Week 9: The Big Headed Holy Rollers! The second win of the season! Nice job. Nice. The Tampa Bay Pick was a thing of beauty.
Doug Martin. He's a beast! And he's wearing Emmitt Smith's number, which can't be all bad. These Bucs are starting to roll...
Absurdly Bad Call Of The Week
Yeah, it's a feature now. Ben Roethlisberger drops back to pass. His arm is hit, he throws the ball forward, ball falls very short... And is ruled a fumble?!?!?! Huh?? It's supposed to be ruled a fumble if the pass attempt involves "the empty hand going forward."
Let's go to the Rule book. The rules of football state: "When a Team A player is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts a forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball."
So there. Incomplete. Clearly incomplete. So why were the Giants allowed to pick up the ball and run 70 yeards for a score??? Why did the Zebras treat this is a fumble???
I'm telling you right now, it's time to bring back the real officials.... Hold on, I'm being handed a note from an intern here.... Those WERE the real officials?!?!? Wow. Nice. Yeeesh. SOOO lucky we have the "real" officials back....
The Steelers winning the game defused any controversy that may have ensued, but still, that's pathetic....
Vote Of Confidence History
Regular readers have by now become familiar with my adage that When a Head Coach receives "the dreaded vote of confidence" from the owner or General Manager, his days are numbered....
Vote of confidence history was made this weekend.... Friday evening, The Buss family gave the dreaded "vote of confidence" to Lakers coach Mike Brown. Their presser stated that they felt he needed "more time". Saturday morning, when I awaken, the press release is already out that Mike Brown has been fired. That's a new land speed record, to go from vote of confidence to Fired. I guess more time meant 8 or 9 hours.... Whew!
This week, we have an intriguing contest: Dallas at Philadelphia. Could be the ultimate "loser gets fired" sort of game. Andy Reid and Jason Garrett both have to be on a hot seat, don't they??? I like how the pundit-ocracy out there is billing this as a game between two teams "trying to keep their playoff hopes alive". Uh, really?? both of these teams are DOA, I hate to break that to you. I don't see either team in the Playoffs, unless something truly dramatic happened. This delusion apparently permeates both locker rooms as well, as both Head Coaches have made numerous comments this week to the effect that "If we can just get on a roll, and string together some wins..." Uh, fellas, you'd need to finish 7-1 the rest of the way to have any shot. Not happening. I have nothing against Andy Reid per se, but his body language has really gone out the window. He looks like a guy who really doesn't want to be on the sidelines anymore....
Speaking of body language, have you guys (and girls) checked out the "Smokin Jay Cutler" website?? It's awesome.
http://smokinjaycutler.tumblr.com/
Check that out. In a bizarre coincidence that only Ardita can appreciate, Smokin Jay is undefeated since the site went up.
Hey, good luck this week!
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