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Oct 9, 2007 Demarcus Faggins sucks, Houston Chronicle, Megan Manfull is retarded, Stats, Super Mario
I was reading Megan Manfull’s chat transcript from yesterday to see if she had any news on Johnson’s knee. There was nothing that we don’t already know. She did have this nugget of “wisdom,” however.
Megan_Manfull: It’s always good when he walks away with a sack. He also had three tackles and a quarterback hurry. So he was effective at times in there.
He was “effective at times?” Now, maybe she just misspoke (er, mistyped), but it sure sounds like Mario Williams needs to get a sack, hurry, or tackle on every play to be “effective.”
This is exactly the type of thinking that lets people continue to make the “should taken ___” statements that we all find so ridiculous (it is also the flip-side of the “well, Faggins didn’t let ___ score,” but that’s a story for a different day).
Fact of the matter is, Mario is playing extremely well right now. While his numbers are good on their own (his three sacks have him tied for 21st in the league), just looking at his numbers doesn’t come close to telling the whole story.
I’ve said multiple times that Mario is obviously double-teamed on three of Amobi’s four sacks. As commenter grungedave correctly points out, “[t]ry triple-teamed, and often blatantly held when he makes his first move. Mario is a beast, and opposing coaches are aware of it.” Exactly.
Mario is one of our two consistent pass rushers and he’s a huge reason that the other (Okoye) is winning awards for his play. Williams is also dominant in the run defense, as evidenced by the fact that teams are choosing to run away from him as much as possible. Saying that he is “effective at times” is dumb (at best) and has no place in a chat answer by an “insider” who is supposed to understand football.
This post fulfills DGDB&D’s weekly quota of “posts attacking things said or done by Chron writers.” At least until Anna-Megan opens her yap again.
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Don’t kick puppies, stomp on flowers, or say mean things about Anna-Megan. She is really really nice, and doesn’t make unfounded inferences based on sack statistics.
It’s just bad karma.
Last time you meanied A-M, it created a karmic rippled that caused Atlanta to beat Houston. Just saying.
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October 9th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
If bad-mouthing A-M caused Petey Faggins to play like he was blindfolded, I have greatly underestimated my powers.
I only threw A-M in this post because I knew it would force you to respond and because I didn’t have an ending for the post.
And I would never hurt puppies. Kittens, sure. Midgets, of course. But never puppies.
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October 10th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Only use your powers for good.