No longer is it hip to praise Peyton Manning. He looks much older now, even elderly at times, trotting onto the field as if limping with a broken hip.
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Even before the trick-play debacle, Chuck Pagano’s job was in jeopardy. Under his leadership, which now appears clumsy at best, the Indianapolis Colts are getting as stale as month-old bread.
Whether gambling or coaching football, never apologize for getting lucky. Luck turns two ways, and what goes around usually comes around. Without a doubt, Mark Dantonio is the luckiest coach in the world this week.
A so-called perfect world does not exist in the NFL. If everything is going right, you can bet something is about to go wrong. And everything is going right for Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals.
Patience might be a virtue in some aspects of life, but there’s no place for it in the sports world anymore. Jim Harbaugh is a Type A personality, meaning he’s aggressive, ambitious and impatient.
When the New York Giants are in a funk, it’s usually because Eli Manning stunk it up. That’s the popular storyline, and the media sticks to it. It’s routine to target the quarterback in the blame game.
Being called a nice guy is sometimes a backhanded compliment, and by almost all accounts, Georgia football coach Mark Richt is a nice guy. He’s also cunning enough to survive in a cutthroat business. The problem is, he does not thrive in the biggest games. He wins a lot of games and has a pleasant personality, so he still has a job.
A losing quarterback is often heckled and ripped. It seldom happens to Andrew Luck, who usually leads a good life. But when things turned bad this week, Luck was the target, and the angry critic was his coach.
A broken collarbone knocked out Tony Romo, and despite finishing the game with his left arm in a sling, he probably had a better Sunday than the opposing quarterback. It was that much of a fiasco for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Believe it or not, Pete Carroll is the second-oldest head coach in the NFL. It’s hard to believe because of his up-tempo approach to life, and he will need all of that energy to lead the Seattle Seahawks through this season.