Peter King's MMQB

[RV]

Does anyone have any idea what this means?

Maybe Chicago will be OK with the Lance Briggs and Alex Brown distractions on defense and the organization having silly blinders on when it comes to its uber-backing of Rex Grossman. I just don't get that one, because a team with a great defense and a quarterback who plays two good games and three bad ones should go 8-8.

I guess it depends on how he does in that sixteenth game.

So it took me about 2 minutes to actually look up the game logs and the way I see it Rex had (including playoffs) 10 good games, 5 bad games, and 4 mediocre games. Why can't this fat slob who is supposed to be an NFL expert actually punch up a few numbers on his laptop while he's chugging dairy creamer at Starbucks? What a douche.

Because it's much easier to say that Rex sucks. Sure, he might not be the second coming of Joe Montana, but he played some great games last year. He laid a few eggs, too, but his good games to bad games to mediocre games ratio is a little better than what Matt Clement produced in 2004, and oh, were we going to rue the day the Cubs let him go.

Peyton Manning shat all over himself more times in the playoffs and in more spectacular fashion than Rex Grossman did in awful conditions in the Super Bowl. I'm inclined to cut him a little slack. Oh, and when he wins Super Bowl XLII, I'm going to send Peter King a love letter:

Dear Mr. King:

I thought you'd enjoy this comparison of NFC North QBs who have started in a Super Bowl:

Brett Favre: 1-1. Number of seasons with Green Bay before going to a Super Bowl: Four. Number of Super Bowl-free seasons since Mike Holmgren let the Broncos score the go-ahead TD: 10.
Rex Grossman: 1-1. Number of seasons with Chicago before going to a Super Bowl: Three (one as a 3rd stringer, two injury-shortened seasons). Number of Super Bowl free seasons since Peter King deemed him too incompetent to walk and chew gum at the same time: 0.

Oh, but keep those travel stories coming. Those of us in the Middle West get awestruck at your stories of jet airplanes and limousines as we don't get to see too much of that as we take our John Deere from feed store to general store to slaughterhouse. And Starbucks? Never heard of it here.

Well done. I don't think he'll be drinking any more Starbucks now that he has discovered olive oil. Probably mainlining some right now as he tries to figure out ways to needlessly inject himself into next week's column.

The one Italian thing I am now addicted to: olive oil.

Houston first-round pick Amobi Okoye turns 20 on June 10 -- the same day I turn 50.

[Fork_The_Third]

Peter King is going to be mighty dumbfounded when the Bears win 12 16 15 games this year.

fix'd

Big Blue'd.

[bozos72]

Peter King is going to be mighty dumbfounded when the Bears win 12 16 15 16 games this year.

fix'd

Big Blue'd.

Eli'd.  We can do this all day.

[thehawk]

Peter King is going to be mighty dumbfounded when the Bears win 12 16 15 1618-19 games this year.

fix'd

Big Blue'd.

Eli'd.  We can do this all day.

Let's win the who[le] damn thing this year'd

[helloWorld]

Peter King is going to be mighty dumbfounded when the Bears win 12 16 15 1618-19 games this year.

fix'd

Big Blue'd.

Eli'd.  We can do this all day.

Let's win the who damn thing this year'd

Now, I am confused.  I thought Who played first, why are we talking about him in a football thread?

[thehawk]

Peter King is going to be mighty dumbfounded when the Bears win 12 16 15 1618-19 games this year.

fix'd

Big Blue'd.

Eli'd.  We can do this all day.

Let's win the who damn thing this year'd

Now, I am confused.  I thought Who played first, why are we talking about him in a football thread?

I don't know

[RV]

He's back.

I've had enough of the e-mails defending Grossman. Those don't mean anything, Bearaholics.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/07/16/mmqb/index.html

Translation: I know Brett Favre and you don't, so why should I have to pause in between calzones to read your simple minded Midwestern logic?

What a megadouche.

[TJ]

He's back.

I've had enough of the e-mails defending Grossman. Those don't mean anything, Bearaholics.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/07/16/mmqb/index.html

Translation: I know Brett Favre and you don't, so why should I have to pause in between calzones to read your simple minded Midwestern logic?

What a megadouche.

The way a QB plays matters, and Grossman has to be 25 percent better for this team to win a Super Bowl.

Grossman needs to be 5 percent better. It says here that had he not thrown that costly INT, the Bears win the Super Bowl.

Moreover, Brian Urlacher won't be Urlacher without Briggs, who makes the Chicago defense so versatile because he's an athlete and hitter on par with Urlacher.

Peter King stole this sentence from a MMQB four years ago:

Moreover, Brian Urlacher won't be Urlacher without Briggs Roosevelt Colvin and Warrick Holdman, who makes the Chicago defense so versatile because he's an athlete and hitter  they're on par with Urlacher.

Briggs is to Urlacher what Doug Buffone was to Butkus.

[Fork_The_Third]

Briggs is to Urlacher what Doug Buffone was to Butkus.

Briggs washes Urlacher's car?

[Slaky!]

Who is Peter King again?

[CT II]

I have decided to bring this topic back to life.  This from today's MMBBQ:

I can't believe I went most of my adult life without knowing much about Family Guy. I've just started to mine all the episodes on the DVR, and it's got to be the funniest animated show I've ever seen. How about the episode where Brian the dog goes back to college, to Brown, and he goes to a football game, and the scoreboard shows "Brown'' on one side, and "The Board of Education'' on the other. Funny stuff.

This pretty much confirms for me everything I think about Family Guy and Peter King.  They both suck.

This is better than sophistry.


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/03/02/cleveland/4.html

[Slaky+]

Who is Peter King again?

What he said.

[CT II]

Who is Peter King again?

What he said.

Try as you may, you will not ruin this for me Slaky.

[Slaky+]

Who is Peter King again?

What he said.

Try as you may, you will not ruin this for me Slaky.

If it's any consolation the last two episodes of Family Guy were as funny as throwing a puppy off a cliff.

I guess that article sends a big fuck you to Juno lovers, too. Eh?

[Three times a JD]

From your friendly, neighborhood Monday morning qb:

I still find it hard to believe I just spent a week in the middle of a war zone. They don't sell tickets for the experience of a lifetime, but if you can do it somehow, I'd highly recommend it.

Geez, Peter King.  I have no idea how someone could get to Afghanistan these days.  TEC...RTI...you guys know?