110.9, 89.42. Those are the quarterback ratings of Tyler Thigpen over the last two weeks against the New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. There is really no remotely rational explanation of why a second year quarterback out of Coastal Carolina, taken in the seventh round of the NFL draft should put up numbers like that in consecutive weeks. Especially when you consider that the Chiefs best running back is serving an NFL suspension and hasn’t played in three weeks, the other two runningbacks are a rookie and a second year player, neither of whom was taken higher than the third round, the offensive line is patchwork at best, the teams best reciever is a TE who’s already asked to be traded, and his quarterback coach is some dude named Dick Curl who used to be in charge of clock management for a team that was terrible at it.
Watching Thigpen achieve mediocrity in the NFL on a more than 10-seconds at a time basis is probably the most surprising thing I’ve seen in pro sports since the Royals announced they weren’t sending Tony Pena Jr. down because they were afraid someone would claim their .160 hitting shortstop off waivers. The good Thigpen should probably show up again next week, in general, it takes defensive co-ordinators three games of film to fully scout and evaluate a quarterback and offense. This was game two. If Thigpen hits league average again next week, we should get a good read on if he’s really any good at all the week after.
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If you haven’t heard about this already, you probably will soon. Rolling Stone magazine, which has randomly had some of the best war reporting on the current conflicts - see the Killer Elite pieces from the invasion of Iraq for another example - just released a piece by Nir Rosen who managed to get an embed slot with the Taliban and covered them for a month. There has been an outcry over how “unpatriotic” or “traitorous” this is already. I predict Fox News will shortly begin a massive campaign against Mr. Rosen and Rolling Stone. To all of those who are upset about this piece, I, as an Iraqi War Veteran who has buried friends in Arlington and lost comrades in the desert, have three simple words: SCREW YOU, D-BAGS.
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I don’t know if it would be fair to say that I was ever anti-gay, but it’s definitely true that I used to be against gay rights. Part of this is because I thought being gay was a choice, and you don’t get civil rights protections for making choices. But it was also partly due to the fact that I was uncomfortable with the idea of gay men.
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