So football season's back, that means the always lovable and usually annoying John Madden is back (you may recognize him as the guy that Frank Caliendo imitates). He's on Sunday Night Football, and I got to watch him tonight. A couple of "highlights":
- "His percentage when he throws outside the tackle is over 100%." He was talking about Donovan McNabb throwing outside of the pocket. OK, he meant the QB rating, in which the max is I think 152.6 or something screwy like that (why don't they just normalize it to 100?)
- Madden has picked a new thing to be annoying about this year, and he's talked about it I think 1822 times so far this season (and I don't even think I was paying that much attention to the other game he did already!). Before, every time someone knocked down a pass, Madden would talk about how great of a play it was for the guy to have the presence of mind to jump up and knock the pass down (geez, what a genius... the ball is coming at me, what should I do?). This year, whenever there's a pass that's overthrown, he says it's because the receiver turned around to look at the QB instead of running down field. Somehow I don't think that's the reason why EVERY overthrown ball was not completed, in fact I'm not sure how you're supposed to catch the ball if you don't look back at the QB.
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I think you make a very good point, how do you catch a ball if you do not see it coming???
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