Pensive Receiver Has 2 Missed Opportunities to Ponder
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Receiver Justin McCareins let two touchdown passes slip out of his hands in the penultimate minute of the Jets game against the Ravens on Sunday.
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The Atlanta Falcons' wide receivers are being used so sparingly that they were asked Monday about their blocking skills, not their receiving skills.
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Now if only the NFL can let players at the other 20 positions on the football field get involved. The league trading deadline was yesterday, and for the first time in five years, there actually were deals made. All three trades were for wide receivers.
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If anyone expects him to be a decoy at receiver, forget it, Terrell Owens said. He seems to believe that decoys are for duck hunting, not for the Super Bowl.
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Brett Favre was thinking about only one thing. It wasn't a record.
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The split between the Reds and Barry Larkin left the club with two very big holes to fill. The obvious one is at shortstop. The less obvious one is in the clubhouse - where he was the undisputed
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Every snap Terrell Owens misses is another chance for Drew Bledsoe to throw to Terry Glenn. Not that they seem to need the work.
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Bringing in Reche Caldwell, even as a No. 2 receiver to Deion Branch, looked like an iffy proposition.
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A few shortcomings were left unsaid, while one was simply phrased poorly.
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Once again, we are confronted with the essential difference between Him and Us. We, of course, have been thinking about the Pittsburgh Steelers since the instant that horrendous game of Oct. 31 ended. "We" would include fans, media, and, I am sure, many of the players themselves, and we have been lusting to see a rematch between the Steelers and ...
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The Philadelphia Eagles' thin receiving corps has lost another key member, and whether its star makes it back for the Super Bowl is still uncertain.
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The Jets' Doug Brien missed two field-goal attempts in the final minutes of regulation, either of which might have won the game.
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C'mon, T.O., take the bait. Admit you're better than Randy Moss. Say you can run faster, block better, make the most big plays out of double coverage.
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Sunday's matchup between the Jets and the Rams was not the best of games for Dick Enberg or Dan Dierdorf, CBS's No. 2 team.
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The missed chances came early, the big plays too late.
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This is not what the Detroit Lions or Charles Rogers had in mind when the wide receiver was drafted second overall three years ago.
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Troy Vincent recalls going back to the huddle and forgetting to look at the sideline for the play, even though it was his job to relay the signal. He mentions the days after one concussion when he couldn't remember phone numbers and kept thinking his car was running. When he sees clips of himself knocked unconscious, he cringes.