May 2011
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The End of an Era, The Start of Something New
Howdy folks.
So I’ll come right to the point — I’m writing what will be the last posts (for at least now) on the Thundering Blurb and Big East Gridiron.
I love both sites, don’t get me wrong, but as time has gone on I’ve gotten more and more freelance work which has taken up more and more of my time, of which there just isn’t enough of to begin with. Also,...
April 2011
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2011 NFL Mock Draft (1 round)
Before I get into this, I wanted to take a moment to thank a few people. This week quickly descended into utter chaos and some folks stepped up that I want to acknowledge.
The long and short of it is, there were credential issues. I understand there were a bunch of media people affected - I happened to be lucky enough to be one of them.
Luckily, Mr. Nagler, Brian Bassett of theJetsBlog.com and...
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NFL Draft Analysis - WR AJ Green
There’s not much debate around Green as the number one wide receiver in the 2011 NFL Draft. Yes, Alabama’s Julio Jones is also an exceptional athlete but isn’t quite on the level of Green.
Which isn’t to say Jones isn’t a fantastic player - really it’s a matter of apples to oranges as they are very different receivers in many ways. Figure in the fruit...
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NFL Draft Analysis – RB Mikel LeShoure
We’re starting to close in on the home stretch here and one thing is clear - nothing is clear.
Which is just to say: situation normal.
It’s hard to gauge where LeShoure’s value is, though that is no fault of his. With the emergence of running back committees, even a good back can see himself fall out of the first round and while it might have been unfathomable a few years...
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NFL Draft Analysis - QB Andy Dalton
Things I learned last week:
Cutting QB highlights takes twice as long as any other offensive ‘skill’ position.
Editing at midnight only leads to slipped audio tracks.
There’s a lot of ‘middle ground’ among the quarterback class.
The fact is, even the best of this group - arguably Newton/Gabbert/Ponder depending on preference - is less polished than I’d...
March 2011
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NFL Draft Analysis - RB Mark Ingram
Welcome to the first installment of many videos aimed at taking closer look at the incoming rookies in 2011.
When I was a struggling screenwriter (emphasis on ‘struggling’) in Los Angeles, one thing which was drummed into my head was ‘show me, don’t tell me’.
A lot of draft analysis is us - the analysts - talking at you, the fan. But you can only hear...
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Stephen Ross is Spinning aka Why Nobody Trusts...
So in between work, writing up player notes and watching the Auburn/Bama game for the 50th time (that’ll teach me to pick a game with no less than five pro prospects) I caught this piece over at Pro Football Talk.
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross says that with the (alleged) costs of doing NFL business rising, the owners cannot give the players what they’ve had until this point -...
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NFL Draft Guides, Radio gigs and Cheeseheads
Hey folks. I know, I know, it’s been slow. Was traveling, sick and hammering away at the deadline for a project.
So let’s catch up, shall we?
First, the project:
As some of you may remember, I have been working with the folks over at CheeseheadTV on a 2011 NFL Draft guide. I have now finished with that! My contributions are a three round mock and analysis on QBs & WRs.
You can...
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NFL Draft Talk on the Thundering Blurb Football...
So the shows have been a bit streaky the last few months for reason’s we’ve gone over before bu to make up for it - a two for one!
I needed to do two in part because BTR cut me off after 45 minutes, which I mistimed. Happened again, as it turns out on show two.
Here is show one and show two.
The first show covers a lot of labor/CBA talk with some draft mixed in while the second is...
February 2011
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Talking QBs with Cecil Lammey on Denver's 87.7 The...
87.7 The Ticket - Riding Shotgun w/Cecil Lammey
Saturday I joined good friend and Denver Sports Radio personality Cecil Lammey on his weekend show to talk NFL Draft - particularly quarterbacks Cecil Newton, Blaine Gabbert and Christian Ponder.
Get a little primer before the Combine kicks off!
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 2/8
So the show happened later than normal, as the fallout from not paying for the premium service on BTR has begun, but the show must go on!
And it did.
Fair warning - the show cuts off RIGHT at 45 minutes. You can only program a 30 minute show and I decided to test how long they’d let you babble beyond that. 45 on the dot.
At least it ended RIGHT after I finished a sentence.
Aside from...
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NFL Draft Prospect Video – LB Casey Matthews
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NFL Draft Prospect Video – OT Nate Solder
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NFL Draft Prospect Video – WR Vincent Brown
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NFL Draft Prospect Video – QB Andy Dalton
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NFL Draft Prospect Video - Bilal Powell
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The Thundering Blurb Show - 1/31
So as you may know by now, BlogTalkRadio has gone to a premium subscription service for it’s hosts. I’m still trying to work the details out but there is a strong chance I won’t be able to continue on the Fantasy Sports Channel. As a non-premium host, I’ll get a half hour (not a big deal) each day on non-prime times. It’s the non-prime time (or peak hours) which makes...
January 2011
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Senior Bowl Radio Spot
Had a great week in Mobile last week and am compiling a bunch of notes which will appear here at Thundering Blurb , over at Big East Gridiron and on a few other sites. Some of what I’ll be doing will be video, some audio, some written.
Radio Appearence on 87.7 the Ticket in Denver
To kick it off, check out my radio spot from Saturday on 87.7 The Ticket with my good friend Cecil Lammey,...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 1/11/11
I will not have a show for the next two weeks. I’ll still tweet a lot but by and large, I won’t do too much writing or audio. Plus we may be changing the show…..more on that below.
Speaking of shows - here’s this one.
So lots to go over and of course, the BCS National Kind of Complete Championship On Crappy Turf ended post show.
That title tells you all I think about the...
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Luck Stays in School: Why it's Not so Very Insane
In case you’ve been under a rock (I don’t judge, maybe it’s warm there) you’ve probably heard that Stanford QB Andrew Luck will remain Stanford Cardinal QB Andrew Luck and not become Carolina Panther QB Andrew Luck.
Which is the long winded way of saying Luck is staying in school.
Now I’ll be honest and add my voice to the chorus of folks who are surprised,...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 1/3
Hit the link for Monday’s show!
A new year and a new resolution to actually stay on top of the recaps! I SWEAR I WAS DEAD LAST WEEK.
The week before I have no excuse for.
But we’re back on track for a few weeks before I disappear again. Up front, I will tell you that I will be traveling and not doing a show Monday the 17th and the following Monday, the 24th. I’ll be in New...
December 2010
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 12/14
Another great evening on Monday, even though the fantasy outcome of a few leagues didn’t fall in my favor. That happens and like many of you I’ve suffered a few epic collapses in some leagues.
But there’s football to be played anyway, and always much to talk about. In this show we discuss both games, as well as the ridiculous tripping of a Miami player by Sal Alosi (the Jets...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 12/6
Hey folks.
Sorry for the lack of links the last few weeks - having my desktop die on me has really thrown a wrench in the sites. That said, plenty of good stuff last night, even if The Pats/Jets game didn’t quite end the way I’d have liked it.
Check out the show here or download it at the ITunes store.
We cover a ton of stuff while I watch the Jets implode including Josh McDaniels...
November 2010
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Video: Big East Power Ranks, Week 12
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 11/15
So I’m watching this debacle of a Monday Night Football game, fighting with Verizon and basically wondering how bad the game can get when it occurs to me I didn’t do one of these last week.
Sorry I missed it, but somehow I think you all survived.
Tonight’s show is brought to you by Verizon internet - and you’ll know it by the two times I had to reset the modem mid-show....
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Blurb TV - Big East Power Rankings Week 11
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Blurb TV - Big East Power Ranks & Expansion
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 11/1
I would like to start by thanking Vikings Coach Brad Childress, whose somewhat understandable but terribly handled possibly waiving of Randy Moss.
That we’re still not 100% sure he got waived says all you need to know about the move and how messy it is. Unnecessarily messy to be honest.
Childress seems to lack the respect of anyone in the organization anymore, if some of what Adam Schefter...
October 2010
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 10/25
The internet is finally fixed here in Blurb Central and so we should be back on something resembling a normal schedule again.
Let’s start it off with a football podcast, no?
First half of the show is all College football with - what else - BCS talk. Can Boise or TCU get some respect? Heck, can Oregon? Shane Hallam, who does great work at DraftCountdown.com, poses the question as to whether...
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Blurb Tweet on ESPN - Video!
Hey folks - as promised, we’ve got audio/video of the Blurb tweet and Schlereth’s response (and a Golic response in one as well).
And then, I promise, that’s the end of that. I’ll keep the video rolling only in my own house.
One long linked video with both clips are right below. Once again, tremendous thanks to the awesome Paty for the clips.
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ESPN Name Drops the Thundering Blurb!
So for those of you who follow me on twitter, you probably know I had a twitter question mentioned on NFL Live yesterday. Unfortunately I was not near a TV when it happened and didn’t get a chance to record it later.
Luckily, super-awesome Twitter follower Paty had it and hooked me up with a still and a pair of videos.
So I’ve got video of Mark Schlereth’s response but...
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Blurb TV - NFL Fines & 'Devastating' Hits
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 10/18
Very brief write-up today. Normally I do these right after the show, not the next morning at work, but the internet is down at the home office, so I could not do so, And at work - well there just isn’t quite enough time for a proper recap.
First things first, you can listen to the episode here - and I apologize for the sound quality. No internet means no skype, which means it was a cell...
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BlurbTV - NCAA & Money for Players
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Blurb TV - Cromartie & the NY Jets' Defensive...
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The Thundering Blurb Show - 10/11
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Howdy from the Windy City (which is more foggy then windy this morning).
I’m in Chicago for some non-football business but the NFL and College football keeps keeping on and so do we.
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Interview with Kevin McGuire of College Football...
Hey folks - if you listened to the Blurb show last night or follow me on Twitter or the site on Facebook, you know I did a little interview with Kevin McGuire of College Football Examiner on the state of the Big East, TCU rumors and a few overall college football topics as well.
Check it out here, along with a ton of other great interviews Kevin has done across the College Football Landscape....
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The Thundering Blurb Show - 10/4
Our streak of technical glitch free shows screeched to a halt about 45 minutes in when Skype dumped me not once but twice at the end of the show and I ended up finishing via cell phone.
So we can reset the count to zero but we got through it. You can always subscribe to the show on the Itunes feed as well.
Aside from that, I covered a ton of ground tonight.
First we talk abut what I think is...
September 2010
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 9/27
Tonight’s show welcomed Melissa Jacobs of TheFootballGirl.com to the program at the halfway mark.
While you’re listening to me babble to start the program, be sure to check the site out and follow her on twitter as well.
Before Melissa comes by, I cover my thoughts on the dismal state of the Big East. It’s been a rough September for the conference and ended the same way -...
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Around the NFL - Vick/Kolb, Vincent Jackson,...
Hey folks, been a while since I last did a plain old, normal blog post but felt like with so much going on around the league the last day or so, I should pontificate.
To Vick or not to Vick?
Well, Andy Reid made his bed and he’ll lie in it - messy as it is. I’m not saying it’s a bad decision, if he thinks he will win more games with Vick than Kolb. Remember, Kolb looked pretty...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show – 9/20
Another Monday night in the books and another Thundering Blurb Football Show as well.
I started the show on a sad note, reporting that Denver Broncos Kenny McKinley had been found dead in his home on Monday. Of course, thoughts and prayers are with his family and the Broncos organization, which has seen it’s share of sadness and loss of life.
From there I move onto happier topics or at...
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Brian Bassett of TheJetsBlog.com Breaks Down the...
Was wandering around the internet, reading up on the upcoming football action when I headed over to The Jets Blog as I often do - being a fan of good content and of things Jets.
Lo and behold, editor Brian Basset had embedded a video of him breaking down the Jets upcoming game against the New England Patriots.
Should I have written ‘dreaded’ or ‘hated’? Can you be a Jets...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show – 9/13
I’m currently licking my wounds as my beloved Jets found a way to get a ton of turnovers - but also a ton of penalties. I’ve talked before about how I was worried the distractions, new faces and high expectations might scuttle the season.
Yeah yeah, its week 1. Still, they - like several other teams - need to take a hard look in the mirror this week.
While the Jets were stumbling,...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show – 9/6
Hey folks- another Monday is in the books and so is another Thundering Blurb Football Show.
Last night I was joined with the editor in chief, the defacto Jet-in-charge, as it were - Brian Bassett of The Jets Blog a place where if you have a mind, Jets news literally overflows.
Bassett and I discuss many things Jets, covering the following topics:
Darrelle Revis’ contract, why it took so...
August 2010
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show – 8/30
Another Monday is in the books and so is another Thundering Blurb Football Show. This week we welcomed Michael Felder of InTheBleachers.net to talk some college football in general and ACC Conference specifically.
We hit on a bunch of topics, including the aftermath of Conference expansion, the North Carolina Tarheels investigation and the NCAA’s recent cracking down. We also talk about...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 8/23
Hi - REALLY brief show post today as I was planning to do this tonight, but instead BTR has ITunes issues so in case someone comes looking for the show - well they can find it here.
Stuff I covered -
Lots of CHAT questions - if you want fantasy answers or just want a show topic heard, you should head to FSC.fm or blogtalkradio.com/thunderingblurb and hop in the chat. Be heard!
We talk some Nick...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 8/16
Great show again last night - kicked off an hour early by opening the chat to give the Jets/Giants fans a place to gather and trash talk.
By the time the show was going, we were already rolling.
We covered a lot of ground including:
Nick Saban banning NFL Scouts from Alabama practices. In my opinion, a move that is ridiculous and punishing the wrong people for the inability of colleges to...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show – 8/9
Last night’s show was a good one - we didn’t hit every topic I planned to, but we got some good discussion.
First, I want to again thank Aaron Nagler from CheeseheadTV for coming on to talk Packers during the second half of the show.
We cover his experience at camp, the offense, the defense and even Voldemort aka Brett Favre. Aaron was there when Favre’s retirement leaked so I...
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 8/2
So before we get started, I’ve been a bit negligent updating these posts - last week (and this you twitter followers know) my older son fell ill and we spent part of the week dealing with that. But honestly half the problem is not doing it post show on Monday night. Hopefully this will change - work is slowing down, the Gridiron is rolling along now. Things are mellowing out.
Also I will be...
July 2010
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The Thundering Blurb Football Show - 7/18
First things first - here’s the link for the show!
Sorry this is a bit late, work has been busy, which I should get tattooed on my head this summer. It’s been a crazy one.
So again, a short recap. Subjects we touch on:
Colorado Springs Gazette kills their Denver coverage - friend of the show Frank Schwab will be covering the Air Force. I admit here I don’t know all the facts...