Chris Cooley Is Guest Writer For Monday Morning Quarterback
Chris Cooley is the third in line to cover for Peter King in his month long absence. Trent Green and Matt Birk have gone first and second, respectively. I guess Chris Cooley's inexorable romp to cyber-galactic domination is going rather nicely. He has really come into his own as a personality it seems, and the media is taking note.
Here is the link to today's MMQB column.
In his typical fashion, he cranks out rips on Trent Green, kickers, and even manages to get a little dig on Donovan McNabb. As you're reading it, you can clearly hear Chris saying all of these things. I especially liked his telling of the story of him and Shaun Suisham talking:
A couple weeks ago, I squatted over my helmet next to Shaun Suisham on the practice sideline of Redskins Park. It was your everyday water-cooler dialogue, the kicker being the guy who has nothing to do, ever, and then lingering around, begging for someone to scheme with. Conversations with a kicker are typically nonsense-filled ideas ranging from Barack Obama staring down girls' backsides to Michael Jackson's death dragging his estate out of debt. Every so often, we even talk about football, but with a kicker it's usually something about how a holder's chubby, jittery hands can mess up an entire season or why adding two games to the regular season would be so much harder on a kicking leg.
He went on to talk about Smart Football, which you'll have to hear him explain.
It is a quick read--unlike the normal MMQB--and in it, Chris once again tries to gain support for his monstrosity of a sandwich: peanut butter, mustard, and ham.
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I think the same way as Cooley.
And he’s right, it’s good to actually believe the Redskins and Jason Campbell will have big years.
by SSBlitz on Jul 13, 2009 12:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Peter King
Might be the worst football writer i’ve ever read. Dating back to 1999 he has completely bungled his predictions for the upcoming season.
To top that off his hatred for NFL overtime is unbearable.
by Elaw6 on Jul 13, 2009 1:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I hear that
I have long been anti-Peter King. My only problem is that his column is kind of a must-read in that it does have some good nuggest in it from time to time. His football commentary is generally decent, but his Peter King-ness (for lack of a more derogatory term) irritates me. Then again, I am probably just jealous that he talks to Brett Favre regularly. Wait, I should probably tell you all what I mean…you see, he gets to talk to Brett Favre on the cell phone all the time. You might not have known that…he hardly ever brings it up.
by Ken Meringolo on Jul 13, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
entirely agreed
I only read King’s stuff because he is well connected in the NFL and can give you those good nuggets you talked about. I can usually tolerate his writings because he’s usually good at staying unbiased, although his love of the NFC East, and the Giants in particular, does tend to show.
Aside from that, I definitely could not care less about things like his softball playing daughter and his love of coffee. And, as Elaw6 noted, his game and season predictions are completely useless.
Even his weekly Top 15 rankings are useless. For instance he supposedly has a “neutral field rule” (in which he will rank a team higher than another because he believe the higher ranked team would beat the other team on a neutral field) but then he ignores it (e.g. he ranked the Skins lower than the Eagles last year even after the Skins beat the Eagles in Philly.).
by superjuan on Jul 13, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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