Pro Bowl Notes
Look… my feelings on Michael Vick are pretty well known: awesome athlete but less than average quarterback. Nevertheless, I was prepared to watch the Pro Bowl and simply enjoy the stars doing their thing. That is, until Joe Theisman opened his word hole to fellate Vick.
“Blah blah blah unfair criticism, blah blah blah Ron Mexico can give me herpes any day of the week and twice on Sundays, blah blah blah all this guy does is win games.”
That last part was what fired me up. I have a stance on this, namely: WHAT’S MICHAEL VICK EVER FUCKING WON!?
I wrote before about Atlanta having a solid defense and the best rushing attack in pro football. What part of the football equation is missing? A passing game – and that starts with Vick!
Anyway, I decided to watch him with a more critical eye. What did I see? He threw a ridiculously stupid pass up for grabs as he was getting sacked. It ended up being a completion but that had everything to do with Larry Fitzgerald and nothing at all to do with Vick. He’s just lucky the pass wasn’t intercepted. Later on he threw another dumb pass from outside the left hash mark back toward the middle of the endzone where he was lucky again not to have the pass intercepted. Incompletion. Then he overthrew an open receiver and the pass was intercepted. Then he overthrew an open Steve Smith. Then he overthrew an open Tory Holt. Then he threw a touchdown to Alge Crumpler but even THAT was a shitty pass. Crumpler made an awesome play to reach behind him and tip the ball to himself so he could actually bring it in.
One of the things Vick’s defenders say is that he doesn’t have a great go-to wide receiver. Today he was playing with the best in the league and he still made shitty decisions and threw wildly inaccurate passes. It’s an exhibition game so you can’t really take too much away from watching it, but jeez… a shitty passing QB is a shitty passing QB and all the slick marketing in the world can’t change that.
One other thing I noticed: Peyton Manning was twice in a position to make a tackle after throwing a pick and Trent Green was in a similar position once after an interception of his own. What did I learn? Neither of them are as good a tackler as Big Ben (who, by the way, is 5-1 in playoff games – including a Super Bowl – and had a 14-0 start to his regular season career. THAT’S what winning games is…)!
“Blah blah blah unfair criticism, blah blah blah Ron Mexico can give me herpes any day of the week and twice on Sundays, blah blah blah all this guy does is win games.”
That last part was what fired me up. I have a stance on this, namely: WHAT’S MICHAEL VICK EVER FUCKING WON!?
I wrote before about Atlanta having a solid defense and the best rushing attack in pro football. What part of the football equation is missing? A passing game – and that starts with Vick!
Anyway, I decided to watch him with a more critical eye. What did I see? He threw a ridiculously stupid pass up for grabs as he was getting sacked. It ended up being a completion but that had everything to do with Larry Fitzgerald and nothing at all to do with Vick. He’s just lucky the pass wasn’t intercepted. Later on he threw another dumb pass from outside the left hash mark back toward the middle of the endzone where he was lucky again not to have the pass intercepted. Incompletion. Then he overthrew an open receiver and the pass was intercepted. Then he overthrew an open Steve Smith. Then he overthrew an open Tory Holt. Then he threw a touchdown to Alge Crumpler but even THAT was a shitty pass. Crumpler made an awesome play to reach behind him and tip the ball to himself so he could actually bring it in.
One of the things Vick’s defenders say is that he doesn’t have a great go-to wide receiver. Today he was playing with the best in the league and he still made shitty decisions and threw wildly inaccurate passes. It’s an exhibition game so you can’t really take too much away from watching it, but jeez… a shitty passing QB is a shitty passing QB and all the slick marketing in the world can’t change that.
One other thing I noticed: Peyton Manning was twice in a position to make a tackle after throwing a pick and Trent Green was in a similar position once after an interception of his own. What did I learn? Neither of them are as good a tackler as Big Ben (who, by the way, is 5-1 in playoff games – including a Super Bowl – and had a 14-0 start to his regular season career. THAT’S what winning games is…)!
posted by Sivlitz at 11:27 PM
2 Comments:
I completely agree with you that Vick is a shitty passing QB & agree that even with the best of recievers he still can't make himself look believable as a "passing Qb" but the whole Ben thing is getting ridiculous!! & must stop. The only reason he did go undeafeated as a starter was MAINLY because of his TEAM.....not because HE pushed the Steelers to victory each game. As for the superbowl, EVERYONE in the world...even in the 3rd world countries KNOW that Ben DID NOT earn that superbowl & until he gets there again (not likley but possible)& proves that he's a great QB he will never get the credit he deserves. Bottomline, Ben is good like fresh pizza but not great like a BLOWJOB from JOE's mother!!!!!!!!! FU JOSEPH I HATE YOU!!!
.....and another thing, you said, "One other thing I noticed: Peyton Manning was twice in a position to make a tackle after throwing a pick and Trent Green was in a similar position once after an interception of his own"...you piece of crap! It is the Pro Bowl and NOT ONE PLAYER on either team wants to injure themselves on a play that means nothing! YOUR STUPID. You should put your family out of its misery & get rid of yourself.
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