It seems we've had several interesting stories pop up across the football world in the last few days, and I'd love to make a detailed post about each and every one, but that would take more time than I have, so instead I'll briefly go into each story below. Welcome to QUICK SLANTS!
1) Manning retires. New York Giants long-time quarterback announced his retirement the other day, bringing his illustrious 16-year NFL career to and end. It's not known as of yet what he plans to do after football (possibly staying in it as a coach), but he does retire as one of the greatest New York Giants in history, leading many categories, and having won two Super Bowls over the course of his career. TTS wishes him all the best.
2) Jennings goes bye-bye. The more surprising story in the football world was the release of QB Jonathon Jennings by the Ottawa RedBlacks yesterday. Jennings hadn't been with the team long, and was expected to become the full-time starting quarterback at some point. It is well known that new head coach Paul LaPolice was interested in bringing over Matt Nichols from the Blue Bombers to be the new starter, but that hasn't happened. The RedBlacks are now without an experienced QB on their roster, and this makes little sense right now.
3) Garrett joins the Giants. Former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett has officially joined the New York Giants as their new offensive coordinator. He takes over the offensive duties on a team that really has had no proper offence for the past couple of season, with every aspect of it struggling in some way or form. Will this improve the hapless Giants? We'll have to wait and see.
4) Nichols gets angry. Winnipeg Blue Bombers QB Matt Nichols has publicly expressed his frustration with the fact that the Bombers are prioritizing the signing of QB Zach Collaros over his own. As much as I like and respect Matt Nichols, he's a little out of line in going this route, as Collaros was the one who helped the Blue Bombers win the Grey Cup and end a 29-year drought. Nichols should be happy at the fact that it was his leadership and ability that gave the team a fast start to the season, a while before he was injured.
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It really wasn't surprising Jennings was released by the REDBLACKS. Of the QBs the team had he was the worst. Heck they had players that weren't QBs that were better QBs than him. He lost any talent he had.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but one would think that a head coach with LaPolice's pedigree could have done something to improve Jennings, rather than let him walk and take his issues elsewhere. Might have been interesting. -TTS
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