WISDOM_MARTIN's Blog

 Where are all those Dallas cowboys fans? All the experts say  they were the best team in the NFL . In fact they had given up so many points in the first few games with that lame secondary.  The skins are on the move up and the crying cowboys are facing another meltdown.  Can't wait until Terrell Owens starts crying about getting the ball like he did in SF and in Phillly. It's only a matter of.....wait he did that this weekend.  GO SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Where are all those cowboy bloggers. Come on out. (Dave Ross of fox 5 sports)    

Jason Campbell delivered. What a throw. What a step into the trhow. What an arm. So now maybe, just maybe all these whispers about Todd Collins and future hall of famer Colt Brennan taking his job will stop. I mean it appears that the redskins system is broken. It doesn't matter who the quarterbacks are the results are the same. The coachs dan't manage the clock. The team can't score points in the red zone.The defense. System wide issues. But it's only week 3. No need to panic. No need to declare the Zorn era a failure. No need to trade Jason Campbell after the first quarter of the next game. For one more week Jason Campbell keeps his job and  the skins can keep Collins on the bench and Colt and his side arm in the holster. HAIL TO THE REDSKINS! I hate the Cowboys!!!!

It's a good thing the Washington Wizards have plenty of cash to toss around. That 100 million they dropped on Gilbert Arenas is turning out to be a great investment.  So let me get this right, he hurt his knee , missed the last part of the regular season, then went to Berry Farm to play in the summer league on concrete, then came back last season and missed most of it because of the same knee, rejoined the team in time for the playoffs, then signed A GIGANTIC CONTRACT, and now..... he has to have surgery and will once again miss the first part of the season. Doesn't that sound like money well spent. Next time the team starts giving away money, someone let me know so I can get in line.  The first part of the season we will have the same stats. None!!!!

Look, I know its just week one. I know it was against the NY Giants. But that game I just witnessed looked just like the redskins games of years past. No PASSING.NO CREATIVITY. NO SCHEME. It was just bad. but there are 15 more games to go. Maybe there is hope. Maybe they will come out blazing next week. Maybe, maybe,maybe. THERE IS ALWAYS NEXT WEEK.

I liked Brette Favre when he played most of the time. I still thought he was overrated. He has not been the best quarterback in the NFL. He hasn't won a superbowl since the late 90's. His last 3 playoff games, he has thrown an interception at the end of the game that caused the packers to get beaten in the playoffs. He always manages to throw bad passes that make you wonder what was he thinking. Yet he is never held to the same standard as other quarterbacks.  He is not better than Brady or Manning.  Having said all that, please just retire already. He had a good year last year. But the 3 before that he should have been gone.cut.released. He was selfish because for the last 3 seasons he has held the packers hostage with his retirement plans. Then this year after that  playoff performance, he had the tearful press confrence. He changed his mind a few months later. Then decided he was going to stay retired. Then he wants to come back after the packers had moved on. Meanwhile he goes on TV talking about he doesn't trust the packers anymore!!!!  Now he is is just being a baby. He got the most out of his playing days and toooooo much credit for what he did so get over it and retire already.  I know all those sports guys who love him and give him a pass everytime he throws a horrific pass that gets run back for a touchdown... really think he gives them the best chance to win. Win what? He has had the last decade to give them the best chance to win , and he has not gone back to the big game. So move on, let Aaron Rogers have his time. He gives the packers the best chance to win without the drama and circus that has become Brett Favre. Peace out number 4. See you in the Hall of fame.

Are you for real Washington Wizards? You mean to tell me a guy who you made the playoffs without is worth more than 100 million? A guy who complains about playing defense. A guy who 2 years ago hurt his knee and could not finish the season, but managed to go to Berry Farm and play outside in the summer league. Then when the season started up again, his knee was damaged and he missed the entire year. A guy who is clearly not  a leader in the lockerroom. A guy who is coming off a knee injury who really did not have that much value on the open market.  Did Dan Snyder buy the team and sign agent zero? Check that, I mean AGENT ZEROES as in zeroes in that paycheck. That has got to be the case because, this has all the classic signs of a Snyder free agent move. Get someone on the open market, overpay and in return you get someone who is pretty much past his prime and no productive for the money. Sure Gilbert is young. And maybe, just maybe he will grow up one day and evolve into a leader. You could have gotten 2 good players for that amount of money and honestly the team would have been better. Maybe getting that boatload of money will inspire him to be the best he can be. Score more. Pass more. Even play defense!!! Well,  that maybe to much to ask for an employee who is getting 100 million. After all he gave back  a couple of million so they could sign another player to play defense in his place.  If  Gilbert got 100 million, Imagine what LeBron will get when he  goes to New York or New Jersey. Or when my most hated player Kobe Bryant becomes a free agent.   But I guess its all relative.Luke Walton got 30 million and he should not be in the NBA. Eric Dampier got 60 million and he hardly ever plays important minutes. I remember when Juwan Howard got a 100 million dollar contract. Now he is just sitting on the bench or getting traded every other year. Somone thought that was a good investment at one point.  Glad it's not my money.

After watching the Lakers, in particular Kobe Bryant get slaughtered by 40 in game 6, I thought to myself it could not have happened to a more overated player. Let me get this clear.... He runs out and scores 15 in the first half , o in the third...then finishes the game with 22 points in a game they had to win to stay alive. He vanished. The previous game even though they won, he did the same thing, then dunked the ball on a lucky steal (or foul). The game before that he came out and did nothing, i mean 2 points in the first half while his team mounted a 24 point lead. Then as they blow the lead, he tries to all of a sudden show up by shooting long jump shots. That turned out to be the biggest comeback for Boston in NBA finals history. He vanished 2 years ago when they had a 3-1 lead on the Phoenix suns (who didnt have amare stoudimare). They needed one game to advance and he didn't produce. He vanished the last time the Lakers were in the championship against Detroit and  they got swept.  YET ALL THE KOBE APOLOGIST WILL SAY ITS NOT HIS FAULT. HE DIDNT HAVE ANY HELP. Funny how that wasn't an issue when they were cruising through the weak western confrence. THEY ALSO SAY BOSTON PLAYED GREAT DEFENSE.  Well here is a news flash, great players are not bothered by defense.Great players dictate what they are going to do and when they are going to do it. Great players don't get shutdown on the big stage when everything counts. Great players dont score 15 in one half the disappear the rest of the game. Great players don't allow their teams to blow historic leads. SO PLEASE KOBE LOVERS, STOP WITH THE COMPARISONS TO JORDAN. THERE IS NO COMPARISON. Jordan was  a 6 time finals MVP.Kobe has never been a finals MVP. He was  a  player who would not be denied under any circumstances. He was a leader. Any on those Chicago teams would have wasted either one of these teams. DONT TALK ABOUT DEFENSE BECAUSE JORDAN KNEW THE DOUBLE TEAM WAS COMING AND STILL COULD NOT BE STOPPED. Remember the bad boy Detroit Pistons? They played defense. But every team Jordan faced in the finals , he was clearly the best player on the floor.  THE KOBE FANS WERE AT THE GYM  CRYING ABOUT   HOW  JORDAN HAD  HELP. NO JORDAN MADE HIS TEAM BETTER. KOBE DOES NOT. HE NEVER HAS AND NEVER WILL BECAUSE HE DOES NOT GET IT.  And no matter what anyone says, he did run  Shaq out of town because he was jelous.  So KOBE fans if your out there before you start trying to make those silly comparisons to the great # 23, go back and watch Jordan dismantle the Pistons, Sonics,Jazz,Blazers and Lakers.  Kobe wasnt even the MVP or leading scorer when the Lakers had the 3 championship run with Shaq. Find me a 40 point game where Jordan came up short and didn't produce in the playoffs.  He always knew how to go get the ball and score when he needed to. He didnt pass it and stand in the corner like Kobe.  So stop it. Stop it. Stop the madness  that is the sports media's love with  the most selfish basketball player I have ever seen.

You can't tell me that the Patriots illegally taping all those games is not an issue. If they did not get an advantage, why did they go through the trouble of breaking the rules? Have you ever known anyone to cheat and break rules just for kicks? Do you really think that those handfull of tapes  the league has are the only examples of them cheating? Why did the Commish destroy evidence in the cheating scandal?  If there was nothing to hide or worry about,  why did this investigation go in this direction?  It looks like they are trying to make this go away so they can keep the money coming in. AND BY THE WAY, THOSE CHEATING PATRIOTS SHOULDN'T SAY A WORD ABOUT THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF SPYGATE. IF YOU DONT CHEAT, THERE IS NO STORY. So Tom Brady , stop with the crying ,blaming the media. Are they going to blame the media for getting a beatdown in the Super Bowl?

Check this out NBA HEADS. The lottery stinks!!!! Whats the point of being the worst team in the league if you are not going to improve  by getting the top pick in the draft. Thats what they do in the other sports. Why is it not good enough for David Sterns NBA? To me it's just another misstep he has taken when it comes to running this league.   The draft is jacked up. The bulls were a playoff team last year and now they get the top pick? Granted I don't want to see the LA Clippers get the top pick every year... but picking fixed ping pong balls or envelopes is not the answer. If it's legit, how did LeBron end up the top pick in Cleveland? How is it Derrick Rose from Chicago may end up in Chicago? Speaking of conspiracy... how is it that Pauo Gasol was given to the Lakers for Kwame Brown when other teams were offering real players for 2 years and Memphis said no deal. PLEASE!!!! Where is the congressional hearing????????????

Each year we go through  the excitement of march madness where any team left in the 65 team tournament has a chance to pull off a major upset.  It's the best tournament in all of sports.  So why on earth do we have to listen each year to all those coaches who did not make the tournament complain about expanding it? I heard mean old Bobby Knight suggest let all  the teams in. Are you kidding me? All the teams are already in. It''s called confrence tournament. If you are a 17 win team and you get beat down in the first round of the confrence tournament, why should you be rewarded for being bad?  I heard a new argument the other day from one coach who did not make it saying "its about enhancing the college experience for the student athlete, why should they not get in the tournament." The real fact is, with 65 selected teams, someone will get left out. Someone will complain. If you have 80 teams, someone will get left out and complain. If you have 120 teams someone willget left out and complain. If you let everybody in, then some will complain about where they are playing and the seeding process. HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE.....IF IT'S NOT BROKEN, DONT FIX IT. The NCAA tournament is the best sporting event. If all those crying coaches who don't make it want to do something about it, TRY WINNING  DURING THE REGULAR SEASON OR WINNING IN THE CONFRENCE TOURNAMENT. Win the conference tournament and you are automatically in. Problem solved. Please stop with the crying and complaining and pretending like its all about the kids and not a big PHAT finanical bonus for coaches and schools who make the NCAA tournament. STOP IT , I SAY!!!!!

How is it possible that Iverson is starting for the West ahead of Steve Nash? How is  it possible that Tracey McGrady was actually the starter as far as votes before Iverson? McGrady doesnt event play half the time. When he does he doenst give 100 percent. I know its a popularity contest but come on.

By the way what's with all the hype around that no shooting Jason Kidd. I hear all this garbage about how great he is, and how he makes his teammates better. He does not. He fills the stat columns but he had no impact on the game. Just look at his record in Jersey. He had 2 great years there, now he wants to be traded again because things are not going his way. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Look at his record in Phoenix where he was surrounded by allstars. He was just Ok. That's why he was traded to New Jersey.

  

Who is the best?  Brady has 3 super bowl wins and soon to be 4. Joe has 4.  While Brady's numbers are bigger keep in mind Joe has 2 super bowl MVP'S. Tom has 2. The post season is where legends are made. That's why I say Joe is still the greatest.   

As I sat down to watch some of the pre game hype,  the media madness on media day took a strange turn. It wasn't the football players from the Giants trying on red pumps. It was Randy Moss talking about how great he is.  IT WAS A REPORTER FROM SOME STATION I THINK CALLED AZTECA TELEVISION WHO PUT ON A DRESS AND ASKED TOM BRADY TO  MARRY HER! If this were a fan, that's one thing. But for a working member of the media to pull this type of stunt was really inappropriate. Don't you think this was out of line or was  it a publicity stunt?  

Would the Redskins actually consider bringing in another coach besides Gregg Williams to run this team and start over once again? That would be crazy to have a new system after having one in place all this time. That could be more drama for the skins next year?

There is no crying in football. Especially at press confrences after the game. Especially over a quarterback who is going out with Jessica Simpson. PLEASE. enough with the dramatics. He continues to drop on my list everytime he gets in front of a camera!  If he had not went crazy in Philly where they threw him the ball on every play, he would probably be  considered one of the best. But he had to diss that team and the quarterback and go somewhere else and start his same old tired act again. THERE IS NO CRYING IN FOOTBALL! NONE!