The following was submitted to us by our old friend, SMD. The timing of the piece was perfect as Jerricho Cotchery was featured last night in a FANTASTIC piece on ESPN’s television show, E:60. If you didn’t see it, you need to find a replay of it and watch it. It was summed up by New York Jets Head Coach, Eric Mangini, “It’s hard to get better than Jerricho Cotchery”
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After yesterday’s entry on Markus Kuhn and last week’s little entry about the best players in the ACC we are starting to grind some attention towards football season.
Can you believe that football practice starts in just a month and a half?
To get yourself off on the right foot you can click here to see all of the pre-season entries for the 2008 season that we have logged thus far.
Since Philip Rivers is on my mind and it happens to be (NFL) Sunday (if we were in season), I thought I’d take a quick ACC-related diversion for hard core football fans who like to stay fresh.
Philip Rivers ‘now he’s a folk here’
How awesome is this story on Philip Rivers?
The guts and passion that Rivers exhibited by playing in the AFC Championship game one week after tearing is ACL in a win over the Indianapolis Colts has worked to turn some of the mounting criticism of PR into massive praise. This article paints a lot of the picture. We will highlight a few quotes below:
Wow…This guy (or gal) has got to feel even more stupid today than he did when he wrote the following comments just a day after Philip Rivers threw for almost 300 yards and was 12-for-19 for 196 yards and a touchdown (128.6 rating) in the second half of the Chargers’ playoff win against the Tennessee Titans.
Since we were talking about some alums in this entry, I thought that I would bring the two together with an interesting experience on Monday. In the span of a couple of hours I had TWO national Philip Rivers sightings.
First, was a sleek Nike commercial that featured LaDanian Tomlinson but included Rivers. The Chargers sharp new uniforms were an attractive contrast against the black of night that served as the background of the commercial. As the Chargers came to the line of scrimmage to take the snap, the camera started at Rivers and then panned to LT in the background. Very cool that Nike chose to include Rivers as a supplement to the spot when they could have gone exclusively with LT.
Southern Pigskin has attempted to put together an All-ACC football team for the last decade. You can see the team here.
I guess I have to respect them for trying, even if they made a significant whiff on the most important position on the field.
I’m guessing that their ‘rationale’ for putting Chris Weinke on the team ahead of Philip Rivers is based in Weinke’s Heisman Trophy and FSU’s National Championship. BFD. The Heisman is largely a product of playing for such a strong, National Championship team…and is representative of ONE SEASON.
GREAT video of the Chargers’ comeback on Sunday led by Philip Rivers.
Relatedly, the Washington Post ran this article within the past week analyzing the Chargers-Giants trade that brought Rivers to San Diego.
In the spring of 2004, while holding the top pick in the NFL draft, Smith was rejected by the obvious first choice: quarterback Eli Manning. This happened when Smith called to inquire about the quarterback’s interest in being selected first. Someone in Manning’s party — which included his agent, Tom Condon; his father, Archie, a former star with the New Orleans Saints; and brother Peyton, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts — told Smith, “Don’t consider us.”
Can’t beat this (unless it is Cowher in a NC State hat)
I think — no, I know — the two most impressive people I watched Sunday were Philip Rivers, in a win, and Drew Brees, in a loss.I remember talking to Phil Simms before the ‘04 draft, when I’d come back from doing a story in Raleigh on the North Carolina State quarterback, Rivers, who was thought to be an early- to mid-field-round draft pick. Simms was a little down on Rivers because he didn’t like his arm very much. I was high on Rivers because of a few things — his presence, his ability as a true freshman to come in on opening day and command his team with confidence, his production at a mediocre Division I school for four years, and his optimistic love of the game.
It is going to be hard not to actively follow Philip Rivers and Mario Williams and other NC State alums in the NFL this year. But, we only have so many resources and time.
Regardless, we couldn’t ignore this great piece in the Houston Chronicle today.
On the practice fields of Reliant Park, Texans rookie defensive end Mario Williams continues to cast an intimidating figure, offering an up-close-and-personal view of a hulking physical specimen with an almost incomprehensible combination of size, strength and speed.
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