Just Thinking

The NFL announced last week that Philip Rivers won the comeback player of the year award.  My question is where did he go to comeback from? This is truly one of those situations where the talking heads do more talking than giving you facts.  Four of the last six years Rivers has had a 100 or better QB rating. In 2011 and 2012 his rating was 89 and 88 which is the average rating of all Qb's every year.  I guess they consider going back to great instead of average is coming back.  Should have gone to a player who missed all year from injury but came back to have a great 2013 season.

Talking about talking heads, I have heard a lot of noise over the Richard Sherman's street talk after the Seattle win Sunday but have not heard one say anything at all about the choke sign that he gave the 9ers bench. I hope the NFL fines him big time for everything he did both on the field and the after interviews.

First of all these men the worst of the bunch  get paid a half million dollars a year.  Regardless whether they believe it or not they are examples to young people and if the NFL allows this to go unpunished the NFL will not survive  as the most watched sports in America.  All this talk about Crabtree being mediocre only degrades Sherman's own effort.  Think about this if San Fran put their worse receiver on Sherman  then they must not think he is too good.  I think if the talking heads could think they would see Sherman degraded his own performance. He put himself above the team.

I do understand we all fail during several moments in our lives. A baseball player is considered  to be a good hitter if  he hits 300.  It doesn't matter about your average the only at bat that matters is the one right now.  You either get a hit or fail.  The last 30 seconds of Sunday's game Richard Sherman failed at his last at but what matters now that he comes back at gets his average back up.

I think you saw in the fourth quarter the negative of the so called modern day quarterback.  All that running Kaepernic did in the game he was tired by the fourth  and threw several passes short in the fourth quarter.  In fact the Sherman bat down was thrown short and if it had been on the money Sherwin would have been the goat instead of the loud mouth.

What in the world has happened to fundamentals in the NFL. Most of these head hunting tackles that you see now days are not taught that way.  Everyone has ben taught keep your head up.   A basic tackle fundamental is hit and grasp, defensive backs try to knock runners down and their arms are no where near trying to wrap up a runner.

 Don't care what professional sport there is they have all become something other than the sport they are suppose to be. Pro basketball no longer knows what traveling is.   I hate to hear all these people who say the NFL has rules to help the offense.  Every time a receiver crosses the line of scrimmage their is a wrestling match until the ball arrives.  Baseball  nobody bunts and base stealing is a lost art. Baseball has become the three run Homer.

Just in case you didn't hear the NCAA last week made Tri Athlon a varsity sport for women.  That means they will start having a  NCAA National Championship in Tri this coming school year.  There are more than 200 colleges  in the NCAA that have Club Tri's.  Tri is the fastest growing Olympic sport.  I think just maybe North Carolina and Duke might add this to their varsity level sports but doubt State will.  Just might be somebody in my family (Brooks) will be affected by this announcement in the future. We will wait and see.