And regarding his statistical anomaly at age 37, well there's an era argument there too. This is the most prolific passing era ever. Marino's 1984 still blows my mind. 5000 yards when you could mug receivers and his #1 was Mark Clayton, good but not exactly Jerry Rice.
Duper was also an excellent receiver, but Marino was a dead-to-rights sniper, a likableguy and deserved a Superbowl.
Having met Dan Marino on more than one occasion, let me assure you the man is a condescending arrogant dickhole.
Well I'm going to end the Richard Sherman conversation with this... I fucking love this idea. Touchdowns will be 7 points, but if you go for two, you're gambling a point. If you make it, its 8 points, if you fail, you come away with 6. Then again if they left it how it was, I wouldn't care either.
That's essentially how it is now, which would essentially change nothing except actually kicking. All that's removed is the 1-2% chance you miss the XP. He's such a cockslap.
They say its now a 99.6% success rate for an XP. Back in the day, it was more of an achievement because they were in the mid 60% area. Really it just gives kickers MUCH less to do.
What about moving it out to like 40-45 yards so it's not so automatic? edit: eh, I just googled for a quick sec and found that in 2010 kickers made 74% from 40-50 yards. So it's still pretty much automatic.
Wait, 74% is automatic? I don't think that's automatic at all. I'd say that'd be a pretty big change. 1 in 4 touchdowns would now be worth 6 points. It also changes the consideration on the 2 point conversions since they succeed something like 50% of the time. I like the kicking aspect to football and I said the same thing when I heard about this - just move the XP back so it's not automatic.
Honestly, I have no problem with anything he said. He just bears an uncanny resemblance to Busta Rhymes. Like, separated at birth resemblance. And I find that awesome. Absofuckinglutely amazingly awesome. And I'm 100% rooting for Seattle to win. Get Busta his ring.
Yeah, but that's time I don't have to waste. Extra points are so routine that they aren't even worth watching. It's almost like cutting out a commercial, except that it will inevitably be placed by an increase in commercials. There's a reason he only had one pass defended, though: because he always covers well, and he terrifies opposing quarterbacks, Kaepernick included. He led the league this season in terms of passes attempted against him per snap. Kaepernick didn't complete a single pass against Sherman all game (Neither did Brees). And I agree that it's fake, but at the same time, Roger Goodell has spent the last few years trying to wring every single ounce of actual fun out of the game. The league is painfully corporate and buttoned up these days. It's at the point now where I'm half expecting waking up on the wrong side of the bed to be a 10 yard penalty. Richard Sherman is one of the few players out there who is the antithesis of that.
Ive always wished the team with the ball under two minutes left to play should have to advance it beyond the line of scrimmage to keep the clock going. None of this take a knee bullshit. Sure injuries might go up some in those minutes. We'd also see a hellavu lot of good down to the wire games... I'd be down for adding yards to the point after, as well as Adam Carolla's much argued extending of the goal post.
I understand his effect on the game and how only 1 pass defended didn't mean he played poorly, but more the fact that it was a nip and tuck game that has suddenly has now Sherman as the main and major story. And not to get all PC and racial, but you have a league who has had alot of bad press from the violent nature of the game to the conduct of its players, and you have a pretty remarkable athlete when you look at his background, beyond being the best cover corner in the game, and he's parading around on this dumb shit. The league doesn't need another TO. That's why Sherman annoys me. Not because he's black and acting like a "thug", but because he's an insightful intelligent dude acting like a moron. But he's crazy like a fox, I'll give him that.
I want the XFL back. You know, no fair catches, fight for ball coin toss, Blair Witch-esque cinematography and the kind of fifth-rate players the Arena League wouldn't touch with a stungun.
All the reports seem to indicate Mike Pettine is the front runner. Which is disappointing, because it'd be good to get a little continuity with Buffalo having so many young players.
I'm actually surprised at the justifications for Richard Sherman's tirade. Totally classless. What makes it even sadder is he's such a bright guy. It really shouldn't be that hard to show some class when you win. In fact, that should be the easiest time to show class. He failed utterly.
He's smart enough to plan that shit. He's marketing himself like a heel in pro wrestling, and he's doing a damn good job at it.