QB Flopping

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by albany ed

Mahomes is just a smart QB. He seeks to take every advantage he can. I don't see anything wrong with that, and if he were the Colts QB, you'd be singing his praises.

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Actually, I am a rare fan that would not be singing his praises if Mahomes were the QB of my favorite team and he flopped ...... for everything else that Mahomes does I would be singing his praises, but not for flopping.

On a somewhat similar note, Bert Jones is my favorite player of all-time. When his career was altered in the final pre-season game of 1978, it was after a sack by Bubba Baker of the Lions which wound up separating Jones' right shoulder. This was a turning point in Colts franchise history because the Colts had just won 3 consecutive division titles from 1975 through 1977, and Jones' absence for the majority of the 1978 season was the biggest factor in their descent into a below-average team which tallied a 5-11 record by season's end. Jones' presence (and absence) was one of the earliest examples of the importance of an elite QB to a football team's overall success. I hold no ill-will toward Bubba Baker, because it was not a dirty play which injured Jones, it was just an unfortunate twist-of-fate that had Jones being tackled and laid upon by a 265-pound lineman which separated his shoulder ...... it was not a late-hit or a flagrant facemask, it was just a clean, hard tackle which resulted in a fateful injury to Jones.


I say somewhat similar note because I don't necessarily always side with my favorite team and/or against a rival team in terms of fairness ...... when I was a kid I hated the Oakland Raiders, because I thought that they were the dirtiest bunch of gangsters ever to take a football field ...... if the Baltimore Colts had collectively played as underhanded and dirty as the Oakland Raiders did, I would not have been proud of that aspect of their play, regardless of how successful they were.

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