It occurred to me while watching that "game" last night, that there will be a minimum of one, and probably more Packers that will be cut and end up being signed by the Viqueens. I'm convinced at this point that the Queen have no scouting department. They have just decided to check out who was cut or not re-signed by the Packers every year, and sign a handful of them. It saves Zygi Wilf like $50,000 a year to just use the Packers to tell them who is good. The list of players going from the Packers to the Viqueens in the last decade is too long to write down, but there have been an inordinate amount. Here are my guesses for this year:
1) Ruvell Martin: If he is cut, it is an absolute guarantee. The Queens love them some ex-Packer receivers. They signed Robert Ferguson for fucks sake. I would keep Brett Swain over Ruvell. Ruvell has been a solid number 5 for like 5 years, but Swain showed how versatile he is last night WHEN HE PLAYED DB FOR THE ENTIRE SECOND HALF! And he didn't look terrible doing it. They have to keep Swain I think.
2) Aaron Rouse or Charlie Peprah: One of them is guaranteed to be cut. One of them is going to be on the Viqueens.
3) The odd man out at LB: We have about 13 LBs that are good enough to be on someone's team. The Viqueens will pick one of them up.
4) Some random O-lineman. Just because.
5) If they need another RB, Deshawn Wynn or Kregg Lumpkin: I think both are gone. Tyrell Sutton just looks too explosive to let go. But, as with the rest of the random awesome training camp backs, he will blow out a knee in week 1, and the Pack will bring back Wynn or Lumpkin.
6) The odd man out at FB. We have 3 starting quality FB. They'll keep Johnson for sure. I think they let Kuhn go, but I have nothing to base this on.
Speaking of last night's game:
-the starters played for 1:14. Which was great for the half full Tennessee crowd (at least 1/3 appeared to be Packer fans).
-Rookie DB Brandon Underwood had a rough fucking game. If he drank himself to death last night, I couldn't blame him. He probably got beat at least a dozen times. A few other times he was victim of a great catch. He also got the wind knocked out of him tackling Vince Young (who looked awesome by the way), and eventually ended up going out with a stinger. This is what happens when you START your 5th and 6th corners.
-B.J. Raji hurt his gigantic, fat ankle. I'm a little concerned. He was standing on it at the end of the game, so hopefully it isn't serious. And hopefully it just isn't that he can't feel pain because he is so large. Lower extremity (and back) injuries tend to linger with 300 + pounders. (See Justin Harrell and Gilbert Brown).
-Spencer Havner isn't black.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Caught some of the Boise St.-Oregon game last night. Oregon should be investigated and possibly thrown out of college sports for how atrocious their unis are. I mean seriously. Last night it was some sort of cream colored helmet, jersey and pants. The jerseys had these weird, really small, square numbers, as well as what I assume were duck wings on the shoulders. Fear the duck I guess. Oregon hasn't worn the same jersey in back to back games, in any sport, since 1994. They are like that super rich/high maintenance chick who throws away her clothes after wearing them once. I can only guess there are a number of children in El Salvador running around in the Week 3, 2002 Oregon Ducks uniforms, including helmet.
Boise's uniforms weren't much better. The numbers on their jersey's were a strange silver color for no reason whatsoever. Between that an the obnoxious blue field and the "orange out" that the fans did, it felt like I was on shrooms or something (I've heard). BTW, I am calling that the number 1 team in my upcoming debut of the Worthless, Uniformed and Biased Top 25 is going to be the Alabama-Virginia Tech winner. Number 2 will likely be Boise St., but that is a little unclear. And Boise could go 50-0 and the BCS wouldn't like them.
Wisconsin 37, Northern Illinois 20. Late FG mysteriously covers the 16.5 pt spread.
Coming this weekend: NFL Predictions
Friday, September 4, 2009
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