The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I found this bit of news to be funny. New York Jets starting quarterback Mark Sanchez, coming off a horrendous performance in the team's Monday night loss to the Tennessee Titans, will be benched the rest of the year in favor of... third-stringer Greg McElroy! Backup Tim Tebow is being passed over for Greg McElroy. Vegas odds still have it at 1 : 1 that Tebow will get mentioned more on ESPN in the coming week than Peyton Manning, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James combined!

- Is it just me or is Indianapolis Colts rookie starting quarterback Andrew Luck receiving much more credit than he deserves? Granted, the Colts were the worst team in the NFL last year and are in the thick of the playoff reason this season under Luck's lead. However, as Joe Theismann once put it, "When things are going bad, the quarterback gets blamed more than he should and when things are going well, he gets more credit than he should." I'm not saying Andrew Luck won't be a fine quarterback someday. To be perfectly honest, I think in the long haul, he's going to be somewhat reminiscent of Peyton Manning. However, that's all speculation at this point. In the here and now, Andrew Luck is not the main reason the Colts are doing so well and the media needs to cut it out with that narrative. Let's look at the numbers. Luck is tied for first in all the league for most interceptions thrown with 16 (tied with Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints). In compar...