If anyone happened to watch the Monday nighter last week, and actually still had the game on in the 4th quarter, then you saw the moment when the cameras caught Cardinals QB Derek Anderson sharing a smile with one of his O-lineman while getting shit-stomped by the Niners. If you didn't see it then, you definitely have seen it since, as well as the post game presser tirade that ensued. Jon Gruden felt it necessary to call out Anderson and question his competitive drive on national television, and then some moron, who I highly doubt was ever an athlete, badgered Anderson repeatedly after the game about the topic until the QB finally lost his cool. This is yet another one of the instances in sports where I really wish people would just kindly shut their cake hole because they obviously don't know the first thing about being an athlete. I will say this first and foremost, there is not a quarterback in the NFL who is not fiercely competitive. I highly doubt that Derek Anderson is any different. I'm sure this dude takes pride in his job and his performance, and he knows that the wins and losses generally fall on his shoulders. So he and Deuce Lutui shared a light moment in the midst of an ass-kicking. It happens. Would you rather he be crying or firing a Gatorade bucket on the sidelines. Yeah, Anderson was playing like shit. Do you think he didn't know that? Maybe his buddy did what normal people do when their friend is having a bad day... tried to cheer him up a little and have a laugh. This isn't a crime, it's a non-issue.
The main reason for this non-issue is a guy I thought I liked, Jon Gruden. But now I feel he is nothing more than a blowhard football robot who thinks a loss in the NFL is the biggest tragedy one can imagine. Yeah, he knows his stuff, but now I'm convinced he will throw players under the bus. And if he did it to Anderson on national television, imagine what he was like to his own players behind closed doors. But Gruden's Freudian moment of psychology only got the ball rolling for some other unathletic dick. That dick is Kent Somers. Heard of him? Me neither. But he pointed questions at Anderson and made it sound like the QB thought losing was funny. Does anyone who knows shit about sports really think he was laughing about the game or his performance? Of course not. But this putz who spends 18 hours a day hunched over his laptop studying stats apparently does. I love when journalists think they know what it takes to be a good athlete, or the way an athlete should behave. If this guy thinks that Anderson's laughing says something profound about his will to win then he is a complete idiot. Instead of just being realistic and assuming that these guys just saw or said something humorous, we question a guys character. And because it was pushed too far, a grown man was pushed to lose his cool and drop shit-bombs all over TV. So now the made-up media perception of Anderson is not only that he doesn't care about losing, but also that he's a hot-head. What do they wanna do now, run his ass out of town? I think maybe some of these other so-called experts need to learn to laugh it off a little.
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