Liking Arrelious Benn
November 15th, 2010
Joe wrote yesterday how Bucs wide receiver Arrelious Benn is busting out to become a real weapon for quarterback Josh Freeman.
Well, it seems Benn hasn’t just caught Joe’s eye. It seems Peter King, finished wolfing down spaghetti, chili and hot dogs recently, also noticed how Benn is becoming a force, and mentioned the Bucs rookie in his “Monday Morning Quarterback” column, a true must-read for NFL fans.
Arrelious Benn, stuck in Mike Williams’ rookie shadow, with a good catch, move and stretch for a touchdown against the Panthers.
That’s two touchdowns in each of the last two games for Benn. Joe will take that kind of production any day.
November 15th, 2010 at 10:51 am
“What is Peter King’s fascination with Rejus Benn?” – Mr. Lucky
November 15th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Will we finally get some national love for once! I am so tired of watching NFL playbook at the like where they have in depth analysis of every game and then in the last minute of the show just make their picks on our games. Total BS.
Maybe this week we will since everyone is always on the niners nuts.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Where are all the Been haters? Dude has talent even if it takes him a little longer to understand an NFL playbook.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Joe, I’m disappointed in you…You forgot the oatmeal!! =(
November 15th, 2010 at 11:44 am
and Popcorn =(
November 15th, 2010 at 11:56 am
“That’s two touchdowns in each of the last two games for Benn.”
I think you mean “That’s two touchdowns in the last two games for Benn” or “That’s a touchdown in each of the last two games for Benn”. The published sentence implies he has four touchdowns on the year.
November 15th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Next time Amar. 🙂
November 15th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Joe,
Go further in Peter King’s article and read the Things I Dont Like paragraph. In Para 9 he talks about African American QBs and their ratings vis a vis McNabb. He talks about about Vick, Garrard, and Young……and totally misses Josh Freeman. Will this guy just once do some research before he writes about the Bucs?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/peter_king/11/14/monday-morning-qb-week-10/4.html
November 15th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
King is right. Benn is great!
November 15th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Oh my goodness. Joe has some of the most serious reading comprehension challenged fans in the Tampa area.
Peter King wrote, Things he liked last week and listed as 1.c.:
c. Arrelious Benn, stuck in Mike Williams’ rookie shadow, with a good catch, move and stretch for a touchdown against the Panthers.
Hey I saw the highlight and it WAS exactly what Peter described. PERSONALLY I preferred Blount’s TD jump, spin and score but hey – it is what it is.
FGO claimed that King has a ‘fascination of Benn’ – WRONG!!!!
tubboat Timmy wrote, “King is Right. Benn is great” – WRONG!!!
King acknowledged that Benn stepped up and had a great catch and leap for a TD last week. One catch in that game against the 1-7 Panthers.
Williams is the Star Receiver on the team – Benn is the red-headed stepchild with POTENTIAL.
Please learn how to read and COMPREHEND!
November 15th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
BTW – All you guys LOVE King when he writes good things about the Bucs but when he stated that the team would only have 2 wins you all wrote that King was a quack!
So what is it? Are you guys THAT fickle?
November 15th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Mr. Lucky:
LOL Uh, yeah!
November 15th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Ok Joe point taken. What I MEANT to write is that if you say King doesn’t know squat one week and they you’re gushing over King the next week what does that say about YOUR ability to be discriminating?
Or to ask it another way – if Adam S. said the Bucs are now going to the playoffs would everyone suddenly say how smart Adam was?
November 15th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Mr. Lucky the Plumber doesn’t understand sarcasm…
November 15th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
@BucFan South Tampa and Joe
Could it be that King didn’t include Josh because his mother is white? This is a sensitive subject, but interesting in terms of how journalists handle the idea of race. Often in this country we treat mixed-raced people as being “black” (See President Obama).
It’s an unfortunate bridge that journalists have to cross or avoid. (Unfortunate that human kind makes such a big deal about the differences in race. I’m not saying unfortunate that there are interracial relationships and/or marriages that result in children. It’d be a lot simpler world if we all had a little more of each other inside of us)
And if Mr. Lucky wants to marry eric, then I’m all for it. You guys should embrace like Gylenhaal and Ledger.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
Fire Greg Olson!:
Joe has no idea about that, and frankly Joe doesn’t care. This is the first Joe heard about this and really doesn’t care who his mom is. Has no bearing in Joe’s eyes.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Lucky-you just love stirring up sh_t,don’t you?King apologized for his pre-season bashing and the man has some class unlike that idiot Schein.I might call him as_hole when he badmouths my team,but that doesn’t mean I disagree with everything he writes.
November 16th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
@ BucsFan South Tampa:
Why would Freeman come into the discussion? The reference to other black QBs was in the following line:
“But the same way I’m not going to make a big deal of black men being 1-2-4 (Mike Vick, Vince Young, David Garrard) in the QB-rating standings entering this weekend because I don’t think the success or failure of a quarterback has anything to do with what color he is, I’m not going to think Mike Shanahan benched McNabb for racial reasons unless I have some proof other than something incidental.”
Was Freeman the hidden number 3 in that list? No. He was somewhere in the middle of the pack (#16 currently). King’s point is that he sees race as incidental and the fact that 3 of the top 4 QBs are black as not important. Why would you expect him to list every black QB in the leage?
Tell me how you would add Freeman into that list and still have a meaningful sentence.