I visited my best friend this weekend and he still takes the Sporting News. 
While I was there he started talking about this idiot who now covers the NFL 
for them, T.J. Simers (I'm guessing that T.J. stands for Toe Jam). I read 3 
weeks of his report and came away with the impression that there aren't many 
QBs today that he likes and he certainly has a strange sense of "worth."
An example of that last statement was his diatribe against the Cowboys and 
their willingness to sign Moose while letting Boniol get away (His take was 
that Moose was a buddy of Aikman's and Boniol wasn't so that's why the Pokes 
kept him and not Boniol). If you look at what Boniol did last year, there's 
nothing that he did that was so exceptional that he couldn't be replaced by 
another kicker unless it came to the length of his kickoffs. Dallas didn't 
score much but most of his field goals could have been made by a lot of 
kickers in the league. When Dallas goes out looking for another kicker this 
year, expect them to make their final decision about who to keep based on 
that person's kickoff yardage. Should Dallas' offensive line stay healthy 
this year, their kicker should be getting more extra points than field goals 
and Moose's blocking ability will be more important inside the 20 than 
Boniol's ability to make a 29-yard gimmee (Boniol attempted 96 extra points 
and 57 field goals in his first 2 seasons and 25 extra points and 36 field 
goals last year).
Don't get the impression that I'm going after him because of what he's said 
about the Cowboys because he's said things about other teams that has me 
laughing. It makes me realize that I haven't missed a thing when I gave up 
reading TSN several years ago. If only I had the money to start a competing 
publication. TSN has fallen quite a bit from what it used to be.
--- TrekEd 1.00
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