It's Monday Morning Quarterback-ing time, kiddos! And, boy, does Peter King have a good one cooked up for us today. He's ranking the NFL's starting QB's, one to 32. See, that's the way you engender reader feedback. If you think the New England area (King ranks Peyton Manning one, Tom Brady two) isn't shorting out wi-fi stations across the land this morning, you're strongly mistaken.
King's formula for ranking QB's is one we generally agree with (he uses yards-per-attempt and completion percentage as his two principle statistics), but his list also features Vince Young (he of the 51 percent completion rate) in the top ten. We know it's a combination of past results and 2007 projections, but come on, Peter. Vince Young is not one of the top 10 QB's in the NFL. And Tony Romo should not be ranked ahead of Donovan McNabb, one of the few QB's in league history to throw for more than 30 TD passes and less than 10 INT's in a single season.
His biggest mistake? J.P. Losman at No. 20. We think he's headed for a Pro Bowl-type season. The Bills won't be very good this year, but Losman will. Although, his slotting Jon Kitna at No. 9 is just fine with us, because he's a shoo-in for 4,000 yards and 25+ TDS throwing to Roy Williams, Mike Furrey and Calvin Johnson in a Mike Martz offense.
But all the QB talk aside, the best grafs in Kings column this morning are the ones the multi-sport fan should be paying the most attention to:
There are approximately 113 million television households in the United States, and the average rating for the NBA Championship Series showed that 6.9 million of them watched the series between Cleveland and San Antonio.
Remember the late-night Monday night opener on ESPN last year between Oakland and San Diego? Awful game. San Diego won, 27-0. It was pretty much over at the half, when the Chargers led 13-0 and the Raiders couldn't get out of their own way on offense. That game -- after a weekend that started with Thursday night football, went into Sunday afternoon football and Sunday night football, and had a Monday nighter before the second game on the West Coast -- started at 10:25 p.m. EST and ended at 1:14 a.m. Tuesday. And it was on cable TV, which gets a lower rating anyway because not every TV household in America is wired for cable.
The Raiders-Chargers debacle was seen by 7.9 million American TV households.
We all know football is king in this country, but if the best the NBA has to offer gets trounced by the worst the NFL has to offer ... well, the NBA is in more than a little trouble.
Well said, Peter. Now get back to pumping the Patriots.
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