An Open Letter to ESPN’s Football Analysts Clowns
Dear Mike Golic, Sean Salisbury, and Mark Schlereth,
As I anticipate training camp, I’ve enjoyed watching your Ultimate Depth Chart segments on SportsCenter. However, after watching yesterday, I’ve decided that I will watch future segments with my four year old daughter. That would be a much cheaper way for her to see clowns in action than to take her to the circus.
In yesterday’s segment, you discussed what would happen in the wild card round of the playoffs. Your projection was that the visiting Kansas City Chiefs would knock off the Denver Broncos at Invesco Field. Stinky, you did okay, and picked the Broncos to win. You are aware that the Broncos have beat the Chiefs the last five times they’ve played in Denver. Nice job. However, the fact that you allowed the other ‘experts’ to share their mindless reasons for picking the Chiefs means that your title of ‘expert’ is also called into question. You’re guilty by association.
First off, one of the reasons given was that if the Chiefs make the playoffs, then their suspect defense did improve and they will be rolling. So let me get this straight…their defense might be good enough to be a wildcard team, but now they are good enough to beat the winner of their division on the road? Where is the logic in that?
Second of all, you questioned Jake Plummer’s ability to win in the playoffs. I believe the statement was something along the lines of “Until Jake proves he can win in the playoffs…” Does only his last game count? (If so, then Tom Brady is questionable to, since his last playoff game was his first playoff loss — at the hands of Jake Plummer.) Wasn’t he responsible for the Cardinals first playoff win in something like 348 years? Wasn’t his rating over 100 in a playoff loss to the Colts a few years ago? Football is a team sport, and its pretty evident that it was the Broncos, and not Jake Plummer, who got beat by the Steelers last year, and the Colts in the years before that.
I’m really not as cranky as I sound. I’m just tired of listening to talk about football, and far more interested in watching it. What happens on the field is all that really matters anyway, so let’s get on with it already.
On July 5th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Wonderful, wonderful letter. Plummer isn’t a hall of famer, or anything great like that, but he is not nearly as bad as everyone makes him out to be. It totally was the Broncos that lost that playoff game, not Plummer. Our defense looked atrocious and our running game was not effective. Keep up the good writing, I appreciate it.