Tuesday Afternoon Cornerback: Week 14

December 8th, 2009 | By boadurichard

Here are my quick cuts and jukes from the 14th week of football….

College

Oregon got a great win on Thursday night. It was great to see Lagarrette Blount play well. Jeremiah Masoli has done what he has done all year long and balled out leading his team to a come from behind victory.

Come on University of Houston you’re killing me here! Signs of a young team with potential is when they lose games to lesser competition which is exactly what happened this Saturday. The Cougars were a solid win away from making the BCS. Case Keenum shot himself in the foot and out of a Heisman Trophy visit with 3 interceptions. East Carolina won the Conference USA title over the Cougars.

Clearly the best game of the weekend was Cincy vs. Pitt, I don’t care what anyone has to say about the Big 12 Championship game. I was nervous when I woke up and saw that Pitt was up 31-10. I pride myself on my prophetic picks and Pitt had me looking bad. Then the Mardy Gilyard show happened, He took a kickoff back 99 yards to the house. He racked up 7 ko returns for 256 yards, that’s disgusting people! He also grabbed 5 catches for 118 yards and 1td. Also he grabbed the crucial 2 point conversion to tie the game up. Tony Pike is a lucky man because he played poor and was close to being pulled, but found a way to win it in the end throwing a perfect pass to Armon Binns for the game winning td. My heart goes out to Pittsburgh holder, Andrew Janocko, mishandled the extra point which eventually lead to the Cincy victory. The debate is still up for discussion but Dion Lewis vs. LaMichael James. Lewis ran the ball 47 times for 194 yards, OMG, WTF. He’s a freshman.
(this was so not a quick cut and juke. It was a burley John Riggins run, lol)

Like I said, get your licks in on USC now, because next year they’ll be back to normal. Does anyone not see why Pete Carroll wanted Mark Sanchez to come back for his senior year. Matt Barkley is good, but I’d rather have a 5th year senior QB who has been in the system (which is an NFL style system by the way) as opposed to having a freshman. Big ups to Mike Stoops and Arizona as well. He’s doing better than Bob, and I love Nick Foles hair. I find it hilarious that he was the #52 ranked QB coming out of high school in 2007 and only six of those QBs have a chance in hell of making it in the NFL. Don’t believe the hype, ever!

The ACC championship game was the runners bowl. You had GA Tech’s triple option offense and Josh Nesbitt and Jonathan Dwyer doing the damage for them vs. CJ Spiller getting it in for Clemson. Winner, GA Tech, Nesbitt and Dwyer combined for 46 carries for 213 yards and 3 tds. Spiller had 20 carries for 233 yards and 4tds(scratches head). Now that I look at it CJ won the battle but GA Tech and their rushing attack won the war.

SEC Championship, we finally saw Tim Tebow cry. I really don’t care about it, most of you all do. I think he is overhyped by the media, but that’s not his fault. He’s a great player who has one game left in his college career and that game is not for the national championship. I’d probably cry too. Bottom line, Florida doesn’t have their usual firepower and Alabama is just a better team.

My question is this, yes I know that Percy Harvin left for the NFL and Andre Debose was supposed to be his replacement but he was injured. Chris Rainey, Jeff Demps, Brandon James all three are electric fleet footed players. Brandon James covered for Percy last year in the SEC championship game, why couldn’t he have done so all season? Florida didn’t have any explosion this season and failed to replace Harvin. I’m not at practice everyday so I don’t know, but why wouldn’t you use Brandon James more?

The Big 12 Championship or the Ndumakong Suh show was a good one. Suh had 12 tackles, 7 for loss and 4.5 sacks….baller, point blank bottom line baby! He dominated the game and dictated what Texas could and could not do. Texas was destined for this game, from Colt McCoy’s tackle after his interception in the Red River Rivalry to his epic performance against Texas A&M. I’ll say this. Colt McCoy was PRESSURED and threw the ball out of bounds with one second left. If McCoy is pressured by guess who, Suh, he stays in the pocket and more than likely throws an incomplete pass and Texas loses the game. Has anyone else realized that?

Check out the 3:01 mark of this clip

NFL

It was great to see Michael Vick get two td’s, his first since 2006, against his former team.

Oh my goodness, did anyone see the Antonio Bryant catch.

I told you all Peyton would outlast Vince. But Vince played well. The Colts are just a better team, and Vince doesn’t need to be benched his 5 straight wins were not a fluke. I had to say that because the doubters are still lurking.

Do the Texans have any toes left? They continually shot themselves in the foot week in and week out.

The Chiefs suck and I love it. My Raiders beat the defending Super Bowl champions who do not look like themselves at all.

Speaking of not looking like themselves, the Patriots. I mean Randy is getting out jumped on jump balls and I’ve never seen that happen before. Tom is making bad decisions also. The defense, well….you get what you pay for. The Pats want to go ahead and be cheap on defense which is the main part of their problem and they are getting exactly what they are paying for. A pass rush from Richard Seymour would be really nice about now.

Remember that fate I spoke of with the Texas Longhorns? Yah, the New Orleans Saints have that same fate. Robert Meachem is from Tulsa, OK. I’m not from T-Town but I’m from Midwest City, OK, so we’ll claim em.

LaDanian Tomlinson passed the great Jim Brown for 8th place on the all-time rushing list.

It’s December and it’s the Dallas Cowboys? Why are you people surprised, gaah lee! Did anyone spot Aaron Ross of the Giants, dude looked fly with the blue spats.

The 49ers won, but I don’t understand why Alex Smith is throwing the ball 45 times and Frank Gore is running it only 9? Oh well, they won.

Brett Favre looks like he came back to Earth because he played like a 40 year old quarterback should. He also didn’t get help from his receivers who got locked up by the Cardinals secondary. My thoughts and prayers go out to E.J. Henderson.

Oh my goodness. last nights Monday night game was the ugliest thing in the world. I mean 23 penalties, oh my. The only think looking good was Tom Zbikowski’s spat job. It looked really nice and Charles Woodson’s did too.

Joe Flacco thought the his fling with the sophomore slump was just that. Naw Joe Money, she’s here for the rest of the season homie!

That’s all I got,

Ricky Writer

Monday Morning Cornerback: Week 13 – Rivalry Weekend

November 30th, 2009 | By boadurichard

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Here are my quick cuts and jukes from the holiday weekend…..

College

Yes, Colt McCoy did ball out against Texas A&M. Was that his “Heisman” game? No, it wasn’t. His tackle after his interception in the OU game was his “Heisman” moment if he wins the Heisman Trophy. I hope he doesn’t, I think Toby Gerhart or CJ Spiller is more deserving of the award.

Why can’t Texas A&M play every game like they did against Texas? It makes no sense, and don’t give me that rivalry game excuse bullshit. Rivalry games are based on pride, but isn’t every game? No excuses.

Auburn gave Bama everything they had. The better team won in the end, it also got exposed  just in time for Florida to take notes going into this weekends SEC championship game. Also it helps that Florida virtually had a bye week this past weekend and Bama had to fight for their lives. Hope those bruises heal up quick for the Tide.

If Tony Pike doesn’t get hurt this season he wins the Heisman. 6TDs on Senior day. Anyone catch that one handed grab in the back of the end zone by Mardy Gilyard? Sick! On the other hand, I’ve never seen anyone fall harder than Juice Williams. What happened? No really, what happened with Juice over the past two seasons?

Nevada and Colin Kaepernick gave Boise St. all they could, but Boise St. is just the better team overall.

Backyard Brawl was a great game. Both Pitt and WVU played great, but as with all the rivalry games this weekend, the underdog prevailed. Noel Devine and Dion Lewis put on a freaking show!

Tim Tebow’s final home game. I didn’t tear up like the rest of the world, but I could feel the emotional moment. He never lost against FSU. Those new Nike Pro Combat uniforms were nice too (pics below).

I hope FSU doesn’t push out Bobby Bowden. The man has changed college football and has earned the right to leave on his own terms. Florida State! He helped make you who you are, you push him out and might very well face the curse of the Bowdeno. 62 years of losing ain’t cool.

I can’t wait to see TCU and Bama in the consolation championship game. Hope Bama learned their lesson from last year, those Mountain West conference teams come to play!

Rivalry weekend casualty #4, Georgia Bulldogs 30 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 24. I”m lost on these teams playing their hearts out for rivalry games. I mean, you should play like that every weekend!

unranked OU Sooners defeates #12 ranked OSU Cowboys.  How? “rivalry weekend” (crock of shit? i wholeheartedly agree). It must also be known they shut out the Cowboys 27-0. BOOMER SOONER BABY!

Rivalry weekend was full fledged in the Carolinas. South Carolina upset Clemson and NC State upset UNC. Damn rivalry weekend. I don’t believe in it, but they make for good ass games especially during the holiday weekend.

The Holy War was just that. BYU’s, Max Hall, didn’t play a great game but when you toss the game winning touchdown in OT, nothing else really matters but the win. BYU 26 Utah 23.

The Battle for Los Angeles was normal. USC putting a beat down on UCLA. The funny and hypocritical thing was Pete Carroll calling a deep ball to Damien Williams after UCLA called a timeout when USC was trying to go into the victory formation. Pete was upset when Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh was running up the score on him, but he was doing the same thing to UCLA.

Oh Jevan Snead, Oh Jevan Snead. You made me look like an idiot. And to think I picked you for my dark horse Heisman candidate. Last year everyone wondered what would have happened if Snead stayed at Texas. Well buddy your making Mack Brown look like a genius for sticking with Colt. Ole Miss loses to Mississippi State in another rivalry game upset this weekend 41-27.

Bayou Bucket….Houston 73 to Rice’s 14 points. Ouch, Rice musta said something about somebody’s mama.

Best game of the college weekend was Notre Dame and Stanford. These two teams went back and forth. Michael Floyd who? It’s all about Golden Tate baby, that kid is a monster. Toby Gerhart needs to be in NYC for the Heisman. Oh well, at least Charlie Weis‘ last game was a thriller.

Here was the last installment of the Nike Pro Combat uniforms this weekend

Florida – “Finish the Mission”

Miami – “The U Knows”

LSU – “Cochon De Lait”

Texas – “Texas Fight/It Only Takes Eleven”

NFL

NFL Thanksgiving Day football….errr boring.

Charles Woodson, not Darren Sharper is the defensive player of the year. Hands down.

Of course the Cowboys looked good against the Raiders.

Darius Heyward-Bey caught his first touchdown pass of the year. I am not sure if we should be calling him out or calling out the Raiders quarterback play on Bey’s disappointing rookie season.

What has happened to the Giants….gahh lee.

Mattey Ice was ice cold at the end of the game yesterday to Roddy White to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Only in the NFL can a bottom cellar dweller of a team defeat a playoff team, i.e. Dolphins vs. Bills this weekend.

The Carolina Panthers want a quarterback for Christmas. Hell, I want one for them.

The Texans got on top of the Colts 17-0 yesterday. Why did the let off the gas. The started playing not to lose in the 2nd quarter, WTF! Well, you know what happens when you pussy foot with Peyton Manning, he wins, every single time leading his team to 28 unanswered points to win, 35-27. Colts are 10-0 and don’t look they are letting up anytime soon.

Brett Favre has 24 TDs and 3 Ints. Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.

Colin Cowherd isn’t buying any Vince Young stock, but I am. Matter of fact, I never sold any of my original stock, but I am buying some more. I”ve bought a little more each week and after that 99 yard drive, I’m stocking up for the winter so it can keep me warm.

Not sure what Hines Ward is talking about. Sure Ben Roethlisberger practiced all week long, because his injury heals overtime not overnight. So a smart team/coach/player will prepare for the best, which is for the doctors to deem Benny Roe good enough to play before the game. The doc didn’t do that so the Steelers rolled with Dennis Dixon. Hines might be tough, but if he keeps on being tough and plays with concussions he’ll be soft like the rest of the former NFL vegetable players. Hines Ward pulled a true T.O. He needs to go to his quarterback and apologize, point blank.

That’s all I got,

Ricky Writer

Wednesday Football Wonderings….

November 18th, 2009 | By boadurichard

Yo what’s good. I’m going to run down a list of things that are still on my mind two days after the last week of football was played. Don’t worry next article will be about upcoming games this weekend.

First things is this, please get off of Bill Belichick’s back. He made the call point blank, bottom line. This man has three Super Bowl rings and should have had a fourth. He’s made countless risks before that have worked out just fine. In reality, he got a really bad spot. The only two bad decisions he made was calling a timeout before deciding to go for it on 4th and 2 giving the Colts a chance to get prepared for the play. The second mistake was not blitzing Peyton Manning after they didn’t get the didn’t get the conversion. I’d rather him blitz Manning and get burned early for the TD so they’ll have time to score rather than later with virtually no time left on the clock.

Maurice Jones-Drew’s coach influenced decision to not score the touchdown at the end of the game was a bad decision. They were down. Please stop saying it was a smart decision like Brian Westbrook made a few weeks ago. It was not, the Eagles were winning that game, the Jaguars were not winning. It is too big of a risk. The only reason Belichick gets a pass because he’s won three out of four Super Bowls in one decade.

Bob Stoops to Notre Dame? I don’t see it happening. I really don’t. He’s damn near a legend in Oklahoma. Granted, he’s not being fully appreciated as he once was, but he’s been in this position before in 2005 when they went 8-4. He’ll bounce back, I mean hell, look at all the injuries he’s had to deal with this season.

Now, these Mike Shanahan to the Chicago Bears rumors sound legit. They signed Jay Cutler to way too much money and gave up too much to get him last Summer, so Cutler is not going anywhere. Someone will be punished for all these loses the Bears are suffering. If it’s not the GM then it’s going to be head coach, Lovie Smith. Shanahan makes sense. Cutler played his best football for Shanahan in Denver last season throwing for over 4,500 yards and 25 TDs.

Why does this college football season suck so much? I knew something was up when highly touted true freshman Andre DeBose wasn’t going to play this year for Florida because of a hamstring injury, that was my omen. There are no clear cut stars. Jahvid Best was on his way, but his offensive line stopped blocking for him. Colt McCoy’s thrown too many interceptions. Jevan Snead is not who we thought he was. Tim Tebow has no one to throw the ball too. Jimmy Clausen plays for a Notre Dame team that has no defense, and Sam Bradford was done the first game. Cincinnati is undefeated and Mardy Gilyard is playing his ass off, why is he not getting any love. Yes C.J. Spiller is playing on a mediocre Clemson team, but he is by far the best player in the country and he should get some Heisman love as well. If only TCU or Boise State had a star, or Cincinnati marketing Mardy Gilyard.

LaGarrette Blount was reinstated to Oregon last week. Although he didn’t play, it was nice for his coach Chip Kelly to reinstate Blount. Now my confusion is this, Lane Kiffin boots Michael Edwards and Nu’Keese Richardson off the team for their role in an alleged attempted robbery with a pellet gun. It is similar to the Maurice Clarrett situation a few years back. Kelly didn’t ban Blount from the program and kick him off the team, he rehabilitated him. I wonder how Clarrett would have turned out if he had been given the opportunity to be rehabilitated and not left virtually naked in Columbus by Ohio State. I’m not condoning Clarrett’s actions, but you wonder how he would have turned out to be honest. I wonder what will happen with Richardson and Edwards. Both are only true freshman. Someone in the country will pick these two kids up. Kiffin’s reasons were that it would be hard for him to go into homes on recruiting trips and tell parents that their sons would be safe at Tennessee when he has players on the team robbing people. It is a very true statement from Kiffin, but I wonder what the coach that signs these two kids will say when he visits potential recruits. Do these kids get any slack for it only being a pellet gun? I’m not saying give them any, I’m just wondering because I am not a lawyer. Anyway, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what you think.

Last thing on my mind is the BCS rankings. Are they even necessary. BCS comes out in Week 7. I think we should push it back to Week 9, and start letting the AP and Coaches start voting at week 6. It usually takes about six weeks for a team’s true character to show. We can’t do away with the BCS anytime soon, so why not control the most important thing which is the rankings. Where a team starts in the preseason rankings is the most vital component of the BCS rankings if you ask me. Let’s be honest, say TCU didn’t start out #17 in the preseason polls, and they were not going to be ranked until week 6, I am positive that some voter would rank TCU better than Florida right now. Honestly, the BCS doesn’t screw teams, (please don’t say Texas got screwed by the BCS, Texas got screwed by its own conference three way division tie breaker rules) the voters and polls screw teams. So we might as well do away with the polls until mid-season. Sound good? Great. Thanks for listening.

That’s All I got,

Richard Boadu

JIMMY Awards: Week 4

September 29th, 2009 | By boadurichard

Here are the JIMMY awards for Week 4

College

Mardy Gilyard, Cincy WR – Mardy went HAM with 9 catches for 177 yards and 2 TDs against Fresno State.

Russell Wilson, NC State QB – The football/baseball star held it down for his team in a come from behind victory going 21/35 passing for 322 yards 4Tds over Pitt.

A.J. Green, Georgia WR – A.J.  grabbed 8 catches for 153 yards and a TD. His biggest play came, when he blocked an ASU field goal attempt that could have potentially won the Sun Devils in the game. Instead A.J. showed off his hops, blocked the kid with his elbow and helped his Dawgs go down the field to win the game.

Chad Jones, LSU FS – Player of the week if you ask me. Jones had 7 tackles against Mississippi State, a 93 yard punt return td, and he saved the game for the Tigers on 3rd in 4th down as the Bulldogs were inches away from the goaline. On 3rd down, Jones batted down a play action pass. On 4th down he stopped the Miss State qb on a quarterback sneak.

NFL

Peyton Manning, Colts QB – Drew Brees is nice, but he aint this nice. Manning threw 24/35 for 379 yards and 4tds.

Kevin Kolb, Eagles QB – Kolb threw for his second straight 300 yard game which is a record for a QB’s first two starts. He went 24/34 and 372 yards and 2Tds.

Maurice Jones-Drew, Jaguars RB – Jones-Drew rushed the ball 23 times for 119 yards and 2Tds.