Quick 6er – July 28th
This weeks Quick 6er deals with Tylenol’s Terrible Three in Cincy, Matt Barnes, MMA vs. Boxing and once again Albert F. Haynesworth. Check out the rest after the break.
1. Terrell Owens signed in Cincinnati - One year, two million and three diva receivers. Don’t get me wrong, T.O is worth every penny of this contract. I would’ve signed him to a $4million deal for one year. Despite his troubles he’s easily in the top 15 WR’s in the game, for one year. Buffalo did the right thing by signing him to a one year deal. That’s all he’ll get from here on out, that way he doesn’t cause problems. I think this was Cincinnati’s plan all along. Sign Bryant and let T.O. sit knowing there is only about 4-6 teams that would sign him anyway. Drive his price down and get a solid number 2 for $2 Million. My favorite part about this deal is that it drives Skip Bayless insane. I hope this works and Skip has to eat his words.
2. Carson Palmer needs to get sponsored by Tylenol – Speaking of Terrell Owens. Though Carson Palmer signed off on this deal and I believe T.O. will be a better teammate (partly because of the one year deal), the other two diva receivers on the team will still cause problems. Antonio Bryant is going to want to show that he’s the number two (even though he’s not) and Chad Ochocinco will be more focused on his off the field and celebratory antics. The celebrations will get out of hand at all Cincy games as these guys try to one up each other. Hard to believe that Jordan Shipley, a ROOKIE, and T.O. could be the most mature guys in this receiving corps. (Side Note: Jordan Shipley has some great talent in front of him to learn from, hopefully he has selective learning and doesn’t diva out.) There is probably 4 current starting QB’s that could handle this situation and luckily he’s one of them. I’m not sure they’ll be enough balls to go around, even though Carson can sling it with the best of them. Too bad he’s not sponsored by Tylenol, he’s gonna need it.
3. Albert Haynesworth says he’s optimistic about camp - Well, of course he is. He doesn’t want to miss out on any money. I would like to ask him if he paid attention to the last couple of months or not though. He’s burned some bridges and he’ll have to have a career year or the Redskins fans are going to get rabid.
4. Matt Barnes signed with Los Angeles - Poor Cleveland. Dude took HALF of the money they were offering to play in L.A. When you can’t swing a role player with TWICE what they’re being offered, you’ve got some serious problems. This is a great pick-up for L.A. Now they’ve added another stud defender and took away one that would guard Kobe.
5. Alex Rodriquez still at 599 - As I’m writing this, A-Roid is still sitting at 599 career home-runs. As he closes in on 6, 7, even 800 home runs, I’m curious as to why he’s not getting the crap that Barry Bonds got? Barry Bonds never admitted to knowingly taking steroids, never was popped on a drug test. A-Rod did and was. Nobody stands at his games holding up a giant asterisk. Nobody is throwing needles at him. Why? Have we become used to the idea that it’s just a part of the game? I personally don’t think there is anything wrong with performance enhancing drugs. If we allow Tommy John surgery, hyperbolic chambers, I don’t see the difference. (Don’t give me that “It’s cheating” or “For the sake of the kids” arguments.) I just want to know why we vilified Bonds, but not A-Rod.
6. Let me get on my Boxing/MMA soap box for a second -
Manny Pacquiao and Pretty Boy Floyd can’t seem to hook up in a fight. It’s terrible. Its what the fan’s want to see. It’s the only thing in boxing worth watching right now. Period. Boxing isn’t real fighting. MMA isn’t either exactly, but its as real as it gets with the limited number of rules (UFC specifically) it does have. This is the reason why boxing is a dying breed. No regulations, no true governing body, I mean you can’t even get your best fighters in the same ring. Boxing needs all the exposure it can get right now, but instead its just getting exposed. MMA isn’t exactly my cup of tea, but it’s legit. You know that if there are two fighters out there that the fans are screaming to get together, they’d fight. They’d fight at the next UFC pay-per-view. Dana White would make it happen. It’s one thing when Brock Lesnar was sick and couldn’t return to the ring. As soon as he got better, he was in there unifying the title against Shane Carwin first fight back. That’s the way it should be. Besides the bullshit posturing and dodging these boxers go through to avoid a fight, the other part of boxing is they only use half their body. I don’t have a problem with that at all, but don’t tell me these guys could fight an MMA fighter. I’m sure after years of training they’d be fine, but it’s not the same. Two totally different fighting styles. I don’t think many MMA fighters would last long in the ring against boxing’s best. But, that being said, NO boxer would be able to hold up in the octagon at all. You only use half of your body. All MMA’ers know how to box (even if just a little bit) no boxer has a ground game. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Manny & Floyd: Effin’ fight already. Dana White: set up a 2 month series where 3 boxers square off against 3 UFC fighters, first they box, then 2 months later they square off in the octagon. Its what we want to see.
Drunken Prediction: I think I need to sit this one out. I made quite a prediction with my BCS title game contestants in our last Collision Caucus.
