NFL Week 15: Mike Phipps' late delivery

Four more nationally televised games will bring in a ton of money and whether we like it or not, that will be seen as being more important than having a 7-9 or 6-10 team make the playoffs.

 

The game was in driving sleet; the fumbles were less than ideal but the weather was a factor. More importantly to me, Kaepernick threw 3 strikes downfield of over 20 yds for TDs. The only time Smith even takes that shot is at the end of the Saints game when he had to. Yes Kaepernick threw that horrendous pick but even Brady threw a bad pick (the Smith INT was Hernandez' fault.)

Very nice to see was LaMichael James show his quickness on runs and returns.

Thing I'm most worried about is Justin Smith's injury (fingers crossed). He is the Rock of Gibralter of that D.

 

Yep. Mind. Blown.

 

Hell, Michael Irvin almost killed a guy and Jerry's response was to figure out a way to get the victim off the team. That's not a group that is ever going to demand responsibility. It's just too bad for Brent that he isn't as good as Leon Lett, because he'd probably get off with probation if he were.

 

I didn't like it all either.

Apparently, Jerry Brown's mother wants the Cowboys to take care of Brent, support system etc. So that's why he was there.

Personally, I feel they should've just cut all ties with him.

 

Where have you guys been? That's old, old news.

All everyone in that organization -- most noticeably Garrett -- has said since Day 1 is that Josh Brent is a great guy and he has the 100 percent support of the Cowboys. Garrett said over and over last week things like "we will support him in every way possible," and "there's a lot of love in this organization for Jerry Brown and for Josh Brent." He'd have been at the Cincinnati game if someone had bailed him out fast enough. As it was, they hung his jersey in the locker room as if he had been playing.

One other thing. The mother of the kid who was killed has embraced Brent, who was his best friend and roommate. She asked Brent to meet her at the airport and ride in the car with her when she came to DFW for the memorial service and has said she loves Brent like a son. Not sure what that's worth, but there you go.

 

It just looked to be in poor taste. And I didn't see last week's cowboys game, so I'm not sure if they put the decals of the victim's number on them helmets then or just this week. If it was this week, a week to honor him, and you bring the guy who killed him to the sideline that same week, then it's really in poor taste. That, and the shot I saw of him was him laughing with someone on the sideline. Just bad all around.

 

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I'd just like to slap the people who keep coming up with stupid ideas. No need to stop at 16 teams; let's put all 32 into a playoff. Heck, we can make it double elimination and keep the season going until May!

 

Maybe instead of spurning Brent, its a more compassionate move to embrace him by not only the Cowboys, but even perhaps our country. I'm not talking about enabling some gangster. This appears to be someone who's a very caring teammate who made a bad mistake; a horrible one. Yet, if the victim's mother, who was probably as close to him as anyone outside his immediate family, can embrace him, perhaps the public can follow suit, rather than ostracize him.

 

The team and the people involved can obviously support him all they want, but shots of Brent laughing on the sidelines is not a good look. In fact, it looked awful. It was in bad taste, and it was way too soon. I don't know what kind of message it sends, but...what kind of message does it send? Does supporting him mean he has to be at the games? I don't know why it does.

 

Fuck that. How often do we hear about the dangers of drinking and driving? He chose to put himself in that position and he is directly responsible for somebody who was foolish enough to think of him as a friend. We are far too forgiving of drunk drivers in this country.