Coach Tomlin,
I was on board with your hiring from day-one. I trust the Rooneys and I believe you are as smart of a football mind as there has been. That includes Vince Lombardi and Chuck Noll. But those guys weren't stupid. You are not either, but you are acting like it right now because of your stubbornness and your inexplicable allegiance to your OC. Allow me to explain.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
Bears @ Steelers: All Kinds of Ugly
If emotions truly were roller coasters, I spent most of this game yakking my guts out.
I was pretty well psyched about it. Heath Miller was coming back. Le'Veon Bell looks like he is a week away from returning.
Then they started playing. This is the point where you are nearing the top of the hill, the clanging of the old, chain-driven lift reaching a crescendo. It crested the hill, and immediately went into a series of convulsions, as the Bears moved the ball in chunks that never let them get to a third and long. Ultimately, it was three to nothing.
Then it was our turn. Seven total plays later, we had fumbled and the Bears were up 10-0. And the awesome just kept coming. A Steeler punt, followed quickly by a 55-yard run by Matt Forte and a nearly perfect goal-line stand was just that -- nearly perfect. Touchdown Bears. 17-0 with two minutes left.
In the first quarter.
I was pretty well psyched about it. Heath Miller was coming back. Le'Veon Bell looks like he is a week away from returning.
Then they started playing. This is the point where you are nearing the top of the hill, the clanging of the old, chain-driven lift reaching a crescendo. It crested the hill, and immediately went into a series of convulsions, as the Bears moved the ball in chunks that never let them get to a third and long. Ultimately, it was three to nothing.
Then it was our turn. Seven total plays later, we had fumbled and the Bears were up 10-0. And the awesome just kept coming. A Steeler punt, followed quickly by a 55-yard run by Matt Forte and a nearly perfect goal-line stand was just that -- nearly perfect. Touchdown Bears. 17-0 with two minutes left.
In the first quarter.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Previewing the Week: Baltimore, Ho!
I admit that I will be as emotional as anyone Sunday and it will only be in small part because the Steelers are playing their bitter rivals. Flight 93 crashed, pretty much literally, in my childhood backyard -- five miles away from that small red house, as the crow flies. So, yeah, it's as personal to me as anyone living in New York City or any other American, and I will probably cry more than once. I'm man enough to admit that.
But part of it will definitely be that football has begun anew. This is The Season That Might Not Have Been. We were perilously close to not having football this year, or at least having an abbreviated season. Of course, that same greed that brought off-season activities to a screeching halt ultimately was the same greed that brought it back, because neither players or owners could see any benefit in making no money this season regardless of what they were each forced to concede.
But part of it will definitely be that football has begun anew. This is The Season That Might Not Have Been. We were perilously close to not having football this year, or at least having an abbreviated season. Of course, that same greed that brought off-season activities to a screeching halt ultimately was the same greed that brought it back, because neither players or owners could see any benefit in making no money this season regardless of what they were each forced to concede.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Seven things I'm watching this year
A new NFL season brings promise and hope of Super Bowl victory, of division dominance, of hard-hitting, smashmouth football.
Unless you play your home games in Ohio.
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