We start today on a positive note:
Will Smith's widow, Racquel, accepted his graduate degree posthumously during @univmiami commencement ceremony today pic.twitter.com/fmNFNKtCXf
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) May 6, 2016
This week's NSFW ANTI-WORK PEAKY BLINDER #BANGERS in honor of last night's Season 3 premiere:
- S03E01: Russians contact Tommy.
- Billy Kimble confrontation scene.
- Alfie Solomon introduces the bakers to some rules.
COME TO OHIO STATE, GET DRAFTED. Recruiting all the blue chips and sending them to the NFL might sound easy, but let this blogger be the first to correct that assumption: It's not.
Take a stroll through the top recruits of the 2013 class. Coaching, self-drive, and injuries are just some of the things that can impede a blue chip's path to the NFL.
But at Ohio State? A blue chip is more likely to thrive than fail.
From landgrantholyland.com:
So if you're an Urban Meyer blue-chipper with a 247Sports Composite over .97, you have a nearly two-thirds shot at leaving early to be a likely high-round NFL Draft pick. That could mean good things next year for Raekwon McMillan, Damon Webb, Marshon Lattimore, Dante Booker, and likely Jamarco Jones as well (.9696).
However, things might be more difficult for this group of >.97 247Sports Composite blue-chippers to leave early, because Webb, Lattimore, Booker, and Jones have yet to be full-time starters due to the depth that was already ahead of them. The 2012 and 2013 classes were able to prove themselves younger than more recent classes have been (and will be) able to due to the increase in overall team talent when Urban started at Ohio State. That means good things for Buckeyes fans, and still likely means good things for those super-talented blue chippers.
Justin Hilliard, Jonathon Cooper, Nick Bosa, and Demario McCall are all current underclassmen with 247Sports Composite ratings over .97.
Well hot damn, Ohio State doesn't sound like much of an underdog when the numbers are laid out like that.
CALL UP YOUR ACCOUNTANT, ABC. Michael Strahan is leaving ABC's LIVE with Kelly and Michael later this month, which is a weird thing to do considering his name is on the joint.
If ABC plays this right, they could upgrade on Michael Strahan. It would, however, require a name change. But LIVE with Kelly and Eddie sounds just as good.
While I'm throwing out unsolicited advice to media executives that make more in a month than I make a year, I'd like to say I will work for a quarter of what Eddie George will. (Yeah, you're damn right I'm out here trying to undercut an Ohio State legend. It's a cold world.)
TRICKSTER CARDALE THOUGHT HE GOT PUNKED. Answering a phone call you don't know is always a dicey proposition. It could be a beautiful ex-girlfriend looking to reconcile. Or it could be somebody trying to trick you into thinking you were drafted by the Buffalo Bills.
Such is the predicament in which Cardale Jones found himself last weekend.
From espn.com:
"I was just so excited. I'm not gonna lie; I haven't even told the coaches this yet: I thought it was kind of like a prank call. Because I was getting calls from weird numbers all day. I would answer and [they] would hang up."
Jones thought his friends were playing a joke on him, so he didn't trust the Bills' call until he saw his selection announced on television.
"So I didn't believe it until it went across [the screen]," he said. "I was in my room, watching it. When I stepped out to the front to finish watching it with my family, my name popped up at the bottom. I just put the phone down and it was just crazy."
Guess that explains part of Cardale's jubilation in ripping his shirt in half like Hulk Hogan.
Additional #shoutout to people who spend time trying to trick young men into thinking they realized their lifelong goals. Hopefully you parasites evolve one day.
A BOSS QUOTE. Michigan Men Chad Henne, Mike Hart, and Jake Long returned to the Wolverines in 2007 with dreams of a national championship dancing in their skulls. Then they got railroaded at home by the Mountaineers of Appalachian State.
They got worked, 39-7, by the Oregon Ducks a week later.
Wisconsin beat them, 37-21, on Nov. 10. A week later they faced Ohio State, a team they had yet to beat in their careers. A victory might've salvaged their season.
Alas...
#TBT 2007 OSU-UM game. Chad Henne, Mike Hart and Jake Long all return for their senior seasons to finally beat OSU. pic.twitter.com/mYKEXsV7az
— Tony Gerdeman (@TonyGerdeman) May 5, 2016
Apologies to Barton, but the odds of me stealing that line in the future are 100%.
By the way, here's what happened on the way to that sunset:
A competitive Michigan team! Look close, children! We haven't seen one of those since the days of Brady Hoke, peace be upon him.
THOSE WMDs. "You want a description of hell?" OxyContin's 12-hour problem.. Where the FBI's top cybercrime agents go after quitting the force... Hardcore ranking of the 50 greatest ECW wrestlers of all time... Everything that's wrong of raccoons... The Wedding Sting.
