The Potato Sack #2

This week, we branch out from the confines of the NHL and take note of some prolific stupidity south of the border in the National Football League. Specifically, to New York to hear some words from Thomas Jones, the running back for the New York Jets.

Sour following a loss to the Dolphins to finish the Jets season and again looking in at the playoffs from the outside, Jones decided that it was his place to enlighten the world on his apparent expertise as a coach. Jones opened his gaping trap and told the world that Brett Favre should have been benched in the Miami game because ultimately it was his interceptions that cost the Jets the game.
"We're a team and we win together ... but at the same time, you can't turn the ball over and expect to win," Jones told the radio station, two days after Favre tossed three interceptions in the season-ending loss to Miami. Jones, who led the AFC with rushing 1,312 yards, said the turnovers were the difference in the 24-17 loss. "If I were to sit here and say, 'Oh, man, it's OK,' that's not reality ... If somebody is not playing well, they need to come out of the game."

Now, I am by no means arguing that Jones' comments are incorrect. Favre ended the season on a dismal downward spiral and is really showing the wear of his many professional years, and yes, he perhaps should have been replaced. The point is, this is not Jones' call. Firstly, Jones is hired to run the ball, not offer up his own post game summary or coaching strategy. Secondly, and more importantly, If Jones has an opinion about his future hall of fame quarterback's play, he can state it to Favre's face in the Jets locker room..and only there! As a professional athlete, the media is not his own outlet to release his personal frustrations. There are things that should stay in the locker room. 15-year olds playing local sports learn this lesson and yet Jones being another example of an NFL prima donna still hasn't.


Thomas, don't begin your tirade by saying the appeasing statement of "we win together" because the comments that followed just group you in a growing list of players who place themselves above the team they play for. Maybe next year, in the fourth quarter of the final game of the season, instead of preparing your comments for ESPN you'll focus on your own game and finish with more than 23 yards rushing. Now hop in the potato sack and you can talk to yourself all you want while I unleash a good ol' fashioned John Madden beating on you.