Daily Links: Master of His Domain
Posted on June 7th, 2009 by Bent
It’s another quiet news day this Sunday, but here are your daily links for today…
Florio gives his views on some guys seeking more money, including TJ and Leon and also Dockett and Boldin who this writer suggests may be affected by Adrian Wilson’s contract extension, perhaps to the benefit of the Jets.
New TE Kareem Brown catches up with some Miami Area reporters and talks about his new number (84).
In the Post they discuss Rex Ryan being a (gasp) “players’ coach” and compare him to Jerry Seinfeld.
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trading for dockett good idea, he wants new contract but i doubt that would be in the neighborhood of boldin’s
Bent:
Vaccaro is completely in left field when he says that the degree of difficulty in coaching the game of football is the same as bascketball or baseball. Is he nuts or what !!!!
Sunday, a great day for a “rag” jounalist to spew Mangini venom!!!
Bent:
To stat with, compared to football, basketball and baseball are sissy, mary f@gg*t games, right?
Bent:
Correction: To (start) with……
Does any know where I can find pictures or media of Kareem Brown doing something as a TE ?
Florio is still an idiot. The Jets would be happy to lock Leon up for three or four years predicated on salaries that are better than what they see as the likely scenario of him being an UFA for two years after this one (something like $4 mil per year because that is a lot better than the 500K this year and 2.? mil for the next two).
The issue is Keels and Leon want compensation based on him being an UFA (something closer to $6 mil per).
The Jets get better risk and return by waiting this year and tagging him next as the Chargers did with Sprowles. The compensation over the next two years is an average of about $3 mil per year less and they are better protected against injury.
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Hank
You aimed that at the wrong guy. I am a basketball player that has never paid football (or baseball) in my life. Maybe it is a sissy game compared to football, but I’ve taken an absolute pounding over my “career”, especially since I’m much smaller than most of my teammates and opponents.
But, I can say that I’ve encountered loads of basketball coaches (at all levels) who have no idea what they’re doing and were just winging it and hoping that if they spouted enough cliches nobody would notice they were just relying on the players to find a way to win. I’d imagine it would be impossible for a football coach to wing it in a similar way!
Bent:
Nothing personal Bent, I tend to think that you agree that both games in general are much more affeminate in contact than football and much much more complex in rules, strategy, number of positions, player diversity etc, etc, etc. Don’t you think that footbal (American, that is) is more of a MANS sport?
No offense taken, but I did face guys on average about 6′6″ and without exception strong and powerful and the assumption that basketball is a non-contact sport is a complete myth because that only applies to the guy with the ball, a lot of the rest of the time you are battling for position. It’s waaay more physical than soccer for example.
I would expect football to be more physical, although it probably varies from position to position. As for the complexity of the game of course football is the more complex game, although there are elements of “five yards and a cloud of dust” to the game, just as there are complex designed plays or defensive schemes in basketball for those with a high enough basketball IQ. Some basketball coaches just motivate and that’s about it though.
It might interest you to know that the majority of Brits actually think (and I hasten to add that I disagree) that American Football players are wimps (see examples below) because they have to wear pads. (I always argue that they can also hit harder because of the pads they wear).
http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=american+football+is+for+wimps&meta=&btnG=Google+Search
If I played football, I’d be matched up with guys more or less my size instead of 8 inches and 50 pounds bigger, so I’d probably take less of a physical pounding! I have had numerous injuries over the last few years. Maybe I chose the wrong sport.
Bent;
I lke the way you say basketball as a ” non-contact sport is a complete myth because that only applies to the guy with the ball, a lot of the rest of the time you are battling for position”. Battling for for position? You mean with the hips and the glutus maximus?
Yeah, and the rest. Have you ever tried to fight through a pick set by a 6′10″ 270 monster? I didn’t get a broken back, a fractured skull, two cracked ribs, 3 scars on my forehead and multiple other injuries from some guy leaning on me with his butt.
I’ve never played football, but I have played Rugby. That’s rough, but I consider top level basketball is almost as physically demanding. Maybe you will concede that’s a man’s game, just so that I can at least restore some shred of bravado!
The worst rugby game I ever played in was on an icy field and some guy stamped on my hand in the first minute, but because it was cold there were no medics on hand so I had to gut it out for the whole game with my hand pissing blood. It felt like it would never end!
Hank,
Effeminate? Really?
Maybe figure skating or synchronized swimming.
I’m pretty sure the participants in the major sports are fairly butch, even the gay ones.
Bent;
Ok, ok, I will give you that basketballI IS a man’s game (although it is also played professionally by women). I have also read somewhere that basketball players are the best physically conditioned of all athletes. It has been tested scientifically. Don’t ask me where though.
Bent:
Forgot to change the name. My son has been posting on my computer. The last post was mine. But you knew that anyway. Sorry.
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Thanks Hank, I think.