Mike Martz is set to be fired after today's game against Green Bay. Personally I'm wondering what the hold up is. Why let him finish? I never understood lame duck coaches. You're getting fired for a reason, and that reason is you suck. Don't let him suck another game.
I was really excited for Martz when he got hired, but his offense has grown old. In St. Louis his offense was unique, fresh, new, and exciting. Now the league has adjusted, and Martz hasn't. In today's NFL, even though QBs are dominating the stat lines, you still have to run the football. Less than 10 carries a game for Kevin Jones and TJ Duckett? Ridiculous. And have you noticed the games that we won? Yup, it's when we actually gave our backs the ball. Hmmm, interesting...
Well the rumor now is that Martz will be recruited by the 49ers because of his west coast ties. Good luck, Niners. All I know is that if he gets hired to be the O-coordinator in San Fran, Frank Gore officially drops off my fantasy board next year.
Good move Lions; I'm proud of you.
~Mikey D
First off, I hadn't even heard of this movie until Grace told me about it on our ride home to Maryland. It's called "Grandma's Boy" and it came out in January of 06', and it's produced by Happy Madison Productions. How did I not know about this movie??? I'm still wondering...
Anyway, the movie has a shitload of people in it. David Spade, Kevin Nealon, and Rob Schneider all have bit parts (some of the good SNL people from the day), Allen Covert is the main character (he's in every Adam Sandler movie), Joel Moore (skinny guy from Dodgeball), Jonah Hill (Superbad and Knocked Up), Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond- Ray's mom), Peter Dante (again, every Adam Sandler movie every made), Nick Swardson (Reno 911, Blades of Glory), and even Kevin Nash (I know you'll appreciate that one Adam). Basically think of the funniest movies from the past decade, and there's at least one character from those movies in this one. It makes for a great/familiar cast. Again, how did I not know about this movie with all these people in it?
The movie is basically about a video game programmer named Jeff, who is 35 and stuck in a rut. He works as a video game tester at a company called 'Brainasium" with kids ten years his younger. One of those kids is J.P., the company's video game prodigy who creates all the best-selling games, and whose latest game, called 'Eternal Deathslayer 3', is falling behind schedule. The company decides to bring in Samantha, a super hot babe whose job is to get the game released on time. From that point on Jeff has to deal with working with J.P. (and having his game design stolen by J.P.), being the oldest in the company, living with his grandparents, and with his growing feelings for his new coworker, Samantha.
There are a ton of pot jokes in this movie, so if you like to smoke weed, I think you've found yourself a winner. But besides that, the thing that appeals most to me about the movie was that it is centered around this group of video game nerds. Now the whole movie could have been nerd jokes about gamers (and well, it is), but the movie also portrays these guys as kind of cool. I liked that. They played video games, had fun, and sometimes got girls. They all had the attitude of "Yeah were nerdy gamers, and your point is? Oh, none? Well then fuck off." I liked it.
I'd give you some quotes, but I found a couple of funny scenes that I liked the best. Take a look.
Anyway, all in all I give the movie 3/4 of a thumbs up. It falls into that Super Troopers and Harold and Kumar genre. It's worth watching. Kevin, I'm really curious to see what your reaction to this movie will be. I don't know if the crude sex and pot jokes will get annoying to you, or the video game humor will make you laugh. Adam, I have no earthly idea if you will think this is funny. You hated Blades of Glory, but liked Knocked Up. I was just the opposite. You will just have to see it and let me know.
~Mikey D
~I'm not quite sure where to start with this post, so I'll just start it with Joakim Noah. Usually I'll hate a guy during his college years, but then when he turns pro not care so much about him. I was watching Bulls/Knicks highlights, and you know what? I still hate Joakim Noah. The guy makes me want to take scissors, cut all his hair off, stab his eyes out, thread his hair through his eye sockets, and then move it back and forth like I'm flossing his brain. I'm just glad he doesn't play for Cleveland, because he'd be right alongside Varajeo, which would just make me explode in outrageous fury every time I watched a Cleveland game.
~Billy Beane. I always felt he was slightly overrated as a general manager. Yes he's made Oakland a very competitive baseball franchise over the years, which is impressive in a small market. The thing is, he's never got them to the top. If that's good enough for some folks, then hey, he's one of the best in the business, but I've never seen him pull off that one move that's puts them over the hump. I do, however, have to give him credit for his latest trade. Dan Haren, arguably the team's ace, to Arizona for six prospects. Not only did he pack a moving truck full of blue-chip Diamondbacks to take back to Oakland, he put Haren in the National League. Think of Oakland's last four great pitchers: Mulder, Hudson, Zito, and Haren. Where are they all now? St. Louis, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Arizona. What do they all have in common? They're all in the National League! So while loading up on prospects (except for Zito, but he's the worst of the bunch), Beane never gets hurt by his old hurlers. I give him props for being able to pull that off.
~Looking at the college football bowl schedule, I only see three games I'm really interested in watching (other than MSU, that's just a given). I would like to see Florida-U of M, USC- Illinois, and Oklahoma-West Virginia. Although I think Florida will beat U of M, I just want to see those seniors for U of M play well for Lloyd and his final game as head coach. I want to see what Juice Williams and the underdog Big Ten Illini can do against the nation's hottest team. Oklahoma-West Virginia looks like there might be a lot of points, which equals excitement. I do not want to see LSU-OSU. I am too angry at the bowl system, and will not watch out of protest. Besides, has anyone seen ESPN's mock bowl coverage? They don't even have OSU/LSU in the title game. Hmmm...why is that? Because even the media thinks they're not the two best teams, despite them voting those two teams in. This system sucks.
~Mitchell Report. Sigh, I hate all this coverage. It's college basketball, NFL stretch run, college football bowl season, and NBA basketball time. I want to talk and watch coverage on those things, and not whether Larry Bigbie heard Brian Roberts say he shot himself up with some roids. It's going to be accusations and denials for the next year I feel. And I hate it.
~Switching gears, I am really excited to go home to Michigan for the break. It'll be nice to see the fam and Kev and Adam again. I really wish I could come back and visit more often, but it's hard with Grace and I having jobs and stuff. Stupid jobs. I think the drive up to MI won't be bad, because I have MSU/Texas to look forward to. Oh, and an MSU win. It will definitely be great to watch the game with Kev and Adam. Just like old times =).
~At school there is a door decorating contest for the holidays going on. Since I have an open classroom, this provides an interesting challenge. I am a competitor though, and I want to win. So in lieu of the absence of a door, my homeroom class decided to decorate the whole fucking room. And decorate they did. They brought in lights, dancing Santas, tree, garland- you name it, they brought it in. They even stayed after school to put everything up. Now my room has more blinking lights, bells, and dancing Christmas robots than a Chuck E. Cheese Christmas party. We have successfully decorated for Christmas, while completely ignoring Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Eh, just how we do. If we do not win this contest (the prize is a free breakfast, which I'm all for), my kids will probably snap and go ballistic. And rightfully so. They've worked hard and deserve this win. It's been a total team effort.
~I have officially made "the wall" at school! The wall being a bathroom stall in the girl's bathroom. In a lovely red sharpie (how did they know red was my favorite color?), a girl wrote that, and I paraphrase, "Mr. Dennison is a cock-sucking faggot stupid ass teacher." I feel like I've made it. My rite of passage. I am officially a teacher. By the way, they caught the girl, and surprise, surprise- she is failing my class. But I won't hold a grudge...haha, yeah right...
~Despite my numerous complaints about fantasy this season, four out of my five teams made the playoffs this year (with the fifth finishing one spot out). I tried to find a correlation between the rosters, and I really can't. Most of my teams are uniquely different. I have one team that has the number 1 seed in the league. Here's what I'm rolling out with:
QB- Kurt Warner
WR- Tory Holt
WR- Lee Evans
WR- Jabar Gaffney
RB- Earnest Graham
RB- Jamal Lewis
TE- Dallas Clark
K- Mason Crosby
DEF- New York Giants
That's a solid team in my opinion, but the number one? I don't know. One thing I think I do well in fantasy is play the matchups fairly well. Sometimes I'll get burned by benching the big names, but more often than not the moves pan out. I know Adam is very good at this as well, as he is a very successful fantasy player. So again, luck or skill? Half of each?
~Michael Crabtree is the nation's best wide receiver. Fair enough. I can accept that. I'd like to think he won that award because of my constant promoting of his game. It's definitely not because of his gaudy and eye-popping stats. Yup, more me than him. Congratulations sir, you're my preseason 2008 Heisman favorite. Oh, and is there any doubt that he will be a future Lion?
~Speaking of the Lion's, time for Mr. Martz to go. It's been fun. In the NFL, unless you're the Patriots with Randy Moss and Tom Brady, you need a running game. I love the pass as much as the next guy, but the pass will be much more effective if you establish a run. Keep the defense honest at least! Can you imagine how much better Kitna could be if he wasn't facing a pass rush each and every play? It must be the easiest thing in the world for a D-coordinator to prepare for the Lions. "Just keep rushing the passer, and eventually we'll stop them." If we are going to run Martz's system, we need a more versatile back and QB. A back that is Marshall Faulk-esque, who can be a speedy safety valve for the QB under pressure, and a QB that can scramble and avoid pressure in the pocket (although Kurt Warner debunks that assertion). So what should the Lion's draft next year? Defense? O-Line?
~I've become a real Redskins fan down here. I like watching them play. They usually find ways to get their fans' hopes up and ultimately lose games. It's almost like I'm back home watching the Lions!
~Grace got me Pistons/Wizards tickets for my birthday. I'm excited. The game is actually the day of my birthday, January 2nd. That worked out real nice. I can't wait to see a Detroit team live. It's been awhile. Speaking of seeing a Detroit team live, I am going to take every opportunity I can to see the Tigers play next season. I am ridiculously excited to watch that team with Cabrera and Willis on it.
Alrighty, that's enough for now. Take care folks.
~Mikey D
I liked ranking the teams myself. West Virginia won my national championship. Boooo....
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls07/bracket
I'm pretty sure I'd give this movie two thumbs up.
Ohio State and LSU. Explain this to me. Because what we have right now is the exact reason I hate college football.
These are the two best teams in college football.
According to who? The writers and press? Wait, the same writers and press that LSU as the 7th best team a week ago? This bothered me last year when Florida jumped U of M, and it bothering me now. Why does LSU jump Georgia, Kansas, and Virginia Tech? All three of those teams were in front of LSU and didn't lose. To me, the writers and coaches once again just voted on the team they wanted to see in the national championship. If they really thought LSU was better than those teams, they would have put LSU in front of them in last weeks poll. It's flat out bullshit to jump those three teams.
LSU won it's conference championship, the others didn't.
Um, Virginia Tech? ACC champions, and won their conference championship game.
First, because of division formatting, Georgia was left out of the game. All I've heard this past week was how the hottest two teams in football are Georgia and USC. And now they get no love, despite being ranked higher? Whatever.
Second, Kansas, again because of division formatting, was left out of its conference championship. Its one loss? To then-number 1 ranked Missouri. One of LSU's two losses were to an unranked team.
LSU beat Virginia Tech by 40.
The problem with college football. Each and every game is life and death, and some might think that the game is more exciting and thrilling that way, I hate it because of arguments like this. To me, the team Virginia Tech is now is not the same team they were the first game of the season. And neither is LSU. Just ask Michigan about how their season started. I don't like that people will argue that LSU beat them earlier because both teams are different now. And if you really felt that LSU was the better team, why did you put them behind Virginia Tech in the first place?
The fact LSU beat another quality opponent in its conference championship put them over the top.
Hold up. Tennessee was ranked 14th in the polls, and Boston College was ranked 11th. But wait, LSU played a higher quality opponent?
LSU is the only undefeated team in regulation. It's only two losses came in two triple-overtimes.
Probably the worst argument of them all. Yes or no: did you lose the two games? Yes? Well then you have two losses, which is one more than Kansas and Georgia. This argument reminds of the sore loser, who will tell the world that they were the better team because they ran for more yards, passed for more yards, committed less turnovers...yada yada yada. Bottom line is you lost two games. YOU LOST TWO GAMES. I don't care how you did it, but you just did it. Sorry, but that's the truth.
LSU has played a tougher schedule.
Stop sucking on the SEC's cock. Of LSU's wins, four of the teams are in the top-25, and one of them is from the ACC (Va Tech). Of Virginia Tech's wins, three are in the top-25. Altogether that's three conference wins against three conference wins against top-25 teams.
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It's frustrating to me because it doesn't seem to me that the polls have any meaning anymore. Teams can jump teams for little to no reason after conference championship games, because the writers and coaches feel the are suddenly better than the rest. What kind of system is this??? I would respect it more if OSU and Georgia played, because they were the next two in line. But that's not the case. It's coaches campaigning for their teams place in a game a month from now. It's teams jumping five spots in the polls over teams that didn't do anything to hurt themselves. It's just not right, and I'm glad this season is almost over.
Go MSU in the Motor City Bowl!!!
~Mikey D
Have you seen the new commercial for the "Bourne Ultimatum"? It bothers the hell out of me.
There are a lot of action scenes, and then the voice over says (to effect of), "Your ultimatum for this holiday season: buy the Bourne Ultimatum."
Or what?????
Stop telling me you're a giving me an ultimatum when you're not!!!
Stupid ad wizards.
~Mikey D
