As expected, #browns Weeden up first in drills at OTAs.
— Mary Kay Cabot (@MaryKayCabot) May 16, 2013
I probably should have warned you to sit down before this, though I’m not really sure why you were standing. Consider this news broken.
URGENT BREAKING NEWS: Weeden was the first QB in line during the Browns’ OTA drills
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Position Battles on May 16, 2013
The Tape Never Lies: Wes Welker in Denver will look a lot like Wes Welker in New England
Posted by Alen Dumonjic under Denver Broncos, Peyton Manning, The Tape Never Lies, Wes Welker on May 16, 2013
Wes Welker was never supposed to leave New England. He was supposed to stay there for the remainder of his career, catching passes from best-friend-forever Tom Brady and terrorizing defenses with first down after first down.
Now he’s in Denver, where quarterback maestro Peyton Manning fools defenders with hand signals and slings the football around a mile high into the air. Like in New England, Welker is expected to quickly gel with his quarterback en route to whipping linebackers and nickelbacks from the slot, a position that he’s helped transcend over the course of six years.
As you might guess, not much will change in Denver. He’s once again going to catch dozens of passes — though the number could slightly drop because of the surrounding weapons — by separating with lateral agility and short-area quickness, two unique traits he possesses.
Mike Glennon vs. Josh Freeman: The difference between a competition, and a true battle
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Position Battles on May 16, 2013
Mike Glennon could become a very interesting guy in August, if you’re the kind of person who’s interested in a strong-armed rookie quarterback who could be set to throw a lot of deep balls to a trio of fast wide receivers with great leaping ability named Vincent Jackson, Mike Williams, and Kevin Ogletree.
Packers fans will be getting their own reality show
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Green Bay Packers, What the hell? on May 16, 2013
In the before time when television programming consisted primarily of things that used good ol’ creativity and original thought to entertain me, and make me either laugh or think (or anything in between), I would have liked to be in the room when the idea for the first “reality” show was floated.
My television history may be a little off here mostly because there are very few things in this life I care less about than the history of reality TV, but I believe the first such program to receive that label was Survivor. Say what you will about that particular corner of popular culture, but at least Survivor and the other similar shows it spawned (most notably, The Amazing Race) is a reality show and a game show fused into one. We can become involved in the competition, even if it’s just a bunch of people standing on a log for nine hours.
Now, reality TV is usually far removed from actual reality, with producers flirting with and often accomplishing vicious stereotyping by cherry picking people on the most extreme end of their theme to represent a group. Then when there are cameras present to make the lives of already atypical people even less normal, boom, you have TV gold, Jerry.
It’s a simple and tired formula, and Packers fans are the latest subject.
David Garrard’s bad knee has forced him into retirement
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under News-ish on May 15, 2013
The Jets were set to have a real and honest quarterback competition, and eventually David Garrard’s mere presence would have ended in Mark Sanchez finding employment elsewhere, or maybe chillin’ on a beach in September and spending his $8.25 million in guaranteed money on whatever GQ bros buy while bathing in sand (Fresca?).
Geno Smith would have easily won his dual with Mark Sanchez, and in theory jettisoning the loser of the worst QB competition in the history of such battles would be much easier with a veteran safety net firmly in place, taking the form of Garrard.
In theory.
Dwayne Bowe says he’s going to lead the league in receptions and touchdowns
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Quoting on May 15, 2013
Dwayne Bowe missed the final three games of last season. But despite that absence, and despite the fact that he dealt with the demon quarterback duo of Brady Quinn and Matt Cassel, he still finished with 59 catches for 801 receiving yards.
Again, look at those numbers, and look at those names who threw Bowe the ball. Then feel the respect seep through your veins.
Done? Great, because even with a quarterback who isn’t Quinn or Cassel, this isn’t happening…
Bowe: “(Jamaal Charles) is going to lead the league in rushing this year and I’m going to lead the league in receptions and touchdowns.’’
— Adam Teicher (@adamteicher) May 15, 2013
Fantasy Impact: Melvin Ingram’s injury
Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Ponderings on May 15, 2013
May is usually filled with failed attempts to make predictions about depth charts, and justifying why you should care about Chad Henne. But nearly every year there’s at least one significant injury during OTAs. Something pops, or tears, or breaks, or just bends in a direction that goes against its intended design.
That happened to Melvin Ingram Tuesday (the tearing part), as the Chargers second-year pass rusher tore his ACL, which almost certainly ends his 2013 season. We don’t cheer the fall of a man around these parts, but we wouldn’t be degenerate gamblers and fantasy folk if we didn’t explore to see how Ingram’s injury will benefit opposing quarterbacks, and particularly one within the Chargers’ division.
