It Couldn’t Get Much Worse
October 26th, 2009The wolves are starting to growl at Raheem the Dream’s door. If Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports, a friendly fellow despite being a Maoist, is taking you to task, then the walls may just be caving in.
In short, Silver believes Raheem the Dream is in over his head and the Glazer Family has tarnished NFL warden commissioner Roger Goodell’s dream of spreading the gospel of the NFL into London.
So let me get this straight: England quite generously gave us “The Office.” And for one forgettable Sunday, we returned the favor by giving 84,254 fans at Wembley Stadium “The Awful.” Yes, British friends, you did get to see Tom Brady do his thing in the New England Patriots’ 35-7 victory over the 0-7 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and you also got to see what happens when an NFL franchise stops spending aggressively to retain or acquire players and hires a rookie coach (Raheem Morris) who lacks the experience to deal with such a dearth of talent. As of Sunday’s debacle, the Bucs are now on their third quarterback of 2009 and their second Josh, with first-round rookie Josh Freeman seemingly set to step in for Josh Johnson. Should Freeman struggle – and you know he will – might I humbly suggest “SportsCenter” anchor Josh Elliott, who at least could inject some humor into a miserable situation?
A SportsCenter anchor as quarterback? Well, it’s not like the Bucs couldn’t go 0-7 without him as starting quarterback.