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"I can't decide. I seriously just can't decide. It could partly be because I am so sick to my stomach right now. But who of the following three guys is the biggest loser:
Edgerring James
Neil Rackers
Denny Green
If we are going on size alone here, it's clearly Green. I hope he eats himself to death tonight. I really do. The only thing worse than blowing a game with terrible play calling and coaching is throwing your players under the bus in the press conference afterwards.
Next is the guy with the "bling bling" in his "grill." Ahh, who better for America's youth to look up to than an overpaid, overrated, product of the system. Edgerrin "show me the money" James. The guy will never, ever be anything without Peyton Manning and the Colts offense. Nothing. Guy has been an absolute nobody all year. And it's not just the line. I watched him. Every single play the guy takes the ball, wraps it up with two hands, looks down and his feet, and plows forward. Into anything. He doesn't care. On several plays it was literally the backs of his own blockers. Could he be any worse? How did this guy ever have big statistical seasons? He's the worst. The absolute worst.
And so here he is, the Cardinals about to pull off the biggest upset perhaps in MNF history, and not only can he not hold onto the ball, the guy seriously cannot get ANY positive yardage. Like, at all.
He rushed THIRTY SIX times for FIFTY FIVE yards. I put that in text because I need to really have you understand it. I'll do numbers too. 36 for 55. If I could do bigger font with this ####ty new Microsoft hotmail product, I would. THIRTY SIX. It was statistically, literally, no exaggeration here, the WORST running performance in NFL history.
Let that sink in for a minute. IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, NO RUNNING BACK HAS RUSHED SO MANY TIMES FOR SO FEW YARDS. Oh, and he also gave up a game-losing fumble.
What a loser.
Then there is Neil Rackers. Last week in Leinart's first NFL start, his loser team blows it and yet down three points he steps up to the plate in the two minute drill and shows us why he is the best quarterback in his draft class period (every other team, including the Jets (among others), absolutely blew it by passing up on the next Tom Brady/Brett Favre combo, but that's another discussion), he makes an awesome drive under a tough blitzing Chiefs defense, looking completely poised, and gets them well within FG range.
Well, that is, FG range for most professional football kickers. Not Rackers though.
And here we are a week later. Edge turns it over once and then he cannot convert on 2nd and 2, or 3rd and 2, because he's staring down at his shoelaces, waiting for, I dunno what. Maybe he's reading his own autograph on his Nike football cleats. Admiring his own feet. Who knows. But what I do know is Neil Rackers, the biggest loser at the position since Scotty Norwood, blows a game winning field goal. The sad thing is you just knew it would happen. You knew Edge was going to be a loser, and you knew Rackers was gonna be a loser.
But you know what? As much as I think Rackers and Edge are to blame, I don't. I blame Denny. Why in god's name do you put the ball in Edge's hands THIRTY FIVE times when he seriously just does NOTHING good with it. After the first drive, Edge had something like 29 for 33 yards. My god. That's 29 times Matt Leinart could have done something more with the football. TWENTY NINE TIMES. That's a lot of offensive plays.
So, in the end, the Arizona defense and Matt Leinart get shafted out of an enormous win that they deserved, and you have one or more of the above to blame. The three biggest losers in Arizona tonight. Maybe in the country. The world?
Leinart said all the right things in the press conference. After the Edge fumble completely deflated the team and the stadium, and then the Bears return one for a TD to take the lead, Leinart stepped out there like a gamer, like a winner, like the future champion that he is, and manned-up. He orchestrated a drive, made tough throws under pressure, with the game on the line, and with nobody -- not Edge, not Rackers, not anyone -- else stepping up (OK, maybe Anquan Boldin, the other guy on this team who just gets it done and always have and always will, and who'll end up in the HOF with Leinart one day). And after all that, the losers took it away.
I'm sick to my stomach. Not about fantasy. It didn't make a difference that I have Leinart on my fantasy team. I didn't start him against the Bears, and who in their right mind would. But for Matt Leinart, the football player, I really wanted this win. The kid earned it. The defense earned it. The Cardinals earned it. And tomorrow morning, those three losers all should offer to buy him dinner. They owe him, and that entire team and city, at least that much.
Matt Leinart started off his career 0-2 and should instead have started off 2-0 with one of the wins being the most storied MNF upset ever. Instead, Edge is bumpin home in his hoopty listening to the new Jay-Z song we heard at halftime, probably wondering what day the next paycheck comes in. Thanks, Edge. "
"I can't decide. I seriously just can't decide. It could partly be because I am so sick to my stomach right now. But who of the following three guys is the biggest loser:
Edgerring James
Neil Rackers
Denny Green
If we are going on size alone here, it's clearly Green. I hope he eats himself to death tonight. I really do. The only thing worse than blowing a game with terrible play calling and coaching is throwing your players under the bus in the press conference afterwards.
Next is the guy with the "bling bling" in his "grill." Ahh, who better for America's youth to look up to than an overpaid, overrated, product of the system. Edgerrin "show me the money" James. The guy will never, ever be anything without Peyton Manning and the Colts offense. Nothing. Guy has been an absolute nobody all year. And it's not just the line. I watched him. Every single play the guy takes the ball, wraps it up with two hands, looks down and his feet, and plows forward. Into anything. He doesn't care. On several plays it was literally the backs of his own blockers. Could he be any worse? How did this guy ever have big statistical seasons? He's the worst. The absolute worst.
And so here he is, the Cardinals about to pull off the biggest upset perhaps in MNF history, and not only can he not hold onto the ball, the guy seriously cannot get ANY positive yardage. Like, at all.
He rushed THIRTY SIX times for FIFTY FIVE yards. I put that in text because I need to really have you understand it. I'll do numbers too. 36 for 55. If I could do bigger font with this ####ty new Microsoft hotmail product, I would. THIRTY SIX. It was statistically, literally, no exaggeration here, the WORST running performance in NFL history.
Let that sink in for a minute. IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, NO RUNNING BACK HAS RUSHED SO MANY TIMES FOR SO FEW YARDS. Oh, and he also gave up a game-losing fumble.
What a loser.
Then there is Neil Rackers. Last week in Leinart's first NFL start, his loser team blows it and yet down three points he steps up to the plate in the two minute drill and shows us why he is the best quarterback in his draft class period (every other team, including the Jets (among others), absolutely blew it by passing up on the next Tom Brady/Brett Favre combo, but that's another discussion), he makes an awesome drive under a tough blitzing Chiefs defense, looking completely poised, and gets them well within FG range.
Well, that is, FG range for most professional football kickers. Not Rackers though.
And here we are a week later. Edge turns it over once and then he cannot convert on 2nd and 2, or 3rd and 2, because he's staring down at his shoelaces, waiting for, I dunno what. Maybe he's reading his own autograph on his Nike football cleats. Admiring his own feet. Who knows. But what I do know is Neil Rackers, the biggest loser at the position since Scotty Norwood, blows a game winning field goal. The sad thing is you just knew it would happen. You knew Edge was going to be a loser, and you knew Rackers was gonna be a loser.
But you know what? As much as I think Rackers and Edge are to blame, I don't. I blame Denny. Why in god's name do you put the ball in Edge's hands THIRTY FIVE times when he seriously just does NOTHING good with it. After the first drive, Edge had something like 29 for 33 yards. My god. That's 29 times Matt Leinart could have done something more with the football. TWENTY NINE TIMES. That's a lot of offensive plays.
So, in the end, the Arizona defense and Matt Leinart get shafted out of an enormous win that they deserved, and you have one or more of the above to blame. The three biggest losers in Arizona tonight. Maybe in the country. The world?
Leinart said all the right things in the press conference. After the Edge fumble completely deflated the team and the stadium, and then the Bears return one for a TD to take the lead, Leinart stepped out there like a gamer, like a winner, like the future champion that he is, and manned-up. He orchestrated a drive, made tough throws under pressure, with the game on the line, and with nobody -- not Edge, not Rackers, not anyone -- else stepping up (OK, maybe Anquan Boldin, the other guy on this team who just gets it done and always have and always will, and who'll end up in the HOF with Leinart one day). And after all that, the losers took it away.
I'm sick to my stomach. Not about fantasy. It didn't make a difference that I have Leinart on my fantasy team. I didn't start him against the Bears, and who in their right mind would. But for Matt Leinart, the football player, I really wanted this win. The kid earned it. The defense earned it. The Cardinals earned it. And tomorrow morning, those three losers all should offer to buy him dinner. They owe him, and that entire team and city, at least that much.
Matt Leinart started off his career 0-2 and should instead have started off 2-0 with one of the wins being the most storied MNF upset ever. Instead, Edge is bumpin home in his hoopty listening to the new Jay-Z song we heard at halftime, probably wondering what day the next paycheck comes in. Thanks, Edge. "
