michael vick
NFL Playoffs Reveal Power Shifts
01/09/10 22:10 Filed in: NFL
As the first weekend of NFL Playoffs is half-over, a
few things seem clear.
Dallas and San Diego are the hot teams in the NFL. Dallas currently features almost every individual player reaching a peak performance level when it counts. I couldn't conceive of thinking this earlier this year but (similar to what I thought of the Yankees before the season and with what they did) I can see them getting to the SB, finishing the season just like Arizona did last year, but with more of a chance than Arizona had to win it all. San Diego is the AFC's hot team, and may well continue that streak to the season's final game.
It will be very interesting if these two teams do meet. Both have head coaches that were fabulous coordinators, absolute disasters in their prior head coaching jobs, and had poor starts with their current teams, but have learned to concentrate their own coaching in their areas of expertise, Wade on defense, Turner with Rivers and parts of the offense, and left other areas to other experts, and the results may be history. Kudos to two coaches I thought were in over their respective heads, both of whom I would have fired years ago, if I had been stupid enough to hire them in the first place.
Three teams that had long streaks of invincibility during the regular season, New Orleans, Indianapolis, and the King's Vikings, are all dead in the water. None of these teams has a chance to get to the Super Bowl. The King will end the Viking's season with an interception, and Indy and NO have turned the knob to "I Don't Care Cruise Control" and will never be able to regain their prior momentum.
It will be Green Bay or Dallas in the NFC, and San Diego is likely to face a real challenge from ... from .... well, if New England can field enough healthy players, only from them.
A word about the Eagles who embarrassed themselves so badly the past two weeks. I thinks there is a three-fold reason for their awful showing, and all should be obvious. First is the fact of so many injuries on defense, but the second was just as important to their collapse: The distraction and almost total lack of contribution of m vick. If McNabb is their QB, and his contract extension says he is, then they cannot bring vick back. If they keep him (read what I written about him in the past, and you'll know my feelings about that) it should only be as the starter. And in his best day he is not the QB a healthy McNabb is. Finally, if you look back to every important game the Eagles have played over the past six seasons, the difference maker in those games that they won as against the games they lost, was a healthy Brian Westbrook. Generally, if he plays, they win the tough games, but if he is hurt, they lose. (They should have handed him the ball more in the 2004 SB).
Dallas and San Diego are the hot teams in the NFL. Dallas currently features almost every individual player reaching a peak performance level when it counts. I couldn't conceive of thinking this earlier this year but (similar to what I thought of the Yankees before the season and with what they did) I can see them getting to the SB, finishing the season just like Arizona did last year, but with more of a chance than Arizona had to win it all. San Diego is the AFC's hot team, and may well continue that streak to the season's final game.
It will be very interesting if these two teams do meet. Both have head coaches that were fabulous coordinators, absolute disasters in their prior head coaching jobs, and had poor starts with their current teams, but have learned to concentrate their own coaching in their areas of expertise, Wade on defense, Turner with Rivers and parts of the offense, and left other areas to other experts, and the results may be history. Kudos to two coaches I thought were in over their respective heads, both of whom I would have fired years ago, if I had been stupid enough to hire them in the first place.
Three teams that had long streaks of invincibility during the regular season, New Orleans, Indianapolis, and the King's Vikings, are all dead in the water. None of these teams has a chance to get to the Super Bowl. The King will end the Viking's season with an interception, and Indy and NO have turned the knob to "I Don't Care Cruise Control" and will never be able to regain their prior momentum.
It will be Green Bay or Dallas in the NFC, and San Diego is likely to face a real challenge from ... from .... well, if New England can field enough healthy players, only from them.
A word about the Eagles who embarrassed themselves so badly the past two weeks. I thinks there is a three-fold reason for their awful showing, and all should be obvious. First is the fact of so many injuries on defense, but the second was just as important to their collapse: The distraction and almost total lack of contribution of m vick. If McNabb is their QB, and his contract extension says he is, then they cannot bring vick back. If they keep him (read what I written about him in the past, and you'll know my feelings about that) it should only be as the starter. And in his best day he is not the QB a healthy McNabb is. Finally, if you look back to every important game the Eagles have played over the past six seasons, the difference maker in those games that they won as against the games they lost, was a healthy Brian Westbrook. Generally, if he plays, they win the tough games, but if he is hurt, they lose. (They should have handed him the ball more in the 2004 SB).
theHoundDawg
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More Disgrace in the NFL - Eagles Vote Vick "Courage" Award
12/24/09 08:46 Filed in: NFL
Compounding the further disgrace of awarding this
scum of the earth animal torturer/murderer millions
of dollars to sit on the bench, Philadelphia Eagles
players have unanimously voted michael vick to be
this year's Eagles recipient of the Ed Block
"Courage" Award. The award is given annually to a
member of each NFL team, who is considered to best
exemplify commitment to the principles of
sportsmanship and courage.
"Sportsmanship and courage"? "Sportsmanship and courage"? Sportsmanship and courage in getting CAUGHT running a for-profit criminal enterprise, causing pain, suffering and DEATH to untold numbers of helpless dogs, over a period of years, being sent to PRISON, and then being rewarded with a new contract for MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? Since when does being caught committing numerous felonies and then stepping back into a world of privilege and adulation constitute courage, let alone sportsmanship?
Remember, this award was voted on by the players, who gave it to vick unanimously. What kind of idiots do the Eagles have running around in those uniforms?
As aptly stated in the PETA Blog post, if there were an award for Cruelty, give that to vick, unanimously.
"Sportsmanship and courage"? "Sportsmanship and courage"? Sportsmanship and courage in getting CAUGHT running a for-profit criminal enterprise, causing pain, suffering and DEATH to untold numbers of helpless dogs, over a period of years, being sent to PRISON, and then being rewarded with a new contract for MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? Since when does being caught committing numerous felonies and then stepping back into a world of privilege and adulation constitute courage, let alone sportsmanship?
Remember, this award was voted on by the players, who gave it to vick unanimously. What kind of idiots do the Eagles have running around in those uniforms?
As aptly stated in the PETA Blog post, if there were an award for Cruelty, give that to vick, unanimously.
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Vick Should Rot in Hell, NOT Get Millions to Play Football
07/27/09 19:39 Filed in: NFL
| Michael Vick did not "make a
mistake" as his apologists argue. He ran a
for-profit criminal enterprise for several
years, He partially designed, and financed,
and ran on his own property, a dog-fighting
ring, participating in breeding, training,
fighting, and murdering, untold numbers of
dogs, for profit. He continually lied to his
employers and NFL administrators, and the
public, and ultimately pled guilty to doing
the disgusting acts alleged in the criminal indictment filed
against him in federal court. The image to the
right is a photo of a dog injured in a staged
dogfight, and is from the Save Vick's Dogs blog.
In exchange for his guilty plea, he received a ridiculously lenient sentence of just less than two years in custody. Now, as he has regained his freedom, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has handed back his career to him, on a silver platter. Thanks to Goodell, Vick will be earning millions |
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I have lost all respect for VIck's new mentor and number one apologist, former coach Tony Dungy, and will have nothing but disgust for any NFL owner who signs Vick to a contract, putting his despicable image in front of fans and media, and feeding him millions of dollars to finance his next criminal enterprise.
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Keep Michael Vick OUT of the NFL!
02/16/09 15:17 Filed in: NFL
There is no more vile, disgusting person on the
sports scene than Michael Vick. He received little
more than a slap on the wrist for his despicable
actions, and I am extremely angry that there is so
much talk about all of the NFL teams that may be
bidding to sign him.
This miserable excuse for a human being should not be rewarded with a new contract for millions of dollars. He has forfeited his right to compete as a professional athlete, and should spend the rest of his life in pain, suffering as did the poor animals for whom he had so little regard.
Express your disgust with the prospect of Vick resuming his NFL career by signing the Petition at Care2.com to Ban Michael Vick from the NFL-Permanently, to be sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
theHoundDawg
This miserable excuse for a human being should not be rewarded with a new contract for millions of dollars. He has forfeited his right to compete as a professional athlete, and should spend the rest of his life in pain, suffering as did the poor animals for whom he had so little regard.
Express your disgust with the prospect of Vick resuming his NFL career by signing the Petition at Care2.com to Ban Michael Vick from the NFL-Permanently, to be sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
theHoundDawg