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Florham Park – In the latest edition of “News to Me,” we look at Brandon Marshall and also a really bad officiating call that nobody is talking about . . .
Nobody made an issue about this, but on the fade to Jeff Cumberland in the end zone on the Jets’ second possession, pass interference should have been called on Patrick Chung, without a doubt. 100 percent. No gray area. Chung grabbed Cumberland’s arm before Cumberland touched the ball. It should have been first-and-goal from the one. Instead, the Jets kicked a field goal.
This wasn’t a very good officiating crew.
Early in the second quarter, on a quick slant to Jeremy Kerley on the right side, Eric Decker picked Chung, who was covering Kerley, leaving Kerley wide open. It was absolutely a pick play.
I also have a very hard time believing the Patriots patchwork offensive line was guilty of just one holding call the entire game. That isn’t what I saw. You know the old saying, “They could call holding on every pay if they wanted to.”
There is no way there was only one holding call. This crew decided to keep their flags in their pockets . . .
The Brandon Marshall gig on Showtime is counterintuitive to me.
How is it good for the Jets to have Marshall on “Inside the NFL” every week talking about opposing players and teams as an active player?
Today he talked about Cowboys mercurial DE Greg Hardy and his outburst during the Dallas-Giants game.
“I don’t think that he gets it,” Marshall said. “I don’t think that he learned his lesson. And he really needs to look himself in the mirror and ask himself, what type of person do I want to be?”
It’s amazing to me that Marshall is judging another player for an outburst with a teammate.
According to a Chicago source I have, and I wrote about this in the magazine last month, Marshall had a couple of outbursts in Chicago last year. One was with assistant coach Chris Harris who told him he wasn’t wearing the right equipment for a particular pratice, and Marshall went ballistic.
Then after a game, in the locker room, Marshall went ballistic again, and when Robbie Gould tried to calm him down, he ripped into the kicker, cursing at him, and demeaning his position, so basically telling him to get the hell away from him.
Marshall also said something else that should make Todd Bowles livid.
“This Sunday, I got into it with a teammate but we got in the locker room, we talked it out and we love each other,” Marshall said.
Marshall just opened a can of worms
Reporters didn’t know about this. Now they (we) are going to snoop around on Wednesday and try to find out who he “got into it” with.
He gave us a story we didn’t know about.
Now Bowles, Marshall and teammates are going to be bombarded with questions about this.
I’m sorry, it’s ridiculous for him to be doing this show while active as a player.
It was a big problem for the Bears last year, and it’s becoming a problem for the Jets this year.
Bowles and Mike Maccagnan need to pull the plug on this. Perhaps they can’t do it this year due to a contract, but they better do it next year.
Nothing good is coming out of this for the Jets.
October 27, 2015
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