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How to Toss a Dumb Interception Written by Sean Salisbury

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by user LastRow

We all love Sean Salisbury, now don’t we? Yeah, about as much as we love our hemorrhoids flaring up on us! Why he’s the equivalent of the football/white version of Stephen A. Smith…Nuff Said there! Always chastising and examining quarterbacks and their play around the league…As a former quarterback one would think he would know what he’s talking about, right? How quarterback on any given level shouldn’t lock on to a given receiver. Well, remember this following video the next time he agitates about a quarterback making an impossibly bad decision on NFL.

Let’s set the scene here… It's from 1985. A game between Salisbury's USC Trojans and the mighty, (at the time Baylor Bears. With USC down 10-7 in the third quarter, (B4PC…Before Pete Carroll) and under Salisbury’s guidance which has the Trojans on the march inside the Baylor "red zone".

He also had his sights dead set on a receiver facing double coverage. You know what happens next!

Neil O’Donnell meets Larry Brown…Coliseum Style! Now we all know "Perhaps O’Donnell should not have thrown the interception". In the end just as in the case of O’Donnell and the Steelers…The Trojans couldn’t overcome this idiotic decision and would end up losing to the Mighty Bears 20-13. Talk about karma…Care to critique yourself on this one "Double S"?

Since we know how much you love critiquing and ripping others around the league who are under center! Just one question, won’t it be better if you were a legitimate starter in the league rather than nothing more than a pasty backup holding a clipboard…Then your critiquing would hold a little more value. Let’s say somebody like "Jaws" or maybe even Steve Young. Definitely not a lifelong backup who has apparently still has a hard on about it!

In conjunction with Tom Petty "Free Falling", (heartbreakers optional) LastRowSports.com Pick’em Poll wants to know, well who’s "Free Falling" the most? A Freddy or A Michelle? Stuff the ballots…It’s easy than trying to figure out how to use that damn I-Phone! Lot less cheaper too!


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KelsdadAll-Star
895 days ago
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I don't remember Stephen A. Smith playing in the NFL?
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ChristofMVP
895 days ago
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Stephen A never played. His big mouth couldn't fit into a helmet. End of Stephen A's football career....
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
895 days ago
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Stephen A. Smith the columnist is infinitely better than the ESPN talking head personality. It must be terribly depressing to be Sean Salisbury: failure as a competent NFL quarterback unfortunately equally dismal as a ESPN "analyst". Perhaps, Salisbury should try his hand as an "Ice Road Trucker" (awesome History Channel documentary series). He is used to skirting around on ice cracking underneath him.
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KelsdadAll-Star
895 days ago
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Whether Sean Salisbury sucked as a player is irrelevant. The fact he was a player is very relevant. He is infinitely more qualified to talk about football than Smith, maybe if Salisbury says something the average fan finds dumb, maybe its just because he doesnt understand the game well enough to get it. There is no doubt Salisbury talks to much sometimes, but there is no denying the man knows of what he speaks.
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ASwaffAll-American
895 days ago
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I agree. It gives him SOME level of credibility. That's why I can't stand the likes of Stephen A. Smith and Jim Rome, but will tolerate the likes of Sean Salisbury and Charles Barkley. If you have played, you have earned at least some degree of right to talk smack. What have Smith and Rome done? Nothing.


That said, Salisbury is a huge doofus, just as big a one in my book as Ron Jaworski. Both of them were dead wrong on Vince Young and still too arrogant to admit it. But both were still more credible than Merril Hoge with his thinly-veiled racism.
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JuTMSY4Legend
895 days ago
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So basically every single sports writer is full of crap? I disagree...seriously, read steven A. sometime, the guy is a great writer...these guys were just translated to TV for $$ and...do you blame them?
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ASwaffAll-American
895 days ago
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No, I said nothing of the sort. I've got nothing wrong with writers doing analysis. I don't even have a problem with them critiquing. What I have a problem with is sports writers or television personalities talking smack like they're on the field or the court with the guys. I NEVER like smack talk in place of real analysis, but I can give some leeway if they've earned their due. I have no patience for it when the smack talk is coming from guys like Stephen A. and Rome who didn't play sports.
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MaxcheungSoccer Kid
895 days ago
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Does it mean that Joe Theisman has no place on earth to criticise any QBs for failing to avoid the rush?
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InsanMajor Leaguer
895 days ago
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You guys need to lay off ESPN guys. You don't have to play the sport to analyze it. Salisbury was, what? 20 years old at the time? He's now, what? 40+ years old. And Steven A. Smith is awesome, his columns are very well written and provide a lot of insight. He's just loud mouthed on TV because it boosts his popularity and entertainment factor. Do you guys honestly prefer the guy who talks with no life in his voice or the guy who's screaming at everyone? Seriously... if anything we don't have neough Smith's and Vitale's in the business. And whatever happened to 4 downs with Salisbury and Clayton. That segment was awesome, especially when they went at each others throats. They need to bring that back.
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ASwaffAll-American
895 days ago
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First of all, nobody ever said you had to play a sport to talk about it. Just saying it gives you a LITTLE more credibility. Just a little. Not a lot. A little.


Secondly, I actually agree with your statement about laying off Salisbury on this pass. It was 20 years ago, and the silliness of using such an old clip to lay into a guy for doing his JOB is the reason I didn't give this article my vote. Just my comment.

Thirdly - you liked Four Downs? That segment was probably pulled because it was terrible. Two guys bickering with each other like kids was embarrassing to watch, especially for someone like John Clayton who has so much credibility with so many people.
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
895 days ago
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I almost forgot about this little "incident". Sean Salisbury is an idiot: http://www.d...t-226599.php
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