NFL Football Revealed on Squib Kick

Vincent Jackson - a Fantasy me hate me

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Ok, my team qualified for the playoffs already.

Some thoughts.

A friend of mine asked what was on the line?

“Why, a virtual trophy.” Why does it seem so important and sound so unimportant?

Hmm.

This week, in all my brilliance, Vincent Jackson was put on the bench in favor of Steve Breaston. All Jackson did was score 20 Fantasy points in the Thursday game. Do you think he knew he was riding the pine for my team and got motivated? Me hate me.

Grrr.

Brendan Roberts writes for Fantasy ESPN and has this to say.

4. Your starting defense posts negative points: And you watch your opponent’s unit, which he picked up off the waiver wire because they were playing the Lions or Bengals (hint, hint), put up respectable points and sink you.

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That would be my Lions, the team you would find me rooting for in real life.

Grrr.

Dropped my kicker. He was from Buffalo’s team. After this week, the Buffalo schedule gets tougher and their team is just not very good. Can’t even remember his name. Do you think that is insensitive? You will find me to be a cruel GM.

Did not even call Vincent Jackson or the Buffalo kicker. Hey, wasn’t his name like Lindell or something? They will have to read this blog to find out what happened.

Hmm.

Picked up the Jets defense for their last couple of games. My defense has been Tennessee and there is nothing wrong with that, but they play Pittsburgh and the Colts in their last two games. Ouch.

Hopefully they don’t become my latest Vincent Jackson.

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LT on the trading block?

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LaDainian Tomlinson used up?

LT?

How can the Chargers even think of trading LaDainian Tomlinson?

The San Diego Union-Tribune suggests that the Bolts might part ways with Tomlinson, 29, after the season. Tomlinson, hobbled by a toe injury for part of the season, has rushed for 794 yards through 12 games. That puts him on pace to barely crack the 1,000-yard rushing barrier. Tomlinson has rushed for more than 1,200 yards in each of his first seven seasons.

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Two years ago LT had an NFL record 31 touchdowns! Wow!

He is certainly headed for the Hall of Fame. So why trade him?

Sadly, NFL running backs do not last. LT will be 30 by next season, which makes him very old for a running back. This year he has been plagued by a toe injury and had only an average season. LT has only scored 7 touchdowns this year.

Now there are reports out that when his contract is up after the 2011 season, LT has claimed he is done. There will be no more football for Tomlinson after that.

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Falcons - take a look at the SI power rankings

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Matt Ryan dances for joy

So what are the big stories?

No Plax and still the Giants are first. Solid offensive and defensive lines.

The Titans, rock solid, with LenDale White and Chris Johnson and an awesome defense, they had to hold back on my Lions to keep from doubling their season stats. They are number 2.

Number 3 is the Steelers. If you get a chance to watch their defense, you must do it. They are downright mean and physical! Roethlisberger has a knack for not getting sacked, too.

But the biggest surprise has to be the turnaround in Atlanta. Young Matt Ryan is playing some great quarterback for a rookie and who would have thought that Michael Turner would be this good of a running back?

It’s December, and only three teams in the NFC own more victories than the Falcons. That’s why no matter what happens the rest of the way, Atlanta’s season will be remembered as one of the franchise’s sweetest ever. You could make the case that the Falcons this year have the Coach of the Year (Mike Smith), the NFL Executive of the Year (general manager Thomas Dimitroff), the Offensive Rookie of the Year — or even the MVP in quarterback Matt Ryan — and the free-agent signee of the year (running back Michael Turner).

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Oh, and my Lions are dead last!

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Clinton Portis hit by killer whale, may not play against Ravens

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Clinton Portis just played against Pitt, Dallas, Seattle, and the Giants. With the exception of the Seahawks, Clinton Portis took a severe beating.

Now he has to face the Baltimore Ravens.

Clinton cannot even practice anymore his body is so beat up.

There is talk that the Redskins may hold him out of the Baltimore game.

And now the Killer Whale. What more can a NFL running back handle?

Portis is a perfect example of the violence of applied physics in action on a football field. In a fascinating small book called “The Physics of Football,” Timothy Gay conducts a series of basic equations to help us quantify how Newtonian laws work on the body of a running back. Example: Newton’s Second Law says that force is the product of an object’s mass and acceleration. Let’s say Portis sprints through a hole opened up by his offensive line, at a speed of 30 feet per second. Now Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce enters the picture. Pierce hits him; Portis’s speed immediately after the hit is zero. It takes two-tenths of a second to complete the tackle, from the initial contact of the pads to the moment when Portis’s forward motion is completely stopped.

Dividing Portis’s speed change by the time interval over which it occurred tells us what Portis’s rate of deceleration was — about 150 feet per second squared. Now multiply it by his mass, to find out how much force acted on him. Gay’s equation works out to negative 1,150 pounds of force. In other words, about three-fifths of a ton slammed him in the backward direction. As Gay points out, “That’s the weight of a small adult killer whale.”

Says Portis, “That makes sense to me.”

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Ok, so it was a small adult killer whale.

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Lions fans look for lives

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What do Lions fans do after getting shellacked by the Titans? What do they do when heading for a NFL record 0 - 16 record? We find our lives! We go outside in the snowstorm and build snowmen with our kids and snow forts and throw snowballs better than the Lions quarterbacks throw footballs. We even shovel the drive. We are years past feeling suicidal.

There is life after the Lions. Ownership better take notice.
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Titans over Lions

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The Titans are scoring so fast against the Lions it is blowing the hair on this Titan Cheerleader

My Detroit Lions have no cheerleaders. That is right. No Cheerleaders!

Who are you rooting for?
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Brady Quinn - only in Cleveland

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Man, you just have to read these two articles in the Cleveland papers.

Romeo Crennel names Brady Quinn his 2009 starting QB

Browns Insider: Derek Anderson getting a shot to start over

Brady Quinn is trying to wave goodbye to Derek Anderson

It is hard to believe these stories, let alone they are back to back.

Crennel did not like him enough to allow him to finish the Houston game Sunday, however. He yanked him after his second interception and the Browns behind, 16-6, in the third quarter.

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Anderson opted not to test free agency last year when he signed a three-year contract at a reported maximum of $26 million. He is due a $5 million roster bonus in March. At the same time, Quinn needs to take 70 percent of the offensive snaps next season to trigger salary escalations that can max out at $20 million — an $11 million boost.

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Wow, how quickly Derek Anderson has fallen and Brady Quinn has risen.

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Drew Brees - N.O. puts a pasting on Packers

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51 points.

That is a lot of points.

Saints 51 Packers 29

Try this byline for Drew Brees:

20 of 26, yeah he only missed on 6 passes.
4 touchdown passes.
157.5 quarterback rating, nobody knows what that means, but it is ridiculously high.

Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers coughed up 3 interceptions.

Sideline note on my Lions - They mentioned on Monday Night Football that my Lions will not win the North Division (Packers are still in it). They also came to the brilliant conclusion that the Lions will not win the Super Bowl.

Statistical Oddity - Saints are last in the South Division. The Monday Night crew was picking Green Bay to come back and win the North Division.

Drew Brees and Kurt Warner are on pace to eclipse Dan Marino’s single season passing yardage record of 5,084 yards.
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Brett Favre man handles Titans

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There it is. The defeat is in. The Titans have finally lost an NFL game this year and it comes at the hands of the New York Jets.

Final Score Jets 34 Titans 13

Just when you thought Brett Favre was only a pale imitator of the real Brett Favre he destroys the vaunted Titan defense.

Brett Favre is alive and passing

The AFC East-leading Jets had the edge in almost every statistical category collecting 409 yards of total offense with 28 first downs. Future Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre was 25-of-32 for 224 yards passing, and New York doubled the Titans time of possession.

Behind the play of quarterback Kerry Collins the Titans had 16 first downs with 281 yards of offense. Collins was 21-of-39 for 243 yards.
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Fear not for your Titans, they have a healing session coming up with an encounter with my Detroit Lions on the Turkey Day special. The Lions being the Turkey.

Also fear not, Titan fans, because your team is 10 - 1 and still 3 games up on the Colts.

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Peyton Manning - in the end, the Colts will be there

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The Colts have come up with 3 straight victories to get back in the race.

Peyton has put together 3 straight great games for a combined 7 touchdown passes.

Yeah, the Titans will win the division, but don’t write the Colts out of the playoffs yet.

The schedule looks reasonable — at the fading (4-6) San Diego Chargers on Sunday, at the faded (3-6 going into Monday night) Cleveland Browns, home against the nearly invisible (1-8-1) Cincinnati Bengals, home against the winless (that would be 0-10) Detroit Lions, who warrant no other adjectives, at the Jacksonville Jaguars (4-6), then at home against the Titans. Not a winning record in sight but the Titans.

“November and December, that’s the time when the good football teams step up,” says running back Dominic Rhodes.

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