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Blown Calls.










and the doozy

Week 1 Day 1

I won't be naked. Promise.

Wake Forest at Baylor
Battle of the Baptist


The matchup is intriguing to me for more than just the political affiliation. Wake Forrest overcame the small private school curse and became more than decent. Good almost, capped by Grobe winning the ACC two years ago and putting together a good year involving a bowl win over a surging UConn.

Baylor, on the other hand, hasn't had a decent win since they went for two against A&M in overtime back in 2004. Art Briles plans to change things in Waco. A lot of people think that this job is career suicide more than a jumping board. The sentiment is that Baylor just can't win consistently enough to become better. There's a reason that Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and Wake don't have a great history of football.




(Interesting note is that my in-laws lived in a town just down the road from Briles in his high school days. Small world.)

Players We're Friggin' Excited About

Jeremy Maclin, Mizzou





The Clip isn't all him(look for #9), but he makes his fair share of highlights. The freshmen lit up defenses and special teams last year with some blazing speed and shifty moves. Expect Daniel and J-Mac to keep the magic going in Columbia.

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As long as I've loved sports I've loved Nike. Is their product always the best? Probably not. But does anybody else put out cooler ads?

I submit to you, no.

Players We're Friggin' Excited About

Mike Goodson, Texas A&M

Goodson was expected to be a star out of the gate for the Aggies but had to share the field with Jorvorskie Lane and QB Stephen McGee.

Franchione opted (and "brilliantly" at that) to let his QB have the most rushing yards. The option didn't fit as well with Goodson's skillset. While he had his moments, Goodson never got to be the featured back.

Franchione was fired and Mike Sherman came in his place, bringing a pro-style offense that should fit Goodson perfectly

With Lane being moved to FB and McGee staying in the pocket more, expect Goodson to finally get his chance to shine in 2008





Just to get an idea of Goodson's speed... skip to the 4:10 mark.

You see him cut up and turn up field at 4:18 (Texas A&M 35 yd. line)

He crosses the goal line at 4:24.

65 yards in 6ish seconds.

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Upset city...


Forgive the Chipmunks

Players We're Friggin' Excited About

Dan LeFevour

The Central Michigan QB has been lighting up the scoreboard for two years now and he has two more to go. He's thrown for more that 6000 yards and ran for 1600 more in 2 seasons. He's just the second player to do the 3k/1k combo in a year. He's also led the Chippewas to two consecutive MAC Titles. Seeing as how he's not your mainstream player it was tough to get some video on him but it is out there!

Players We're Friggin' Excited About

It's been a busy day. Sorry.

I hate doing this, but...

Jimmy Clausen*

Jimmy just didn't have a chance this year. Like Troy Aikman's first year with the Cowboys, Jimmy is going to be feeling the 2007 year for a long time. He's too talented to suck for that long. While we don't like promoting Notre Dame, Clausen should have a better season this year.


FYI if you want to find a highlight real of Jimmy Clausen on youtube... it's not there

Players We're Friggin' Excited About

Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree

Obviously these two aren't one player like we normally do. But they are you see. Because of Graham Harrell's 5700 yards of passing, almost 2000 of that was from the bad mofo Michael Crabtree. For Crabtree to have 2000 yards of receiving, Harrell has to throw 2000 yards too him plus the slew of other able-handed receivers that the Pirate Mike Leach fields.

The make or break deal for these two will actually be sitting on the bench while Harrell and Crabtree are putting on the fireworks show. They both need a good defense to come in and finally stop the Texas, Oklahoma, Mizzous, and Oklahoma States of the Big XII from being able to score as much as they do. Ruffin McNeil improved the D last season, but they need even more strides as a team if they are going to finally challenge for the South.



Crabtree embodies the term "jailhouse break"

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This should never happen. If I'm a coach I'm telling my team to all just tackle the closest one to them and hold them down. 11 players of me tackling 11 players of them = no score. Probably wouldn't work. But it's better than running around like a chicken w/ my head cut off.


Regardless, I don't care if there were a million laterals and it took 10 minutes... it's still not as cool as this

Players We're Friggin' Excited About

Javon Ringer

Ringer made up the lightning of MSU's Thunder and Lightning (we're got to come up with another name for guys like this, White & Bush @ USC, Goodson & Lane @ A&M, Davis & Spiller @ Clemson) Like Biggie and the Quicky.... or lard bucket and greased lightning... Gosh... just something less cliche!!! I think I've used that word three times today regarding college football season... (cuddles in the corner repeating.. "150ish days... only 150ish days left") i digress. greatly.

Ringer had 1400+ yards but his TD stats fell victim to TD vulture Mike Als... err... Jehuu Caulcrick. Hopefully he'll get the glory this year as he'll be the star back.

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We're out again today. So Here's the Friday Film

It's Beanie wells tearing some stuff up.

Wells has had to share the field with other talented backs, but 2008 should be his year to shine. He's already on most peoples Heisman Boards.

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Over @ EDSBS we love the chop block. Especially Auburn chop blocks. So here's a couple of great ones








Followed by some sweet cut blocks




And since we've had Jorvorskie Lane fever this week... the "knock a guy down 2x in one play" block (my personal favorite)

Players We're Friggin' Excited about

Demarco Murray, RB Oklahoma

Murray had a breakout season for the Sooners with fellow freshman Sam Bradford. What held back Murray back from an even better season was injuries as well as having to share the backfield with Allen Patrick and a stable of other reliable backs. 2008 promises more carries for Murray behind another Stoops-put-together O-Line.

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That catch STILL gives me the chills

As does this. But in a less awesome way.

DON'T WATCH UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SICK.

Players We're Friggin' Excited about

Jake Locker

This week's player is an interesting one. After coming out of the gate looking like a bad MoFo at the beginning of the year knocking off Syracuse and a ranked Boise State, Washington's season then went downhill in a hurry. Locker isn't necessarily to blame for this, but his erratic passing didn't help down the stretch.

As you can see in the video below... he's got moves for a white boy. But few passes mixed in there can be an issue.

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This has been going around for quite a while... but we still love it. And we love Tebow.

And his choice in the ladies*










*Not really. But Internet rumors are always fun.

Players we're friggin excited about

Hopefully this will be a weekly feature if my rear's not too lazy to keep doing it.

#25 Knowshon Moreno - GA

Moreno redshirted in '06 and had a breakout season in '07. While he was anticipated to be good he was on the verge of great most of the season. He had 6 games over 100 yards as a freshman. That's pretty BMF in our book. Georgia looks to start the season towards the top and Moreno is one of the main reasons.

It would also turn out that he's the man. Who knew?