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Worst Jersey Ever..? Do You Think You Could Do Better?
To be honest, when I think of the pioneering of sports jersey’s, I don’t think of the 500 different helmet, jersey and pants bottom combinations Nike has branded against Oregon Ducks. I do though get mixed feelings when I see the throwback uniforms the Memphis Grizzlies sported against the Clippers last Thursday (pictured on the right). 
The Grizzlies’ retro jersey’s, and the game against the Clippers, was to be a sentiment to the old American Basketball Assosiation, 1967-1976, a “lively” league famous for its prominent red, white and blue basketball, entertaining (.. although unconventional) half-time promotions and the adoption of a three-point shot; advertised as the “home run” of basketball. If you’ve ever seen the movie, Semi-Pro, then know Will Ferrell and the Flint Michigan Tropics weren’t far from what the ABA was at the time. The league was successful enough though that Four of ABA teams eventually were adopted into the NBA: the Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets. Thursday was to be allusion to a rematch of the old Los Angeles Stars and Memphis Pros/Tams/Sounds; and yes, Memphis did change their team name 3 times in 5 years. Read More >>
Peyton Manning in Seattle?
The rebuilding of the Indianapolis Colts’ franchise is well under way, but one question persists: Will it involve the NFL franchise’s very foundation?
As the Colts move from what was to what will be, the future of quarterback Peyton Manning remains uncertain. Owner Jim Irsay holds Manning’s fate with the Colts in his hands and will make the call by March 8 when a $28 million option bonus is due.
In an exclusive interview with Indianapolis Star columnist Bob Kravitz, the NFL‘s only four-time MVP touched on several topics, including how things have changed at the team complex. That, by the way, is where he continues to rehab from Sept. 8 neck surgery that forced him to miss the 2011 season.
“I’m not in a very good place for healing, let’s just say that,” Manning said. “Everybody’s walking around on eggshells. I don’t recognize our building right now. There’s such complete and total change.”
The day after the Colts ended the season 2-14, Irsay fired vice chairman Bill Polian and vice president/general manager Chris Polian. He replaced them with general manager Ryan Grigson.
On Jan. 17, Irsay and Grigson fired coach Jim Caldwell and most of his coaching staff.
So many individuals key to the Colts’ long run of success—115 wins from 2000-09, a league record for a decade; a league record-tying nine consecutive playoff appearances; two trips to the Super Bowl, including a win over Chicago in Super Bowl XLI—no longer are around.
Fantasy Football With Seattle Seahawk Players?
When a NFL team wins its division, you would think it has a lot of fantasy relevant players on the roster. But the 2010 Seahawks were arguably the worst division winner in NFL history, going 7-9. While they sprung a memorable upset against the Saints in the wild-card round, it hardly covers up the many problems facing coach Pete Carroll on both sides of the ball.
The quarterback situation is a big question. Matt Hasselbeck is a free agent and his future looks to be elsewhere. Hasselbeck was not good in ’10, but he was far better than Charlie Whitehurst, the other option on the roster. The Seahawks will likely look for an upgrade at the position, but until they get one, the passing game has to be questioned. As it is, Mike Williams is the only Seahawks receiver owners should be thinking about before the late rounds on draft day.
Pete Carroll expects a bust out year from Golden Tate
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is expecting a breakout NFL season in 2011 from second-year NFL wide receiver Golden Tate.
A second-round NFL draft pick out of Notre Dame last year, Tate caught only 21 passes for 227 yards with no touchdowns. He made some impressive catches at practice during training camp and early in the season, but he struggled with running precise routes and making the right reads.
“There’s nothing we would like to see more than to elevate Golden’s effectiveness,” Carroll told the Tacoma News Tribune. “We just didn’t get him over the hump last year, and we need to do that. He’ll be in a position to take over a huge role for us.”
Can Cutler Step Up Or Will Seahawks Capitalize On Their Experience?
Jay Cutler has reached the NFL playoffs for the first time, his first time in the next level of spotlight. So it’s time to get to know who he really is. Is the public image of him right?
“Just the opposite,” Chicago running back Matt Forte said. “Jay is a good guy and he comes to work everyday to work hard.”
Well, that was interesting. No one had mentioned anything about Cutler’s image being of a bad guy who is lazy. Forte came up with that on his own, also saying that Cutler isn’t arrogant at all.
The truth is, it doesn’t really matter what kind of person Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is, though he seems wholly unlikable.
What we need to find out about Cutler is what kind of quarterback he is, whether he is a star of the future, as he has been labeled forever, or just another person willing to coast on his great talent, never bothering to make the most of it.
This is it for Cutler, his big moment. The next step is right there in front of him, facing Seattle, with its losing record. It is such an easy step against a mediocre team, on the home field, that to blow this would be to define Cutler as all hype.
The city of Chicago knows it has a Super Bowl-quality defense and Super Bowl-quality special teams. So why isn’t it feeling super confident now, going crazy the way it did in 1985 with its one Super Bowl-winning team?
Cutler.
No one is sure who he is.
“I’m probably not the first quarterback who hasn’t ever been to the playoffs in his first five years,” Cutler said. “And I won’t be the last.”
Has anyone on the team with playoff experience said anything about …
Marshawn Lynch Impresses Saints Even as He Knocks Them Out of Playoffs
If they hadn’t been playing the Seattle Seahawks, the New Orleans Saints might have had a greater appreciation for the 67-yard fourth-quarter touchdown run that pushed Lynch into NFL postseason lore Saturday.
Running a play the Seahawks call “17 power,” Lynch broke through the right side of the Saints defense with 4:20 left in the game, then treated the Saints defenders as his personal rag dolls, throwing them left and right as he exploded for a touchdown run that not only secured a 41-36 win for Seattle but will be on highlight films for years to come.
Lynch broke a half dozen tackles, and the each one of the misses lowered the Saints’ postseason coffin another foot into the ground.
The trouble for the Saints was that, down by four points at the time, they spent all their energy trying to strip the ball out of Lynch’s hands. As they did, the game slipped through their arms.
“In a situation like that, the first thing you have to do is make sure you’ve got the tackle,” New Orleans defensive end Alex Brown said. “Then you can go for the ball.”
It’s a basic rule, but in the last five minutes of a playoff game, even the defending Super Bowl champions aren’t immune from making huge mistakes. The missed tackles were as huge as they come.
And then there was Lynch, running as if he was the target in a greased pig competition, running both around and over the Saints’ defenders.
“Lynch ran his ass off on that one,” Brown said. “That’s one of the best runs I’ve ever seen. He was really moving.”
Wild Card Wild Weekend
OK, we all know Seattle doesn’t really belong in the NFL playoffs. And if anyone doesn’t, just look at the spread: New Orleans, which is traveling 2,100 miles to the Pacific Northwest, is a 10 1/2-point road favorite for Saturday’s opening postseason game.
Is it a little too much?
Well, the Saints’ running game has problems: Both Pierre Thomas and rookie surprise Chris Ivory went on injured reserve this week — leaving the major burden on fumble-prone Julius Jones, a Seahawks reject; and putting a bigger load on Reggie Bush, who is usually better with less use.
It also means Drew Brees will throw more, which probably won’t be a problem.
And Brees overmatches either Matt Hasselbeck (and his sore back) or the inexperienced Charlie Whitehurst — Pete Carroll has been coy all week about his starting quarterback. If it’s Whitehurst, he’ll see blitzes from Gregg Williams that … well, he really won’t see them coming and the revolving door offensive line probably won’t block them.
And it’s not as if the home-field advantage in Seattle is as great as it’s been in the past — the Seahawks allowed 42, 41 and 34 points at Qwest Field to the Chiefs, Giants and Falcons, respectively.
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Seahawks Get Last Laugh – A Long Shot At Redemption Though
Somebody had to win it, so it might as well be the place that spawned Temple of the Dog.
Viva the NFC West, a NFL division so weak and mediocre — if we were in a holiday hangover mood we’d call it just plain awful – it’s sending a sub-.500 team to next Saturday’s slaughterhouse. The Seattle Seahawks, by virtue of a 16-6 win over the St. Louis Rams here Sunday night, will play host to the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Wild Card, and really, isn’t that pretty much the exact scenario Pete Carroll had in mind when he brought his coaching talents to the Pacific Northwest?
Sure, Carroll didn’t predict it happening quite like this, but the first-year Seattle coach is hardly bothered his 7-9 team is the first with a losing record to make the playoffs in the modern era. He began the season on such a high, firing up the fan base with a 4-2 start, but then came the maddening free-fall, the Seahawks losing seven of nine games, blowouts everywhere. A recent poll had more Seattle fans hoping the Seahawks would lose their final game so the team would get a higher draft pick, rather than beating the Rams and prolonging the inevitable face slap.
Embarrassing, slipping so ignobly into the playoffs? Tell that to the New York Giants, who’d love to be this embarrassed. Or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who wouldn’t mind such a slip.
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Carroll, Seahawks Won’t Apologize for Record
“We didn’t get here the way we all dreamed of getting here, but we got here,” Carroll said. “We really came together on this night and played really good ball. A complete win for us and I’m really fired up about that.”
Now Carroll gets a cozy reunion with Reggie Bush, just one of the spicy sidebars to a postseason game few expected. Some other twists to ponder: Will Charlie Whitehurst, so inspiring and mistake-free in just his second NFL start, get the call at quarterback against the Saints, or will Carroll go with old-reliable Matt Hasselbeck, whose injuries should be mostly healed? Can the Seattle defense do to Drew Brees what it did to St. Louis rookie quarterback Sam Bradford? Were those pod people posing as Seahawks rushers? Is it possible for Qwest Field to get any louder, or should fans just assume hearing loss is part of the pain?
“I’m so proud of him. This was a big deal, big stage for him,” Carroll said of Whitehurst, while dodging the question of which QB gets the next, most important start. “So proud of Matt for trying to get back tonight. It was great we didn’t have to play him. Charlie had his chance, stepped up and did it.”
Chiefs Rolling With Ease
There were many statistical anomalies (are there other kinds of anomalies?) in Kansas City’s win over Seattle. Running back Jamaal Charles had 173 yards rushing and wide receiver Dwayne Bowe had 170 yards receiving.
How often does a NFL team have a RB and WR over 170 yards?
Especially when the receiver gets three touchdowns.
Bowe’s day was pretty ridiculous. Matt Cassell had 223 yards passing, and Bowe had 170 of them — on 13 catches.
In the category of obscure records, only two other receivers in NFL history have had games with at least 13 catches, 170 yards and three TDs: Jimmy Smith of Jacksonville and a guy named Jerry Rice. Now Dwayne Bowe is in that group.
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Seahawks Remain Only Team Eligible to Get Vincent Jackson from Chargers
If San Diego is going to trade top-flight wide receiver Vincent Jackson, it’s going to be to the Seattle Seahawks. The question now is this: Are the Chargers serious about trading Jackson?
Maybe not. The agents for Jackson, Neil Schwartz and Jonathan Feinsod, say they were denied permission by San Diego management to talk to any team other than Seattle. The Seahawks were given permission to talk to Jackson, who has made it clear he does not want to play under the one-year tender offer the Chargers have made to the restricted free agent.
Jackson, who has 168 catches for 2,888 yards and 19 touchdowns the last three seasons for San Diego, would be a huge boost to the Seattle offense. But Schwartz said he doesn’t get the impression that the Chargers are trying to move his client.
“I asked the Chargers if we could talk to the rest of the teams in the NFL,” Schwartz told Yahoo.com “They said there were certain teams they didn’t want to trade him to, and I said, ‘Fine, tell me those teams and we can exclude them.’ Even after that, they said no, so the only conclusion I can come to is they don’t want to trade him.”
The agents are saying about a half dozen teams have indicated some level of interest in obtaining Jackson’s services. If the Chargers want to work the best deal they can, it would seem to make sense that they open the field to other interested parties.
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