What a Hom....er

ATV · Post by **ATV** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:45 pm

I know it's been talked about before but....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/w ... index.html

"What the Cowboys did, particularly with Ferguson and Rivera, shows how valuable a strong owner willing to spend available cap money and a coach with clout can be."

LOL....Amazing isn't it? When the Redskins (having a strong owner willing to spend available cap money and a coach with clout) were aggresive in Free Agency we heard quite a different tone from the SI butt buddies. Now that the Redskins are prudent with Free Agency they get dumped on. I guess your damned if you do and damned if you don't (thank you Eleanor Roosevelt). Or maybe....

"Liked: The Giants wrangled Antonio Pierce from Washington."

Of course King LOVES the Giants because that's where he's from and he used to cover them. Who here has ANY doubt that if the Redskins had signed Pierce to a large contract then we would have read from this guy about how reckless the Redksins were to spend such money on an over-hyped unproven player, blah blah blah.

Or how about....

"Didn't like: Washington, even with a smart guy like Joe Gibbs running the show, still seems like a team lurching from one cap mess to the next....Two years ago, Laveranues Coles was the cat's meow. Now he's just another $9.3 million cap mess to clean up. I noticed the Redskins seemed to be congratulating themselves on having Santana Moss and David Patten starting at receiver in 2005. Why? Moss was a perennial disappointment with the Jets; how will 'Skins fans react the first time he runs out of bounds away from contact instead of trying to make four more yards?"

Who here has ANY doubt that if the Redskins decided not to trade Coles then we would read from this guy about how the Redskins should never have allowed such a broken-footed cancer in the clubhouse, blah blah blah?

I used to think Peter King knew a lot about football and I really enjoyed his articles. Now I'm not sure. Pretty much all of his predictions the past few years have become wrong, and this Homerism is really starting to take it's toll on me. Throw in his lobbying against The Art Monk entering the Hall of Fame and well, you tell me. Maybe part of me just enjoys the suffering.

Primetime42 · Post by **Primetime42** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:01 pm

Dude, it's Peter King....

He's ripped the Cowboys many times as well.

I take what he says with a grain of salt anyway.

You guys only see what you want to see

groundss · Post by **groundss** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:59 pm

"Not only did the Giants get just what they needed -- a playmaking, young middle linebacker to key Tim Lewis' 4-3 defense -- but they diminished the star power of the best defense in the NFC East. Sometimes it's not who you sign, it's who you sign the player away from. Gregg Williams' outstanding Washington defense won't collapse without its centerpiece, but the 'Skins likely won't be able to find a sideline-to-sideline playmaker who, quietly, had a season nearly the equal of James Farrior or Donnie Edwards last year."

You gotta love this...Pierce doesn't get mentioned all year and hardly gets any pub and now that we lose him, he's suddenly irreplacable.

And as far as not finding a replacement goes, I'm confident that Marshall, or whoever gets time will succeed due to Williams extremely aggressive stlye.