Steven and Jeff start out with a look at the Franchise Quarterback Poll Results. It received the largest response out of any RARN poll ever. The guys were surprised that Brett Favre received so few votes and gave your their thoughts as to why many of you left Brett off the list. The poll clearly showed what Jeff said in his article, that many teams in the NFL lack a quality QB. The poll also shows that there are three elite QBs, four our five pretty good QBs and some that are just so-so, and there were even four QBs that did not receive a single vote.
The guys then discuss some of the current news in the NFL like the owners voting for a Super Bowl in the New York/New Jersey market and the guys have plenty to say about that. Jeff even lets the Commish, Roger Goodell get his goat. Other news includes QB Ben Roethlisberger back at practice for the Steelers, Jeremy Shockey’s seizure, and a little debate about the greatest TV or Film character of the past 20 years. Doh!
Finally, the guys go back in time to check out the 2007 NFL Draft. Listen as the Steven and Jeff take a look at 10 teams with the top 10 picks and how they have fared with the players selected in 2007.
Greatest TV/film character over the last 20 years??? Hard one, these would be my nominations:
-Homer Simpson
-Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
-Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)
-Eric Cartman
-Super Hans (Peep Show – its only shown in the UK)
-Forrest Gump
That’s a tough one, I’d probably choose Eric Cartman as the guy’s a legend.
U…S…A……U…S…A….. – Gary in Scotchland :0)
Guys, Ireland are never going to cheer for England. We’re not part of the UK and there’s a whole 700 years of bad history and guess what? They still own a little bit of Ireland and they too have their own soccer team.
So come on USA, kick their asses.
I’ve not listened to the show yet, but Ireland loathes the English. Ireland fought a bitter war of independence against their English rulers after WW1 and we’ve had decades of conflict in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants, and whether Northern Ireland should remain under British rule or be part of the Republic of Ireland. Quite simply, the British isles will cheer for England’s demise.
And I think the USA has a decent chance of getting a result against England, we’ve been rubbish in our friendly matches and look like being a very mediocre side. Defensively John Terry is a mistake waiting tto happen and we have a suspect goalkeeper, in midfield we don’t keep the ball well enough and lack any cohesion. Up front we have Emile Heskey who has the pace of a pregnant camel and scores less than a 50 year old virgin, and we have Wayne Rooney who looks woefully short of form. Basically, the USA have a very good shot of a draw, if not a win.
Of course the Welsh, Irish, and Scots are going to root against England Steven and Jeff. England does not equal Great Britain. And Ireland is its own country guys. They fought a bloody revolution called the Easter Rising starting during Easter day 1916 with help from Germany and people of Irish descent in the USA. One could very loosely base Great Britain on the US. It’s a larger soverign nation made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. All this is coming from a Yank from California guys.
And on the Franchise QB poll, I didn’t vote for Farve because he’s 40. You can’t build a franchise around an AARP member unless he plans on playing football till he’s 50-55. He was a franchise QB for Green Bay, but not New York or Minnesota. That’s like calling Joe Montana a franchise QB for Kansas City, you can’t build a successful, perennial playoff team with an aging Hall of Famer who only stays 2 years.
I was listening to your recent show and wanted to let you know Chad Ochocinco also does a lot of nice things for fans. He tweets things like the first 200 fans to a certain movie theatre gets to watch a movie with him and he pays for it and so many showed up he does it again the next night, he tweets about meeting people at a diner to eat and he pays for their meals. This happened a few months back and just wanted to let you know there really are some nice guys in the NFL.
Just about to listen to show…
U.S have a great shot against England, as for me the defence is just not solid enough – a draw minimum is what the U.S team should be happy to come away with.
As a Scot I want England to do well but I feel strongly they will fall short.
Yeh I mean England will have a good strike force with Rooney up front and maybe with Defoe instead of Heskey so the U.S are going to have to work hard in keeping them quiet. Luckily, the U.S have a good keeper in Howard and if they can just keep the ball from Rooney or Defoe they’ll have good chance.
As for England’s defence? Well Ferdinand will keep them tight but Terry is all over the place and England are still looking for a solid keeper. It looks to be a good game with a lot of shots on goal but realistically I see a draw and that’s only if the U.S can keep England’s strikers quiet. Of course I’ll be cheering for the U.S. The ol’ Irish blood makes sure of that but I’ll try not to get hung up about that. Jeff wasn’t to know.
1-1 or 2-2 would be a good result for the U.S
First up guys I loved the show! love love love…. love love.
Now I know I may get moaned at here but I didn’t get to vote on the poll. I know I am sorry, but have been unwell recently so only this week caught up on the shows. Have to say that I am not suprised with the results. I know Jeff was calling people “homer’s” for giving players like Bradford the title of Franchise QB, but I can see why they would. Clearly the Rams are building the team to be lead by him, so technically isn’t he one then? Would you call Sanchez one when one of the main reasons the Jets got so far last year was the Running game and the Defense.
There was a moment in the 2nd tier of players where I was driving to work and shouting AARON RODGERS to help Jeff. How could you forget him man lol.
And Steven, why do you not like Tom Brady? What is it about him you don’t like? I don’t get it at all?!
The reason I can see Donovan McNabb not getting the title of FQ in Washington cause he has only just joined. It does seem a hard thing to call though when Kobb has been at the Eagles for a while but not got many votes.
On to the “Cold Bowl”, I was the person you mentioned about saving my pennys for the 2 birds with one stone thing. You mention that to get “decent seats” I would need to spend $5,000. TBH I have sat at Wembley the last 2 games in the corner, and have had a great view and totally enjoyed myself. I just want to be there. To say I went to a Superbowl! I don’t see the cheapest tickets being that high, but being someone who doesn’t know how the ticket structure work for the Superbowl or for any other games I was asking how hard they will be to get? I have a friend living in New York so getting them won’t be so hard that way but any insight into this would be helpful.
I would like to know though why there was a little resentment into having the Superbowl in a cold place. One comment was Jeff saying “I hope people can’t get to the game due to a blizzard” Surely games are played in the cold during the season, why not for the big game? I have to agree with Green Bay though, as I did hear that it wouldn’t be able to host the bowl due to hotel and accommendation. But surely this opens ideas for the franchises to re build surrounding areas to try accommendate a Superbowl? Be interesting to see if places like Seattle would go for a Superbowl bid.
On to the 2007 draft. Love it, was great to listen to how these players have done in 3 years. Only the last few years I have taken notice of the draft so I never knew Peterson was picked after Russell. Can someone please tell me why this happened?! Was Peterson not on anyones charts? Did he just turn awesome overnight?! Saying that I imagine he wouldn’t be the same player he is if he was in Oakland. Shame you only did the first 10 teams. Was looking forward to hearing the other teams. Maybe next year you can do a full show on all the teams.
Be great to get a few posts from you guys and other members regarding this post.
And hope your happy with 2nd place. GO ENGLAND!!!!
and p.s. Who is following this Sharper Shiancoe stuff onTwitter. DAMN its getting heated. Can see someone stepping in soon!
the seating capacity of lambeau field is 72,000. not 50,000. and they’re talking about uping the seating capacity to 80,000 in a couple years. granted the “city” of green bay is too small, the stadium is not. get your facts straight.
Jeff, most fans of the US men’s soccer team would NEVER root for Mexico. NEVER! There have been many ugly ugly incidents between the two teams; their keeper trying to injure our players, our players having batteries and bags of urine thrown at them when playing matches in Mexico, one of our player urinating on their field during a practice, among others. You saying that US fans root for Mexico if the US isn’t involved because we are neighbors is like you saying “Well, Yankee fans will root for the Red Sox in the World Series since the Yankees aren’t in it and Boston is nearby.” Or to put it in football terms, it would be like Steven rooting for the Redskins/Eagles/Giants in the Super Bowl since they are in the same division. Remember Steven once said he would never root for his own child if they played for the Redskins, the rivalry between the US and Mexico is pretty much like that.
Guys, I think another one of Bart’s most well know catchphrases is “Eat my shorts!”. I think Homer is one of the great TV characters of the last 20 years, along with Jack Bauer from 24 and Omar from The Wire. Plus I would root for both the Irish national teams before Scotland and Wales. Cheers x
As an Irishman, I can only sum up my hatred of the England soccer team by saying that if, during the upcoming World Cup, the English were to come up against that lying, diving, cheating, handballing, renault driving, arrogant, loathsome, patronising, handballing, smarmy prick Thierry Henry and his moaning dirty cheat French mates who cost Ireland our place in South Africa I’d still cheer against England.
That girl from the Persia film (the title escapes me) – I’m pretty sure your talking about Gemma Arterton, she had a cameo in the last Bond film. England v USA on Saturday, any shows before then??? I hope you’ll atleast tweet some fighting talk or a US battle cry.
Jay culter should have been the only one on that list worthy of being called a franchise qb.