During some recent internet travels I stumbled upon an Ahman Green figurine at Amazon.com, and it hit me.
There it was.
Cast in high-density plastic resin.
Corroborating evidence that this 4-time pro-bowler doesn’t know how to carry the ball. Look at how that ball is just dangling out there, begging for someone to come by and borrow it for about 65 yards.
Even Wikipedia knows Ahman Green can’t hang onto the ball.
Where I went to college there was a guy on the hockey team that just prior to jumping to the college ranks, he couldn’t skate backwards. On the ice it was obvious; he looked like one of those poor dogs on Animal Planet right after getting a leg amputated. Tripping and falling like he was dancing with an invisible woman with size 18 feet. But he was good enough to get drafted by the Edmonton Oilers, and even played in two games. He played a total of 10 years for second-tier teams in the IHL and AHL, then moved to Italy for a couple seasons before he was done.
Green reminds me a little of that guy. He’s got some kind of fundamental defect that prevents him from truly becoming an elite player. He doesn’t protect the ball and won’t change hands when plays are called that would expose the ball to defenses in his left-handed style.
Thankfully, this week he didn’t fumble.
Oh yeah. He wasn’t on the field this week.
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