It is the nature of fans to seek instant satisfaction. At times we do it and we look extra foolish. Like we've had some premature evaluations.
Tonight on the radio show I brought up 3 things a vast majority of fans were saying in pre-season and...oops, a little too quick on the trigger there.
1. Danny Amendola was the next Wes Welker.
Okay, so not everyone was saying it, but my gosh every topic about a WR returned to this kid and how he ran precise routes and had great hands and could pat his head and run his belly at the same time. Maybe he can develop into an NFL Wide Receiver. He was anointed great before he ever put a skin on the wall. Something we are still waiting for.
2. Martellus Bennett was an idiot, we blew it by getting rid of Fasano, we should cut him right now.
Going to be real honest with you here. I never did watch the rest of Hard Knocks after people got stupid because of one episode that had very little to do with what this kid can do on a football field. I lost interest. How foolish do his critics look now?
3. Tank Johnson is going to be our starting NT and free up Ratliff to move to DE and Tank is going to be our defensive anchor.
Okay, I admit it openly. I was driving this bandwagon. I must have been loaded on Nyquil. I could not have been in my right mind. He's had spurts of the kind of play I expected, but my gosh, and anchor? Only if I meant he was going to drag us to the depths and drown us.
As a special bonus I would also like to add that many thought we didn't need a backup QB. Brad Johnson is fine. Did you see the Minnesota game in Pre-season? Gag a maggot on a gut wagon.
I know we'll fall into the same traps next year, and the next, and so on.
