⭐️A Star Is Born 10/12

 “Competition times conformity equals corporate America. I was just thinking this morning on my walk, just thinking about like individualism, and then like the way people conform in corporate settings, and then like the way that money makes people act in certain ways, how I try to stay true to myself, how I kind of like, the thing I like about what I do is I can kind of be myself, but then also just do the thing.

But anyway, I'm not very good at compartmentalization. See, that was a lot of C's I just threw at ya, from Chris. So that's why I just, I'm not good at fitting in with like the fakeness.

I'm the worst person at being like fake, like corporate. I'm the worst at schmoozing. Yeah, you know what I mean.

I like those people who are good at like the fake stuff. And I'm like, I'm just too real. I don't know.

I don't know. But then I also think to myself, I think life is ultimately just find your lane and then just stick in to that lane. And I think I've kind of found my lane the last 14 plus months, which[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 943~TOTD #451⚾️HOF or Not❓Yu Darvish, Oct 12, 2024

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⭐️A Star Is Born 10/11

 “11 a.m., on the dot.

I'm all set up in the dungeon right now. Got my foot elevated, got the ice pack on it. That's what I'm gonna do today.

It's my Saturday, happy Friday. Fancy focus football. ESPN News just started.

Let's see if they talk about any of my dudes. Is that Field Yates there? I think it is.

Before we talk about Cam Newton. Field Yates. Let's look him up.

April 23rd. It's almost my birthday twin. 1987.

Six years older. He's 37. Boston, Mass.

Wesleyan University. Middletown, Connecticut. Founded 1831 as a men's college under the Methodist Episcopal Church with support of prominent residents of Middletown.

1.55 billion, the endowment.

Sixteen miles south of Hartford is Middletown. The largest city in the lower Connecticut River Valley planning region. In 1650, incorporated by English settlers as a town under its original Native American name, Matabasek, after the local Wangunk village of the same name.

They were among many tribes along the Atlantic coast who spoke Algonquin languages. The colonists renamed the settlement in 1653.

All right. Dude, a lot more history over there.

The Wesleyan Argus is their student newspaper.

I'm just keep wiping my eyes, because[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 942~TOTD #450🏈HOF or Not❓Cam Newton, Oct 11, 2024

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⭐️A Star Is Born 10/9

 “Marshawn Lynch, B. Smoad, April 22nd, 1986, Oakland, California, went to Cal, Berkeley, Oakland Tech High School, 12th overall pick, first round, 07 draft by the Bills, five-time Pro Bowler, cousin of Josh Johnson, Ryan Murphy, I'm guessing not the creator of Glee, Ryan Murphy, Uncle Lorenzo Lynch, yeah, so five Pro Bowls, one All-Pro, one Super Bowl champ, with the Seahawks, Hall of Fame All-2010s team, War No.

23, 24, 149 games, average value 90, 2,453 carries, 10,413 yards, 85 touchdowns, rushing. RRTD, rushing receiving touchdowns, 94. Do they give you, yeah, yards from scrimmage, 12,627.

That is a ton, and let's see. We have yards per game, 69.9. That's not super high.

Yards per attempt, 4.2, 79, career long rush. Tons of seasons, two, four, six. Six seasons above 1,000 yards, rushing.

Also, four seasons consecutively, double digit touchdowns. 12, 11, 12, 13. 20, 11 through 14.

And all with the Seahawks. All Pearl Bowl, all those seasons. Also, Pearl Bowl 08 with the Bills.

And 535 first downs. Six different years in the playoffs. 13 playoff games.

211 attempts rushing. 970 yards. 12 rushing touchdowns.

12 RRTD. 225 touches. 67 yards.

Career long rush[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 939~TOTD #448🏈HOF or Not❓Marshawn Lynch, Oct 9, 2024

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⭐️A Star Is Born 10/8

 “Antonio Gates, Ethan, the middle name. Antonio Ethan Gates Jr., Tied in 64255 Detroit, Michigan, Kent State College, June 18th, 1980.

Went to Central High School in Michigan.

Eight-time Pro Bowler, three-time All-Pro, Hall of Fame, All 2000s, Squad. War number 85, 236 games, 127 average value, 955 receptions, just short of that 1000 miles down. 11,841 yards, 116 touchdowns.

All right, 16 seasons. All of them with the chargers. 2017, they became the LA Chargers.

San Diego, previously. Started 190 of those 236 games, 1,459 targets, 12.4 yards per reception. 652 first downs, 58.1 success percent.

72, the long reception. 4.0 receptions per game, 50.2 yards per game. 8.1 yards per target.

Dude, these bugs. Mom is right about these little bugs. I'm sitting in the grass.

Them little bugs get me.

Eight fumbles.

Season high for average value, 14 in 06 and 09. 13 in 04 and 05. Pro Bowl, 04 through 2011.

Eight straight. And let's see, AP first team, 04 through 06. AP second team, 09, 010.

Playoffs.

Seven different years in the playoffs. 04, 06, 07, 08, 09, 013, 018. 12 playoff games, 71 targets, 51 receptions.

Kind of a low percent[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 938~TOTD #447🏈HOF or Not❓Antonio Gates, Oct 8, 2024

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⭐️A Star Is Born 10/7

 “Wherever day it is, you're listening. All right, Joey Porter, Kansas City, Missouri, Bakersfield, California, Foothill High School, Colorado State, Ram, Fort Collins, shout out, Mickey, my dad's buddy, played baseball for Cal back in the 80s. So, Joey Porter, third round pick, 73rd overall, and a Super Bowl champ, XL, with the Steelers, 99 through 06 with the Steelers, 07 through 09, Dolphins, 010 through 011, Arizona Codinals, two time first team all-pro, 0208, three time second team all-pro, 0405, 08, four time Pro Bowler, 0204, 0508, NFL 2000's All-Decade Team, Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Team, and first team all-whack, 1998's.

689 total tackles, 98.0 sacks, just short of that 100 milestone. 25 forced fumbles, 10 fumble recoveries, 12 interceptions, 3 defensive touchdowns. Saw him last night, because I was watching the Sunday Night Game, which their start was delayed an hour and a half.

Cowboys at Steelers, Joey Porter Jr. on the Steelers, and Joey Porter Jr., Penn State, where he's out of. All right. He is 24 years old, cornerback.

Joey Porter Sr., linebacker, war number 55. And yeah, let's see if there's any other specific stats. Dude, it's crazy.

Hurricane[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 937~TOTD #446🏈HOF or Not❓Joey Porter, Oct 7, 2024

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⭐️A Star Is Born 10/6

 “A Star Is Born. Let's go. Eli Manning, straight to the leaderboards.

Super Bowl MVP twice, 07-011 seasons. Top 100 list, 2012-13-16. Number 31, 43, 47.

Walter Payton, May of the Year, 2016. Four Pearl Bulls, six Player of the Weeks. NFC Offensive, Player of the Month, 08-11.

Approximate value, 27th all-time, 169. Approximate value, weighted, 41st all-time, 121. Passes completed, 11th all-time.

Pass attempts, 9th all-time. Passing yards, 11th all-time. Passing touchdowns, 10th all-time.

Passer rating, 65th all-time. Passes intercepted, 12th all-time. Times sacked, 20th all-time, 411.

Sack yards lost, 28th all-time. Pick sixes, 10th all-time, with 22 of them. And pass attempts per game, 19th all-time.

45th all-time, adjusted net yards per pass attempt, 27th all-time. Passes completed per game. Pass completion percent, 63rd all-time, 17th all-time, sack percent.

That's not a good one. Game winning drives, 12th all-time, with 37. Comebacks, 16th all-time, 27.

Total offense, 11th all-time, 7th all-time, and fumbles. All right, 97th all-time, games played, 236. All right, so we have 16 seasons.

Missed all of 2008? What? Missed[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 936~TOTD #445🏈HOF or Not❓Eli Manning (again), Oct 6, 2024

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⭐️A Star Is Born 10/5

 “Matt Ryan, 6'4, 2017, May 17th, 1985.

Extend, PA.,

Boston College, 08 Draft, four-time Pro Bowler, one-time All-Pro, 2016 AP MVP, 2016 PFWA MVP.

He has a lot of accolades, I'm not gonna go through all of them.

War number two, 234 games, 210 average value, seventh all-time in passing yards. This guy's mowing with a giant mower back there.

We'll see if he might intrude on me a little bit here. We'll see.

He's a, he's driving the Iron Man transformer lawn mower, which has like a hexagon of lawn mowers surrounding it. It's kind of cool. Happy Saturday, Cougs are on Bye Week.

Ninth All Time in Touchdown Passes, 381. You got Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Payton Manning, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Dan Marina, Big Ben Roethlisberger, then Mattie Ice, Matt Ryan, then Eli Manning of the Payton and Eli cast. You got the Manning Bros, both top 10.

Dude, how is...

All right, we got to pull up Eli.

We'll pull him up for a future episode.

How did he not get into the Hall of Fame in this year?

Eli, we'll talk about that in the future.

65.6% completion for[…]”

From A Star Is Born: 935~TOTD #444🏈HOF or Not❓Matt Ryan, Oct 5, 2024

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