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Random Shots From Week 10

Joe Bryant's Random Shots From Week 10
By Joe Bryant, November 16, 2022

Random Shots From Week 10
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Hi Folks,

We do a ton of insightful, thoughtful, and serious features here at Footballguys, with smart people thinking deeply for you.

This is not one of those features.

This is Random Shots, and it's a few pages of me downloading my brain that gets stuffed with way too many random items from too many hours watching, reading about, and listening to Football every weekend and throughout the week. It's the only way I manage. Here's hoping it has some value for you.

We'll see. Now let's get to it.

J

If a fantasy football season were nine seconds like this video, we're about five seconds in. So far, feels accurate.

Make sure to have the sound on.

More clarity in Indianapolis. Leaked footage from the end of last season where Jim Irsay cut ties with Carson Wentz...

The setup for Lane Kiffin to Auburn continues...

Hurdling defenders is cool.

Until it's not.

I'm calling this the Jeff Saturday rule. If you get a job as an NFL head coach, you have to hand over your fantasy team for the year. Just like he had to. That's good commissioning.

I'd add this: If you get a job as an NFL General Manager, you automatically win the league that year.

Let's get to amending those league constitutions.

This guy may be too big for a pro soccer player. But he's got the intangibles down.

I know some of these schools get cute with loopholes adding years of eligibility to players, but this is too much.

Vanderbilt doesn't win much. But they're a small school with unique academic restrictions playing in by far the toughest conference. So this was cool breaking a long SEC losing streak.

Week 10 and the NFL Circle Of Parity is complete.

Look at each team and go clockwise to see the team they beat, the week, and the score. Click on the image to see the full thing.

Music note this week is from another movie, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" by the Coen Brothers.

Featuring this amazing song with Dan Tyminski on lead vocals and acted by George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, and Chris Thomas King.

The song has a storied history, long before the movie, though.

From Wikipedia,

"Man of Constant Sorrow" (also known as "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow") is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky. The song was originally titled "Farewell Song" in a songbook by Burnett dated to around 1913. A version recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928 gave the song its current title.

The early versions were much slower.

Bob Dylan did a classic version as well.

Maybe more than you wanted to know. But music is fun. Movies too.

With all the pearl-clutching snobbery and gatekeeping after the Jeff Saturday hire, I can't recall ever pulling more for a team I didn't have a connection to than I did for the Colts last week.

Listening to some, you'd think the Colts had hired a Ted Lasso character and would need to teach him the rules of the game.

Former Cleveland star Joe Thomas said hiring Saturday was the "most egregious thing I can ever remember happening in the NFL." Thomas then dropped this gem about Irsay, who's talked openly about his battles with alcoholism, "When you hire your drinking buddy to be the head coach of an NFL football team, it is one of the most disrespectful things I've ever seen in my entire life to the commitment, the lifestyle and the experience that it takes to be an NFL coach, any coach, much less the head coach of the Indianapolis football Colts," Thomas said.

That's classy.

Joe Thomas went 1-31 his last two years, watched his team hand Deshaun Watson a giant contract, and naming Jeff Saturday the interim guy was the “most egregious thing (he) can ever remember happening in the NFL”?

Spare me.

Not to be outdone in the "How much one can be offended?" race, Bill Cowher described the hiring as a "disgrace to the coaching profession." And said, "What happened in Indianapolis was a travesty."

A "Travesty"?

Not surprisingly, Pat McAfee had thoughts as well. But from the other side, supporting his former teammate.

Speaking on Cowher, McAfee said, “He got hired at 34 in his hometown to be the head coach of the f---ing Pittsburgh Steelers, so if he maybe caught a lot of fire whenever he got hired for not earning and deserving the job that he took and he now wants to project that on Jeff Saturday, he can take that up with himself.

But Bill Cowher, shut the f--- up, dude."

Jeff Saturday took the high road. Per NBC Sports' Peter King, he said this about Cowher:

"I respect his opinion, you know? Here's the thing. God is my defender, man. I don't have to defend myself. I am absolutely comfortable in who I am. I respect all those guys. Whoever has whatever negative opinion, I can assure you, it's not gonna change who I am or what I believe I'm called to do. I have no idea, and I still don't, how successful I'll be, but we're gonna work hard at it and I believe I can lead men and lead the staff. I'm excited about the opportunity."

And about Thomas:

"I had no idea that he said that. I can assure you, I have never gone drinking with Jim. I don't even know that Jim drinks. I don’t drink very much, either. I don’t know, Joe. I'm not worried about what Joe thinks about me or anybody else. Like I told you, the Lord will defend. I feel like I've been called to do it, so I made the decision to do it. Again, no disrespect to either of those men. They are who they are and said what they said. It will not sway me."

He's 1-0 today. And they won't get to play Las Vegas every week, so who knows how it'll go. But I'm pulling for the team and for Saturday. I love the underdogs, and I love breaking down the gates. It's how our company at Footballguys even exists when the internet created a platform where you didn't need to be on the air at ESPN or have an uncle that got you a job at Sports Illustrated to have a voice. It's the "Democratization of Talent" where if you bring value, you'll have a voice. And we're here for it.

Here's an idea. Tom Brady's proven to be pretty good at passing. Maybe keep doing that.

More.

Thanks to Clayton Gray for that one.

Marvin Harrison Jr. with "one foot in."

Fans in Munich crushed it with Country Roads. Love it.

Rachaad White with a heads-up football play to seal the game.

I love this move from Jacksonville against Kansas City Sunday. When facing a significantly better team, it makes sense to pull out all the stops.

I loved Mike McCarthy rocking the Lombardi coat at Lambeau.

Vikings announcer Paul Allen was fantastic calling the Buffalo game. And great job to the guy next to him in the purple jacket for being mostly quiet while "cheering" so he didn't disrupt the broadcast.

I know it's what "the kids" are doing these days on TikTok, but the fake hamstring pull still gets me.

Lawrence Cager is just a second-year tight end for the Giants. But he knows his history breaking out the Victor Cruz salsa celebration.

For you Young Bloods, this is the original.

TCU Horned Frogs: 17

Texas Longhorns: 10

TCU Social Media Manager: Infinity

Justin Jefferson, you're ridiculous.

Closer:

The image:

Vikings Fans:

Side note - We're all (rightfully) talking about the Justin Jefferson catch, but Stefon Diggs had this beauty in the same game.

Classic Retro:

Last one on this. I'm with Andy. Adam Thielen was all of us.

What a game.

Truth.

Back on the Jeff Saturday thing. I think we need more former players to be coaches. Mike Vrabel speaking his truth.

Thanks to Keith Overton for that one.

Packers. Not Quite Dead. Yet?

1. Don't whine about the officiating.
2. If you do whine, be funny.

Wrapping with this one.

I get on Arthur Blank as much as anyone. But this is cool. It's easy to forget sometimes these folks have somewhat regular lives and relationships, and it was nice to see the conversation between these two men.

I'm going to guess you, and I aren't going to own an NFL Team. I don't have much in common with Arthur Blank besides loving football. But we can all take 30 seconds like this to connect with a person. This is an excellent example that we're all connected more than we think. We have to look for it.

Rock on.

Thanks to Jeff Grobaski for that one.

Thank you for being part of this goofy journey with us.

And thanks to Footballguys Keith Overton, Sigmund Bloom, Jeff Grobaski, and Clayton Gray for the help. If you've got a Random Shot of your own, email me at bryant@footballguys.com.

Thanks for playing along, and I hope you make the most of whatever you're doing in your life. Love your neighbor and stick together.

Peace and Grace to you.

J

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Tags Fun Timeless Tom Brady Randy Bullock Lawrence Cager Stefon Diggs Jaycee Horn Justin Jefferson Adam Thielen Joe Thomas Deshaun Watson Carson Wentz Rachaad White Riq Woolen

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