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As the year dwindles to a close, many institutions, teams, and organizations are, like the rest of the population, the gift-giving mood, givings gifts of congratulations, kudos, and hearty slaps on the back. Recently, Michael Vick was the recipient of such an award, winning the Eagles’ “Ed Block Courage Award”, awarded to a player who has shown courage in rebounding from adversity. Recent recipients included Correll Buckhalter, who returned from his 7 billionth knee injury, and a long-snapper who was dealing with the recent murder of his mother. Vick, who showed immense courage by getting out of prison, was typically humble:

“I’ve had to overcome a lot, more than probably one single individual can bear,” Vick said. “Take a look at what I’ve been through. You ask certain people to walk in my shoes, they probably couldn’t do it. Probably 95 percent of the people in this world – because nobody had to endure what I’ve been through, situations I’ve been put in, situations I’ve placed myself in, decisions that I’ve made – whether they were good or bad.”

Truly, Michael Vick demonstrated immeasurable courage in being paroled from prison and choosing to play football rather than slay animals. OJ Simpson, a recent recipient of the National Forensic Society’s “Gil Grissom” Award for Courage in the field of Forensic science was complimentary of Vick: Read the rest of this entry »

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Urlacher saught as contributor for Michigan Football E-Blog

Chicago Football Bears injured linebacker, Brian Urlacher, recently made some comments about the state of his current team impressed the “writing” staff of a popular Michigan Football e-blog – so much so that they are trying to hunt him down and talk him in to contributing to their daily ramblings. Urlacher was quoted as saying:

“Look, I love Jay, and I understand he’s a great player who can take us a long way, and I still have faith in him. But I hate the way our identity has changed. We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we’d rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win.

“Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.”

In an e-mail, high school football corch and primary e-blog correspondent (name withheld upon request), expressed appreciation for Urlacher’s straightforward approach when commenting about the play of his current team. “Look Urlacher doesnt sugarcoat the facts – his team sucks @$$ and he knows it! Just layin down the facts as he sees them from the sidelines. We been wanting to add an NFL angle to the eblog for a long whiel, and he’s just what were looking for.”

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Today begins a recurring feature chronicling the people who, through their idiocy, underachievement, overachievement, or due to my general taste, I blame for the multitude of failings in my personal life. Congratulations, Sidney Rice, I blame you. Today.

It was about, what, five or six years ago now, that I saw you profiled in a pre-season college football magazine as one of the “best” WR’s that Steve Spurrier ever had on one of his pass-happy teams. Being mildly fascinated by South Carolina, a devotee of Spurrier, and a fan of tall athletic WRs with strong hip swivel, I immediately fell in love.

You naturally, spent a career at “USC” stumbling through the growing pains of a Spurrier offense that still hasn’t hit its stride and generally being mediocre.

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ESPN is reporting that Vince Young has traded in his status as “a scrambling, black quarterback” for the more media friendly “fundamentally sound, white quarterback” label. Last night, during the Saints-Patriots Monday Night Football broadcast, Jon Gruden and Ron Jaworski discussed the sudden renaissance of Titans’ QB Vince Young’s career, sagely noting that Young “learned a lot from watching Kerry Collins play”. 

Collins, as Gruden and Jaworski suggested, influenced Young to become more of a pocket quarterback. Comparing and contrasting the styles of the two quarterbacks this season, the similarity is obvious:

Watch Collins run!

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Yo, America. DEX here. I’m gonna bring the TRUTH to you hard and straight about THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. These are the realest power rankings out there. You come here for rankings that aren’t afraid to SPEAK THE TRUTH and tell it like it is. No punches pulled, no wishy-washy analysis, just pure, chunky, frothy streams of facts raining down on to your face from above. I’ve got opinions, and YOU ARE GOING TO READ THEM.

Now, the actual formula I use is very complicated and involves many notebooks full of numbers and notes. I’ll provide you highlights from those scores for the elite (Top 1/4th) of the league, and just some capsules for those lesser clubs that don’t warrant your attention. But, and I promise you this, I will never reveal the full formula that goes into the Most Accurate Power Rankings In The Interworld.

#1 – Detroit Lions

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