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Monday, December 11, 2006
8:34:00 AM EST
I've got know reason to lie to you - Sean Salisbury drives me crazy. His over-caffeinated style doesn't suit me to begin with, but I like Stephen A., and his style is similar. But, Stephen A. has original things to say. Salisbury: I don't see it. If he does film study, or otherwise works to understand the game better so that he can improve his audience's understanding of the game (this is, I presume, the job of the studio analyst), it's never apparent.
One quick example from this morning (or last night) concerns Drew Brees. Brees is having a fabulous season and, amazingly, has an outside shot at Dan Mariono's single-season record for passing yards. He's completed two-thirds of his passes this year and has a passer rating over 100. So, when Salisbury was asked why Brees has done so well in New Orleans, his answer was: Brees has a big heart. He's tough, he knows how to fight, and he only thinks about winning. In showing one deep ball Brees completed last night in his dominating performance against Dallas, Salisbury commented that Brees didn't under throw the ball or overthrow the ball, but put it just in the right place. Salisbury's next comment: Brees always puts the team first.
I don't really know what any of this means, or what it has to do with why Brees is having such a great season. I know Brees was very good the last two years in San Diego, so he's already established himself as a good to very good NFL QB. But, is Salisbury saying that Brees has more heart, and guts and self-lessness this year? Is that why he's putting up near record numbers for a team that was expected to be a door-mat? Does Salisbury have any insight at all into the sorts of plays the Saints are running, or the kind of protection Brees is getting, or whether the unexpected performances of guys like Marques Colston, the seventh round rookie pick out of Hofstra, have anything to do with this?
It's not that character has nothing to do with anything in sports. It's just that, in the face of a really significant performance by Brees, all Salisbury has to say, in all the words he's spewing - is that Brees is having a great year because he's a great guy.
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Salisbury
I've got know reason to lie to you - Sean Salisbury drives me crazy. His over-caffeinated style doesn't suit me to begin with, but I like Stephen A., and his style is similar. But, Stephen A. has original things to say. Salisbury: I don't see it. If he does film study, or otherwise works to understand the game better so that he can improve his audience's understanding of the game (this is, I presume, the job of the studio analyst), it's never apparent.
One quick example from this morning (or last night) concerns Drew Brees. Brees is having a fabulous season and, amazingly, has an outside shot at Dan Mariono's single-season record for passing yards. He's completed two-thirds of his passes this year and has a passer rating over 100. So, when Salisbury was asked why Brees has done so well in New Orleans, his answer was: Brees has a big heart. He's tough, he knows how to fight, and he only thinks about winning. In showing one deep ball Brees completed last night in his dominating performance against Dallas, Salisbury commented that Brees didn't under throw the ball or overthrow the ball, but put it just in the right place. Salisbury's next comment: Brees always puts the team first.
I don't really know what any of this means, or what it has to do with why Brees is having such a great season. I know Brees was very good the last two years in San Diego, so he's already established himself as a good to very good NFL QB. But, is Salisbury saying that Brees has more heart, and guts and self-lessness this year? Is that why he's putting up near record numbers for a team that was expected to be a door-mat? Does Salisbury have any insight at all into the sorts of plays the Saints are running, or the kind of protection Brees is getting, or whether the unexpected performances of guys like Marques Colston, the seventh round rookie pick out of Hofstra, have anything to do with this?
It's not that character has nothing to do with anything in sports. It's just that, in the face of a really significant performance by Brees, all Salisbury has to say, in all the words he's spewing - is that Brees is having a great year because he's a great guy.
This is as empty as it gets.
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