Monday, January 5, 2004

By The Pigskin Of Our Teeth: The Wild Card Edition

Hey, here's another team the Ravens have a "We Just Plain Don't Like Each Other" deal with. They must just do that to people. Once again, Billick confounds me by not putting the offense on Jamal's back, unless he figured the Titans were going to force them to go to the pass anyway. I wonder how Marcus Robinson feels about Marty Booker basically having what was supposed to be his career. Well, what do you know... Todd Heap IS better than Jeremy Shockey. I'd be interested in seeing the shoulder harness they strapped on George - his jersey didn't look any different. Gary Anderson! Hi! Soon he won't be able to outkick his age.

I've decided that Quincy would've been better off had he had the opportunity to go the Pennington/Hasselbeck career route - sit for a couple years as the No. 2 guy before stepping in with an idea of how the game looks. As it was, he ended up starting by default and, well, we get this. Mario Edwards: the new Kevin Mathis? Discuss. I feel like I should have known that Jerry Richardson played, but I didn't. It's telling when a back "barely" gains 1000 yards and everybody wants to upgrade the position. Not that that's wrong in this case.

Wooooo this was a damn fun time. I'm going to agree with Chris and say that Hasselbeck did deserve to go to the Pro Bowl. Linemen catching the football~~~ Matt, you don't have the cachet to say something like that yet. Leave that to the guy on the other side. Harris was a feast-or-famine guy when he was here - the guy had talent, but gambled a bit too much and got burned or flagged just as much as not. Anyone see the hat he was wearing during the postgame interviews on the field? They could've played the next game in that thing. Since you're probably wondering... yes, I'm now officially terrified.

I'm not sure how much of this was the Broncos' defense just not being that good or how much was the Colts learning and wanting revenge for two weeks ago. I am, however, convinced that a LOT of this was Manning saying he's had enough, please turn that fucking radio off (which I said might happen after he went off on Vanderjagt at the Pro Bowl last year) and laying the smack down on ALLLLLL their candy asses. At one point they showed a graphic for Walls, I think it was, and he'd had six of six passes thrown on him completed, including two scores. "And now it's 41 to 9!" I don't think the Chiefs can stop this train. I really don't.

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