Sunday: Ravens AFC Championship Report

Well here we are Sunday championship for the NFL, and the crown jewel team for the DMV area the Baltimore Ravens, are once again the AFC championship. Ray Lews, Ed Reed, and Joe Flacco along with the rest of the Purple and Black are rolling up to the frozen tundra in Foxbourough, MA to battle Bill Beliceat, Tom Brady, and the rest of the New England Patriots. The last time the Ravens played the Pats in the playoffs, the Ravens pulled an upset victory over the Pats in Foxbourough. The last time the Ravens were in the afc championship though they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Steelers, we all remember the nasty hit that Willis Mcgahee took where he was knocked unconscious, This time the stories going into this are are Ed Reed calling out Joe Flacco this week, allot of people don't have confidence in Flacco that he can throw more than 20 times a game. My take is Joe Flacco is a 4 year quarterback who for 4 years in a row has made the playoffs, so people need to show Flacco some respect IMO, hes one of the best in the league right now. He is the best Ravens QB of all time, he has far surpassed Trent Dilfer who Dilfer himself, has said that Flacco is better than he ever was. Ravens football has always been won by solid defense, by Ray Lewis and, co!! shutting down Brady, and that beast Gronkowski (whos a monster) on the offense Flacco needs to not to make any mistakes, and get the ball to Ray Rice, and the line needs to black for Ray. The Pats are the best team in the league, and Tom Brady is the best QB in the game today. However They are not unbeatable even at Foxbourgh. If Tom Brady shows up and doesn't have an off day, then the Ravens D are wo question are gonna have there work cut out for the. The game starts at 3:00 pm, on CBS, from Gillette stadium in Foxbourough, MA!! lets see what happens will have a follow up tonight on my thoughts of the game.

Ralph Friedgen

Congratulations are in order to Maryland Terrapins football head coach Ralph Friedgen to be voted the ACC coach of the year. What a turn around from last season when the Terps went 2-10 the worst record in the teams history. The Athletic Director at the time wanted to fire Fridge, however dues to the State of Maryland's budget problems they could not afford to part with 5 Million dollars they would have owed him. Now a year later the Terps finish 8-4 and managed to beat ranked NC State last Saturday, which was defiantly a upset. Now the Terps are looking at going to a more desirable bowl, there is a new Athletic Director at Maryland. Friedgen was told to fire his assistants from last season, however he kept them insisting they were the right coaches, well I'd say Fridges gamble worked out for him and now I'm sure a contract extension should be in the big man's future.

The week in DMV

The Redskins loose a tough one 17-14 to the struggling Vikings, with all the drama with Brett Favre and Brad Childress being fired the skins should have won this game easily, the defense has played so lousy. With talent like Orakpo, Fletcher, Mcintosh, Hall, and the 100 million dollar man Albert Haynsworth, they are awful at making tackles. Haslett should have told Orakpo to destroy Brett Favre!! we need Orakpo to unleash the monster we know he is!! Donovan Mcnabb is by far the most consistent player, on the skins. Next year I hope they draft a running back, clearly were in need of a new running game. With all that being the Skins are still in the playoff picture, but its looking grim.

The Wizards loose on Saturday to the Magic and last night to the Heat, the Wizards are win less on the road, I think they are better than last season but still are a bad team. Arenas is playing better John Wall looks promising, Blatche is solid. Still they are struggling this year and I don't seem the having a winning record at the end of the season but I may be eating my words, I hope so!!

The Caps have won there last two game Friday dominating 6-0 and Sunday winning in a shoot out!! they are in 1st place playing well, they did have a 3 game loosing streak but they have worked past that for now. Budreau is a coach that will not let his players get comfortable and slack. The Caps defense has always been shaky, its cool how Ovechkin is leading the team in assists, not being a selfish player is the quality of a good Captain.

The Ravens win with ease Sunday over the Panthers and appear to be on the road to the playoffs again, there having a solid year!! I think Flacco has improved from last year, could this be bc of the tutelage of Jim Zorn? I cringe at the thought, bur that could be the reality!! This Sunday Ravens Steelers in Baltimore, will be an awesome game to watch.

Tomorrow I will write about college Football and Basketball!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Well its turkey day!! going to get my feed on later today, ready to enjoy some football and basketball action today. I have Sports center on as I am writing this. Want to talk about Clinton Portis, well for the 2nd straight season his season will end prematurely due to an injury. A torn groin injury, last season it was a concussion that knocked him out. I think last season Clinton did not want to play for Jim Zorn, and I don't blame him bc Jim Zorn was a lousy coach. I do think CP was re energized with Shanahan coming in, after all Shanahan drafted him. During the 7 season Portis has been here we have been to the playoffs twice, both while Joe Gibbs was here. CP at times has been a shining light in Washington, unf at time his immaturity comes out and has been scrutinized for it by the media, the thrust is CP is the same age as me and 29 year old men are generally immature, millions of dollars don't make u grow up faster. People just think it does, and it doesn't. If this is Portis's last season as a Redskin I wish him, I have enjoyed watching him play when he has had good seasons, we saw what the man is like after the tragic death of his friend and teammate Sean Taylor, also enjoyed his great sense of humor!! well I hope then that Shanahan and Allan draft a RB next year in the draft. All right happy turkey day!! will be on twitter tonight during the Wizards game as they take on the Hawks in Atlanta.

Wizards Game

The Wizards win a donnybrook tonight 116-114 over the Philadelphia 76ers in overtime, from the Verizon Center, Nick Young hit a winning 3 pointer. One of the most exciting Wizards game I have watched in quite sometime. This team is so much better from last year. Arenas, Young, Wall, McGee, and Blatche are all very exciting to watch. With that kind of talent and now that they are owned by Ted Leonsis, hopefully we will see better days for this long troubled organization. John Wall is already shows signs he is destined to be a star in this league. Lets hope that is what happens!!

Thoughts of the Week!!

Well what a week in the DMV area, Every Sunday I am going to try and do a blog on my thoughts of the week in the DMV Area Sports realm!!! Sitting her at 6:49, with sports center on in the background; I am getting ready to watch Formula 1's race in Monaco at 7:30, The O's and Nats, Boston/Orlando game, & tonight TNA's PPV Sacrifice. Slowly sipping Cherry Coke to wake up (its an addiction) this afternoon I will be tweeting during the O's and Nats game. Getting super excited for tomorrow to be on the ground in Baltimore for the free the birds rally at Camden Yards. Baltimore is sound asleep right now after the Preakness yesterday which we saw the upset of supersaver, and the O's had a meltdown against the Indians, and Johns Hopkins loosing to Duke in Lacrosse. Washington DC this morning is recovering from a pain of both the Nationals and DC United both suffering losses to teams hailing from the Mile High City!! Denver. Virginia is happy there Cavaliers knocked off St Marys in lacrosse to advance in the tournament. Tomorrow I need to make sure I set my DVR for Monday Night Raw live from Toronto, Ca where Bret Hart will say a final good bye from his home country!! Glad to see Dan Snyder call out Albert Haynsworth, its should not be acceptable at all the he does not show up to training camp when he has a $100 million dollar contract!! what a great moment this week in Baltimore for Ray Lewis to have a street named after him!! What he means to the Ravens and the city of Baltimore is unmeasurable!!, He is the greatest player to ever wear the purple and gold and when he does retire it will be very sad :( and hard to replace the face of the franchise. Glad to see the Orioles win there 2nd series of the season against the Mariners, we will see today if they can win the rubber match against Manny Acta's boys The Indians who I'm sure would like the DMV area with a win and a better exit than being fired during the allstar break last seasonat the Washington National skipper. I will write a blog Tuesday abut my experience Monday at the Free the Birds Rally from Camden Yards!!DC United once again failed to score last night's loss against the Colorado Rapids loosing 1-0, I hope Onalfo needs to be fired this week!! not defending that looser!! The Washington Nationals were on the road all this week where the took 2 out of three in center stage NYC!! from the mets, and on Thursday put a pounding on the Rockies, struggled yesterday loosing both games in a double header, hopefully today they will have a better outing in the mile high city. Well its about nine minutes before the coverage in Monaco starts on the Speed channel I will be back Tuesday with my experience from Monday, and I will be tweeting tomorrow as well!!!

Washington DC's Sports Rushmore: Green/Unseld/Johnson/Langway/Moreno

This is def open for debate, but after giving it some thought. These are the legends of the Washington DC franchises these men are who I picked from there accomplishments with there respective teams in DC. staring with # 28, for two decades he was known as legs and the fastest man in the NFL, everybody still talks about when he ran from the other side of the field to tackle Tony Dorsett on MNF. He was a first ballot HOFamer, and under the Joe Gibbs era was with 2 of the 3 super bowl winning squads. The Redskin face is IMO is Chris Cooley and only time will tell if he is worthy to sit at that Redskin legend table.

For the Bullets/Wizards star for over a decade dominated the Capital Center night in and night out, in 1978 along with my man PC, and Elvin Hays!! they won the franchises only Championship. Later Wes would coach and work in the Front office for the organization, bc of the loyalty and admiration The Pollins had for Wes. The struggling franchise is in desperate need of a face that people can cheer for, Gilbert Arena's is the face now but for all the wrong reasons.

For the Senators/Nationals have to go with the franchises only true legend Walter Johnson who played for the Senators from 1907-1927, his entire MLB career in Washington with a W-L record of 417-279, his career ERA was 2.17, and in 1924 he lead the Senators to a World Series, he def belongs in this sacred shrine, hopefully Ryan Zimmerman will get to join Johnson at that table one day!!! Have allot of high hopes for Ryan!!

For the Washington Capitals there is the wrong way, the right way, and there is Langway!!! def the Capitals mightiest Ice Warrior as he played with no helmet, he won over the 9-5, beer drinking, hell raising blue collar hard working joes that went to games at the Cap center, he played hard and aggressive and put alot of guys asses in the board. He was a fav among the Redskin hogs: Grimm, Lachey, Jacoby, and Bostic made Langway there drinking buddy they loved how much heart that Langway played with, Rod Langway is the man in my book!! cant wait till Ovechkin joins him at that sacred Capitals table!! Ovechkin is on his way there and will prob surpass Langway but until he does, Langway is hockey royalty in Washington!!

Lastly for DC United the cornerstone of the Franchise, the humble superstar from Bolivia Jaime Moreno, who was with the team when it started in 96, in 97 he led the MLS in goals and United to the league championship!!, he left United in 2002, but returned in 04 where United that season won there 4th league championship, he is the only current active player in this elite group, but he is arguably the greatest player to ever put on a DC United uniform and belong at this table with these other four athletes, so that's DC's Rushmore If I was building it. This is def open for debate what do you think??