Reggie Bush Proves me Wrong

- Ok, not really. He did score two touchdowns, which ties him for the season with former Gopher Matt Spaeth, but he still sucked. Both were one-yard touchdowns, which actually is really surprising because I didn't think he could score on the goal line, but those two one yard TDs were about his average gain for the night, he had 7 attempts for 15 yards. Tack on 6 catches for 20, and that's a whole 35 total yards on the night. For "the best player to come into the NFL since Barry Sanders." Good call, morons.

- FatDale once again managed to outrush Chris Brown, but only because the coaches decided to give him the ball 17 times to 11 for Brown. White rushed for 50 yards (2.9 ypc) and Brown for 38 (3.5 ypc). Season stats are Brown +67.

- The Saints are clearly broken. With zero running game, Brees can't do much and has 1 TD and 7 Ints, with a QB rating of 57.1

- I wouldn't panic on the Chargers quite yet, they have too much talent to be this bad, but it doesn't look good. Hopefully the Packers aren't for real. I don't think I could handle a good Packers team.

- Mewelde Moore's QB rating after that incompletion on Sunday is 39.6. T-Jax has a rating of 40.0. That's god damned hilarious. And how good does Adrian Peterson look? It's going to be a fun six years or however long RBs last.

- I'm getting bored with football. Can college basketball start now?

Leftovers

Just some left over thoughts from the weekend.

1. Sources say that Colt Iverson, Ralph Sampson, and Devoe Joesph all enjoyed their recent visits to the U, and it's been reported that the Gophers likely lead for Joseph. Can you imagine that recruiting class? #76, #84, and #140 on Rivals top 150. Not Fab Five type material, but a HUGE step up for this team.

2. Clearly, things are much worse than even I could have imagined for the fighting Gopher football team. It was obvious that this year would be a struggle, with a new QB and last year's horrible defense that didn't look like it was going to get any better, but I don't think anybody could have expected this. Since you could only see the game on some fancy internet thing that I don't quite understand, I didn't see the game at all, but turning it over seven times to zero and giving up 463 yards passing against Florida Atlantic tell you all you need to know. Much of the blame for this team's performance still falls on Mason, as these were his players, but at some point you have to wonder about Brewster's ability to prepare a team to compete. I mean, this is a freakin' Sun Belt team here. It's hard to imagine this team winning a Big Ten came this year. Or even competing.

3. As bad as things seemed for Michigan, that team looks downright awesome now compared to Notre Dame after the Wolverines bounced the Irish 38-0 on Saturday. Michigan's defense gave up 34 points to Appalachian State and 39 against Oregon, but Notre Dame couldn't get on the board at all. The Irish are 0-3, with losses by 30, 21, and 38 points. They're sort of like the Gophers of the high profile programs this year. Adios, Charlie Weis!

4. QB controversy for the Vikes? Probably not. They traded up and used a second rounder on Tarvaris, so I'm going to guess they'll be pretty committed to him, but wow, did he make some bad decisions yesterday. Four picks, and I don't recall for sure but at least a couple were just horrendously bad. Between the Vikings, Gopher football, and what I expect from Gopher basketball and the Wolves, this is going to be a long, dark, cold winter. Hockey doesn't count.

5. FatDale somehow managed to outrush Chris Brown 64 yards to 34 yards. For the season Brown is not +79 over FatDale.

6. Reggie Bush is still overrated, 10 carries for 27 yards yesterday.

7. Even though the Patriots look awesome, Laurence Maroney is looking like a crappy fantasy pick. He's basically splitting time with Sammy Morris. Sammy Morris? I am not very happy with my Maroney pick right now.

8. I'm going to be in Arkansas next week. Expect drunken rambling posts.

Told you so.

Remember that one time how I told you all that Chris Brown was going to destroy FatDale White in total rushing yards for the year? Turns out, I was totally right. See:

Chris Brown: 19 rushes, 175 yards (9.2 ypc)
FatDale: 18 rushes, 66 yards (3.7 ypc)

Domination. But wait, 9.2 yards per carry is ridiculous. Chris Brown must have had a long run that totally skewed the stats in his favor.

Good point, guy. Brown did have a long of 42 yards (FatDale's long: 13 yards. He must have been very tired after that.) So let's take that out, then both RBs will have 18 carries. It's probably very even.

FatDale: 66 yards
Brown: 131 yards.

Wow. Almost double. Clearly, I am right and you might as well just admit it. Anyone who didn't see this coming deserves to be in last place.

YTD: Brown +109

In conclusion, Hayden Panettiere is hot.

EDIT: Mario Williams 1 TD, Reggie Bush 0

Awesome Football Prediction

So here's a fearless football prediction: FatDale White is going to be an absolute suckhole this year. Seriously, geez look at him. He's so fat. And I know fat.

And also - he's bad. Honestly, it's ridiculous. People (Nissey) are all like, "OMG, he was so awesome in college, I love that guy", but really. You know who esle was good in college - Ron Dayne. You know who else - Ed O'Bannon (that hits Nissey right where it counts.)

And then you're probably all like "But wait WWWWWWWW, he's the starting running back for the Titans, he must be awesome." And I'm all like, "Guess what Morons, look at these sweet stats from the preseason:"

Game 1: 6 rushes, 12 yards
Game 2: DNP - fatness
Game 3: 11-51. That's pretty good, a 4.6 ypc average. But wait. Chris Brown (who had an awesome game that one time against Nebraska, which is irrelevant except that it was awesome) averaged 7.0 yards per carry. I'm no genius (just kidding) but that's way better than FatDale.
Game 4: 15-58. Wow, pretty good again, maybe I'm wrong. Wait, what? Chris Brown averaged 7 ypc once again. Well, he's clearly the better runner. But if I was in a keeper league I'd totally keep FatDale. Good call.

He's not nearly as overrated as Reggie Bush, who would be a sweet WR but is basically Warrick Dunn+, but holy god why do people like FatDale?

I will leave you with this, a little Chris Brown (aka Titans second best RB behind V. Young):



To be fair, here's a FatDale highlight film as well:



I was going to say something else, but I don't remember.

Also, I'm drunk.