There is this person out there in the world who makes rosters for fun. They made a madden 21 roster stuffed full of the hopes and dreams of football lovers everywhere. I played that roster. I started an entire new franchise based around the Madden 21 New York Giants roster.
And I lost my first game.
It was the Cowboys. It felt about right. We still had no secondary and no real chance to stop the receiving corps. Each of the three starters scored a TD and the TE did all kinds of work. It pissed me off something awful. Now Barkley went off too. He recorded a ton of yards from the ground and through catches, but the fact remains that we lost. We lost because we had no secondary. Maybe I can attribute it to my lack of skill on the D side of the ball, but I want to be clear: I was in position at the start of the play and speed pulled me out of position quickly. We just slow like that. We just bad like that. I just struggle with the hope end of things as a result now. This is gonna be something to worry about throughout the possible upcoming season.
Yeah, Covid-19 is really still out there, in spite of our open refusal to stay indoors or perhaps because of it. We are out in the streets protesting and rioting and getting manhandled by the police and, to quote a famous SNL skit, “Ain’t nuthin gonna happen.”
So, we ought to be staying home and getting right. The message has been sent and now the real work needs to be done in the boardrooms and the courtrooms of America, where something can happen. We should get right so we can come out and vote in November and handle business as we were meant to handle business.