Did you know that Dan Marino passed for 5,084 yards in 1984?
It surprised me to find that Kurt Warner with the Greatest Show on Turf was second in passing yards in a single season with 4,830 in 2001. Yeah, Kurt Warner.
Drew Brees is 19th with 4,423 yards in a single season in 2007. (see contest rules) Of course, Squibster is only interested in this Sunday’s game.
By the way, Kurt Warner has 4,290 this year with 2 games remaining and Drew Brees has 4,332 with 2 games remaining. Drew faces Detroit and Carolina. Kurt faces New England and Seattle.
Both of them have a shot at Dan Marino’s record.
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Gillette Champions of Gaming
Gillette and EA Sports are also sponsoring a big time tournament called the Champions of Gaming. You know you are ready for the big time in EA Sports XBOX 360 Live Gaming. You have worked hard and now it is time to show your stuff.
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For those of you that like to read the official rules, have at it.
Go to Gillette.com right now and sign up, then practice, practice, practice. Squibster has spoken!
Madden 09 Giveaway
Squibkick will be giving away 1 copy of EA Sports Madden 09 for your XBOX 360 enjoyment. All you have to do is predict how many passing yards will Drew Brees put up against the Detroit Lions this Sunday December 21. The closest guess wins.
Just send it in a comment. Comments have to be in by Saturday night. You must live in North America. In the case of a tie, Squibster will put the tied entrants in a hat and draw out the winner. Limit one entry per day. Squibster retains all rights to determine the winner.
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Sam Bradford beat out Keith Nichol and Keith took 3rd string reps the rest of the year. That was it; he was stuck behind a player that was incredible and in the same class. Keith Nichol took his cleats and came home and enrolled at MSU.
Transfer rules dictate that Keith had to sit the year out, so he ran the scout team which helped his game a lot.
Unfortunately, while Keith Nichol went to Oklahoma to compete with Sam Bradford, MSU had to go to recruiting plan B. The recruited another less heralded Michigan quarterback named Kirk Cousins. Kirk ran the scout team last year at MSU and did well in big games as a replacement for Senior Brian Hoyer in big games this year.
Keith and Kirk will compete next year for the starting spot.
One day Sam Bradford is competing with Keith Nichol for the starting job at Oklahoma and the next day Nichol is a Spartan and Sam is going to the NFL as a potential first pick in the draft.
Drew Stanton
The improbable Lions made a trade to move up in the second round a few years ago and picked Drew Stanton in the draft. Why, no one knows. Drew led my Spartans to a losing record and he was injured a lot.
Drew went to the Lions and has spent almost all of his time on the IR. Geez, some schools pick up the USC quarterback or the Florida quarterback, but not the Lions. All Spartan fans, me included, love Drew and want him to do well, but come on.
Drew Henson
Meanwhile, the Lions in their desperation picked up former UM Wolverine phenom Drew Henson. Drew had played with relatively unknown quarterback, Tom Brady at UM.
There was this one game where the Wolverines played my Spartans. Lloyd Carr liked to pull Tom Brady in the second quarter and play Drew Henson. Drew could throw rockets.
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Unless you were fairly secluded yesterday, you found out that Sam Bradford, the sophomore from Oklahoma, won the Heisman trophy. Sam was amazing with 48 touchdown passes on the year.
Even the beginning of Sam’s career at Oklahoma is amazing.
In 2006, Oklahoma’s starting quarterback Rhett Bomar, then a sophomore, was kicked off the team for violating NCAA rules. Paul Thompson, a senior quarterback-turned-wide receiver, converted back to quarterback and led the 2006 Oklahoma Sooners football team to win the Big 12 Championship Game. His departure left a void at the quarterback position at Oklahoma. That void would be filled by either true freshman Keith Nichol, redshirt freshman Sam Bradford, or junior Joey Halzle (the only one with game experience). On 2007-08-21, Bradford was named the starting quarterback for the 2007 Oklahoma Sooners football team.[6]
In his first game for the Oklahoma Sooners on 2007-09-01 against the University of North Texas, Bradford completed 21 of 23 attempts for 363 yards and three touchdowns in just little over 2 quarters, breaking the school record for passing yards in a half, held by quarterback coach Josh Heupel, with 350.[7] The very next game, Bradford broke Heisman Trophy winner Jason White’s school record for most consecutive pass completions with 22 (18 came in the first half and four at the start of the second).[8]
Your intrepid author feels the need to take you on a little journey to Michigan to see the long range effects of Sam Bradford’s passing success.
Keith Nichol
You will notice from the above paragraph that Sam had to beat out a true freshman in Keith Nichol. Sam had one year of reps with Oklahoma as a redshirt. Keith came in confident that he would win the starting job.
Keith Nichol played High School football right here in Michigan in a small town called Lowell. Lowell is more famous for as the birth place of 3 on 3 basketball tournaments called Gus Mackers that sometimes draw 500 teams.
Keith went to California to compete in the Elite 11 quarterback camp and was outstanding. Michigan State University is just a half hour down the road and Keith and his family were big Spartan fans. Keith had already verballed to MSU in his junior year. He not only wanted to play for the Spartans, he wanted to play for the wide open passing offense of John L. Smith.
Drew Stanton would graduate from MSU and be drafted in the second round by the Detroit Lions. Keith felt he would be the heir apparent.
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You knew it, you knew it, once again the Lions blew it.
How could they make Cory Redding the highest paid defensive tackle in the NFL after one season from moving from defensive end?
How could they do it? It was the Lions remember?
Fox Sports named Cory to the All-Overpaid team.
Redding, who was placed on injured reserve Friday with a knee injury, has 66 tackles and four sacks this season.
“The signing of Redding to a seven-year, $49 million deal in July 2007 is another reason why Matt Millen no longer runs the Lions,” according to the Web site.
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With the Patriots in a 3 way tie for first with the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins, who would have thought the Pats would be depending on Matt Cassel?
Cassel has steadily improved since taking over for Tom Brady in the season opener, passing for 3,052 yards and 14 touchdowns while ranking among the AFC leaders in most statistical passing categories. He played well last weekend against the Seahawks, rallying the Patriots from an eight-point deficit in the fourth quarter with a cool comfort that reminded many of Brady’s best work.
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Barry Sanders Jr., the son of former Lion Barry Sanders, is attracting attention as a high school freshman at Oklahoma City’s Heritage Hall High School.
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Clinton Portis
Clinton Portis is unhappy in Washington with the way things are going.
“Outside of Jim Zorn and the coaches on that team and maybe the quarterbacks, I guarantee you I know our system better than anybody else,” Portis said. “I guarantee you when we go into blitz pickup, I don’t miss my man. So I don’t know what it is. If anybody’s got a problem with me, they need to talk to me. I don’t know what’s going on.”
Portis was almost derisive when asked if teams have figured out how to defend Zorn’s offense after the team’s hot start.
“We got a genius for a head coach, I don’t know, so I’m sure he’s on top of things,” Portis said. “He’s got everything figured out. All I can do is when he calls the plays is to try and execute to the best of my ability.”
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Marion Berber
So what did Marion Barber do to draw the ire of Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones?
Marion did not play with an injured toe.
“His toe is good enough to play,” Jones said. “We can support that toe and he can come play. He’s just not comfortable playing. … I don’t know if it’s going to be any different than it was this week.”
Jones said he expected Barber to play all week and was shocked the running back did not travel to Pittsburgh on Saturday.
“He can play with that injured toe,” Jones said. “He can play with the soreness and a combination of those things. I see nothing that led us to believe he couldn’t.”
Coach Phillips said Joes was not questioning Barber’s toughness.
So what the heck was he doing, if not questioning Barber’s toughness?
Man, you gotta love Jones as an owner. He is never satisfied and there are no sacred cows. Jones speaks and my guess is that Barber will be just a whole lot more motivated to play and play now.
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Why should this have even been a game? What is it that could get the Chiefs to play so good at the end of the year when they have so little to play for?
KC took the early 17 - 7 lead in the first half, but the Bronco’s came back to take the lead and then made a goal line stand to hold it.
The Broncos finally found a way to win at home Sunday, rallying past Kansas City 24-17, but they lost their sixth tailback when bulldozing rookie Peyton Hillis went down with a strained right hamstring.
Bell came in and helped the Broncos (8-5) snap a three-game losing skid at home by rumbling for 52 yards on 11 carries, including a crucial 28-yard run on Denver’s game-winning, 95-yard touchdown drive.
Cornerback Dre’ Bly then stuffed Kansas City quarterback Tyler Thigpen a yard shy of the end zone on fourth-and-goal to seal the Broncos’ first win at home since Oct 5 and atone for their lopsided loss to the Chiefs (2-11) in September. source
Denver loses another running back and yet still has a three game lead on the underperforming San Diego Chargers.
What is it about division games? The Chiefs have only two victories and wouldn’t you know it, one of them is against the Chiefs. Can you even name one player beyond Larry Johnson? Division games bring you two teams that just seem to know each other to well.
Denver is playing for the Division title. They should have romped, not struggled.
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