I feel like...

Stevie Johnson and Nick young need to hang out and be hip together or something. Seriously go look at their twitters.

True Story

Andre Dawkins is stroking so hard from deep this year. I mean I know Duke lost to Ohio State, but I still think they run the best offense in college. Goddamn do I hate college sports though, the gimmicks are for high school and D-II and below, if you're getting a scholarship play the same game as the pros you are emulating.

Franchise QB

I want Robert Griffin the 3rd as the Miami Dolphins quarterback of the future. Luck would have been it, but that appears not likely anymore. Barkley seems like an Eli Manning level and Landry Jones to me is a Jay Cutler only less mobile (besides the fact that he hasn't been anything good since Broyles went down and seems unable to even hold onto the ball anymore). Both of those QB's are the "franchise" guys for their teams, both have been traded once. With them still come questions and given how big Dan 'The Man' Marino's shadow looms in Miami, I suspect both would be eaten alive by critics if they cannot perform right away. RG3 however, is an enigma. He makes Baylor a team, much like Luck does with Stanford, plus his mobility instantly helps him as a rookie (example: Cam Newton). He is legitimately smart, having graduated already and wanting to work towards his masters in law next year. My worry is that that means he will pull a Matt Leinart and withdrawal from the draft to go back to school, although he'll take much harder classes than ballet. I foresee a run and gun looking offense with him and Reggie Bush and Brandon Marshall. Bring in the grit of Bess and hopefully the improved toughness of Daniel Thomas and that offense could easily take off. Still would need half of an offensive line, a legit number 2 WR with speed, plus there would be bumps on the road for the rookie QB. But the success of Andy Dalton, Christian Ponder and Cam Newton cannot be overlooked. The success rate of young players is higher now because of the information overload. They see what the media bitches about, they know about mistakes players made before and most want to succeed so they do good and listen.

If a new coach comes into Miami, they will take a QB, and we all want a new regime in there. They could move down and get more picks or just grab best available and have another year of Matt Moore with Pat Devlin as the backup. But that would be playing the field and hoping you are either bad enough while rebuilding/improving your team this year for RG3 next year, or hoping that he'll be around where ever you end up in the draft. The best hope is that he stays ranked as the 3rd or 4th best QB after the combine and comes out this year. There are a lot of variables there, but many teams worse than the Dolphins have young QB prospects and he could easily slip down to the bottom of the top 10. Even if it would require trading multiple picks for him, I suggest they do that. I believe this year they have all of their picks finally after the Marshall trade, but losing out on a high pick or two is worth it for the potential game changer RG3 is. I believe that in the first few years Luck will likely be the better player (depending on if he plays), but 5 years after this draft Robert Griffin III will be the best QB of the bunch. Not that Luck will be bad, but Griffin III could be Mike Vick of early last year, only consistent all the time. The only thing that scares me would be the probable injury factor of the sleek mobile quarterback. However Matt Moore is doing damn fine for now and would be a perfect backup. Not to mention this team would and could easily get free agents to fill in the other holes they have. So being a few picks down isn't going to ruin the team, if all goes well the 1st rounder they give up would be in the 30's anyways.

Don't forget to hype it up: #RobertGriffinIIIforHeisman

-Jason

Infrigement

So here are two photos of a little sidebar in the latest college hoops ESPN The Mag issue. Thankfully ESPN will never see this, but if they did I'd bet they would be anger and send me a cease and get fucked letter. In response to that fake letter I say fuck up ESPN, you are too full of yourselves and monopolies are illegal last I checked. Anyways I just think it is insane how skewed these numbers are between Florida basketball and football. First the article and explanation:

Now for a visual representation:

All I can say is that Andre Debose is not worth $1.5 million.

What's An NBA Get You?

Not shit if you're still looking for a job. I'm bitter about it and there has been nothing to post about my favorite sport in the world. I have gotten way into college football this year, since the Dolphins are nothing to write home about and 3/4's of the NFL's top plays this first half of the season were just sloppy ass mistakes on defense. But I don't even like the college sports system, because of greedy bastards that run it and some dumb "insight" that having a completely different game and set of rules helps make these athletes better. Regardless I have been studying up on the whole college basketball scene because I'd lose my damn mind with hearing that constant ball hitting hardwood dribbling sound. Hell even NBA 2k12 is awful, the lockout is far reaching. Anyways I had a dream the other night where LeBron was still on the Cavs and it was this season being played out (a severe case of crazy no doubt). I assume the release of the book The Whore of Akron helped spawned this scenario, but it was a welcomed distraction. Now I have no clue how the lockout stopped and play resumed but it was clear why LeBron stayed with this Cavs team; an Ohio native was traded for instead of Antwan Jamison. Who was this mystery man? None other than Kevin Martin. I'll go ahead and guess that name isn't ringing any bells for the casual fans (believe me right now I wish I could go back to that life) so here is a link to a SLAM article where they anointed him as the 45th best player in the league. That number might sound low but two facts: there are about 360 players in the league in season and of those guys the average NBA career is 4.5 years. So with the constant turnover and taking into account that teams usually use a rotation of 9 players a night, 45 ain't bad. The downfall of no one knowing about this gem of a player made it so that he was off Danny Ferry's radar when he went to gut the team for another "star" to pair with James. Kevin Martin won't sell tickets even though he is from Ohio. Instead he just help lead a Rockets team to a respectable record with a beat up and incomplete team. His strengths of shooting from deep and getting to the line, or in other words creating his own offense, would have been actual boosters. Unlike Jamison's penchant for scoring off others abilities. His knock of not playing defense is also some misinformation, while he won't stop Kobe Bryant, he will make Kobe work on the other end while matching some of the scoring he is giving up. Plus on a team like the Cavs were, team defense makes up for a lack on one players behalf and he has a knack for getting steals. At the worst LeBron and Martin could have switched on and off of the tougher assignment.

-Jason

Aaron Rodgers Is From Another Planet

Just read this article from ESPN where he goes in to detail on what he goes through on a play:

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/34068/rodgerswatch-accuracy-decisions