Super Bowl Notes

I thought that after the Bears ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown that we would have a barn-burner on our hands.

Rex Grossman needs some more seasoning. He's just too inexperienced at this point. Maybe in a couple of years, he'll be what he needs to be in order to win the big one.

That said, he's been to a game that most other QB's haven't, so maybe he doesn't have that far to go.

And on the topic of Grossman, one thing that chaps my ass is how everyone this year compared him to Trent Dilfer. "Hey, the Ravens won with Dilfer, how hard can it be?" To everyone who ever made that statement - piss off. You've just demonstrated that you have NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. Look, Dilfer is never going to be confused with Joe Montana or John Elway. That's a simple observation. But Dilfer does what many QB's have a problem doing - he takes care of the ball. He doesn't turn it over. He didn't have to score forty points a game, because he had a great defense. But the reason he won is because he didn't pull any boneheaded plays and give the ball away. Ask yourself this question: Who were the Baltimore recievers when they won the Superbowl? If you don't have an answer ready, maybe that should tell you how good Dilfer was. You had a defense, a running back, and Dilfer. He didn't have Jerry Rice, or Micheal Irvine, or Shannon Sharpe, or Troy Brown, or ANYONE. But he still managed to get the ball to where it needed to go.

He might not be a great QB, but he's a good one. And lest we forget, he has something that Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, and a host of other Hall of Famer's don't have. A Super Bowl Ring. You don't get those by making bonehead mistakes. Just ask Rex Grossman.

And since we're on the subject of QB's, can we please, please, PLEASE stop with the "Manning's good, but he hasn't won a (fill in the blank here) yet." That monkey is officially off his back. Period. He's got nothing left to prove to anyone but himself. I actually heard some talking head say "Does he have to win another Super Bowl to cement his legacy?" WHAT? I'm sorry, but the gazillions of yards thrown, the flaming assloads of TD's, the number of victories, now a Super Bowl win, and people don't think his legacy is set?

I mean, I know that these talking heads aren't exactly the smartest kids in class, but PUH-LEEZE!

Can someone please find out what the Indy defense was eating for breakfast over the past month, and ship a case of it to the Seattle Seahawks? Pretty please? They went from cardboard pushovers to rampaging beasts out for blood. Holy moly. We need some of that in Seattle!

Speaking of defense, how did the Chicago D-line get pushed around like gradeschool girls? What the hell was that about? Indy ran the ball down the Bear's throat, and all the Bears could do was say "Thank you sir, may I have another!" Not good. Brian Urlacher has to be spitting fire right about now, since he seemed to be the only Chicago defender actually playing the entire game. Hell, at one point he ran halfway across the field to make a tackle, since the three defenders currently in that area seemed to be more interested it studying the lay of the turf rather than making the tackle themselves.

Doesn't the very name "Brian Urlacher" sound like a linebacker's name? The man was fated to play defense. Like Dick Butkis. Seems to me with a name like "Butkis" you have two options: turn into a whiny sissyboy, or rip people's heads off for a living. And with "Dick" as your first name? Sheesh. That's why he was such a great linebacker - he was so pissed off at his parents for giving him that name that he just wanted to kill people. Or plant them waist deep into the turf. Whatever. I bet a lot of the people he hit wished that he'd just pulled out a gun and blew them away, it would have hurt less. Same with Urlacher. I would love to be a fly on the wall when the defense gets together for their next meeting, by the way.

Meh. Back to work.