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Jose Mourinho Loves Lying & Being a Bad Winner
Football managers don’t tell the truth. They say whats serves themselves and their team. Not all are like this, but the successful ones are usually are. Jose Mourinho knows Liverpool were robbed and wronged by a clear foul Smauel Eto’o performed on Luis Suarez. However, being the classy person he is, he preferred gloating in his victory and then calling the Uruguayan player a diver and a cheat.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Winning the Ballon d’Or Will Make the Award Even More Meaningless
How important is the Ballon d’Or, really? Cristiano Ronaldo cares so much about it only because he always gets to stand on the podium while Lionel Messi gets to hold the trophy and smile to the cameras. However, no player is remembered to his greatness is measured by how many times he picked up these awards.
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Chicago Bears – Focus Moves From Playoffs to Jay Cutler
If the bottom line is the most important thing, than Marc Trestman becoming the head coach didn’t change anything. The Chicago Bears still missed the playoffs, as the defense continued to decline while the offense slightly improved. Something of a Zerio-sum game, which at the end of it comes the decision to keep or let go of Jay Cutler.
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Dallas Cowboys – Stuck in the Middle
Mediocrity is a sin in the NFL. Being bad at least guarantees a high draft pick, while hovering between bad and good often leaves you in the same place, as long as no changes are being made in the spot that matters. The Dallas Cowboys miss out on the postseason for a fourth straight season, with a loss in the final, deciding game, coming for a third straight time. Some love to blame Tony Romo for these failures, but the fingers also point towards owner and general manager Jerry Jones and head coach Jason Garrett.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin & James Harden Were Running on Empty
Unlike other losses this season, the 117-86 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder wan’t about James Harden hogging the ball, Jeremy Lin not being involved enough or the Houston Rockets being an awful defensive team and often not a smart one on offense, courtesy of their quite conservative head coach, Kevin McHale. Well, maybe it does have something to do with defense, but more than anything it comes down to one thing: Fatigue.
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Los Angeles Lakers – More Losing Leads to Pointing Fingers
The Los Angeles Lakers seem to be the only ones who didn’t receive the memo earlier this season about how they’re supposed to be bad. With a five game losing streak threatening to become something of the norm this season, the popular opinion right now among players, Mike D’Antoni and the front office is to blame Pau Gasol for not trying hard enough.
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Oklahoma City Thunder – Kevin Durant Quite Happy With His Sidekicks
Life without Russell Westbrook should have been a lot more difficult, but the Oklahoma City Thunder seem to be doing just fine, thanks to Kevin Durant simply taking his game to another level while Reggie Jackson and Jeremy Lamb are developing even more quickly than expected.
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San Diego Chargers – The Impossible Super Bowl Run Continues
The San Diego Chargers needed a lot of things to happen on the final two weeks of the season in order to find themselves in the playoffs, and they did. After getting the results they wanted in the first round of games during week 17, all that was left happened to be beating the Kansas City Chiefs, who had nothing to play for.
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Green Bay Packers – Aaron Rodgers Figures it Out in the End
Amazingly, Jay Cutler turned the ball over less than Aaron Rodgers, who needed almost three full quarters to get his bearings in an NFL game once again. At some point, he realized he’s facing the Chicago Bears, a team he and the Green Bay Packers almost always beat, and things starting going a bit more smoothly for him, resulting in throwing a game winning and season saving touchdown pass to Randall Cobb.