00_Agent
10-16-2005, 05:47 PM
This should be a new term used by football fans when a player that usually wouldn't (and shouldn't) see the field single-handedly loses a game for his team. As in "We really got Maddoxed today."
Usually I would start this sort of thing by saying "no offense to our opponent" (who in this case would be the Jaguars) but I think we all know that would be a bunch of garbage. We outplayed them the entire game after the first quarter. We would have had the game won in regulation if Tommy could have converted a few third downs.
Everyone else on the Steelers did his best to make up for Tommy Maddox today and couldn't. Frankly, they can't be blamed...not even a miracle could have made up for his performance. How do I know? Because Quincy Morgan delivered that miracle by returning the opening kickoff of overtime to the Jacksonville 26. It looked, amazingly, like we were going to overcome Maddox for a brief moment. Despite the fact that the only people he could complete a pass to were in teal, we were going to kick a field goal and win the game. All he had to do was keep hold of the football...
Hmph. Apparently a sizeable task. On our third play after the kickoff he, completely of his own accord, fumbled the snap, and THEN, instead of just falling on it, he tried to pick it up, feebly, knocking it further backward until it was eventually recovered by the Jags.
Of course, our defense shut them down with ease as they did for most of the afternoon, and we got the ball back. Two plays later the game was over.
I don't know who saw the game, but Maddox attempted to throw the ball into an area that a midget league quarterback would have been too savvy to fall for. 3 white jerseys and Quincy Morgan surrounded. It was picked off in stride and ran back for a touchdown as if that's how it was designed.
Tommy's line for the day - 11 of 28, 154 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTS and a fumble. Those are horrid numbers but they really don't tell the story. He could have thrown as many 5 interceptions if the Jags had held onto the ball. He missed open recievers all day by large margins even when he wasn't throwing INTs (overthrowing, underthrowing, left, right...) and failed to convert a single third down.
I guess you had to be there.
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Usually I would start this sort of thing by saying "no offense to our opponent" (who in this case would be the Jaguars) but I think we all know that would be a bunch of garbage. We outplayed them the entire game after the first quarter. We would have had the game won in regulation if Tommy could have converted a few third downs.
Everyone else on the Steelers did his best to make up for Tommy Maddox today and couldn't. Frankly, they can't be blamed...not even a miracle could have made up for his performance. How do I know? Because Quincy Morgan delivered that miracle by returning the opening kickoff of overtime to the Jacksonville 26. It looked, amazingly, like we were going to overcome Maddox for a brief moment. Despite the fact that the only people he could complete a pass to were in teal, we were going to kick a field goal and win the game. All he had to do was keep hold of the football...
Hmph. Apparently a sizeable task. On our third play after the kickoff he, completely of his own accord, fumbled the snap, and THEN, instead of just falling on it, he tried to pick it up, feebly, knocking it further backward until it was eventually recovered by the Jags.
Of course, our defense shut them down with ease as they did for most of the afternoon, and we got the ball back. Two plays later the game was over.
I don't know who saw the game, but Maddox attempted to throw the ball into an area that a midget league quarterback would have been too savvy to fall for. 3 white jerseys and Quincy Morgan surrounded. It was picked off in stride and ran back for a touchdown as if that's how it was designed.
Tommy's line for the day - 11 of 28, 154 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTS and a fumble. Those are horrid numbers but they really don't tell the story. He could have thrown as many 5 interceptions if the Jags had held onto the ball. He missed open recievers all day by large margins even when he wasn't throwing INTs (overthrowing, underthrowing, left, right...) and failed to convert a single third down.
I guess you had to be there.
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