Archive for the ‘Football’ Category

08.26.08 Pac-10 Football Podcast - Week one preview. Actual Games!

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Hello Blawg fans,

In the fifth edition of our Pac-10 Football Podcast, we preview the weekend’s upcoming games.

How old is the Oklahoma State coach again? Can Rick Neuheisel conjure up the points he needs to beat Tennessee? What needs to happen for Washington to upset Oregon?

08.26.08 Pac-10 Football Podcast (part one)

08.26.08 Pac-10 Football Podcast (part two)

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What do NFL GMs want at QB?

Monday, August 25th, 2008

or Let’s Stop Worrying About Age and Focus on Production

Constable Echelon

Why are there only a half dozen decent pro quarterbacks? Quarterback is the most glamorous position in American sports. Thousands of kids want to play qb, and sure most of them aren’t 6′2+” or blessed with a cannon for an arm, but enough people are that the Dolphins shouldn’t have been barely able to fill the position last year.

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Know Your Enemy: 2008 Arizona Cardinals

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Constable Echelon

Jesus Christ. I just went back and read my preview of the 2007 Arizona Cardinals. Not to pat myself on the back (read: to pat myself on the back), but that is a fucking odyssey. The bar has been set.

Constable Echelon celebrates the upcoming NFL season by previewing the hometown Seattle Seahawks’ opponents in the NFC West.

2008 will mark the Cardinals’ 21st year in the desert (Moses is nonplussed). During this span they have managed a playoff appearance. When I say “a” in that last sentence I pronounce it with the short vowel sound a la Wayne referring to the gun rack Stacy bought him in the seminal 90s buddy pic Philadelphia.

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