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“Lights Out” took out the time to chop it up with 6Magazine during the 2010 Nike 7ON tournament.
6Magazine + Shawne Merriman conversation from 6Magazine on Vimeo.
That’s all I got,
Ricky Writer
I chopped it up with Chargers first round draft pick, Ryan Mathews at the Nike 7ON tournament.
6Magazine + Ryan Mathews conversation from 6Magazine on Vimeo.
That’s all I got,
Ricky Writer
Hello all 6Magazineers…..
How are you all doing today? It’s MLK Jr. day, thank him for your day off work. I’m not off, but it’s all good, I’m not tripping. Either way, here are my quick cuts and jukes from the 20th weekend of football.
College
It’s all over and I’m saddened. Welp, I guess it’s time to start talking about the draft which I have no problem doing at all. Look out for my opinion on those who stayed vs. those who entered the draft early later on this week.
NFL
The Ravens D is good, but right now, the Jets defense is better.
Peyton Manning and the Colts only put up 20 points which is low for them. The Ravens were just up and down all season long. A huge win in New England last weekend for the Ravens and a bust in Indianapolis this week. No doubt that Flacco had a sophomore slump and their receiving corps lack a true deep threat. It was a pretty easy strategy to beat the Ravens, all the Colts did was pack the box with eight people and make Joe Flacco beat them, which he could not.
It’s alarming if you are a Colts fan, because it wasn’t as good of a win at home as it should have been. I don’t know, maybe it was the rust from not really playing for three weeks. Maybe they knew they would win and wanted to keep some tricks up their sleeves for the conference championship, either way it wasn’t a big momentum building win for the Colts who looked very lethargic on offense. The defense looked great, but it was against the Baltimore Ravens offense, so that’s not saying much because they are so inconsistent.
Who knew what difference Tracy Porter and Jabari Greer would make.
They are certainly not household names when it comes cornerback names in the NFL, but they helped stop the Cardinals passing attack on Saturday. The Cards played right into the Saints’ hands as well. The Cards are not a rushing team, my unborn babies know this. All the Saints did was play great zone defense, kept everything in front of them and zone blitz Kurt Warner frequently.
Someone please help me, I don’t understand how the Cardinals can have the passing attack that they have as far as protection from the offensive line, but not have the same vitality from the O-line when it comes to the rushing attack. I just don’t get it. I mean the NFL is no longer a running league. They use the pass to setup the run, so this should be gravy for the Cards.
The Saints look bound for a Super Bowl championship with the way they are playing. The defense is great, as long as no one is running the ball against them. The offense looks something like the 2005 USC Trojans and the 2008 Florida Gators with a hint of the 2002 Miami Hurricanes. Reggie Bush is running like Chris Johnson and it’s scary. Bush is not as fast as Every Coach’s Dream, but sharper cuts and more moves make him just as dangerous as Johnson. In a perfect world, Dree Brees and Peyton Manning meet up in the Super Bowl and Brees wins the game and Super Bowl MVP(let’s be honest, Peyton never gets injured and is just two years older than Brees, I think Peyton’s career is going to last longer) because it’s unlikely Brees will win an MVP while Peyton is still playing. Either way, I sure would like to meet the team that can stop the Saints.
How bout them Cowboys
How bout that offensive line, Tony Romo, and Jason Garrett. Let’s start with Garrett, whose play calling is flat out abysmal. I don’t know why he always tries to get into shootouts with teams. It’s as if he tries so hard with every fiber of his body to get into shootouts with teams when he should pound the ball. Garrett wants to get into shootouts with Brett Favre, who has a cannon for an arm, an AK-47 for an offense with two magazines of bullets that aren’t even enough to satisfy all his targets. There are weapons in Minneapolis man, don’t you realize this? The game was 17-3 for quite sometime and they Boys would move the ball and then they’d turn it over, or run an outside run and get a seven yard loss. They were actually pounding the ball just fine against the Williams brothers but never truly stuck with the run.
I will say this, if Bill Parcells coaches this team, they might have one a Super Bowl by now or on their way to it this season. Let’s face it, Parcells wouldn’t let a game go by without Marion Barber, Felix Jones, and Tashard Choice not touching the ball 30 times every single game. I get it, it may not be the prettiest football to play, but it works. Look at the Jets. Replace Tony Romo with Mark Sanchez and the Jets are bloodcurdling good. Didn’t mean to jump on Wade Phillips, but he left me no choice. Man up Wade and tell J-Garrett to pound the ball.
The offensive line played, well very bad. Not sure if Minnesota is that much better than them, but the looked like it yesterday. You have to give credit to the Minnesota fans who made it awfully hard for the Cowboys line.
I want to know why Roy Williams is mad he didn’t get more than just one pass thrown his way. When you consistently drop the ball and your quarterback doesn’t trust you when things are going well, what makes you think he’s going to trust you when things are going bad.
The score doesn’t show it, but the defense did about all they could do, most of the times they were in Vikings territory, and I believe the Vikings only scored once on a drive that started outside their own territory.
Enough about the Boys, Brett Favre is really good. Really good, He’s thrown 37 touchdowns to 7 picks. This is river boat gambler Brett Favre playing like the cagey veteran that he is. Sidney Rice and Ray Edwards both have stepped up big. Their linebackers Ben Lieber and Chad Greenway played well also. The key to victory next weekend is their run game and teams are bottling AD up or he’s just not running well, not sure which one it is, but the Saints run defense is their achilles heel and the Vikes strong suit going into their season was their run game.
J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets,
My homeboy who is an avid Jets fan was complaining about the Jets getting their first 1st down in 2nd quarter yesterday. I said calm down Kemo Sabe, your defense will keep you close. Notice I said close, because in the back of my mind, I figured the Jets would put up a valiant effort, but the Chargers D would make a play and surely Darrelle Revis is just one man and the Chargers have more than one weapon in Vincent Jackson on the outside. Ladanian Tomlinson and Darren Sproles would spark the running game, and Philip Rivers would make the key throws late in the game to prevail. Umm, two words, wrong! and #fail.
The Jets defense made all the plays. All the plays. Mark Sanchez was the one who stepped up and made the offensive plays to win, not Philip Rivers, whose costly pick allowed the Jets to take the lead in the 4th quarter. It was Shonn Greene of the Jets running 58 yards for a big play, and being oh so disrespectful by doing LT’s touchdown celebration in San Diego. Ultimately, it was the Jets who won the game. Shocker, to me and several other million people outside of New York? Yes. To the Jets, nope, not one bit.
Revis played another near perfect game only giving up a swing route in zone coverage for a four yard loss, and he came up with an interception. So much for going at him like Rivers said, they only threw his way four times. The Jets meet Colts in Indy again, this time with all of Indy’s starters. Although, it should be noted that the Jets had the Colts on the ropes when their starters were still in the game.
Other Thoughts
RIP Gaines Adams
Dead of cardiac arrest at 26. He had an abnormal heart condition that went virtually undetected. From what I understand the only way for it to even be detected was from an episode where he passes out or suffers cardiac arrest like this. Hopefully with advancements in technology these aliments can be detected in players before it turns tragic like this. My heart goes out to his family, fans, his Clemson Tiger family, his Tampa Buccaneer family, and his Chicago Bear family.
MLK
Thank Dr. King for your day off of work. Also thank him for the advancement in race relations in this country. We’ve made tremendous strides, but we still have a long ways to go(anyone that doesn’t think we have a long way to go look at the number of African-American coaches out of the 120 FBS college football teams, and then you can just stop reading my website for the rest of your life or until I feel like there is no more progress to be made and a hearing be held on whether or not you can regain your membership as a 6Magazineer). Also thank MLK for the Rooney rule and for the Rooney family for having the balls to see that things were not equal and stepping up to the plate to make them right. One day we’ll make things right in college football too.
I feel like I’m forgetting something, and it’s something I shouldn’t be forgetting. Ah, no worries, I’ll just post about it later on this week when I remember. I will remember, because I have the memory of an elephant, just not right now.
Thats all I got,
Ricky Writer
Here are my quick cuts and jukes from the past week’s football
College
Fiesta! Fiesta!
I called Boise State heartless earlier this year for not making sure Lagerrette Blount got knocked out after striking one of their teammates. They rolled through a weak WAC conference. I was certain TCU was going to give them the business, but I was wrong because Boise State came to play and TCU was the team that backed down. The surprise of the evening was Boise State’s defense, which shut the prolific TCU offense down. Sidenote, Andy Dalton, TCU QB, has no arm strength at all. Did you see the ducks he was throwing on the deep out routes? Geesh. Either way, both teams were evenly matched and Boise State just fought harder point blank. Congrats Broncos, I hope you all have accepted my apology.
Uhh…the BORE – ange Bowl
Umm…Iowa beasted Georgia Tech. The game wasn’t as close as the score indicated. Is the Big Ten back? That’s 4-3 in bowl games this year with two BCS wins.
Iowa won the game, but what is up with fake field goal call my Kirk Ferentz? Where are all these coaches getting these balls of steel from. Bill Belichick opened the flood gates for weird ass calls when he pulled that shit in Indianapolis earlier this season. Jim Zorn’s wild ass call on Monday Night Football, Jim Caldwell, and most recently Kirk Ferentz’s crazy call have been many of odd decisions by coaches this season. Pretty soon we won’t have anymore punters and kickers the way these daredevils play.
GMAC = BCS?
LOL, last week I wrote about the Central Michigan vs. Troy game last weekend. I was given the business by several CMU fans. I refuse to make the same mistake again. CMU was ranked #25 and I said they were unranked. Neither team has any control over when the bowl game is played. I still think it’s stupid to have this game this late in the bowl season. The game wasn’t a good game, it was a good half. You guys can shoot me if you want to, but from beginning to end there were better bowl games this year. This game had the best half of the bowl season hands down. Thank you for your comments last week as well, you guys really made me feel hated like Colin Cowherd, who I look up too, so I was on my high horse thanks to you guys.
National Championship Game
Well damn football gods, did you really have to take Colt McCoy out of the game five plays in? What did he do to you guys? Either way the whole entire landscape of the game changed once he went out. You can’t argue that at all. I picked Texas to win, and if he stays in I think they do, but shoulda, coulda, woulda you know. Backup Texas QB, Garrett Gilbert, played well for the most part. He was deer in headlights the first couple of series, but once he realized Jordan Shipley was on the field, it was all good. McCoy got all the love this year, but imagine if he didn’t have Shipley to throw the ball to? I think Shipley is the Longhorn MVP this year, he certainly was for this game. The key plays in the game are Malcolm Williams dropping that touchdown pass which would have made it a 17 – 13 ball game. The next key play was the shovel pass pick six. If either of those two plays are in Texas’ favor the game is 17-13 at halftime with Texas getting the ball to start the second half.
I have no clue where Bama went in the 3rd qtr. I’m still looking for them right now. I won’t mention the Bama QB’s name, because he sucks that bad. Give some love to the Bama O-line, when you throw the ball 11 times, and win a national championship game, that means your running game cannot be touched. Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson got it in! Congrats to Bama, but deep down, you can’t feel totally good about this victory, because Texas didn’t have their best player. Granted you all knocked him out of the game on a clean hit, and injuries are apart of the game. But don’t you want to beat the Texas Longhorns? And all season long everyone and their unborn babies haven’t been able mention the Texas Longhorns without saying Colt McCoy.
NFL
The wildcard weekend was the rematch weekend. Three of the four games played were rematches, which I found pretty cool. Two out of the three of the teams that won last weekend, won this weekend.
Well a Jet is faster than a Bengal
The Jets flat out kicked the Bengals’ ass. Rex Ryan’s defense was “all the way turnt up”. Darrelle Revis continued his case for defensive player of the year (even though I don’t think postseason play should count, with his recent performance it’ll be hard to keep it out of the voters’ minds.) Mark Sanchez played virtually mistake free and his running game allowed him to not be in situations where he’d have to win the entire game.
Murder in Jerry Land
Speaking of flat out ass kickings. We’ll it wasn’t an ass kicking, someone died in Dallas. Not someone, but something or somethings. The Eagles died. Yep, they were put to death in Jerry Land. Is it Jerry Land or Jerry’s World? Has there been a consensus on what we’re going to call it yet? Either way outside of a long td strike from Mike Vick, the Eagles were extinct. The Eagles’ power was their offense and Dallas’ defense shut that down with ease. Tony Romo was flawless and Miles Austin showed out as always. Things were going so well in Dallas that Roy Williams showed up to the party as well and boy did Mr. Odessa cut a rug in Jerry Land/World. The Chargers are not the hottest team in football, it is the Cowboys.
Quote the Raven, “i dislike Patriots”
Umm…I’ve said this all year when it comes to the Patriots. “You Get What You Pay For” in several key areas of their ball club, the Pats went cheap and they got cheap performance. Most specifically they went cheap on defense, but in their defense’s defense when the offense is turning the ball over in their own territory several times it’s hard to win. The Ravens defense played like they should have been playing all year long. We can shoulda woulda coulda all day long in terms of Wes Welker being able to play but he wasn’t thus the Pats were in effective all game long with the Ravens rolling coverage to Randy Moss and Ben Watson dropping passes. On the other note their dynasty is not over, please stop with the nonsense. The Steelers didn’t make the playoffs this year, are they over?
Welcome to the conversation…We’re talking about nominations for the best games in history.
I was pissed all weekend long. I just wanted to watch some good football. All three previous playoff games were blowouts. Thank you Green Bay and Arizona for making this game interesting. The highest scoring game in NFL history interesting. Don’t blame Aaron Rodgers Packers fans, he played a great game and brought the team back. It was just a fluke play to be honest. 
The defense made enough stops to get the team back even as well. It’s like guarding Lebron James, he’s going to get his points. I mean once both offenses got into their grooves, the 2000 Ravens or ‘85 Bears couldn’t have stopped either team. It is odd that the game ended on a defensive play, and I know for certain Neil Rackers is the happiest person in the state of Arizona right now. Kurt Warner threw four incompletions and five touchdown passes. I just thought I’d throw that fact out there.
Random ish….
So, Tommy Tuberville is the new man at Texas Tech. You don’t say. I hope you have something to say because I don’t. It feels like they went after the biggest name they could find at the time. Mike Leach’s system is totally different from what Tuberville is going to bring in. I wouldn’t say Tuberville has to win fast, because the administration has been dying to get rid of Leach so they’ll give Tuberville his due time to get his own players in Lubbock. The fans; however, will not give Tuberville his due time because they never wanted Leach gone in the first place. We’ll see how it plays out though.
Pete Carroll! Don’t do it. Seattle is on the fast track to becoming NFL purgatory between Cleveland and Oakland(Detroit is like Hell in Pluto). Too late. I feel like they are trapping you Pete, they are setting you up for failure. Who is they? I don’t know it sounds good. Either way, the defense is wretched in Seattle. I don’t know what they have done with Matt Hasslebeck. Mike Holmgren left the team better than he found it. Jim Mora was unfairly ousted too early. I mean they are giving Pete the money to go buy his own groceries to cook the dinner, per Bill Parcells. We’ll see if he manages his money well and buys good healthy organic foods or he wastes in on junk food. We’ll also see if he knows how to cook, because too much or too little salt and various spices on meals can completely ruin them. On a positive note, the defense is good and they play in a mediocre conference. The only way to go is up, right?
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That’s all I got,
Ricky Writer
