Saturday 14 November 2009

The Stinkbowl





Where do you reckon that pass is going?

So while we do get Cols-Patriots this weekend, we also get Chiefs-Raiders.  Definitely watch it.

How about this?
The Chiefs are the only 2009 team without a rushing TD; Oakland has given up 13. The Chiefs have given up 12 passing plays of 40-plus yards; the Raiders have a QB with a 48.3 rating. The Chiefs have amassed 2,231 yards and given up 3,172; the Raiders have amassed 1,793 yards and given up 3,086. The Chiefs have given up 30 sacks; the Raiders have turned the ball over 25 times.

This is no recent phenomenon.  The Raiders have lost 77 of their last 103.  The Chiefs have lost 30 of their last 33.  You know I love coaches and quarterbacks, right?  They’ve got a bit of a rolling combination of inept and insane going in the coaching department

Haley’s fucking bonkers, but in an angry, pet-thrashing way – Herm Edwards was batshit in a basket-weaving way. Tom Cable seems to have a somewhat problematic temper problem (we’re not talking drunken bar fights here, but spouses, girlfriends and staff) to go with no idea how to run a football team, but even he’s better than Art fucking Shell. Now obviously that just demonstrates a clear belief that coachers have no effect on winning (which is a view, and even if it’s a stupid one, many people hold it, especially those who have been coached by Dick Vermeil).  Mostly, the smart ones are problematic pain in the asses who annoy ownership.  And if you’ve got a couple o’ billion, who’s putting up with people who are adamant they know what they’re talking about?

But who the fuck is picking these quarterbacks?  JaMarcus Russell is so enjoyable I follow him weekly.  His first half against the Giants was the most entertaining thing I’ve seen this season.  His back-up is Bruce Gadkowski, last seen been screamed at like a thieving child by Jon Gruden.  The Chiefs spent $60 million on Matt Cassell, who spent no less than seven years on the pine before being propped up for a season by Bill Belichick.  Their only excuse is they were grading on a Bell Curve, and compared the league minimum earners Tyler Thigpen and Brodie Coyle to someone who completed a couple of hundred passes in a spread offense. 

Anyway, in the NFL, if you can’t get your coach and quarterback right, you’re fucked. For. Life.

Totally watch it.


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