Tuesday:
Today:
I want to feel bad for Brandon Marshall, I really do. Sports are the one profession that is liable to make even the most young and promising employee look stupid for thinking he has any semblance of job security. Unfortunately, I cannot feel bad for Brandon Marshall, because - as everyone other than himself, apparently, knows - he is neither the most young or the most promising employee anymore. In fact, he actually makes the recently released and definitely declining Dez Bryant look young and promising by comparison, so acting as if a 34 year old with the dropsies was going to make the Giants chisel their offensive depth chart in stone in April takes an astronomical amount of overconfidence. I don't want to make it sound like I wasn't surprised by this move too, because I absolutely was. After the disastrous third of a season for which he was healthy last year, I was absolutely stunned that New York hadn't already nixed what I wrongfully presumed to be a cautiously optimistic one-year deal. Hell, there might well have been so much hullabaloo about Odell Beckham Jr. that David Gettleman just flat out forgot that Brandon Marshall was still squatting on an inevitable wide receiver vacancy. I bet one of his grandkids stumbled upon that Instagram post and alerted their grandpa to the fact that he forgot to ax his aging pass catcher while asking him for some money for an appetite ruining snack. Okay fine, probably not, but that's the most logical hypothetical I can craft in rationalizing why the Giants held on to Brandon Marshall for long enough for him to feel at all safe about his spot on the team.
UPDATE: Perhaps Brandon Marshall doesn't have a future in the front office...
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