Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Randy Moss

Well, Randy Moss has had enough of retirement and he wants to play in the league. Here are some teams that might me looking at him:

  1. The Baltimore Ravens; Baltimore needs a real #2 receiver behind Anquan Boldin. Lee Evens and Torrey Smith are decent but they're both #3s at best and a quarterback like Joe Flacco could use some more help. Signing Moss would bring incredible depth to Baltimore's receiving core. It would make sense to ink Moss to a 1/2 yr. deal worth a couple million but don't forget that Randy Moss has a HUGE ego and may not "settle" for that
  2.  The New York Jets; Santonio's not happy, Plax returning is a question mark, they don't have Jericho Cotchery or Braylon Edwards, why wouldn't they sign Moss? The next best thing would be re-signing Edwards or converting Joe McNight to wide receiver [which can happen]. Also, wouldn't it be fun to see Moss make sick catches against The Pats like he used to against The Jets [like this one]? New York will be willing to pay a lot of money for a has-been like Randy and I would love to see how Moss' ego works out with Rex's.
  3. New England Patriots; Now this would be the most interesting one of all of these because, they shipped him off to Minnesota, who shipped him off to Tennessee who shipped him off to his "retirement" and now he'd be right back where he started and looking to prove himself. Now I doubt he won't at least show flashes of his old self but we all know he'll never be the same player....of course he could take the Terrell Owens path and play in the arena league but that is not happening.

Monday, February 13, 2012

LINSANITY

Linvincible, Super Lintendo, Linsanity, a Linning streak, whatever you want to call it something unusual is happening in the NBA lately.............Jeremy Lin's emergence.
Linsanity has began to take The NBA by storm
by leading The New York Knicks to 5 straight
victories starting 5 of them

He's been playing out of his mind. After beating The Timberwolves, he has now outplayed star guards like; Deron Williams, John Wall, Ricky Rubio and most impressively Kobe Bryant. He actually scored the most pts. against The Lakers [38] since January of last year when Monta Ellis also torched the Lakers by putting up 38 points. In February, he's been averaging 23/7/4. Jeremy Lin has put up more pts. in his first 4 starts than anybody else ever to play for New York. Part of the reason that he has been able to thrive like he has is because he is under the offense of Mike D'antoni which requires a point guard. Many people don't like D'antoni as a fit of The Knicks because of the way they've been playing. In my opinion he should not be there because his system requires a true point guard and even though they're pretty good players, Iman Shumpert and Toney Douglas do not belong at the point, they belong at 2. But Lin might me the answer to New York's problem.  But I'm not buying into the hype. The return of Amare will hurt his stats while the return of 'Melo will hurt his overall gameplay because we all know [as great a scorer as 'Melo is] he is where great possessions go to die. He will shoot the ball and for every ball he passes, he will shoot 15 more. He has also turned the ball over at an alarmng rate more than 3 times a game! Also Baron Davis will be coming back and I think that D'antoni [like me] believes that Davis is a safer bet than Lin. Not to mention his Linexperience. But I do admire that throughout all of this Linsanity, he sleeps on a couch in his brother's apartment and comes to practice day-in and day-out without complaining. Of course he's in no position to but I'd 100% expect anyone else in his position to complain and ask for a raise or something.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

SUPER BOWL!!!!!

Last time these 2 met in the Super Bowl, the Giants came out on top. 
Sorry I haven't been posting that much I've been really busy. Anyway my favorite team THE GMEN are against The Patriots in Super Bowl 46!!!!!!!!! I could not have asked for a better matchup in the Super Bowl. This game will come down to a couple of things here:
1] Rob Gronkowski - Assuming that he plays [which he probably will] he will be a mismatch nightmare for New York. I think that they should put Ja'Quan Williams on him with help on top from Deon Grant. Even if all goes as planned for The Giants, Gronkowski should have a big game.
2] NYG's receiving core - Victor Cruz will draw tons of attention and will make a difference somehow. Even though Hakeem Nicks is the dominant receiver on this team in the playoffs, a big part of that is because Cruz has drawn tons of attention causing teams to double team him with their safeties leaving the door wide open for Nicks to dominate the secondary. Throw in Mario Manningham, Travis Beckum, Jake Ballard and a weak Pats secondary and the receiving core should have a huge game.
3] The Defensive Matchup and Running Game - These are 2 things that the Pats have struggled with throughout the season but lately they've been figuring out especially the defense. The Pats haven't allowed more than 20 pts. in the whole post season [even though they haven't faced an elite qb yet] that's pretty impressive. I've been really surprised that the New England didn't find their running game this season considering they have 4 real threats in BenJaurvus Green-Ellis, Danny Woodhead, Stevan Ridley and Kevin Faulk and that should be a rushing attack that any team would like to have. The Giants had a horrible running game and a horrible secondary that improved A LOT in the post season. Their pass rush was always great but in the post season it has been amazing!! The running game reminds me of the '07 playoff run.
I could just write about the qb matchup but that would take up way to much space and it's really up for grabs
Overall Prediction:
This game will be slow to begin with, at halftime it will be around 7-0, 3-0 or 7-3 so not high scoring at all but both teams will come busting out of the gates and Eli and Tom will put on a clinic like they always do and the final score will be 23-27.....................GIANTS!
MVP: Eli Manning