Week 3 - News & Notes

Welcome to the afterglow of another great week in the YouBeQB universe. I've got some fresh News & Notes ramblings to hit you with, but before we do that, let me call out some of the impressive performers we see on the site.

QB Spotlight: Let's give some well-deserved to kudos to QB 'SpanishMongoose' , who is simply crushing the All-Pro mode. Mongoose has made 856 play calls, and has been correct 48% of the time, which is simply phenomenal. This gives Mongoose a QB Rating of 259, which is about the highest I've seen. Mongoose has managed to stay in the Top Ten of the overall leaderboard (#8 actually, with 32,550 points) but has only played 14 total games! This is compared to some of the other regular names at the top of the leader-board, some of whom have played as many as 100 games or more. Terrific job, SpanishMongoose - I don't know what your name means, but I'm afraid of you. And if you feel like giving away some of your secrets, or perhaps begin teaching a seminar on football knowledge, just let me know where to send my Paypal payment.

QB Spotlight Honorable Mention: Fantastic job done by QB 'bulldoginit22'. This University of Georgia fan out of Atlanta is near the very top of the leaderboard when it comes to play-calling accuracy. Bulldoginit22 has correctly predicted an astonishing 57% of his (or her) play calls so far. It should be noted that this was while in the 'Rookie' mode rather than 'All-Pro', but impressive nonetheless.

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JOHNNY U’s CRACKBACKS - Week 3 Edition:

• I realize I’m about the 50,000^th person to make some kind of smart remark about this, but regardless I’m compelled to say this to Peyton Manning’s agent: “It’s OK to say NO every once in a while when you get a commercial offer for your client.” Even Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller think Peyton has no standards when it comes to taking acting jobs.
• DeShawn Wynn, meet Frisman Jackson. Frisman… this is DeShawn.
• Memo to Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy: Shouldn't you be HAPPY after a win? Check out this post-game press conference tirade from OSU coach Gundy. He's really ticked off about this article written in a local paper. As Stewart Mandel from CNNSI said in his column this week, "It was the kind of monologue you usually only see in a movie (think Nick Nolte’s character at the end of Blue Chips, or perhaps an angrier version of Tom Cruise’s "wig out" speech in Jerry Maguire)."
• What was with all the switching in and out between Culpepper and McNown in the Oakland-Cleveland game? Has Lane Kiffin been watching tape of Steve Spurrier’s 1997 Florida Gators or something? What’s so hard about naming Culpepper the starter until further notice (i.e. when JaMarcus is ready to roll)? Culpepper isn’t great but he’s ten times the QB that Josh McMuffin is.
• To me, the biggest shock of the Week 3 NFL schedule was this:

Bucs 24

Rams 3

(Makes me glad that I don’t gamble on football games)

• Is it possible that, in college football, that the Rutgers-type story of 2007 is Rutgers again? They're 3-0, ranked #17, and no one thought they would be this good. You may call me Captain Obvious.
• Don’t know if you all caught this on NFL GameDay, but in that wild Eagles-Lions game (56-21 final), when Brian Westbrook and Kevin Curtis scored three times EACH in the first half, it was the first time in NFL HISTORY that a pair of teammates scored 3 TDs apiece in a single half. Zoinks, Scooby.
• Also, the 63 points those two teams put up in the first half (42-21, Eagles at the break) was the 2^nd highest total in NFL history.
• One final note on the Eagles: I heard a lot of unkind things said about the Eagles’ throwback uniforms that they sported in this game – powder blue and yellow jobs that supposedly were inspired by the flag of Sweden. They were ugly, don’t get me wrong, but I was much more repulsed by the shiny silver things that the Patriots had going. Now THOSE things were hideous. Looked like a cross between Dr. Evil’s spacesuit and a Halloween costume bought at K-Mart.

• From the "That's Just Wrong" File: We've finally found the one piece of memorabilia that OJ did NOT try to steal from that hotel room in Las Vegas.
• As proof-positive that celebrities never, EVER learn, word is now circulating that there is yet another in a long line of leaked X-rated tapes featuring famous people who were too stupid to hit the 'Delete' button. This newest one apparently features Meg White (drummer for the White Stripes). While the people responsible for leaking this tape spend their time trying to ponder how they will make money off of this purloined property, I find myself - in the meantime - attempting to come up with a dollar figure in my own head. And by that, I mean how high of a dollar figure I would pay to NEVER have to see that tape.