Posts Tagged ‘NFL Draft’
Author: Nonpopulist Published: April 28th, 2010
The NFL draft this year was great. I think the three-day format worked, and I heard the ESPN coverage of the first round got a 5.5 share on Thursday night. That’s television-speak for a lot of people watched it. Profootballtalk.com has a report that at least 45.4 million people watched at least a minute of draft coverage. I watched the NFL Network for the whole draft because I value my sanity, and I’m not sure if many people realize it yet, but a new NFL Network star was born on Saturday. Corey Chavous, of the hilariously named Draft Nasty and former NFL player, filled in when Mike Mayock lost his voice on the final day of the draft. Chavous did a good job, and he had knowledge of the picks made way down in the 7th round when it becomes noticeable how quiet the other analysts get from a lack of knowledge. That’s when you hear people at the desk begin to bloviate about teams’ overall drafts, but don’t get too specific because “it’s too early to tell.”
It is not, however, too early to begin laughing at the Broncos for drafting Tim Tebow. God must have come to Coach McDaniels (or should we go ahead and start calling him former head coach) the night before the draft in a vision and told the coach to draft Tebow. That is the only logical scenario I can come up with as to how Tebow got drafted before the third round. I’ve heard of reach picks, but that one was too high for Manute Bol to reach.
The draft always feels like the payoff, the oasis in the desert of the offseason, and my favorite part of the Madden video games is always offseason mode. I always take my time and savor the moments instead of skipping through to rush to the preseason- barf. One thing troubling about the draft this year is now that the draft is over, analysts and prognosticators are shy about giving draft grades. Peter King says he won’t do draft grades. What’s wrong Peter King? Brett Favre made fun of you for doing draft grades one time, and it hurt your feelings? Adam Schefter, grow a pair and grade the draft. Colin Cowherd won’t grade a team’s draft. He will only grade a teams entire offseason and the first and maybe second round pick in the draft. I thought you had some conviction, Colin.
What these other sports journalists and commentators lack, Mel Kiper Jr. has in spades, balls. He doesn’t cut and run from his scouting. He gives grades no matter how far his beloved Jimmy Clausen slid down the draft board. Kiper realizes the teams aren’t going to grade themselves and need someone from the outside keeping them accountable for when they screw up by not listening to him. Kiper giving grades has inspired me to also let my nuts hang out and hand out some grades, no analysis, though. Grades only! You don’t like it? Well, sir, these colors don’t run. Watch out because Vampire Kiper has my back as I see if my nuts hang to the floor.
Keep in mind this list is very subjective. That does not make it in any way less ballsy.
Arizona Cardinals: C+
Atlanta Falcons: B+
Baltimore Ravens: A-
Buffalo Bills: Participant
(more…)
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: NFL, NFL Draft, NFL draft grades, sports reporters
Category NFL Wrapup, Prognostication |
Author: gally Published: April 22nd, 2010
Evening folks. It’s NFL draft time. We’re live blogging it, so come on in, grab a beer and tell your best abortion joke. Even though this post is up, the draft starts around 7:30 PM EST so feel free to start showing up at 7 PM EST. @nonpopulist @PJDiaries and @THELogic will also announce on Twitter when it goes up, so enjoy yourself folks. Remember, you’re free to do anything Ben Roethlisberger wouldn’t.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: 2010, Drinking Games, live blog, NFL, NFL Draft
Category live blog |
Author: Nonpopulist Published: April 22nd, 2010
Special News Bulletin: The Gally Blog will be hosting a live blog during the first round of the NFL draft tonight. We will begin around 7:15 Eastern Standard Time. Bring your booze, draft fervor, and emotional problems masked as dick jokes. Your hosts will be Logic and Nonpopulist along with appearances by Purple Jesus Diaries. Also rumored to be appearing are Gally, Gimp, WhiteSpeedReceiver, and K-Gun. All your favorites.
- I like to call this White & Mild
We interrupt the continuous stream of mock draftiness about which no one appears to care to bring you an original post about two things very near and dear to all of our hearts, The NFL and drinking. I was listening to The Dan Patrick Show today, and the topic of NFL draft drinking games came up. We here at The Gally Blog would like to encourage you to drink responsibly, especially if it’s Firefly Vodka, because with a name like Firefly, you know you’ll get lit up. /Boom, walkoff shot, writing slogans and shamelessly whoring. Someone tell Firefly to ask me about my game.
(more…)
Popularity: 3% [?]
Tags: Drinking Games, Firefly tastes like happy, NFL, NFL Draft, sex
Category Better while Intoxicated, Drinking Games |
Author: Nonpopulist Published: April 22nd, 2010
The Gally Blog will be having a live blog draft party beginning around 7:15 PM EST/ 6:15 PM CST. Come drink and hate with us. At least when your team bumbles their pick you will be able to curse them somewhere of public record. Logic and Nonpopulist will be your hosts with all of your Gally Blog favorites stopping by. Bring a friend and some booze, mooch.
The third installment (picks 22-32): Can you feel the NFL draft fever heating up? Oooohhhh, it burns when I pee! We here at The Gally Blog decided to pool our knowledge and do a mock draft for you, the reader. Sure, we could have started doing mock drafts right after Alabama won the national championship, but it is MUCH easier to wait until everyone else does a mock draft so we can cheat off of other people’s work compare notes. In case you missed it, Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.
22. Patriots- Nonpopulist: Sergio Kindle, LB, Texas. Has the Patriots defense been a sham for enough years to make commentators stop talking about it yet? Sergio has a nice name and is a good pass rushing LB. They’ll be lucky to still get him here because I have seen Kindle going higher in a few mock drafts.
Gally: What are you talking about? The Pats defense has that guy. You know, Richard Seymour. Oh, well what about Teddy Bruschi? He had a stroke? Seriously? Well what about that guy, or you know that other guy?
K-Gun: Hey! Sergio! You’ve gotta get us outta here and so I say hey, Sergio! It’s gettin’ kinda hot in here and so I say hey. [horns] [oioioi]
23. Packers- PJDiaries: Devin McCourty, CB, Rutgers. As a Vikings fan, writing about the Packers is easy. They need to draft everything because they suck! Teehee! This is also where WisconsinRob and I fight. Anyway, the main focus for the worst team ever at this pick was determined by their gang bang in the Arizona playoff game where Kurt Warner threw for 7000 yards and their offensive line blacked out on the last play where Erin was sacked. Oline and defensive back field help became the focus. It’s all pretty fresh, but since you can’t draft for two needs at once (unless the dude swings both ways, amirite?!) the Packers take the better player available to help their oline or DBs and that’s Devin McCourty, the CB from Rutgers. Charles Brown, the OT from USC is an option here but I don’t buy it especially when you still have that gaping vagina Al Harris on your team. You have to replace him soon.
Gally: yeah, it’s a pretty weak year for top notch o-lineman this year, so they may as well upgrade their secondary. Even Wisconsin Rob would agree here.
24. Eagles- Logic: Taylor Mays. S, USC. The Eagles might be calling this season a wash and rebuilding with their young skill players. I see an upgrade on defense in their future. Too bad their fans can’t upgrade their class, or SAT scores.
PJD: Wow, I didn’t even know that people hated Philly fans so much. I would like to subscribe to your brochure of hate.
25. Ravens- Nonpopulist: Dan Williams, DT, Tennessee. This pick is a toss-up between defensive line and tight end. The Ravens have a mostly aging defensive line, and not even God knows what kind of season Todd Heap is going to have. Tight end is also one of the most likely positions from which teams can get good production right away. Dan Williams next to Ngata scares me, frankly.
Gally: Everson Griffen is also a valid choice right now. If you look at their roster right now, they don’t have a single guy listed as a strict DE. All of them are LB/DE combos. Even in the 3-4 though, you need a big strong DE. Griffen did 32 reps, is 6’4″ 273 and runs a 4.65 40. Seems like he could be a good fit for them.
26. Cardinals- Gally: Terrence Cody, DT, Alabama. I know you’re thinking they need a QB other than Matt Leinhart and Derek Anderson, but shouldn’t we give them a year before we throw them in the woodchipper? There’s also that Roethlisberger guy who might still be on the market at the trade deadline. They really need a MLB here, but there’s none rated high enough to take at this point of the draft and the 1st round quality safeties are gone by this point in time. It might be a stretch to take Cody this early, but I saw him play in way too many games for a Northern Canadian last year. All I got was SEC games and I know Cody is a beast. He’s fallen on some boards due to conditioning and thoughts that he’s only a 2 down type of guy, but if he dominates those two downs who the hell cares.
(more…)
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: Football, NFL, NFL Draft, NFL Mock Draft, Previews, Prognostication
Category Mock Draft, Previews, Prognostication |
Author: Nonpopulist Published: April 20th, 2010
Can you feel the NFL draft fever heating up? Oooohhhh, it burns when I pee! We here at The Gally Blog decided to pool our knowledge and do a mock draft for you, the reader. Sure, we could have started doing mock drafts right after Alabama won the national championship, but it is MUCH easier to wait until everyone else does a mock draft so we can cheat off of other people’s work compare notes.
1. Rams- Nonpopulist: Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma. With the offseason dumping of Marc Bulger after a few lackluster seasons the Rams need a quarterback. Bradford appears to be the best QB in the draft by default.
Nonpopulist: Apparently no one wanted to argue with me about this one.
2. Lions – PurpleJesusDiaries: Ndamukong Suh, DT, Nebraska. After years of impressive drafting suckitude, the Lions nail it again this year by drafting the best player in the universe, Suh. With Schwartz’s coaching, a name that means “House of Spears”, and an improving team, the Lions all of a sudden have a weapon to scare the piss out of Aaron Rodgers and shut down the Purple Jesus.
K-Gun: It’s times like this that I miss Matt Millen. He’d totally take Dez Bryant here.
Nonpopulist: I concur with Suh as the 2nd pick. Schwartz knows what a 2-gapper like Suh can do for a defense since he worked with Albert Haynesworth in Tennessee and parlayed his defensive coordinator success with the Titans into his head coaching gig in Detroit.
Gally: Some people think that McCoy will be taken ahead of Suh because he’s faster and more of a speed finesse rusher, compared to Suh’s meastliness. I mean, that totally makes sense right? I totally see Oakland moving up to draft the DT that’s going to win the track meet. /mouthfart (more…)
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: Football, NFL, NFL Draft, NFL Mock Draft
Category Mock Draft |
