Hey Everyone,
So I am absolutely swamped with the bar exam. Putting in 12-14 hour days at the library. 16 days until the big day... I have been meaning to put up Battle of the Brads Part 2, but the format is a little messed up and too time consuming right now to figure it all out. I'll try to post the parts that are still relevant in about two weeks. Sorry Brads, don't mean to waste your hard work! Anyways, so Corey provided three short topics to keep the discussions ongoing.
Here they are:
1. I know John Kitna’s 63 sacks last season have caused brain damage.
ESPN is reporting Kitna said, "I'll keep to myself what I think we actually will win. But it's more than 10 games.” He apparently thinks his rookie WR Calvin Johnson will help them make the jump from 3-13 to a playoff team. "I don't like putting a lot of pressure on people, but Calvin Johnson, to me, will have about the same impact that Reggie Bush had in
2. I know Rex Grossman is going to be the laughing stock of NFL QBs for another season.
He keeps trying to assure the media and fans that he intends to be more consistent in the coming season. How has he worked on his mechanics? “I tried to work to make everything muscle-memory.” Oh thank God! Muscle memory! I suppose it’s unfair to expect an NFL QB to come to the NFL with muscle-memory. Rex “That big man in the helmet scared me” Grossman is also heavily relying on experience to get him over the hump—ahem, mountain—of becoming a consistent QB. Experience. That must be the problem. I might believe it if his three worst performances last season weren’t again
3. I know something fishy is going on the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Referees don’t make mistakes like that. They don’t in the middle of the season between the two worst teams in any given league. They don’t in regional cup semifinals. I really don’t care for conspiracy theories, but it is outlandish to have a Mexican referee call a game when
7 comments:
1. You go, Dave!
2. Some of the Gold Cup refereeing was quite fishy, but I doubt that there was real hanky-panky involved. I don't think these refs (especially the ones with World Cup experience) would risk a lifetime ban for a specific final in the Gold Cup, especially a Mexican ref being in favor of USA making it to the final. No way.
I do agree that it looked fishy and it was an awful call, but a few Mexican refs have been sucking it up in the last few weeks.
Did you see the Zambia v Spain game? Zambia got absolutely robbed twice by THE best ref in Mexico. Plus, the Gold Cup is notorious for having bad refs. In Mexico's first couple of games, the refs were terrible. I think it's just a mix of bad calls and that whole "avoid controversy" impulse whose result tends to be to favor the bigger, richer teams.
I'm reposting these two comments because no one is gonna see them on the old post:
Speaking of lawyers:
(triple click to highlight entire thing, then copy/paste)
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/13634047/detail.html
The question is, will he represent himself?
Bebo said...
Yea, the stupid sports illustrated article is ridiculous... but completely expected. I wish they'd give it a fair name as well, like "The best United States pop culture athletes and horses by number".
In a real list of worldwide athletes, all numbers from 1-11 would be football players.
The deleted comment was exactly this comment, but I put "double-click" instead of "triple-click". My bad.
I wish I was above responding to your attack on Rex, but as bebo has revealed, I am above few things. Congratulations on goading a simpleton into a petty argument.
Ok. I confess that I was often foolishly optimistic about Rex last season. However, I was not so foolish that I ignored his glaring inconsistencies or his apparent mental breakdowns. And I was not one to defend these shortcomings. That is about to change. While I do not covet the position of "Tireless Defender of Rex Grossman", I feel that someone must restore some perspective on this topic.
Entering the 2006 NFL season, who were some of the QBs expected to excel? To breakout?... Rex? No. Here are some names:
Ben Roethlisberger. Coming off of a Super Bowl victory, he looked inept in his title defense. Ben gets a little bit of a pass, though, for throwing his face into a windshield during the offseason...
Daunte Culpepper. High expectations. Huge fan-fare. Elated sea mammals... all for naught. Daunte sucked, but he gets a pass for the knee rehab thing.
Kurt Warner. People forget how badly this former-MVP looked in the games leading up to his demotion. He literally looked like he was TRYING to lose those games! And all he had was the perhaps the best WR duo in the league. Kurt gets a pass, though, because everyone was excited to see his successor play...
Eli Manning. With all of the pressure his name brings, he should have come humbly into the league. He did not. He played the Elway card on draft day, so he invited the hate that he so-deservedly receives when he does not win. Eli gets no pass. Screw him...
But of all the QBs in the league, who did Joe NFL-fan snarl at the most last year? Rex?!? COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME!!... It turns out someone could. I sought the spiritual guidance of Native American NFL-guru Fridge Bear Scores Super Bowl Touchdown (unfortunate timing and an unusual proximity to a television led to his special name). He was very young, but incredibly wise. I joined him in his smoke-filled canvas tee-pee, and after inhaling and ingesting the proper wisdom-seeking catalysts, I shared with him a dream-vision. Images danced in my mind. So fast. So many. At some point I blacked out. When I came to, I attempted to ask Fridge Bear about my visions. He stopped me and said that the visions are for me to interpret alone, but that they represent the past, present, and future. Against Fridge Bear's advice, I am going to share with you all my vision....
PAST:
Through a misty haze rushed a horde of raging, screaming Norsemen. Rex fought valiantly for hours, but eventually fell victim to a hammer blow to the knee...
His ascent up this mountain had been grueling. He looked elated to be climbing this mountain again, however, and was excited to reach its peak. Out of the corner of his eye, he witnesses a flash, but could not move quick enough. The ram lowered its head and shattered his ankle...
September has ended, and he has wings. The adulation of millions gives him rise, and he soars...
It is October, and he has fallen from the sky right into the middle of the football field. He makes a mistake. The crowd starts to transform...
Late in the season. He looks down at himself and sees Tina Turner in a #8 jersey. His face is battered. Surrounding him is a stadium full of Ike Turners warning him of what more is to come when he gets home.
PRESENT:
He is running on the beach. A song from the 80's super-group Survivor is playing. Pep Hamilton has an afro. Rex finally beats him in a race...
He is jumping rope very fast. And he even criss-crosses the rope...
The frozen mountains of Russia. He has grown a beard. He pants and grunts his way to the top of a mountain and inexplicably screams "DRAGO!!" several times.
FUTURE:
There is a long and bloody road. Behind him lie dead bodies. John Wilkes Booth. Lee Harvey Oswald. James Earl Ray. Mark David Chapman. John Hinckley Jr. And more. Many more. Tattered and torn, he is a survivor. He approaches the end of this road. The glory shines brightly on his bruised face. He grabs the glory. He hoists the glory high above his head. And the adulation comes again. The cheers lift him, and he glides into the sunset.
Can anyone make anything out of all that? Let me know if you do.
Wow. I guess I have two reactions. First, this comment should be its own post and you should do all future Battle of the Brads in this format. Second, it's likely you may need to see a therapist or addiction specialist...and I mean that as a compliment.
I had always wondered: "What if John Locke (from Lost) were an NFL commentator?" This is it. Well done, sir.
Damn Chinese...banning my site...
http://thoseguyssoftball.com/index.html
P.S. Rex "If this were nerf I'd be great" Grossman didn't make ESPN's top 12 QBs. I'd like to go into further detail, but I'm too cheap to become an "Insider" and actually find out how low he is.
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