Algie Crumpler is a STIFF!!!

Algie drops the touchdown pass in the first quarter. Pats would have been up 7-0 early.

They settle for a field goal.

Where was Hernandez? Where were the Gronkowski and Hernandez two tight end formations?

Why was Crumpler even in the game?

He is old, overweight and rusty from barely even playing this year. He caught 1 TD ALL YEAR!

Thanks for coming Algie but you are past your prime. Retire and go soak up some sun somewhere.

Tahiti sounds nice...

Mike McCarthy is THE STIFF, Not Matt Flynn

As a New England Patriots fan, nothing was more enjoyable than watching the Green Bay Packers final drive of the game on Sunday fall flat on its face.

But unlike the rest of the sports world, I don't fault the Packers backup quarterback Matt Flynn for the embarrassing last play of the game on a potential game winning drive.

Everyone seems to think that with 20 seconds left, Flynn should have been able to receive the play from McCarthy and then execute a game winning touchdown pass.

Well not me.

It was obvious the play took too long to come in and Flynn took too long directing traffic before snapping the ball.

But let's be serious. This is the NFL. Coaches are supposed to be prepared. That's right, I say McCarthy blew the game.

If that was Bellichick with the game on the line and a backup quarterback taking the snaps - do you honestly think he wouldn't have been prepared.

4 days earlier in practice he would have been practicing the 2 minute drill with very simple plays, and very simply named plays at that, ready to go.

If the tables were turned on that last play, Bellichick would have simply said something like "dog' or "rabbit" or whatever and everyone on the field, including the backup quarterback, would have known their assignment. Bellichick would have dumbed it down so there was no room for error.

But what does McCarthy do? He goes to his playbook and calls something that Matt Flynn probably had never executed, never mind practiced. You could see it on the field. No one knew the call and Flynn was pushing people left and right trying to just get A PLAY run.

I mean how do you just not have a go to play in that situation? With an unexperienced backup quarterback you just have to have a simple play ready. Who cares if you use it 6 times in the same game. It is your responsibility as a coach to manage the game for a guy with no experience.

So where was McCarthy's "dog" or "rabbit" play? What was he thinking? Was "X-45, Z, 2, Out" the play to call with the clock ticking, the crowd yelling and the game on the line?

Nope.

For your epic FAIL - Mike McCarthy, you are THE STIFF OF THE WEEK.

Revis the Stiff

Dear Mr. Darelle Revis,

You are a stiff.

Stop faking injuries when you get burned.

Sincerely,

S.O.T.W. Staff

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Revis Island: Beware of Stiffs

WEEI reported the following earlier today:

"Revis, who played his first game back Monday night after missing all of training camp in a contract dispute, was limited on Thursday in practice by hamstring tightness and his availability for Sunday is unknown."

I am just going to say it now:

If Darrelle Revis does not play this Sunday, he is automatically the stiff of the YEAR.

As long as he is alive and his thigh bone isn't sticking through his skin, he better being playing.

It seems way too much like an excuse for when he gets burned by Randy Moss because he isn't in football condition or is hurt.

After all his trash talk, contract hold out and hype about "Revis Island" how lame is it to lean on the excuse of hamstring tightness.

Either sit out until you are ready to play at NFL speed, admit you are scared of Moss or don't hold out in the first place.

Revis should have been running parachute assisted wind sprints 24-7 or at least sit ups in his driveway (the T.O. workout) while waiting for his contract. What was he doing all day, eating Twinkies and playing Madden '11?

But in all fairness... injury, out of shape or whatever, as long as Moss burns him for at least a couple touchdowns and the Patriots beat the Jets, I will be very happy.

From Hero to Zero. Jason Bay w/ the Paper Mets.

It breaks my baseball heart to post this.

I was singing this stiff's praises just last year, but that was before he left the greatest city in the world to join the New York "paper" Mets.

In case you've never heard it before - they are the "paper" Mets because on paper they are MVPs, All Stars & Cy Young winners but on the field a bunch of underperforming stiffs.

Jason Bay was a hero in Boston. In 2008 he came to Boston from the lowly Pirates and in '08 & '09 had 30+ home runs & 100+ RBIs in each year.

He had no problem playing & PERFORMING in the pressure cooker that is Fenway Park, in front of the most passionate fans in the world.

He was the man. He had everyone saying, "Manny, who?"

But then it seems JBay got cocky and sold his soul on EBay. Someone should have told him that left field in New York is a lot further than in Boston - Green Monster or not.

Now JBay is hitting .257 with just 6 home runs and only 44 RBIs. Worse, he is batting .169 in July. Even worse, he went 0 for 6 last night (July 22nd) with 4 strike outs. And to top it all off - he has now been benched.

JBay, you couldn't have made it any easier for me. The stats really don't lie...

You are my stiff of the MONTH!