As I recall, it was Pat Burns who once said that eternity is long, especially towards the end.
It is clear that good Pat was right: waiting, an often untenable reality, can finish off the best. In life, we all wait for something: happiness, wisdom, a new album by Michel Pagliaro. But can we wait a lifetime, and even longer, without ever losing hope?
These deep questions lead us to the present ranking in the world of American football.
In the top 10 of the best teams on the circuit, we find five who have never won anything, and again, we feel like including the Philadelphia Eagles in this list, who have won only once in almost 60 years due to ‘a quarterback who has played 180 minutes of good football in his life. We’ve already forgotten his name, by the way.
So, who do we see when looking up the rankings? The Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers and Houston Texans.
The Texans have been around since 2002 and their fans haven’t really had time to suffer, if you exclude the Houston Oilers years before that. But fans of the Lions, Bills, Vikings and Chargers have suffered every day since the first Super Bowl in 1967. That’s no small thing.
What’s fascinating is that all five teams in question are successful for the same reason: quality play at the quarterback position.
We’re not getting out. Of the five quarterbacks who lead these teams, no one was taken higher than seventh overall in a first round of the draft. Among others, Jared Goff, the Lions’ quarterback, was the first pick in the 2016 draft, and Sam Darnold, the Vikings’ quarterback, was the third pick in the 2018 draft by the New York Jets, who of course ended up trading him because the Jets aren’t capable of making a single good decision.
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Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold
We often say that it’s defense that wins championships, but here, we have a few teams that are finally on the path to being able to dream of something big, firstly because they ended up finding a quarterback competent to push them up.
It remains a league of quarterbacks.
The daily life of the Jets continues to be as hilarious as a Claude Blanchard sketch. So, after having had the coach Last month, Aaron Rodgers was responsible for another firing: that of general manager Joe Douglas, who was told to pack his boxes this week.
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New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas was fired this week.
All these beautiful people suffered because Rodgers is not the savior announced, he who spends more time trying to find the elixir of eternal youth than trying to win games. Now we have to wonder if the Jets are even going to want to bring Rodgers back next season, but the bugger of a man doesn’t have to worry about his future; with any luck, he could become a special envoy to Mars in Donald Trump’s government.
Let’s stay on the theme of disasters and look a little towards Dallas, where owner Jerry Jones declared this week that he “did not anticipate” a 3-7 record for his team. Which is rather strange, because if he had been paying attention when the Packers rinsed his club in the first round of the playoffs, the good Jerry could very well have predicted the rest, especially since he did absolutely nothing to improve his team over the summer.
Cowboys fans can still cling to their memories, recorded on VHS tapes somewhere.
So let’s take a look at the email box. First, this cryptic message from a reader, Denis Rochefort, who tells us that he is leaving “in space-time or celestial”. We remind him to bring at least a hat and mittens.
Then, Christian Cavion seems to be worried about the state of this column: “Hi Richard, I’m just writing to you to make sure everything is okay. Your intro (last week) suggests that your brain bubbles are taking up more and more space. »
As the saying goes: I wouldn’t confirm that I couldn’t rule it out either.
Another big menu awaits us on Sunday, and we advise you to refrigerate the nachos, if you haven’t already.
The Vikings will travel to Chicago, where the Bears will try to look less incompetent this time around. Also, the 49ers will go to Green Bay, and then finally, Monday night, the Chargers will have to defeat the Ravens in order to prove to the rest of the world that they are serious.
Finally, and this is very important: the Ciné-cadeau program is already out.
