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Peter King provides Colts fans another reason to hate Hank Baskett

From Peter King's Monday morning QB article:

I think if the Colts had it to do all over again, they'd have activated Sam Giguere, a reserve wideout from an obscure college in Quebec, to play in the spot Hank Baskett occupied on the kick-return team late last season. Strange statement to make here in the middle of May, looking back at the Super Bowl, but I think the Colts were starting to have real questions about Baskett's hands by late in the season, and they nearly made the move to Giguere. Baskett, of course, couldn't handle the onside kick to start the second half of the Super Bowl, the Saints recovered, and the rest is ignominious history.

For the record, Basektt did indeed gather in the onside kick. However, under the pile, he claims he heard a ref blow the whistle. So, like the dumbass that he is, Baskett let up. When he did so, a Saints players pried the football from his grasp under the pile. The ref saw this, awarded the Saints possession, and a swift kick to the groin to Colts fans everywhere.

Again, as I have often maintained, the onside kick did not doom the Colts in Super Bowl 44. After the Saints scored a TD on that drive, the Colts offense answered with a TD of their own, regaining the lead. The reason the Colts lost was because of Dwight Freeney's injury. The Saints scored 25 points in the second half after scoring only 10 in the first. The reason was in the first Freeney was effective. In the second. he wasn't. The lack of pass rush allowed Drew Brees to pick apart the Colts secondary. That's pretty much it, in a nutshell.

Still, Baskett's boneheaded play certainly did not help. Colts fans will probably curse his name for generations. I doubt he cares. He's probably more interested in who his wife was having sex with in a recently released sex tape.

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I'll just copy and paste my post from the Fanshot

As much as I hate evening thinking about that play…I’d also like to point out that it would have been nice if the coaching staff would have noticed Baskett’s cheating back and stopped it. There were a lot of things that went wrong with that play, not the least of which is Baskett’s stoopidity of letting the freakin’ ball go before the call was actually made.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on May 17, 2010 12:25 PM EDT reply actions  

WNAT BASKET SAID WAS WORSE

Basket interview after back with Philly he said he heard colts say its blues ball, not ref andjust assumed that was all there was to it so got up, WHO doesnt know to wait to till refs unlock, dissect out pile, who is so stupid to admit it, OH yeah Hes from Philly and McNabb didnt know there was such a thing as a TiIE GAME if I rememder

by bayone on May 17, 2010 12:34 PM EDT reply actions  

Actually I think the reason the Colts lost

was that Caldwell never had the killer instinct, though Freeney’s injury didn’t help. Still, Baskett should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever have let go of that ball. I would he rather have taken a friggin’ PENALTY for refusing to give it up to a ref than what he did.

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on May 17, 2010 12:35 PM EDT reply actions  

ever

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on May 17, 2010 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

I guess his hands just werent good enough to keep her pleased

fucking wanker. Hope the whole world sees that video and he feels like the useless piece of shit he is.

by ColtsUK on May 17, 2010 12:37 PM EDT reply actions  

I will blame Baskett until the day I die

On my death bed before I tell my family that I love them I will say,“FUCK HANK BASKETT!!!” j/k

I hope his wife gave him every STD known to man and ever some new shit. I shake my head every time I realize that she and I share a first name…

"Al Davis said it best, just win baby win" ~ Snoop on "All I Do is Win"

by KMR24 on May 17, 2010 12:41 PM EDT reply actions  

Wow..

you share a first name with a wife of a player who lost us the Superbowl… you really better get it changed.

I know how sarcastic that sounds, but I’m deadly serious, Hank ‘The Wank’ Baskett is scum. So is his wife and everyone else associated with him no matter how obscurely.

by ColtsUK on May 17, 2010 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hank "The Wank" Baskett:

WIN. NER.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on May 17, 2010 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hahaha I like to think it works on a few levels

Over here if you say something is wank then its a way of saying how bad it is.

But you can also look at ‘The Wank Basket’ and well draw your own degrading conclusions of how I feel about good old Handy Hank.

by ColtsUK on May 17, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

So does that make

his “celebrity marriage nickname” then “The Wank & The Skank”? :-)

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by tobihope on May 17, 2010 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions   3 recs

Post of the day!

You win! I’m not sure what you win, but you definitely win it!

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on May 17, 2010 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

win

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on May 17, 2010 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

It is getting ugly here

Oh well, this is a Hank Baskett bashing section, I suppose.

The real reason like the writer pointed out – Dwight Freeney and the other reason, lack of aggression on offense and defense.

If you look at it, we did get some momentum with a 4th down stop just before the half, and then conservatism happened.

We went conservative before the half when Manning had about 1 min 40 plus seconds to work with (contrary to Ravens playoff game with 7 seconds to go where we went for a TD pass and not chicken out for a FG, Jets playoff game where Peyton got those 2 big passes to Collie to get the score at the half to 13-17 for the Colts) and then the onside kick happened. Momentum had swung enough the Saints way that they now could believe they would win. That is where the strategy could have been different, and we had recent history to back the fact that Manning could get it done with his arm, so why not trust it? We could have at least gone into the half 13-3 instead of 10-6, totally different ballgame at that point, IMO. It was at least a 6 point swing. With the onside kick, it became a bigger point swing. We could have overcome several things easily if we continued to be aggressive on offense and defense. On D, however, we did not have our best horses, as simple as that.

It was similar to the half ending pick 6 that James Harrison had against the Cardinals in the previous SB. The Cardinals were down 7-10 and were looking to tie or take the lead and the Steelers ended up with a 17-7 lead, a 14 point swing.

It was almost like everything that could go wrong went wrong and every gamble the Saints took worked for them, it is hard to ignore destiny there. Garcon drops a key pass, we do not finish the half like we normally do, fail to recover an onside kick, Collie runs the wrong way on a screen pass ending up with a long FG, then Stover misses it, then Manning throws his pick six. Out of those, only 2 of them (the onside kick and the Manning INT) could be attributed to the Saints recognizing tendencies and taking advantage of a mistake.

by chad72 on May 17, 2010 1:09 PM EDT reply actions  

Gameplan

Coyer should have done a better job gameplanning for the 2nd half. He should have known that Freeney would wear down as the game went along and Coyer could have dialed up more pressure packages with blitzing instead of just hoping Freeney would continue to make plays.

The difference was that the Saints adjusted their gameplan to allow for short passes which kept the Colts D on the field for most of the game after the 1st Quarter and the Colts never adapted to it or made any meaningful changes to stop it.

Lesson learned (I hope)….hopefully 2010 will end differently.

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by AceOfSpades on May 17, 2010 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

When your best defensive player gets injured and becomes basically a non factor you cant just scheme to make up for it. You think coyer didnt try that? You cant just blitz Brees, hes a great QB, to beat him you need a great 4 man pass rush and a good secondary. You cant just blitz.

Hank Baskett IS A WANKER

by ColtsUK on May 17, 2010 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

While I still hate Baskett for the onside kick,

And not to get all TMZ, but that sex tape was probably made before they got married. Maybe Hank will go all Chasing Amy on her….

"If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

But ANYWAY..."
— Chuck Klosterman

by Addai Another Aday on May 17, 2010 1:40 PM EDT reply actions  

I don't even think

Freeney being hurt had as much to do with the Colts losing as our secondary was playing horrible at that time, I mean, even the Jets tore us up! Aslo, our lack of return game killed us! Saints were getting to the 35 yard line consitently, while we got to the 20 maybe 2 times?

by gteare28 on May 17, 2010 1:57 PM EDT reply actions  

WTF, people?

Am I pissed that Baskett screwed up the onsides? Hell yes. Does he deserve hate? NO!

I’ll rip on Vanderjagt till the day I die for shanking the well known kick, I’ll be making fun of Harper well past the point people say “Nick who?” for not being able to juke out Ben frikkin Roethlisberger on the field, and I’ll bemoan Gijon Robinson’s failure to pick up a pass rusher long after all of us have grown up grandchildren, but what goes to far is for me to hate any of those players. At most, any of these players only deserve a “GODDAMIT, DONALD!” type reaction, and that’s it. “Hate” is a severe overreaction, and at best, if it needs to be applied at all, should be reserved for someone who actively destroys a franchise (with emphasis on “if it needs to be applied at all”, since I’m hard pressed to apply it to anyone in sports): “Hate” Art Modell for taking his team out of town (and yes, that can apply to Baltimore fans who despise Bob Irsay). “Hate” Ryan Leaf and JaMarcus Russell for not only blowing significant amounts of your team’s salary caps but also contributing jack s—- in return while helping drag it to even deeper depths of despair than ever. In the NBA, hate Artest and Jackson for dropping the Pacers into a funk so deep that they’ve not been able to come out of it for 6 years. But what’s this hate on Baskett? None of us have to like how he handled the onsides, but everyone’s overreacting if they decide that hating the player is their response.

Look, I know these are all hyperbolic “hate” statements said in heat and wthout any real feeling behind them, but words are still injurious. Even if their intent is not as extreme as their blank reading, extreme language is still cutting and unnecessary. Not to mention the fact that they devalue the meaning and impact of such terms by applying them so carelessly; that’s why people automatically lose when they carelessly Godwin an argument. Extreme stances applied carelessly end up diminishing the impact of the stance, and turns the extreme mundane. And when you run out of language to describe truly extreme stances, what are you left with? 10 or 12 "really"’s to get the point across?

Let’s be careful about applying the word “hate” too carelessly. The fact that it’s being thrown about as hyperbole doesn’t take all of the impact off.

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by E.M.H. on May 17, 2010 2:33 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

No i hate him.

Fine if he made a mistake. But he was an asshole afterward. He gave the impression he honestly didn’t care whether the Colts won or not. He was so complacent and arrogant after making a huge mistake.

So yes I hate him.

by ColtsUK on May 17, 2010 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

that's exactly how I feel about it, too

in fact I felt kinda sorry for Baskett until he started opening his mouth about the play

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on May 17, 2010 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hank "Fuck You in the eye" Baskett

Hank “Everyone wishes that you were dead” Baskett
Hank “FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! YOU STUPID IDIOT!” Baskett
Hank “I Hope You Never Know Happiness Ever Again” Baskett
Hank “Shit for Brains” Baskett

Like ColtsUK said, it’s not that he dropped the onside kick or even made the massive mistake. It’s that he was so indifferent about it. He’s a douchebag who deserves everything bad that will ever happen to him or anyone else named Hank.

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by Colts Homer on May 17, 2010 4:19 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Love them

This is why I hate free agents. They don’t care about the team.

Hank Baskett IS A WANKER

by ColtsUK on May 17, 2010 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

Nah

He’s not worried about who’s on the tape. He clearly doesn’t care. I’m not sure he has the intellectual capacity to care about anything beyond “ooh, Boobs!” Seriously, the sad truth is that in that couple, Kendra is the SMART one. By a large margin.

This guy knowingly followed Hugh Hefner. He married a worthless slut who banged a man who could be her grandfather. The whole world knows she’s a worthless slut, the whole world has already seen her naked, so why should he care if she got tag teamed by a couple of guys back when she was 18?

She has nice boobs and is tiny. That’s all he cares about.

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by willyduer on May 17, 2010 5:59 PM EDT reply actions  

I just wish he would have tried catching it first with his hands rather than his facemask

Granted, it would have been impressive had he gotten it to stick in there—then he could have run around to some Benny Hill music and rubbed it in the Saints’ faces, but really, how often does anyone get that to work? Better be safe with an ol’ vanilla catch with the hands.

by Selador on May 17, 2010 6:29 PM EDT reply actions  

Jet fan with a question.

How exactly did Freeney get injured in the AFC Championship game?
I dont remember hearing anything about during the actual game.

by Bob_The_Friendly_Baker on May 17, 2010 8:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Instead of plowing into Sanchez and getting a penalty at the end of the game

he pulled up and screwed up his ankle. Just his natural reaction. At that point a 15 yard penalty wouldn’t have meant anything.

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on May 17, 2010 8:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

oh

Thanks, I was just wondering.
While Im glad he didnt plow into Sanchez he should have taken the penalty.That game was over halfway through the third quarter.
It sucks that he got hurt I was hoping to see him play in the superbowl.

by Bob_The_Friendly_Baker on May 17, 2010 8:49 PM EDT reply actions  

Kind of reminds of the scene in Jarhead

when they’re about to watch The Deer Hunter and it turns out to be a homemade flick instead that turns about to be one of the guys wife and his neighbor (paying him back for cheating on her, I think). He flipped out and they had to take him outside, and Jake Gyllenhal’s character after the guy was out of the room said something like, “WHAT A F***IN DOUCHE! LET’S WATCH IT AGAIN!!!”

It’s like, you know what Hank? That sucks, man, it really does. But that’s what you get when you marry a white trash skank who just before you was bangin a 90 year old along with two other skanks. Now maybe you get a taste of what Colts fans felt when you screwed us all in the Super Bowl. That’s a sucky situation, but you will find not an ounce of sympathy from this fanbase. Good riddance.

"A lot of times, Kenny, we have no idea what we're doing. But the DEFENSE doesn't know that we don't know what we're doing.....and that's next level." -Peyton Manning

by npb1985 on May 17, 2010 8:57 PM EDT reply actions  

bull shit. everyone saw the onside kick

bounce through his hands and off his face mask. I don’t hate the guy. His was not the only Colt break down in the superbowl. In hindsight Giguere would’ve been better… but didn’t Hank Basket come to the colts with some big game experience under his belt?

by naptown_ninja on May 18, 2010 7:42 AM EDT reply actions  

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