yeah takes a lot of balls to sucker punch someone and run away...he's lucky gilbride didn't grab the old bastard
Just life in the NFL....Last year Detroit, Cleveland, Denver, Houston could have easily been losses and we coulda been 8-8 or worse. Shows a couple of bounces can change a season.
Very well written post. And its painfully true. I am sure if I gave it some time I could think of a more eloquent way of saying this, but: People who watch ESPN and read the headlines in the paper ARE DUMB. A lot of the time the people writing this shit know as much about football as the average fan. There has been the occasional intelligent article (Trent Dilfer wrote one on the Jets at one point this year), but the vast majority of them are based of EMOTIONS and not actual football knowledge and substance. Some people are more interested in the soap opera aspect of football, and those are the people that these loud and sensational articles appeal to. Im not even going to get started with the whole "status quo" thing, I bolded it because I thought it was a great point but this is where you start to get beyond football and start looking at this as a much more broad phenomenon. If I could some it up in a very crude manner, I'd say "People don't think for themselves, People are dumb" People embrace the cliches, yet when somebody breaks them we are fascinated yet scared because we don't have the balls to say what that person just said, or do what they do. Thats why people make such a big deal about Rex. This post inspired me a bit and If I ever find the time I'd like to write something a little more intelligent and a little more thought out than I did, because its really a bigger issue than just football. Bottom-line is I'm down with Rex all the way, and if he is not the right coach for the Jets, it has nothing to do with his "bravado" or his "big mouth", it's how he runs his offense, or other miscellaneous FOOTBALL issues. I can not express the deep extent of my disdain for the media, and I do not let media intermingle with the game and thus ruin my interpretation of football. Football for me brings about very enigmatic and exciting feelings, and the media seems to sterilize the magic of the game with this soap opera bullshit so they can make headlines, because thats how they make money. They make something out of nothing and Rex makes that easy to do.
I am truly floored that people are even thinking about Rex getting fired at this point, it totally blows my mind!
