My Real Breakdown of MMQB: Week 16

Stop me if you’ve heard this before…
NEW YORK — Once upon a time, way back in 2000, New England owner Bob Kraft swam against the tide and hired a 47-year-old coach, Bill Belichick, who brought along a trusted friend with a knack for picking players, Scott Pioli, 34, to run the personnel side of the team.
Pioli would scout and [...]

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My Real Breakdown of MMQB: Week 15 (Peter King Endorses Rudy!!)

BRUCETON, Tenn. — “Ladies and gentleman,” the Northwest flight attendant intoned last Wednesday evening, “our scheduled flight time from New York to Memphis today is two hours and 39 minutes. And if you’re one of our valued WorldPerks members, you’ll be credited with 986 miles for this flight.”
Intoned! Look at me, just throwing my vocabulary [...]

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My Real Breakdown of MMQB: Week 14

Here are my REAL thoughts on football this week.
NEW YORK — “And the legend grows,” Eddie George said just after 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the NBC studios, staring up at the nine-television wall the crew members of NBC’s Football Night in America fixate on every Sunday during the NFL season.
The legend [...]

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The Sports Guy Blocks Peter King

I sent an email to Bill “The Sports Guy” Simmons critiquing his recent column on Knicks fans. This is the response:
*** ATTENTION ***
Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: “—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors [...]

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My Real Breakdown of MMQB: Week 12

Note: I got confused while writing the original column and used italics for no reason whatsoever. I have de-italicized all erroneously italicized paragraphs from Monday’s column. I will keep italics correctly used in context to add emphasis to a word or phrase, and, in parentheses, I will add (Italics Mine from the past). Got it? [...]

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Week 11 MMQBTE: Unleashed

SI.com, as I mentioned in MMQB, is owned by Time Warner. There are certain things I can’t say, especially to emailers. This blog, however, is owned by me. There are no limits. Here’s what I really wanted to say to these emailers.

MOSS IS THE MVP, NOT BRADY. From Joe C. of Diamond Bar, Calif.: “Longtime reader [...]

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My Real Breakdown of MMQB: Week XI

Here are my thoughts on selections from my column, Monday Morning Quarterback, on SI.com for Week 11 of the NFL season:
 
Week XI, with V topics:
See what I did there?
1. No one except maybe the ‘27 Yankees could beat the Patriots right now.
And I meant in anything. Even baseball. I figure, you play [...]

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