I got to hear him mention the infamous Steve Carlton year as to how good pitchers overcome terrible teams. Which actually amused me, because Joe Posnanski brought this one up. That if you overlay Carlton's year on the Seattle offense, and adjust for offensive inflation, Carlton drops to 20-10, or something of the sort. And then if you adjust for 5 man rotations, pitch counts, and essentially slim him down to Felix's innings total, he basically comes out to have a similar win total to Felix.
Nope. They talked for about 5 minutes about Manning making Tamme a TE stud, and how it's really about Manning being good. Then they went to Felix.
Not saying this to be a dick or anything, but just in case you didn't know, doesn't look like Durantula is gonna be playing in town tonight. He's likely out.
Because I've heard enough of Mazz over the years to think that he's deliberately putting on an inflammatory argument he doesn't really believe in order to get people to listen/ call in. Come on. "We voted this way once so we have to vote this way until the end of time"? Who really thinks that way?
Really? That blows. I was looking forward to this tonight too.
at least he didn't say that he could make an arguement that buchholz had a better year than hernandez like dale did on eei right?
I didn't hear this latest rant, but I actually think there's something to this. I vaguely remember Mazz making almost the exact opposite argument years ago on The Big Show, I specifically remember him saying something to the effect of, "At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how many runs you gave up." Now granted, this was before the days of 13 and 15 win pitchers getting the Cy, I can't remember what year specifically but I'm guessing they were talking about some guy with 18 wins getting over a guy with 19. So I doubt that he's totally just playing a character here, but at this point anyone who doesn't realize that these guys are playing the same game as WEEI only on different team is deluding themselves.
I think it was the way they won that has Felger moving the goal posts. Manning is expected to score 28 points, especially against this defense, the offense isn't expected to turtle twice a in a row during the 4th quarter when all they need to do is take some time off the clock. Especially after scoring 31 points.
Of course they count; one of them cemented the game.
Exactly, the defense played OK, especially against Manning, but could have used some help by the Offense at the end, two more first downs would have been huge in taking time off the clock and not giving Manning enough time to engineer that final drive that ended in an interception.
I agree. The offense needed to perform, as it was likely going to take a 3-spot to win the game. The two 3-and-outs by the offense were a killer in the 4th.
You're not following the Felger narrative closely enough. He said without Moss the offense would be better in "clutch" situations, like the last two possessions Sunday evening. They failed in both, so he has to kill them to be (his favorite word) "consistent." People get caught up in the objectivity/contrarian thing with Felger but above all he's a slave to his precious narratives. It's the same reason he loves conspiracy theories. There has to be a reason for everything, nothing is just "what happened."
If only you had something else to listen to during the day because you apparently can't stand Felger and Mazz and "know" what Ordway and Smerlas are "really" thinking when they defend Sterger. Seriously, you come off as an obnoxious know-it-all in a number of threads in this forum and appear to be a slave to your own precious narratives.
Which case? That Felger loves to listen to himself speak? That Felger is wrong about the Patriots Offense and they need Moss?
I think the overall point was that the offense would be more consistent and less trick or treat without Moss. You can hardly argue with the results from the first half. That was classic Brady making high percentage passes and moving the chains. There was no pressure to waste a down on a low percentage down field throw to keep Randy's head in the game and frankly given the number of times they had to convert on 3rd down, they couldn't afford to stroke any egos. I also thought he put plenty of blame on the offense for going to conservative down the stretch and not going with the game plan that got you the lead up till that point.
That Felger masturbates furiously to his conceived storylines and narratives, mostly. Witness everything he and Mazz ever say about the Red Sox, for example.
No it's what I said. He's repeated it about 5 million times so I'm sure.
Indeed. Not that it makes a difference in the scheme of things, but it's yet another iPod day for me.
He's trolling for listens. He's being deliberately moronic.
Yes, if the GM of the Red Sox leaves his job, it will be the fault of the media being giant meanies and the fans not loving him enough.
