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Kevin Durant Disses Oklahoma City Thunder and Talks About Separating From Stephen Curry and Klay – YouTube

I thought I’d post this in front of tonight’s game in Oklahoma City with both Kevin Durant and James Harden returning to Oklahoma City as members of the New Jersey Nets.

This piece was written in 2019 in the WSJ and to the this day I find it sad Kevin came back for Nick Collison’s jersey retirement ceremony and wasn’t able to be on the floor with Nick for fear of being booed and ruining the night for Nick somewhat.

Let me explain something to you Trump insurrectionists in OKC…you never would have made it to ONE single Western Conference Finals without Kevin Durant. Not one.

I was pissed at Kevin for about six months after the defection to Golden State, but you get over things and you should be able to accept things like an adult. It hurt that he left. It did. But life moves along.

In retrospect from a basketball standpoint, Kevin clearly made the right decision. Oklahoma City was never going to win an NBA championship with Russell Westbrook as its starting point guard. Period.

Kevin won two rings with Golden State and two NBA Finals MVP trophies. Russell Westbrook with Paul George replacing Kevin never won a single playoff series in two years together. Westbrook and PG never even made it to a Game 7 in either of those first round exits. In fact, the entire organization has to this date never won a first round playoff series without Kevin Durant.

Obviously there’s no crowd tonight per Covid in OKC…so we can only hope the Thunder organization hasn’t installed booing cardboard people to continue the booing of Kevin Durant.

Kevin never did what AD did in New Orleans. He honored his contract to the letter. He was a gracious contributor to Oklahoma City. He just decided to do what Americans all over this country do when they have a chance to better their own careers..namely, he pursued a better opportunity.

Who amongst us wouldn’t advise their son or daughter to do the same?

To me, as I look back on this with detached objectivity… I would hold this over Sam Presti. As a GM…he never corraled Russell Westbrook. Kevin Durant may whine like a bitch at times on various social network platforms, but his game melds with anyone in the league from a basketball standpoint. Durant plays both ends of the floor and is an unselfish player. He moves the ball. He understands the concept of Big Dog coupled with the basketball doctrine of time and score.

Russell Westbrook to this date still doesn’t get it. It’s sad watching Russell in Washington D.C. right now. Incredibly sad.

So…as this game unfolds tonight I wonder if Kevin would have been booed tonight in normal circumstances or given a polite round of applause.

Some advice to the Trump Christian insurrectionist evangelicals in Oklahoma City … you shouldn’t be booing anyone given your own pathetic, abysmal uber hypocritical conduct these past four years. You might want to take a long, hard look in the mirror before you embarrass yourself further before booing Kevin Durant ever again.

Turn off Fox, read some books, and grow up. The first book you might try is the New Testament in the Bible. Try that one on for size.

And if I were Kevin Durant’s best friend, I’d say, “Dude–stay off social media and just embrace being the second best basketball player of your time.”

The end.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) The Lost Tapes, Behind the scenes (2) – YouTube

I’m going to write this piece above as an obvious counter piece to “If Barack Obama Was White’ sometime next week before my wife and I head out to Denver to have a Super Bowl party with the kids.

I need to write ‘If Donald Trump Was Black’ for obvious reasons in an effort to somehow get thru the fact I live in the bleak cultural abyss known as Oklahoma.

I just watched Houston beat Portland on the TNT game with the magnificent Kevin Harland on the call. He’s become the best as far as I’m concerned calling an NBA game on televison. Kind of like Gary Thorne used to be calling ice hockey games on ESPN back in the day. Those voices.

Houston is not going to tank. They’re not bad at all. These two games with them in Oklahoma City should be very interesting. The Houston pick should be a mid-range first rounder.

I also watched parts of Miami losing to an LA Clippers team which has some Covid issues of their own. Another loss for the Heat. All the sudden the Miami Heat is of some significant interest to the OKC basketball market moving forward I would think.

Durant and Harden in Oklahoma City tonight…I’ll be treating it as if it’s a playoff game on my blog. All the sudden this NBA season kind of became interesting in Oklahoma City.

Go figure.

Have a nice Friday. Do things for yourself which help you find inner peace in these turbulent times we are all living through circa 2021.

Do things which give you joy. Find that little space of Ferris Bueller which should reside in all of us. But most of all…be kind and thoughtful to others. Don’t set a Donald Trump domestic terrorist on fire if you can avoid it.

Alabama at Oklahoma on Saturday at 11:00am in Norman…I might go and sit with the cardboard people. Surely–the cardboard people have more intellectual depth than the average Trump voter in Oklahoma. I might do a Dave Letterman-like interview with one of the cardboard people if I attend the game. I might name the cardboard person I sit next to as … Little Sam Anderson. We should have great deal to talk about. Use your imagination.

Have a great week-end.

Here we sit seventeen games into the NBA season and the Oklahoma City Thunder are 8-9 as the current No. 10 seed in the West.

Coach D has his team playing competitve basketball on most nights so far. There has clearly been optimsitic signs there is a talented youth base moving into the future.

Out of the next five games which are at home …four look to be winnable with four of the five coming against the Minnesota Timberwolves and another pair of games against the Houston Rockets. Only the 12-8 Brooklyn Nets have a winning record. There’s no way the Thunder even try to tank against Durant and Harden.

There has been nothing to date in Oklahoma City so far this season which indicates the Thunder are tanking.

There will be no tanking at the Peake tomorrow night.

The Thunder have a triangle of first round draft pick possibilities. 1 They have their own pick which they can control. 2 They have Houston’s pick which is protected (1-4). 3 They have Miami’s pick. The Thunder can only come out of this triangle with the two highest picks…given the conditions of the trade as I read it.

If you look at the overall league standings today…OKC’s own pick would have the least value with the Thunder at the No. 16 position in the draft. The Houston pick would be higher somewhere around the 13-14 range. Ironically, as we sit here today… the Miami Heat have the fourth worst winning percentage in the overall league. No one would have ever thought almost into February the defending Eastern Conference champs would be sitting as one the worst five teams in the league.

This is some amazing stuff. Houston is about where we thought they should be, but OKC and Miami are inverted as far as expectations heading into this season.

Let’s say OKC wins three of the next five home games and sits at 11-11 after the homestand. What does Sam Presti do?

Do you immediately pull the plug on Big Al Horford and George Hill? The trade dealine is all the way until March 25th this season I believe because of the delayed start to the regular season.

Based on what we saw last night in Phoenix the Thunder didn’t miss George Hill all that much as Theo Maledon started and played very much like he belonged as a future third guard in the Thunder’s starting rotation.

I would think you certainly don’t ever play Horford or Hill on back to back situations.

At what point in this season does Sam Presti pull the plug on his own team for the possibility of having a top five draft pick controlling his own destiny?

Where is the cutoff spot datewise…if there is one?

What happens if the THunder move all the way up to the No. 7 seed passing Memphis?

Jimmy Butler should be back with the Mimai Heat fairly soon and they should start climbing the ladder.

The Thunder have fifteen games in February, ten of which are at home. The February schedule certainly isn’t cupcake, but it’s not as tough as the January slot.

As far as Coach D…I love the way he’s worked the rotation with these guys. He goes ten or eleven deep on most nights and he’s been playing the guys I would play minute wise and role wise almost verbatim.

Another thing is as we should all recall…young players don’t get injured nearly as much for the most part. Young guys are playing for the second contract. I don’t see how this far in you start telling a young coach with young players to stop winning.

This could only happen in Oklahoma. From Operation Bongo to self-induced earthquakes to Mike Gundy to Joe Exotic to a Donald Trump rabid Birther voter base of those who evidently now support domestic terrorism….this could only happen in Oklahoma.

Antifa…it must all be Antifa. Sigh.

How could anyone make up this shit even if they were trying?

These next five games in Oklahoma City should be interesting to say the least. The Oklahoma City Thunder just moved back onto my relevance radar screen as far as my blog goes. We’ll see how Sam Presti handles all of this.

So the Thunder beat the Phoenix Suns on the road tonight by a score of something like 102-95. An incredibly impressive performance considering George Hill didn’t play in this game.

They keep winning for some reason I can’t decipher unless Mike Gundy became GM of the team and the announcement hasn’t been made public as of yet.

WTF are they doing????????

And imagine this just one week after Amanda Gorman amazed us at Joe Biden’s inauguration…I stumbled upon this completely incredible piece of prose on the godforsaken Daily Thunder messageboard of all places.

This might literally be the best thing I’ve ever read on that blog.

Amanda Gorman, hon…please step aside for this composition by Rattling Bones called BeingThunder.

Being Thunder by Rattling Bones

It is amazing how this franchise fails at everything

Win a chip with KD & Russ in their prime?

Nah… we good.

Lose for a top three draft pick and future star?

Nah… we good.

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Sir, in six brief sentences you wrote what it took Sam Anderson five years to write.

Bravo, my friend you just won a dr el prez Pulitzer.F

Wayne Newton – Danke Schoen (1968) Live – YouTube F

(4) Kobe Bryant Up Close Interview with Jimmy Kimmel [FULL INTERVIEW] – YouTube

This is Kobe back in 2013 with Jimmy Kimmel in the aftermath of the Achilles injury. For me—this is vintage Kobe. It’s a great interview if you ever have the time to watch it.

If for no other reason it for me has Kobe’s most prescient quote of all-time: ‘ If you see me wrestling with a grizzly bear…pray for the bear.’

That’s Kobe.

I was never a Lakers fanatic because as a kid the Sixers were my team and quite frankly I was miffed that Kobe being a Philly kid never played for the Sixers.

The irony is though that as a kid I adored Jerry West and it was Jerry West who made the deal which made Kobe a lifetime Laker. When I watched Jerry West describe his surrogate father relationship with Kobe it brought tears to my eyes.

Like most…I wondered what exactly transpired with Kobe and the young woman in Colorado. But as was the case in everything Kobe… he obviously learned a great deal from that setback experience in his life and blossomed into this incredibly interesting NBA icon who turned into this thing called the Girl Dad.

He’s by far the most interesting interview I can remember in sports. He would have made a helluva U.S. Senator representing California…and I’m fairly certain he would have won.

He talked Italian on the court to his favorite Laker teammate Pau Gasol. They were the only two who knew what the hell they were saying to one another.. So Kobe.

He talks on this interview about his only experience in being bullied as a skinny kid and winks as he describes the execution he gave this Philadelphia bully in a one on one game. Pray for the grizzly bear. See what I mean.

I know what Kobe meant…in the fourth grade a skinny little prick named Danny Warren dropped a racial slur on me on a recess break. I seethed. My mother told me to take the high road. No way. Next time I saw that miserable little prick Danny Warren… I dropped him in a pickup football game with a clothline tackle which would have drawn three targeting calls in today’s football world. Little Danny Warren never dropped another racial slur my way again. Just saying.

The moment I knew Kobe was different was during an interview when he started talking about every Quinton Tarantino movie ever made. He loved Tarantino movies. He even made a kid’s movie and for crying out loud and won an Oscar for the movie.

At each juncture of his life he grew as a human. He possessed this admirable sense of self-introspection I truly admire in a human being.

Kobe didn’t attend college even though North Carolina, Duke, and Kansas all came calling. Kobe revealed he would have attended North Carolina because Michael went there and he wanted Michael’s number, plus he wanted to get better by going against Vince Carter every day in practice. But in the end he passed on college because he wanted the best the pros had to offer Day 1. Kobe didn’t need a degree being he earned a PhD in life its ownself.

As we all saw he became this wonderful father to his girls and in the end Kobe transcended beyond just being an iconic basktball player to becoming an iconic human being.

Kobe never went to Harvard or Yale Law Schools like two dimwits in the news recently, but would have destroyed Donald Trump in a debate. The two people I feel most certain who would have destroyed Donald Trump in a debate woud have been Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Warren. The truth could very well be Kobe was a Republican… but he wouldn’t have tolerated the complete lack of empathy.

Michael, Wilt and Tiger were/are Republicans, but none of those guys transmitted the empathy to other humans like Kobe. It doesn’t matter what his politics were–it was just this sense he transmitted in his later years as grew up and became a man.

Kobe swore that if he and Shaq would have stayed together they would have won ten rings together because he never would have let up on Shaq’s work ethic.

In the end..I don’t know how anybody could not have fallen for Kobe to some varying degree at some point in his life.

But in the end beyond the smile and the Girl Dad personna…always remember Kobe’s Doctrine…’Pray for the bear.’

This should in no way have been a surprise to anyone. This is precisely why Donald Trump decided to run for president in 2016. He knew then and now ‘men’ like Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Little Marco Rubio, and Lyin’ Ted Cruz were the weakest field ever to be considered for the presidency in the history of the GOP.

I’ll give Donald Trump credit on this issue…. on this he was spot on. These four in my lifetime are the most feckless, gutless, pathetic candidates to ever be allowed to take the stage of a presidential debate stage from the same political party which at one time represented the values of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.

The five GOP senators who voted to proceed with ‘this’ impeachment trial were Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, and Pat Toomey.

Mitch McConnell taking the sleazy way out in no way should be a surprise either. It is what it is.

This means forty-five GOP senators believe viewing evidence and hearing from witnesses is not at all the thing to do moving forward following the January 6th premeditated insurrection of the U.S. capitol. The fact five people were killed and the mob was screaming to lynch just retired Vice-President Mike Pence in no way weighed in on their vote.

Mike Pence, dude….now you can become a charter member of Black Lives Matter. You just became black within the U.S. Senate Chamber. Your fellow party buds just deemed your life wasn’t worth the time to conduct a trial.

This means when a politically gutless senator like James Lankford from Oklahoma took to the floor after the deadly riot….his then changed post riot vote to not object to the certifying of the election was the typical political shade this feckless coward has exhibited for the duration and beyond of Donald Trump’s rogue red presidency.

Job well done former Christian youth minister, James Lankford. I knew you wouldn’t let Oklahoma down, sir.

So now the Dems will go to trial on February 8th already knowing that forty-five of the jurors aren’t going to consider the evidence, the testimony of the witnesses… or the severity of the deadly January 6th capitol riot.

But again this in no way surprises me or anyone else who weighs political matters with some objectivity.

Since most of these forty-five GOP senators have law degrees it is an even sadder day because it means in essence these senators have no respect whatsover for the law.

What they just displayed to the world is the fact the U.S. Senate Chamber is nothing more than a political whore house where political self survival trumps the law every day of the week with these political cowards who even after Trump left office and was banned on Twitter…don’t have the collective balls to for one time do the right thing.

Mike Pence meet George Floyd.

Your life didn’t matter with your political friends. But you did do the right thing in following the law.

In closing…what really happened yesterday was the GOP decided to go all in on Donald Trump as the soul of the Republican Party moving forward even after he on tape in essence called for the execution of his own vice-president.

This symbolic GOP Banana Republic microcosm is what’s left of the Party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt moving forward.

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Footnote video: This is Nicole Wallace former presidential aide to Bush 43 with Steve Schimdt former John McCain campaign coordinator discussing yesterday’s disgraceful vote in the United States Senate. I will for the most part always try to limit any MSNBC footnote on my blog to GOP members only to encourage objectivity. Likewise…the only person at Fox at this point I would consider using on a footnote would be Chris Wallace, possibly Bret Baier, or the now departed Shep Smith. Now on to the video.

Pharrell Williams – Happy (Official Video) – YouTube

It wasn’t pretty at times, but Lon Kruger’s team did just enough at the right times to get a tough hard fought 80-79 road win over #5 Texas in Austin on Tuesday night.

Austin Reeves led the way with 23 points in getting the Sooners within a game of second place in the Big 12 standings. Not bad for a team which was picked by most to either finish 6th or 7th in the Big 12 this basketball season.

OU made it tough on itself with DeVion Harman having a tough night with seven turnovers. The Sooners had a rough night from the free throw line as well, but when it mattered OU made a play or came up with enough of the fifty/fifty loose balls to win its second game in a row over a nationally ranked Top Ten team.

OU is now 7-0 in games in which they’ve scored 78 points or more. We’ll keep track of that stat moving forward.

I’ve been an OU hoops fan since the Johnnie Mac days in the 70’s and this team Lon Kruger has put together is what I would describe as sneaky good with a chip on its shoulder, but with something to prove on the national level beyond the Big 12.

The whole chemsitry of the team changed when EJ Harkless and Moj Gibson were given this year by the NCAA and removed from redshirt status due to the Covid eligibility ruling this season.

This is a very talented, deep team. They somewhat remind me of Chris Beard’s Texas Tech team from two season ago which made that magical run of theirs in the NCAA Tournament.

#9 Alabama comes to Lloyd Noble on Saturday to play in the Big 12-SEC challenge. This should be a great basketball game. In all my years of following OU hoops… I don’t believe they’ve ever won three games over three Top Ten teams in the same week.

The basketball gods have blessed us in Oklahoma. Instead of watching an NBA team go through the arduous/painful task of tanking…we now have two NCAA Tournament caliber team in the state who will finish the regular season with back to back Bedlam games.

Take a look at the college hoops landscape. The Blueboods are struggling. Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Kansas are all in rare territory. It would appear to me the college national championship picture is WIDE open.

Even harder to believe in these days of Covid…Virginia is still the defending national champion.

Alabama in Norman on Saturday.

It was a great night of basketball for me…a tripleheader in essence. For the first time since the NBA came to OKC the Thunder are not my basketball scheduling priority. On this night with the Thunder in Portland they were third on my watchlist…and a half-hearted third at that.

No. 1 was O State at Iowa State…the Pokes without Cade Cunningham romped the abysmal Cyclones. Hard to believe Johnny Orr, Tim Floyd, and Fred Hoiberg all at one time coached at this once proud hoops program. No. 2 was the Big 12 headliner with #11 West Virginia hosting # 10 Texas Tech. This was a great game with West Virginia battling back from a double digit deficit to win on their last possession. Excellent college basketball game. Both of these teams could make the Sweet 16 with the right draw.

OU cracked the AP Top 25 yesterday for the first time this season and will be at #5 Texas tonight in the only basketball game I plan on watching. Six Big 12 teams are now in the Top 25 with O State one more quality win away from becoing the seventh team.

Portland only played eight players and were not the Portland team which eliminated the Thunder in five games two seasons ago. Even more telling for Portland… out of the eight who suited up who played …two of the eight were Carmelo Anthony and Enes Kanter.

It is for this specific reason that I will not hold this win against Sam Presti when he should be losing games. I get it…this would rank right up there with to losing to Kevin Durant or in reality much worse.

How could any basketball organization sell tickets next season if they couldn’t beat a team with two of the most glaring defensive liabilities to currently set foot on an NBA court in Carmelo and Enes?

I mean, it’s one thing for Terry Stotts to throw one pylon out there, but two? No…that’s too much even for a tanking team to accept and lose a basketball game.

In fact…I would hope NBA commish Adam Silver sends the Portland organization an email pointing out there could be potential ‘integrity to the game’ issues at play with both Enes and Carmelo on the floor together.

I thought Mikey Muscala, Shai, and Lu Dort were OKC’s three best players. They’re my three stars of the game.

I like the Oklahoma City players and Coach D. But they’re going nowhere towards relevance if they don’t come out of this summer’s draft with a top five pick and another pick in the top fifteen or so.

Let me make a football analogy. You know why OU will continue beating O State with constant regularity…because they have elite talent with excellent coaches and now that’s extending to both sides of the ball. O State is never going to beat OU with any consistency with their two and three stars up and down the roster. Not happening. That’s why Boone dropped all that money… ostensibly–to level the talent pool. But unfortunately Boone and Holder never hooked onto a coach like Matt Campbell at Iowa State.

If Sam Presti wants his team in Oklahoma City to stay relevant he better not screw this draft up this season by not losing enough. I undertsand there’s a delicate balance to the culture of a team in not accepting the concept of losing. But if you have a list of NBA top tier free agent talent coming here, please show it to me.

But as I wrote yesterday…OKC out of the thirty NBA franchises plays in a state which unfortunately is right there with West Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama as rogue red Birther Trump states. Have you noticed West Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi don’t have NBA franchises?

Before Black Lives Matter even became a thing….Bill Russell and his Celtic teammates wouldn’t even play in an exhibtion game in Louisville.

Elite black free agents aren’t coming here. Why should they? It was almost impossible getting even elite white free agents here during the apex of Durant and Westbrook. Pau Gasol ring a bell?

This is the one opportunity for Oklahoma City to somewhat balance the scales of talent in a year. Granted—there will still be development, but this is the time. Look how long even in big markets like Dallas and LA they got nowhere for a long time after the primes of Dirk and Kobe.

Add to the fact …in spite of the excellent job OKC did with MAPS you can’t put a non-relevant team out there for an extended period of time in Oklahoma. Ask the restaurant owners and ticket brokers in Bricktown if you doubt me as to the cash flow relevancy of having a relevant team.

Keep in mind, with the NCAA’s position on Covid eligibilty this season both OU and O State who are Top 25 programs this season they both could conceivably return everyone minus Cade Cunningham next season.

Let me give you another example…in Denver you have both the Colorado Avalanche and the University of Denver hockey teams. Both are elite, but if I lived in Denver… and the Avs weren’t relevant I’d spend more time watching the excellent DI college hockey team.

If I were Sam Presti I’d make sure I have a top five draft pick to if nothing else stimulate interest and ticket sales next season.

With all the great things in sports going on right now…I will admit it’s been hard for me to focus in on the tanking Oklahoma City Thunder of late.

I’m not into losing on purpose or by design. But given OKC can’t keep elite black athletes in a Trump city like Oklahoma City this is pretty much the template Sam Presti has to work with going forward.

Sam Presti basically has two contracts with his players here in Oklahoma before they’ll leave for other corners of the NBA where the new Jim Crow laws aren’t as strident as they are in Oklahoma. You get a player on his rookie deal and then perhaps Restricted Free Agent contract and that’s it pretty much except for Russell Westbrook.

The notion Paul George was a free agent signee was Fool’s Gold Given he asked to be trade after two years.

I’ve always been clear on my blog that if I were an elite black athlete in the NBA… Utah and Oklahoma City would be the two cities I’d least like to play in for more than a year.

The cities I’d most prefer playing in would be Toronto, Golden State, and maybe Denver. Those would be the three at the top of my list for beauty, culture, restaurants, things to do, etc.

If I had to pick between Utah and Oklahoma City…I’d pick Utah because of the mountains and the fact that at least in Utah politics aren’t as toxic red as they are in Oklahoma. Give Utah at least some credit for having a U.S. senator in Mitt Romney who can vote to do the right thing every now and again beyond the dogma of the Tea Party and the American Freedom Caucus. Not the case in Oklahoma where the politics have never left the 1950’s. That wasn’t sarcasm.

So…with no other path available to team building in Oklahoma City the Thunder need to keep losing more after losing three straight to fall to 6-9 on the season and in the 12th seed position in the West.

Don’t look now but Minnesota at 4-11 is the current No. 15 seed in the West. If Oklahoma City can lose to Damian Lillard and the Blazers tonight in Portland they’ll fall to 6-10 and only be one down in the loss column to the Timberwolves.

The good news for me is I enjoy watching other teams in the NBA and both OU and O State have entertaining teams who should both be NCAA bound if O State is cut some slack on the LaMont Evans penalty. They should be allowed in the tournament given the lattitude the NCAA gave Bill Self and Kansas.

Here’s a Kenrich Williams video. I’m familiar with Kenrich because he played for TCU in the Big 12 and played against both OU and O State.

I love Kenrich’s attitude and hope he can turn this opportunity in Oklahoma City into an NBA contract at some point.

You have to look for the glass half full stories when your team is tanking.

Draft Workouts: Kenrich Williams (6/3/18) – YouTube

Packer’s coach Matt LeFleur should be flogged. Seriously flogged. I have no idea what thought could have been crossing his mind on that late decison to kick a field goal. He basically took the ball out of his best player’s hands and decided he’d opt for a fairytale scenario ending where his defense would get Tom Brady off the field.

Matt LeFleur meet Mike Gundy, dude. You can’t be serious.

I’m not angry in the final outcome as a Packer’s fan per se. Just disappointed Aaron Rodgers didn’t get the nod of confidence from his young head coach in this tragic ending for Aaron Rodgers.

If Aaron leaves Green Bay after this ….. I won’t hold it against him. I seriously thought Mike Gundy was over there on the Green Bay sideline when the field goal team came out.

As an NFL fan I feel cheated we didn’t get to see that fourth down play. If they hadn’t converted then Brady would have been deep in his own territory and Matt LeFleur still would have had those four time outs.

If that decison to kick the field goal was based on metrics then LeFleur in the very near future should see what it’s like to coach at Green Bay next season without Aaron Rodgers. Matt LeFleur meet 6-10, buddy.

Al Pacino on Any Given Sunday would never have taken the ball out of Aaron Rodgers’ hands in that situation. He would have given Aaron that Pacino wink which said, “This is life. These are those six inches we fight for every day. Go get us a touchdown, tiger.”

I can’t even complete my entire recap on the game ot Kansas City’s dismantling of the Buffalo Bills. The KC game didn’t at all surprise me given the Chiefs were let off the hook last week by Cleveland. You never give a dude like Patrick Mahomes a second life. Kind of like you never give the ball back to Tom Brady thinking you’re going to get a three and out with the game on the line.

Tom Brady at home in the Florida sun for his 7th Super Bowl ring. Why should any of us be surprised?

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Matt LeFleur…First Rule of Coaching–PLAYER MAKES THE COACH. Watch the video and learn how to be a championship head coach.

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