stillers4me
11-28-2011, 11:50 AM
When highly paid analysts trot out the term "matchup nightmare," they are generally praising an offensive player who stalks the uncomfortable dreams of defensive coordinators league-wide.
"He's a matchup nightmare," is an insider compliment generally directed at a tight end or a wideout who requires more potent antidotes than the defense often has in its bag. But the matchup nightmare at work in this little slice of Missouri prime time was too obvious to dwell on, it being nothing more or less than what was reflected in the won-loss records of the starting quarterbacks.
It hardly seemed worth pointing out that Ben Roethlisberger was 76-32 as an NFL starter, and that Tyler Palko was 0-1.
That would be like listing the drastically different body mass indexes of an elephant and a mouse. So how come the mouse was still darting about late Sunday night, still torturing the elephant, still nearly bringing the offensively challenged Kansas City Chiefs within 40 yards of an inexcusable upset of Mike Tomlin's team?...........
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11332/1193142-150-0.stm#ixzz1f1WSgiMJ
"He's a matchup nightmare," is an insider compliment generally directed at a tight end or a wideout who requires more potent antidotes than the defense often has in its bag. But the matchup nightmare at work in this little slice of Missouri prime time was too obvious to dwell on, it being nothing more or less than what was reflected in the won-loss records of the starting quarterbacks.
It hardly seemed worth pointing out that Ben Roethlisberger was 76-32 as an NFL starter, and that Tyler Palko was 0-1.
That would be like listing the drastically different body mass indexes of an elephant and a mouse. So how come the mouse was still darting about late Sunday night, still torturing the elephant, still nearly bringing the offensively challenged Kansas City Chiefs within 40 yards of an inexcusable upset of Mike Tomlin's team?...........
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11332/1193142-150-0.stm#ixzz1f1WSgiMJ