From Monday to Friday, the average person works at their unexciting desk job. But come Saturday and Sunday, every single person in the world gets hired to be a professional football analyst. Or at least it seems that way. I mean jesus christ, when did everyone become the most knowledgeable football mind in the world?
We are closing in on the end of Week 5 for the NFL and I think that’s a fair amount of time to officially claim that a team is good or not. And in the case that your team is declared to be officially ~bad~ then every single fan thinks they know the reason why. As a guy who consistently gives out his opinion, I actually can’t fathom how everyone came to be such an expert. Only problem is, all of these “experts” have opposing opinions. Some are sure it’s the QB. Others are positive it’s the coach’s fault. And then there is an entirely different camp that wants the owner to just hand over the team to someone else. So who really is at fault?
Here’s my feeling. It’s the mascot’s fault. No I mean it. How is that any less likely than blaming the QB. You’ll say that the QB is the one throwing the damn ball. Yeah so what? That ball was thrown because of a game plan drawn up by a coach and a play call by an offensive coordinator. In addition, passes may be incomplete for a number of reasons outside of the QB’s control such as a botched catch, defensive schemes, poor route running, pressure from the defensive line, a deflection, the sun, or crowd noise. I can do this all day. Want to blame the coach? I’ll rattle off a similar laundry list of reasons they can rid themselves of blame. But there’s one person on the field who performs solo: the mascot.
The mascot has no one to pass blame off to. He’s the glue guy. He’s responsible for general cheer levels. It’s time to turn our thought around on this whole finger pointing game. The team isn’t sad because they are playing bad, they are playing bad because they are sad.
FIRE THE MASCOT!
