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Peter King is a Sports Illustrated writer. He. Is. Horrible. And he makes at least $1.2 million a year.
A few years back, I finally heard of his Monday Morning Quarterback column which always contains what seems to be a million words and, famously, is written in the middle of every Sunday night. It's so famous that 60 Minutes even did a segment about it and King.
Did I say he he is horrible?
Take the following example. This is the beginning of his second paragraph in today's edition.
First off, an acknowledgement of the real world in the NFL—even on good teams, change is constant. When [Colt's head coach] Chuck Pagano stared out at his team on the first night of training camp here, he saw 47 percent new faces from 2012 (42 of the 90 players were first-year Colts)
You kidding me? Let's have a math lesson. Every team is composed of 53 players on the active roster and 8 players on the practice squad*. That's 61. But at the beginning of the season, an NFL team can have up to 90 players in training camp. You see what's going on here? Every training camp, even if a team brought every single player back from the year before -- which never happens due to retirements, trades, free agency and cuts -- there would have to be 29 players present who weren't on the team the previous year. Every team has at least 29 "new faces"!
So to have 42 new players in training camp is par for the course. And you know who those guys are except for the seven or so players taken during the draft? Spares!! They are bodies brought in solely for the purpose of practice.
(Believe it or not, there's a guy who dissects King's column every Monday morning. And in a pretty funny fashion.)
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* I'm giving King the huge benefit of the doubt that he is including practice squad players in not being "new faces".
