Day: April 6, 2016

I’m back at this Waiver thing again. I think I hold on to the Wednesday spot in hopes that something interesting and influential will happen in football. It doesn’t and my interests wane considerably. One thing I am interested in is the reemergence of RG III as a viable QB option. I have a theory about III. I don’t think he sucks at all. I think he was in a system that was not designed for him with an offensive coach who remains completely inflexible in terms of how to use the talent he has. That points to a larger question, which I have addressed before: Is it about the system or the players?

I coach youth football. Our head coach has a system that works very well and highlights the skills of some players. It is in some ways similar to the system another one of my boys was in that highlighted the skills of players other than himself (as I continue to complain about, his 60lb butt was a lineman against 120-200lb boys). Both coaches, though completely different as individuals, are tied to their systems and their success is therefore tied to having players capable of operating in that system. I can likely say the same of Belicheck. I can say that of a lot of coaches, which means that it is clearly then up to the players to wind up in a system that fits. I think RGIII was in a bad situation and now he is well on his way to a good one. He is in a system that was starting to be readjusted to fit a mobile, accurate, sort of short armed QB and that is who he is in a nutshell.

I think RG III will be as good as he can be within the constraints of the talent around him.

Moments ago I spun up the CNN page only to discover that Blac Chyna is engaged to Rob Kardashian. Okay, wait. There is someone named Blac Chyna? I mean there are some strange things that go down in the world of celebrity nonsense, but come on! You can’t pluck your stage name from bad female wrestlers and a misspelling of your occasional skin color. Furthermore, what the hell are you trying to put over on this nation? For whatever reason you have the attention of America’s most powerful purchasing demographic and what you are doing with that power is straight up nuts. Lets recap:

Kim, you were dating a basketball player and decided to marry him. Your sisters soon followed suit, each apparently being connected to a different ballplayer at various times. Heck, Chloe even married one. It is as if you all were checking the pulse of American desire and doing exactly what you thought was the in thing at the time.

Once you decided to stop writing in your basketball diary you dumped the dude and found yourself a rapper. So what, I’m supposed to believe that chicks of a certain social popularity are to want to be with rappers? Not surprisingly your sisters followed suit, which brings me to this latest debacle. One of these kardashian-Jenner-kin, Kylie I believe, is dating the rapper Tyga who has a baby with… wait for it…

Blac Chyna.

I cannot make this stuff up. Obviously someone can and they are more creative and tapped into the cultural zeitgeist of young America than I am. Still, I’m not having any of it.

Kim et al, you are not progressive. Sure, there is a certain grin the finds my face when I consider that ‘America’s darlings’ are almost all dating black rappers. Then I look around and think, ‘crap now rap looks as bad as you do.’ I wish the rappers were in on the joke but clearly they are not. Of course, anyone who would adopt the stage name Tyga lives primarily on one side of the joke. Meanwhile, Kanye hasn’t been right since VH1 storytellers.

I think E! and whatever other channel lives on the lives of these fools ought to pull the plug. To quote Voltaire (and maybe Stan Lee) ‘With great power comes great responsibility’. These chicks and their TV station have the former but seem to have misunderstood the latter.

Once upon a time all of this social intrigue belonged to the british royals and we all followed them (Princess Diana in particular) the way we laud the Kardashian’s daily schedule (and incumbent soundtrack). At least the royals did it with a hint of class. Get off the air Kardashians. You’re making us look very stupid.