# NFL Week 9 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 7, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800 "2010-11-07T16:18:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/161 "2010-11-10T17:52:07Z")
I’d have more sympathy for Ocho if he spent more time studying the playbook and less time preparing for his television appearances. It’s the same reason Braylon Edwards will never achieve anything in the NFL. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/162 "2010-11-10T17:58:49Z")
Ocho was arguably the most productive wideout in the NFL for 5 years, remember. Is Braylon on TV a lot? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/163 "2010-11-10T18:07:03Z")
[Here’s a good article](http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/11/09/braylon-edwards-motor-mouth-bigger-than-his-engine/) about Edwards. The money quote: > [@](#): > > Cleveland folks might actually relish the thought of him coming to work. Their memory of Edwards was a guy who could make a great catch, but drop three others. A guy with immense talent but also a guy who hired a marketing agent before he was even drafted (At his predraft news conference in Michigan, he talked about his TV future because he was clearly “pretty.”) > > He’s a guy who could catch seven passes, but also a guy who asked a Raven during a game about his career as a male model. A guy who jumped for balls thrown at his chest. A guy who constantly complained he wasn’t liked in Cleveland because he was from Michigan, never mind that the same guy did a reality TV show about himself in his rookie season and had an early episode showing how angry he was when Miami bypassed him and Cleveland drafted him. I remember catching a few minutes of that reality show. What a pointless ego trip that was. It was just cameras following him around while he shopped for clothes. He’s one of those guys who wants to try just hard enough to get a big payday, then take it easy and do vacuous celebrity-type things once the check has been cashed. He’d have been right at home in the NBA. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/164 "2010-11-10T18:08:00Z")
Have you not seen reality shows before? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/165 "2010-11-10T18:10:17Z")
Yeah, but for an NFL rookie who had accomplished literally nothing at that point in his life? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/166 "2010-11-10T18:21:04Z")
He’s still more interesting, more or less _by definition_, than the average reality show cast member. In any event, saying he’d accomplished literally nothing is a bit much; he’d won the Biletnikoff Award, was named an All-American and Big Ten offensive MVP, set pretty much every receiving mark in Michigan football history, and been drafted third overall. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/167 "2010-11-10T18:24:36Z")
He had a reality show that aired in the city of Cleveland, where he had accomplished exactly nothing. Tim Tebow had a nice college career at Florida. Do you wanna watch his reality show? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/168 "2010-11-10T18:38:17Z")
No, but I bet there are a shit ton of people who do. Did you forget his jersey is the league’s top seller? ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/169 "2010-11-10T18:46:16Z")
Would his jersey sales make his hypothetical reality show any less annoying and unnecessary? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/170 "2010-11-10T19:40:53Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Would his jersey sales make his hypothetical reality show any less annoying and unnecessary? Probably not…but all those jersey buyers would likely eat it up anyway. It’s Tim Tebow, God bless him! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/171 "2010-11-11T06:38:56Z")
Just found that the NFL Rewind is running a free trial until this weekend (Nov 14). It’s on the NFL site, it lets you watch any game from the last 2 seasons. The quality is pretty good. Thinking about buying their mid-season package for $25. One of the cool features is that it’s indexed per play, so you can skip from one play to the next. I’m guessing you could watch a game in 30-40 minutes this way. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/172 "2010-11-11T17:01:47Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > Would his jersey sales make his hypothetical reality show any less annoying and unnecessary? No. And I’m sure Braylon’s show was annoying and unnecessary. I just think that’s not because it had Braylon in it. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Probably not…but all those jersey buyers would likely eat it up anyway. It’s Tim Tebow, God bless him! 😉 Tim Tebow blesses God. > [@SenorBeef](#): > > Just found that the NFL Rewind is running a free trial until this weekend (Nov 14). It’s on the NFL site, it lets you watch any game from the last 2 seasons. The quality is pretty good. Thinking about buying their mid-season package for $25. > > One of the cool features is that it’s indexed per play, so you can skip from one play to the next. I’m guessing you could watch a game in 30-40 minutes this way. Shit. I have a huge assignment due for school next week, and… damn you. ETA: Chad Pennington is starting for the Dolphins this week. What the hell are they thinking? Henne’s not that bad, and if they wanted a spark, they should give Tyler Thigpen a shot. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/173 "2010-11-11T20:34:05Z")
I think NFL network is gonna be doing that half ass teasing shit on their website for thursday night games again, where they have the blowhards spew platitudes with their insightful analysis for half the time, and then randomly show the game half the time. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/174 "2010-11-11T20:35:43Z")
That’s more of a Week 10 subject. Reported. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/175 "2010-11-11T20:45:50Z")
Yeah, well I reported you for gratuitous reporting. [Week 10 thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=585248) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800/176 "2010-11-12T01:45:23Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > I think NFL network is gonna be doing that half ass teasing shit on their website for thursday night games again, where they have the blowhards spew platitudes with their insightful analysis for half the time, and then randomly show the game half the time. Yup. Fuck. I don’t know what’s actually happening, but the Gamecenter feed makes it look like Roddy White and Ray Rice are each eating the opposing defenses’ lunches. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-9/559800.md?page=8)