Archive for the ‘This is interesting’ Category

This should be greeted with the proverbial grain or bag of salt, whichever you prefer. But since Michael Vick has made a habit of getting crunched and bent in directions which go against the intended design of the human body throughout his career, the urgent breaking news below is still…interesting.

As part of a story in which the progress of the Eagles’ quarterbacks so far early in the offseason is discussed (because that’s not happening 19 times daily), the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Zach Berman observed this about Vick:

He’s noticeably bigger and enthused about the offense. For Vick’s critics, it’s easy to say this is excitement he’s expressed in the past.

The bolding is mine, because we have that technology around here.

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Mark Sanchez sucks. I’d say we can all agree on that, but long ago — likely sometime during a Tim Tebow post — I became convinced there’s very little we can all agree on.

How ’bout this: Mark Sanchez is really, really bad at being a quarterback, and the only reason he hasn’t been cut yet is because of the mountainous sum of guaranteed money left on this contract for the 2013 season. Specifically, that number sits at $8.25 million. For some context to show how horribly awful that is, Aaron Rodgers will average $7.7 annually in guaranteed cash throughout the life of his new contract. You now have permission to cry if you’re a supporter of the New York Jets.

But what if, in some glorious twist of fate, the Jets were able to concoct a scenario where they just said screw it and traded Sanchez, while eating a significant portion of his remaining guaranteed money?

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Well, sort of. He’ll be worked like an intern and be lost when his fellow interns begin discussing whatever it is that kids talk about (pogs?), but he’ll do work that’s not very intern-y. For Ryan Clark, his summer “internship” is really a second career audition.

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A lot of interesting football things flash across my computer screen on a daily basis. Such is life when you’re tasked with searching around the murkiest and mildew-filled corners of the web for interesting football things and deciphering their meaning, or at the very least passing them along to you fine people for the sake of discussion.

Often many of these things are filed away for future use. But sometimes a stat comes with enough quirk that it merits a quick mention on its own. As you’ve gathered from this poor foreshadowing, this is one of those times.

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