October
4, 2006: NFL Commentary, Week 4
By White Russian
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Quest for Winless Perfection
The number of winless teams has dropped from seven to four (Oakland, Tennessee,
Detroit, and Tampa Bay.) Brother Nature predicted on the Rocky Mountain Six
Pack Road Trip that Detroit had the best chance of finishing 0 and 16.
College Football
Stanford at UCLA
Stanford punted on 3rd and 18 when their quarterback did a quick kick. Certainly there was some type of strategy behind that move, and those people at Stanford are supposed to be pretty smart, but I can not figure out how punting on third down can ever be a good idea.SMU at Tulane
Tulane managed to score 28 points in their loss despite rushing for a total of negative 33 yards.
Coaching Spotlight: Art Shell
There
was a point in the game when Oakland faced a 4th and 1. It should have been
1st and 10, but the officials seemed to give Oakland a horrible spot at the
end of the third down play. It was obvious during the live action that the
spot was questionable. But Art Shell did not challenge the spot and instead
went for it. His team didn't make it.
Worse than the no challenge decision, however, is Shell's continued refusal to make any halftime adjustments. Previously winless Cleveland came back to win despite trailing 21 to 3.
Miscellaneous Notes
Tony Kornheiser, I don't care who you have on your fantasy team.
There is more to the NFL than Terrell Owens. Maybe Albert Haynesworth thought that was T.O. on the ground when he went a bit insane.
Television shows need to resist the urge to put guest stars on their shows just for the sake of doing it or just becuase said guest star really wanted to be on the show. Everybody Hates Chris was fine throughout their entire first season. Why then must we endure Whoopi Goldberg as the new neighbor in the opening of the second season? Equally bad was Rosie Mouth Perpetually Agape O'Donnell on Nip/Tuck.
This Week’s Edition of (non-NFL) Commentators Who Need To Go
Petros Papadakis (college football)
Jeanne Zelasko
Egregious Fantasy Notes
Not to be outdone by Tin Man, Sandman got into the act this week.
Sandman
is given one and half Egregious Errors - one half for not choosing a Last
Man Standing team (first offense), one for making no roster moves when his
#1 runningback, Shaun Alexander, was out with a broken foot, and no Dallas
players were represented after coming off a bye week and facing a weak Tennessee
team. Sandman's #4 runningback, Adrian Peterson, came through with zero points,
while Dallas runningback, Julius Jones, listed as Sandman's #5 runningback
had a good game (304 smallworld points). Peterson has one carry for one yard
through the first four games of the season.
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