The domination of Seattle's defense against the Saints offense should be no surprise to anyone who is objective in their evaluation of the Saints. The Saints three losses have been to teams with the best defensive coaches in the NFL. The Jets, the Patriots and the Seahawks. Seattle's head coach was called the best of them all in the NFL by ESPN's John Gruden who knows a little about the game.
New Orleans's journalists continue to talk about Brees's prolific passing and Payton's genius offense play calling but neither one deserve that title. Five of the Saints victories this year came at the expense of teams who are playing 500 or less ball. Brees was not the only passer who was prolific against those teams. Good defensive coached teams do not let receivers run wild and unchallenged.
After 12 games of play only 13 of the 32 teams in the NFL have a winning record and that trend has been going on for many years. In other words there are a lot of bad teams playing football in the NFL. No wonder records are falling every day. Individual players pile up records over a period of time but what has their team accomplished. The case can be made that Eli Manning has done more for his team than brother Peyton or Brees have done for their teams. Eli's team has won two world championships. Peyton and Brees teams have each won one and they have been playing longer than Eli.
Sports journalists in New Orleans jobs depend on the Saints for their livelyhood and that is why they cling to cliches and hype in their reporting and can not be objective in their evaluation of the Saints. The city did produce one sports writer with the Times Picayune that did pick Seattle to win the game. Jim Henderson, the voice of the Saints commentary after the Saints games are a joke. His after the fact breakdown is laughable.
Yea, Payton and Brees are good at what they do but prolific and genius should be measured with caution. When the Saints started the season in good fashion many sports journalists were projecting them champions of their division and talking about home field advantage thru out the playoffs. Now after the loss to Seattle and the Panthers up next they are in a panic. Those journalists were ready to project the future after only the first 6 games. The last time I checked the Saints do play a 16 game schedule.
Lets see, Green Bay, Dallas, Pittsburg, New England and San Francisco won multiple world championships and had great quarterbacks. I wonder how today's sports journalists would describe those head coaches and quarterbacks? Its a question to ponder.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
A Change In The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Part II
On July 4, 2013 this writer pointed out how one of President Truman's famous sayings related to the ACA. President Obama recently made a third change to the act by delaying the on line application for Small Business people for one year. Small Business can still go directly to the health exchanges during the delay period and still sign up and receive health coverage. The on line delay was to make the computer program more user friendly for the Small Business community.
The President's actions so far in the matter demonstrates how government should work when plans go astray and the program in question is worthwhile for the country and its people. The republicans noise machine has its nose bent out of shape because of Obama's chnges and the conservative media are falling over itself with their continued attacks on the President and the ACA.
President George W. Bush and the republican controlled congress passed the Prescription Drug Benefit in 2004 that gave the people the donut hole. President Bush said at the time the program would cost no more than $400 billion over the next decade which ends in 2014. The government now says the cost has already exceeded $900 billion and by the time the decade is over will cost approximately $1.07 trillion. Thats almost triple the predicted cost. Did any one hear of any clamor from the republicans on their own programs over run on costs. Ditto, the conservative news media. Republicans in congress at the time knew the $400 billion cost was a fairy tale but did nothing about it and neither did President Bush. The program also had its rollout problems but republicans were silent on that also.
The republicans forgot President Trumans famous saying concerning their Prescription Drug Benefit. On the other hand President Obama's actions on the ACA shows President Truman's theory was correct when congress passes legislation and corrective action has to be taken. It is just another example of a democratic President doing the right thing on a piece of major legislation. President Truman's wisdom on the matter is still a guide line for future legislation.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
The President's actions so far in the matter demonstrates how government should work when plans go astray and the program in question is worthwhile for the country and its people. The republicans noise machine has its nose bent out of shape because of Obama's chnges and the conservative media are falling over itself with their continued attacks on the President and the ACA.
President George W. Bush and the republican controlled congress passed the Prescription Drug Benefit in 2004 that gave the people the donut hole. President Bush said at the time the program would cost no more than $400 billion over the next decade which ends in 2014. The government now says the cost has already exceeded $900 billion and by the time the decade is over will cost approximately $1.07 trillion. Thats almost triple the predicted cost. Did any one hear of any clamor from the republicans on their own programs over run on costs. Ditto, the conservative news media. Republicans in congress at the time knew the $400 billion cost was a fairy tale but did nothing about it and neither did President Bush. The program also had its rollout problems but republicans were silent on that also.
The republicans forgot President Trumans famous saying concerning their Prescription Drug Benefit. On the other hand President Obama's actions on the ACA shows President Truman's theory was correct when congress passes legislation and corrective action has to be taken. It is just another example of a democratic President doing the right thing on a piece of major legislation. President Truman's wisdom on the matter is still a guide line for future legislation.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
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