Daily Links: Channel Your Inner Kit Ramsey
- Sanchez has had a rollercoaster year for a rookie, can he keep it together in his first SoCal homecoming?
- Will Brian say ‘thanks but no thanks’?
- As we noted yesterday, Rex Ryan is stompin’ mad about Darrelle not getting the recognition.
- Marcus Henry (not a rookie, sorry Mark Hale) will be playing Vincent Jackson in practice this week.
- The Bachelor v. The Family Guy.
- Fireman Ed picks up the plume.
- There’s a lot of focus on WR Vincent Jackson.
- The Chargers are on a run, but the Jets are 6-1 since their last three game losing streak.
- Florio posits that Braylon will drop a game from the 2010 season.
- The AP report on Woodson’s DPOY.
- Maybe Al Davis was onto something with Lane Kiffin.
3 Responses to Daily Links: Channel Your Inner Kit Ramsey
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jets says:
It is pretty funny that Braylon assaulted Steve Urkel. I am suprised Carl Winslow didn’t make the arrest.
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miketaliaferro says:
OK, I got it.
So the AP thinks that Mark DeRosa should win the NL MVP this year over Albert Pujols — simply because poor Albert only plays ONE position. Poor Albert, he’s so limited as a player. Versatility seems key over there at the ol’ AP.
They say so themselves:
“(AP) — Charles Woodson does it all for the Green Bay Packers defense — and does it all well. From cover cornerback to ball-hawking safety to blitzing pass rusher, Woodson’s combination of versatility and productivity made him The Associated Press 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. … Woodson got 28 votes Tuesday from a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL, doubling the number of votes for New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis. Revis established himself as perhaps the league’s premier cornerback in 2009, shutting down several of the league’s top receivers. He had six picks, returning one for a TD.”AP Football Writer Barry Wilner even admits that Revis is the premier corner in the league, but he and his bosses seem to think that’s twaddle compared to being good and not having a set position. So, flexibility is now the key to gaining personal NFL hardware rather than, say, doing something no one’s ever done before, or perhaps wiping an entire side of the field off your opponents’ game plan, or allowing your D-mates to entertain the notion of doing all sorts of things to beleaguered offenses because they no longer worry about half the field, or relieving your coaching staff of having to game-plan the other team’s world-class stud WR.
That’s all twaddle at the vaunted AP.
It’s clear here that AP’s breathless “nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL” was watching the Packers as an established NFL team that these scribes were duty-bound to cover, and that the Jets were something your little brother kept dragging around and that you had to keep grabbing and tossing out the window before Mom came home.
It seemed very clearly that these crack “50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the NFL” took absolutely no notice of what was going on in the AFC let alone the AFC East until at least Week 14 or 15, or so. By then, the Jets’ fan base had long established Revis Island as a concept and kept making a to-do about scratching off the next victim each week. Top NFL scribes took no notice until roughly the 2nd Buffalo game, when Revis torched Owens for the 2nd time. But it didn’t seem to sink in until Chad had hung a Goose Egg. 0. For the ol’ 85er. Everyone’s favorite clown. Somehow that seemed to get to the media’s brain stem. So, it looks like this vote came down to watching Woodson for 17 weeks versus being aware of Revis for one-to-three weeks. Or being a dweeb like Adam Schein.
I’m pretty certain that’s where your votes came from.
So, the early money at the AP is on DeRosa for NL MVP.
Sorry, Albert.
Vincent Jackson’s humility is upsetting. I wish he would say something reckless to give my man Revis even more motivation than he’ll already have.