Dr. Z loses his license to practice pigskin

[everlong]

that any praise of Manning

Any praise of Manning for this game would have been, hey everybody has a game like that give the guy a mulligan.

I would have agreed.

However to suggest in any way that the teflon forehead was an epic heroic figure chucking up 6 picks is too much for me to handle and so far beyond the normal ball washing he receives.

And the worst part is Dr. Z isn't the only mediot I've heard spew this garbage.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

And yes, of course the media ballwashes Peyton. But ask any other team's fans about what they think about the ballwashing Brady gets from the media. So I can't understand this outrage with the Peyton love when our own QB gets plenty of his own.

Was Dr Z's article dumb? Yes. Were the roses thrown Peyton's way after a 6 INT game completely silly? Yes. But I really think people are getting way too worked up about it, and reading things into it that aren't really there (that any praise of Manning, no matter how misguided, is a slight on Brady, for example).

The only one getting worked up here is you. The rest of us are having a good laugh over this oh so rare piece of journalistic truth. What is your problem??
Peyton Manning is not the selfless heroic champion as many in the ballwashing media portray him. So refreshing when that reality about Me First Manning appears in print. In fact it's a rarity!! Finding the truth written about Peyton Manning is almost as rare as finding a compliment written about Bill Belichick.

 

[scout]

Finding the truth written about Manning is almost as rare as finding a compliment written about Bill Belichick.

BRILLIANT. Line of the week!

 

[FrontSeven]

You guys are pathetic.

Tom Brady said, on Patiots Monday on EEI, that Manning's receivers were not in the right spots against the Chargers.

Who should I believe - Tom or you?

Who has accomplished something - Manning or you?

 

[scout]

You guys are pathetic.

Tom Brady said, on Patiots Monday on EEI, that Manning's receivers were not in the right spots against the Chargers.

Who should I believe - Tom or you?

Who has accomplished something - Manning or you?

What a turnabout for Tom. I mean the guy almost always badmouths another player.

 

[ATippett56]

Finding the truth written about Peyton Manning is almost as rare as finding a compliment written about Bill Belichick.

The truth hurts!

 

[psychoPat]

....
the article certainly presents what I have felt in reading his columns over the last couple of years; that Dr. Z is hanging around too long and starting to put out opinions that are not completely coherent either within themselves or according to the facts.

it's time for Dr. Z to take on a less prominent role in the NFL scene.

So true, Since74!

It seems like only a little while ago that Dr. Z was a highly respected commentator on things NFL.
That's behind us now.

But he remains a celebrity ... a throwback ... a legend in his editors' eyes.

Trust CHFF to take care of that !

 

[ATippett56]

So true, Since74!

It seems like only a little while ago that Dr. Z was a highly respected commentator on things NFL.
That's behind us now.

But he remains a celebrity ... a throwback ... a legend in his editors' eyes.

Trust CHFF to take care of that !

If you want cold hard analyses of the NFL, the Cold Hard Football Facts website is your place for one stop shopping.

 

[ATippett56]

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.co..._Z_loses_his_license_to_practice_pigskin.html



Ummmm...finallly.

Great article.

Dr Z lost all credibility when he predicted the Miami Dolphins to win the Super Bowl last season.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[ColtinIraq]

Now - I can't wait to see his pro Pats article and watch all of you fall all over yourselves getting in line to kiss his . . .

 

[ATippett56]

Now - I can't wait to see his pro Pats article and watch all of you fall all over yourselves getting in line to kiss his . . .

For once, an intellectual article is written that exposes the fraud that Peyton Manning is without his all-star cast of characters!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[Joker]

Like the way you Dolts fans do over the millions of disgusting ballwashing Pay-Me-Tons articles?

 

[everlong]

Now - I can't wait to see his pro Pats article and watch all of you fall all over yourselves getting in line to kiss his . . .

You Colts fans are so sensitive to every negative article about your team. I'll admit that it's a small sample size since this is the first one but I'm sure you and your binky will do a few more ads and be ok.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

You guys are pathetic.

Tom Brady said, on Patiots Monday on EEI, that Manning's receivers were not in the right spots against the Chargers.

Who should I believe - Tom or you?

Who has accomplished something - Manning or you?

I seem to recall at least one of those picks was an underthrown ball to that 'inexperienced scrub' Reggie Wayne. (sarcasm fully intended)
Tom Brady doesn't bad mouth anybody over anything. In the same interview he praised that sad group of receivers he had to work with last year. Brady doesn't bad mouth, he doesn't make excuses and he doesn't whine.
Some of the many things that sets him apart from Manning in a very positive way.

 

[RodThePat]

You guys are pathetic.

Tom Brady said, on Patiots Monday on EEI, that Manning's receivers were not in the right spots against the Chargers.

Who should I believe - Tom or you?

Who has accomplished something - Manning or you?

Of course, 'cause everyone expected Tom to come out and say: "Saw that, guys? 6 F'ING PICKS! Told ya, that dude's not in my league!"


At least 4 of his INTs were his fault alone. If you don't have superstar receivers and haven't developed timing with the scrubs, you have to adapt to it.

You can't throw to Aaron Moorehead the same way you throw to Marvin Harrison. Imagine Brady slingin' jump balls in double coverage to Doug Gabriel?

 

[captain stone]

You can't throw to Aaron Moorehead the same way you throw to Marvin Harrison. Imagine Brady slingin' jump balls in double coverage to Doug Gabriel?

Actually, he did, last year, against the dolts, on their first drive of the game, after they ran for 6, 7 and 4 yards the previous 3 plays.

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/28984/NE_Gamebook.pdf

(What also pissed me off about that INT was that Gabriel jumped over Bethea in order to avoid contact, and thusly allowed him to return the football to the dolts' 32.)

The difference is, that TB, with his rating of 34, was rightly ripped for losing that game; whereas Payaton, with his rating of 49.4, was deified by Zimmerman in one of the gayest, most deceitful and unprofessional articles I have ever had the displeasure of reading.

 

[reflexblue]

Z should do what he's really wanted to do for a few years. Move to New Zealand and write reviews on wine.
Yes, he should whine about wine.

 

[PromisedLand]

Because Dr. Z is a well-respected football writer who wrote one of the dumbest columns ever.

The irony is that what Dr. Z should have written exactly parallels what you just wrote:

Peyton Manning is a well-respected football quarterback who played one of the worst games ever.

 

[mtbykr]

Let’s see … grew up rich and famous; lived in a big house in a fancy neighborhood, born with great genes, handed the starting job as a freshman at Tennessee, No. 1 draft pick, fellated by the media every step of the way, even when he ****s on himself and his teammates like he did Sunday night… hell, Paris Hilton overcame more obstacles on her road to the top.]

I'm sure it was one he'd like to forget. But for people such as me, with long memories, it was very special.

[Kind of like riding the short bus in a hockey helmet is special.]

 

[VJCPatriot]

I think that was an excellent article by the Cold Hard Football Facts (http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.co...Z_loses_his_license_to_practice_pigskin.html). Dr. Z got called out every step of the way. Even without the added commentary, if you just read Dr. Z's article alone you would soon realize that it is a sad exercise in rationalization and mental fallacy. The Cold, Hard, Football facts article just highlights how bad Z's thinking and writing were in that sham of an article.

When in the world did a 6 interception performance leading to a LOSS, give rise to a lovefest of praise and worship for the losing QB? That is just ******ed and Dr. Z should be ashamed of what he wrote. If he isn't, he has obviously gone senile. If he was drunk when he wrote it, and admits it, then at least he has a partial excuse. If he turned in that article while sober, my estimation for his abilities as a writer and critical thinker has just gone down the tubes.

Here is a choice excerpt in which Dr. Z directly contradicts himself and CHFF calls him out on it:

"A quarterback who stands tall in the pocket, facing a minimal rush, throwing to an all star cast of receivers is a pretty picture, but there's nothing about it that reaches me on an emotional level."

[Well, we guess Dr. Z never cared for Manning before ... because that single sentence pretty much describes Manning’s entire career ... "standing tall in the pocket ... minimal rush ... all-star cast of receivers." Do they teach irony at the Third-World medical school where Dr. Z studied the pigskin sciences?]

That sentence alone really, really BOGGLES my mind. Does Dr. Z not realize that Manning has been exactly that QB for the past several years, especially during his 49 TD year? His offensive line protected him so well that he was barely touched, and he had all pro receivers around him in the persons of Wayne, Harrison, [Stokely before 2007], and Clark. The defenses were afraid to blitz him because they didn't want those dangerous Colt receivers left in one on one coverage. Dr. Z crapped the bed with this article. He should print a retraction and an apology to the readers that used to take him seriously. IMO Dr. Z has slipped off the deep end with this sad effort at so called sports jounalism.