2010年8月30日星期一

Predictions 4

Houston Texans - Can't Win AFC North, Miss Playoffs

Just as it seems as though the Texans will finally dethrone the Colts, they come up short.

The Titans are poised to build off the second half of their 2009 campaign and the Colts aren't going to simply role over, coming off an AFC championship performance.

To win the AFC North, the Texans are going to start stopping teams, as opposed to out scoring them. As I see it, the Texans defense don't appear to be poised to stop the Titans or the Colts.

Indianapolis Colts - Win Only 10 Games
Not since 2002 have the Colts won fewer than 12 games in a season.

Whether it be a Super Bowl hangover, lack of depth, injury plagued season or other teams finally catching up to them, I think that 2010 will be a season the cheap Colts jersey would like to forget.

That said, with 10 wins, they will still put themselves in a position to make the playoffs, but I guarantee they won't be resting their starters in Week 16 and 17 this year.

Jacksonville Jaguars - Blackout Each of Their Eight Home Games

In 2009, the Jaguars had 7 home blackouts, only selling out their Thursday nigiht contest vs. Indianapolis.

In 2010, there doesn't appear to be a bright spot on the home schedual. The Jaguars play 5 home games before hosting their first division opponent, Tennessee in Week 13. By that time, the Jaguars will be removed from playoff contention, eliminating any hope to sell out any of their division games.

At this point, the best chance for the Jaguars to improve their attendance would be to draft Ryan Mallett or Jake Locker in the first round of the 2010 draft. Otherwise, we might be talking about the "LA Jags" sooner rather than later.

Kansas City - Finish Season with a Winning Record

This will be a make or break season for the majority of those involved with the Kansas City Chiefs jersey franchise.

Todd Haley, Jamaal Charles, Matt Cassel and several other players will be looking for a new employer if they fail to deliver in 2010.

The additions of Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel should do nothing but help the cause this season, but it will definitely be an uphill climb.

Their roster has the talent, whether they can make it all work on-field, remains to be seen.

Miami Dolphins - Walk Away with AFC East Title

No team has mas improved more(on paper), than the Miami Dolphins.

They needed to improve their passing game, they add Brandon Marshall, the best possession receiver in the league.

They were looking to improve team speed on defense, they add Jared Odrick, Koa Misi and Karlos Dansby. They also add Cameron Wake to their starting lineup.

They needed to create more turnovers. Sean Smith and Vontae Davis enter their second season running with the first team defense. More importantly, they add Mike Nolan, one of the best defensive coordinators available.

The Dolphins are the most complete team in the AFC and if they can get reliable play from cheap Chad Henne jersey , they'll contend for the Super Bowl.


2010年8月20日星期五

An Analysis

The wholesale Indianapolis Colt jerseyss Fans ARE Mankind.  I’d rather not make too many judgments on the Colts fan base, because on the whole, I’m sure they are very nice people.  I mean, they are from Indiana.  You can’t hate that.  But from personal experience however, well... you have to understand, I’m from Florida.  Put on your Bucs/ Jags/ Fins jersey and Man Up.  

Bill Pullman IS cheap Peyton Manning jerseys.  No.  Literally.  They are the same person. When was the last time you saw Pullman in a movie?  It’s no coincidence that Bill’s on-the-screen presence dissipated as Peyton’s on-the-field domination began.  Just close your eyes and listen to Peyton’s audibles and cadence before a snap.  Now imagine Pullman’s face, and a young Sandra Bullock, and you will find yourself in the middle of a witty bit of dialogue from While You Were Sleeping.  

Jeff Goldblum IS Matt Stover.  Goldblum was 43 when he managed to bring down an entire, parasitic alien race through the use of a simple computer virus (I’ll never quite get how an alien race with absurdly superior technology, the ability to read minds, and the seemingly requisite power to bend space/time didn’t have any anti-viral software, but I digress).   Matt Stover, the venerable post-vinatieri kicking dude,  was, at age 42, the oldest person to ever play in a Super Bowl.   The place kicker is sort of the ‘geek’ of a football team, right?  I mean, if I needed an IT guy, and all I had available to me was the entire Colt’s roster, well...yeah...I’d probably just fix it myself.  But if, in a dramatic, hyperbolic moment of frustration, I became so enraged by my faulty computer that I wished to see its demise in some profound symbolic fashion, I’d ask Matt to put it through the uprights for me. And then have Dwight Freeney jump on it.

Will Smith IS Austin Collie.  The young, confident, attractive newcomer.  The inspired hero.  The one willing to sacrifice his well being for the sake of the whole.  Both  channeling their love for their supportive stripper girlfriends.... err, ok, maybe not quite right.  Ummm.   Both having matured into men after going on their Mormon mission trips...errrr... scratch that.  Hmm.   Missions!  They both went on missions.  And I feel like Austin Collie SHOULD be friends with Harry Connick Jr.

Suddenly it became clear.  The cast of Independence Day was actually 20th Century Fox’s prescient vision of the 2009 Indianapolis cheap Colts jerseys.

I didn’t want my mind to go down that path. So I set up an analogy instead.

You also start thinking that maybe Tommy Lee Jones was actually in the movie, as was the case in every other “One part Will Smith Two parts Aliens” flick of the day, and if so, obviously TLJ MUST be the right answer.


Think about it.  It’s no easy inquiry.  Your emotions take you one way, your logic another, and your nostalgic recollections of the days when Jeff Goldblum ruled the summer blockbuster circuit still but another.   Before you know it, you aren’t sure whether or not Bill Pullman might actually have been the president of the United States (I mean, Ich Bin Ein Berwha?.  The only presidential quote you can recall is  “"We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day! ”).


Anyways, today I find myself engaged in one of those debates: The classic “Who is responsible for the salvation of Earth in Independence Day? Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, or Mankind at large?”  I think it’s rather customary to eliminate the obvious answer of Randy Quaid from the choices, because, well, let’s be honest, no one would be able to argue against it.  Totally takes all the sizzle out of that skillet full of deep, delicious, pointless conversation in 2010 wholesale NFL jerseys.

There are those arguments you get into with friends that are just almost too cliche to even bother writing about.  Like, is truth relative or absolute.  Or, which is the better conference, the Big 10 or the SEC.  Well, at least  I hear this used to be a debate.