Bill Simmons Needs To Talk To His Editors

I was reading Bill Simmons' latest batch of links when I noticed something a little funny.

From his Monday links:

Much to my horror, a few readers mistakenly thought Friday's posting -- which was explicitly presented as a belated collection of Super Bowl e-mails from readers, as well as a chance for me to promote the auction of my Randy Moss jersey -- was actually a mailbag, leading to a few "that mailbag sucked!" e-mails. Come on! How could you call that a real mailbag???? I'm wounded.

Immediately, I thought to myself: Yeah, I can see that. I read about 1/3 of that collection of e-mails. He was obviously just trying to cope with the devastating loss. (The biggest choke job in history might I add) I can see how that wasn't really a "mailbag" the way he traditionally does a "mailbag."

One problem: his editors called it a mailbag. The line from Bristol to LA must have been down.

I won't even mention the fact that I almost threw up in the middle of attempting to read that collection of e-mails from Bill's "mailbox" that were not in any way a "mailbag."

I might mention something about the idiotic statement that...well, I'll let Bill tell you himself:

Brady buying himself time with a planned rollout, Moss sprinting down the sidelines flanked by two d-backs, and then Brady launching the ball 70 yards down field as every Giants fan in the building stopped breathing. The pass was right on target and Moss would have caught the football had he jumped for it ... which he didn't. I will always believe that. And by the way, it's taking all the will power in my sick body to refrain from a "If it were Week 6 and we were winning by 28, Moss would have caught the football" joke.

The play that he is referring to of course is this one: (Fast forward to the 1:45 mark)

Yes. It was a hell of a pass. Though, some might say it was a bit under thrown as Moss had a step on both Giants DB's and had to slow down to get his hands on it. (It's tough to jump straight up in the air when you're running at full speed.) Suffice to say, if Moss had somehow caught that pass we wouldn't even remember The Giant Snatch. Lynn Swann would have gone the way of the '72 Dolphins had Moss hauled that one in.

Of course, if it were week 6 and the Patriots were up by 28 they would have actually won the game. So I guess this argument - much like Bill's - doesn't make much sense.