I think I would rather have LeBron playing for my team than Dilfer. He was a horrible QB, who was QB-ing of the greatest defense and special teams ever. All he really had to do was hand the ball off to Jamal Lewis. Not hard to do, except if your Tony Banks.

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After the Ravens won SB XXXV, my college roommate decided that the best way to win the Super Bowl was to pick up Tony Banks as your starting QB for a while, and then get rid of him…

I didn’t know he “brought anything on himself.” the guy changed teams, lol. furthermore, that you bring up President Obama in this sports topic kind of underlines what I mean about how upside most of you people in this country are.

It’s all about your personal affection for men and women, not for their personal actions. James’ rant is exactly what florio does anytime he gets to bash Matt Millen.

If you didn’t see the “D” or “R” next to most of their names, I wonder if many would even know who to support since you don’t notice the similarity at the end of the day in which both parties handle problems. But carry on, carry on believing in fairy tales of how one side is to blame more than the other when they continue working in concert destroying this country.

When we’re Rome or Greece, maybe history will be kind to us.

We can argue all day about Dilfer. But look at the other guys working for networks as analysts or announcers. Tim Hasselbeck, Chris Collinsworth, Merril Hodge, etc. No matter what your feelings on Dilfer is, he did more in the NFL than any of those guys.
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Granted, Dilfer has a championship under his belt, but with him throwing 12 td’s and 11 int’s with a rating of 77 in the Ravens Super Bowl season, you could hardly say that he lead that team to the Super Bowl. He finished his career with more INT’s than TD’s

Collinsworth had a better pro career than Dilfer, making 3 Pro Bowls and leading his team in receiving with over 1000 yards in his rookie season, when Cincy lost to the 49ers in the Super Bowl.

However, Dilfer wasn’t a horrible quarterback. You don’t stay in the league for 13 years being horrible.

I think you are missing my point……. The athletes i mentioned have been through life crisis’ while in the prime of their careers, much like LeBron……. But they simply manned up, took care of their business off the field, made no excuses and returned to glory…….

LeBron is simply acting like a little bitc*…… He brought this all on himself, much like the athletes i mentioned, but takes no RESPONSIBILITY for his actions……

And no, i do not want, “(My) athletes (to) fight through truly horrible situations rather than fight through media and fan fabricated adversity”….. There is no comparison between the two…… But that tells me something about the man…..

Bottom line: If LeBron can’t handle his current adversity, what gives you the idea he is mentally tough enough to lead his team to a championship and become an all time great?? After all, he did join Dwayne Wade’s team……

Let me guess, you voted for Obama and blame our current economy problem on Bush…. But fail to forget about all of Obama’s bailouts…… Which will cripple this country for at least another generation….

Aww … do you need some attention?? So you thought you’d shoot spitballs at the football fans. I can understand why you prefer bball. It’s so simple a child can do it. My niece has been going to bball camp since she was four–and she’s short for her age. And it’s so well-choreographed. I can almost hear that whistling Globetrotters tune in my head when they play. What is it they used to call the Lakers championship teams? Oh yeah …

Showtime. LOL

Your logic would appear to make sense, except for one little thing…. Have you heard Millen call games lately? He makes my ears bleed.

@ realfootballfan

No, I don’t remember what Trent Dilfer said a year ago about Brett Favre. Sorry.

As far as the rest of your post goes, it’s a whole lot of assumptions and jumping to conclusions. I don’t remember Dilfer ever saying he was a cornerstone of TBs success nor did I ever get the vibe he was better than any of his peers.

We can argue all day about Dilfer. But look at the other guys working for networks as analysts or announcers. Tim Hasselbeck, Chris Collinsworth, Merril Hodge, etc. No matter what your feelings on Dilfer is, he did more in the NFL than any of those guys.

And if we are going to bash someone for being arrogant, and a flat-out jerk on the air, please, let it be Tiki barber.

If you want to talk about a show, talk about the NBA- The bombast of the player introductions, the lack of fundamentals, the strong focus on individual players, the me-first attitude, the lack of players willing to play defense, stars that hit 60% of their free throws, players sitting out because of mild injuries or tummyaches, all topped off by the televised LeBron announcement- The NBA is a show, until you get to the playoffs.

Championships are great, they mean something, they do not mean everything. It is the ultimate team sport. I know it makes it wasier for you to rank everything, something you hold dear to your heart, but put your anal rententiveness aside and just enjoy the game, and try to imagine that you cannot use linear logic to rate everything in the NFL.

regardless, this is a well written article and some good points.

Let me get this right….you’d rather your athletes fight through truly horrible situations rather than fight through media and fan fabricated adversity?

And you wonder why this country is going to hell in a hand basket with this kind of blind hatred going on around you?

sterilizecromartie,

Are you kidding? In this guy’s mind, he was never a bust, was a cornerstone piece to Tampa’s success rather than the biggest reason Dungy got fired there, was an important piece to that Raven Super Bowl team, and generally carries himself with an arrogant air of some great player.

Do you not remember when this moron said last year at the first signs of the Favre/Childress feud late in the season, “When quarterbacks like me and Brett Favre want to audible, out of bad plays that we see,” which should end the thought because he has nothing in common with Favre. He’s a self promotion nut who’s hell bent on brain washing idiots out there who sit in front of BSPN to forget how utterly horrible he was as a player with those kind of silly comments.

KOBE!

Matt Millen went to four Super Bowls with three teams, which won each time. He was a respected NFL TV analyst for many years before he became a GM. The fact that he failed as a GM doesn’t change the fact that he clearly knows the NFL well from his playing days and post-game TV career. He might not be qualified to be a GM based on his stint in Detroit, but he certainly is qualified to talk authoritatively about it — JUST AS HE DID BEFORE HE EVER BECAME A GM.

That’s what Florio doesn’t get. It’s also what makes him a hypocrite, as cnelson13 pointed out, in complaining about LeBron James’ calling out Trent Dilfer.

It’s not what he did, it’s how he did it.
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Ding ding ding. Well said. LeBron doesn’t owe Cleveland anything after he helped make the team respectable again. Most people actually don’t blame for wanting to get out of hellhole known as Cleveland (Mistake by the Lake). The way LeBron made his DECISION is what turned people off of him. The 1/2 hour “special” was a sham and enormous ego stroking PR disaster, despite the spin job with the Boys and Girls Club as a cheap prop.

No one bought it and he should fire his PR consultants. Epic Fail. Now he’s exposed himself as one gigantic D-bag.

From a Ravens fan.

Dilfer is a good analyst, and he’s also very forthright in saying he was never the QB that Brady and Manning are. Often it’s the lesser players who make the best coaches and analysts.

Nice observation about the championships. Great if you have both, but given a choice, I’d rather my team have Super Bowl trophies than passing records. And I hope no NFL player ever buys a half-hour of air time to announce he’s changing teams. What an ego! Yuck!
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Deb, although I disagree with you on almost any other subject, you are spot on right here. Good post.

When you have players colluding to go to certain teams with other players, it makes the game a lot less interesting and less competitive. It’s about as exciting as watching the Yankees outbidding everyone to purchase championships.

over 100 points scored it seems so overblown. Not to mention the whole “Hip Hop” mentality of lets beat our wives and go to jail to have some street credit belongs in the NBA keep it out the NFL!!

As for you Florio, I would think a man of your intellect would see these Heat and Lebron haters for what they are scorned and dumped. You know what happens when you trust an organization, see Jeter or Favre.

I must say I do love all the hate we’re getting! Reminds me of the U!

Trent didn’t win anything … The Ravens DEFENSE won that game
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Paintin didn’t win anything, either. Rex Grossman was the Bears’ QB. SOMEBODY had to win.

By Lebron’s logic, the only people who are allowed to criticize his play would be MJ or Kobe.

After the MNF game last week someone asked Dilfer, as a former QB, how Brady is playing at such a high level. Dilfer said something like “I don’t know. I was never a great QB… so what Brady is doing now is astounding to me…”

Dilfer is pretty humble when it comes to talking about these QBs. Lebron needs to chill out.

It is one thing to go over a players play and another to do it with laughter and or slur. Especially when you have so many of these so called Analysts that have 0 business doing what they are doing.