Vick’s sentence ends

Now that Micheal Vick’s prison sentence has ended, everybody is wondering what future he has in the NFL.  The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, has been very quiet on whether he will reinstate Vick or not.  I personally think that Vick has paid his debt to society and should be reinstated by the NFL.  Now if he does get reinstated, that does not secure him a position on any NFL team.  The Falcons released Vick long ago so he would become a free agent.  Once all that has happened, he will have to sit and wait to see if any teams will be interested in him.  There are many factors that go against Vick playing in the NFL in 2009, even if he does get reinstated.  First off is that there is obviously a huge amount of risk involved in taking in a player with that much media attention.  He will be a distraction and put unwanted media attention on any team he joins.  Second, teams would probobly preffer that Vick would come to the team sometime in training camp, altough that is highly unlikely.  Vick still needs to get in shape and get accustumed to the high-flying action of the NFL.  Some teams that I think might show some interest in vick as a possible backup or part time quarterback are the Eagles, Dolphins, Seahawks, and the Broncos.  All of these teams either have uncertain quarterback situations, injury prone quarterbacks, or their offense would be a somewhat Vick-friendly offense.

Favre Watch….Part 2?

Here we go again, the entire NFL world turns it attention to football’s never ending drama, “the return of Brett Favre.”  Last year it was the Packers and the Jets, now its the Vikings.  Everybody is jumping for joy at the thought of another summer of endless favre watching.  Is anybody else getting really disinterested in the whole thing?  I mean yea I check updates daily on ESPN, but it is not as interesting as it was last year.  Yet somehow the repeating story of the most indecisive man in football gets all the media attention in the world.  Now the story goes that Favre will decide whether or not he return to football and join the Vikings by the time training camp starts.  Favre continues to test his surgically repaired throwing shoulder at his local high school.  As far as i’m concerned Favre would not make a huge impact on the Vikings.  The main part of the Vikings offense is of course the running game, featuring Adrian Peterson.  They have a good developing quarterback in Tavaris Jackson that can get the job done.  The Vikings don’t need Brett Favre to be a good team.  Some people say that Brett Favre would add a passing game to the Vikings offense, but I have a different opinion.  In a run based offense, a big part is ball control, and making the defense tired with long possessions.  That does not work if you have Brett Favre as your quarterback, throwing interceptions and chucking the football 30 yards downfield.  Overall, I think that Brett Favre needs to stay home, nurse his throwing arm, stay with his family, and stay off the football field.  I am not trying to be mean, I just think that he needs to make up his mind, and stick to his decision.  Also, if he does become a Viking, I don’t think he will help very much and he might even hurt the Viking’s offense.

Sometimes I just don’t understand sports media.  The entire sports world is making an uproar because one High School basketball team was too good for another team.  The Dallas Covenant High School defeated Dallas Academy 100-0, in a girls varsity basketball game.  Afterwards, the Covenant School apologized for “running up the score” although the coach did not.  Outraged, the school then fired the coach.  This entire process does not make any sense to me.  You hire a coach to win and when he wins, however large the margin, you fire him?  To me it sounds like the High School is trying to lose basketball games.  If the coach puts up 100 points, he should be congradualated, not fired.  If the coach keeps the other team from scoring a single point, he should be rewarded, not lose his job.  The sports media keeps saying that they “ran up the score”, but I think that if they are that concerned with it, then put a mercy rule in High School basketball.  There is no point in firing a coach for doing what he was hired to do.  ESPN the magazine senior writer LZ Granderson said that the school “ran up the score” and “the coach could have told his players not to shoot.”  To me that is flat out stupid.  What basketball coach in their right mind would tell his team not to shoot.  Honestly, I think it would have been even more humiliating for Dallas Academy if the Covenant school had not even shot it, because that would show that they had no respect for their competition. The Dallas Academy school has not won a game in 4 years, and they should never even have had a girls basketball team, and puting up a huge margin of victory on them is not uncommon.  I just think it is outrageous that a coach would be fired for doing his job and winning basketball games.

There has been a lot of debate about who the sad franchise that is the Detroit Lions with choose with the first pick in the NFL draft. The majority belief seems to be that they will pick Mathew Stafford. I think this would be a terrible waste of a #1 pick. First of all, without a offense line, the QB cannot do anything. He will get sacked 5 times a game at least and never get off a clean pass. As he runs around looking for someway to elude the rushers, Lions fans will have visions of Joey Harrington on the TV until they realize that it is actually Stafford. I don’t doubt that Stafford is a good QB I just think that the Lions should sure up their O-line, then get a franchise QB at next years draft. Next year, there could be a better option at QB and this year there is a huge selection of good tackles to choose from. The other reason that the Lions should not take Stafford is because of what happened with Jamarcus Russell. Coming out of college everybody said the exact same thing that they are saying about Stafford. That he has a great arm, can make all of the pro throws, and that he just needs a little developing. After missing a season because of a holdout, Russell just looked out of place in the pro game. See what would have happened if the Raiders had waited until the next year to take a QB, there was Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco, yet the Raiders already chose a QB. If the Lions take Stafford at #1, I think that it will be a terrible mistake and the same thing that happened to Russell will happen to Stafford.

Finally the ACC tournament starts and its time to see more great upsets from all around the ACC.  Here are my first round picks:

VA Tech. VS  Miami=Miami

Clemson VS GA Tech= Clemson

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Maryland VS NC State= NC State

Boston College VS Virginia= Boston College

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Vic Carucci from NFL.com has reported that “the Buffalo Bills and free agent wide receiver Terrell Owens have reached agreement on a one-year, $6.5 million contract. There will be a press conference at 6:15 p.m. ET at the team’s headquarters.”

Jerry Jones and the Cowboys have finally opened up their eyes. They now see that the “negative aspects” of Terrell Owens, despite his play on the field, makes your team worse. He is and always will be a distraction to any distraught NFL team that is desperate enough to sign him. A lot of analysts say that “his play outweighs the distractions.” In my opinion, any player that is that much of a distraction, needs to go. He gets mad after every mistake made by another player, yet he can’t own up to his own mistakes. If something does not go his way he stomps around and pouts like a spoiled brat. There is no place for that kind of player in the NFL. Now that he has been released, people expect there to be a huge market for him. Owens, now 35 years old, is becoming only a above average receiver with above average behavior issues. I personally, doubt any team will even think about signing him until late in free agency. I hope that while he sits and waits every day in free agency, he realizes that he is not the player he used to be, and that he cannot just do whatever he wants anymore. Unfortunately, I doubt he will have a reality check. He has had trouble dealing with the fact that he is not the young phenom he used to be. Sadly, this is a common thing in the NFL these days. Players come out of college on top of their game, sign a big contract, and then that is about it, they think they have hit the high point and they can’t go any higher(AHEM…Jamarcus Russell). Maybe eventually a team like KC or Minnesota will take a chance on the high-risk commodity that is Terrell Owens, but then the entire circle starts again, sign a big contract…then after that he has his money and nothing else matters anymore.

If you have not noticed I changed the theme on my blog. The theme that I am currently using is my own theme that I created myself. I still have to fine tune this theme but after that I will be making more. Once I make more of these themes you will be able to go to the wordpress theme directory and use them for your own blog. I will post next time I make a new theme.

Its finally here!!!!  The one event that millions of people watch every year, the NFL super bowl.  Throughout this post I will preview each individual match up.  First up is coaching.  Both of these coaches have only been at these organizations for a year or two and are untested.  Both are good coaches, that is the reason why they are here.  For Mike Tomlin I am giving him a 9.  He makes a lot of good decisions and knows what his teams strengths are.  The same goes for Ken Whisenhunt, but I give him an 8.5 because Tomlin has had prior playoff expierience.  Next up is perhaps the most interesting category, run offense.  The Cardinals have made great strides in the playoffs with there running game and have shown that they are not afraid to run it.  The steelers on the other hand, are known as a running team, but have not had great sucess with it so far this year.  With frequent injuries to Willie Parker, they have been unable to get a consistent running game going.  I give the Steelers an 8 and Cardinals an 8.  Next up is the Cardinals strongest category, pass offense.  Everyone knows about the Cardinals 3 different 1,00 yard recievers; Anquan Boldin, Steve Breaton, and Larry Fitzgerald.  On top of this they have Kurt Warner at quarterback.   The Steelers though, are hard to judge.  Personally, I do not think that their pass offense is very good.  Other than their quarterback, they have no playmakers.  Hines Ward is the best reciever and he is only an average reciever.  I give the Steelers an 8 and Cardinals a 9.  Now on to defense.  Everyone knows that the Steelers are good at every kind of defense and that is why I give them a 9.5 for run defense and 9 for pass defense.  The Cardinals are a wild card though.  Their defense has improved but I still have my doughts.  I give them a 8.5 for run defense and a 8.5 for pass defense.  Finally, we have special teams.  Both teams have a little above average special teams so I give them each a 9.  I think that a lot of people are picking the Steelers, like me, but if you look at the average the teams are not too far apart; Steelers have a 8.75 and Cardinals 8.58.  I agree with the ratings and my super bowl prediction is Cardinals:23 Steelers:27