Entourage: Round 2

Yep, I did it again. I just finished going through the five seasons of Entourage. And it was just as the good the second time if not better. I do not know how I am going to wait for season six to come out on dvd. Best show on television bar none.
Here are my hopes for season six. That the writing and dialogue continue to knock my socks off. That for once Vince actually finishes a good movie. If they screw up the Scorsese movie I will be pissed. That Eric and Sloan make attempt to get back together. That Turtle and Jamie continue to work even though it makes Drama sick. But having them all in relationships could be a little boring. That Drama continues to be an idiot and provide me with lots of laughs. That the Murphy Groups gets more clients. That Ari continues to go off on everything. Some of the best lines I've ever heard. That the show never, ever gets rid of Lloyd. That Dana Gordon bounces back from the Smoke Jumpers disaster and that she continues to be a good part of the show. And that this show never ends. Its so good. Let's hug it out b*#@h!

The Real Boss Of The Dorm

3 for 3

My pick for the game: 28-17 win
Actual score: 23-3 win

The good news is that I am 3 for 3 on picks so far for the Broncos. The bad news is that if I continue to be right, the Broncos will still suck. But I will take a 3-0 start any day. Let's just hope we can manage to do better than 3-10 the rest of the way. The offense has been alright and can get so much better, and the defense continues to amaze everyone. Passing game was bit lacking today, but we ran the ball like the Broncos of old. Almost had two 100 yard rushers. Pretty good week. And the Packers did pretty well against the Rams. Like it when my boy's are happy. Well on to the breakdown.

Yes- to a Bronco ground game that continues to churn out yards. 215 to be exact. Buckhalter breaks a hundred and Moreno powered, spinned, and juked his way to 91 and a score. The rookie is looking good and Buckhalter is a great back when healthy. Now lets see if we can run the ball against teams that actually have a defense.

No- to not getting Moreno a 100 yards. Lamont Jordan sucks, don't care if he played for the Patriots and knows the system. He still sucks.

Yes- to holding the Raiders to 137 total yards. Easier to do when Jamarcus Russell couldn't hit Gilbert Brown for a pass if he was five yards away and wide open(Brown wouldn't catch it anyways). But we also held them to less than a 100 yards rushing. Great show defense. But with Dallas, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and San Diego looming, they will be tested.

No- to not being able to take it in from the 5 yard line on 4 tries.

Yes- to Elvis still being in the building. 2 more sacks.

No- To kicking field goals instead of scoring touchdowns.

Yes- to Kyle Orton making it through 3 weeks and still no turnovers.

No- to Buckhalter coughing up our first turnover of the season

Yes- to the Broncos causing four turnovers. DJ Williams and Brain Dawkins combo on their force and recovery was sick and nasty.

No- to the explosive Eddie Royal getting one catch. Are you kidding me?

Yes- to getting Brandon Marshall more involved. Even got him a touchdown.

No- to the middle of the field being open all day and not exploiting it more. Every time we had a receiver or tight end there it coverage by a backer. But the running game was working.

Yes- to throwing a screen pass to 260 lbs Daniel Graham. Worked like a charm.

No- to that crappy field the Raiders play on during the baseball season.

Yes- to a great Bronco win

No- to Drew Brees killing me in fantasy

Yes- To the Pack getting a much needed win over the Rams.

No- To Johnny Jolly recovery a fumble and blocking a field goal. All after Rock dropped him. :(

Yes- to picking the Jets, Lions, and Bengals for wins this week. Boom.

No- to just randomly throwing up. Yep, just did, had no clue it was coming. Weird.

All in all it was a pretty good sunday. Didn't really like having to put up with the parade all day, but still got the whole Bronco game in. Would just be nice to actually get to sit and enjoy a sunday in front of my beautiful tv, with my sunday ticket, and new comfy chair. One of these days. And about Pierre Thomas, I am big guy and will admit I'm an idiot. Thank you Caleb. I also just wanted to say the Raiders a terrible franchise. Until they get rid of Al Davis they will suck. Jamarcus Russell is terrible, horrible, and frighteningly bad. Its so sad to see a talent like McFadden wasting away there. They just need to cut the Raiders as a franchise in the NFL and let Cabe and I start a new one. I think that is very reasonable. People from down south can continue to wear there jersey's and cheer for them. They would never know they don't exist anymore anyways. Everybody wins. Maybe even some of the southerners would go back south. Raiders are the only thing holding them here aren't they?

Yes Quirt and Rock, I Am Your Father

One to Lincoln, One to India

Big huge yes to Caleb moving to Lincoln. I now have something to do with my new weekends off. Exciting!

Big huge no to Ryan going to India and losing his kidney, liver, and limbs to the black market. I really liked the guy. Depressing.


ps. I really hope you have an awesome time Ryan and its everything you'd hoped it would be and more. Just make sure before you leave to give me all your best players in fantasy.

If Your Team Sucks... Play The Browns

My pick for the game: 24-13 win
Actual score: 27-6 win
We scored more and held them to less. I like it.

Maybe, just maybe the Broncos might actually have a defense this year. The Bengals and Browns are not good, but last year it didn't matter. A Pop Warner team coulda scored on the Broncos last year. So the improvement being witnessed is pretty sweet. I still don't believe the Broncos are a good football team and I still stand by my 6 wins prediction. Its just nice to see them win a couple of games. Now would the Bears please lose every game here on out, so we can get a decent draft pick. And thanks for the advice Caleb, but I'll stick with yes/no format. You can keep your plus and minuses. Good post about the Packers btw. Sucks when 16-0 slips through your fingers. Broncos are still on pace though. Enough rambling, on to the quick hits.

Yes- to the Broncos holding the Browns to 200 yards of total offense and just six points.

No- To Peyton Hillis fumbling the opening kickoff.

Yes- To Elvis Dumervil and his four sacks. This 3-4 might work after all and it appears that LB agrees with Elvis.

No- To limited touches for Brandon Marshall and Eddie Royal. Why can't we get these guys the ball? And why did Marshall sit out most of the first half?

Yes- To 449 yards of total offense, especially almost 200 in rushing. Moreno looked good and Buckhalter even better.

No- To Kyle Orton completing barely 50% of his passes. 19-37.

Yes- Still no turnovers for Orton. Incredible. He is doing what he needs to do to not lose the game. Would like to see him do more to go out and win it.

No- An offense that put up 449 yards but is still struggling to find its rhythm. I just have this feeling that it can be explosive. Maybe I'm dreaming. Don't know if I can ever be comfortable with Orton.

Yes- To an improving defense.

Yes- The fact that I am running out of NO's is a good sign. Broncos played very well, but again I am very skeptical and will wait to see how the Broncos fair in future weeks. I think we can get a win in Oakland on Sunday, but after that its gonna get pretty dicey. We will see if this defense is really improved or just looking good against bad teams.

Blue 42, Red 11, NZ 17, RCFQ, and then the closet opens

Football, card games, Nazi Zombies, best entourage ever, and getting played like a fool. Sounds like a great weekend to me. And yes, yes it was. Just wanna say that I have great friends and we have awesome times together.
The weekend started off with me being super pissed at my boy Ryan for not coming to our planned weekend. Ya, he and Caleb played me like their best game of madden and got me good. Ryan jumped out of the closet and made me poop my pants right there. With that start how can you not have a good weekend.
Many may find that hours spent playing video games is a waste, but after we transformed Shawna's living with four tv's and four xbox's it was the ultimate man cave. Big shout out to Shawna for letting us make a mess of her apartment. You go girl! Nazi Zombies kept stymieing us after lever 17, but Caleb and I dominated in madden with our sick/nasty created football team. To much fun. In between and during we fit in a season and a half of Entourage. Ryan and I are still working on Caleb to keep watching. It gets so good buddy. But we didn't just vegetate the whole weekend. Thursday saw us mess around on the basketball court out behind the apartment. Friday found us playing football. Saturday we went out for a picnic and then to mini golf in the evening. Man, I just wanna go do this all over again. Best part of the whole weekend was Sunday morning football, where da boy's did their thing. Not saying we dominated or anything, but we represented. Caleb blocked so well, the Packers called to have him replace the entire Packer O-line. If you don't believe me, just watch their game against the Bengals. That was the only downer of the weekend. Ryan overcame an early drop to sign his name in the middle zone of the field. Complete ownage. Quicksand despite being berated by his QB ran around everyone. And I despite being in less than stellar shape, managed to not embarrass myself to much. We had a blast. Just wish I could have thrown five touchdowns to Caleb. Have to keep up his best receiver in the league tab. Guess he is dropping that for best blocker.
If you couldn't tell yet I had an awesome weekend. I hope that was a proper sendoff for Rye Guy. Gonna miss ya man. Please come back to us with all your limbs and body parts.

ps. Quicksand is in our Entourage. To cool not to be. Love that kid.

Basterds

3 stars out 5
I love movies and watch a good amount of them. On my blog I would like to discuss a few of them and give my whack and warped ideas. Of which most are probably wrong but nobody is making you agree. So I will start my first movie post with a discussion about Inglourious Basterds. Yes that is spelled incorrectly, Tarantino does that crap. I was not sure what to expect with this movie. As with most movies the previews looked so promising. But being a Quentin Tarantino film I was unsure what weird stunt he was gonna pull to make it a freak show. Although I thought he stayed on course pretty good, I'm still not sure how much I like the movie. I was led to believe that this was a movie about Amercian-Jewish soldiers hunting Nazi's. They only actual hunting part you saw in the previews. That I believe is one of the biggest strikes against it. The other being that it was surprisingly slow moving. Very dialogue dominated, which is not a bad thing, just not what was advertised. I'm also a little squimish with a lot of blood and didn't like the scalping and head bashing very much, but I knew that going in. My own fault there. It was also very hard to get to know any of the "basterds". They had next to no lines and were barely there before they died. The movie I felt was not actually about the "basterds" but about a revengeful young women who had her family murdered by the Nazi's.
Enough of the bad, the very surprising best part of the movie was the SS Col. Landa, who simply stole the show. This is the part of the movie I did like. The Colonel was brillant is being a monster who in the end sold out. You really didn't think that such a man would betray Germany but he did. And I stated earlier that Tarantino didn't do anything to crazy but I guess he did. Historical movies are good, but you always know how they turn out because it already happened. Tarantino said f*#k that and wrote his own ending. One that everyone wished would have happened, which is the death of Hitler and the Nazi leaders. Loved it. Pretty much everyone dies, but the Colonel does get appropriately carved upon at the end. Good ending. Alright movie. Not bad Tarantino. I gave it three stars cuz the way Hitler dies, he didn't get to go out the easy with himself pulling the trigger. But almost took all of them back with Mike Myers as a British Officer. Lame.
This is my first movie review and I understand its needs some work. They will get better.

Kids aren't dumb, they just don't think

My students will never cease to amaze me with their decision making process or their lack of any such process. Sunday night one of my students decided he didn't like stairs. They are to slow and need to be skipped. I really didn't feel to sorry for him, when he ended up at the bottom of the stairs in a pile, screaming that he hurt. His ankle swelled up like a grapefruit and we had to take him in for x-rays. Minor sprain. Almost wish the idiot had broken it, maybe he'd learn. Probably not though. They just don't think.
Monday I was greeted by a student who had attempted to play leap frog with a fellow classmate, on the sidewalk, on the cement. As you have probably already figured out, he didn't make it and did a very impressive face plant. Messed up his shoulder, his face, and chipped a tooth. His mother is gonna wonder what I did to him. I guess I was once a stupid kid too, so I can't be too hard on them, but.... leap frog on the cement, seriously?

Jay Cutler

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Your welcome Packer fans.

It was ugly, but still a W

My pick for the game: 20-17
Actual score: 12-7

That had to be one of the worst Bronco games I have ever seen. And somehow we still managed to win on a tipped pass caught by Brandon Stokely and run 87 yards for the game-winning touchdown. Craziness. Not sure we deserved to win, but neither did the Bengals. So might as well as been us.
I thought Caleb's quick hits was very good, although he rambled just like I said he does. But the best compliment is copying so here are my quick hits, also not very quick.

Yes- To Kyle Orton not turning the ball over. Yes you heard me right, he didn't turn it over once.

No- To Kyle Orton not being able to get the ball to our numerous play makers in places for them to make plays.

No- To Kyle Orton getting three passes batted down at the line cuz he locked in one reciever and never took his eyes off of him.

No- To Brandon Marshall looking like he hasn't played football in months. Wait, I don't think he has. Idiot.

No- To Eddie Royal running the ball out of the end zone and falling down at the 17 with time being a precious thing.

No- To the electric ( sometimes stupid) Eddie Royal only getting two catches.

Yes- To a defense that I thought would be terrible and yet played a very good game. Giving up to many yards, but holding the Bengals to only one score and big drive. Also sacking the quarterback and forcing turnovers. We didn't do that in 16 games last year.

Yes- To Tony Scheffler getting tired of Orton not getting him the ball and going on defense and getting a catch.

Yes/No- To Orton and Stokely not hooking up the 6 times they tried to, but finally hooking up when they weren't trying to.

Yes- To Brandon Stokely running along side the end zone to run time off the clock.

No- To Chad Johnson being a douchbag. Or is that a yes?

No- To retarded commentators. All Bronco and Packer games will be taken over in 2010 by Caleb (Cabe) Herwick and Daniel Force in the booth and Ryan (Rock) Christiansen on the sidelines.

Yes- To a Denver Bronco win.

Next week against the Browns I really hope we can get our offense on track. Moreno, Buckhalter, Marshall, Royal, Graham, Scheffler make a good mix of play makers and we just need Orton to get them the ball. Our defense looked liked they actually get paid and I hope we can continue to improve.
I think I wrapped this up a little quicker than my rambling counterpart, but I'm not as funny. Oh well. I do want to send a shout out to my buddy Rock. Johnny Jolly, who woulda thunk it.

Need I Say More

Bradford, McCoy, or Tebow

One never knows how a season will play itself out. So talking about a next years top QB's for the draft might be a bit premature. But I have no confidence in either Orton or Simms as QB's of the future for the Broncos. So I will prematurely discuss it anyways. I must also add in another name to that list with Snead from Ole Miss. According to the draft board it goes Bradford, Snead, McCoy, and then Tebow in terms of NFL potential. I know next to nothing about Snead so we will throw him out of the discussion.

Bradford 2008 Stats: 4720 yards, 50 tds, 8 int, 67% comp., 180 passer rating
2008 Heisman Trophy Winner
Bradford is a very talented football player. He came into Oklahoma as a true freshman and played great. 36 tds as a freshman is very impressive. Then last year he went off for 50 tds and the lead one of the most prolific offenses college football has ever seen. Many people have questioned his toughness and I am one of those. Of course you say, cuz he just got hurt, but I did have that opinion before. Last year he dropped back for a pass some 550 times and was only touched 40 some times. Not sure on the exact numbers but those are close. That is unheard of in football and especially the NFL. The first game this season it was proved he is a bit fragile getting hit several times before landing awkwardly on his throwing shoulder. They don't know how long he will be out. He has great upside. Accurate, decently mobile, smart, and throws a beautiful ball. The biggest question is toughness and durability.

McCoy 2008 stats: 3859 yards, 34 tds, 8 ints, 76% comp., 173 passer rating
Rusing: 561 yards, 11 tds
2008 Heisman runner-up
McCoy is a scrapper. I really like this guy. Texas is a great program but has really struggled with a running game the last couple of years. McCoy led them is passing and rushing last year. He has been hit and delivered several hits of his one. He is completely fearless, and of the three the most is expected of him to carry his team. Bradford and Tebow have ridiculous talent around. McCoy does have Shipley, but that's about it for top tier talent that Tebow and Bradford have to work with. He is not as accurate as Bradford or as mobile as Tebow, but he brings a nice combination of both. I believe he will translate very nicely to playing on Sundays. (Although the numbers say he is more accurate, most agree that Bradford is the more consistent thrower).

Tebow 2008 stats: 2746 yards, 30 tds, 4 ints, 64% comp., 172 passer rating
Rushing: 673 yards, 12 tds( don't forget that he threw for 32 tds and ran for 23 in 2007)
2007 Heisman Trophy Winner
Tim Tebow might be a bit overrated, but I don't care. I love the guy. He is built like a fullback and his very shifty and mobile for his size. He is almost impossible for one player to bring down. He is a proven leader and one of the best locker rooms guys ever. I am not in love with his arm or accuracy. He does very well in an offense that hides some of his inefficiencies. He rarely just drops back in the pocket and throws the ball. Florida constently has him moving around, which he is very good at. Just don't know how that will translate to the pros. I just love the guy's character, leadership, and how he handles himself. And he is a heck of a football player.

So what does that all mean. It means that I like all of them, and if it means getting one of them in a Bronco uniform it might not be such a bad season of sucking. If I was to pick one right now, I would go with McCoy. I am sure I will go back and forth all year long. McCoy is just a winner with a lot of grit and pose. One thing about Bradford is that I can totally see him as a Tom Brady is Josh McDaniels offensive scheme. McCoy just has some of those intangables that I like. Tebow, although I really like him, doesn't really fit into what the Broncos are trying to develop. I could be wrong on all of this, probably am, but right now I am wanting the Broncos to draft Colt McCoy in next years draft. Although will we probably have given all our draft picks to the Patriots for some unknown reason.

250+

I have reached the 250 lbs plateau. This has to be one of the most embarrassing confessions of my life. Fluffy, chubby, more to love, or a few extra pounds just don't cut it any more. I have come to the realization that I am fat. Its amazing how one ends up here. I always looked at fat people with a little disdain and no understanding. Now I am one of them, along with half the world. I always assumed I would never be here or would work my butt off to never get here. But I am here and the most important thing is what I am going to do now. I have a few plans in mind, but I don't want to tip my hand yet. Each month I hope to update my blog on how this plan is going. My fatness has gone as far as it needs to go. It needs to stop and get its ass kicked. I am going to do this. I am going to beat this.