Sacking Kaepernick 20 times: in which Clay Matthews gets a fantastic letter
We don’t know how old Kameron is, or if Kameron reads much Hemingway. We don’t know much at all, really, other than what we can see in the fantastic letter Clay Matthews tweeted out on Monday, but none of that is necessary to appreciate the message.
I couldn’t agree with you more Kameron. #fanmail pic.twitter.com/3XL5U5b9NH
— Clay Matthews III (@ClayMatthews52) February 11, 2014
Read that final paragraph. Those short declarative sentences? These might as well be newborn truths. Kameron punches those predictions with a straightforward matter-of-factness that can typically only come accompanied by the iron clad handshake of a weathered old down-on-his-luck cowboy, right before he takes one last shot of whiskey in Fred’s Saloon, and just before he leaves that dusty old frontier town for the mountains on the horizon, promising vengeance and the safe return of Ol’ Hostetler’s gold fortune, so as to hopefully win the favor of the sweet Miss Mary Reynolds, only daughter of Boss Reynolds who runs the general store down the way. (He also hosts the town poker games in the backroom depending on who’s askin’.)
Then there’s Kameron’s ending:
“Next year we will go undefeated. It would be nice if you guys win the Super Bowl. You guys beat the 49ers. You also sacked Kapernick (sic) 20 times.”
This is a lot of things the offseason, at this early stage, should be and so often isn’t: unbridled enthusiasm and confidence because why not? We’re talking about a season so far down the road, with so many uncertainties left to navigate, that if you start too soon on the heavy stuff you risk hard-wiring yourself to appreciate nothing but mock drafts and rumor-mill vomit. We don’t know the schedule yet. Heck, we just figured out who all of Green Bay’s assistant coaches will be only a few days ago.
And sure, we can definitely talk about the upcoming NFL Scouting Combine and Draft, and free agency, and What The Packers Should Do – and rest assured, we will – but why do that right at this moment when we’ve been offered the image of Clay Matthews sacking Colin Kaepernick 20 times in a game, a game where the Packers beat San Francisco for the first time in their last five tries to remain unbeaten? A bold call wrapped in adorableness, that’s what this is, and we applaud every word of it.
Lastly: we no longer have any doubt all of this will happen next season, either, because writing something in the manner Kameron did does not leave room for uncertainty. It simply is. Now we must only wait.
So thanks, Kameron and Clay, for this slice of something different. It’s a long offseason, and stuff like this keeps us in good spirits between news briefs. And if anyone knows Kameron and his/her parents, feel free to point them in our direction. We would love to hear more.