A Quibble with Phil Simms

I tend to get frustrated with color commentary on almost all sports broadcasts, so there will probably be a number of posts of this fashion as we proceed. Without further ado:

Simms had some interesting career advice for Jon Kitna, presently filling in for the freshly injured Carson Palmer for the Bengals during their playoff game against my Steelers. Kitna, who lost his starting job to 2nd year QB Palmer at the start of the 2004 season after he had thrown 26 TDs for them the year before, is a free agent after the season and would like an opportunity to start again. Simms' advice: stay in Cincinnati, because if you go somewhere else and get a chance to start, they're just going to replace you with a younger guy sooner or later. But at least he would start or play at all, Phil, unlike in Cincy where he's thrown 25 total passes in the past two seasons before today. Gus Frerotte was a starter for this whole season. Surely Jon-Boy can find a better use for himself than polishing pine in Cincinnati.

But that's Simms perspective: better to know you're on the bench than get sent back to it.