Oh Please...

What's up with this Devin Hester love fest? It's amazing that he has been able to run so many punts and kickoffs back for touchdowns. But it's also pathetic. He's a professional football player, right? And the coverage team chasing after him are professionals as well, correct? Then tackle him!

Instead, we get oohs and aahs from the broadcast team acting as though they've never seen anything like this before. Like they just discovered the New World. C'mon - where's the reaction of "I can't believe Denver allowed this to happen! They ARE a pro team, aren't they?"

And the discussion of kicking away from him is absurd. You're a pro football team. Stop him. What are you going to do? Kick out of bounds on every kickoff in a Chicago game? Surrender field position and allow them to start at the 40 every time? Stop him!! Teams should kick right to him and make it a matter of pride to stop him. They should be embarrased every time he gains a yard.

And as for the Patriots and running up the score? If you don't want that to happen...stop them. And if you can't do that, do what players of the 60s and 70s would have done. There was no toleration for things like that then. The players policed themselves. This kinder, gentler NFL is for the birds.

Continuing on the Patriots for a mo, I don't recall seeing Mike Vrabel being put into the game on offense last night. I wonder if Philly would have put somebody on him if that did happen? What is up with that? I hope NFL teams have learned now that if Vrabel is in the game on offense, somebody better cover him.

And it was humorous when Junior Seau was in the game as a fullback. The announcer pointed out that Lawrence Mulroney followed him right into the pile. Except for the fact that he didn't. He was at least one lineman away from Seau on the play.