Wow what a week can bring

I personally don't plan on making this a "breaking news" blog because frankly there are far to many of them these days and mis-information propagates through the Internet like the Black Death through medieval Europe. I will on the other hand provide my opinion on the news and speculations. So here are my thoughts on some recent developments/rumors.

1. Michael Vick in purple (since FilipinoFury asked...)

No dice. Sure, we could bring him in as a terrifying Wildcat QB (especially now since T-Jack is injured again, but more on that later) but I don't really think we could pull that off. And by we I of course am referring to the Childress/Bevell brain trust. The thought of Vick/Peterson/Harvin on the field all at once would probably give Tony Sparano a condition that required a call to Cialus after a few hours, but alas we don't have a Tony Sparano ran team. We have the equivalent of an early WWI general (Chilly) who despite leaps in technology (Talent, offensive systems) still thinks that their old system of warfare (KAO) is still the best and refuses to adapt to their present conditions therefore wasting countless lives (talent, seasons) pressing rank and file troops forward against those newfangled machine gun turrets (any defensive coordinator that is worth their salt). In my opinion what makes a good coach/leader is someone who can develop a system with the talent that they are given, not force the talent to conform to their system. So long story short, yes Vick *could* provide something special to this team, but I just don't think we'd ever use that potential and bringing him in wouldn't be worth the PR hit. Especially since we're fighting for a new stadium.

2. Additions/Departures

Kenechi Udeze retires. I can't really blame the guy for this one, he just got done fighting a tough fight against Leukemia and still had lingering chemo related pains. A lot of people were excited for him to come back (myself included) but we can't fault him for this decision. Good luck with the rest of your life Kenechi.

Charles Gordon cut/leaves. I was at the game that he got "injured" in last year. I put "injured" in quotes because what happened to him surpasses an injury in my opinion. An injury is spraining your ankle, not having a part of body go where it isn't supposed to. I started texting my friends who I knew were watching the game because I was sitting in the opposite end zone and all I could see was people from both teams shaking their heads over him. My buddy Joe replied telling me it was the grossest thing he had ever seen, and he's seen 2 girls 1 cup (don't google that video at work, google it at home at your own risk). He then told me it looked to be a career ending injury, well I guess Joe was right. Gordon wasn't a key player for the team but you never like to see someone go out like this.

Aundrae Allison cut. Although this isn't surprising due to drafting Harvin and Jaymar Johnson being the talk of training camp the manner in which it unfolded bothered me. The news broke when infamous d-bag, oops I mean agent, Drew Rosenhaus "tweeted" this: "The Vikings have informed me that they will be waiving receiver Aundrae Allison by 5pm today if he isn't traded first." So my question is, why is he alerting the world to his impending release if the Vikings are still trying to trade him? Sure, he's still on his 5th round pick rookie contract so that might be enticing for a team to keep him on it but honestly what are you going to trade for him? What is his value? Sure, we stole a 6th round pick from the Jags for Troy "Hands" Williamson but no team in their right mind would trade for him. This isn't the NBA where trades are based more on the contracts than on the talent being traded. Ridiculous. Call me an old stubborn codger (I'm only 25) but Twitter is definitely something I could do without. There are only two types of people who use it: Celebrities that think they're more popular than they are and are convinced people want to know what they are thinking, and the Joe Baggodoughnuts of the world that think the same things. I'm convinced the success of twitter isn't because of what it is but the mass media over-hyping the crap out of it. It's a bunch of old out of touch people trying to "talk like the kids these days" and "keeping in touch with the youth" and they have manufactured it's popularity and usefulness. The only time it is ever useful is alerting people of danger (Iranian riots, building fires, etc). It's definitely not worth the tens of thousands of dollars Chad Johnson (I refuse to call him by his new name) will blow on fines for "tweeting" during games this year. What a smack in the face to every Cincinnati fan out there, willfully throwing away money in one of the states most devastated by the recession. It's bad enough that they are born in to Cincinnati fandom, your just throwing salt in their wounds ChaJo.

3. Jim Johnson's (Eagles D-Coordinator) death. The reason I'm compelled to write about this is simple. I didn't find out about his death for 3 days because his death was overshadowed by the Favre announcement. Honestly, we have TWENTY FOUR HOUR sports coverage these days and the passing of one of the greatest coordinators in football is only scrolled across the bottom of the screen?? You have got to be kidding me. To say he out coached the vikings brain trust in the playoffs last year would be an understatement. Heck, he made the Eli Manning look like T-Jack the following week. This man has contributed a lot to the sport of football and his passing was nothing more than a footnote due to America's favorite diva not named Beyonce made his long awaited decision. Disgusting.