Ok. I have never professed to be completely qualified to run a real life N.F.L. football team. Although if I did , I have no doubts that my quadruple Tight End backfield would dominate the league for years to come. At any rate the N.F.L. off season is always interesting but it's not always quite so confounding as it is this year .
Understandably teams don't tell us everything , and would always have us believe that they do the things they do for all the right reasons. Not a one of us fans believes it for a second but we play the game anyway because we are fans and have nothing else to do in the off season. Or the regular season for that matter. So we read our news papers , our Internet sites and our sports blogs. We research the stats , the trends , and prognostications all in the hopes of figuring out just what the heck our favorite teams are up to .
For the most part a hard core fan can always find an upside to the crazy moves his beloved squad makes and still muster up some hope for the upcoming season. After all in 1987 when the Tigers traded John Smoltz ( future hall of famer ) to the Braves , they did get Doyle Alexander in return . For all of 3 sub par seasons. I'm sure he looked great in his retirement slippers though. Anyway my point is this . Sometimes teams just have to cut a guy loose no matter how good he is so that everybody can take a deep breath and just move on.
It's cordially known as Addition by Subtraction , and in a lot of situations it makes perfect sense. Point in case ? Cowboys drop T.O. and win a playoff game for the first time in a decade. Bam ! Enough said.
With this in mind though we begin to ponder the Denver Broncos. Are they practicing this A by S math ? Or is this something else entirely because it looks to me like the Broncos are just going for Subtraction . By Multiplication.
On December 31st 2008 they fired Head Coach Mike Shanahan. ( presumably to ruin his New Years Eve Party ) To bring in an unproven rookie head coach. Lest we forget so quickly that good old M. Shanny won back to back Superbowl's , went 138-96 ( 60.71% ) in the regular season , 8-5 (61.50%) in the playoffs , and basically produced the leagues best running game for over a decade with about 12 different backs.
Oh and lets not forget that he made a practice of hammering the Raiders, ( 21-7 i believe) not to bad eh Bronco fan ?
Now , on the heels of that brilliance , the Broncos new head man ( Josh McDaniels ) decided it would be best to hit the ground running and " towel snap " the franchise QB's pride. Well it worked , that's for sure . Jay Cutler cried a river so big he was able to grab a tackling dummy and float all the way to Chicago. The trade was inevitable at that point.
That seems like it would have been just about enough subtraction right ? Where is the addition that was mentioned earlier ? Sorry Bronco fan , we got just a little more subtraction for you . We are going to take our best offensive player and give him to Miami for some draft picks. He's just not worth paying any big money . He only caught 307 passes for over 4000 yards and 23 TDs in the last 3 years . Clearly we don't need or want all of that noise !
Oh and on top of that , we know how much you all love Peyton Hillis. He's gritty , he's gutty , he's fearless and he will do anything you ask of him on the football field. Not to mention he's pretty good little running back who seems to almost always find a way to make something positive happen. So we are just going to go ahead and not play most of the year and then run him out of town.
If you listen closely you can hear Denver Bronco fans nationwide muttering under they're breath. How is this all supposed to help ? Weren't we in the Superbowl not that long ago ? What did we get out of all these ridiculous moves ?
WAIT FOR IT ........................
WAIT FOR IT .........................
Understandably teams don't tell us everything , and would always have us believe that they do the things they do for all the right reasons. Not a one of us fans believes it for a second but we play the game anyway because we are fans and have nothing else to do in the off season. Or the regular season for that matter. So we read our news papers , our Internet sites and our sports blogs. We research the stats , the trends , and prognostications all in the hopes of figuring out just what the heck our favorite teams are up to .
For the most part a hard core fan can always find an upside to the crazy moves his beloved squad makes and still muster up some hope for the upcoming season. After all in 1987 when the Tigers traded John Smoltz ( future hall of famer ) to the Braves , they did get Doyle Alexander in return . For all of 3 sub par seasons. I'm sure he looked great in his retirement slippers though. Anyway my point is this . Sometimes teams just have to cut a guy loose no matter how good he is so that everybody can take a deep breath and just move on.
It's cordially known as Addition by Subtraction , and in a lot of situations it makes perfect sense. Point in case ? Cowboys drop T.O. and win a playoff game for the first time in a decade. Bam ! Enough said.
With this in mind though we begin to ponder the Denver Broncos. Are they practicing this A by S math ? Or is this something else entirely because it looks to me like the Broncos are just going for Subtraction . By Multiplication.
On December 31st 2008 they fired Head Coach Mike Shanahan. ( presumably to ruin his New Years Eve Party ) To bring in an unproven rookie head coach. Lest we forget so quickly that good old M. Shanny won back to back Superbowl's , went 138-96 ( 60.71% ) in the regular season , 8-5 (61.50%) in the playoffs , and basically produced the leagues best running game for over a decade with about 12 different backs.
Oh and lets not forget that he made a practice of hammering the Raiders, ( 21-7 i believe) not to bad eh Bronco fan ?
Now , on the heels of that brilliance , the Broncos new head man ( Josh McDaniels ) decided it would be best to hit the ground running and " towel snap " the franchise QB's pride. Well it worked , that's for sure . Jay Cutler cried a river so big he was able to grab a tackling dummy and float all the way to Chicago. The trade was inevitable at that point.
That seems like it would have been just about enough subtraction right ? Where is the addition that was mentioned earlier ? Sorry Bronco fan , we got just a little more subtraction for you . We are going to take our best offensive player and give him to Miami for some draft picks. He's just not worth paying any big money . He only caught 307 passes for over 4000 yards and 23 TDs in the last 3 years . Clearly we don't need or want all of that noise !
Oh and on top of that , we know how much you all love Peyton Hillis. He's gritty , he's gutty , he's fearless and he will do anything you ask of him on the football field. Not to mention he's pretty good little running back who seems to almost always find a way to make something positive happen. So we are just going to go ahead and not play most of the year and then run him out of town.
If you listen closely you can hear Denver Bronco fans nationwide muttering under they're breath. How is this all supposed to help ? Weren't we in the Superbowl not that long ago ? What did we get out of all these ridiculous moves ?
WAIT FOR IT ........................
WAIT FOR IT .........................
THIS GUY !!!!!!!
Good job Denver , way to suck the life out of your fan base.
YEAH, SURE. GO AHEAD AND KICK US WHEN WE'RE ALREADY BRUISED AND BLEEDING ORANGE ONTO EVERY
ReplyDeleteCARPET ACROSS THE STATE OF COLORADO.
MAYBE NEXT YEAR THEY WILL BE THE WRONG ORANGE LINE......