The inaugural six-week UFL season has come to a close, and the league has already fielded an undefeated team. Those titans destined to live forever in lesser league immortality are the Florida Tuskers, led by former Saints head coach Jim Haslett and featuring such former gridiron notables as Ricky Manning Jr., Brooks Bollinger, Odell Thurman, Tatum Bell, Todd Sauerbrun and Super Bowl MVP Dexter Jackson....
More photos » by Mike Roemer - AP Shown here bringing quarterback Aaron Rodgers down one of the five times this occurred on September 20th, Bengals Defensive End Antwan Odom was announced today as the AFC Defensive Player of the Month. Browse more photos » Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time since our last playoff season (if I'm recalling correctly Odell Thurman was AFC Defensive player...
From the FanPosts. -Chris Many probably find the upstart United Football League as an irrelevancy during the early weeks of the NFL regular season. The UFL barely registers a blip on the sports news radar as its four teams start practice this week in preparation for a six-game season kicking off October 8th on the Versus Network. While the league's marketing slogan is "Where the Future Stars Come...
Not to put too much on the back of Justin Houston, but it's extremely large that he have a good game against Arkansas . And beyond. The defensive scheme that we utilize in Athens desperately needs a pass rushing end who disrupts plays and makes QBs nervous. That allows us to play the sorts of back end coverages that have historically been more successful. The defensive line did an ok job of stuffing...
So the Denver Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton didn't throw five interceptions like he did against the Cincinnati Bengals when he was with the Chicago Bears in 2005 (aren't you impressed I mentioned three NFL teams in a complete sentence. It's arguable that it's a good complete sentence, but nonetheless). However, that doesn't stop our pointless interest story of 2009, re-playing teams and/or quarterbacks...
Click for larger image This little discovery is... Well, it's disappointing is what it is. I was perusing around the NFL's online pro shop , seeing if -- God forbid -- the had any of these monstrosities for the Cincinnati Bengals . Fortunately, that answer is no, but that's about the only good news I saw while I was looking at the Bengals apparel inventory -- especially when I started looking at the...
Last year, while we sat through the back-end of a retched eight-game losing streak, it became apparent that the Bengals might miss the playoffs. While that thought horribly sunk in, there was another football team in Cincinnati that was taking over the show. We followed the Cincinnati Bearcats from start to finish last year, enjoying their ride to their first ever BCS game. Their games were exciting...
There was a point in time when many of us believed the duo of Odell Thurman and David Pollack would be the start of a fantastic defensive foundation. Thurman finished the season ranked high among finalists for defensive player of the year that eventually went to Shawne Merriman. Thurman was that guy Marvin Lewis had sought all along to man the middle linebacker spot; a defensive leader for many seasons....
Yahoo! Sports' Jason Cole writes that "only three first-round picks from the 2005 NFL draft have signed contract extensions with their initial franchise so far." The 2005 NFL Draft, James Walker writes, that " the top of this draft class was probably the worst of this decade. The best players turned out to be linebackers DeMarcus Ware and Shawne Merriman and neither went in the top 10."...
Yesterday, the Bulldogs landed two more commitments from Michael Bennett (6'3" 185 lb WR with 4.55 speed) and Demetre Baker (6'0" 200 lb LB). Both articles premium $. Bennett is a consensus three star wide receiver by both recruiting services while Baker is 4 stars from Scout.com, and he's not yet ranked by Rivals.com. Baker, a Jacksonville product, made his recruiting videos available to...
This and That on the recruiting front.... Offensive Tackle Brent Benedict (6'6" 290 lbs) committed to play for the Georgia Bulldogs today ($ premium) according to Dean Legge of DawgPost.com. The Jacksonville star is listed by both Scout.com and Rivals.com as a four star prospect. He's the sixth commitment of the season so far with 4 of the 6 coming along the lines of scrimmage . I'm particularly...
Been a few days since our last links and notes. News is trickling in like kidney stone. For the time being we're accumulating the links and notes over the course of a few days -- so you might see things in here that were published a few days ago. A few questions for you guys. Did you see Dhani's newest episode? And if so, what were your thoughts? What do you think of the Bengals.com re-design? The...
Introducing yet another new guy, that being me, Chris Richardson. You might remember me from such public service announcements like " Super Bowl Porn: Tristan Kingsley Speaks " or " Odell Thurman Disappoints ." Granted, those were on another site, but I hope you can sense a kindred spirit when one's around. A little bit about me -- as I said, my name is Chris Richardson and I work...
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