With Round 2 set to kick off Tuesday Night Gus Elvin and Bryan Doherty look at the four second round matchups and talk some keys to each series as well as give picks. Can either underdog knock off the #1 seed? Also, how do the Sharks keep momentum going after a long layoff? With Boston and New York both coming off tough 7 game series, does either team have an edge?
Gus Elvin and Bryan Doherty talk Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. After the two Bruins fans recover from the Bs comeback win they talk about just how Boston pulled it off while also looking back at the eight first round series and who were the heroes and goats of the first round.
As another off season of College Football material kicks off, this year marks the third year I’ll throw my hat in the ring and look at a number of topics and categories. In the process I’ll look to do everything from predicting next year’s 25 best teams, identify the games of the year, narrow down the Heisman field, identify those replacing 2012′s stars and ultimately make predictions for each league, culminating in a national championship pick. They’ll be many things I’ll be ridiculed for. There will be a number of things that will surprise some people. Ultimately you’ll come away from the next 6 months of material as ready for the college football season as I can possibly make you. While I’ll be sure to miss on things I would like to remind the skeptics I did correctly predict the same number of bowl teams preseason as Phil Steele a year ago as well as top him in BCS Bowl participants predicted before the year. Nonetheless I’m not putting out any magazines soon so keep buying his for the top preseason coverage available.
The key in any top 25 poll is understanding the premise on which the poll is based because not all top 25 polls are built the same way. Some people choose to rank teams 1-25 based on where they think teams will be ranked at year’s end. If they think a team will lose 5 games they won’t rank them. While that may seem logical I’ve never been a proponent of that style of poll and it has never been, nor will ever be, how I choose to do my top 25 polls. My polls reflect the 25 teams entering 2013 who I think are the top 25 teams on a neutral field if the country played a round-robin. If a team is likely to max out at 7 wins that doesn’t give me the urge to rank a nine-win team over them if the nine-win team is from a much weaker league. With that covered, let us continue the top 25 for 2013 as the official kickoff of the off season coverage here at The Sports Headquarters.
*Returning Starters Figures from Phil Steele’s Blog
Teams already ranked:
One of the things that fans of any team must remember about draft “grades” is that they mean absolutely nothing.
I grade on a curve, and the curve is whether I think you had a great draft or not. If you didn’t have a great draft too me, did you have a good draft and if so why did it fall into the good section in my mind.
The last section is the one that people should pay attention too, because it really means that I just don’t know what to think of the draft your team had.
It wasn’t great or even good on paper, but the games aren’t played on paper, lucky for you and unlucky for all draft analysts.
That’s why I rank it as “Hey, it’s still a draft” because let’s face it, drafts are like beer, and beer is always good, there’s just varying levels of it.
When you get into the “Cheap America Beers” section, which your team unfortunately landed in, it can still lead to a lot of good things, like a night and an 18 pack of Miller Lite… Or can it can leave you reaching for the toilet.
2013 NFL Draft grades: The Miller Lite Drafts
Influenced by a span of eight games? You’re damn right I am.
This isn’t a long road swing in December, though. This is the NBA Playoffs and the Golden State Warriors are blessed to have the newly-minted Splash Brothers running the back court.
San Antonio Spurs big man Tim Duncan has nearly triple the NBA service time Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson have combined. That hasn’t stopped the Warriors duo from averaging a combined 44 points per-game.
As another off season of College Football material kicks off, this year marks the third year I’ll throw my hat in the ring and look at a number of topics and categories. In the process I’ll look to do everything from predicting next year’s 25 best teams, identify the games of the year, narrow down the Heisman field, identify those replacing 2012′s stars and ultimately make predictions for each league, culminating in a national championship pick. They’ll be many things I’ll be ridiculed for. There will be a number of things that will surprise some people. Ultimately you’ll come away from the next 6 months of material as ready for the college football season as I can possibly make you. While I’ll be sure to miss on things I would like to remind the skeptics I did correctly predict the same number of bowl teams preseason as Phil Steele a year ago as well as top him in BCS Bowl participants predicted before the year. Nonetheless I’m not putting out any magazines soon so keep buying his for the top preseason coverage available.
The key in any top 25 poll is understanding the premise on which the poll is based because not all top 25 polls are built the same way. Some people choose to rank teams 1-25 based on where they think teams will be ranked at year’s end. If they think a team will lose 5 games they won’t rank them. While that may seem logical I’ve never been a proponent of that style of poll and it has never been, nor will ever be, how I choose to do my top 25 polls. My polls reflect the 25 teams entering 2013 who I think are the top 25 teams on a neutral field if the country played a round-robin. If a team is likely to max out at 7 wins that doesn’t give me the urge to rank a nine-win team over them if the nine-win team is from a much weaker league. With that covered, let us continue the top 25 for 2013 as the official kickoff of the off season coverage here at The Sports Headquarters.
*Returning Starters Figures from Phil Steele’s Blog
Teams already ranked:
I started off my draft “grades” by handing out 15 Chimay Blue drafts, representing teams that I thought had great drafts.
In the scope of things that matter, anyone’s opinion on a draft class falls near the bottom, but all of us that put the time and effort into analyzing the draft want to let you the fans know what we thought of your team’s draft.
Today’s installment is that of the good drafts, or The Troegenator Double Bock.
It’s a really good beer, one that you have when you’re out with friends at the bar, looking to enjoy yourself. That’s what you get in this draft, a good draft, it’s something that should inspire a good feeling, and something you should look forward too, and in some cases it can be great, but it didn’t quite make it to that Chimay level.
Let’s get into my 2013 NFL Draft grades.
Troegenator Double Bock
There’s nothing better than the NFL Draft, it’s a yearlong process that culminates in three days of excellence, and then you get back to it again.
This is my draft “grades” and obviously if you follow me on Twitter @SethCoxFB, you know I despise grading the draft.
It’s a time for optimism and coming out and criticizing a team’s draft without having seen a prospect play a single down is just so odd to me.
That means I’ll do it my way, which I have always, and break my “grades” down into three categories:
The Chimay Blue- This is a great draft. Not something that you get all the time, unless you’re the Ravens, and it’s a special.
The Troegenator Double Bock- It’s a really good beer, one that you have when you’re out with friends at the bar, looking to enjoy yourself. That’s what you get in this draft, a good draft, it’s something that should inspire a good feeling, and something you should look forward too, and in some cases it can be great.
The Cheap American Beer- Hey it’s still beer. It still enjoyable, it still accomplishes your goal, and you still end up having a good time, even if you wake up the next morning not feeling great.
(Thanks to Follow @RumfordJohnny
for the beer suggestions)
2013 NFL Draft Grades- The Chimay Blue’s
As another off season of College Football material kicks off, this year marks the third year I’ll throw my hat in the ring and look at a number of topics and categories. In the process I’ll look to do everything from predicting next year’s 25 best teams, identify the games of the year, narrow down the Heisman field, identify those replacing 2012′s stars and ultimately make predictions for each league, culminating in a national championship pick. They’ll be many things I’ll be ridiculed for. There will be a number of things that will surprise some people. Ultimately you’ll come away from the next 6 months of material as ready for the college football season as I can possibly make you. While I’ll be sure to miss on things I would like to remind the skeptics I did correctly predict the same number of bowl teams preseason as Phil Steele a year ago as well as top him in BCS Bowl participants predicted before the year. Nonetheless I’m not putting out any magazines soon so keep buying his for the top preseason coverage available.
The key in any top 25 poll is understanding the premise on which the poll is based because not all top 25 polls are built the same way. Some people choose to rank teams 1-25 based on where they think teams will be ranked at year’s end. If they think a team will lose 5 games they won’t rank them. While that may seem logical I’ve never been a proponent of that style of poll and it has never been, nor will ever be, how I choose to do my top 25 polls. My polls reflect the 25 teams entering 2013 who I think are the top 25 teams on a neutral field if the country played a round-robin. If a team is likely to max out at 7 wins that doesn’t give me the urge to rank a nine-win team over them if the nine-win team is from a much weaker league. With that covered, let us continue the top 25 for 2013 as the official kickoff of the off season coverage here at The Sports Headquarters.
*Returning Starters Figures from Phil Steele’s Blog
Teams already ranked:
