Maybe Herm Edwards doesn't like to watch the Super Bowl, but he sure likes to talk about it. Edwards wrote a guest commentary in the Kansas City Star entitled: "The Colts Are Here Because of Defense." As always, Edwards got directly to the point:Defenses win games. I keep telling people that, and they don't believe me.
When you look at the playoffs, that's what won it for these guys, is their defense. Both teams have played good defense in the playoffs. Both of them had shootout games, too. Lovie (Smith) and those guys had a shootout game against Seattle, and Tony had a shootout game against New England. But in the other games against us and Baltimore, they played good defense.
Edwards then goes on to, for all practical purposes, write a Colts love-fest. I know Edwards is close friends with Tony Dungy, but his commentary was basically an early Valentine's Day love note to the Colts' defense.
Edwards probably shouldn't quit his day job anytime soon, either. He concludes his commentary by saying:
Peyton is playing better. It was just a matter of time because he's that kind of quarterback. To me, a key for both teams is special teams because they both have good return guys. And then how (Rex) Grossman plays against those guys. If he doesn't turn the ball over, they'll be in the game. If he turns the ball over, that's not good.
Not exactly Pulitzer material there.On a more pertinent note, one certainly has to wonder about the motivation behind Edwards' column. He didn't have to do it, and the introduction states that he was reluctant to do it based on his friendship with Dungy. So why did he do it? It looks like this to me-- Edwards has taken a lot of heat this offseason for his offensive philosophies and plans. So by emphasizing that the Colts, a notable offensive team, got to the Super Bowl through defense, Edwards is basically screaming, "My plan will work!"
Of course, we've seen that sometimes a great offense can win without a great defense, or that a great defense can win without a great offense. But we live in a short-attention-span society, so what happened most recently becomes most relevant to our actions of tomorrow. Herm Edwards' plan may or may not work, but he sure is intent on convincing us that it will.
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2-02-2007 @ 2:36PM
Luz said...
apparently running larry johnson into the ground and prematurely ending his career is also part of herm's "plan"....
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2-02-2007 @ 2:57PM
E Beard said...
Hopefully Edwards will be gone after he turns the 07 chiefs into the 05 Jets. Our offense was a corvette he turned it into a chevette!
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2-03-2007 @ 2:34PM
ferra said...
I love how Edwards tries to always point the finger somewhere else when he's the one to blame for his teams demise.Oh I forgot it's always the media's fault, Herm can never do anything wrong, he's the all knowing King Herman.
Why is this guy writing a column, shouldn't he be worried about his own team? Why is he in Miami interviewing his old buddies Lovie and Tony, shouldn't he be back in KC prepping for the draft and free agency? Maybe Herm's getting ready for the next phase of his career, when he fails in KC, he'll be ready to work as an analyst or columnist.
Is he seroius that he'll never watch the SuperBowl until he get's there? I guess Herm's not going to be watching anymore SuperBowls!
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2-06-2007 @ 4:16PM
Mo\\\' Mike said...
If Herm is so locked in on defense then why did the Bears, with the best defense in the league loose to the Colts? Because the Colts have a great offense. At the end of the game the team with the most points win. If defense is the answer to everything then why are all of the Bears fans wanting to get rid of Grossman for a new quarterback? He doesn't play defense does he?
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2-07-2007 @ 1:23PM
Nasty 'M said...
You know what - I don't think that Herm even watched the Colts and Chiefs game. "Defense wins championships" is old school, out dated and is a catch phrase that someone 25 years ago said before the NFL developed rules that opened up the offense. Herm - you play to win the game on both sides of the ball. You can't win a game if your offense doesn't have a first down until the 3rd quarter no matter how good your defense is. You can't win a game if you tell your offense that you don't have the same respect for them as you do for defense. You can't tell your offense that with Vermeill they scored to quickly (he actually said that!)and we need to not worry about scoring - just don't loose the game for us (he actually said that also!)
I have been a Chiefs fan since 1965 and I can honestly say that this is the very first year that I can remember that I don't have hope for the next season.
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