Spontae
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He constantly fawns over Favre, blithely ignores the effects of cheating as a dead issue (*cough* Pats *cough*) and each week writes positive blurbs about most of the winning teams in the NFL...except for Dallas. King's coverage of the Cowboys in his MMQB tends to be either thoughtless or lacking analysis (for instance, compare this week's Fine 15 blurb on the 'Boys with the ones above and below):
"The Fine Fifteen:
1. New England (9-0). Bye Week Thought of the Week: Since Oct. 18, the Hub's baseball, basketball and football teams (Sox, Celts, Pats) are 15-0.
2. Indianapolis (7-2). Have you ever seen a more disastrous stretch of Peyton Manning football than the first quarter Sunday night? Check out the wide receivers who dressed for the Colts in San Diego: Reggie Wayne, Aaron Moorehead (27 career catches in 34 games before Sunday night), Craphonso Thorpe (zero career catches, signed Oct. 6 off the Colts' practice squad). That's it.
3. Dallas (8-1). The Cowboys play four of their next five at home, including a pivotal Nov. 29 game against Green Bay.
4. Pittsburgh (7-2). And thus ends the AFC North pennant race. The Steelers are 4-0 in the division, with a 2 1/2-game lead on second-place Cleveland. (The half-game comes from holding the tiebreaker edge because of the season sweep over the Browns.) What this means is if Pittsburgh goes 4-3 down the stretch, Cleveland will have to go 7-0 to win the division."
Not much meat on the bone there regarding the Cowboys, Peter. Best you could do? For no reason given Romo has dropped from his MVP watch after a crucial showing against the NYG.
And finally, this gem, from 10 Things He Thinks He Thinks, what he liked about Week 10:
"c. Dallas: 75 points against the Giants in eight quarters."
Um, I believe 45 plus 31 equals 76. But the statement is still true, I suppose, as the Cowboys also scored 74 against the Giants in 8 quarters, and 73 and 72 and 71.....
Is accuracy in reporting now too much to ask? Or does P. King just not like the Cowboys?
"The Fine Fifteen:
1. New England (9-0). Bye Week Thought of the Week: Since Oct. 18, the Hub's baseball, basketball and football teams (Sox, Celts, Pats) are 15-0.
2. Indianapolis (7-2). Have you ever seen a more disastrous stretch of Peyton Manning football than the first quarter Sunday night? Check out the wide receivers who dressed for the Colts in San Diego: Reggie Wayne, Aaron Moorehead (27 career catches in 34 games before Sunday night), Craphonso Thorpe (zero career catches, signed Oct. 6 off the Colts' practice squad). That's it.
3. Dallas (8-1). The Cowboys play four of their next five at home, including a pivotal Nov. 29 game against Green Bay.
4. Pittsburgh (7-2). And thus ends the AFC North pennant race. The Steelers are 4-0 in the division, with a 2 1/2-game lead on second-place Cleveland. (The half-game comes from holding the tiebreaker edge because of the season sweep over the Browns.) What this means is if Pittsburgh goes 4-3 down the stretch, Cleveland will have to go 7-0 to win the division."
Not much meat on the bone there regarding the Cowboys, Peter. Best you could do? For no reason given Romo has dropped from his MVP watch after a crucial showing against the NYG.
And finally, this gem, from 10 Things He Thinks He Thinks, what he liked about Week 10:
"c. Dallas: 75 points against the Giants in eight quarters."
Um, I believe 45 plus 31 equals 76. But the statement is still true, I suppose, as the Cowboys also scored 74 against the Giants in 8 quarters, and 73 and 72 and 71.....
Is accuracy in reporting now too much to ask? Or does P. King just not like the Cowboys?
