NFL WEEK 17 2011 SEASON

[foobar75]

58 yard TD for Jordy Nelson, his third TD. The color announcer raved about the QB Flynn and earlier said Nelson 'out-muscles' the defensive backs who have 'superior athleticism' over Nelson. I guess 'out-muscling' is the new 'high motor' to explain white athletic success. What else could it be????

Let's ignore the fluke KC game in which the entire team sucked, so Jordy's numbers the last 2 weeks are 15 receptions, 277 yards, and 5 TDs, with an incredible average of 18.5 yards per reception.

This, IMO, is clearly an indication of good Jordy can be if he played more snaps and was the number #1 WR on the team. He has been unstoppable, putting aside any silly notion that he somehow benefits from defenses focusing on the Packers other supposed threats. He's obviously the primary big-play man on this team, proven this entire season.

 

[wile]

The Sanchez has landed like a plane without wings. Suffer Fireman Ed, you caste clown.

 

[bigunreal]

Again, some good stuff mixed in with more disappointment and Caste nonsense. Jordy Nelson put on a show yesterday- just think what he could do if his coaching staff treated him like the superstar he clearly is. It was also great to see the Patriots finally get back to targeting their superstar TE- Gronk had been practically ignored the past few weeks. Finally, it's nice to know that the "Dream Team" won't be in the playoffs and the Bucs finished the season as the NFL's worst team.

However, there were more negative story lines yesterday. First and foremost, the Tebow saga has taken a decidedly un-magical turn. The naysayers are having a field day now, and who can argue with them? Thanks to the most idiotic offensive game plans since Knute Rockne invented the forward pass, Tebow looks horrible now. They run EVERY first down, and the vast majority of second downs. More disturbingly, Eric Decker-who was on the verge of a major breakout at mid-season, is almost never targeted now. Tebow locks onto Thomas, during his infrequent throwing opportunities. I don't care that they backed into the playoffs- Fox is a complete moron, and Tebow has now been typecast as a "gimmick" player who "can't play" QB, just like all those brilliant "analysts" kept telling us. And, of course, Decker becomes the latest white WR whose immense talents will simply be wasted by a league whose coaches are supposedly devoted to winning.

Toby Gerhart was injured yesterday, so didn't get to close out the season on a high note. Of course, he may still have a chance to make his mark early next season, but we all know he could average 200 yards rushing per game and still be relegated to his quota of 2-3 touches as soon as AP returns. In the same game, it was comical to see Lovie and co. pulling out all the stops to prevent Jared Allen from breaking the sack record. At one point, they had four guys blocking him. Of course, his own black coach couldn't figure out how to move Allen around, in order to give him a better chance to break the record. I think we all know that there will never be a black Brett Favre, willingly falling down on the field and handing a record to a white player on the opposing team. Also, Hillis evidently suffered another injury. I'm sorry, but how can we deny that he's injury prone at this point?

Even I was shocked that Welker didn't lead the league in receiving yardage. The Patriots certainly weren't as interested in helping their players set individual goals as the Saints were. I don't care what anyone says- that team blatantly pads Brees' stats, week after week. They have a first and goal from inside the five, and routinely don't even try to run the ball. The Packers do a lot of this as well, which pads Rogers' stats. You don't see the Patriots do it as much, and certainly the legendary Norv Turner never does it, thereby robbing the truly great Philip Rivers of an untold number of short, cheap passing TDs.

How does one explain the fact that Matt Flynn, in only his second NFL start, shattered the all-time Packers' records for passing yards and TD passes? If Aaron Rodgers is incomparably great, how can Flynn do something that he, HOFer Bart Starr, and future HOFer Brett Favre never did? I think games like this should give all of us pause when we credit one player for a team's success. Rodgers is very, very talented, but clearly the system, the line and the receivers have a great deal to do with his success. I don't know whether we can say quite the same thing about Brees (certainly the Saints' receivers, outside of Graham, are mediocre), but we can safely say, I think, that neither Brees nor Rodgers could put up the numbers Philip Rivers manages behind that line, with that moronic offensive system.

Bottom line- QBs continue to get more credit and more blame than they deserve. This is what bothered me about the ridiculous Tebow-mania. He didn't really do much to earn individual praise, but because of the nineteenth century offensive system he's mired in, there is very little he can do individually. Now, he's going to be blasted again and that isn't fair. Fox will face virtually no criticism (after all, he "led" his average team to the playoffs with a QB who "can't play") and Tebow will need every bit of "magic" he allegedly possesses in order to even stay competitive against the Steelers.

I'll be rooting hard against the Steelers and Ravens in the playoffs, but the only teams to truly root for, imho, are the Texans and the Patriots.

 

[Leonardfan]

Hillis and Gerhart both finished the year out strong. Hillis missed five games yet he did not perform much worse than every DWFs gold-toofed RB Chris Johnson or the pea-brained thug Legarrete Blount. Gerhart proved he belongs this year to all the doubters who said he should be a blocking FB or lose time to Lorenzo Booker.

I am hoping Hillis leaves Cleveland - I am hoping Mangini gets a job somewhere in the league this year and is able to sign Hillis. Perhaps another quasi-white friendly coach will sign him. I think Griffin will end up in Cleveland which will also give me more reason to root against them (besides fat walrus and the incompetent puppet shurmur).

 

[jaxvid]

It's amazing how many teams choked by losing games they really needed to win against other teams that weren't playing for anything. Jets losing to Miami, Lions losing to Packers (resting 3 Pro bowlers), Oakland vs SD, and Denver losing to KC.

The Rams fired Spagnuolo which unfortunately means they will probably get blacker. Morris was fired at Tampa Bay as expected.

Both Hillis and Gerhart with knee injuries to end the season. sheesh....:cry:

 

[Freethinker]

The NFL has become a pass friendly league and why not as it's a golden age for quarterbacks. 4 of the top 6 single season passers are now from 2011 with an unreal 3 QBs topping 5,000 yards and 2 (Brees and Brady) breaking Marino's 27 year mark. If Aaron Rogers played he also could have went over 5k. This also pushed Daunte Culpepper out of the top 10 making it all-White again. With the current crop of elite QBs coupled with the shift to a passing league, I would not be surprised if Dan Marino is sitting outside of the top 10 in the not so distant future.

NFL Single-Season Passing Yards Leaders

1.	Drew Brees (32)	5,476	2011	NOR
2.	Tom Brady (34)	5,235	2011	NWE
3.	Dan Marino+ (23)	5,084	1984	MIA
4.	Drew Brees (29)	5,069	2008	NOR
5.	Matthew Stafford (23)	5,038	2011	DET
6.	Eli Manning (30)	4,933	2011	NYG

 

[rebelcart]

Tebow

As much as I cheer for Tebow because I hate the way the Jew-media wants to destroy him, I can't help but see the obvious; he has bought into the whole white guilt complex (This is likely why he does not target Decker as much as he needs to). You can see how Tebow goes out of his way to be overly friendly with any of the black players on the field, whether teammates or not.

Also, myself being very familiar with the type of Christianity Tebow is part of (I am a strong Christian myself), white guilt runs rampant in evangelical Christian circles (I do not consider myself evangelical at all anymore). White families are ALWAYS having to go to black countries for missions, and they ALWAYS, when they adopt, have to adopt a child who is black. They literally hate their own race and consider it their Christian duty to love blacks more than their own race. It must give them an overly important, super-spiritual feeling inside. I actually part-way bought into this before I renounced this type of Christianity.

 

[dwid]

It sucks that Welker is now number 2, but he caught 70 percent of his targets compared to Calvin Johnson's 60 percent. Then dwfs would say "but Calvin Johnson is more of a deep threat and those are lower completion passes"...Jordy Nelson also caught over 70 percent of his targets and averaged a higher ypc. Jordy Nelson is what the media expected Calvin Johnson to be. When I have watched Johnson, he isn't as clutch, often dissapearing when the game is on the line.

Good to see Gronkowski get the record for yards. I was worried Graham would get it, when he is only a tight end in name. He doesn't block and is used similar to Colston.

as far as Tebow not targeting Decker, it could be possible that Thomas is the number 1 receiver on most plays called in and he isn't going through his progressions, or doesn't have time.

 

[Kaptain]

The only comment I want to make on the weekend of NFL football is that no quarterback would be successful in the offense at Denver. None. No quarterbacks numbers would look good while passing only on third and long and/or only in obvious desperation situations. The NFL success rate on third and long (5-12 yards) is only 29%. In other words all quarterbacks on average look horrible on third and long. The Tebow situation has become yet another self-for-filling prophecy. They said he couldn't pass so why even try to pass? And this somehow proves their original assertion that he couldn't pass in the first place??? Great logic.

In the meantime we are all supposed to pretend that this rather obvious sabotage isn't happening even though we see it with are own eyes every week. Would Rogers, Brady, or Brees ever have developed in to the great passers they are if they had played every single game with as few passing attempts as could possibly be given? No, they would have been drummed out of the league a long time ago if they were put in a similar circumstance. This is all just play acting anyway. Are we supposed to believe that John Fox actually believes that his limited playbook and ultra conservative play calling gives his team the best chance to win? Everyone involved from the pundits to every DWF and Tebow hater nationwide knows but won't admit that this is a set-up. The real reason they didn't want Tebow to start in the first place and the real reason they want him benched ASAP is because they are afraid that he will succeed. It's all a child's game of pretend designed to protect their delicate superegos from the fact that they and the suited idiots they listened to on TV might be wrong.

When Tebow played the Chiefs earlier this year the narrative was that he completed 2 passes and he was ridiculed endlessly even in victory. Never mind that he only threw 8 and that 5 of the 6 incompletions bounced off the intended receivers' hands. And never mind that one of the eight was a game winning bomb that was dead on-target. Never mind these silly facts the narrative repeated by everyone was to mock and ridicule Tebow for such a "horrible" performance. By the same logic, if he had completed 8 out of 8 the narrative could well have been that he was horrible because he only completed a paltry 8 passes. Honestly, what could Tebow had done differently in yesterday's game? There was maybe two pass plays that he could have completed if the passes would have been better. That's about it. The defense knew when he was going to pass and they knew the routes the receivers were going to run. This was confirmed time after time on replay. There were no open receivers.

Has anyone noticed that although Tim Tebow can't escape criticism for anything, John Fox is never criticized by anyone in the media (outside of Skip Bayless)? Instead we are fed the exact opposite narrative - that Fox is a brilliant coach that can somehow win despite the terrible Tebow. While criticism of Fox and his play-calling is strictly outlawed, every other coach in the league is routinely criticized for play-calling. Nearly every post game interview of coaches is followed by hordes of media-types demanding that they justify their play-calling in particular the pass to run ratio. I haven't seen this happen with John Fox. This has gotten so absurd that questioning Fox's play-calling is like questioning the Holocaust. Exactly 6 million died in make believe gas chambers, the pink elephant we all see doesn't exist, and Tim Tebow can't pass especially when he hands the ball off. Rinse and repeat. Tomorrow we will all be told again that Ron Paul can't be elected so don't vote for him because he can't get enough votes anyway. Just another self for-filling prophecy. I'm going to bed.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

This year, Wes Welker (2), Rob Gronkowski (6), and Jordy Nelson (9) hold 3 of the top 10 spots in receiving yardage in the NFL!

Prior to this season, how long has it been since Whites occupied 3 of the top 10 spots in terms of receiving yardage at the end of the regular season?

The answer is 1983, when Todd Christensen (4), Tim Smith (7), and Steve Watson (10) were in the top 10.

The time before that was '81 with Steve Watson (4), Steve Largent (5), and Dwight Clark (9).

In '78, the year of some rule changes that helped open up the passing game, there were Steve Largent (2), Pat Tilley (5), and Dave Casper (10).

You have to go all the way back to 1972 to find three or more Whites in the top 10 in receiving yardage again, and there were four, Fred Biletnikoff (6), Chip Myers (7), Bob Tucker (8), and Ted Kwalick (10). That is the next goal I want to see met when it comes to White receivers, whether at the WR or TE position.

We don't find a half White top 10 until '71, when Fred Biletnikoff (3), Gary Garrison (4), Randy Vataha (6), Bob Tucker (9), and Ken Burrow (10) were there.

1970, the first year of the NFL/AFL merger, saw 4 Whites in the top 10 in receiving yardage, Gary Garrison (4), Danny Abramowicz (7), Jack Snow (9), and Carroll Dale (10).

 

[Lew]

That was an amazing post Kaptain :hail:

 

[foobar75]

However, there were more negative story lines yesterday. First and foremost, the Tebow saga has taken a decidedly un-magical turn. The naysayers are having a field day now, and who can argue with them? Thanks to the most idiotic offensive game plans since Knute Rockne invented the forward pass, Tebow looks horrible now. They run EVERY first down, and the vast majority of second downs. More disturbingly, Eric Decker-who was on the verge of a major breakout at mid-season, is almost never targeted now. Tebow locks onto Thomas, during his infrequent throwing opportunities. I don't care that they backed into the playoffs- Fox is a complete moron, and Tebow has now been typecast as a "gimmick" player who "can't play" QB, just like all those brilliant "analysts" kept telling us. And, of course, Decker becomes the latest white WR whose immense talents will simply be wasted by a league whose coaches are supposedly devoted to winning.

Here's my take on the Tebow situation. Due to some luck of the draw, we ended up getting 6 of the last 7 DEN games on national TV where I live, so I had the opportunity to watch all of these games without having to rely on some biased analysis by the so-called experts.

Tebow was starting to play some very good football leading up to and including the NE game. His passes were crisp and on target, his reads were spot on, he was taking care of the ball, and doing a pretty good job running the football as well. I have no idea what happened in the last 2 games but he's regressed somewhat. The game plan hasn't really changed all that much. It's still that idiotic and predictable run on 1st, run on 2nd, pass on 3rd. But watching Tebow and his body language, he seems a bit rattled out there. 6 turnovers is very uncharacteristic of how he's played thus far. Of course, all young players will hit an occasional rough patch, and that's hopefully what this is. Also, in yesterday's KC game, there were a few instances where the receivers were open, but Tebow either didn't see them, or held the ball too long and by then they were no longer open.

It's a bit eerie that the fall in Tebow's play almost exactly coincides with Elway finally endorsing him and all the non-believers, including Merrill Hoge, finally giving up. I sort of wish they'd kept up with the negativity because it makes me wonder if all of that kept the fire going for Tebow. The entire team plus the stadium was lifeless yesterday for the most part in what was a huge game in many years for the Broncos.

Even I was shocked that Welker didn't lead the league in receiving yardage. The Patriots certainly weren't as interested in helping their players set individual goals as the Saints were.

Actually, that's not quite true. Yesterday, Gronk and Jimmy Graham were going back and forth trying to break Winslow's record. They both had it at one point, but then Graham moved ahead by something like 10 yards. So, Belichik put Gronk back in the game with about 1:30 left and they threw him the ball for the explicit purpose of getting the record. These are once in a lifetime opportunities, and when they are that close you have to give it to the player. I'm glad the Pats did that.

Welker just got unlucky. The GB-DET game turned into a shoot-out, and that meant a big game for Calvin Johnson. Plus, the Pats themselves were going to their TEs during the game, which didn't leave many targets for Welker. If he was close like Gronk, I'm sure they would have gone for that, too.

It's a bummer that Welker didn't get the numbers, but at least Calvin Johnson is deserving also. He's had a very good year and does not appear to be your typical black prima donna WR.

 

[white is right]

This year, Wes Welker (2), Rob Gronkowski (6), and Jordy Nelson (9) hold 3 of the top 10 spots in receiving yardage in the NFL!

Prior to this season, how long has it been since Whites occupied 3 of the top 10 spots in terms of receiving yardage at the end of the regular season?

The answer is 1983, when Todd Christensen (4), Tim Smith (7), and Steve Watson (10) were in the top 10.

The time before that was '82 when Wes Chandler (1), Dwight Clark (2), and Cris Collinsworth (4) held down the majority of the top 5 spots.

1981 was the last time 4 of the top 10 receivers were White, with Steve Watson (4), Steve Largent (5), Wes Chandler (8), and Dwight Clark (9). That is the next goal I want to see met when it comes to White receivers, whether at the WR or TE position.

In '78, the year of some rule changes that helped open up the passing game, there were Steve Largent (2), Pat Tilley (5), and Dave Casper (10).

You have to go all the way back to 1972 to find three or more Whites in the top 10 in receiving yardage again, and there were four, Fred Biletnikoff (6), Chip Myers (7), Bob Tucker (8), and Ted Kwalick (10).

We don't find a half White top 10 until '71, when Fred Biletnikoff (3), Gary Garrison (4), Randy Vataha (6), Bob Tucker (9), and Ken Burrow (10) were there.

1970, the first year of the NFL/AFL merger, saw 4 Whites in the top 10 in receiving yardage, Gary Garrison (4), Danny Abramowicz (7), Jack Snow (9), and Carroll Dale (10).

Rebel start calling yourself Sports Historian Jr...:hail:

 

[John Reese]

It sucks that Welker is now number 2, but he caught 70 percent of his targets compared to Calvin Johnson's 60 percent. Then dwfs would say "but Calvin Johnson is more of a deep threat and those are lower completion passes"...Jordy Nelson also caught over 70 percent of his targets and averaged a higher ypc. Jordy Nelson is what the media expected Calvin Johnson to be. When I have watched Johnson, he isn't as clutch, often dissapearing when the game is on the line.

I'm a Lions fan, and watch Stafford/Calvin religiously. Calvin gets doubled and tripled teamed in almost every pass situation. Stafford's accuracy is often lacking, and a large percentage of Johnson's catches are either jump balls in which he's fending off those 3 guys, or body contortions in which he has to manuever to catch overthrown or underthrown balls.

Rodgers freakishly hits Jordy in stride on almost every single pass, and he hasn't seen a double-team in years. He even laughs about the single coverage. Also, while the opponent's top cover guy sticks Johnson, Green Bay's top cover sticks Driver and Jennings.

 

[celticdb15]

"Rodgers freakishly hits Jordy in stride on almost every single pass, and he hasn't seen a double-team in years. He even laughs about the single coverage. Also, while the opponent's top cover guy sticks Johnson, Green Bay's top cover sticks Driver and Jennings."

After his performance this year I think he has proven that he needs to be double teamed. If D-coordinators still refuse to double team him after 15tds this year they're insane. As for Rodgers and Jennings they didn't even play in this weekends shootout, so how do you explain Jordys 3 touchdown performance with Flynn tossing him the ball?

 

[seattlefan]

The time before that was '82 when Wes Chandler (1), Dwight Clark (2), and Cris Collinsworth (4) held down the majority of the top 5 spots.

Wasn't Wes Chandler black?

 

[Kaptain]

I'm a Lions fan, and watch Stafford/Calvin religiously. Calvin gets doubled and tripled teamed in almost every pass situation. Stafford's accuracy is often lacking, and a large percentage of Johnson's catches are either jump balls in which he's fending off those 3 guys, or body contortions in which he has to manuever to catch overthrown or underthrown balls.

Rodgers freakishly hits Jordy in stride on almost every single pass, and he hasn't seen a double-team in years. He even laughs about the single coverage. Also, while the opponent's top cover guy sticks Johnson, Green Bay's top cover sticks Driver and Jennings.

You're an idiot. No defense in the league plans to triple team anybody - dummy. That would mean that defenses plan to leave other people completely uncovered. It just doesn't happen, dummy. In fact, "double teams" aren't planned. A safety over the top is sometimes misnamed a double team when in fact the safety is just assigned to whoever goes deep - which is often Jordy Nelson's role. Offenses design plays to get their #1 receiver favorable coverage and plenty of targets. That's why all #1 receivers on all teams tend to get open more and get more targets.

Jordy put up his numbers with less plays designed for him, less plays he was on the field, and 64 less targets. You can make your argument worshiping Calvin's Johnson, but it's only your opinion. Don't try to pull BS claims like "triple teams" or inaccurate passing by a guy who threw for over 5,000. Without Stafford, your precious Lions are nothing. You just exposed yourself as a dummy with your arguments. Now go back to staring at Calvin's poster.

 

[whiteathlete33]

You're an idiot. No defense in the league plans to triple team anybody - dummy. That would mean that defenses plan to leave other people completely uncovered. It just doesn't happen, dummy. In fact, "double teams" aren't planned. A safety over the top is sometimes misnamed a double team when in fact the safety is just assigned to whoever goes deep - which is often Jordy Nelson's role. Offenses design plays to get their #1 receiver favorable coverage and plenty of targets. That's why all #1 receivers on all teams tend to get open more and get more targets.

Jordy put up his numbers with less plays designed for him, less plays he was on the field, and 64 less targets. You can make your argument worshiping Calvin's Johnson, but it's only your opinion. Don't try to pull BS claims like "triple teams" or inaccurate passing by a guy who threw for over 5,000. Without Stafford, your precious Lions are nothing. You just exposed yourself as a dummy with your arguments. Now go back to staring at Calvin's poster.

Kaptain, I think we all know what his agenda is here by now. It only takes one post to tell. I'm sure he's one of the regular rodents.

 

[foreverfree]

Wasn't Wes Chandler black?

And wasn't Ken Burrough black, Colonel?

John

 

[sport historian]

And wasn't Ken Burrough black, Colonel?

John

The Colonel was referring to Ken Burrow, of the Atlanta Falcons, who was white. Burrow was from San Diego State and played for the Falcons 1971-75.

 

[sport historian]

Wasn't Wes Chandler black?

Wes Chandler was indeed black.

 

[jaxvid]

Calvin Johnson is a very good reciever, no question. He's tall, strong, has good hands and good speed. All of the same things can be said about Nelson. In fact the way they are treated so differently says all you need to know about the 'caste-system'. If Nelson was black, with the numbers he's put up he would be the guy with the triple teams and the QB's go-to guy. He would be a mega-superstar and marketed as such.

Instead, he is often the 4 guy in the reciever rotation, is treated like a team mascot, and gets little respect. When I drafted Jordy Nelson in a FF league this year one of the other guys asked "who's he?" Typical.

As for Johnson beating out Welker in yardage, it was a bit of a fluke with the Lions and Packers having a track meet in the final game, but when you consider that Welker works out of the slot and Johnson is out wide, it is truly an amazing accomplishment for Welker to get that many yards.

And if Woodson plays in the Lions Packers game Johnson probably would not have had so many yards.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Wasn't Wes Chandler black?

Yep, thanks for the heads up! That is what I get for trying to do a write-up at 2AM. I went back and fixed the post.

 

[Thrashen]

After his late-season heroics during the conclusion of the 2010-2011 season (particularly in the playoffs and the Superbowl), the 2011-2012 season was widely believed to be Jordy Nelson’s “breakout year.” In September, October, November, and parts of December, Nelson was barely playing offensively, pulled in and out of the lineup, and forced to share snaps with the likes of Donald Driver, Randall Cobb, and James Jones. Back then, it seemed as though his “ethnic internship” would be prolonged into the 4[SUP]th[/SUP] season of his career. But alas, it was not to be, as Nelson’s electrifying talent and supernatural play-making prowess (accomplishments which were made that much more remarkable considering he was only a part-time flanker) was rivaled by none across the NFL. As the world turned, and the season wore on, Nelson endured the obstacles set before him by his own coaches’ reluctance to name him a starter, the disparaging remarks of his own teammates, and the Caste Media’s constant ponderinging (“black cornerbacks are underestimating Nelson because he’s white, allowing him to ‘sneak up’ on them and make big plays”) by tallying 68 catches, 1,263 yards (9[SUP]th[/SUP] best in the NFL), 18.6 YPC (2[SUP]nd[/SUP] best only to Victor Cruz’s 18.7 YPC) and 15 scintillating TD catches (3[SUP]rd[/SUP] best to Rob Gronkowski’s 17 and Calvin Johnson’s 16). In the end, it was a true “breakout season” for this brilliant young superstar-in-the-making…

CAPTION: ACLU to Investigate Nelson’s 9-Catch, 162-Yrd Season Finale

With Calvin Johnson’s 250-yard game, Wes Welker wasn’t able to become to first white receiver to lead the NFL in receiving yards in over 25 years. Nevertheless, Welker capped a fantastic season in which he broke the Patriots’ single-season receiving yards mark (set by Randy Moss in 2007), had an unbelievable 16-catch, 217-yard, 2 TD game, tied the record for longest reception in NFL history (99.5-yards), and became only the 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] player in NFL history to accrue four separate 100-reception seasons. His brilliant season total for 2011…122 catches for 1,569 yards and 9 TDs…

CAPTION: Patriot Missile Preps Playoff Explosion

In 2011, Rob Gronkowski recorded the best season for any TE in NFL history. Best in receiving yards (1,327), best in receiving TD’s catches (17), and best in terms of sheer athletic domination. He may be the most physically gifted TE to ever play in the NFL…

CAPTION: The Caste System Gets “Spiked” by Gronk

Julian Edelman againt played nickel cornerback, but only after the Bills were leading 21-0. After Edelman was inserted into the game, the Bills were held scoreless for the remainder. He notched 5 tackles, and utterly blanketed his assigned receiver. My hope is for him to excel at cornerback on a national stage come playoff time (and log a few interceptions), earning a started cornerback position in the coming years…

CAPTION: The NFL’s Only White Cornerback, Julian Edelman

This week yielded some nice results to cap a fantastic season for our players. Despite the Texans “backing into the playoffs” with three straight losses, they were certainly fortunate to draw perhaps the weakest AFC playoff team in Cincinnati.

New England, despite winning 8 straight games to close the season, hasn’t been a dominant team. Defensively, they’ve played slightly better (whilst heavily featuring Edelman, Fletcher, and Ninkovich), but they’ve gotten off to slow starts offensively, even against sub-par opponents (Chiefs, Colts, Dolphins, Bills, etc) before finding a way to win.

Denver, losers of three-straight, (and looking particularly putrid against the Chiefs), has a chance to beat Pittsburg. I will acknowledge that aside from Tebow, Decker, and 3 white offensive lineman, Denver is barely “whiter” than the odious Steelers, but Denver’s overall “value” towards our cause is, for obvious reasons, substantially higher. As others have mentioned, Tebow / Denver have transformed into a yawn-inducing squad of late. Decker has utterly disappeared from their insipid passing game.

Aside from Green Bay, all of the other NFC playoff teams (Giants, Falcons, Saints, 49ers, and Lions) are similar…that is, a good/great white quarterback with 2-3-4 white offensive lineman, a few pass-catching white TE’s (Ballard, Scheffler) and 0-1-2 white defensive players (Scott Shanle, Kyle Vanden Bosch, Justin Smith, Dave Tolleffson, Mark Herzlich, Kroy Biermann, Jeff Charleston, etc). Should the Packers eventually advance past the winner of Detroit/New Orleans game, I’d like to see them defeat the “whitest” possible team. That team, pathetically enough, might be the Giants.

The Packers facing the Patriots / Texans in the Superbowl would be a dazzling showcase of white athletic talent. I personally believe that New England’s white-friendly offense (Brady, Welker, Gronk, Woodhead, Light, Mankins, Connolly, Solder/Vollmer) will do more to ruin the Caste System’s white-abhorring pigeonholes than Houston’s white-friendly defense.

 

[Tom Iron]

Thrashen,

Is Edelman still playing any offense?

Tom Iron...