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Seven weeks of the NFL season are now in the books and things are starting to take shape.  The good teams are separating from the pack causing their fan bases to rethink booking that family vacation in mid-January.  No one wants to be the poor bastard who misses their team win a divisional round home game because they were ‘ busy making holiday memories with their wife and kids’ , gross.   The bad teams are sinking deeper into the Super-Mario-2-like quicksand of an early offseason, causing their fan bases to study more college QB prospect game film than Mel Kiper Jr . & Mike Mayock combined.  The middling teams are riding the parody rollercoaster of the NFL, looking like mentally tough challengers one week, and just plain mentally challenged the next.  Causing their fan bases to delude themselves into thinking that ‘any week now, their guys are going to put it all together and make their run’.  After all, who knows what pebble tossed into what po...

Hiya kids!  Welcome back, we had another pivotal week of action full of exciting outcomes and season altering injuries.  Before we commence I am happy to announce to all of you that we have a very special guest sitting in on class this week.  Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor to welcome the Vice President of the United States Mr. Mike Pence to the classroom.  Mr. Pence, we are grateful to have you join us today, is there anything we can offer you to ma….  Oh, ummmmmmm ok, annnnnd he’s already gone.  Never mind then.  Well, we may as well just get down to business and start passing out the passes and fails for week 5 *Grading scale: Pass = A plus – C minus Fail = D plus – F minus (C’s gets degrees but D’s don’t) Week 5 Passes:  © bobtanney.com  The Hard Luck Charges Finally Win One: C- The Charges have finally brought a win home to LA after 5 weeks of play.  All it took was running into a team e...

The Unsurprising Rise of Deshaun Watson © Bobtanney.com  Anyone who ever saw Deshaun Watson play in college knew the kid was special.  His National Championship game performances are the stuff of legend, both of them.  In two combined NCAA Playoff Championship games against the powerhouse Alabama program he threw for a combined 825 yards and 7 TDs.  In 2015 he lost narrowly in a 45-40 barnburner.  He avenged that loss last year with a 35-31 come from behind classic. The guy is a born leader with an undeniable physical skillset and there should have been a lot more hype around him coming out in last April’s draft.  The reason there wasn’t is because scouts and talking TV heads have been burned so many times in the past that no one wants to shout any QB’s name from the mountain tops for fear they become a bust.  No one wants to be the guy on record saying unequivocally that Ryan Leaf or JaMarcus Russell are going to be the next Joe Montana....