« Lucas Surgery, Stewart Toe and Smith to the Cowboys | Home | Karma Train: Steve Smith Concussed »

Life Sucks if You’re Jim Sorgi (or, Alternately, Jim Sorgi Sucks at Life)

By Brinson | August 10, 2008

Yeah, this guy can lead a team pretty well. If that wasn’t obvious.
Jim Sorgi has a pretty cush job. Sit there, don’t eff up too badly in the preseason and during the regular season, hand off to Joey Addai’s backup late in blowout wins. Nothing much to screw up. Peyton Manning never misses starts, is rarely injured, and so Sorgi gets a Super Bowl ring for doing pretty much nothing.

Yet, he might somehow lose his job to a 444 pound Kentuckian who was booted from New York because this blog’s namesake became available. Yes, that’s right. Sorgi got schooled by the Panthers defense Saturday and Jared Lorenzen did not. Trouble afoot in Indy.

With Jared Lorenzen completing 12 of 23 passes for 117 yards and two touchdowns to rookie Jacob Tamme, Sorgi’s cushy job as Manning’s understudy is in jeopardy.

“It was just a rough start,” Sorgi said. “All you can do is watch film and see how you can improve and what you can do better. I’m sure we’re going to have a nice, long meeting when we get back to camp.”

Sorgi finally found some rhythm later in the first quarter when he connected three times with eight-time Pro Bowl receiver Marvin Harrison, making his preseason debut following knee surgery.

When the NFL.com AP-styled writers are taking veiled pot-shots at you (Wow! You’re a professional quarterback and you were able to find Marvin Harrison for three straight receptions? How impressive!)

I’d like to think the Mittens - Jared Lorenzen connection makes this whole thing cyclical, but that could be the poison laced Cinnabon (inexplicably the only food option available in our terminal in San Juan) setting in. Regardless though, Jim Sorgi got roughed up by Julius Peppers and then Jared Lorenzen. Times they be tough.