Another fantastic week of games, and another stellar week at YouBeQB! Lots of new QBs joining in the fun, and we're glad that you found your way to the Blog, because it's blog-tastic.
One of the regular features that we do on Tuesday mornings is to hand out some awards for great performances (and some not-so-great) by various QBs on the YouBeQB site. So let's do that now, hmm?
QB Spotlight: (Since we're seeing some of the same names atop the leaderboard that we saw last week, I thought I would call out some of the other QBs who are putting up stellar performances on YouBeQB.) Big round of applause for QB '12fan12' - of all QBs on the site who have picked more than 10 plays, 12fan12's success percentage of 58% is better than any of them. According to the QB bio, 12fan12 is out of Yakima Washington, and favorite team is the Indianapolis Colts. Great job, 12fan12! Keep up the great picks, and please give me some tips if you're feeling charitable.
12fan12 accepts his award graciously.
QB Spotlight Honorable Mention: Kudos to 'FleaFlicka69', who is sporting the top QB Rating among all the YouBeQB quarterbacks. FleaFlicka has accumulated a gaudy 245 QB Rating, due in large part to his 47,060 points, 38% success rate on play-calls, and $48M salary.
Nice job, Flicka! However, YouBeQB officials think you might be guilty of taking performance enhancing supplements, so a team of YouBeQB officials have been dispatched to your hometown of Austin, TX to obtain a sample from you -- so that we might do some drug testing. No one should be this good! Keep it up, and please let the rest of us know how you're doing it.
"Wait - whaddya mean you suspect
I might have taken HGH?"
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JOHNNY U’s CRACKBACKS - Week 2 Edition:
- A lot of people are making an argument (and it's a GOOD argument) that LSU - not USC - is the best team in the nation. They are *killing* teams. In three games, the Tigers have allowed 7 points total - and that was to a Virginia Tech team that is pretty darned good (ranked #17 in the AP poll). LSU's other two games were shutouts, and so this leaves the Tigers ranked #1 in the nation in Total Defense. How good does that October 6 matchup between Florida and LSU look?!
- By the way, LSU fans? Don't get too attached to head coach Les Miles. Enjoy him while you've got him - because when Lloyd Carr gets canned at Michigan (something I wish I could put money on, because it's a LOCK), the first person the honks at The Big House are going to call is Les Miles. And for those people asking why Miles would leave LSU for a Michigan program that his slipped out of the top-tier of college football schools, the answer is simple: He attended Michigan, he got his start in coaching at Michigan, and he idolized Bo Schembechler. And, yeah - one more thing: the Big Ten is about a hundred times easier of a conference than the SEC. Book it!
"With every Michigan loss, my price tag gets another
zero added to it. And I need to live near a Waffle House."
- I could be grasping at straws here, but I think the source of Donovan McNabb’s struggles could be the fact that he ditched the big Afro. He went with a completely shaved head in the preseason, and is now letting it grow in a bit. He’s just not the same player without the Huggy Bear fro. Let’s dispatch someone to go swipe his Wahl™ clippers.
- I’m sure some of you heard about the controversy regarding the Emmy Awards. Kathy Griffin apparently had her acceptance speech cut from the pre-taped broadcast for offensive comments she made - something that mocked people who thanked God for their awards, and that Jesus had nothing to do with her receiving this award.
- Wow. I think I speak for all of us when I say: You’re telling me Kathy Griffin is still on TV?
- Speaking of the Emmy Awards, it’s hard for me to believe that they had to resort to having Ryan Freaking Seacrest as host?! The next funny thing that guy says will be the first. And he can try as hard as he wants to attempt to make *really* skinny ties cool, but it’s not going to work. He just ends up looking like Fred MacMurray.
- Listen, I know that Jeff Garcia is like 150 years old or something, but the guy still looks pretty good! And on that 25-30 yard post pattern, nobody throws a ball that looks any better than Garcia. I don’t even mind that he drives a glittery, pearl-colored Escalade SXT. I’d rather have him on my fantasy team than Jason Campbell or Alex Smith.
- From the “Tell Me Something I Don’t Frickin Know” File: All I have to say is this: Joey Harrington sucks. A lot. Thank you for your attention.
- So does Josh McCown. That is all.
- Noel Devine, the freshman RB for West Virginia, is an out-and-out stud. I kind of have a man-crush on him, a little bit. Mountaineer fans better hope he sticks around for a couple years, because Dude has crazy amounts of game. Take a look at highlights of his runs against Maryland, and tell me he doesn't look like the second-coming of Reggie Bush. If you search 'noel devine' in YouTube, you'll also find some footage of him running in high school that will melt your brain. Check this out, and make sure to see the sick, SICK spin move that he pulls at the 1:30 mark. It's like something out of Madden.
- "When You Get to Hell, You Can Pretend it's a Sauna" -- I just noticed this story making the rounds on the AP Wire - apparently a Nebraska state senator has sued God for making terroristic threats against him and his constituents. When I say "sued God", I mean he actually filed a lawsuit in court naming God as the defendant. When my brain finally stopped spinning like a Hannukah dreidel, I was left with only one thing to say on this topic: Hey, Nebraska! Nice job on electing your public officials! Even Minnesota (the state that elected Jesse 'The Body' Ventura governor) thinks that you guys need raise your standards for civic leaders.
- Did you see that fantastic catch Todd Heap made in the corner of the end zone against the Jets – it was a thing of beauty. Tight ends aren’t supposed to be that nimble and have hands like that. Heap is a stud.
- Memo to Deion Sanders and his satin dress shirts with stripes on the collar that match his ties: 1998 called, and it wants its fashion trend back.
- From the ‘Is That a Friggin' Fact?’ File -- Not sure if you caught this tidbit on 'NFL Primetime', but in that crazy 51-45 Browns-Bengals game, it was the first time since 1970 that the same game had a 400-yd passer, a 200-yd rusher and a 200-yd receiver. Not only that, but it was only the second time in NFL history that a QB threw for 6 TD passes AND LOST. (The other time was in 1986 and Dan Marino did it, back in those days when the Phins had no rushing game and zero defense whatsoever.) I love me some Ocho Cinco!
- Finally, my favorite quote of the season so far comes from Dolphins rookie RB Lorenzo Booker. He was talking about his first experience lining up in an NFL backfield, at the start of training camp:
"I looked to my left and saw Jason Taylor. I'm not going that way. Looked to the right and there's Joey Porter. Can't go that way. I said to myself, 'You know what? I'm not at Florida State anymore.' "
Toto, we're not in Florida State anymore.
---JohnnyUnitas
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