Cartoon-like Titans, Seahawks game the norm in Roger Goodells NFL
Recall watching Saturday morning cartoons to discover the chase scenes had repetitive landscapes with duplicate backgrounds the same mountain, tree or house seen on a reel?
Thats too much like watching sports in 2023. We know whats coming and where were headed. But only dark comedy awaits.
This past week was a lot like watching Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner chase each other past the same cactus and strewn rocks until the scene is resolved with a sudden, violent and senseless end, predicated only on running out of time, no creative value to disrupt the descent.
Thats why many of us began to prefer Bullwinkle & Co. for its wit, for treating us as if we were thinking kids.
To that end, the NFL as a thinking fans game is trending dead as the NFL has copied MLBs plan of confusing the declining numbers of baseball fans as to where and when (and for how much more) playoff and World Series games would appear another short-sighted, anything-for-a-TV-buck treatment of what used to be cant-miss baseball.
Senseless? No more so than NFL games as we stumbled upon Sundays Seahawks-Titans on CBS.
At 7-7 Seattle was very much alive for a playoff spot in a league that rewards mediocrity and less as per Roger Goodells sense of quality. Seattle led, 13-10, with 3:38 left in regulation when dueling insanity took over.
4NFL commissioner Roger Goodell Getty ImagesThe Titans, from close to the Seattle end zone, were stopped cold until the latter-day unsurprising occurred: DB Artie Burns drew a post-play 15-yard penalty for a flagrant, nobody-disses me body slam of an opponent. Playoffs? Why should he care?
But what once upon a time was unfathomably stupid has become a walk-out item in Dollar Stores. The easily preventable as a matter of team success and applied common sense in a multibillion dollar success-rewarded business has been denuded.
Adding to this redundant insanity, the CBS crew Andrew Catalon, Tiki Barber and Matt Ryan spoke not one word of condemnation, frightened, perhaps, of telling a calamitous truth. Instead they adhered to the 21st Century pandering formula of choosing to leave their audience insulted, as if viewers hadnt seen what they just saw.
Still, the NFL, under the negligent and highly selective social activist/phony Goodell continues its on-field messaging that were the ones in need of socialization skills and attitude adjustments.
4Geno Smith hands the ball off to running back Kenneth Walker III during the Seahawks’ 20-17 win over the Titans. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConThe Titans scored on the next play to lead, 17-13, but the senselessness was far from over.
With the clock about to strike midnight on Seattle, the Titans went into a loss-inviting prevent defense that has been preventing victories for decades (See: the end of Sundays Commanders-Jets). Suddenly, the Seahawks, previously stalled on offense, were able to quickly move downfield against soft defense, passing their way to a game-winning TD to make it 20-17 with under a minute left.
Of course, most NFL coaches would order the same prevent defense.
Still the senselessness continued. On the kickoff, the Titans allowed the ball, easily returnable, to become a touchback that would give them the ball at their own 25 rather than have the returner give it a shot with 30 yards of open field in front of him.
We now see that a lot near the ends of close games and it defies sense. Why not allow kick-return specialists to return kicks at the most desperate times?
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The TV football visuals included the obligatory: players making group end zone poses, individuals first-down gestures after nothing much, visiting players taunting the home crowds with shush finger signs and DBs responding to incomplete passes, no matter their impact on the play, by shaking a no-no finger for the TV cameras to show, often in slo-mo replays.
At the start of the second half of Mondays Giants-Eagles, Fox noted that Tommy DeVito, the most overnight overly done local media story since the 1938 radio invasion of Grovers Mill, NJ by Martians, would not start the third quarter. Fox then threw it to sideline vet Pam Oliver, who provided the unrequited promise that shed have info on DeVitos absence.
Instead, she reported that she had spoken to Brian Daboll who told her the Giants kicking game needed to improve.
Of course the telecast was loaded and larded with closeup cameo rewards for everyone dressed for attention and the promise of drunk and disorderly conduct that regularly drives Eagles patrons to blood baths and beyond leaving those who can no longer suffer it watching on TV from home.
And as reader Rich Meyerson notes, those all-circumstances-are-the-same QB Passing Ratings that TV mindlessly provides as significant, thus Bears QB Justin Fields, two games ago, was rendered statistically diminished with two interceptions both on Hail Marys at the close of each half.
Finally we leave you this, as spoken by Foxs sideline stalwart Oliver, early in Mondays Giants game:
Well, Joe Davis, of course its every teams goal to play complementary football. But the Giants understand that their struggles on offense, whatever the teams success, its based on defensive coordinator Wink Martindales defense.
He affirmed that, saying its something you gotta talk about; you can see it, he said, that players need to embrace the challenge of what he said was the need to outplay the opponents offense and their defense.
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Moose spot-on with Thibodeaux analysis
Stop the Music! Analyst of the Week no fooling is Foxs Daryl Moose Johnston. Monday, he said what this season has gone unseen or unspoken: Giants LB/DE Kayvon Thibodeaux, the No. 5 overall pick of the 2022 draft, too often disappears, Johnston: Sometimes he just gets lost during the course of games.
4Kenneth Gainwell runs past Kayvon Thibodeaux (5) and Micah McFadden during the Giants’ loss to the Eagles. APAs Rutgers played Mississippi St. on BTN, Saturday, analyst Austin Johnson hitched a ride on the Foolish Fad Local, telling us, RU was looking to run downhill, as if run didnt explain it.
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ESPN bungling displayed on Xmas
From paying Barry BALCO Bondsfor exclusive access, selecting Alex Rodriguez as its face and voice of baseball, and gasbag Stephen A. Smith as the face and multiple-dialects voice and face of the entire network, ESPN never tires of making rotten decisions.
Thus, Christmas Day, rather than Jeff Van Gundy calling Bucks-Knicks, ESPN gave us Doris Burke to be heard saying nothing worth hearing, thus devaluing the presence of steady pro Mike Breen.
4ESPN broadcasters Doc Rivers and Doris Burke and Mike Breen speak before the NBA in season tournament final between the Lakers and the Pacers, won by Los Angeles. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConBut basketball remains under self-imposed attack. The final two minutes of Saturdays Vanderbilt-Memphis on CBS was, because the game was close, stretched to an unreasonable and distracting length by replay reviews, intentional fouls, timeouts and commercials. Another good action game was, by design, unplugged.
The sin of such frequent endings is that coaches huddle with their teams one possession at a time, thus the best prepared and more situational-schooled team the smarter college team has no advantages. Just another advancement of needlessly diminished standards.
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