celticdb15
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Packers making a comeback late down 37-29 4 minutes left.
I'm very happy for Gabbert. By all accounts he played really well with crap for offensive weapons. Hopefully he'll keep the Toucan (who seems to look uglier and more thuggish every year) on the bench.This morning on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Coutdown," Chris Carter and Stephen A. Smith were questioning the benching of Kaepernick and repeatedly yelled out: "Blaine Gabbert stinks!!" Each time this mockery was accompanied by hyenia-like laughter.
With many injuries to his offense weapons, it was great to see Gabbert pull out a win over a quality Falcons defense today, utilizing white TE's in the process.
This morning on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Coutdown," Chris Carter and Stephen A. Smith were questioning the benching of Kaepernick and repeatedly yelled out: "Blaine Gabbert stinks!!" Each time this mockery was accompanied by hyenia-like laughter.
With many injuries to his offense weapons, it was great to see Gabbert pull out a win over a quality Falcons defense today, utilizing white TE's in the process.
Gabbert was subjected to vicious ridicule from virtually everyone in the corporate sports media this past week, whether on TV, radio, newspaper or the internet. His solid showing today is one of the best results of the year, maybe the best so far. He had no chance in Jax with a terrible team and an even worse offensive line, but the media acted all week as though he was incapable of completing a forward pass.
I was listening to ESPN radio today where they give updates about every game and then some "expert" opinion. Along with the consensus that Blaine Gabbert is horrible and he gives the 49'ers no chance, Andrew Luck is finished and has no chance against Denver, Tennessee is going to get killed by New Orleans, and other prognostications that were so wrong you wonder how those guys get to keep their jobs. Media football opinion is worthless.
Nearly every local sportscaster in my area predicted the Detroit Lions to win 10+ games and some thought they would challenge for the Super Bowl. It's embarrassing to listen to so called experts be wrong so often. What is infuriating is how seldom they have to answer for being so wrong.
Rabbi Al Michaels makes an interesting comment about Cole Beasley: "He reminds you of Julian Edelman. You see a guy out there that looks like him out there on the field, he wears #11, and does a lot of the same things."