They seem beyond help and simply unwatchable

It was 19-0 at the half and the Jets had more points than the Bucs had yards on offense.The Buccaneers were being humiliated, not by rookie hotshot Mark Sanchez, but by the greatness that is Kellen Clemens, backup extraordinaire. He spent the first half trying to figure out how to hit the broad side of a barn with his passes. Still, the Jets had the Bucs closed out after 30 minutes of football.So here are your Pewter Pirates, squatting in the corner of a 1-12 season and urinating upon themselves.They looked helpless out there.Somebody throw these guys a lifeline.They need it.They seem beyond help and simply unwatchable.But this team is like a train wreck It's a disaster, but you can't help staring at it.. Luckily for the Gunners though, hes on their side.He looks ordinary, like any other player on the pitch, at times going by completely unnoticed.But like a sleeper, he is actually lying in wait for the right moment to spring in to action.Peering through the viewfinder, he claps his sights on the whites of his preys eyesAnd then BANG!A callous, unforgiving shot right between the eyes.It could only be Andrey Arshavin, Arsenals deadly silent assassin.This may sound like lazy stereotyping given his nationality.But it is uncanny how he can fritter about on the periphery of a match only to have the biggest say in its outcome, time and again.When he scored four at Anfield last season, the joke was that hed only had four touches.He was the first to say afterwards that hed had a bad game.

Dont mistake this for false modesty; the diminutive Russian is that rare breed of footballer that doesnt sound like he needs an autocue for a post-match interview.He is brutally honest. Arshavin would probably be the first to sing his own praises after a good display. But he genuinely feels that English football hasnt seen the best of him.Liverpool understandably feared facing Arshavin again after he ended their title ambitions last season.But the makeshift striker, spearheading Arsenals attack for the second week in a row, was anonymous in the first half.It perhaps lulled Liverpool into a false sense of reliefit certainly didnt prepare them for the drama about to unfold.Cesc Fabregas admitted that Arsene Wenger told his players that they werent fit to wear the shirt following an insipid first-half performance.It was an unparalleled dose of medicine from the French manager, but Arsenal promptly came to life at the start of the second half. A slick passing move and a slice of luck saw Glenn Johnson turn the ball into his own net to level the scores after 49 minutes.With Liverpool stunned and withering, Arshavin picked the right moment, catching them at their lowest ebb, their most vulnerable.Cutting inside from the left, he snuck a yard of space from Johnson.

Off balance and with little backlift, the 5-foot-4 Russian unleashed a ferocious shot that could only have been matched for accuracy by a sniper firing a high-precision rifle.Rooted to the spot, Jose Reina in the Liverpool goal had that familiar sinking feeling as the ball flashed into the back of net via the upright.A few minutes later Reina actually saved an Arshavin shot, probably for the first time ever.The weekend has given Arsenal a lifeline in the title race. This is a straight-up call out to any former or existing doubters of Tyreke Evans, including myself. Evans is the real deal.The topic of one of my first articles here on B/R was an open query regarding Tyreke's ability to fill the role that the Sacramento Kings drafted him for.I verbalised my thoughts by questioning Sacramento's decision to draft Evans as their point guard, despite the fact that the likes of Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn were still available.I wouldn't go as far as to call my article "hating", but it did seem to be more slanted towards a potential failed rookie season by Evans. After all didn't the Kings already possess a deadly assassin in the backcourt called Kevin Martin in addition to offensive pieces like Jason Thompson and Spencer HawesLogically it would seem that the Kings needed a distributor, not a scoring-orientated guard who some draft scouts were comparing to Dwyane Wade.Nearly two months into the regular season the Kings have made my publicly-voiced queries look absurd.