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The Chefs are saying that brand-new KC quarterback Kyle Orton will get a shot at playing next week after the slightly-less-than-stellar performance of the tremor-inducing Tyler Palko. Palko's quarterback rating this season is a glacial 47.5. Note that if Palko had thrown nothing but incompletions, his rating would be 39.6.
As for the Bolts, yesterday was the final nail in Norv Turner's coffin, though his skull still remains high atop my Christmas list. The only question is whether or not general manager idiotsavant AJ Smith follows him, and honestly, aside from inertia, there's no damn reason why not. Still, this season is the bitter fever of delusion before the sickness is expunged. Just five more weeks of undeniably mediocre football to sit through. Nice to know Nick Novak isn't the only one pissing the season away. Literally. (Dude, there are cameras here.)
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As for the Bolts, yesterday was the final nail in Norv Turner's coffin, though his skull still remains high atop my Christmas list. The only question is whether or not general manager idiot
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What is that stuff all over the person on the stretcher?
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But I take deep breaths, because I know he'll be unemployed probably before the afternoon of January 2, 2012.
I just can't see an option offense working in the NFL; it just takes too much of a physical toll on the quarterback. All Tebow needs is for a Haynesworth, a Suh, or even a Jack Tatum to get one hard shot and his grandkids will have post-concussion syndrome.
But hey, it seems to be working so far. Pity nobody seems to expect it when it happens.
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(Ok, I had to look- Gary Kubiak- who has had an uphill battle and Marvin Lewis- who I think is Norv-level terrible as well).
Also, is there a possibility that Philip Rivers is horrible? It seems that every game I see him in, he does a couple things that are pretty stupid. At the very least, can we stop mentioning him with the Brees/Manning/Brady crowd?
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Last night John Clayton said he sees no way Norv lasts past this year, which is reassuring, but as long as AJ Smith remains (and there's no indication beyond justice that says he's leaving), they're going to be subpar at best. Of course, subpar is still pretty good in the AFC West.
Rivers has had a worse season than I'd have thought possible. I'm blaming Smith -- again -- for dealing Darren Sproles, because as a checkdown option, he was perfectly reliable and changed the complexion of the games he was in. Tolbert and Mathews are battering rams and don't show that same spark yet. Phil's not completely blameless in this; he's thrown a few god-awful passes this season, but more than a few of those INTs have come in desperation heaves with nanoseconds left on the clock or when he's been backed into a third-and-infinity by the up-the-middle running you just know is coming on first and second down.
I'm an unabashed Rivers fan (playing on a torn ACL puts him in the broken-QB pantheon with a perpetually-concussed Stan Humphries for me), but he's played himself out of being regarded as elite this season. He can climb back into it, but not with this club as it is.
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I like Sproles alot, and he was my fantasy sleeper at the flex position. I would have kept him as the lightning for a lightning-and-thunder attack.
I will defer to you on Philip as you watch more Bolts games than I, but I have seen some bad plays from him this year that indeed shook the image I have of him.
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