Well, Lil Wayne went and did it, and he delivered.
I’m from New Orleans, but I’m a Packers fan/We knocked the Eagles and the Falcons and the Bears off/Now we ’bout to cut Troy Polamalu’s hair off.
Hear the full Green & Yellow freestyle at Nah Right. I’m not sure why they went with a photo of Lil Wayne bowling – other than to remind us that even his shins are fully tatted.
And once more, do check out the Kobe rap from awhile back if you missed that.
And for the vast majority of us who are not (and never will be) at media day, a number of the media present are keeping it light and humorous on Twitter – like CBS’s resident Dean Winters lookalike Gregg Doyel.
It was friend of Steady Burn, CBS and Guyism.com’s Will Brinson who just posted this video of AP Defensive Player of Year snub Clay Matthews fielding the age old question for men with curiously long hair: What’s more important – shampoo or conditioner?
Matthews took the question abundantly seriously.
According to Brinson, this question (and that lock in the moisture lead you heard) came from the “Toon Network guy.” Hope he means H. Jon Benjamin.
To stay updated on what the media at Super Bowl media day are tweeting about today check out Quickish too.
And I don’t think he’s going to considering that he’s retweeting stuff like this.
By now most sports fans are learning that Jay Cutler most likely tore a ligament in his knee, and that’s why we got to witness the brilliance and agony of Caleb Hanie (and just the agony of Todd Collins) yesterday. Cutler didn’t just quit, as some people – like MJD – may have suggested.
If you’re like me, you watched yesterday’s game in a crowded bar where you couldn’t hear the sound, and probably never thought that it was even a consideration that Cutler up and quit on his team. I think the other MJD, Matthew J. Darnell from Yahoo! Sports, summed it up best in in these two paragraphs:
The notion that he quit yesterday doesn’t make sense. Cutler was playing poorly, so he wanted out of the game? He was taking a beating, so he didn’t want to play anymore?
Like Jay Cutler has never played poorly or taken a beating before. As a matter of fact, if there’s anything that Jay Cutler has proven in his career, it’s that when he’s throwing interceptions, he is absolutely willing to stay on the field and keep throwing interceptions. It’s his defining trait.
Cutler diagnoses forth coming. As for Maurice, I’ll continue to follow him, but expect less offerings of remorse, more TwitPics…
By this time next week, the first week of NFL playoff match-ups will be abundantly clear, and the media landscape will be lousy with speculation – prediction: an unnecessary amount of people picking Philly or Dallas to make a dark horse Superbowl run. As it stands right now, 10 of 12 teams are at their very least in, with two spots in the AFC no less than wide open. Of those 10 teams, seven are playing games in the last week of the season that have some sort of playoff implications. Even so, after the Colts conceded victory vs. the Jets on Sunday, one can’t help but wonder who of the teams that are in regardless plan to rest their starters in the final contest of the regular season.
As I see it, you can eliminate three teams from that debate instantaneously, and a few others fairly quickly. The top seeds in their respective conferences, New Orleans and Indy, each backed their way into resting their starters in Week 17. And San Diego didn’t have to earn it – and they did beating up on Tennessee – but with a firm hold on the #2 seed they’ll sit their first string too.
The obvious candidates to play their starters this Sunday are Philly and Dallas, who meet to decide who takes the NFC East title. It’s just as much of a no-brainer for Minnesota and Arizona to put their starters out there. Minnesota needs to win to stay eligible for a bye. If a few things fall into place (MIN loss, PHI loss), Arizona can play their way to a bye to the following week.
That leaves three teams to consider – New England, Cincinnati and Green Bay. All three of these teams are playing a game on Sunday that affects the playoff picture, just not necessarily in a huge way personally. None of these teams have a chance at a bye, and Green Bay has no chance to get higher than a fifth seed. For New England and Cincy, on the surface it’s really only a question of rest – beneath the surface it’s a question of how bad do we not want to go into Indy in the divisional round?
Here’s the brief on GB, NE and the Queen City’s match-up on Sunday, and the context of each. Hit the poll at the bottom on who you think most needs to rest their starters on Sunday:
New England
vs. Houston
Implications:
Houston needs to win to get in. And realistically, they need so much help that the round-the league scoreboard will garner as much attention as Tom Brady and Randy Moss. The third seed in the AFC is New England’s to relinquish with a loss and a Cincinnati win. However, at this point it’s hard to wish for a second-round jaunt to the left coast to face San Diego over a rematch with Indy, who’ll be dusting off considerably for that divisional game.
I say sit the A-team at half time, Bill – who, ever the contrarian, called a QB dive with Brady twice on the final drive vs. Jacksonville on Sunday, up 35-7 in the fourth.
Cincinnati
vs. Jets
Implications:
Jets win, and their in. And with the Jets playing at home and the master of their own destiny, Cincy can count on getting the Jets’ best punch in the mouth. Still, if the Bengals knock out the Jets and a few other chips fall their way (NE loss, BAL win), they could be set-up to take on Baltimore in the first round, who they swept in the division during the regular season. Sounds complicated, but really it’s really as simple as living by the out-of-town scoreboard – if at any point New England wraps up Houston and that third seed is, pull Palmer.
Green Bay
vs. Arizona
Implications:
Arizona wins, and Minnesota and Philly lose, the defending NFC champs all of a sudden earned a week off, which is great for them, but does it really do anything for Green Bay? Rodgers and crew are looking at the 5th or 6th seed regardless of what happens on Sunday. But somehow, other than New Orleans, they’ve managed to have the least to play for this week. And, it’s almost a sure thing, that no matter where they’ve got to go in the first round, they’ll face a third or fourth seed that either played their way or got themselves beaten down into that position. May not hurt to be the rested team in that scenario.
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My smart money prediction: Green Bay conducts business as usual, and plays the starters, New England and Cincinnati pull the first string at half time.
Vote for the team you most think should rest their starters this week in the poll below.
