1562

That worries me also…losing our very accurate young kicker and the LB who has played the most percentage of plays this year…other teams have issues also so I can’t be too distraught but I guess we’ll see.

1563

Yeah, Seattle went into last weeks game pretty damn healthy and came out down two starters.

I’m going to be rooting for the Seahawks this Sunday, but my gut feeling all along has been that Atlanta is going to surprise some people this year. As in making it to the Superbowl surprise people. Which means the Seahawks run would have to end this week.

1564

On the drive in this morning the radio said RG3 was getting both an ACL and LCL reconstruction.

And…go Cowboys! As a Cowboys hater, I love me some Jerry Jones.

1565

Sally Jenkins at the Washington Post is a little miffed about the whole RG3 knee thing. Back to the same old Redskins failures:

For a while, it looked like the RGIII-Shanahan partnership was so good, so electric, that they could overcome the Redskins’ terrible recent past. Instead, all of the old organizational flaws seem present again: the half-truths and rationalizations for terrible decisions, and the habit of spending too heavily today and mortgaging tomorrow.

1566

One kind of funny thing: people are talking about how RGIII convinced Shanahan that he could stay in the game, when just earlier this year, Grantland did a piece about how great he was for knowing how to manage his own health when it came to concussions:

1567

Also, Jay Cutler is a pussy and should have shrugged off that knee injury he had a few years back and kept playing. Pussy.

RGIII, on the other hand, should have been smart enough to take himself out of the game when he was clearly injured. Idiot.

1568

I’m not sure whose responsibility it is to pull a player, or under what criteria that decision is made, but I think coaches should be banned from saying anything along the lines of “The player said he was good to go.” A coach should not be able to abdicate one of the most basic responsibilities of their friggin’ job, nor should they be able to sidestep accountability for it so easily.

1569

Jerry Johnson is an evil genius. He had the Cowboys lose to the Redskins so RG3 would keep playing on the bad wheel, knowing that it would end in knee surgery and Redskin tears.

Seriously, you have to wonder if RG3 should have been shut down for the season after the initial LCL sprain?

1570

It has to be the owner that takes the long term view. Coaches and players and most fans have a win-now mentality. Owners need to treat players as long term assets and instill a culture to support that.

Of course we all know some owners are idiots, and whatever business sense that got them there hasn’t translated to running a team. So look forward to more failure in the future.

1571

How many owners are that hands-on though? Just from my homeboy experience, I don’t think Paul Allen really gets down into the day-to-day stuff in the Seahawks org. Maybe he does and we just don’t hear about it.

1572

I know this is all sarcasm and stuff, but the Bears fucked up similarly in the Cutler case too. He stayed in and tried to play through it even coming out for a play after half time when he obviously couldn’t even plant on it. He didn’t end up damaging it worse, but he could have.

1573

Its the coaches job to decide if a player stays in unless the medical staff says no. Shannahan saying he left it up to RGIII is retarded. He is the “CEO” on the field and if a player is not effective anymore then he needs to pull him. Shannahan failed in his main duty as head coach and it could cost the Redskins for a long time if the knee is badly damaged.

1574

Yeah, I don’t get the Ryan firing either. So Tony Romo can’t manage to extract his head from his rectum in half the games this season, and for that…you fire the defensive coordinator?

Whatever. I agree with Ryan, he’ll have a job elsewhere in about 5 minutes. The only real issue he had this year was that he tended to run the blitz too much, especially late in games, but that was due to having 2nd stringers playing so much due to injuries. You gamble, and you either win or lose big. But overall I think Ryan is a good coach, working for a shithead owner.

1575

Yes, and there was a giant rant against Cutler and the Bears because even then, Cutler should have “gutted it out” and stayed out there and played. I remember it distinctly - that was what they were blaming both the Bears and Cutler for - for letting Cutler come out of the game.

My point is that the media (and a lot of sports fans) are just a bunch of hypocrits who, when something goes wrong, cleverly say that they would have done the opposite and that only an idiot would have done it the way the (team/player/GM/etc.) did.

Or in shorter form - hindsight is 20/20.

Do I think it was a bad decision? Yes. Do I think it was as easy a decision as most are making it out to be? No. Do I think that if they had put in Cousins and later found out RGIII had not torn his ACL, that many would have been foaming at the mouth about how he shouldn’t have come out? Sure.

1576

Shanahan is Shanahan. This is what he does. Hate it for RG3, but he had a short shelf life in the NFL even before this happened. The guy can throw the ball, a good coach would have taken the time to let that aspect of his game grow. Shanahan threw him to the wolves and probably ended his career in one season.

1577

The tests are back and Junior Seau had CTE. Troubling, but not unexpected considering the hits he took and the length of his career.

If there’s anything that will kill the game of football in the long term, it’s this.

Also, the Jags fired their coach.

1578

Oh, Chris Rainey…

Aside from obvious problems with violence toward women, you really ought to move on from the college town when you graduate and become a professional. What a loser.

1579

So if I’m reading this right (and reading between the lines), the fight was with his “date” who was leaving his apartment (which this NFL-paid level person shares with a roommate?) at 8:23 in the morning (one of those sleep-over dates, I guess) and decided as she was leaving that she had stolen his cellphone, and he was going to take it back.

And then, after slapping her open-handed, he fell down? I guess alcohol just doesn’t work its way out of your system quickly enough for him…

Yeah, he appears to have some serious growing up to do.

1580

They were probably up all night studying for her Age of Dinosaurs class in the morning.

1581

Rainey already cut by the Steelers.