This season is fucked up. It’s not like you can say I suck at picking games, I guess you can but whatever. 3 out of 14 correctly picked last week, I should probably just not even bother. Why do I even bother with this site anyway? I’ll tell you why, cause I am a fucking sports aficionado, and my opinion on things is fucking gold. I don’t have to tell you, cause if you’re reading then you are already a rational person so you would already realize this. But I got to find a way to win the hearts and minds of all them dumb motherfuckers out there. How do I do that? I think I’m just too much of an intellectual to even appeal to the laymen. Guess I’m just going to have to be one of those guys that is subjected to a cult following instead of drawing in the masses.

Last Week (3-11)
Season (37-38)

Initially I was going to do a ‘Top 100′ list of players like I did for the NFL.. But I thought how ridiculous and uninteresting it would be to start splitting hairs between Carlos Delfino and Ronnie Brewer for the 89th spot. So I’m rolling with the ‘Top 50.’

Not to be confused with the ‘NBA 50,’ a list of the 50 greatest players in NBA history, this is a list of the best players in the league right now. Trust me, Pau Gasol will never be the player that Tim Duncan was, but this is determined by the present and what their capabilities as players are now.

Unlike football, in basketball the better player is a lot more visible. In this sport the system is more of a reflection of the player, rather than in football where the player is more likely to be a reflection of the system. With that said, stats and all-star appearances, reputation, things of that nature are not the end-all be-all with determining the better player. It comes down to which player gives the team the better chance of winning? The things that need to be taking into account when deciding who is more valuable are, does Danny Granger’s scoring ability benefit a team more than Joakim Noah’s overlooked contributions such as forcing bad shots, and grabbing key rebounds? We’ll find out.

10. Deion Branch is back where he made his name:

The acquisition of Branch from Seattle for a 4th round pick signifies the change in offensive philosophy, as if the Moss trade didn’t already. Branch is now one of the two receivers on the Patriots roster who can line up on the outside along with Brandon Tate. We may be 5 years removed from Branch’s glory years with this organization, but I see no reason why he cannot be an effective pass catching option for Brady along with the other targets on this team.

9. ESPN projects Boise St. as the top-ranked team in the BCS:

With 8 weeks of college football left to play it’s not like this really matters right now.

8. LeSean McCoy is s-o-f-T, SOFT!:

Randy Moss’s time in New England was a memorable 3 and a quarter years. The Patriots invested a fourth-round pick in the then embattled receiver and got a return that would make Gordon Gecko feel like a chump. The Patriots 2007 season is an endearing joke to football fans across the country for not being able to finish off the impossible. But for the ones who payed attention to the journey of the 2007 season, they would tell you it was the most dominate display of football ever, and Randy Moss was one of the two main reasons why.

Fast forward 3 years later and Patriots Nation is conflicted over, Belichick’s decision to philosophically go in another direction, and not wanting to see the dynamics of Moss no longer represent the Patriots.

It’s a running joke for Boston media how Belichick can convince a large faction of Patriots loyalist to eat their own shit. And it usually invokes a subtle form disgust in the likes of Ron Borges, Tony Massaarotti, and Dan Shaughnessy. Easy for them to take that stance now that Belichick has traded the teams best receiver in franchise history.

10. After all of the coaches that bypassed the Tennessee job, they end up with quite the batch of buffoons:

After Lane Kiffen bolted as a professionally paid Volunteer, that job was treated by the coaching fraternity like it had gonorrhea. So instead of ending up with someone like David Cutcliffe, they end up with Derek Dooley who is in charge of a coaching staff that does not know how to count, and cost them a win because of an illegal substitution penalty in Death Valley.

9. Marshawn Lynch better get his rain coat, he’s going to Seattle:

All that they need for the division is 6 wins. So what the heck?

Does anybody read this shit that I write? I only get about 200 hits a day, and I’m sure most of them are on accident. Honestly though, I don’t really give a fuck. But as soon as the time comes, and all of my prognostications come to fruition, i.e. Boise St. plays TCU in the NCAA Title game, Chiefs go 12-4, Pats win their fourth Super Bowl when nobody expected it, etc. etc. I’m going to boast like a motherfucker, like the way a father of a child who scored 3 touchdowns in his youth football game would. That’s right, I, like 79% of the country, live my life vicariously through the accomplishments of others.

Last Week (8-8)
Season (26-21)

San Francisco @ Atlanta (W)
- I think it’s time to throw in the towel for the 49ers. Not for their playoff chances, 6 or 7 games can win the NFC West. But as for being a quality football team, that towel has landed.

Cincinnati @ Cleveland (W)
- Who the fuck is Cincinnati? Sure Cleveland sucks, but the Bengals are average, which = a road loss to a divisional opponent.

10. Jimmy Graham of the Saints makes one of the most ridiculous plays ever:

No youtube of this video. It’s a damn shame, but as the play goes former Miami Hurricanes basketball player, Jimmy Graham, was on the punt coverage team when the ball nicked a Falcon return man. Just before it landed out of bounds, Graham dove for it to keep it in bounds and tipped it to one of his own guys to retain possession. It was similar to what you see on the ‘hardwood’ on a regular basis, but it gets its props because of the irregularity coming from the field.

9. Boise St. completes it’s final task for an undefeated season:

With notable wins over Virginia Tech and Oregon St. down, the Broncos have a WAC schedule remaining to assure the third consecutive undefeated regular season. The question after that becomes whether they should be considered for the National Title? Yes, but only under these circumstances; If there is only one other undefeated team from a BCS conference, besides the Big East. Or if there are no other undefeated teams from a BCS Conference besides the Big East. So if ‘Bama and Ohio St. run the table, or even Oklahoma, Oregon, Stanford, etc. Boise St. and TCU for that matter will not be partaking in the National Title.

8. NFL Kickers Suck!:

Every time a kicker blows a game that the other players have worked so hard for, I honestly get scared for the little horse jockeys when they face their physically potent peers in the locker room.

Going into Week 3 there are 8 undefeated teams left, 8 winless, and the rest blessed to not be the latter, or unfortunate to not be the former.

This season is as wide open as the bitches from HBO’s ‘Cathouse,’ and the games are as tight as the lips of the Catholic Church when it comes to disclosing their inclination for pedophilia.

At this point it would be shocking to not see either Green Bay, or New Orleans in the Super Bowl representing the NFC. That’s the only definitiveness we have at this point of the season. Even Andy Reid is conflicted between an irrational decision and a logical one, in the same way Tom Brady was in the second half of last week’s game against the Jets by forcing the ball into a double-team, instead of throwing it to one of his other reliable targets.

The AFC representative is anyone’s guess right now. I won’t be surprised if it ends up New England with the potential they have. I won’t be surprised if it’s Pittsburgh with the type of defense they are playing at this point, or Houston the way they are playing, or Indy, or Baltimore, or Cincinnati, or even Oakland (they’re 1-1 too). Which is a good thing for a sports fan I guess?

10. Patriots resemble striking qualities from the mediocre 2009 team:

You never want to overreact to one single game. But at the same time, the failure to adjust in the second-half on the road, cost them to lose a handful of their 6 road losses. Honestly, I get choked up talking about this, so… We’ll be okay.

9. Mark Ingram returns like he never left:

It was Duke but… What else would you want from Ingram, the guy had about 16 yards per carry. The battle in Arkansas next week is the real story, and ‘Bama is just glad Ingram is back and healthy for that game.

We won’t know who the contenders and the pretenders are until about Week 4. Week 2 is important for a team like the Jets who came in with so much expectations (self-induced), that if they were to start 0-2 they will be the laughing stock of the football world. The only thing that can be read from Week 2 is that the teams are one step closer to forming an identity for the season. It will be a test for the teams last week who played really well to do it again to prove they are a consistent football team, and they don’t just prey on the advantage of dominating a favorable matchup. Or that they can bounce back from a poor Week 1 performance to show that the front offices are not going to be focused more on the draft in the regular season, but rather a playoff push instead.

Last Week (10-5)

Week 2 Picks: