Jones v. Trinidad Thoughts:
-For what it's worth, I had this one even more in Jones favor than the official scoring with Tito Trinidad winning only the 1st and 3rd rounds giving Jones a 118-108 victory.
-Jones predicted a 4th round KO and then barely threw a punch in the first 3 rounds?
-Contrary to what is apparently popular belief, I think this was a better fight than it would have been when both these guys were in their primes 6-8 years ago. Jones' vastly diminished hand speed was still enough to totally dismantle Trinidad while maintaining an impenetrable defense despite terrible fundamentals (sticking the chin out to bait Tito, carrying his left hand at his waist, no footwork, etc).
-What's with Trinidad's trainer slapping the shit out of him after every round? With friends like these...
-Is it just me or was Jones having so much fun showboating that he let Tito off the hook in the 7th round when he had him wobbly?
-Finally, did anyone have any idea where Max Kellerman was going with the Bobby Fischer rambling after the fight? Kellerman has to be the worst thing that's happened to sports broadcasting since Dennis Miller joined the MNF crew. Just awful.
Conference Championship Sunday Thoughts:
-So Phil Rivers is going to play despite missing almost the entire week of practice. Nothing points to success like a warm weather quarterback playing in sub-freezing temperatures with no practice on two bad knees...
-While the Chargers might be able to match up to some degree with Moss, Welker and Stallworth, who is San Diego going to put on Jabar Gaffney? Look for him to have a big day; something along the lines of 7 catches for 65 yards and a touchdown.
-The Giants are making way too big a deal about the cold. Warming cream, lambskin inside their helmets, new heated benches; it all reminds me of the 1981 Bengals v. Chargers game, and I'm expecting a similar result.
-Aaron Ross and Sam Madison better be ready to stop the run because if I'm Mike McCarthy, I'm starting the game with power sweeps, outside traps and screens to punish, and test the health, of the only two guys the Giants have with a prayer of stopping the Packers passing game.
-Is ESPN paying Emmitt Smith or is he like Milton from Office Space and just showing up because he was never told he was fired. On Sunday Countdown today, Smith rambled for nearly five minutes about how tough it is to play in mud and how Brandon Jacobs, being a bigger back, was going to have all kinds of trouble when he's sinking in the mud. Um... it's going to be 1 freaking degree with a windchill that could reach into the negative twenties. Water freezes at 32 degrees. Where is this mud coming from? This is like 2nd grade science. It may be time for ESPN to start making former players take a Wunderlic like test before hiring them.
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