The MVP Race is over.

10 games without an INT

319 pass attempts without an INT

With all due respect to Most Improved player Michael Vick, Tom Brady is the MVP. When I thnik of value, I think

1)Are you replaceable?

Say what you want about Kevin Kolb, I'd rather have him than Brady's back-up Advantage: Brady

2) Are you the reason your team wins?

On one hand, Vick is an amazing physical specimen and a defensive nightmare. He carves defense with his arms and legs. He also has DeSean Jackson who is an amazing WR and a top 10 receiver.

Brady doesn't have these tools, yet he still has led his team to 13-2 and the top seed in the AFC

3) How good are you in comparison to the field?

The knocks against Vick are that he's missed 17 quarters of play and didn't start the whole season. But put up against the field he has a ridiculous stat set and every time he's on the field I expect Vick-tory

That being said Brady is having an all-time great year. The Pass Attempts without an INT record is hard to get. Especially because of how easy it is to get an INT. Brady is playing out of his mind right now and his team is the best in the conference at least.

Disclaimer: I hate the Patriots.

Just a bit smarter than the rest.

"Pac-Man is a game about the hunted, suddenly empowered (by nature, god, technology, whatever), becoming the hunter. Ghosts... chase Pac-Man around a maze. He eats a pill and becomes a superman. Now those hunting him flee in terror. You can decide for yourself whether or not this is abstract art. I will decide for you that it is a fantastic idea for a video game."

Reason #407 Why I love Kotaku. It often provides insightful commentary on the industry I've put a large amount of time in. This is better than 99% of the descriptions of Pac-Man you're likely to hear. It makes sense and it doesn't feel overthought. It make sense why a game of this concept works so well. Every successful game balances this well. Halo, where you feel like a badass going up against grunts or when you're in a tank. Or scurrying in fear trying to avoid Brute patrols and Wraiths when you're heavily out-gunned. Well played sir. Well played.

WEEK 12
Thursday, November 25

New England at Detroit, 12:30 pm tickets
I really do want Detroit to win this game. I like the underdogs.

New Orleans at Dallas, 4:15 pm tickets
This could be the best game of the night. A resurgent Dallas team going against the team whose undefeated streak they ended last year.

Cincinnati at New York Jets, 8:20 pm tickets
The Cardiac Jets vs the team formerly known as the Cardiac Cats. Now they’re the Flatline Bungles. Either way I foresee this game being a blowout in favor of the Jets.

Sunday, November 28
Tennessee at Houston, 1 pm tickets
Texans

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1 pm tickets
Baltimore

Jacksonville at New York Giants, 1 pm tickets
NYG. I hate Jacksonville I think/hope/pray that they’ll wake up

Carolina at Cleveland, 1 pm tickets
Cleveland is a better team that will be starting an actual QB. I think Colt McCoy has more career passes thrown.

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 1 pm tickets
Pittsburgh is a better team than Buffalo. I know, that’s the same argument I used last time.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 1 pm tickets
Philly is awesome

Minnesota at Washington, 1 pm tickets
I’m going with the team with the less dysfunctional team.

Green Bay at Atlanta, 1 pm tickets
Atlanta

Kansas City at Seattle, 4:05 pm tickets
Seattle

Miami at Oakland, 4:05 pm tickets
I hate the raiders. Yet I think they’ll win this game. East Coast team on the west coast

St. Louis at Denver, 4:15 pm tickets
I generally root for the Rams, but in this case I ’m going against my root against the co

San Diego at Indianapolis, 8:20 pm tickets
Indy will win this game. I’m not that sure about this though. If I were a gambling man (which I’m not) I’d go with the spread.

Monday, November 29
San Francisco at Arizona, 8:30 pm tickets
I’m so sick of the 49ers, but they’re better than the awful Cardinals.

Bills Thoughts

I generally save my posts for good teams. However in celebration of win number 1 for the Bills I'm dedicating this to them.

In Madden 11, I worte this about my franchise Bills.

The Bills are currently an awkward team. They're 2-2. They beat the division rival Dolphins and Jets and were bludgeoned by the Pats and Packers. The difference is obvious. The Patriots and Packers scored 42 and 20 points respectively. Also, as a surprise, the Bills aren't a just a pass first team, they're a pass only team. This is why they've gotten rid of Mashawn Lynch and Brian Westbrook for Draft picks. So far it has been successful. Of course this is provided that the Tampa Bay Bucs are as bad as they appear to be. Injuries have also crippled this years squad. The Bills are not a Super bowl contender and probably not a playoff contender. Both of their interchangeable QBs are awful with current starter Trent Edwards getting benched in the Pats game.

Real Life

- The Bills need to keep the other team down, because they won't win shootouts.
- The Bills have generally been a pass only team.
- They got rid of Marshawn Lynch for draft picks
- Trent Edwards was benched, then let go.

Reason #484 why Madden is realistic

Let us Pray

 

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work - James 3:16

"For you so loved the NBA that you sent "the Chosen One" to Miami so that the Eastern Conference may live. He has suffered greatly, but he has come through for his team dropping 31 on the hated Celtics. May you continue to bless King James, that we may all be witnesses to his victory not with a crown of thorns but a championship ring. Amen"

But seriously,

I had high expectations of the Heat and those expectations were dampened yesterday. Lebron is as advertised but the team is not. They need time to gel to make this work. Unlike the Celtics, the team is centered around young guys. I don't like Bosh, but his lackluster individual performance could have been the result of Boston's defense. However, how is Miami supposed to beat the beasts of the East? I’m also worried about the harm that the Bible verse predicts. If the Heat don’t start off well, could a schism form  between Wade (3), Bosh (1), and Lebron (6)?

Also, I've gotta admit that I like the Lebron Commercial "Rise" was great. The shot at Charles Barkley was funny. The commercial, and its references (some more subtle than others is better explained here. If you hate Lebron the commercial won't change your mind. But if you’re a bandwagon hater, then the commercial has a decent message behind it. Should I be what you want me to be. Sorry rest of the NBA, everyone can't be Durant and Duncan. Sometimes people like attention, like Charles Barkley and MJ, who blatantly criticized him for the move to Miami. I have no doubt that they would have gladly played together if possible. (Think 91 Jordan wouldn’t have wanted Barkley at Power Forward over Oakley or Grant… I thought so. Didn’t Barkley go championship chasing at the end of his career? I thought so.)

Quarter 1 NFL Power Rankings

Certain Contenders
1	Jets	I have them as a tentative number one. On one hand, they are the only team that is amazing. Sanchez has 0 interceptions and 0 fumbles. On the other hand I don't trust Sanchez, and I am absolutely fearful that the Jets will collapse under their own pressure.
2	Ravens	Surprise, the Ravens are good. They’ve become more of a pass offense than I’m used to. Flacco might be the best QB in Ravens history despite the fact that this is faint praise.
3	Steelers	The Steelers are only so low because they lost to the Ravens who I still contend are a great team. That being said, they have had an impressive set of wins and they've gone 3-1 without Big Ben. Bye this week and then they play the Browns. Don't be surprised if they move up
4	Packers	The Packers are still the team to beat in their division, and as far as I'm concerned, they're the team to beat in the conference. I like their defense, and I think their passing attack is pretty impressive.
5	Saints	They are only this high because they are still the Super Bowl Champs and have (a tie for) the best record in the conference. They haven't played like a Super Bowl winner.
6	Texans	I was right about Houston. I hope. I said I should have drafted Arian Foster, but. I didn't and I'm sorry for it. Schaub has been pedestrian.
7	Falcons	I wasn't down on the Falcons but I’m a bit surprised at their win in New Orleans. Their offense is great. I know I'm going to get flack for rating them below a team that they beat, but I still don't completely trust the Falcons
Probable Contenders
8	Broncos	The Best passing offense in the League is in Denver. You cannot be serious
9	Cowboys	I overreact to every win and every loss. Guilty as charged, but I'm pacified by the win against the Texans. Hopefully Dez Bryant pays Roy Williams back with a great on field performance coming out of the bye. Is this my bias at work? Probably but It is dependent on how the 'Boys do coming out of the bye. If they don't show up for these games then I'm dropping them quickly.
10	Chiefs	The best record in the league. They haven't lost yet. They are almost certainly going to drop, especially because they are going to play the team below them in the rankings this Sunday. However, they are a young fun team.
11	Colts	Not great, I said that their lack of defense would catch up and that hasn't really been the case, their offense has been somewhat Stagnant by Indianapolis standards
12	Patriots	The other side of the Moss deal is that the Pats offense is now downgraded a bit. I think they are still above average. BTW the Pats have double picks for the 1st round, 2nd round, 3rd round and 4th round.
13	Vikings	Show me something. Make me a believer. I have yet to see anything from the Vikes to make it seem like they'll be a real contender. I think they could lose 10 games. Their WR core hasn't been able to step up. Then again, Sidney Rice will be returning soon. Very soon. Edit: Randy "Straight Cash, Homey" Moss is coming to the team. I'm so unhappy because of it. I mean I'm happy for Moss and for the Vikings. But they could potentially rip through the next couple of games.
14	Dolphins	Hi haters. The dolphins are still good. They are fun, interesting and they aren't like any other team in the league. The Pats loss exposed the dolphins’ special teams woes. And is it surprising that they miss Ted Ginn Jr. now. Go figure.
Possible Contenders
15	Chargers	San Diego, Wish you had signed Vincent Jackson now, eh? Thank you management for letting the distraction boil over for too long, and tanking your team in the process. And Rivers may literally explode there is another WR drop this year.
16	Bears	They are who we thought they were, last year. I expected Cutler to do well and I jumped off the wagon too early. And lo and behold the return of the windy city flyer, Devin Hester. I’m not as concerned about the giants loss, just because it was relatively fluky. I'm more concerned the Cutler was hurt during the course of the game.
17	Bengals	The Pass offense was supposed to be amazing this year. It isn't. The Run offense was supposed to be solid, it's not. The Defense was supposed to be a division contender. It might be the 4th best in the AFC North
18	Redskins	After the Cowboys win they were a bit overhyped. They still have a dysfunctional offense that pales in comparison to their defense.
19	Giants	They stink. I'm not a believer at all in the Giants. They (the defense) is not very good.
20	Lions	The Stafford injury is crippling them. I think they could have had a better record were it not for the injury he got early in the year. To be fair, Shaun Hill has been amazing over the last couple of week. Jahvid Best is overworked and I am highly worried that his career won't last.
21	Rams	Check out the young gun Bradford. I'm still shocked at how well the Rams have done in the last few games
22	Buccaneers	They are 2-1, so I should give them some love. But I don’t believe in Tampa Bay right now, they are not the real deal so there is no use in pretending that they are.
23	Titans	I'm pretty down on the team from Nashville. Don' t know why but they always were more of a Madden team than a real life team.
24	Eagles	Vick. 2-0 when Vick starts. 0-2 when Kolb appears. To be fair. Kolb was hurt in game one and Vick got hurt in game 2. I don't know what I have to say about this team. Unlike most people I trust Andy Reid to lead them to a good regular season and guide them through their regular season. That being said, if Kolb is their QB of the future, that's fine, just don't expect them to make any noise in January until the future.
25	Raiders	Typical raiders stuff. Free agent QB benched, tons of crippling injuries, and the raiders are a bad middling team. Once again, typical.
26	Jaguars	Seeing the Jags causes me to be incredibly bored. They have no home crowd, they win in boring ways and Mike Sims-Walker needs to stop sleeping with David Garrard's wife or Spilling ink on Jack Del Rio's suits, or Carrying someone's pads or whatever he's doing that he's getting no targets.
27	Seahawks	2-2, division leaders. Good only at home.
28	49ers	Gore! Gore! Gore! Honestly, don’t know what to say, just take everything I said in the preseason rank and negate it.
Dead in the Water
29	Browns	Seneca Wallace is starting. Nuff Said.
30	Panthers	Wanted: good QB. That is all.
31	Cardinals	The Cards have been defined by their QBs, neither of whom is Kurt Warner. The security blanket is Fitzgerald who hasn't been able to do anything.
32	Bills	Despite thinking they were not going to be good they have managed to limbo under my low expectations. The pass offense is awful. The run game is stagnant. Spiller gets no love... The defense has been crippled. They're in the Jake Locker sweepstakes.

On the Docket- Week 3

WEEK 3

Sunday, September 26
Buffalo at New England, 1 pm
Can't we demote Buffalo to the CFL already. They haven't been relevant in years, and they're going to Toronto, Canada anyway. The Toronto Bills can play other teams on its level rather than get buried every week. Then again I may be giving the Bills too much credit. Worse off they're playing in Foxboro right after the Pats lost in convincing fashion to the Jets. Start Brady this week on your fantasy squad. Start the Pats D. Start the kicker, provided that he doesn't get fatigued from kicking extra points every 6 minutes. This one has 41-7 written all over it.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 pm
I don't know how good ATL is. But they're in the superdome, and I'm never ever picking them to beat the Saints in New Orleans. I guess I'll have to wait. Doesn't hurt that Turner is injured. EDIT: (No pun intended)

Detroit at Minnesota, 1 pm
Detroit is better than everyone (except me) thought. Minnesota is worse than everyone (including me) thought. I'd say I smell upset, but I just can't bet against the Vikings here.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 pm

Baltimore is going to pitch a shut out. Flacco will have to hand the ball off to the Browns for Cleveland to win this one.

Dallas at Houston, 1 pm
One team will be 0-3 the other will be 3-0.

San Francisco at Kansas City,
Love KC and all, I really do. Ryan Succop won me my matchup last week and all but come on San Fran. If they lose this one, even in Arrowhead, I'm diving off the 49ers bandwagon.

Tennessee at New York Giants, 1 pm
If Addai can torch the NYG defense, imagine what CJ2k is going to do. (Althought if he has a pedestrian performance, we might have to call him CJ1.5K)

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 1 pm
If Pitt doesn't win this one I give up. I've picked both teams to lose each week.

Cincinnati at Carolina, 1 pm
Carolina has inept QB. Cinci has great corners. Wonder how thats going to turn out?

Philadelphia at Jacksonville, 4:05 pm
Dammit Kolb. Here's hoping he either pulls another 300-yd game out of his hat, or is awful and gets pulled in time for Vick to save the day.

Washington at St. Louis, 4:05 pm
Washington has to win this one, right?

Oakland at Arizona, 4:15 pm
If Oakland wins, is it an upset? I didn't think so either.

San Diego at Seattle, 4:15 pm
Seattle. No particular reason, just feeling that the week 1 energy could carry over

Indianapolis at Denver, 4:15 pm
Indy. Just because they need to win 12 games.

New York Jets at Miami, 8:20 pm
Hmm. I think the Dolphins could upset the Jets here, but do I have the courage to pick against Gang Green. I think I will.

Monday, September 27
Green Bay at Chicago, 8:30 pm tickets
Green Bay. Could be a shootout though. I'm back on the Cutler bandwagon.

The Dog Days of Summer

It’s summer. No sports going on actively that I care to watch. Although that may be a good thing considering that I’m doing LSAT Prep at St John’s University School of Law. Football is only a few months away. Baseball’s playoffs are still a while away. Right now its the summer. It’s a time to reflect on the past year and look forward to the near future. And seeing as I‘m still a student, it’s not too selfish for me to consider the year as starting in August. With that being said… recap time

I’m 21.

Lebron, Wade and Bosh are joining together. Seeing as the Lakers seem to be a lock every single year now, I’m glad that the Eastern Conference has gotten its collective act together. Miami should be a lock for first playoff seeding. Although I still don’t think that they could beat the Magic in a best of seven series, they have the power to be a true contender to the Lakers, Celtics, Magic triumvirate. There used to be a team from Ohio but when King James left he took their chances of success with him.

The other team I feel should be on everyone’s watch list is OKC. Clearly I’m an unabashed Durant fan. I love the Thunder though. They play great team defense. The superstar is low-key and unselfish. Everyone on the team has the ability to score at the last minute. That’s the difference between OKC and last year’s Cleveland squad. Everyone else seemed unwilling to shoot but the best player. In Oklahoma everyone can shoot except the center. 

Football season is coming up and I’m looking to figure out what I’m going to do. I want to do some pre-season evaluation. I feel like I’m at the point where I can make unbiased predictions about teams that don’t play in Texas.  Mostly anyway.

Baseball. Yankees. All else is irrelevant.

Highly Underwhelmed.

 

I love e3. However, I'm glad I didn’t watch the press conference. Had I gone through the work of dipping and dodging to watch the conference, considering I had class today, I'd have been upset. There were no pleasant surprises that affect me. There were 2 highlights of the conference. Disclaimer: Gears of War and Call of Duty are irrelevant to me. Project Natal was finally officially announced as Kinetic. Yawnworthy name. The games released weren't impressive at  all. I set a low bar and Microsoft limboed right under it

Next the (imo better) announcement of the xbox 360 slim. Sexy piece of hardware. Comes with a 250 gig Hard drive (cant tell whether it's detachable) It comes with Wireless-N (Way to be 2 years late to the party, Microsoft). and it looks nice (albeit without the ability to place my Cowboys faceplate on it). But once again, I have a 360 and I just shelled out money to buy the 120 gig HD. thank you very little.

However, I am excited about Halo Reach, which had a campaign video released today. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. (but I was already going to buy it.

Year Two

The blog was called the 5 year plan to signify the fact that at the time, my plan was to be done with law school in 5 years. This was approximately a year ago. I feel like a different person now. At the time, I was wondering whether I even wanted to practice law. Now I'm sure of my desire to do it. I've done a judicial internship, spent my winter vacation doing another internship, and attended law school classes. I've seen the light, and the light has been good to me.

Now back to sports. Last time around I predicted a swift beating of the Celtics. I also predicted a quartering of the Lakers. Unfortunately for me, the numbers were against me and the Magic played like they had no desire to be there. The Suns are on the ropes right now, but luckily they're in Phoenix where they haven't lost in this series. I said that the Celtics and Lakers would probably be in simply because of my distaste for both squads.

After watching the Ron Artest play, my mind has changed. I wouldn't mind the champions getting another ring. Despite the fact that I wish Ron Artest was in Houston, I'm glad that he has a chance to get a ring. After all the things he's had to go through in the league, and admittedly most of those troubles were his fault, it's nice to see the now wiser Artest help his team get to the top of the mountain. Pretty much as long as Boston doesn't get there.

You picked against the Celtics again?

I know, I know. The Celtics are better than I thought and better than I want them to be. It annoys me to no end. I want LA/PHX to win. I can get behind either of those teams. As long as its not Boston. Anything but Boston.

Well that was stupid

Self deprecation seems to be a recent theme. The NBA playoffs  has been pretty awful for me. But here I go again

 

You’re not going to pick against Boston and LA again are you?

Let’s not talk about it

Didn’t they just burn you twice?

There’s still a chance

The Jazz didn’t even win a game, why are you going to jinx the Suns

I’m sorry

You picked the Cavs on purpose didn’t you, to get Lebron to win in NY right

No, but it would be nice.

 

Look, either way this is going to continue to be rough

Suns over LAKERS (in six)

Now that I’ve doomed Steve Nash, I may as well explain why. The Suns remind me of a better version of the Heat team that won in ‘06. Cagey vets that just want to win one (See Hill, Grant and Nash, Steve). On top of that I hate the Lakers. My problem is that I can’t imagine Nash not spanking Fisher. (See Williams, Deron and Westbrook, Russell). Kobe isn’t what he used to be and they’re this close to collapse

Isn’t this the same argument you used to say the would Thunder would win.

Yes… and if Ibaka had boxed out Gasol it would have happened.

 

MAGIC over Celtics in five

I’m a bit more sure of this, the Celts played some uninspired ball in the Cavs series. The Magic have been amazing recently 27 of their last 30 were wins

You’re doomed to a Celts-Lakers final, you know that right

Yes.

Don’t know when I upset the playoff gods but… here we go, again.

Mea Culpa

More NBA
1. @ChrisBosh.
Stop playing games. Injury aside, Toronto doesn't want you anymore. They've given up on you and think that you'll stay for peanuts because they (over)paid for Turkoglu. So why would you ask on Twitter should you stay or should you go, when it's clear that they want you out.

And by that, I mean, make sure you go to the Knicks.
CC: Dwayne Wade, Amare, Lebron

2. @NBASchedule
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semis is today, Game 7 of a divisional round is tommorow. Maybe I'm the only person who sees something wrong with that.
Fine, but the winner of this game should have to face the Magic immediately following the game.

3. @MyPredictions
I know, I know. I shouldn't even talk about the playoffs after what I said to start them.
a. Miami will beat the Celtics (stupid in hindsight)

b. Mavs are a sneaky team that will contend in the west (History should have warned me and I didn't listen)

c. The Thunder will beat the Lakers

(I don't regret this one as much, but it was clear that no one other than Westbrook and Durant wanted to play the Lakers, and everyone on the Lakers wanted to guard Durant, at the same time).

d. Without Bogut the Hawks will roll the Bucks. (Come on ATL. Win it in Game Seven, please)

e. How are the Jazz going to beat the Nugs without healthy players (in six)

But to be fair, I did get the Westbrook thing right. (Second coming of AI against Derek Fisher) And my finals matchup (Phoenix-Cleveland) is still intact.
But past that, I really have no business picking basketball games. I don't watch enough to make reasonable predictions.


4. In Case your still reading
(Phoenix, Cavs, Magic, Jazz advance) just saying.
Yes, I realize I just picked against the reigning NBA champs for the second time in a row.
Yes I realize I'm picking against Boston for the second time in a row
Yes I'm picking Phoenix to beat the Spurs for the millionth time in a row, and those picks have rarely been successful
As previously stated. I don't make reasonable predictions

Violent video games and the Supreme Court

     Shocking news (to me) from DC. Certiorari was granted in the case regarding a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. This is by far the biggest thing to happen to video game law. Period. This is the first time any video game law has gone to the US Supreme Court. Considering that this marks the combination of two of my favorite topics (video games and the law). This may be the most interesting thing to happened in the year so far. Certainly more important things have happened (Haiti, Chile, Iceland, Poland) but nothing that affects me more. Will the Supreme Court declare this law (and by extension, other laws like it) unconstitutional?

     This would be a big boost to the video game industry. The ESRB is the video game industry's self regulation process and in my opinion a very good one. Unfortunately, unlike the MPAA ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, etc.) the ESRB's ratings have been misunderstood. Hence, games like Bully (a T-rated game) get lumped in with more violent fare like Grand Theft Auto (an M-rated game). To make this more clear, imagine if people thought that E.T. and Saving Private Ryan were equally violent because they were directed by the same person (Steven Spielberg).

   More News upcoming when I finish reading the writ of certiorari (filed by the State of California) and in the fall when this case is presented and decided.

Post-Draft

There are only a few teams that I felt made their team better in a meaningful way this off-season.
1. Ravens
The knocks on the Ravens last year. No Wide recievers, and an aging defense. Well, now they have Boldin and Stallworth. I believe Boldin will improve the team immensely. Plus, they got "Mount" Cody. He's big, athletic and someone who I saw and liked in the games I watched.
2. The Jets
while I believe that their running game was completely gutted thanks to the absence of Jones (KC) and Washinton (Seattle) , the addition of a future hall of famer in LT may be enough to make their running game acceptable.
But back to the important stuff. They obtained wide recievers, they stole Cromartie, But They aren't number one because in all honesty they rearranged the team moreso than they made it better. They adjusted it from a gritty run first team to an athletic pass happy team. Now to hope that Sanchez can convert to a decent QB
3. The Panthers
(See Jets, 2009) Lame QB? Mediocre Back-up? Get a new one. They were already a pretty good team, Clausen can't be worse than Delhomme. And he's probably better than Moore. Now he leaves Notre Dame for a baptism by fire in Oakland.
4. The Rai...
I can't. The (team from California that wears Silver and Black) always make me regret singing their praises.But don;t be surprised if I get suckered into mentioning that the Raiders will be better than average this year, the Wrs have more experience, the RBs have more experience. The QB is not named JaMarcus Russell. And they managed not to lose Nnamdi. And if all else fails they have the two best special teams kickers in the league
5. The Redskins
Upgrade from Campbell to McNabb means everything. The additions of Willie Parker and Larry Johnson don't make them a worse team.
And Orakpo is still there .

Thank You, Andy Reid.

As a Cowboys fan, this picture bothers me more than anything else. When the trade talk concerning Donovan McNabb came out, I was a bit excited. McNabb would be out of the division (on some team like the Rams or Raiders) and away from the Cowboys. Now not only has Eagles management messed up his team, but they've also messed up the division.

Donovan McNabb is either the best QB in the division or the 2nd best in the division, depending on how you feel about Tony Romo. Unquestionably the Redskins had the worst QB. Now you send Mcnabb there, while the Redskins have the 4th pick, and suddenly the NFC east is back to the point of parity. The Giants, Cowboys, Eagles, and Redskins aren't that far from each other in talent. The Redskins may still have the worst WR core in the division, but they have the best defense. They also might have the best head coach. This may be another year where the worst team in the NFC East has an 8-8 record.

In short, thank you, Andy Reid. In doing Mcnabb a favor you may have screwed us all.

Sports Games

I tend to try not to write too much about sports except during the NBA Playoffs and during the NFL season. Mostly because my opinions don't matter. I couldn't tell you the name of a player in the Final Four (or the Frozen Four for that matter). Nor do I care about who the players are on the non-playoff teams in the NBA. I can't watch non-playoff baseball at all (except Yankee-Red Sox and Yankee/Mets games). So the only thing to talk about is gaming.

2k10 has owned my xbox over the last few months. Mostly because I haven't bought any new games recently, but moreso because I'm addicted to the My player mode. I like my RPG's to be subtle. This is why I can't get into a game like Blue Dragon, but I love games with RPG elements like Borderlands and NBA 2k10. I'd strongly consider getting any game that does stats as well as 2k10. There's something satisfying in real life about seeing a team like the Lakers finally come together and prove they were worth the hype. Meanwhile NBA 2k10 was more like last years Houston Rockets team. On the surface it seems like its a world beater of a game, but it's fragile where it matters.

2k10, almost 6 months after the game was released should be completely patched up and ready to go. (i.e. like playoff bound playoff teams) The game has a great set of features. The game feels like basketball. It's not too arcade like in its features. Generally the game gets the characters right. Some things feel awkward ( Yao Ming is a bit too dominant in the paint, and Garnett's video game presence is better than his real life version) but overall the players play as you'd expect.

The My player feature is great as you progress from training camp, to the draft, to the D-league, to benchwarming, then to starting in the NBA. On that end it works fine. The other (much-advertised) purpose of the my player option is.

Re-evaluation

My life over the last three months has been up and down. Cowboys made it to the second round. The Thunder will be in the playoffs. The Rockets have been playing their hearts out despite having none of their best players around from last year. The Yankees are still the Yankees. I've been volunteering @ CUNY Law. I'm a lock to get back into the RHB program for the second year. My dream of become a lawyer is slowly coming closer to fruition. Even my gaming life has been good to me. I'm racking up the gamerscore. and I'm halfway through HGSS.