Good on this guy.

All in good fun, Wojo - impossible to call.

A much more enjoyable exercise, which we started doing this year, is after the fantasy draft was done (in one of my 12-team leagues), everyone sends in a quote about each pick and why they took them.

Gave one of our friends a good ribbing about his fifth-round acquisition of Chris Henry (non-PPR) and his reason: "If he keeps his head on his shoulders, a healthy Palmer can make him a #1"

/too soon?

if you hate easterbrook, king etc as much as i do bottom of the barrel blog rips the hell out of them using research and facts (weird i know) every week. always a good read, easterbrook is the palin of sports writting

Whoa-jee-cow-ski. That's how you say it.

This was hilarious, good on the guy. It reminds me of when Dr. Z was still writing, and would always mention how he picked against the Jets with Joe Namath in the Super Bowl. Here's an article that he mentions it and uses that as his excuse to pick the Giants to upset the Patriots in the Super Bowl:

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Peter King is mentally retarded, he said that Jerry Rice isn't the best WR ever, and he always has Brady or Favre's dick in his mouth. I don't have time to read Eastbrooks novels on Science either, but I like his nicknames for teams and his talk about the football gods and cheerleaders who dress appropriately for the weather being a bunch of biatches, and "fark punting"

I miss Dr. Z.

I think he should get an extra point for being able to spell his own name.

/likes Peter King, despite not being a Patriots/Favre fan.
//also misses Dr. Z.

That was amusing

Entertaining article.



/Don't GIS Heuvos Grande
//Eye opening experience
///Learned a bit of Mexican slang today.

GWSuperfan: juevos.

Juewrong

mattso: Halarious. Colts fan here, going to get more tissues.

I'd give him 1/2 point for 21. Everything he predicted happened, but not quite as much as needed.

Also, Jim Mora is not a farking football coach. He is a player weasal who sucks off his stars.

006andahalf: I think he should get an extra point for being able to spell his own name.

/likes Peter King, despite not being a Patriots/Favre fan.
//also misses Dr. Z.

know how I know you don't read Peter King?

degenerate-afro: /Don't GIS Heuvos Grande

What a GIS for Huevos Grande might look like:



/hot
//mmmm... mexican-style eggs

At least he didn't pull a "Sports Guy" - ie, make one or two self-effacing jokes, then go right to the business of acting like you know everything.

0 to 4 -- Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder offers you high-paying, multiyear consultant contract.

Damn! Missed it by || that much.

FishyFred: At least it's not that shmuck Gregg Easterbrook

Na. Easterbrook's annual prediction wrap-up is actually worth reading. Mostly because he does all the annoying work of getting everyone's predictions together in one place.

I can rate my season predictions in 150,000 words or more!

Does Easterbrook still bloviate with such thickness as to make his brother's circuit court opinions read like Highlights for Children? I always hated his "look how smart and clever I am" style (especially since he's not) and quit reading his stuff entirely after that wacko "Jews run the media" or whatever rant he made about Michael Eisner and Disney and Kill Bill.

Nice little read. Good to see a sportswriter not take himself too seriously. With the Pro Bowl moved to before the Super Bowl writers now have a hole to fill. This was a good choice. Not to mention that it makes for a decent season wrap-up article as well.

It's a Jim Mora Jr. sighting!

ElwoodCuse: quit reading his stuff entirely after that wacko "Jews run the media" or whatever rant he made about Michael Eisner and Disney and Kill Bill.

You only quit reading him because that j-run media stopped running his articles.

/stopped reading him becase in two years you'll read everything this guy ever has to say

I think he gave himself a couple of free points to put him above Uraguayan housewife level.

ElwoodCuse: Does Easterbrook still bloviate with such thickness as to make his brother's circuit court opinions read like Highlights for Children? I always hated his "look how smart and clever I am" style (especially since he's not) and quit reading his stuff entirely after that wacko "Jews run the media" or whatever rant he made about Michael Eisner and Disney and Kill Bill.

Yes. He's the master of argumentum ad absurdum or whatever it is.

zac1722: if you hate easterbrook, king etc as much as i do bottom of the barrel blog rips the hell out of them using research and facts

Let's look for the first Easterbrook reference on that site:

Gregg puts Cedric Benson on his unwanted team this year. There was no reason for an NFL team to even sign Benson because he had attitude problems and was an underachiever with the Bears. Yet, Gregg still finds him to be "unwanted"

I'm sorry, but that's pathetic.

I can't even figure out his point. A guy has an attitude problem, so no-one signed him, but its wrong to call him "unwanted". WTF?

Reading on ... Sorry, if I don't want to see a badly written parody of FireJoeMorgan. Bottom Of The Barrel is just terrible.

FTA, and please note this is for NFC ROY:

I got blind-sided (pun apology) by second-place finisher Michael Oher of the Baltimore Ravens. Still, I've got to give myself some credit for having Harvin in the preseason top two.

...sorta hard to be an NFC ROY candidate in the AFC, isn't it, Gene?

IlGreven: FTA, and please note this is for NFC ROY:

I got blind-sided (pun apology) by second-place finisher Michael Oher of the Baltimore Ravens. Still, I've got to give myself some credit for having Harvin in the preseason top two.

...sorta hard to be an NFC ROY candidate in the AFC, isn't it, Gene?

I think you missed this FTA: See, they sort of got rid of the NFC and AFC rookie thing. Instead, there was an offensive and defensive ROY.

Gene's predictions were not done for offensive and defensive, which is how the league did it this year. Yeah, he should have put the Oher comment under the AFC, but both of his NFC predictions were offensive players, so I guess he felt it okay to put the Oher comment there.

nugatory2: Not a care for either team in the SB.

My opinion on the article, this guy is a whiny, flaming douchebag.

"Gentleman's rule"?

There's no crying in football, biatch.

Your team lost, as did mine earlier in the playoffs.

Get over it.

You probably meant to post in the thread regarding the whiny article about the Saints onside kick.

Let's make this an "I miss Dr. Z thread".
Because I surely do.

Mattso, why is Archie Manning so revered? Wasn't alive back then, but wasn't he a good qb on a terrible team?

I'd give him a 1/2 point for the AFC north prediction.

he got the ravens at #2 and the Browns at #4 correct, just flipped the Steelers and Bengals. and he was 2 single score games(9 points) from getting that correct.

nugatory2: SkittlesAreYum: nugatory2: Not a care for either team in the SB.

My opinion on the article, this guy is a whiny, flaming douchebag.

"Gentleman's rule"?

There's no crying in football, biatch.

Your team lost, as did mine earlier in the playoffs.

Get over it.

You probably meant to post in the thread regarding the whiny article about the Saints onside kick.

Sorry, don't know how that happened. 1st time for me.

my bad

Giggity.