Wednesday Link Dump: Starring a Couple of Big, Fat Idiots

January 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Your Wednesday Link Dump is prepared and ready, complete with a link to an awesome quiz by Mental Floss that tests your knowledge of NFL longsnappers and Vice Presidential candidates. Yeah, that’s right.

Also, more proof that JaMarcus Russell is an idiot (like we needed it), more proof that John Heyman might be a big, fat, idiot (at least according to our friends at Major League Jerk), and a pretty insightful piece from one of my favorite blogs about why every blogger needs a non-blogger spouse.

Enjoy.

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The QBs of the 2007 NFL Draft: The Worst Single Position of Any NFL Draft Class Ever?

November 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

We are now more than 2 1/2 years into the NFL careers of the players who were drafted in 2007.

If you scroll down the list of first round draftees, several names will jump out at you of players who have already carved out solid beginnings to their careers.

In a few cases, some of the first round draftees from 2007 have proven to be franchise cornerstones worthy of high picks: Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas, Adrian Peterson, Patrick Willis, Darrelle Revis, Ted Ginn Jr, to name a few.

In other cases, however, the players drafted in 2007 have proven to be worth far less than what their draft position might suggest. This is no more evident than with respect to the two QBs drafted in the first round in 2007: JaMarcus Russell and Brady Quinn.

My goodness, what wasted first round picks those two are proving to be.

And amazingly, Russell and Quinn are not alone. Several other QBs were taken in 2007, none of whom have amounted to much of anything. Let’s review the carnage.

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NFL Quarterback Power Rankings

November 10, 2009 By 9 Comments
jay-cutler

No position in the NFL is more highly scrutinized, debated, and discussed than the quarterback. It’s impossible to build a consistent winner without one (and people who follow the Cleveland Browns would tell you that it’s impossible to find one period).

After this weekend’s Packers loss to the Bucs, Aaron Rodgers was a popular topic of conversation on Twitter. I made the comment that he has not shown me that he has the “it” that people always talk about when it comes to QBs. Some agreed and some disagreed, but it got me thinking about where Rodgers falls in relation to today’s crop of QBs.

Thus, I set out to rank the quarterbacks currently holding starting NFL gigs, taking into account their current age and skill level, future potential, past accomplishments, and the general confidence level I would have if that player was the QB of my team.

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