2006 Point & Laugh at the taterskins thread

[Phanatic]

This thread is money!

[Sgt PSN]

So I rode the metro this morning with a cripple wearing a taterskins hat, and for some reason I felt like he deserved it.

[Rome]

I will anyways bet on the taterskins but I just want some advice.

Wow.   

"Bet me" would be my advise.

[Feva]

So I rode the metro this morning with a cripple wearing a taterskins hat, and for some reason I felt like he deserved it.

Reminds me of a time when I saw a BK employee outside in the cold sweeping up the parking lot.  I thought it was the perfect assignment for a guy wearing a Cowboys jacket.

[paco]

Eagles Envy

Kay's Korner: This 'Skins fan is getting Eagles envy   
   Nov. 14, 2006
By Eric Kay
SPiN Columnist     

 
   
I've been struck with a case of bird envy, and it's not Toucan Sam-related like last time. I want to say I'll get through this, but I just don't know.

You see, the Philadelphia Eagles are everything my Washington taterskins aren't. The Eagles rarely overpay their players, they rely heavily on the draft, they don't cave in to outlandish demands by egotistical players and they sign 24-year-olds, not 34-year-olds, to long-term deals.

Throw in the fact they've had the same managerial structure for the past half-dozen or so years and one of the game's longest-tenured coaches, and it has me wondering: What's not to like about the green and white? (Cough, their fans).

Now, the taterskins, meanwhile, do just about everything wrong. They don't draft (New York in April is sooo touristy), they overpay just about everyone and have only one consistency in the managerial structure: inconsistency.

That's why I have Eagles envy. And something of late has that deadly sin kicking into high gear. It's the Eagles' propensity to dish out long-term deals to young, rising stars.

In case you missed it, last week Philadelphia locked up wide receiver Reggie Brown to a five-year deal. I won't bore you with the details, but it's a reasonable number of greenbacks that will keep the 25-year-old in green through 2014. That's so un-taterskins, it's fantastic. Washington's sort-of-GM Vinny Cerrato wouldn't even know how to draft such a contract. He'd mistakenly slip in two no-trade clauses, several FedEx Field handicap parking stickers and Joe Gibbs' youngest son.

But Brown's deal is just the tip of the iceberg. Earlier this year defensive tackle Mike Patterson received a seven-year extension and defensive end Trent Cole inked a five-year contract. Two more reasonable deals for a pair of solid down linemen. To quote Monty Burns, "That's capital!"

But wait, there's more. Earlier, earlier this year, punter Dirk Johnson signed a six-year contract extension.

But wait, there's even more. Earlier, earlier, earlier this year, guard Shawn Andrews signed a contract extension through 2015 and center Jamaal Jackson got locked up through 2013.

Add running back Brian Westbrook's five-year deal in '05 and cornerbacks Lito Sheppard and Sheldon Brown, who signed five- and six-year deals in '04 and, it's safe to say there's a bit of a trend here.

.....

Pointing... and motherfarging Laughing.

I had some fun with that article.

My Buddy who bet me 150 bucks that the Skins would sweep the eagles this year:
Paco: S, I read your article.  Good read 
   
  (Link: http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/9802616
)http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/9802616
[13:52] S: this guy is an icehole
[13:52] S: you can have your long term medicrity
[13:52] Paco: lol
[13:52] Paco: mediocrity?
[13:52] Paco: lol
[13:52] Paco: now THATS funny
[13:53] Paco: and you can have your 2 winning seasons out of 10
[13:53] Paco: and two playoff wins
[13:53] S: 3 trophys baby
[13:53] S: all our seasons ended the same over 15 yrs

A coworker who Im in a fantasy league with:
paco (09:47 AM) - Robert, I read your article.  Good read
 
(Link: http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/9802616
)http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/9802616
paco (09:47 AM) - BTW, did you get my check?
Robert (09:48 AM) - yes
paco (09:48 AM) - yay, Im of your **** list
Robert (09:48 AM) - that article sucks
paco (09:49 AM) - I thought you did a good job
Robert (09:49 AM) - can't read it anymore, the first paragraph was too annoying
Robert (09:49 AM) - Eagles suck, they will never win the SB
paco (09:49 AM) - Except the cheap shot you took at mcNabb
Robert (09:49 AM) - taterskins will win AGAIN before the eagles win at all
Robert (09:50 AM) - byw - the draft sucks
paco (09:50 AM) - Free Agency Champs, yes
Regular sesons winners, not so much
Robert (09:50 AM) - free agents are much better
paco (09:50 AM) - yeah, hows that working out for you guys?
Robert (09:50 AM) - our problem is we have brunell as qb
Robert (09:50 AM) - if the eagles had brunell they would be 3-6 too
paco (09:51 AM) - right... a free agent
Robert (09:51 AM) - maybe worse
paco (09:51 AM) - much better than the guy we drafted



Pointing.  Laughing.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Paco! Whats up, man. Good to see ya here.

[paco]

Paco! Whats up, man. Good to see ya here.

Whats up?  FF sent me a link to this freaking topic and two days later I finally finish it, thats whats up.   

I swear to christ, this thread is gold and as addictive as crack (especially with the # of skins fans I deal with on a daily basis).  Which is why I really havent been on the other board the past few days.

[Sgt PSN]

Robert (09:50 AM) - free agents are much better
paco (09:50 AM) - yeah, hows that working out for you guys?
Robert (09:50 AM) - our problem is we have brunell as qb

That is farging classic!  Free agents are better.  Except our QB that we got via free agency. 

 

P to the O to the I to the N to the T to the I to the N to the G.  That means I'm laughing.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'm always scouting the top talent for .


Unfortunately, all I'm usually able to get are bums like Paco.

[MDS]

I'm always scouting the top talent for .


Unfortunately, all I'm usually able to get are bums like Paco.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The prodigal son takes up the pen again.


http://www.taterskins.com/news/newsDetail.jsp?id=22255

ExtremeSkins Fan View: A New Beginning...
November 16, 2006
By Arthur Mills

If it's true the one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear of the unknown, it is equally true the one permanent emotion of the ExtremeSkins fanatic--as it relates to the unknown--is joy.

Mark Brunell is a consummate professional. He's a gentleman. He's a team player. He plays hurt. He plays in control. He does as he's asked. Statistically, he's having a pretty fine year. He limits mistakes.

He deserves better from us, as fans, than he gets. He deserves better, as a person and leader who helped guide the team to the playoffs a season ago, then fans standing in line to toss dirt in his professional playing grave.

Though he deserves it, he's just not going to get it.

Here's why.

1-10-WAS33 --
M.Brunell pass SHORT right to T.Duckett to WAS 30 for -3 yards
2-13-WAS30 --
M.Brunell pass SHORT left to L.Betts to WAS 21 for -9 yards
3-22-WAS21 --
M.Brunell pass SHORT left to L.Betts to WAS 30 for 9 yards

Down 27-3, these were Brunell's final three passes of the game.

I know I hate that.

I know I don't understand it. I don't know whether those plays, and more like it, are the first option by play call, or whether Brunell simply goes to them quickly in more cases than we'd like, but there's a time when it's okay to stop managing the offense and it becomes acceptable to take chances.

One time like that is when the score is 27-3 against you. Three intermediate-to long-passes falling incomplete in the same situation and you'd almost have felt like we weren't packing it in.

The more stoic, heady, robotic, super-smart veteran play we got out of Brunell, the more fans pined for the rookie mistake.

With Jason Campbell in the game, we will immediately see bad throws, questionable decisions and mistakes that cost us games. None of that will really matter because no one much cares what Campbell brings now. Everyone wants to know what tomorrow brings. Campbell is the hope for consistent success if he's capable.

He's the signal for rebuilding and Brady Quinn if he's not.

Should I run into Mark Brunell this weekend in Tampa, I'll thank him for what he's done for us. But for the first time this year, I enter game week without a sinking feeling in my stomach. It's not fair to Brunell, but, there it is anyway.

No one knows what Campbell will do.

We just know it'll be different. For a lackluster team, searching for anything to bring energy and hope, that's all that matters.

No one in the organization will blame Brunell for where the team is today. It's not his fault. It won't be his fault even if Jason Campbell comes in and the team takes off. Brunell is the kind of guy playing blackjack with two face cards who stands pat instead of splitting.

Most fans want a little swagger and arrogance and gambler in their QB. Campbell doesn't even have to be that. He just has to be different. You'll never see fans more pleased than if Campbell completes 45 percent of his passes, but, half of them travel more than 10 yards in the air.

If he comes in and we're still engineering 14-play, 70-yard drives that consume 4:23 of the final 4:36 in a game we're down 36-14 (as happened in Indianapolis), no one will reflect on it and think it wasn't Brunell's fault.

We'll just shift blame to someone else.

In announcing the change at the position, Joe Gibbs was asked if Campbell was his guy from here forward. He said he's not one to guess at the future and if Mark gets some rest you never know what might happen. This means Campbell has the chance fans wanted, but there's not an unlimited timer on that chance.

Campbell will have exceptionally wide latitude not granted Brunell, at least by the fans.

In the end, Campbell only has to remember one thing to be immediately adored by Washington fans, regardless of outcome or even effectiveness.

When in doubt, please, air it out.

[MURP]

lets get this thing past the 200 page mark.

pointing and laughing.

[rjs246]

It's amazing how much fodder Skins fans give us. I mean, when the fan base can give you more ammo than that god awful joke of a franchise, you know you've struck gold.

[MDS]

Arthur Mills with another poetic piece of literature. Just brilliant.

[PhillyGirl]

It's amazing how much fodder Skins fans give us. I mean, when the fan base can give you more ammo than that god awful joke of a franchise, you know you've struck gold.

Well said.