Coles and then back again for more than a few high draft choices to the Jets. He opens up the field vertically and scares the hell out of opposing safties, which gives room for Cooley to open up the game horizontally. It seems like Zorn (who I am increasingly horny for) waits until right around halftime to start utilizing him. I don't know if he is strategically saving him, but if he starts opening up the middle of the field from the get-go, who knows what the rest of the offense can do.
Like Devin Thomas, who had a huge 66 yard touchdown called back because of a stupid forearm to the head courtesy of Stephon Heyer. According to Portis the guy Heyer clubbed was playing dirty all game and deserved it, but it still could have drawn the ire of Zorn. However, Heyer was the guy Zorn picked to start over former fan-favorite and second-round pick Jon Jansen, and is probably one of "his guys." Instead Zorn picked the new punter, Durant Brooks, to release his fury on the sideline for the first time in his head coaching career when he called for the snap on a kick when the ref had not even given the center the ball yet. According to Zorn, "we iced our own kicker." Brooks was picked by Cerrato, Daniel Snyder's best friend because he doesn't have any others that are not on the payroll, in the 6th round this year while we had glaring needs at several other positions. No one actually drafts a punter in the NFL; Brooks was the only one. One can only deduce that Zorn wanted nothing to do with Brooks and would have stuck with Frost if it was his choice, and it would have been a wise choice as Frost was promptly picked up by Green Bay and has been booming coffin-corner kicks ever since.
This is the disconnect that is the Redskins. After the last two weeks it looks like we have a guy that may have some genius in him coaching our team. (I said looks like, not genius yet, but I say a prayer every night.) We have this ass-hat who insisted on keeping every single pick that he made this year. Can Cerrato really tell me that every guy he picked is an NFL player? If so, our second pick in this year's draft, Fred Davis, surely would have been the second tight end option after Chris Cooley and our other five receivers right? Congrats to Todd Yoder on his first TD catch. I didn't see a whole lot of Davis, but I was at the game so maybe they spotlighted him on FOX. I'm sure Cerrato highlighted him to Danny-boy in some way.
While speaking of young Daniel, let's not forget that even though he bought the stadium and the franchise from the Cookes, who were competent owners, in as far as they knew that they did not know as much about football as guys that have been around football, that he still re-named Jack Kent Cooke Stadium Fedex. Dan Snyder is the only guy in the world who you can stand next to Jerry Jones and Jones wins the "not the biggest horse's ass contest." Jones was at least around the game, so he can have some input.
We have come upon the first Dallas week, and thus, the last Dallas week that will ever culminate in Texas Stadium. I hate Dallas more than anything; when we lose this week it will take a while to get over it even though I am preparing myself. But Jones never renamed the stadium to make a little more cash after he has already scalped all of his fans. As far as I know he hasn't named the new billion dollar stadium after some corporate conglomarate. I hate Texas Stadium, but it does have a certain majesty that I will miss. One of my earliest memories is the Washington Post picture of a Skin with his hands t-ed for a timeout while the game clock loomed in the background with three seconds left. Sure enough we "never called timeout" and the game ended as our field-goal team scrambled fruitlessly onto the field for a kick that would never come. The refs pulled one out again for who they thought was "America's Team," which is a reviled thought for most Skins fans. I hate Texas Stadium with its weird shadows, its awkward turf, its ignorant fans, and its sideline parading owner. I never really knew what "love to hate" quite meant, but I think I do now; I am going to miss beating the Cowboys in that place. They left a hole in the top so God could watch the Redskins beat the Cowgirls.
The last rivalry game at Texas stadium makes this week even sadder in sports, as Yankee Stadium was shut down last night. I wil preface this by saying that I hate the Cowboys and dislike the Yankees. I hate the Orioles so the Yankees get a reprieve. It was a great ceremony pre and postgame, but was the saddest thing I have seen at a sporting event since the Redskin Band played "Hail to the Redskins" as a funeral dirge after Sean Taylor's passing. It was great seeing the old guys come out, especially Yogi who tried to jog out as fast as he could to the plate one last time. I thought Girardi managed things perfectly, and it was appropriate that Rivera was the last guy to ever come off the mound in the house that a lot of guys didn't neccesarily build but maintained. It was weird seeing grown, and even old men cry in the stands because it was the last time they would be standing on such hallowed grounds. These were guys that probably fought in Vietnam, Korea, and even throughout the world in World War II. If you take these guys back to the battlefields they fought on, where there friends died, where they had to kill other human beings they might cry. If they were Yankee fans, and were at Yankee Stadium last night they definately cried. Those are the only places they would cry. Only sports and a place like Yankee Stadium can evoke the emotion that a battlefield can.
Because as sports fans we know; we live and die with everything that these guys on our fields do. Its why Dallas week is so huge. Maybe the players don't care as much as they used to, but we still do. Seeing the legends of yesteryear, just for one team was inspiring. The Yankees put on one hell of a funeral, and despite my distaste for them (at least they aren't the Mets) it was sad to see the stadium go. In an era where every stadium has a funny name, tickets are going up to almost $3,000 for football and baseball seats, and pro athletes sometimes don't care, it is sad to see Yankee Stadium go away. With the economy dropping out from the bottom things just don't seem right, but Yankee Stadium was always there; through the wars, the depression, Cuban missle scares, assasinations, facing the Eastern Bloc, ultimate terrorism, and all the the uncertainty that came from these things. Yankee Stadium was always a certain thing. It was never Fannie Mae Stadium or Freddie Mac Stadium, everything was always certain. I still don't like the Yankees but America doesn't feel right without the stadium.
Like Devin Thomas, who had a huge 66 yard touchdown called back because of a stupid forearm to the head courtesy of Stephon Heyer. According to Portis the guy Heyer clubbed was playing dirty all game and deserved it, but it still could have drawn the ire of Zorn. However, Heyer was the guy Zorn picked to start over former fan-favorite and second-round pick Jon Jansen, and is probably one of "his guys." Instead Zorn picked the new punter, Durant Brooks, to release his fury on the sideline for the first time in his head coaching career when he called for the snap on a kick when the ref had not even given the center the ball yet. According to Zorn, "we iced our own kicker." Brooks was picked by Cerrato, Daniel Snyder's best friend because he doesn't have any others that are not on the payroll, in the 6th round this year while we had glaring needs at several other positions. No one actually drafts a punter in the NFL; Brooks was the only one. One can only deduce that Zorn wanted nothing to do with Brooks and would have stuck with Frost if it was his choice, and it would have been a wise choice as Frost was promptly picked up by Green Bay and has been booming coffin-corner kicks ever since.
This is the disconnect that is the Redskins. After the last two weeks it looks like we have a guy that may have some genius in him coaching our team. (I said looks like, not genius yet, but I say a prayer every night.) We have this ass-hat who insisted on keeping every single pick that he made this year. Can Cerrato really tell me that every guy he picked is an NFL player? If so, our second pick in this year's draft, Fred Davis, surely would have been the second tight end option after Chris Cooley and our other five receivers right? Congrats to Todd Yoder on his first TD catch. I didn't see a whole lot of Davis, but I was at the game so maybe they spotlighted him on FOX. I'm sure Cerrato highlighted him to Danny-boy in some way.
While speaking of young Daniel, let's not forget that even though he bought the stadium and the franchise from the Cookes, who were competent owners, in as far as they knew that they did not know as much about football as guys that have been around football, that he still re-named Jack Kent Cooke Stadium Fedex. Dan Snyder is the only guy in the world who you can stand next to Jerry Jones and Jones wins the "not the biggest horse's ass contest." Jones was at least around the game, so he can have some input.
We have come upon the first Dallas week, and thus, the last Dallas week that will ever culminate in Texas Stadium. I hate Dallas more than anything; when we lose this week it will take a while to get over it even though I am preparing myself. But Jones never renamed the stadium to make a little more cash after he has already scalped all of his fans. As far as I know he hasn't named the new billion dollar stadium after some corporate conglomarate. I hate Texas Stadium, but it does have a certain majesty that I will miss. One of my earliest memories is the Washington Post picture of a Skin with his hands t-ed for a timeout while the game clock loomed in the background with three seconds left. Sure enough we "never called timeout" and the game ended as our field-goal team scrambled fruitlessly onto the field for a kick that would never come. The refs pulled one out again for who they thought was "America's Team," which is a reviled thought for most Skins fans. I hate Texas Stadium with its weird shadows, its awkward turf, its ignorant fans, and its sideline parading owner. I never really knew what "love to hate" quite meant, but I think I do now; I am going to miss beating the Cowboys in that place. They left a hole in the top so God could watch the Redskins beat the Cowgirls.
The last rivalry game at Texas stadium makes this week even sadder in sports, as Yankee Stadium was shut down last night. I wil preface this by saying that I hate the Cowboys and dislike the Yankees. I hate the Orioles so the Yankees get a reprieve. It was a great ceremony pre and postgame, but was the saddest thing I have seen at a sporting event since the Redskin Band played "Hail to the Redskins" as a funeral dirge after Sean Taylor's passing. It was great seeing the old guys come out, especially Yogi who tried to jog out as fast as he could to the plate one last time. I thought Girardi managed things perfectly, and it was appropriate that Rivera was the last guy to ever come off the mound in the house that a lot of guys didn't neccesarily build but maintained. It was weird seeing grown, and even old men cry in the stands because it was the last time they would be standing on such hallowed grounds. These were guys that probably fought in Vietnam, Korea, and even throughout the world in World War II. If you take these guys back to the battlefields they fought on, where there friends died, where they had to kill other human beings they might cry. If they were Yankee fans, and were at Yankee Stadium last night they definately cried. Those are the only places they would cry. Only sports and a place like Yankee Stadium can evoke the emotion that a battlefield can.
Because as sports fans we know; we live and die with everything that these guys on our fields do. Its why Dallas week is so huge. Maybe the players don't care as much as they used to, but we still do. Seeing the legends of yesteryear, just for one team was inspiring. The Yankees put on one hell of a funeral, and despite my distaste for them (at least they aren't the Mets) it was sad to see the stadium go. In an era where every stadium has a funny name, tickets are going up to almost $3,000 for football and baseball seats, and pro athletes sometimes don't care, it is sad to see Yankee Stadium go away. With the economy dropping out from the bottom things just don't seem right, but Yankee Stadium was always there; through the wars, the depression, Cuban missle scares, assasinations, facing the Eastern Bloc, ultimate terrorism, and all the the uncertainty that came from these things. Yankee Stadium was always a certain thing. It was never Fannie Mae Stadium or Freddie Mac Stadium, everything was always certain. I still don't like the Yankees but America doesn't feel right without the stadium.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The NFC Beast
Sunday was a great game for a half. As much as everyone will tell you that football is a team game, the entire team depends on the qb. Just ask the Vikings, who many predicted to win the entire NFC and are at 0-2 with Jackson. Now they are believing in the decade-old DC adage "in Gus we Trust." I always liked Gus but I hope he doesn't bang his head into the side of the Metrodome. Campbell looked bad the first half. He didn't make mistakes but he didn't make plays which is why we were down 10-9 at half after dominating every other facet of the game. He was telegraphing every pass, had happy feet but wouldn't scramble for time, and just seemed tenuous about everything when he is supposed to be leading. The second half was a whole different story.
Campbell's Jekyll turned into a Hyde of a beast and did everything right. His feet were still moving, not as happy feet but scrambling to the right spots at the right time to create enough time to complete passes to the bevy of receivers the Skins have stockpiled. He started looking off receivers and making second and third reads. The guys sitting in the top row of section 409 at Fedex couldn't tell where the ball was going on every pass play anymore. The perfect example was the Marino-like pass to Moss who barely had to break stride to take the lead for good when Randle El was the first read. Campbell did what he was supposed to as well as the rest of the team and that was win at home. Make no bones about it that was a must-win and they dug down and got it.
Next week against Arizona is a must-win as well. Dropping to 1-2 isn't nearly as dire as 0-2, but it is still a must-win. I think that if the Skins play as well they did in the second half last Sunday, there are only three or four teams in the league that can beat them. Unfortunately, no team can play at that level all of the time; just ask the Patriots last February. In addition to that, at least two and possibly three of those teams are in our division. The Dallas-Philly game Monday night was an eye-opener. McNo-ring played his heart out, dying to beat TO. He still couldn't do it, and you have to give credit to Dallas as much as being a Skins fan made you want the field to blow up. But even in losing Philly looked good and I wouldn't be suprised to see them upset Dallas when they play in the Eagle's neck of the woods. By the way, the Giants are defending champs and even though I wrote them off, they are undefeated and in case you forgot over the euphoria of winning this week, they beat us pretty soundly the week before.
Everyone said that this is the toughest division in football, and through a short two weeks it is proving to be true. The division is a collective 6-2, with the only two losses being the Eagles loss and our loss to the Giants against other East teams. We all get to play against what look like relatively soft teams in the NFC South and AFC Central, therefore all are must-wins because Dallas probably won't lose to them unless Jessica Simpson is particularly needy that week. The way the Eagles and Giants have played the first two weeks, they will not lose too many of them either. The old adage is that "if you win at home and split on the road you are guarenteed a spot in the playoffs." Unfortunately this does not hold true in the East this year. You have to win out against the weak teams, and hope to split intra-division. We have only had one great half of football while everyone else has had a few. The Skins still have to make sure they are not a weak team as well, and they have to start this Sunday in another must-win.
For a few sidenotes; if the Nats can knock the Mets out again it would be great. They must hate our boys in NY and wonder what is going on. I can guarentee you if the Mets sqeak into the wildcard spot they will not win a championship losing to the minor league players the Nattos have up right now.
Also, happy birthday to Ovie. Can't wait to see him skating, knocking people around, and scoring goals less than a month from now.
Campbell's Jekyll turned into a Hyde of a beast and did everything right. His feet were still moving, not as happy feet but scrambling to the right spots at the right time to create enough time to complete passes to the bevy of receivers the Skins have stockpiled. He started looking off receivers and making second and third reads. The guys sitting in the top row of section 409 at Fedex couldn't tell where the ball was going on every pass play anymore. The perfect example was the Marino-like pass to Moss who barely had to break stride to take the lead for good when Randle El was the first read. Campbell did what he was supposed to as well as the rest of the team and that was win at home. Make no bones about it that was a must-win and they dug down and got it.
Next week against Arizona is a must-win as well. Dropping to 1-2 isn't nearly as dire as 0-2, but it is still a must-win. I think that if the Skins play as well they did in the second half last Sunday, there are only three or four teams in the league that can beat them. Unfortunately, no team can play at that level all of the time; just ask the Patriots last February. In addition to that, at least two and possibly three of those teams are in our division. The Dallas-Philly game Monday night was an eye-opener. McNo-ring played his heart out, dying to beat TO. He still couldn't do it, and you have to give credit to Dallas as much as being a Skins fan made you want the field to blow up. But even in losing Philly looked good and I wouldn't be suprised to see them upset Dallas when they play in the Eagle's neck of the woods. By the way, the Giants are defending champs and even though I wrote them off, they are undefeated and in case you forgot over the euphoria of winning this week, they beat us pretty soundly the week before.
Everyone said that this is the toughest division in football, and through a short two weeks it is proving to be true. The division is a collective 6-2, with the only two losses being the Eagles loss and our loss to the Giants against other East teams. We all get to play against what look like relatively soft teams in the NFC South and AFC Central, therefore all are must-wins because Dallas probably won't lose to them unless Jessica Simpson is particularly needy that week. The way the Eagles and Giants have played the first two weeks, they will not lose too many of them either. The old adage is that "if you win at home and split on the road you are guarenteed a spot in the playoffs." Unfortunately this does not hold true in the East this year. You have to win out against the weak teams, and hope to split intra-division. We have only had one great half of football while everyone else has had a few. The Skins still have to make sure they are not a weak team as well, and they have to start this Sunday in another must-win.
For a few sidenotes; if the Nats can knock the Mets out again it would be great. They must hate our boys in NY and wonder what is going on. I can guarentee you if the Mets sqeak into the wildcard spot they will not win a championship losing to the minor league players the Nattos have up right now.
Also, happy birthday to Ovie. Can't wait to see him skating, knocking people around, and scoring goals less than a month from now.
Friday, September 5, 2008
NY is bad, DC not better, Philly is the worst
Last night was pretty atrocious. The second half produced less points, namely none, but the first half was even harder to watch. They did nothing right until the last two minutes after a fluke 50 yard kickoff return and Giants penalty put them in the red zone. What scares me is the Giants were atrocious as well. They played so badly that it was unbelievable that we still had a chance to win with six minutes left in the fourth quarter. But we somehow managed to play worse throughout the entire game, but especially those last six minutes. As a Skins fan you have to pause and wonder if Zorn actually implemented a no-huddle offense because we never used one last night. Zorny, who I'm not quite as horny for, look baffled last night. After the last two preseason games I don't know why he does. We have run OTAs, we started training camp before any other team in the league, we have a veteran squad so why couldn't we put together one drive on opening day?
I don't fault Campbell, he has picked up every other offense that was brand new to him 8 out of the last 9 years. In fact his passer rating last year was better than the Super Bowl winning quarterback Eli Manning. But Campbell looked confused the first game this year. Maybe it will get better but someone should remind Zorny that he only has a year. If he doesn't make the playoffs he will be fired and Cowher will be brought in, that is what our owner does because he is an idiot, just ask Schottenheimer. I really don't even blame Zorny for last night I blame Cerrato. Our aged offensive line got blown away by a younger New York defensive line, and they are missing their two best players on that unit. Our defensive line did nothing, except get run at straight to Jason Taylor every play as Madden pointed out until Skins coaches had the linebackers shift to back him up. Maybe in a defensive line-rich draft picking one of them up would have been nice. Devin Thomas got his one catch but could not muscle his way one more yard to get the first down. He was our first pick because we needed a big receiver due to the fact that Cerrato and Snyder ignored that for the last few years. He didn't exactly look like Michael Irvin last night.
I'm not giving up hope, it think we can turn it around but probably not in time. After all we play in the toughest division in football. We don't have five games for the team to get adjusted because we can only lose four or five more all year. Zorny wasn't exactly encouraging after the game when he said "I feel like we learned where we need to improve tonight. If there's anything positive, it's that." What the hell does that mean? We need to improve everywhere? The positive is that it is almost impossible to get worse? I don't mean to be a pessimist I think there is hope but the season seems star-crossed before it even began. Khary Campbell is a backup linebacker for the Skins, but is a phenomenal special team player and therefore a captain on that unit. So he jogged out pregame for the coin-flip, pulled his quadraceps, and was out for the entire game. You can't make things like that up. He knocked himself out of the game during the coin flip! Last night sucked.
As a sidenote, would you like to what else sucks? Philadelphia. Not any particular team from Philly as a whole, but the entire city as a whole. New Jersey is widely considered the armpit of America. I think this is unfair because the stink is only a bridge away over in Philly. If you live or are from Philly you should get in your car, turn on your cd player, listen to more Bon Jovi, drive to your nearest gun shop, purchase one, and shoot yourself in the face. Just because you suck. I was fortunate enough to catch a couple of the Nattos-Phillies series where we took 2 of 3 from them. At one ZimZam at-bat they threw at his body and he ducked it, then the very next pitch they threw at his head. Of course the ump came out and warned the pitcher and both benches. All the while some hurting Philly fan behind me was screaming that if Zim "can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen" while interlacing a word that starts with p and kind of sounds like Stussy, the old t-shirt brand. This guy embodies almost anyone I have ever met from Philly. First off it is stupid. At the time the Phillies were one game out of first place before the Nattos knocked them down a few pegs. The Nattos? 26 out. If you want to throw at our one star's head, we will throw at Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard all day, potentially knocking them out, and thus your stupid Phillies from their pennant race in which they will choke anyways. This fan just embodied everyone from Philly; stupid, brash, no concept of the game being played and therefore no concept of how to win a championship, which of course they have not done since before a lot of us were born. (I know I just broadly generalized, so I grant exceptions to my boy Jeff and his brother, and my girl Katie and her man, but I dare everyone else from Philly to prove me wrong.)
The final straw was Chase Utley intentionally injuring my boy Jesus Flowers while sliding into the plate. Baseball etiquette is if you are definately out you don't go in to hurt somone. The play was not even close and Utley deliberately went after a young guy with a bright future's ankle and sure enough hurt him. Jesus Flowers is no slouch so he held on and made the out. It is just a typical classless play, from a typical classless team, in a typically classless city. Seriously if you are from Philly shoot yourself in the face. Can't wait to see the Saints.
I don't fault Campbell, he has picked up every other offense that was brand new to him 8 out of the last 9 years. In fact his passer rating last year was better than the Super Bowl winning quarterback Eli Manning. But Campbell looked confused the first game this year. Maybe it will get better but someone should remind Zorny that he only has a year. If he doesn't make the playoffs he will be fired and Cowher will be brought in, that is what our owner does because he is an idiot, just ask Schottenheimer. I really don't even blame Zorny for last night I blame Cerrato. Our aged offensive line got blown away by a younger New York defensive line, and they are missing their two best players on that unit. Our defensive line did nothing, except get run at straight to Jason Taylor every play as Madden pointed out until Skins coaches had the linebackers shift to back him up. Maybe in a defensive line-rich draft picking one of them up would have been nice. Devin Thomas got his one catch but could not muscle his way one more yard to get the first down. He was our first pick because we needed a big receiver due to the fact that Cerrato and Snyder ignored that for the last few years. He didn't exactly look like Michael Irvin last night.
I'm not giving up hope, it think we can turn it around but probably not in time. After all we play in the toughest division in football. We don't have five games for the team to get adjusted because we can only lose four or five more all year. Zorny wasn't exactly encouraging after the game when he said "I feel like we learned where we need to improve tonight. If there's anything positive, it's that." What the hell does that mean? We need to improve everywhere? The positive is that it is almost impossible to get worse? I don't mean to be a pessimist I think there is hope but the season seems star-crossed before it even began. Khary Campbell is a backup linebacker for the Skins, but is a phenomenal special team player and therefore a captain on that unit. So he jogged out pregame for the coin-flip, pulled his quadraceps, and was out for the entire game. You can't make things like that up. He knocked himself out of the game during the coin flip! Last night sucked.
As a sidenote, would you like to what else sucks? Philadelphia. Not any particular team from Philly as a whole, but the entire city as a whole. New Jersey is widely considered the armpit of America. I think this is unfair because the stink is only a bridge away over in Philly. If you live or are from Philly you should get in your car, turn on your cd player, listen to more Bon Jovi, drive to your nearest gun shop, purchase one, and shoot yourself in the face. Just because you suck. I was fortunate enough to catch a couple of the Nattos-Phillies series where we took 2 of 3 from them. At one ZimZam at-bat they threw at his body and he ducked it, then the very next pitch they threw at his head. Of course the ump came out and warned the pitcher and both benches. All the while some hurting Philly fan behind me was screaming that if Zim "can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen" while interlacing a word that starts with p and kind of sounds like Stussy, the old t-shirt brand. This guy embodies almost anyone I have ever met from Philly. First off it is stupid. At the time the Phillies were one game out of first place before the Nattos knocked them down a few pegs. The Nattos? 26 out. If you want to throw at our one star's head, we will throw at Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard all day, potentially knocking them out, and thus your stupid Phillies from their pennant race in which they will choke anyways. This fan just embodied everyone from Philly; stupid, brash, no concept of the game being played and therefore no concept of how to win a championship, which of course they have not done since before a lot of us were born. (I know I just broadly generalized, so I grant exceptions to my boy Jeff and his brother, and my girl Katie and her man, but I dare everyone else from Philly to prove me wrong.)
The final straw was Chase Utley intentionally injuring my boy Jesus Flowers while sliding into the plate. Baseball etiquette is if you are definately out you don't go in to hurt somone. The play was not even close and Utley deliberately went after a young guy with a bright future's ankle and sure enough hurt him. Jesus Flowers is no slouch so he held on and made the out. It is just a typical classless play, from a typical classless team, in a typically classless city. Seriously if you are from Philly shoot yourself in the face. Can't wait to see the Saints.
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