The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

For the ninth time in ten games, the Philadelphia Eagles lost - falling to the Cincinnati Bengals 34-13 Thursday night, to drop their record to 4-10 on the season. As I was quick to note following last week's win for the Eagles, guided by a solid performance by rookie quarterback Nick Foles, while the guy has shown steady improvement in his starts thus far and potential to be an NFL starting quarterback, it's much too early to accurately evaluate the guy. While it seems like most ESPN talking heads were shouting in their best Leonardio DiCaprio voice from Titanic ("I'm king of the world!") that Nick Foles was the Eagles' savior, I wasn't yet convinced of this. This is why I'd make for a terrible ESPN personality. I need to see consistency and longevity before I scream to the world that a player will be great or a bust. When Cam Newton got off to the statistically-grand start a year ago, I said it was too early to fully evaluate the guy. When Matthe...

Here we go again. The Tim Tebow-led Denver Broncos came back to defeat the New York Jets 17-13 on Thursday night and the majority of the jabber is concerning Tebow's magical final drive which vaulted his Broncos to a victory. While that final drive was great, let's not look past the rest of the team and the game. First off, before that final drive. all Tebow did was lead the Broncos to one field goal. The only other touchdown they scored was via an Andre Goodman 26-yard interception return. Points wise, the Broncos have as much to thank New York Jets' quarterback Mark Sanchez for as they do their own quarterback, one Tim Tebow. In all seriousness, the Broncos had no business being in this game. The Jets turned the ball over twice, one which led to a touchdown as mentioned above. Denver accumulated just 11 first downs in the game, compared to 22 for the Jets. They accounted for a mere 229 yards of total offense, almost 100 less than New York (318). Tebow was only 9 for 2...