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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
These Bucs stop everywhere
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What a difference a win — and a convincing performance — can make on the No. 7 front.
The buzzing over Vick’s middle digit has all but died down, except for the fine folks at NPR, who on Wednesday a.m. invited the AJC’s Jeff Schultz to talk about the incident, and the Falcons’ QB in general.
Money exchange:
Schultz: “He’s never given me the finger, and quite a few people in this city have.”
NPR Host: “I don’t want to ask you what you’ve been doing down there.”
That poor Weekend Predictions- and Tuesday Countdown-deprived soul.
In addition to the audibilizing against the Redskins, Vick’s getting more daring in what he says:
“Sometimes, you have to overcome coaching. All the great ones do.”
Keep it cheeky, No. 7.
The Kissing Suzy Kolber blog (I’m not making this up) has a name for the Redskins’ sorry display:
S*#$apalooza. Beware some of the language and certain subject matter.
Tampa Bay fans might have some worse pronouncements for the way their 3-9 team is stumbling. The three points scored against the Steelers in a 20-3 loss were on a last-second field goal — to avoid the shutout.
That’s the first time that’s happened in 73 years — 1933, to be exact. The first year of the FDR monarchy.
Nobody’s performing in TB, and the Bucs have scored a league-low 145 points.
Jon Gruden says he’s sticking with struggling rookie QB Bruce Gradkowski, even with Tim Rattay and Luke McCown in reserve.
Steve Young will be in the house, but part of Alumni Weekend. This is how Pravda’s promoting the game:
“Come and see them.”
Not the present Bucs, but the ones consigned to history.
Lots of unhappy fans are growling about Gruden, but not much has surfaced about his coaching future — not for the moment.
There’s some spin emerging about how dearly depared ex-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle would have loved the “parity” afoot in the league, especially all those 6-6 teams NFC vying for the playoffs, including the Falcons.
Why not call it exactly what it is?
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