Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
1. Norv Turner should be fired now. With cause – willful and incomprehensible waste of talent.
2. The first thing the new coach should do is work on covering kick returns. It’s not even like Eddie Royal was an elite kick returner before today.
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Tags: Denver Broncos, Eddie Royal, Josh McDaniels, Norv Turner, San Diego Chargers
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The betting public is composed of suckers. That, of course, is why sportsbooks exist. I’m sure that every time a reasonably unexpected player has a big performance the books just laugh and figure out how they are going to spend all of the extra money that they are going to make. That’s because the public assumes that any performance, no matter how gaudy or unexpected, is completely sustainable. If a players has a huge game this week, public logic dictates that they wll do it again the next week, and they bet accordingly. They usually won’t, obviously, and that will often cost the overly eager public some cash. Here are five players (six, actually) who could prove costly:
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Tags: Aaron Rodgers, Dante Rosario, Eddie Royal, Matt Forte, Matt Ryan, Michael Turner, NFL
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