NINE DROPS and Reality

Cut it out with the "touch" crap in swirling wind with 40 mph gusts, you idjuts! These clowns get paid a whole lot of money to do ONE THING, which is to catch passes. HARD passes, soft passes, high and low passes. Two hands+one ball= catch PERIOD DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

What the hell hallucinations were you seeing with this "behind" and "low" crap? The ONE he threw deep got taken by the wind--most of the rest were PERFECT, and a couple more were NOT QUITE perfect...oh...for YOU, with DA this means "uncatchable"...

Yeah. I mean, he would have had to crouch down a little, or lean or something...can't have that!

WIND. 40 mph gusts. You don't freaking LOB anything in that weather. Remember he's NOT supposed to throw picks, right? So now you bash him for no touch because he zips it INTO A HIGH WIND?!? He's supposed to throw marshmellows up in the air and hope they float down somewhere near the target?

It was NINE drops! Not seven. A drop is defined as any ball that a PROFESSIONAL NFL reciever gets BOTH HANDS on, ok? That's NINE. NINE drops out of seventeen passes, with three (I think) batted at the line. NINE CATCHABLE BALLS were dropped!!!

Man, you just had your mind made up and saw what you wanted to see! Some of the writers even bashed DA for the bat-downs...again he's supposed to throw it up in the wind...but simultaneously NOT throw interceptions JEEZ!!!

Give me 66% or six of those DROPS and you've got eight completions. Not fifty percent, of course...but probably another TD and certainly a bunch more points!

Hard to believe that different recievers all dropped everything at once. Much easier to simply blame the common denominator. I mean, you see a pass bounce off numbers or zing through two hands, and you first think: "Damn that reciever reminds me of Edwards!"

Ten seconds later it was the QB's fault. After all, this was the sixth one. Therefore, it MUST be the quarterback's fault. Why, he must be throwing too hard! I seem to remember he used to do that, therefore the problem must be that I was just seeing those passes wrong, and they were way too hard for any human to catch!!!

Yeah, that must be it!

So how do I write about this? Well, we use good old "but" a lot. "DA was victimized by nine...no make that numer....no....several drops, BUT--" and then talk about how he lacks touch and was all 0ver the place. (This way, you get to bash everybody equally).

Wake up. Here's the deal: There's no nuance or abstraction here. When you see a reciever NOT have to turn around or dive or leap, and the ball goes off or through his hands, it's HIS fault and HIS fault alone. That's even IF it were true that DA threw everything 90 mph, which he did NOT.

He was ACCURATE. VERY ACCURATE. MORE ACCURATE THAN QUINN.

And NINE of those incompletions were not his fault. Of COURSE he'll still start. You won't hear a word out of Quinn, either, because HE knows what he saw, too.

Look at the highlights. Mangini will get those clowns on the juggs machine, and if they can CATCH on-the-freaking-money passes vs. the Stoolers they'll have a chance.

And why are you wallowing over one segment of the game? What about the running game vs. a stacked front? What about protection, overall defense, and special teams? You guys all act like the whole damn team is DA and Edwards' legacies!

What about Corey Williams? Damn he was all over the place just like Rogers! Wimbley got his third sack. We HAVE a DEFENSE now!

Yeah-yeah the Stoolers don't give 'em much of a chance, and they probably lose. But not as bad as you think--this defense is coming together now, and will soon be really damn good.

Eman? You had your mind made up. I saw a much-improved DA. We'll see who is right.

I HAVE SPOKEN.