‘Ill-advised’ commentary best left unsaid

CONSIDER how much goofy hindsight is spoken during sports telecasts.

Monday night, after Cowboys QB Dak Prescott overthrew an open receiver, ESPN’s Booger McFarland, from somewhere in his Rubber Booger Buggy, slugged us with the tired: “He’d like to have that one back!”

Thursday night, Panthers QB Cam Newton, on first-and-10 from his 11, was about to be sacked in the end zone by the Steelers’ T.J. Watt. So Newton, while being hit and off balance, heaved the ball down field.

It was intercepted and returned for a TD by LB Vince Williams.

Fox’s Troy Aikman: “It was an ill-advised pass.”

Sure, in hindsight. But if the ball had been heaved incomplete — Newton’s likely intention — his decision would be praiseworthy for his situational sense.

So the pass became “ill-advised.” Thus Aikman felt Newton should have pursued his other option: surrendering a firstdown safety?

You don’t have to like megaagent Scott Boras to recognize when he tells some hard truths.

Last week his public recognition that new Mets GM and recent big-firm agent Brodie Van Wagenen arrives loaded with ethical issues — conflicts of business, allegiance, confidential players’ information and other curious, if not dubious, circumstances — was and remains the truth.

But such is Mets’ ownership. It can always be found on the windward side of the stink.

Geno Auriemma Game of the Week: Tuesday at home, following a 74-50 win in its opener, Division I Savannah State’s women’s basketball team defeated Division III Wesleyan (Ga.) by 129 points, 155-26.

Three SSU starters played more than half the game, one for 28 minutes. One SSU sub played two minutes.

And as reader Marcus Holland notes, Wesleyan had just eight available players. But NCAA student-athletics build character!