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This week's win didn't inspire a lot of great press, but you should try and endure Bill Simmon's bizarre rant about how great the Pats are just for the last two paragraphs. In them, he admits that picking the Colts simply because Dungy is a better person and Belichick is legitimate. I suppose that's some kind of admission. Meanwhile, I'm wondering if the Chargers really are that good. Norv Turner has that team looking terrible through two weeks. I think the Pats will be severely tested before its over. It often takes the league a couple of weeks to catch up to something new. There is little debate that the two best teams in the league are the Colts and Pats. Fortunately, they will square off on the field, probably twice.
Demond Sanders: Definitely a bizarre rant. His point is that we take sports way too seriously sometimes, and he's absolutely right. Unfortunately, he works against his own point by getting so worked up about it. Bothering to name-check the war abroad and "the waste of a generation in Iraq" seems out of place and misguided.
He is right about one thing: the Colts vs. Patriots game on November 4th, 2007 may become the focal point of the entire NFL season. Game of the century type stuff. Unfortunately, the Colts have at least three big games to play on the way. The Patriots? Let's just say when you play in the horrendous AFC East everything is a little easier.
Monday, September 17, 2007
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From the Simmons rant: "Is there a chance -- just a chance -- Belichick has gotten a little paranoid in his old age, and since an undermanned Jets team played them closely in all three Pats-Jets games last season, he spent the spring and summer wondering if Mangini had figured out a way to steal their signals, so he decided to tape their coaches in Week 1 to see if that was true? And then he got caught?"
Does that make any sense? I'm not following the reasoning there. How does filming the Jets defense signals tell him whether they've stolen his?
@Joe:
It doesn't make any sense. He's a complete homer grasping at straws and lashing out against the media establishment for disrespecting his beloved team.
The height of the irony in this juvenile outburst of his is that he goes on and on for 2000 words talking about how great an injustice it is that the greatness of his team is being overlooked due to CheaterGate, and then turns around and says that cheating in sports doesn't really matter and that we shouldn't talk about it like it's an injustice. Um, hello, hypocrisy police calling.
I really enjoy reading Simmons...he's one of the last really good opinion writers on ESPN.com, after so many of the decent ones have either jumped ship or died. But when he gets that shrill tone about how amazing Bradychick is, he makes me want to whack him upside the head with a big wooden beam, like The Rock in that vigilante movie where....he....whacks people with a wooden beam.....
HA. I think I saw that movie too, Joel. How unfortunate for both of us.
I didn't understand the part about "they would have gotten caught before Sept 2007"--they got caught by the Packers last year. Maybe that didn't count, because they protested after the game and didn't steal 'chick's tape.
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