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Which is why I put perceived . Well, actually I put percieved, but whatever.

Carr has two touchdowns this year and one of them should have been a pick, but the CB missed and Smith caught it. And he is hurt too, so the third stringer is probably their starter. The bucs also lost Pittman so they are now down to their third string RB as their starter. The NFC south teams shouldn't panic at all.

Fuck you faggot. Combat percieved racism with homophobic slur. Yeah-uh.

Yeah, Family Guy was pretty good. The Colin thing went on too long but "I see you went with the wool hat" thing made me laugh. The fight was pretty funny too. The half of AD I saw was pretty funny too.

Tampa just lost their starting tackle and running back for the year. Seriously, 6-7 games is going to win the NFC South. That's just so fucking sad.

Somone is going to win the NFC south with like 4 wins.

Its in the air now. The players are publically calling out the coaches for their bad coaching calls and with it coming from guys like Dunn and Crumpler who never really complain, that is something. I wouldn't count on Petirno being around for the length of that contract unless they get a superstar QB(not because he gets fired. Because something crazy like the LSU job opening up). And I just don't see one in the college ranks right now honestly. I see some decent QB's that could be a starter, but I don't see any franchise building guys. As for Leftwich, he isn't really the future guy honestly, but could be the short term guy. They need a more mobile guy, something Joey and Byron aren't. Call it crazy, but I think by the start of next year when the season tickets don't sell out, and games are being blacked out again, Blank won't be too against resigning Vick when he gets back out of prison. A whole marketing campain about how sorry he is and redemption and oweing it to the city and a bunch of other bullshit. If that doesn't happened(which it probably won't), I think I will be looking at a football wasteland for the next 5 years and will have to go to games again because they will never be on TV. They will draft one of the big QB's out of college next year and he will Joey Harrington it and we will see this team keep going down. This is when I get to see the real fans. All 4 or 5 of us.

The answer in Atlanta liked to fight dogs. The QB situation there is fucked, incredibly fucked. Putting in Leftwich was mindnumbingly stupid last game. He hasn't played with the first team offense, he didn't know most of the audibles, his snap count was different, which led to some offsides penalties, and he held the ball too long looking for the deep stuff because he thats all they were running. If they were going to pull Joey, they should have put in Redman, the number 2, since he had more work in the offense. The coaches really dropped the ball here. The offensive line is taking a beating in the local press, but I am convienced that the sports writers and "fans" here have no idea what they fuck to expect from a football team. If you QB gets sacked after 5 seconds in the pocket, its not the offensive lines fault. You should expect more than 3-4 seconds from a pass rush. Anything extra is a luxury, not a given. Find me a good offensive line and I will show a QB that makes quick decisions and gets rid of the ball.

Yeah, see, it was pretty horrible to me. They did a bad job making me give a shit about any of the characters. And they jumped in and out of the whole rules of a plane thing. One moment, they are opening a window and sucking everyone out. The next, they are shooting around like the bullets would do nothing. Then they depressurized the plane more than once. I am all for checking my brain at the door but goddamn. Plus the ending was pretty ass. But I will watch any zombie movie so I had to watch it.

Falcons lose a game in Titans after a horrid showing by the offense. I have been saying for weeks, as soon as Joey Harrington faces a secondary that could catch, we would be in trouble. Well, he had one pick returned for a touchdown yesterday, but he should have had FOUR. (Two were dropped, one was called back because the DT lined up in the neutral zone). That lead to him being replace by Byron Leftwich who proceeded to throw about 5 passes to the invisible 15 foot wide reciever we signed apparently. And horrible play calling on the first and goal at the one. Albert Hanesworth made an awesome play, so instead of powering the ball in with their big, expensive FB, they went to the pass. Twice. And with Wayne Gandy getting hurt on 3rd down, they put in a rookie who hadn't played all day and lined him up to go one on one with Kyle Vanden Bosch because the coaches didn't send the running back to the other side to help. Anyone that knows anything about football knew how the game was going to end before it ball was snapped. The defense played great though. And Special Teams were incredible. All for nothing though because the QB's couldn't get anything going yesterday.

Even so, why would it matter what color skinned guy said it? He should not have said "I'd be angrier if a white guy said it" if he meant that he was going to be offended either way. It just makes it sound like there's two different standards there. It matters because it matters to him. If he didn't say it, he would have been lying. But at the same time, the very next sentence he was stressing that it is not cool for anyone, but it does bother him more if a white guy says it. Like, it bothers me if anyone gets raped, but I am honestly more bothered if it happens to a 5 year old than a 35 year old. That might be quite fucked up, but hey...thats how my mind works. Is it right? Probably not. But I also didn't exactly say it was okay to rape 35 year olds either.

And the press is still taking his comments purposely out of context. In the same video he repatedly says that its not okay for a man to call a woman that. He said he would be more angry if a white guy called a black woman a bitch than a black man. Its not saying he is cool with a black man calling a black woman a bitch. Just that a white man saying it pisses him off more. His comments in no way make it okay for anyone to call a woman a bitch and reporting it as such is bullshit. I mean, yeah. He still doesn't like white people and is probably racist, but at least report what he said as what he said.

I moved the layup slider to 60. Plus I figured out the real secret to why people are blowing layups. It all comes down to the foot planting. If you start your layup further away from the basket, your player has a chance to get down his feet twice, jump and still have room to make a easy layup. You wait too late to try a layup and you are too close to the basket and will blow it. Plus, pointing the shotstick towards the basket will increase your layup success rate too. But mostly its the starting the motion far enough from the basket.

Its about time for that kid to call it a career honestly.

No problem. I have no intention of playing anyone that I don't know this year. Last year I got bad feedback every time I beat someone, or had to deal with the people that would use every exploit to play a cheap, boring game.

I honestly have been thinking that the entire freakin time but wanted someone else to say it first. Fans would eat him up as the champ, and besides Jeff Hardy, I don't honestly see who else you would want at the top spot now. Hotshotting the title to HHH just doesn't seem like the way they would want to go. So besides giving the title to room wrecking bag shitter, Punk was my honest choice as the guy they give the title to.

Thats not necessarily true. The guy is obviously accomplished on the ground, and stand up, while it can be tough, is something a guy with great shooting ability could get around. The problem is that if anyone front face locked the guy and put pressure on the back of his neck he would have to tap...quickly. So I am not saying he shouldn't do it because he wouldn't stand a chance, I am saying he shouldn't do it because his neck is crap and a crap neck in MMA isn't your friend. You could probably even do some damage, but its not worth the risk.

Alright, a full(ish) review of the game after a few days of playing. Presentation: Great. There were just so many things I didn't like about the presentation of the 2k game for the last few years, but now it is pretty gourgeous. The menues aren't as dumb, the Half time and post games shows are great. Not only do you get player of the game, they have top 3 plays, and you can see individual highlights for each player that played. The only downside is that they consider rebounds a highlight, but not passes or blocks or steals. So basically you get a highlight package of every rebound and alot of the points. As with last year, you can view the replay for shot or rebound or block in the game and save them for the (now free) Reelmaker and make your own highlight films. The commentary is very much improved, with Kenny and Kevin and Craig all saying very team specific or player specific things. This is a little odd in a franchise where you did a fantasy draft (I was playing the Celtics who had Luel Deng on the team and they were talking about how the bulls wouldn't give him up for Pau Gasol...who also was his teammate). Another odd thing is that it sounds like Kevin Harland had a cold or something one day and his voice gets really deep sometimes that screws up the flow of the commentary. Besides that, this is some great commentary and not nearly as many repeats as last year. Graphics: Mixed bag. Close ups and replays you can see some jaggies and the player faces are REALLY hit or miss. The player models are definately less resolution than the last two years(2k6 had the highest and its been getting less and less per year) The Textures don't seem to be as high res as before either. But I personally don't care because I don't play the game 3 inchs from the player. In the regular viewing distance it is a incredible incredible looking game. The arenas, the lighting, the crowd (again, from a distance) all look great. Mostly because of the incredible animations. If you thought that they had good animations last year, you haven't seen anything yet. Everything is amazingly realistic and you can see where they had to scale back the player models to get this stuff in. From the shots, to the way a player dribbles and passes, you can feel the individuality on the player. In previous years of any basketball games, playing as Steve Nash or Jason Kidd just meant that people probably weren't going to be able to steal the ball from you as much and you wouldn't throw many passes away. Thats about it. This year, just cut across the lane and toss a over the shoulder pass to the cutter and you will see what I mean. Kidd and Nash simply make passes that others in the game simply can't and you can feel the advantage of having them as your point guard. The same with the post games of players, their dunking abilites and such. They also have added some cool animations like hard fouls when you chase down a fast breaking player. Its a realistic addition and I always hated not being able to stop a guy that only had one step on me. In the post, smaller guards will wrap up a big man if they are in bad position so not to giveup the easy bucket. You can throw the ball off the defenders leg when you are doubled, which is awesome, and there is some way to grab the ball for a jump ball, which thanks to a non existant instruction book, I have no idea how to do, but I will figure it out. Gameplay: The Isomotion is somewhat different because of the new foot planting system in the game. Unlike the usual "ice skate" feel of basketball games, your feet have to actually hit the floor to do the things that you have to do. This effects alot of ISO motion first. Once you get the hang of the dribble moves (look for the thread on 2ksports.com since the "instructions" that come with the game are pure shit) its great and easy to use but some will not like them at first. You can do crossovers and such just using the movement stick, or get different moves with the right trigger or tapping the left trigger. If you don't like that, the have the EZ-motion option where you can map it to the B button(360) of your controller. Off the ball controls are great. You can individually select a player and tell him to either come off a screen (great for midrange shooters), set a pick(the beautiful pick and roll) post up or "get open" which is still confusing the hell out of me. Given time, they will fight over screens, run around and do anything to get open, but its just to random for me. There is also a get open button and it does pretty much the same thing. Not get used by me. Passing wise, the lead pass button is gone, but your passes are usually the correct one for the situation. You just don't have 100 percent control over that anymore. You can still map the passes to the right analog (which I loved) and still use the shot stick if you hold the Left trigger. This can be really awsome with practice, being able to run, pass and shoot with only the two analogs. The Post game has some nice new moves and is implemented very well in the game. Defensively can actually defend the post now!!!! You can poke the ball away with a steal (the guy being posted up!) or you can lean to a side and if the player tries to spin that way, you can get their first and take the charge. Basically the post defense isn't a pray to god they don't score function anymore. Foot planting comes in to play on defense as you can't just go leaping into the air for every block, so you are going to have to get timing down (get the realism!) You are actually going to have to plant a foot or feet to jump and go through a jumping motion if you expect to get some height on the jump and try to block a shot. Rebounding has been retoolled and THANK GOD. The players jump for the ball now, instead of hoping the ball lands in your hands. Plus better rebounders really do get more boards (grabbed 18 the other day with David Lee and 21 the next game.) The Lock on D feature has been a mixed bag. On one had, its pretty cool, but some players can lock on that shouldn't be able too. There is no reason I shouldn't be able to blow by Shaq at will with steve Nash. You can get by him, but he puts up a better fight than he should. For you, the Lock on D can be great, but it is beatable and when they get by it, you better have some help D because he is GONE. Overall, I like, although I don't use it all the time. AI is fucking genius. Your teamates and the computer just plain know how to play basketball. If you suck at this game it isn't the computer controlled players faults. Its probably you. This is the best CPU challenge I have ever had in a best ball game. They set back picks, they take charges, they run plays beautifully and will keep running it until you stop it. On defense, they rotate, they contest shots, they double the hot man aggressively...just beautiful. This is just a real basketball game. Extras: This features an NBA blacktop which I would have prefered be left out the game. Don't get me wrong, its fun, but the addtion of this is space that could have been used to beef up the player models and such. The dunk contest, once you get the hang of it, is pretty awesome. Its tough to get down, so be ready, but once you get it down, you will wonder why you struggled so much at first. There is also a 3 point shootout, and street ball games, which once again, are cool and feature the street basketball moves, but I never really play it and probably never will. I kinda enjoyed the 24-7 feature last year, but they took it out for this. Overall, this game is awesome. As a frame of reference, I gave 2k7 a 7.5 out of 10, so I would give this years a 8.8. It loses some points because of alot of blown layups that require you to change the slider and the iffy lock on D feature, but besides that, it is with out a doubt the best basketball game I have ever played.

No. Not at all. It shouldn't have taken this many years for the dumb fuck to realize he wasn't coaching the Pistons. Now, god forbid they make the playoffs, the shittiest coach in the NBA will get and extension. But I am still excited for the team...just...Fuck Mike Woodson.

Pardon me for a second as I wipe the tears from my eyes. But...Mike Woodson had a wonderful discovery this offseason. Get ready for this.... Perhaps having one of the most athletic teams in the NBA run a half court grind it out, post up offense with no post up players wasn't a good idea. They have now FINALLY spread the court and are running a quick hitting, high pace offense. And they are florishing because of it so far in practice (yeah I know, its practice, but if you have seen scrimmages from the last couple of years from this team, you would know, this is a good thing). Al Horford is looking good. Acie Law looks like he definately should be the starter, Josh Childress is like a giddy kid in this new offense and Josh Smith, who spent the summer working out with Ojajawon and Calvin Murphy in Houston, is showing off an array of post moves and a nice fade away jumper. Plus they are actually forming a true second unit to have a 9-10 man rotation to accomidate this high pace offense and the guys are good enough defensively to do that. I am excited. I am more excited about the Hawks than I am the Suns right now...even though the Suns should win the Championship.

I downloaded the Clive Barkers Jerhico game, which I was kinda enjoying. The graphics look good, the whole powers and team command thing reminds me of Brute Force(which I loved). Then I got to this part where you have to jump down this hole and hit the right buttons at the right time. I cut the fucking game off and that will definately make it a not buy for me. Good job game makers.

LOL. I always said that meant that the blonde was their long lost sister. That movie was more twisted than people know.

I personally found Cartman swirling "scotch" in his glass to be hilarious.

But one of them frowned and smoked cigars. The other smiled alot. They obviously were two different people. The Acadamy robbed him on that one.

well, i was actually being sarcastic after sonys comments that we should expect to pay more for the PS3 and the price wasn't high at all. But hey, now I have more info.