Monday Rambling.

Monday, 5. January 2009

I’ve got a lot on my mind right now within the sports world and in trying to kick off the new year with more posts I just wanted to comment on a few things I thought about over the weekend.

  • The playoff games I watched this weekend were pretty good for the most part. The Ravens showed everyone who the real Chad Pennington was and Ed Reed proved that he is the sickest defensive ballhawk we’ve seen since Deion Sanders and you could even make an argument that he might be better.

 

  • Tony Dungy may have coached his last game with the Colts and I would find it pretty sad if it was his last game ever coached. I do get the feeling that he wants a little time away from the game and if anyone deserves it, it’s Tony Dungy. I would like to think though that Tony would jump back into the coaching ranks after a few years of sitting home with the family. He’s only 53 and he would still be fairly young by coaching standards if he jumped back in five years from now. I hope it’s not over for Tony Dungy.

 

  • The Patriots are supposedly going to put the franchise tag on Matt Cassel and that’s a very smart move (not shocking from the Pats). I will say though that I don’t see a better fit for Cassel than with the Vikings. That game would’ve been different had the Vikings had a real QB. I don’t know how many picks the Vikings have, but if the Patriots are confident enough in Tom Brady coming back healthy that they do shop Cassel, Minnesota should be first in line to snatch him up. Imagine the Vikes pulling that off and signing a good WR, say Antonio Bryant, and that team would be set up for a nice run at the Super Bowl next year. I could also see the Vikings looking at Jeff Garcia as a starter or backup this offseason.

 

  • The Celtics and Cavs both lost yesterday which further proves that the Magic belong in the discussion with them, even though the Magic lost also.

That’s all for now, more later on.

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Football is back and I don’t care!

Saturday, 9. August 2008

   I’m watching the Bucs pre-season game vs. the Dolphins as I type this and I find myself wondering, why the hell am I watching this crap? I am as excited as the next person that football is back, but these games are very hard to watch. It’s not because of the game being so bad, it’s because of the over-hyped analysis of the game. It’s because of the coaching calls we never see in the regular season. Teams like the Bucs go for it on fourth down and call all types of crazy plays in the pre-season. I’m not dogging the calls, I’m dogging the lack of balls to call these plays in the regular season. I can’t stand the announcers saying that this undrafted free-agent who just ran for 6 yards is going to be a part of the team’s future. Shut up! Stop pretending that these games mean anything. It makes me happy as hell that they don;t televise spring training games. I’ll keep watching too for some reason. Watching the veterans sit while the rookies and no names kill themselves trying to get noticed and don’t. Listening to the idiotic announcers blow everything out of proportion. Watching Gruden make his fake stupid faces. I’m torturing myself for no reason at all. I actually had some people call me and ask “what are you doing for the game tonight?” and my reply was “I’m gonna watch the Rays like I always do, why?”. I didn’t think that they actually wanted to hang out for a pre-season football game. I guess this is why baseball has always been my first love. It’s a daily part of my life while football is a once a week party. I love REGULAR SEASON FOOTBALL, not the crap they put on the WB on Saturday night with bad announcers and horrible camera work. Thank god the Rays game is on soon and I don’t have to torture myself anymore. I’m done now, c’mon Rays!

Scott Brannelly

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