I’m sure you’ve heard about the post-game presser newly minted 49ers interim coach Mike Singletary gave. If not, here it is:
When I first heard the “Can’t play with ‘em” sound bite, I swore I got a man crush for Singletary. Or maybe I wanted to vote for him as a write-in for President. Not since Lombardi has a new coach grabbed a bull by the nuts and yanked quite like that. If you watch the whole presser, he seems to have lots of incomplete thoughts. I figured - the guy’s pissed, first game as head coach, he’s ready to eat a Riddell, so he can’t quite get all his thoughts out. Forgivable. Then I watched the follow-up presser the next day:
Ok, kicking a player off the field is pretty unheard of, but at some point you have to stop entertaining the reporters by answering their questions and go just go Parcells on the issues you said you like to keep in house, and just stop answering. By going on and on about Davis and the inferences that you don’t respect him and that you’ve had issues with him prior to the taking over as head coach, you look like Jimmy Carter reincarnated as a football coach. Or Ellen DeGeneres. Carter’s not dead, you say? My bad.
When the dust settled I finished last week’s picks against the spread* one point away from a 9-5 record. A Packer homer pick and I’d be 10-4. But I’ll take 8-6.
Week 8’s winners are bold:
OAK @ BAL - The Jets game was not a coming out party for Tom “Hair” Cable.
ARI @ CAR - ‘Zona’s been looking good, as have the Panthers. Coin flip.
TB @ DAL - The fat man is having to roll up his sleeves and make some defensive play calls to save his head coaching job; that’s enough of a shakeup to get this scrip club and garland team back to a win. WAS @ DET - The Pontiac Silverdome could hold 80,000+ people and often was not sold out. Ford Field, the Lions’ new home, holds 15,000 fewer people, and this year they’re having trouble selling out. There’s a local TV blackout, fan punishment for not filling the stadium. It’s a good time to be playing against the Lions.
BUF @ MIA - Buffalo’s giving 1 1/2 points. That’s crazy talk.
STL @ NE - The Rams are trying to be that easy ride for a worn out stranger down on his luck. Dallas couldn’t tame her, but New England’s coming off an ass-smacker against Denver. I take the Pats giving a touchdown.
SD @ NO - Played in England, the Saints have more “playing in diverse situations” experience than any other NFL franchise over the last 5 years. That experience pays and they take the Bolts, even without Reggie “3rd Down” Bush. KC @ NYJ - The Jets just aren’t the world beaters they were thought to be with Favre’s hands in the center’s asscrack. I like the Jets, but not by almost two touchdowns. They lost on the road to the worst team in football (despite Cable’s claimed record of 1-0), so it’s hard to imagine them laying another 50+ on anyone else this season. ATL @ PHI - I like the Eagles, but the spread is too big. Atlanta taking 9.
CLE @ JAC - Jags giving seven. CIN @ HOU - Houston’s giving about the same spread they did against the Lions last week (when they didn’t cover, as I predicted), and I can’t imagine them covering against a better(?) team like the Bangles.
NYG @ PIT - Goin’ on instinct on this one.
SEA @ SF - The Seahawks are just really bad; the Niners are less bad and giving away less than a touchdown.
IND @ TEN - Conventional wisdom says to pick against the undefeated, but whatever. Wisdom and my name are rarely spoken together.
*I didn’t realize how sissy picking games straight up was until I jumped to the man’s game, picking against the spread. Now I snicker at those who boast 11-3 records, knowing they’d be wetting themselves much I was in weeks 2-6 if they had to pick against the collective brain power of Vegas. My record may suck, but it’s a man’s suck. Not a little baby suck. (I’m not even sure what that means. But it’s manly. Believe it.)
I’ve already spent too much time on this instead of on the Packers, so I’ll keep this short. Bullet points, even.
Brett’s denied other stories that turned out to be true. That makes him a selective liar at best.
Brett spent years doing anything and everything he felt like, and the years under Mike Sherman only fed that fragile ego.
He’s allowed his mother speak to the media for him. I’m not sure what this means, other than c’mon, dude. Grow a pair. There’s a time when you can’t run to Momma anymore. Like at your 13th birthday.
Favre’s been nothing but selfish (and stupid) when he refused to help teammates in their development or when he scrambled to the arms of Greta Vansusteren to (poorly) manage his reputation.
With all that Brett’s credibility account has been emptied. The previous awards and records can no longer make up for the small mountain of evidence being amassed that shows that Brett Favre is just a selfish, ego-driven prick.
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