Rush's PERFECT comments Re: Donovan McNabb

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[Pukin Dog]

For those who missed it, Limbaugh performed the most perfect comments on Donovan McNabb this morning by not even mentioning his name.

Instead he contrasted the way that Payton Manning came out and took responsibility for his performance against the way that the media instantly set out to blame the Eagles' wide recievers for what happened to them.

It was the best revenge, because by not mentioning McNabb, no one in the media can say that Rush attacked McNabb, but to all us football fans, what Rush DIDNT say, was LOUD AND CLEAR. Thanks Rush!

[Alberta's Child]

The problem with that field goal wasn't one of distance (47 yards is within the range of any NFL kicker these days) -- it was the playing surface. By my count, 14 of the 16 regular-season games that Buffalo played that year were on artificial surfaces -- this included all eight home games, plus road games at Cincinnati, the NY Jets, New England, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Houston. Any kicker who spends that much time kicking on an artificial surface is going to have a tough time on grass. It's even worse if the kicker has spent most of the season kicking on artificial surfaces indoors.

In my humble opinion, a kicker from a team that plays its home games in a dome should be automatically eliminated from any consideration for the Pro Bowl. Their kicking environment is so sterile that there's no way to accurately compare them to other kickers in the league.

[dmzTahoe]

Agree with you. Bills had as much talent as the teams that beat them in the SBowls.. Again, at that level, it comes down to coaching, game plans, play calling and preparation.
Was it Bear Bryant or John Wooden that said "I'll take mine and beat yours. Then I'll take yours and beat mine." So True!

[Land of the Free 04]

For pro team playing in the Super Bowl, you should not have a kicker o n your rsoter who finds 47 yards out of his limits.

Adam Vinatieri is going to his second SB and is only 8-14 over his career from 50+ (no stats available on 47+).

[Alberta's Child]

I don't think Levy really had any choice in the matter. The problem with the Bills was that they were built to beat other AFC teams with "run & gun" offenses (a la Houston) -- which unfortunately meant that they would match up very poorly against NFC teams. In particular, their smaller, mobile linebackers were no match against a powerful running attack.

[discostu]

47 yards is a long way. Especially back then, kickers weren't nailing 50+ yarders back in them days, it was still an art form not a science.

[dmzTahoe]

Buffalo is not an indoor stadium, so elements more than compensate for grass/turf comparison.
Point is, you should have on your roster a kicker who can kick a 47yd FG on turf or grass, and darn it, you have your kicker practice for two weeks before the Super Bowl on the surface upon which the game is played.
Bottom line is he missed a kick that he should have made...it was wide, not short.

[golas1964]

>Adam Vinatieri is going to his second SB and is only 8-14 over his career from 50+ (no stats available on 47+).<

And lately he's been hooking it left a lot. He almost missed one Sunday.

[discostu]

How was he in the regular season against the NFC? I never paid much attention to the Bills so I don't remember. Could be Levy looked at the tapes and said "we're screwed" and decided to not spoil the fun for his guys.

[Land of the Free 04]

their smaller, mobile linebackers were no match against a powerful running attack.

Which is how the Giants had two long clock-killing drives on them.

[dmzTahoe]

Are you telling me that Vinatiere does not have confidence to make a 47yd FG?
The conditions in that SBowl for Norwood were perfect...he blew it, plain and simple. And Vinatieri's misses, if someone were to research, may include bad weather attempts, a block or two, or a last minute "reach" decision by the coach.

[SirAllen]

The panthers won game with a cheap shot on a downed quarterback.

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day! Thanks for the laugh!

[Land of the Free 04]

it was wide, not short.

I'm pretty sure I've seen more long FG misses go wide than short in my life.

[dmzTahoe]

You were discussing how 47yds was "outer limits", meaning out of his range.
You were not questioning his accuracy.

[discostu]

I thought the hold was bad on "wide right", weren't the threads in the wrong direction?

[Land of the Free 04]

You were discussing how 47yds was "outer limits", meaning out of his range. You were not questioning his accuracy.

questioning his accuracy on long FG attempts is exactly what I meant to do---forgive me if I used the wrong term.

[jeremiah]

The cap brings parity Of course it does, but parity is just another way of trying to guarantee results. It means the best are brought down to the level of the worst, IOW socialism. I guess they bring in more revenue this way, but the product stinks. There is not enough good players to populate 32 teams, so they have to have a spending cap........sad sad.

[dmzTahoe]

"I thought the hold was bad on "wide right", weren't the threads in the wrong direction?"

Not sure...you may be right. all I remember is it sailed wide right.

[Big Horn]

Rush was great ,but to me it is not about McNabb it about the media whores that keep making excuses for certain players. The real hero's yesterday were some defensive backs and some running backs they didn't need excuses.

[discostu]

Parity is about not knowing the results before the game is played. Rozell always wanted an "any given Sunday" league. It's not socialism because the NFL is a franchise system, it's no different than McDonalds not wanting stores to steal business from each other.

I don't think the product stinks, what stunk was not being a fan of the Niners Cowboys or Giants in the late 80s and early 90s. Anybody that wasn't a fan of one of the dynasties knew at the HOF ceremony that their team was out of the running for a championship, the only games that were worth watching were the NFC divisional and conference playoff games, no other games mattered. The cap isn't about the number of good players, it's about not letting teams go bankrupt trying to get good players. A more popular game will get more good players because you have more kids interested in the game which means more playing it and coming up the system to the NFL.

Most folks decrying the quality just don't understand how good we had it during the golden age of QBs. It was a great era but it was a total aberation, the league had a much higher percentage of great QBs than it deserved. The NHL was going through a similar golden era of forwards at the time. Boxing went through something similar when Ali Frazier and Foreman were all in top form simultaneously. Those confluences are the exception and should be cherrished, what we've got now is the rule, you're simply not going to get Elway Marino Kelly Montana and Young (and the others) in the league at the same time more than once a lifetime.

[Alberta's Child]

Norwood was 20 for 29 on field goal attempts that season, which means he didn't have a great field goal percentage even though he kicked on turf most of the time. This was never an issue for Buffalo before that Super Bowl -- because they had the top-rated offense in the league and never really had to rely on their kicker to win games for them. Norwood never had a very strong leg, so much so that for the following season Buffalo signed Brad Daluiso to serve as their kickoff specialist -- if I remember correctly, they were one of the first modern teams to carry two kickers on their roster.

If Norwood had made that field goal in Super Bowl XXV, the Buffalo victory would have obscured the fact that they were thoroughly outplayed by an inferior team that managed to keep the high-powered Bills offense on the sideline for more than 40 minutes of the game.

There's no reason to blame Norwood for that loss -- as the team was lining up to try the field goal, I'll never forget thinking that there was no way in hell he would make it.