Re: Need a Good laugh
Why, oh why, is that smarmy smug tool talking/writing publicly about football? He's a freaking baseball writer!
And his analysis/opinion was great example of why baseball people shouldn't talk football, because you can't apply baseball standards to the game of football. In baseball when a fielder makes an error it's completely on him; you don't (or extremely rarely) hear anyone say that the opponent did something to force the error. CHB incorrectly used that baseball logic to essentially say whenever there is a turnover in football it's all due to an 'error' by the team that gave the ball away, with no consideration that perhaps the defense deserves some credit for making a play.
I'm sure they'll mention how this hire was known and all but official two days before the broncs' miracle win, and no one objected then.
Surprisingly the two Denver announcers were saying people making a big deal about the hiring were wrong. McD is apparently extremely vilified there so they seem to think he'll immediately screw up the Pats offense; their point was that Bronco fans should be happy, not upset. And they also pointed out people were reacting emotionally to their hatred of McD, saying people are being hypocrites for saying he was so bad a year ago but now he's going to suddenly have all this super coaching ability.
However the big point they made about people in Denver being hypocrites was one I had forgotten all about. When Al Davis fired Mike Shanahan it was four games into the season, and Denver immediately hired him as their QB coach; Shanahan was then on the Broncos staff for not one, but two games that year against the Raiders.
The last point they made I did have to laugh at though. They said that if the Broncos beat the Pats then the Patriots window of opportunity would be completely shut and they would bottom out to multiple years of double-digit losses starting next year.
I think I've been hearing 'the Pats run is over' mantra from opposing fans every year for ten straight seasons now, but I guess per their logic since something like that happened somewhere along the line to the Broncos, that means the same thing would happen to the Patriots if they don't win Saturday? :confused2: