You Herd Me!: I'll Say It if Nobody Else Will by Colin Cowherd

Author:Colin Cowherd [Cowherd, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Humor, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Topic, Biography & Autobiography, Essays
ISBN: 9780804137904
Google: UY7Q--UIm5gC
Amazon: B00CNQ9RNU
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Published: 2013-11-18T14:00:00+00:00

I Value What I Need

First, an experiment. Please indulge me for a moment; it won’t take up much time, and you’ll see the results rather quickly.

The next time your wife asks you to run a few errands, I want you to change it up a little. Ad lib, improvise, think outside the box. Consider it your version of a double reverse on third and inches.

When you’re asked to pick up milk, eggs, and bread, stop by Home Depot instead and grab a garden hose. Buy a rake on your way out even though you’ve got a good one at home and no use for an extra one. Stop at the grocery store and grab some olives and licorice. The idea is to seek value over need.

Obviously, this could create some tension at home. She’s going to wonder what you were thinking and how she’s going to make dinner with a rake and a garden hose.

“Wait a minute,” you will say in your best lecturing tone, “let me explain how much value you got in return.”

Tell her you found a coupon for the garden hose, the olives were buy one get one free, and the licorice was 60 percent off. And the rake? Oh, the rake.

“Honey, they were practically giving that thing away.”

How does this pertain to sports? Easy: it’s the exact same brand of nonsense NFL teams shovel down the media’s throats after every draft.

Value is a word that’s easy to sell. Everyone supports value. How couldn’t you? But I have a different question: Can value actually cost a team wins and money?

Your team’s secondary regularly gets torched, but instead of drafting the best available cornerback, it decides to grab a backup quarterback instead. Why? Because he was a “value pick.” In other words, he was just too talented to pass up even though the team already has a star quarterback.

The New York Giants have Eli Manning, a two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback. He hasn’t missed a start in eight years and probably has another six years left in his arm. You could argue that Manning is just hitting his prime. And yet, on draft day 2013, the Giants drafted Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib—all in the name of value. The Giants had real needs to address, but they fell into the value trap.

Hey, Giants fans … hope you like the rake. You’re out of milk and your kids want cereal, but now you have two rakes to take care of business when the autumn leaves begin to fall.

I know what you’re thinking:

Colin, who are you to tell Giants GM Jerry Reese what to do?

It’s an age-old argument: you aren’t allowed to criticize someone for doing his job unless you’ve not only done the same job but done it better. That’s ridiculous, and in this case it ignores some important facts.

1. Judging football talent is not rocket science.

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