Bengals 2010 Roster…Write it Down.

Well, second semester of school has just ended, so over the past 48 hours I’ve had nothing better to do than watch highlight videos of the Bengals’s draft picks and prognosticate about what the roster is going to look like next season.  Anyway, here are my predictions…only a couple of surprises here and there…and of course, this is not counting any possible free agent acquisitions later in the off-season, so the actual final roster could differ just a bit.

Offense (25 players):

QB:  Carson Palmer, J.T. O’Sullivan, Jordan Palmer

RB:  Cedric Benson, Bernard Scott, Brian Leonard

FB:  Fui Vakapuna

WR:  Chad Ochocinco, Antonio Bryant, Jordan Shipley, Andre Caldwell, Jerome Simpson, Dezmond Briscoe

TE:  Jermaine Gresham, Chase Coffman, Daniel Coats

LT:  Andrew Whitworth, Anthony Collins

LG:  Evan Mathis, Nate Livings

C:  Kyle Cook, Dan Santucci

RG:  Bobbie Williams

RT:  Andre Smith, Dennis Roland

Defense (25):

LE:  Antwan Odom, Jonathan Fanene, Carlos Dunlap

RE:  Robert Geathers, Michael Johnson

LDT:  Tank Johnson, Geno Atkins

RDT:  Domata Peko, Pat Sims

SLB:  Rey Maualuga, Rashad Jeanty

MLB:  Dhani Jones, Abdul Hodge

WLB:  Keith Rivers, Brandon Johnson, Roddrick Muckelroy

CB:  Leon Hall, Johnathan Joseph, Morgan Trent, Brandon Ghee, David Jones

FS:  Chris Crocker, Bryan Evans

SS:  Roy Williams, Chinedum Ndukwe

Special Teams (3):

K:  Mike Nugent

P:  Kevin Huber

LS:  Clark Harris

For those keeping track at home, the hardest position to predict on offense was definitely wide receiver.  The additions of Jordan Shipley and Dezmond Briscoe through the draft certainly shook things up.  There are essentially four locks at wide receiver as I see it:  Ochocinco, Bryant, Shipley, and Caldwell.  This means that guys like Matt Jones, Dezmond Briscoe, Quan Cosby, and Jerome Simpson will be fighting it out for the last two spots.  I give the edge to Dezmond Briscoe because the Bengals had him rated very highly going into the draft and I don’t think he would last very long on the practice squad.  Also, I’m giving a spot to Jerome Simpson, whose unreached potential outweighs Matt Jones’s wasted potential.  Also, I think Quan Cosby may be a goner because his former Texas teammate is essentially the same player (slot receiver, kick returner), only more talented.

Predicting some of the positions on defense was even harder because of the immense level of talent on that side of the ball, forcing the team to cut some quality players.  The biggest mystery on defense may be at safety.  There are 3 locks:  Roy Williams, Chris Crocker, and Chinedum Ndukwe.  This means, assuming that the Bengals carry 7 linebackers (as I have predicted), they will only have room for 4 safeties.  So, you will see guys like Tom Nelson and Kyries Hebert battling it out with some of the undrafted free agents (and possibly another team’s training camp cut).  I personally went with the surprise here and picked Bryan Evans, one of the undrafted free agents.  Not only is Bryan young, he also used to play corner back, so he has a lot of speed and pretty good cover skills.  Mike Zimmer has already said that the Bengals don’t play a strict cover 2 scheme and that he wants his free safety to be able to play more like another corner back, so Evans seems to fit this bill pretty well…at least better than Nelson and Hebert.

 

Four Questions to Ponder

Whenever I have a hard time focusing or motivating myself to do something (usually school work), I watch this short speech by Jim Rohn.  Rohn was an entrepreneur, business philosopher, author, and motivational speaker who passed away just this past December.

Anyway, It never fails in getting me going, so I thought I would share it with you guys.  If you find it as useful as I do, you should definitely check out some of his other speeches and seminars.  They’ll go a long way in helping to change your life for the better.  You can find a lot of them on Youtube; just search his name.  Here’s the video:

 

Great Advice When Going Back to School

 

Your Best Christmas Present

So I haven’t posted on here in a while and I was getting pretty bored, so I decided to go ahead and make a new entry.  Sticking with the Christmas theme, I went into a chat room and surveyed about 200 or so people, seeing what their favorite Christmas present from this year was.

Surprisingly, most of the answers were pretty unique.  The most popular gift was the Ipod Touch, followed by a laptop.  The only other answers to be repeated were clothes (3 times), money (twice), love (twice), a diamond necklace (twice), and a box of condoms (twice).  Certainly a good variety going on there.

There were a fair amount of cheesy answers…the kind that you would expect to see written about in a 4th grade personal narrative, however these two definitely took the prize for the cheesiest:

“a jacket.. i didnt really ask for anything. I’d   rather see all the little kids in the world happy than myself”

“My baby sister’s expression when she got everything she wanted”

On the other hand, the most depressing had to be:

“A gun and one bullet”

And the weirdest goes to:

“A mounted bear”

As for what my best present was, I would have to says Assassin’s Creed 2 for the PS3…I’m still waiting on my Ipod Touch, haha.  Anyway, I encourage everyone else to leave a comment and share with me what your best present was!  Happy holidays!

And oh yeah, here’s the entire list of answers I got, just in case you’re curious =):

• Ipod touch (6)
• IHome
• Clothes (3)
• Jeans
• Shoes
• New Cowboy Boots
• Zebra Snuggie
• Hair straightener
• MJ’s “This is it” album
• A box of condoms (2)
• A mounted bear
• Money
• Cash Money YOOO!
• A blonde with a bow on her
• Cowboys/Saints tickets
• Wii
• Star Wars movie poster
• Team Canada hockey jersey
• A gun and one bullet
• Raw Vs. Smackdown 2010
• GPS
• Cell phone
• Hummer
• Longchamp Pliage Bag
• Jack Wills Skirt
• A trip to Europe
• A 1984 Porsche
• Laptop (4)
• a jacket.. i didnt really ask for anything. I’d rather see all the little kids in the world happy than myself
• My baby sister’s expression when she got everything she wanted
• Family
• Love (2)
• Parisian Bookends
• Diamond necklace (2)
• Snowboard
• A Ring

 

On Second Thought…Vote for Jamarcus Russell

After viewing Vote4Jamarcus.com, I’ve been convinced that Jamarcus Russell is the most deserving of a trip to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.  His impressive stats of 2 touchdowns, 8 interceptions, 5 lost fumbles, a 46.3 completion percentage, and an overall QB rating of 47.2 (Ryan Leaf’s career QB rating was 50.0) speak for themselves.  Give Raiders fans something to finally cheer for and vote for Jamarcus.

 

And Your NFL’s Leading Rusher is…

Cedric Benson

The former Texas Longhorns and Chicago Bears running back who was arrested twice on DUI charges and subsequently released from Chicago is now the NFL’s leading rusher as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals.  He currently has 720 rushing yards, 38 more than second place Adrian Peterson.  He is also leading the league in yards per game with 102.9; the only running back to have eclipsed this 100 yard mark.  Benson is currently on pace for 1,646 rushing yards for the season.

Do him and yourself a favor by voting him into the 2009 Pro Bowl.

Who Dey.

 

Enter the Social Media Revolution

 

Words of Wisdom…from Tupac

Simple, profane, and profound:

 

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In Memory of Michael Jackson

Below is a link to a website that has a lot of covers of Michael Jackson’s songs. Included are covers by John Mayer, Fall Out Boy, Amy Winehouse, Charlotte Church, James Morrison, David Cook, and others.

http://www.hypeful.com/2009/06/25/king-of-pop-michael-jackson-dead-at-50/

Now I must begin the arduous task of searching for covers of Billy Mays’ infomercials.