This is the name of Irish Greg's latest article. the article is amazing, a must read. I loved every word written, it was so good that i read it twice. Click on the link to read and congratulate Irish Greg on a job well done.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Would You Like Fries With That!
This is the name of Irish Greg's latest article. the article is amazing, a must read. I loved every word written, it was so good that i read it twice. Click on the link to read and congratulate Irish Greg on a job well done.
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Wow! That was so great, you might say it was SUPER SIZED!!
ReplyDeleteA few extra points to mention.
* Seattle is the first NFC West team to REPEAT as Division Champs in like FOREVER
* The Pork Chop and Mili injuries were not noted, but both were major contributors to the success of the team last year.
* Matt completed passes to TWELVE different receivers
* IrishGreg was too professional to bitch about the bad calls by the refs, but SOMEONE has to mention it
* Seahawks were within a left upright in DC of matching the league's longest winning streak
* long long list of perennial knocks on this team that were shed this year (can't win in Eastern time zone, can't beat Rams, can't hold late leads in games, can't put away opponent, can't rely on offense to win games for you, etc, etc, etc.)
Posted by alba
Great article. I liked the stat about rushing for 28% of the Cardinals season output in one game.
ReplyDeleteIf I recall, that was a Fun Stat (tm) put into one of the NFC West Updates. (Hey, I gotta toot my own horn, right?)
Great article. God, I love this team. And each of those words was a reason why.
Posted by Alan
Hey, there is an egregious error in that article, "WR Joe Jurevicius caught everything but a cold." I remember him being sick earlier and missed practice, c'mon Greg, do your homework! J/k. Another great article, thanks.
ReplyDeletePosted by JoSCh
Beauty!
ReplyDeleteShould be required reading for all media "football experts".
Posted by Rockyseahawk
Not to rain on your parade, because you guys get that enough, but I didn't see that this article made any sense. The great stats are not an answer to critics who say you didn't play anyone tough, they are merely a result of your not playing anyone tough. If the Redskins had 7 games against Houston, the 49ers, the Rams and the Cardinals, they would have had better stats than they do now.
ReplyDeletePosted by Joe
"Not to rain on your parade, because you guys get that enough " BWHAHAHAHAHA, seriously, never heard one like that, are you a comedian? If not, try it out, you'd be great. Say something about coffee, it's never used and always gets a big laugh. Or fish throwing, nothing funnier than men tossing salmon around. Ya know, they teach it starting in the elementary schools in Washington, I got a B- on my fish throwing final, kept me off the Deans list... and now I find it hard to find a job that doesn't require me to throw dead animals.
ReplyDelete"great stats are not an answer to critics who say you didn't play anyone tough" Screw critics. Plus that article wasn't about critics as I recall. Besides, look at the Slurs schedule, it's not the toughest ever, is it? SF, Philly twice, Oakland (how you lose to Oakland at home is beyond me) STL and Ari, not to mention that horrible team out of Seattle. Thats 7 games against an easy schedule, Your guys put up worse stats and a worse record. Commence the "Yeah, but" posts now please.
Posted by JoSCh
The record of the Redskins opponents in games other than their games against the Redskins was 128-112. The record of the Seahawks opponents in games other than their games against the Redskins was 84-124. Please take these facts and shove them up your "yeah butt."
ReplyDeleteNo, no, no. I am just kidding. I just wrote that because it sounded funny. No hard feelings. That fish throwing thing is not something we all make fun of you for. We don't pay enough attention to you to know that you all throw fish. But now that I know is is the municipal pasttime, I will be careful with what I say so I don't hurt anyone's feelings. Thanks.
And you are right, I have no idea how we lost to Oakland. That just shows we play down or up to our opponents. You guys have done a good job at dispensing with the easy teams on your schedule, which is actually hard to do on a consistent basis in the NFL. But the playoffs are a different matter.
I think it will be a good game. You are mostly untested, and we are tested but flawed. It will be very interesting to see if we can uncover flaws in Seattle that are bigger than our obvious ones (or if we can just get a few lucky bounces).
Posted by Anonymous
"The record of the Redskins opponents in games other than their games against the Redskins was 128-112 " Well done mathelete, but how did the Slurs opponents play more games than the Seahawks opponents? 240 games to 208. Even if you include the wildcard game it doesn't add up, that is stunning. Regardless, is it possible that any of the Slurs opponents had easy schedules to skew that number? Finally, your response was exactly as expected, a "yeah but" with no substance and math errors, although surpisingly included a fair attempt at humor.
ReplyDelete"We don't pay enough attention to you to know that you all throw fish. " Congratulations, you are ignorant. Ya know what else we can do, add. Seriously, no coffee jokes?
"I think it will be a good game. " Agree with you there.
Posted by JoSCh
You're right, I totally screwed that up. Let me try again:
ReplyDeleteRedskins opponents: 128-112
Seahawks opponents: 97-143
Both stats do not count the games each team played in. You have to admit that is quite a spread. Yes, we can go into the records of the teams that the teams they played played, and so on and so on, but gets a bit ridiculous, and doesn't change the fact that the Seahawks did not play teams with good records.
And about us being ignorant: Do you know the habits of people in Bangledesh? The most popular tv shows in Turkey? The best restaurants in Latvia? No, of course you don't. But they know about America. Why? Because we are a world leader and they are not (and when they criticize us for it they are full of crap because they don't know about each other, they just know about us).
Similarly (I bet you can see where this is going) you know about DC but we don't know about Seattle, not because we are ignorant, but because DC is important and Seattle is not.
You go be proud of your addition skills while we run the world.
And why would I make fun of you for coffee? We have 3 Starbucks within a half block of my office. You could not have more than we do unless you actually all lived in Starbucks.
If you guys win I will be pulling for you fish-throwing pansies to win it all. But I do not think that will happen.
Posted by Anonymous
"Similarly (I bet you can see where this is going) you know about DC but we don't know about Seattle, not because we are ignorant, but because DC is important and Seattle is not."
ReplyDeleteig�no�rant (adj.)
1. Lacking education or knowledge.
2. Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge: an ignorant mistake.
3. Unaware or uninformed.
Anon, You meet the definition of ignorant, whether you like the sound of it or not, by your self professed lack of knowledge about Seattle.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem to stop you from acting like you know eveything, which in essence, make you a hypocrite, which falls in line with everything DC stands for, namely, murder, drugs, politics, Marion Berry, Ted Kennedy, and the WORST NAMED SPORTS FRANCHISE to ever play a game with a ball, the WASHINGTON (bleep).
Ignoramus.
Posted by Bluefoot
"We have 3 Starbucks within a half block of my office. " See, world domination! Probably using Microsoft products as well to spread your ignorance, hooray!
ReplyDelete"you know about DC " Murder, corruption, crack use by the mayor? Yeah, we heard of it. But we didn't go there until you brought it up. Easy jokes are just that, easy.
"You go be proud of your addition skills while we run the world. " I have serious doubts you run anything but your mouth and your sister you Virgina hayseed. I guess I could be wrong, you could be from Maryland... sorry, I sorta said I didn't appreciate the easy jokes.
"doesn't change the fact that the Seahawks did not play teams with good records." True. It's just that you can spin stats anyway you want to make an arguement usually. See here for my counter and spin to Lt. Mandrake's stats, he's also a Slurs fan.
"And about us being ignorant" Not sure who "us" is, I realize I quoted you saying "we", but I was talking to you. I am confident you don't speak for every Slurs fan. And regarding my knowledge of far and middle east countries, or former eastern block countries, or any other place for that matter, well, first you couldn't know. Second, do you? I don't really care if you do, but you can't call someone ignorant about a topic you know nothing about without calling yourself ignorant, so it's not much of an insult. Third, nobody knows everything, but I do know about the Slurs, because that interests me as a fan of the NFL and of the Seahawks, this is a football site after all, not an World Book encyclopedia. But you don't seem to have any insight into the Seahawks, yet come here and critisize them. Smack is funny only if its funny. Fat, stupid, and drunk is no way to go through life...
"You're right" Again, agree with you. Please go away if you don't have anything worth my reading.
Posted by JoSCh
I was trying to have a somewhat fun, light hearted exchange about the game. We can all talk a little smack and still not hate each other!! Simmer down!!
ReplyDeleteYour years of losing have apparently left all you soggy Seahawks fans with absolutely no idea about playoff etiquette. I could have more good-natured ribbing with an idiot Eagles fan. You guys just don't get it.
As you wish, your comment section is your own after this post. Enjoy your personal circle-jerk among like-minded Seahawks fans (and, apparently, really annoying politically correct a**holes).
Just to kame it clear, welike our team name. It has history behind it. Learn from history, don't ignore it. And besides, your team name sucks. No one else knows what the hell a seahawk is. It's just stupid and generic. Another bird name. Real creative. And the fact that it is a bird barely different than the bird 10,000 other teams are already named after makes it even lamer.
Now I know why the rest of the NFL ignores you guys. What a bunch of preachy dicks!
Posted by Anonymous
LOL, what a jackass.
ReplyDeleteYou think you can throw out a bomb like, "DC is important and Seattle is not" and get away with it? What leads you to beleive this is not good natured? And what in the hell do you know about etiquette, when you can't even perceive what is wrong woth the name of your team?
And you are mistaken - Football is not a history lesson. People don't buy tickets so they can learn about Hiawatha or Sacajawea. Thats why we have SCHOOLS. What you're saying is a lame excuse regurgitated by Redskins owners and marketing, so they do not lose money by alienating their fans who have 3 decades of worthless memorabilia tucked in their sock drawer. The decisions to not rename the franchise is a financial one, and their is no moral value behind it.
And anon, why are you so down on the name of our franchise, when you are too chickenshlt to give yourself a handle when you post here?
Posted by Bluefoot