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November 21 2008
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SIDELINE ARCHIVE
Unnecessary Hits To The Pocket / Upset: BYU
October 17, 2008
Romo's Pause / Seattle Seahawks
October 15, 2008
Weekend Prep: Red River and More
October 10, 2008
College Football's 'Crossroads' Weekend
October 9, 2008
Gramatical Error
October 7, 2008
Turning The Page
September 30, 2008
So Cal 'Quizzed — But Who Will Answer?
September 26, 2008
3rd Tuesday Panic Button / Forté Yard Dash
September 23, 2008
Two and Oh; Oh and Two
September 22, 2008
No More NCAAffeine
September 11, 2008
Week 1 College Football
September 6, 2008
How To Spell Heisman / Chad Ocho Cinco
September 1, 2008
Why the Favre story STILL won't go away
August 18, 2008
Olympic Notes / Ricky's Still Relevant
August 14, 2008
Committee Meetings
August 9, 2008
Let the QB Battles Begin
August 8, 2008
Slinging The Slinger — More Favre
August 6, 2008
Welcome to the 2008 season
July 28, 2008
Plus One
May 27, 2008
Draft: The Morning After
April 28, 2008
Draft: Thinking the Unthinkable
April 25, 2008
Draft: Ready For The Long Haul
April 23, 2008
Sofa–bound Sport
April 16, 2008
Post–Winter Wonderland
April 11, 2008
Six Impossible Things
February 4, 2008
Brady's Misdirection Play
February 3, 2008
Colorful Language
January 23, 2008
Let the Romo–bashing begin: Dallas lost
January 14, 2008
Bowl Bites: The Wrap
January 10, 2008
All About The Coaches
January 1, 2008
Bowl Bites 3 and A Communication Breakdown
December 29, 2007
Bowl Bites 2
December 27, 2007
Bowl Bites 1
December 23, 2007
The Empty Chair - Coach Situations Vacant
December 22, 2007
For Some, The Playoffs Are Now
December 15, 2007
A Certain Lack Of Welcome
December 13, 2007
Unrelated Notes
November 29, 2007
Two Thanksgiving thoughts
November 22, 2007
Halftime: NFC
November 9, 2007
Halftime: AFC
November 8, 2007
London, Part 2 / A Tale of Two Chads / A Game of Intimidation
November 4, 2007
Damp Squib / Other London Notes
October 29, 2007
Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em / Dolphins – The Aftermath
October 23, 2007
The Dolphins Did What?
October 18, 2007
Notes on the Defenses
October 13, 2007
Habits to be Broken
October 12, 2007
Overtime
October 13, 2007
This Week's Starters
October 6, 2007:
USF: Covering The Spread / Fantastic Football
September 27, 2007:
Grossman: The Final Act? / McNabb, the Epilogue
September 24, 2007:
Eagles QB in Slight Controversy
September 21, 2007:
Leftwich's Parting Gift to Jacksonville? / Boos cruise
September 18, 2007:
Notre Dame M.I.A.
September 16, 2007:
Looking Beyond NFL Wk. 1
September 12, 2007:
Best Hope For Heisman
September 10, 2007:
Coaching Hot Seats / AP Poll Feeling ’Appy
September 7, 2007:
The NFL’s Prime Cuts
September 5, 2007:
Michigan Falls to Killer Apps
September 3, 2007:
Look Out Couch / The Taint's On You, Bud
September 1, 2007:
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Observations, Opinion & Occasional Silliness by Richard L Gale
GROSSMAN: THE FINAL ACT?
Watching The Cowboys-Bears game was a real
treat. Okay, as a football spectacle, it won't be remembered as a
classic other than by perhaps Dallas fans. But as human theater, it
was fascinating.
Here then was Grossman, two steps from
being benched, throwing three interceptions in front of the gathered
masses of the Soldier Field faithful. And up against him, making a
mockery of the fabled Chicago defense, and looking for all the world
like the second coming of the (for Bears fans) detestable Brett
Favre, was Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
Romo was by no means perfect – he
threw one interception, and he was sacked three times – but
could there have been any greater contrast between Dallas' QB of the
future, oozing outrangeous self-belief and throwing for 329 yards,
and Chicago's QB of questionable future, nervously connecting on less
than 50% of his passes en route to 195 difficult, excruciatingly
disconnected yards.
This, every Bears fan was thinking, is the
sort of quarterback we should have. And they weren't looking at
Grossman.
I've heard boos, and I've heard calls for
the back-up quarterback often enough, but I have never heard an
entire stadium as one rise up and call with such coordination for a
change of quarterback. 'Griese! Griese! Griese!' - this was like
something from a gladiatorial arena.
Last week I predicted that once the Bears
reached a losing record, Grossman would be pulled. Well, we're there.
It's time. I think Grossman knows it too. He smiles and tries to go
about his business as the starting quarterback, but for all that
Lovie Smith says that Grossman is his guy, and the players says he's
their guy, I think the moment when Grossman thought he was their guy
has passed.
He knows it's coming. It's time to put him
- and about 80,000 paying customers –out of their misery.
McNabb, the Epilogue
Following on from McNabb is still the franchise in Philadelphia – let
nobody forget it. After last week, just how satisfying was McNabb's
381-yard, 4 TD performance in a 56-21 romp over Detroit? So much for
controversy. (If only we didn't have to see those uniforms on the
highlight reel, although no less hideous than the yellow throwbacks
worn by the Redskins this past week).
You know, there's a part of me that really
wants to see McNabb win the big one. It's called my wife. First
sighting of an Eagles hat this season, and not a boo to be heard. The
hat, I now recall, was bought in Philadelphia the same month Limbaugh
resigned from ESPN.
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