Tim Tebow: A great career, but best ever? Hardly.

Hey guys! Long time no see. It’s been what, 2 maybe 3 months since our last post. Its not like we missed: the entire NFL and NCAA Football seasons, the beginning of the NBA and NHL seasons, and the now legendary Tiger Woods fiasco. So to all of those who used to come here for sports updates and the occasional chuckle we apologies for the long ass delay and general disregard for updates over the past couple months, and if your a first time reader then just be happy that the boys are back! Our excuses are pretty lame: I (KC) was going through the recruiting process at my school to find a job (thanks for the economy Greenspan), TM was writing his LSAT’s, and RM… well I’m not sure but I’m sure it was important. But have no fear BWB followers, the boys are back in town and we aren’t going anywhere, I hope.

Anyways, back to the reason for this article, Tim Tebow and his extremely over hyped career, a fact that was made completely clear this past weekend thanks to my boy Ronaldo McClain and the Tide (me and Ronaldo are far from boys, but a boy can dream). Entering the season, and the SEC title for that matter, Tebow was being proclaimed the best player of all time, a once in a lifetime kind of talent. I’ll be the first to admit that despite my complete and utter hatred for Tim Tebow, which strangely stemmed from my admiration for Chris Leak, that he is an extremely gifted player. Tebow was the first player to ever both pass and rush for 20 touchdowns in one season on his way to a Heisman trophy in just his sophomore season, the first player to do that as well. I mean the fucking guy changed the way people viewed the spread option and epitimized a do it all, grind it out, do anything for a win kind of leader, and I can respect that. But despite the rumors Superman does NOT wear Tim Tebow pajamas. He actually wears Adrian Peterson PJs but that’s another discussion entirely. The point being that Tim Tebow was the face of college football for the past 3 years, he was featured in every Heisman update, praised in every pregame show, and easily the most talked about player in the nation, evident by the spike in Google searches for whatever bible verse he decided to wear on gameday. Tim Tebow was the King of college football, but in the end was his run really that impressive? He was definitely great, but was he the BEST?

Looking back over the last three years here is a list of Tim Tebow’s accomplisments:

• 1 Heisman Trophy, 1 Davey O’Brien Trophy, and 2 Maxwell Trophies
• 2-time All American (likely 3 after this year’s is released)
• 1 National Title (his “first” he was the backup)
• Passing: 8,457 yards, 84 touchdowns, and 15 ints
• Rushing: 2,833 yards and 56 touchdowns (SEC record)
• 34-6 as a starter

First I feel like I need validate some of these “stats”. So Tebow actually won 2 National Titles, but his first was while riding the pine and contributing a few times a game as a one dimentional running option. I mean if we count that title towards Tebow’s list of accomplishments then Matt Cassel (back up at USC in 2004) should be considered a “good” college quarterback. So essential Tebow only won 1 National Title. Secondly, Tebow will NOT win the Heisman this year, the fact that he was even invited is a slap in the face for players like Case Keenum, Kellen Moore, Jimmy Clausen, and probably several other quarterbacks that deserved an invitation over him, not to mention a number of non-quaterbacks (CJ Spiller, Ryan Matthews, Jordan Shipley). This year it is easy to see that the media has a massive hard on for Tim Tebow, despite a relatively mild statistical season he was invited to New York when a number of other worthy players were ignored. And don’t give me the “but he willed his team to victory” bullshit, so did Greg McElroy (you know, the kid who beat Tebow and Florida in the SEC Title game), yeah he was better statistically and played for the better team. So other than the fact that the media loves Tim Tebow there is no logical explination for his inclution in this years finalists.

Back to the actual arguement.

So, yes Tim Tebow’s career was impressive. He has a Heisman and a National Title, which is enough on it’s own to cement his place in history, but he also has a number of SEC records, a shelf filled with trophies, and won 34 games in 3 years as a starter (over 11 per season). However, when compared to even just the two best quarterbacks of this decade he doesn’t stand head an shoulders above the them:

Matt Leinart

• 1 Heisman Trophy, 1 Manning Award, and 2 Archie Griffin Awards
• 3-time All American
• 1 National Title (his “first” was an AP title, and who the fuck cares about that)
• Passing: 10,693 yards, 99 touchdowns, 23 ints
• 37-2 as a starter

Vince Young

• 1 Manning Award, 1 Archie Griffin Award, 1 Davey O’Brien Award, 1 Maxwell Award (should have won the ‘05 Heisman)
• 1-time All American
• 1 National Title
• Passing: 6,040 yards, 44 touchdowns, 28 ints
• Rushing: 3,127 yards, 37 touchdowns
• 839 total yards and 8 total touchdowns in 2 Rose Bowls (bowl stats aren’t included in career stats)
• 30-2 as a starter

In order to be considered amongst the best of all time you have to at least be better than everyone that played in your decade. I know that Florida fans that read this will find all the stats that point to Tebow being better (total touchdowns) but all things considered I would say that Vince Young and Matt Leinart had equally, if not more, impressive college careers.

My last, and possibly most important, point that I want to make is the level at which Percy Harvin and Louis Murphy made Tim Tebow a MUCH better player while they were there. In the first season that Tebow had Murphy and Harvin he won the Heisman and in the second the Gators won the National Title against Oklahoma on the strength of of a big performance from Harvin, 171 total yards and a TD. The difference with and without the two talented wideouts was a drop off in passing by 333 yards and 12 touchdowns from his junior year, no Heisman, and no National Title. Percy Harvin accumulated 3,781 total yards and 32 total touchdowns in his three years at Florida and Louis Murphy had 1,203 receiving yards and 12 receiving touchdowns in his final 2 years, a lot to lose for a quarterback. Now the two of them are lighting it up in the NFL with legit quarterbacks throwing them the ball, well Gradkowski is actually pretty terrible, but the point is that both are excelling in the pros while Tebow had his worst statistical season of his career. So is all the credit Harvin’s and Murphy’s? No, but a big chunk of it should be. Percy Harvin, in my opinion, was one of the best players in college football in his three years and was easily the most exciting. I understand that the Heisman is essentially a quarterback/running back’s award but Harvin should have been in the discussion. In 2007, the year Tebow won the Heisman, Harvin had 1,622 total yards and 10 total touchdowns (and a large number of passes to within the 5 which Tebow would convert) while averaging a ridiculous 11.5 yards per touch. You can’t tell me that those aren’t Heisman type numbers and quite possibly the reason that Tim Tebow was so good. In fact I’m certain that if Percy Harvin wasn’t on Tim Tebow’s team he would have received alot more attention.

The point of this post was not to say that Tim Tebow wasn’t a great college quarterback, he was. Tim Tebow will be remembered forever by everyone who had the good fortune of watching him play and he will most certainly be invited to the college football Hall of Fame. My point is that he wasn’t the best ever, and I think that point should be pretty obvious now to anyone that took the time to read this whole post. There are a number of players in recent memory that were just as impressive and countless that I never watched, being as I wasn’t born yet. So in conclusion: Great college quarterback? Yes! Best Ever? Not quite.

- KC Roberts

It feels like the ‘09 playoffs just ended just a few days ago, but when the ‘09/’10 season begins tonight it will have been over 4 months since the Lakers won the title. With the excitment of last years playoffs still fresh in my mind (see the numerous articles in May/June where I get WAY to excited) I’m anxious to get this season started. As a Raps fan I’ll have to subdue myself until tomorrow, but there are still a number of matchups which, despite the fact that it’s October and WAY to early for games to mean that much, are pretty big games. Here is a super quick preview (only 30 mins to game time restricts my ability to say much more):

Celtics/Cavs: A matchup up of the two teams the Magic beat on their way into the NBA Finals. Both teams have title hopes this year and have restocked their lineups to hopefully defend the Big Black Superman a little better this time around. The Cavs brought in “The Original Superman”, Shaq, and the Celtics brought in Rasheed Wallace, which makes both teams much better down low and at the same time qualifies them for Grey Power Insurance However, this game will be decided by the play of their young superstars, LeBron and Rondo, who both carried their team in the playoffs I think last years MVP takes the cake:

Cavs 95 – Celtics 92

Wizards/Mavs: The Mavs were part of the massive deal that brought Antoine Wright and Hedo Turkaglu to Toronto, and in return got Shawn Marion, a high energy forward who is one of the best rebounding wingmen in the league. The Wizards made an addition this offseason, but it wan’t a big name free agent, it was Agent Zero. Both teams are projected to make the playoffs this year, but I’d like to see if Arenas is his old self before saying they are a top team in the East. So until then:

Mavs 104 – Wizards 93

Trail Blazers/Rockets: The Rockets lost a top 3 center (Yao Ming) and the Blazers bring back Greg Oden who is reportedly 13 pounds lighter and looking alot more like the #1 overall pick. That makes the difference between two teams. Brooks is a quick young guard and Miller is a physical vet, neither can defend the other (PUSH). Brandon Roy has emerged as a superstar and while Trevor Ariza isn’t quite there yet, his defense is, which will slow down Roy significantly in the Rockets defense oriented gameplan (PUSH). Battier and Webster… meh (PUSH). Aldridge is looking like a young Chris Bosh (they might be the same age?) and is currently the Blazers go to down low, Luis Scola isn’t as gifted offensively but is their glue guy down low (PUSH-ish). So with Oden making the difference:

Trail Blazers 98 – Rockets 90

Clippers/Lakers: Blake Griffin is out for 6 weeks:

Lakers 115 – Clippers 90

Enjoy the games guys and come back for more intense NBA coverage once the season is in full gear.

- KC Roberts

Nothing gets baseball fans more excited than the umps completely fucking up! Remind me why video replay is so limited in the MLB again?

The same thing happens to me every baseball season: I get extremely excited as the preseason approaches, I watch the first 20-30 games religiously, I get really into first half MVP projections and All Star ballots, and then in mid summer completely tune out the baseball season. It happens every season, almost without thinking about it. And its not as if there is even another sport on yet, football is still months away. So why KC? How the fuck can you justify ignoring America’s favorite pastime and consider yourself a sports fan?

That’s easy… there are just soo many things that are more entertaining than watching the same game 182 times.

Here is a short list of things I did this summer instead of watch baseball. And I was unemployed half the summer, so its not like I needed to prioritize my time effectively.

1) Went out drinking… alot. (Remember, I was unemployed half the time)

2) Read 4 books. (Dinner with Mugabe, Churchill, Brisingr, and Game of Rivals)

3) Played Wiffle Ball. (I hit an abysmal .120 in the summer league)

4) Wrote on this site.

(here is when things start getting less legit)

5) Talked to my parents about career advice

6) Watched “So You Think You Can Dance”

7) Watched the Disney Channel (Miley Cyrus!)

8 ) Talked to my brothers about feelings, girls, and emtional shit like that. (No homo)

9) Napped

There are several more, but I figured I’d spare you the pain, the point is baseball got really boring after about 80 games and I relalized the season was only half way over! The baseball season is like the fucking Cold War of sports, kind of interesting at points and heavily publicized when it was going on but when you think about it, it’s actually pretty fucking boring.

Thank god for the playoffs! It’s like a shortened football season, a second baseball season in which winning and losing a single game actually fucking matters. It’s this part of the year that I treasure, when football, basketball, and I guess hockey are all starting up and the baseball season is reaching its climax. There is actually no better time of the year, Santa might bring an Xbox 360 and some candy but Octovember has is the most mind fucked filled month of entertainment in the history of man (women have Gossip Girl too, so I guess Octovember is good for humanity).

I kind of missed the boat on talking about the first round of the playoffs, which is a shame because my least favorite team (the Red Sox) and the team I wanted to win the NL (the Rockies) both got booted DJ Jazzy Jeff styles before anyone had time to think about what happened. And now both Championship series are starting to look one sided, with the Yankees up 3-1 and the Phillies coming back in the 9th to take a 3-1 lead as well. So instead of jumping in late on this one i’m gonna wait until the World Series to start chirping in. Just a little look ahead though, I lived in New Jersey in my formative years, I hated Philly and loved New York. So you can take an educated guess at who my World Series pick will be.

But if the Dodgers can find a way to pull one out of their asses I would be ecstatic. Nothing would be better than Joe Torre vs. his old team in the World Series.

- KC Roberts

Chad Henne. You know... that other, slightly smaller, guy from Michigan.

Who Would’ve Guessed It? Fucking me that’s who. More examples of beleaguered athletes that I like (and a few that I don’t) who have a fan-fucking-tastic coming out performance or have finally gotten their shit together after a drought of decency.

In the past two weeks we got to see an amazing comeback by the Bengals in honor of their defensive coordinator, coach Zimmer’s, recently deceased wife, a goal line stand by the Cardinals defense to seal the win against the Texans, or Ronnie Brown showcasing the importance of the Wildcat to the Dolphins with a winning touchdown run with only 0:06 remaining on the clock, the Patriots shit pumping of the Titans, and the Broncos somehow getting to 6-0. No matter how you look at it the past two weekends have been extremely entertaining, but beyond the big games there were a few players who really stood out that you wouldn’t have guessed. Whether starting in their first prime time game or defying the odds against the best defense of the past decade, it was that time for some unknowns and and a few unwanted.

Chad Henne: Finally!! The second the Dolphins drafted this guy I thought he should have been the starter. Yes, I know the other Chad (of the Pennington variety) was pretty amazing last year, but he doesn’t have the natural skill set that Henne brings to the table. In his college days, I watched Henne torch my beloved Penn State Nittany Lions numerous times, and despite my hatred for all Michigan players while they actually wear the maize and blue, I was excited to see Henne play once he got to the pros. Henne’s arm strength rivals that of the top in the league and it showed in week 5. After a bad 1-3 start and a big game against the Dolphins’ division rival, the New York Jets, Chad Henne stepped up and delivered with a 20 for 26, 241 yard, 2 touchdown performance that resulted in a passer rating of 130.4 and extended his record as a starter in the pros to 2-0. It looks like the Dolphins finally found their franchise quarterback to replace Dan Marino, well not actually its only been 2 games, but fingers crossed!!!

Cedric Benson: 5 years ago Benson was supposed to be the next great running back to come out of Texas, following in the footsteps of Priest Holmes, Ricky Williams, and Earl Campbell. But his time in Chicago was anything but that. After a lengthy holdout Benson was stuck behind Thomas Jones on the depth chart, and while Jones had the best season of his career at the time, Benson was frustratingly terrible with just over 200 yards rushing and no touchdowns. Then 3 years ago the Bears let Thomas Jones walk, effectively handing the reigns over to Benson. Even in a starting role Cedric was fucking piss poor. I had him on my fantasy team and lets just say I didn’t finish too well that year. But after the first 6 weeks of the 2009 season a case can be made for Benson being a top 5 NFL running back! Benson is currently 3rd in the league with 531 yards, and all it took was a change of scenery. In Cincinnati, Benson isn’t judged with the high standard of the 4th overall pick and it showed in week 5 when he gashed the previously impenetrable Baltimore defense for 120 yards on 27 carries, and he looked fucking good doing it (no homo). Benson is running with purpose, scarry as fuck 225 pounds of purpose, and next week he’s playing the team that gave up on him, the Chicago Bears. God I hope I get that game.

Kyle Orton: Now for another Chicago abortion. Kyle Orton I don’t apologize for constantly making fun of your goofy facial hair and your outlandish drinking habits, but I do apologize for thinking you were a terrible NFL quarterback. I now think you are somewhat worthy, but I still have my doubts. In the first 4 games of the season Orton was solid but not spectacular, but in the Broncos’ wins over the Patriots and the Chargers Orton has been fantastic throwing for 559 yards and 4 touchdowns. If Orton can keep playing like this and the Broncos make it to the playoffs (which if they don’t, this year is even bigger a fuck up than last) Kyle is on the fast track to a Pro Bowl appearance. Holy shit will Orton have fun in Hawaii, drinking mid day is encouraged, not frowned upon.

Miles Austin: HOLY FUCK. I actually shat myself when Dwayne Bowe caught that touchdown on 4th down. It’s been a tough stretch for ‘Boys fans everywhere, but losing to the fucking Chiefs? FUCK ME! Thank god Miles Austin pulled up his pants and dragged himself, and the team, out of the embarassing mess they got themselves in. 250 receiving yards and a few touchdowns later and Miles Austin is looking like the WR we were hoping Roy Williams would be. Finally! Hope in America.

Laurence Maroney: Maroney had gone from exciting rookie back on an explosive Patriots team in his first season, to irrelevant running back in an offense that only passed the ball in ‘07, to injured afterthought last year. Things were looking grim for Maroney, especially with Fred Taylor, Sam Morris, Ben-Jarvis Green-Ellis, and Kevin Faulk crowding up the backfield. But after a few injuries and some luck Maroney got back to the top of the depth chart just as the Patriots decided do get their shit together on offense. In an ass raping (59-0) usually only seen in illegal porn, Maroney put up his first 100 yard game of the season with 123 yards and a touchdown on only 16 carries. Not bad for a guy who was on the path to early unemployment.

Ray Rice: For everyone who said Ray Rice was too small to translate his domination in college to the pros Ray wants to say something, “Fuck you”. Ray Rice has 766 total yards and 4 touchdowns in the first 6 games of the season, putting him on pace for a Marshall Faulk/Brian Westbrook esque 2000+ total yards type season. This past week Rice was the 7th best receiver and he’s a fucking running back. Keep this up and Ray Ray might start popping up in the discussion of the next great dual threat back, now that LT and Westbrook are over the top and Reggie Bush is… well he sucks.

Sidney Rice: I have drafted this fucking guy every year since his rookie season in every single one of my fantasy leagues thinking that this is the year he finally gets it together. Three years of mediocre fantasy teams later this guy finally decides to be every bit the amazing wideout that I thought he would be. As much as I hate to admit it, a lot of Rice’s success is thanks to the upgrade at the QB position, Brett actually knows how to hit Rice in stride as demonstrated in the fucking dart he threw Rice on their 50+ yard hook up. At 6′4 202 pounds I’m hoping for a lot more corner jump balls in the endzone for Rice who is easily the most physical receiver with Berrian and Harvin on the squad. Like most of my affinities for football players I have taken a lot of shit for years for liking this guy, but its finally fucking paying off!

That’s it for now, I’m due for some very necessary studying and you probably don’t care anymore. So enjoy the week, or don’t I could care less, but meet us back here for some more football fun next weekend.

-KC Roberts

I didn’t get a chance to mention this yesterday, so let’s take a moment to discuss the plight of 2nd year Jags wideout Mike Sims-Walker.  Sims-Walker, as you undoubtedly know if you play fantasy football, was scratched from last weekend’s total and complete shitkicking at the hands of Seattle.  He was scratched late in the day, and most people were unaware of the move until they heard about it on the broadcast (that is, if you were unlucky enough to have this abortion of a football game broadcast in your region)  Millions of fantasy football players across the nation were outraged!  As were the 15 to 20 Jags fans across the nation!  Everyone was left to wonder just what the hell happened.  Luckily, Michael C. Wright at The Florida Times Union did some sleuthing and got to the bottom of this.

Sims-Walker missed bed check Friday night due to a visit with a female friend that went a little long, according to an NFL source, who described the situaton by saying, “undefeated and untied.”

Ahhhh, of course.  The old “visit with a female friend” that keeps you out past bed check.  Pretty stupid reason to get yourself deactivated, but whatever, I’m not in a position to judge that.  There are, however, two things about that small passage that jump out at me.

1) If this happened on Friday, why the FUCK did Jack Del Rio wait until like 3 PM on Sunday to make the move?  You’re fucking with the livelihood of a fantasy football playing nation here Del Rio!  I was enjoying the Sunday matchups at the RM Franks compound and his “Jumbo Hotties” fantasy squad was engaged in a heated battle.  The 4PM games roll around, and Sims-Walker, the pride of the Jumbo Hotties, is nowhere to be found.  Franks, of course, was outraged.  Had he known in advance that Del Rio had benched Sims-Walker, he would have been able to sub in Jason Avant, whose 1 point would have resulted in the Hotties losing by a mere 20, as opposed to 21.  Damn you Del Rio!!!!!!

2) “Undefeated and untied”?  …?  I don’t follow.  This NFL source described the Sims-Walker situation as “undefeated and untied”?  What the fuck does that mean?  Who is undefeated?  Certainly not the Jags.  And it would be more notable if Sims-Walker or his female friend had been tied.  Untied male/female relations hardly warrants mention in my opinion.  If you have any idea what this means, let me know in the comments, because I am truly baffled.

Anyway…Mike-Sims Walker…hoes before bros, evidently.

To the late games!

Arizona at Seattle -  So I wanted to embed the video of Owen Schmitt repeatedly bashing himself in the melon with his helmet here, but then I realized I’m an idiot and have no idea how to do that.  I don’t know how to operate my own blog…fantastic.  But anyway, given that Owen Schmitt has now solidified his legacy as the man with by far the most bad ass player intro of all time, can we shut the fuck up about the Ray lewis dance now?  It’s infuriating.  Without fail, every time they show that dance on TV, some asshole will say something along the lines of “God, I love Ray Lewis.  You can just tell how intense and passionate about the game he is.  You just don’t see that very often.”  Oh?  Don’t you?  Because I don’t see Ray’s forehead POURING BLOOD FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME!  Owen Schmitt thinks Ray Lewis is a pussy, no matter how many bodies he has on him.  The Cardinals, by contrast, seem to lack intensity at every position on the field.  Do you think Jerheme Urban is crackin’ his own skull to get fired up, or do you think he’s listening to Coldplay?  Yeah, me too.  Cardinals win.  Bet the over.

Philadelphia at Oakland - Stacy Andrews may or may not have been smackin’ bitches recently, which, to be honest, is pretty good preparation for playing against the Raiders.  The details are fairly standard.  Man gets punchy, cops are called, denials are issued, charges are not pressed, man returns home.  However, the money quote comes in the form of:

Andrews said the couple is still together, but no wedding date has been set.

You don’t say.  They had other priorities besides setting a wedding date immediately upon his return from jail?  That’s ridiculous.  Set the wedding date now, and deal with the punching problems later.  I’m sure that’ll work out. Philly is going to win this one big, because the Raiders, as we’ve covered before, are a horrible football team with a horrible, horrible quarterback.  Surprisingly, they’ve found it difficult to win games under those circumstances.

Buffalo at NYJ - Jets LB Calvin Pace on the Wildcat: “I’m going to be honest, I can’t respect that stuff. All that Wildcat. Because we’re in the NFL, man. If you’re out there running that nonsense, it’s crap.”  Really, Calvin?  You can’t respect 142 yards on the ground against what is supposed to be a great defense?  142 yards against YOU and YOUR DEFENSE is “nonsense” and “crap”?  Because, to me, it would seem like a “nonsense” or “crap” offense would not RUN ALL OVER YOU, Calvin Pace.  It would seem like if you were playing against a “nonsense” or “crap” offense, the 27 points your offense put on the board would be good enough for a win.  But it was not.  Because, you see, Calvin Pace, you were totally unable to stop the Dolphins offense on Monday.  Thus, their offense could not possibly be “nonsense” or “crap”, because an offense that is “nonsense” or “crap” would be ineffective.  You see how that works Calvin?  The Jets are gonna win this one, and then go do some tubing.  PUSSY TUBING! (Yes, that’s two links to the KSK Rex Ryan character in two days.  Sue me.  He’s fucking awesome.)

Tennessee at New England - Ugh.  Look, Fish, can you toss Vince Young in there for the sake of your fans?  Because right now, when people get on my case about the Titans being FUCKING 0-5 (AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!) I can’t even laugh it off and say “Well it’s fucking Vince Young, what do you expect?”  No, you insist on staying in “win now” mode with a quarterback who is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to produce wins now.  What are you afraid of?  That if you put Vince in you’re somehow going to lose two games in one week?  It doesn’t get any worse than this Fish!  At least with Vince on the field Tennessee will have a whopping two players capable of doing exciting things with the football.  The highlights could be fun!

/Puts gun in mouth

New England will take this one.  However, here’s some BONUS PATS HATING: Hey everyone!  Look!  Tom Brady really isn’t very good!

Chicago at Atlanta - An excellent matchup between two good teams in the night game?  What does the NFL think they’re doing here?  Anyway, I was perusing the latest Bill Simmons, where he picks the NFL games and a bunch of other dumb shit, hoping that he would write something about this game that I could expand on/make fun of.  He did not.  However, because he likes to do things like this, he did compare the Texans goal line running back to Vinny Salvucci from “All the Right Moves”.  Why?  Who knows…it’s not my column.  However, if it was my column, I (or my editor or whoever is supposed to do these things) would have at least glanced at the Texans roster in order to very quickly determine that the Texans goal line back is absolutely not named Chris Jones.  Chris Brown is his name.  There is a Jacoby Jones on the Texans, so perhaps that’s where the confusion arose.  But honestly Simmons, if you’re going to intersperse all of this pop culture nonsense into your football column (another sample: HURT LOCKER (-5.5) over Terrell Owens’ 2009 Season) get the football stuff right.  I honestly do enjoy his columns (sometimes), but I’m just totally baffled as to how an error like that makes it onto the ESPN site.  If I called Chris Brown Chris Jones on BWB I’d be ridiculed to no end, and no one even reads BWB.

He also said he would take the Lions over the Titans.  Suck it, Simmons.

UPDATE: The Jones/Brown issue has since been corrected, rendering this section of the post totally useless.  However, considering I posted about it prior to the correction, I’m going to assume that it was changed in direct response to my criticisms.  Another victory for BWB!

Denver at San Diego - We’re looking at two potentially watchable night game this week, which probably means we’ll be back to Peyton Manning vs. Overmatched Opponent or the Cowboy’s New Stadium for the next 6 weeks.  The Chargers are 2-2, which is not exactly where they expected to be at this point, so they’re shaking things up in a major way.  Major as in cutting a starter.  What could the rationale for that possibly be?  A demotion to second string wouldn’t suffice?  That’s a truly baffling move.  In Broncos news, this shirt exists.  Shout out to Kim and the crew over at Predominantly Orange for tipping the world off to that.  If you’re a Broncos fan, you have to own this shirt, no?  Hell, if you’re anything but a Chiefs, Raiders, or Chargers fan you should probably own this shirt.  Unfortunately, the rest of the site’s shirt collection doesn’t measure up.  One simply says, “medium douche bag”.  What the fuck does that mean?

So there you have it, your official Week Six NFL Preview.  In closing, I would like to give a big shout out to reader/commenter Leo, who commented on yesterday’s post that he honestly loves our NFL previews.  This site needs more readers like Leo.  Ones who comment, first of all, and ones who tell us how great we are, second of all.  So thanks Leo!  Hopefully you’ll drop another comment today, and maybe a second reader will feel inspired to tell me how much they love the previews too.  Or tell me how much they hate the previews…it’s all good as long as there’s some text in the comments section!  

Now I’m just really hoping Leo isn’t the Fansided brass in disguise, making positive comments in an effort to boost my ego so I’ll write more.