Week 15 Recap

Another week has passed in the NFL, and my fantasy football team met it's demise

• Starting with my fantasy football team...if you were watching the Cowboys/Eagles game and wondered if Brian Westbrook falling on the one yard line might have cost anyone their fantasy game...it did. That person is me...instead of advancing me to the finals, I was knocked out of the playoffs when i lost by 5 points (the touchdown would have been 6)
• The Jags routed the steelers...and Fred Taylor went over 100 yards again, causing more of the ESPN fueled media to hop on the "Taylor for Pro Bowl" campaign bandwagon...despite the fact he isn't even the best running back on his team.
• Vince Young showed his unbelievable passing skills...and by that I mean he had 2TD's to no interceptions...and those touchdowns? One was a screen pass, and the other was wide open after the defender bit on a pump fake...boy, what a pump fake it was.
• The Patriots won another game...I'm done talking about them now
• Shaun Hill looked great against the Bengals...but so has everyone else, at least this SF quarterback knows that Vernon Davis should be the focal point of the offense.
• Rex Grossman=Brian Griese=Kyle Orton...it seems the bears are protesting the rules that require a starting quarterback by having 3 backups play the position.
• It's now mandatory that every time Justin Fargas is in a highlight, whoever is calling it must make it known that he is the son of "Huggy Bear".
• Tavaris Jackson can be a good starter in the NFL...yeah, I said it.

That's it for this week...thank god.

LaDanian: The Best Ever?

After Sunday's route of the Lions, Ladanian Tomlinson passed Jim Brown for 7th place all-time with 127 total touchdowns. He also became only the second player ever, joining Eric Dickerson, to start their career with 7 straight 1,200 yard seasons...after seeing his name alongside the all-time greats like this, you have to wonder, is he going to finish as the best ever? I realize this isn't a groundbreaking idea, especially if you remember 2006 when the Chargers press conferences ended with Marty Schottenheimer wiping his spit off of certain body parts belong to LT, but maybe he had good reason to. Discounting his passing stats (and everyone who thinks he could actually play quarterback based on them), in 7 seasons he's already went past 10,000 yards, well over 100 TD's, and at some point next year should go over 500 receptions for his career. He has more rushing yards in his first 7 years than Barry Sanders, Emmit Smith, Jim Brown, and Walter Payton..with no sign of slowing down. I realize that today's league is more watered down with the salary cap and all, but at some point you have to watch him and realize that he deserves to be in that elite company with Brown, Sanders, and Payton as the best ever

The Overrated Jimmy Edmonds

With the breaking news of CF Jim Edmonds, along with cash, being traded to the Padres for a minor leaguer, it got me thinking about how much i dislike the praise Edmonds is given by fans. What the average fan sees is Edmonds laying out to make a great catch....what I see is a very slow centerfielder having to make up for his lack of speed. I'm not saying Edmonds is a bad player, because he isn't...what he is is a slightly above average fielder, who with his bat has good power and can hit for a pretty good average, but strikes out 120+ a year (this is based on his career....today, he's bleh). All things considered, the Padres didn't make out bad in the deal...they got a servicable centerfielder to fill the void left by Mike Cameron, who they couldn't come to terms with...they should just know not to expect six time gold glover Jim Edmonds, but instead an overachieving fielder who can't run.

The Mitchell Report

The long awaited George Mitchell report was finally released yesterday...and along with it, Barry Bonds' one way ticket to Cooperstown. You see, the report released 80+ names of players that have somehow been linked to performance enhancing drugs...most of this information coming from just one source. People are now forced to look at Bonds as just one of many who were using something to gain an edge...when really, using it just put them at an even playing field. The biggest "surprise" in the report was the information on Roger Clemens. I haven't read the whole report, and i don't plan to...but from what I understand Clemens had the 2nd largest portion of the report devoted to him (behind, of course, Bonds). Do I think any differently of Clemens now? Not really...I'm not a fan of Roger Clemens, and i was already convinced he had to have been using to have been better in his 2 years with the Astros (his early to mid 40's) then he ever was in his Hall of Fame career. What this does mean is that there is no real ground to let Clemens, arguably the best pitcher ever, into the Hall of Fame, and keep Bonds, who i consider undeniably the best baseball player ever, out.