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How About Some More Possession Receivers?
Here is a typical scenario from an NFL football game:
A "highly athletic" receiver with "world class speed" sprints from the line of scrimmage, uses his "superior athletic ability" to elude the cornerback that's covering him (who also has "superior athletic ability"), bursts into the open, whereupon the quarterback delivers a laser sharp pass right on the numbers of his jersey and directly into his hands -- and he drops it! This scene plays out over and over and over. Players that are selected specifically for the position of receiver often seem to be unable to catch the football.
Virtually all NFL receivers are black. They are all praised for their athletic ability (even if they have little of it), and almost without exception they are unable to consistently do the only thing that is really required of them â€â€- catch the football. Sure, occasionally a player will make a highlight reel grab by leaping and making a spectacular catch. And generally speaking they catch enough balls to move the chains forward; after all were not talking gymnastics here, just catching a football.
However speaking as someone who has watched football for a couple of generations I can honestly say that the quality of receivers playing today is worse than ever. Pre-Caste System, receivers were selected based on their ability to catch the ball. Not any more. Now coaches look for a certain type of player to be a receiver. They want fast, tall (and short) black players for the position. They reason, with blind adherence to an objectively faulty standard, that they can teach any player to catch the football. But the failed results are there for all to see virtually every game.
Unfortunately virtually no one who sees it comments on it. Despite the incredible number of dropped passes by guys who literally make millions of dollars to catch the ball, no one has the courage to admit that the direction that football has pursued in selecting only black players as receivers has been an abject failure.
The only possible competition for those pass droppers is the large cadre of ignored white receivers that can actually catch the ball. Consider: white receivers are derisively referred to as "possession" receivers, meaning their best skill is that they really do "receive" the football.
Other terms are used to describe the catching ability of white receivers, terms that are for some bizarre reason almost considered insults, such as "glue-fingered" and having "sticky-hands." White players are also referred to as "good route runners," "students of the game," and "smart."
But since white players playing ball handling positions other than QB has become verboten in modern pro football, there remains little competition for the black receivers that are unable to catch passes. A white player can be a record setting receiver in a major college football conference but his "hands of glue" are not desired in the NFL. They want black players, fast if possible, tall preferably, ability to catch -- not important.
The prevailing paradigm that says blacks are always better athletes than whites prevents people from acknowledging what is obvious to anyone who looks at the issue honestly. It also causes people who remember how the game used to be played to forget what true pass receiving ability is like.
Consider that last year in the NFL, a league where there are less white players at the receiver position than there are black people at a Republican fundraiser, the NFC leader in receptions (that's "catching the football") was white: Mike Furrey.
Mike Furrey has kicked around professional football for years, always catching everything in sight and always being ignored. Given a chance to play he was a "glue-fingered" white receiver that caught more passes than nearly any "athlete" in the game. If Furrey, who was basically ignored his whole professional career, is such a good receiver in comparison to the black "speedsters" whose supposed physical abilities should allow them to put up better numbers in comparison, then the question begs to be asked: how many other white receivers are also being neglected?
Mike Hass was the Biletnikoff Award winner as the best receiver in college football in 2005. He caught more passes than anyone in the PAC 10, an elite conference. This is another "glue-fingered" white receiver who the pro game has no use for. Hass was drafted late and has bounced around with a couple of teams, always catching everything thrown his way in training camp and pre-season games -- and always finding himself on the bench or cut in favor of "athletes" that speed up and down the field dropping passes and killing drives.
A couple years ago John Standeford of Purdue set the Big Ten career record for receptions. This "glue-fingered" receiver should have been a prized commodity in the NFL, where ball control offenses win by tossing quick passes to tall receivers as the bread and butter of their spread offenses. What happened to Standeford? Not even drafted. He has also bounced around with several teams watching "athletes" bobble, fumble, drop, and whiff, at passes he could catch in his sleep.
What, besides the modern liberal desire to forcefully replace whites with blacks in positions of importance, has caused this ridiculous situation to arise, where the worst coordinated pass catchers are the most frequently used?
A few years ago Bob Hayes was elected to the Hall of Fame. Bob Hayes was a receiver for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960's through early '70's. He also won the 100 meter sprint in the 1964 Olympics. His natural ability to run fast was considered a tremendous asset on the football field.
At his election to the Hall of Fame there was a general consensus that Bob Hayes "changed the game of football." The implication was that his career was the impetus for the change from receivers (mostly white) that could catch the ball, to receivers (mostly black) that could run fast. Little note was actually paid to what Bob Hayes "changing the game" meant.
Like so many things that are not looked at critically, the idea that Bob Hayes changed the game may be true, but was it for the better? While Hayes had some good years in his career, he was never much better than the other receivers in the league, leading the league in TD's twice (once tied for the lead) and average yards per catch only once.
While Hayes can be considered a good career receiver there is nothing about his statistics which would indicate that he was such a standout that the game should be changed because of him. Furthermore, in his era he did not accumulate statistics better than the best white receivers of his time and therefore the idea that he was something special is in reality revisionist history.
Hayes' career did begin the great search for other Olympic track stars that could also catch a football. Somewhere along the way the part about "catching the football" was left to the wayside. In fact the whole "track star" stereotype has been altered to mean any black player no matter how fast he is. Frequently, black receivers run pathetically slow 40 yard dash times at tryouts yet are greeted as Olympic track stars by a fawning sports media that sees the ghost of Bob Hayes in every plodding black receiver.
The utter ridiculousness of labeling all black players fast sprinters has been thoroughly discredited by the actual numbers recorded at testing combines, which illustrate how patently false the idea is. When forced to acknowledge that every black player is not a speedster, black supremacists change the subject to some other quality the player is said to possess which sets him apart from white players. Invariably the new qualities are subjective and un-measureable.
Terms such as "loose hips" or "quick twitch athleticism" are euphemisms for those imaginary qualities said to be possessed by black players. The make believe attributes are created in an attempt to support the false belief that black players are in some way vastly superior to white players.
Without the creation of some amorphous non-measurable standards the debate would fall back upon known measurables such as 40 times, shuttle and cone drills, tests where the top white players equal or succeed their black counterparts.
White superiority in measured tests should have long ago wrecked the phony idea that blacks are better athletes than all whites in nearly every case. Unfortunately, like a "Great Society" welfare program, the tenacity of the "black as superior athlete" myth continues on long after it has been not only exposed as false by factual evidence, but also after it has been shown to have decreased the quality of the game by filling up NFL rosters with black receivers that cannot catch very well (and who often are poor route runners as well).
It is the height of absurdity that white players do not make up over 70 percent of NFL receivers. Only the resolute blindness of the people in charge of such things and the complete apathy and ignorance of the white fan base can explain such a travesty. White players are the best pass catchers, frequently are among the fastest of players, and are almost always hard working, smart, and team oriented. When will the NFL wake up and end this irrational and unfair discrimination?
Last week the few white players that do get a shot at receiver racked up some pretty impressive numbers.
Kevin Curtis of the Eagles had a 75 yard catch for a TD, and finished with 5 receptions for 121 yards.
Wes Welker of the Patriots had a career high 11 catches for 124 yards and 2 TDs. He also had 5 kick returns for an 18.4 yard avg.
Kevin Walter of the Texans led all NFL receivers with 12 catches for 160 yards.
Those players along with others like Mike Furrey, Brandon Stokley, Drew Bennett, Matt Jones, and Joe Jurevicious, should be the vangard of a new wave of receiver that can not only run fast but also catch the football. Possession receivers, what a great concept!
Here is a typical scenario from an NFL football game:
A "highly athletic" receiver with "world class speed" sprints from the line of scrimmage, uses his "superior athletic ability" to elude the cornerback that's covering him (who also has "superior athletic ability"), bursts into the open, whereupon the quarterback delivers a laser sharp pass right on the numbers of his jersey and directly into his hands -- and he drops it! This scene plays out over and over and over. Players that are selected specifically for the position of receiver often seem to be unable to catch the football.
Virtually all NFL receivers are black. They are all praised for their athletic ability (even if they have little of it), and almost without exception they are unable to consistently do the only thing that is really required of them â€â€- catch the football. Sure, occasionally a player will make a highlight reel grab by leaping and making a spectacular catch. And generally speaking they catch enough balls to move the chains forward; after all were not talking gymnastics here, just catching a football.
However speaking as someone who has watched football for a couple of generations I can honestly say that the quality of receivers playing today is worse than ever. Pre-Caste System, receivers were selected based on their ability to catch the ball. Not any more. Now coaches look for a certain type of player to be a receiver. They want fast, tall (and short) black players for the position. They reason, with blind adherence to an objectively faulty standard, that they can teach any player to catch the football. But the failed results are there for all to see virtually every game.
Unfortunately virtually no one who sees it comments on it. Despite the incredible number of dropped passes by guys who literally make millions of dollars to catch the ball, no one has the courage to admit that the direction that football has pursued in selecting only black players as receivers has been an abject failure.
The only possible competition for those pass droppers is the large cadre of ignored white receivers that can actually catch the ball. Consider: white receivers are derisively referred to as "possession" receivers, meaning their best skill is that they really do "receive" the football.
Other terms are used to describe the catching ability of white receivers, terms that are for some bizarre reason almost considered insults, such as "glue-fingered" and having "sticky-hands." White players are also referred to as "good route runners," "students of the game," and "smart."
But since white players playing ball handling positions other than QB has become verboten in modern pro football, there remains little competition for the black receivers that are unable to catch passes. A white player can be a record setting receiver in a major college football conference but his "hands of glue" are not desired in the NFL. They want black players, fast if possible, tall preferably, ability to catch -- not important.
The prevailing paradigm that says blacks are always better athletes than whites prevents people from acknowledging what is obvious to anyone who looks at the issue honestly. It also causes people who remember how the game used to be played to forget what true pass receiving ability is like.
Consider that last year in the NFL, a league where there are less white players at the receiver position than there are black people at a Republican fundraiser, the NFC leader in receptions (that's "catching the football") was white: Mike Furrey.
Mike Furrey has kicked around professional football for years, always catching everything in sight and always being ignored. Given a chance to play he was a "glue-fingered" white receiver that caught more passes than nearly any "athlete" in the game. If Furrey, who was basically ignored his whole professional career, is such a good receiver in comparison to the black "speedsters" whose supposed physical abilities should allow them to put up better numbers in comparison, then the question begs to be asked: how many other white receivers are also being neglected?
Mike Hass was the Biletnikoff Award winner as the best receiver in college football in 2005. He caught more passes than anyone in the PAC 10, an elite conference. This is another "glue-fingered" white receiver who the pro game has no use for. Hass was drafted late and has bounced around with a couple of teams, always catching everything thrown his way in training camp and pre-season games -- and always finding himself on the bench or cut in favor of "athletes" that speed up and down the field dropping passes and killing drives.
A couple years ago John Standeford of Purdue set the Big Ten career record for receptions. This "glue-fingered" receiver should have been a prized commodity in the NFL, where ball control offenses win by tossing quick passes to tall receivers as the bread and butter of their spread offenses. What happened to Standeford? Not even drafted. He has also bounced around with several teams watching "athletes" bobble, fumble, drop, and whiff, at passes he could catch in his sleep.
What, besides the modern liberal desire to forcefully replace whites with blacks in positions of importance, has caused this ridiculous situation to arise, where the worst coordinated pass catchers are the most frequently used?
A few years ago Bob Hayes was elected to the Hall of Fame. Bob Hayes was a receiver for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960's through early '70's. He also won the 100 meter sprint in the 1964 Olympics. His natural ability to run fast was considered a tremendous asset on the football field.
At his election to the Hall of Fame there was a general consensus that Bob Hayes "changed the game of football." The implication was that his career was the impetus for the change from receivers (mostly white) that could catch the ball, to receivers (mostly black) that could run fast. Little note was actually paid to what Bob Hayes "changing the game" meant.
Like so many things that are not looked at critically, the idea that Bob Hayes changed the game may be true, but was it for the better? While Hayes had some good years in his career, he was never much better than the other receivers in the league, leading the league in TD's twice (once tied for the lead) and average yards per catch only once.
While Hayes can be considered a good career receiver there is nothing about his statistics which would indicate that he was such a standout that the game should be changed because of him. Furthermore, in his era he did not accumulate statistics better than the best white receivers of his time and therefore the idea that he was something special is in reality revisionist history.
Hayes' career did begin the great search for other Olympic track stars that could also catch a football. Somewhere along the way the part about "catching the football" was left to the wayside. In fact the whole "track star" stereotype has been altered to mean any black player no matter how fast he is. Frequently, black receivers run pathetically slow 40 yard dash times at tryouts yet are greeted as Olympic track stars by a fawning sports media that sees the ghost of Bob Hayes in every plodding black receiver.
The utter ridiculousness of labeling all black players fast sprinters has been thoroughly discredited by the actual numbers recorded at testing combines, which illustrate how patently false the idea is. When forced to acknowledge that every black player is not a speedster, black supremacists change the subject to some other quality the player is said to possess which sets him apart from white players. Invariably the new qualities are subjective and un-measureable.
Terms such as "loose hips" or "quick twitch athleticism" are euphemisms for those imaginary qualities said to be possessed by black players. The make believe attributes are created in an attempt to support the false belief that black players are in some way vastly superior to white players.
Without the creation of some amorphous non-measurable standards the debate would fall back upon known measurables such as 40 times, shuttle and cone drills, tests where the top white players equal or succeed their black counterparts.
White superiority in measured tests should have long ago wrecked the phony idea that blacks are better athletes than all whites in nearly every case. Unfortunately, like a "Great Society" welfare program, the tenacity of the "black as superior athlete" myth continues on long after it has been not only exposed as false by factual evidence, but also after it has been shown to have decreased the quality of the game by filling up NFL rosters with black receivers that cannot catch very well (and who often are poor route runners as well).
It is the height of absurdity that white players do not make up over 70 percent of NFL receivers. Only the resolute blindness of the people in charge of such things and the complete apathy and ignorance of the white fan base can explain such a travesty. White players are the best pass catchers, frequently are among the fastest of players, and are almost always hard working, smart, and team oriented. When will the NFL wake up and end this irrational and unfair discrimination?
Last week the few white players that do get a shot at receiver racked up some pretty impressive numbers.
Kevin Curtis of the Eagles had a 75 yard catch for a TD, and finished with 5 receptions for 121 yards.
Wes Welker of the Patriots had a career high 11 catches for 124 yards and 2 TDs. He also had 5 kick returns for an 18.4 yard avg.
Kevin Walter of the Texans led all NFL receivers with 12 catches for 160 yards.
Those players along with others like Mike Furrey, Brandon Stokley, Drew Bennett, Matt Jones, and Joe Jurevicious, should be the vangard of a new wave of receiver that can not only run fast but also catch the football. Possession receivers, what a great concept!
