food for thought week 14 edition

Really Interesting things that we aren’t talking about but should be.

1. Jim Harbaugh hasn’t done a good job this season. Why does he get a pass on the fact that Colin Kapernick looks like a high school sophomore at quarterback right now? Everyone is saying well Aldon Smith was out, well he’s back now and they’ve lost two straight. Well they lost Navorro Bowman, okay well if he had played all year Chris Borland would be rookie of the year defensively. The excuses are not enough to justify the fact that his quarterback, ya know the position Harbaugh played in the league for the better part of a decade, has regressed to being one of the bottom 8 quarterbacks in the league. Vernon Davis and Frank Gore are afterthoughts now.  People are shocked they might get rid of Harbaugh, I say maybe that’s not such a bad idea.
2. Jerry Jones has gotten no love. Everyone, myself included, has made fun of the senile, overbearing Jones for the past ten years. He has shown no adaptability, hasn’t drafted well, and hasn’t put a team around Tony Romo with any chance of succeeding. Well what about now? No one is giving him the love for drafting the rookie that has played better than any of the others this season in Zach Martin. People thought he reached on Travis Frederick, I still think he did, but he’s played outstanding. Tyron Smith may be the best left tackle in football. He picked up Rolando McClain off the scrap heap and he’s been a monster. The Cowboys have a great roster. Don’t people realize Jerry Jones put it together?
3. Lovie Smith and Ken Whisenhunt shouldn’t get a second year. These guys have done a horrible job this year with rosters that really aren’t that bad. Whisenhunt has a bevy of guys drafted on the first day up front and yet they can’t block. That’s poor offensive line coaching, and poor scheming. Smith has some talent on that defense and some ridiculous skill position guys, but Tampa would be inline for the first overall pick if the season ended today. These guys have coached before, we know what we’re getting, they should be coordinators now, and their days of being the face of an organization should be over, starting when week 17 ends.
4. Drew Brees and Peyton Manning have lost a lot of arm strength. When you watch these guys play now you see them not making throws that they’ve made in the past. I’m not a huge arm strength guy when it comes to evaluations but those offenses are going to have to start limiting some of the playbook. If you watch the tape now of these quarterbacks they are having to throw the ball so early now on anticipation throws it’s going to lead to more picks, more deflected passes, and less scoring. It might not all happen this season, but I believe the regression has gotten worse this year than in years past, and in football once it starts, it happens very quickly. A huge drop off could be coming for these guys in the next year and a half of football, if it hasn’t already started this season.
5. Three Hall of Fame receivers are limping into the end of their careers. Reggie Wayne, Andre Johnson, and Larry Fitzgerald should all get enshrined in Canton five years after they retire. They have had tremendous careers but it is probably coming that all three wont’ be with the teams they’ve played their entire careers with after this season. Wayne is a free agent, the Colts have T.Y. Hilton, and Wayne has said he’s played horrible. Johnson has a manageable dead money contract, the Texans have Nuk, and he wants to play for a contender. Arizona has Brown and Floyd and Fitz’s cap number is too big for a player that doesn’t produce much anymore. These guys are clearly Canton material but I doubt any of the three studs finishes his career with the team that drafted him.