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NFL Games To Watch This Week: Aggies In The NFL

Beergut — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:46:21 -0000

There are 24 Aggies playing for NFL teams. In order to watch them play, here are the games to watch:

Player	Games
Martellus Bennett	Dallas Cowboys @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Rocky Bernard	Washington Redskins @ New York Giants
Red Bryant	St. Louis Rams @ Seattle Seahawks
Melvin Bullitt	Jacksonville Jaguars @ Indianapolis Colts
Dan Cambell	Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints
Jason Carter	Philadelphia Eagles @ Carolina Panthers
Corey Clark	San Diego Chargers @ Oakland Raiders*
Ron Edwards	Kansas City Chiefs @ Baltimore Ravens
Robert Ferguson	Miami Dolphins @ Atlanta Falcons
Mike Goodson	Philadelphia Eagles @ Carolina Panthers
Danny Gorrer	Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints
Geoff Hangartner	Philadelphia Eagles @ Carolina Panthers
Chris Harrington	Denver Broncos @ Cincinnati Bengals
John Jolly	Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
Shane Lechler	San Diego Chargers @ Oakland Raiders*
Stephen McGee	Dallas Cowboys @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Seth McKinney	Buffalo Bills @ New England Patriots*
Mike Montgomery	Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
Don Muhlbach	Detroit Lions @ New Orleans Saints
Cyril Obiozor	Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers
Cody Wallace	San Francisco 49ers @ Arizona Cardinals
Ty Warren	Buffalo Bills @ New England Patriots*
Pat Williams	Minnesota Vikings @ Cleveland Browns
Billy Yates	Buffalo Bills @ New England Patriots*

Each player's team is bolded. * Monday night game

Tellus Excelling At Cowboys Training Camp

Beergut — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:42:01 -0000

More photos » by Eric Gay - AP

4 months ago: Dallas Cowboys' Martellus Bennett catches a pass during the team's NFL football training camp in San Antonio, Friday, July 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Just over a month ago, I was telling Jean-Jaques Taylor of the Dallas Morning News to lighten up, and stop criticizing Martellus Bennett for his MartyB TV channel on youtube. Well, apparently Taylor has stopped looking for reasons to be offended by Bennett, and has started noticing just how talented Tellus is as a football player.

The way Martellus Bennett has performed in training camp, we're going to spend considerably more time talking about MartyB the football player – not MartyB the Internet sensation.

Most of spend our time talking about Tellus the football player; you were the one so desperate for column filler in July, you had to express your moral outrage at a joke between brothers that was posted on the Internet.

The way he's performed indicates that he's going to be an impact player as a receiver and blocker.

Those of us who watched Tellus play for three years at A&M already knew he would be an impact player as a blocker and receiver in the NFL.

Recently, Jerry Jones said that if Bennett didn't have such good hands and run such good routes, the Cowboys would consider moving him to tackle because they think he could be a Pro Bowler. Yes, he mentioned Hall of Fame tackle Rayfield Wright in the conversation.

While being compared to a singular talent like Rayfield Wright is a compliment, Tellus' future is at the tight end position, not spinning down to tackle on the offensive line. I'm not eve sure if Tellus' build could carry the weight needed to play offensive tackle in the NFL.

That's because Bennett has such good lateral quickness and understands how to play with leverage.

Again, did you ever watch him in college? Tellus was a phenomenal blocker, especially in the run game, in A&M's zone read option scheme under Franchione. While I will always believe we grossly underutililized Tellus in the passing game at A&M, he was a very effective weapon as a blocker for us.

MartyB, it seems, is about to be known for a lot more than what he does on YouTube.

To most of us, he is already well-known and liked as a player and as a person, but to someone with an ego like Jean-Jacques Taylor, I guess the only viewpoint that matters is the one that appears under his byline each day.

Tellus had four receptions for 65 yds in the Cowboys' 30-10 schellacking of the Tennessee Titans last night. Maybe Taylor will tune in to MartyB TV to see Tellus' thoughts on the game, so he'll have something else to write about.

Tellus Sighting

miketag — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:22:44 -0000

Martellus Bennett had 2 catches for 8 yards last night in the Cowboys 31-10 preseason loss to Oakland. Bennett's first catch when he ran over a defender and gained seven yards was very impressive. Bennett is up to 266 and looks primed for an impact season.

Jean-Jacques Taylor Needs To Lighten Up

Beergut — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:20:40 -0000

Dallas Morning News writer Jean-Jacques Taylor is upset at former A&M football star/current Dallas Cowboy TE Martellus Bennett. Taylor is upset because Tellus uploaded a video of the "Black Olympics" between himself and his brother, Seattle Deahawk DE Michael Bennett to the Internet. Tellus and Michael competed in such events as eating fried chicken, eating watermelon, and drinking Kool-Aid. Worse yet, in Taylor's opinion, Tellus broadcast this event on his Youtube channel, MartyB TV. Taylor thinks Martellus Bennett lacks respect for all of the civil rights leaders who came before him who ended segregation, and all of the anonymous people who participated in the civil rights movement.

But Bennett should have more respect for the sacrifices that tens of thousands of African-Americans have made so that he can do and say whatever foolish things he wants on MartyB TV.

Not just the sacrifices by people we hear about all of the time, such as Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Chaney, but the anonymous folks who held sit-ins and organized marches and protests so that my kids can splash around freely at Cedar Hill's Uptown Village on a muggy Sunday afternoon with a kaleidoscope of races.

I look at a video like this, and knowing Tellus' penchant for making jokes, see it as Tellus making fun of stereotypes of Black people. I've watched several of Tellus' videos on his Youtube channel, and haven't seen one yet that didn't make me start laughing at some point. I wonder if Taylor took the time to watch "Buy U A Drink". I couldn't make it through thirty seconds of the video, I was laughing so hard. This is why Tellus makes these videos; because he likes attention, and he likes making people laugh. Martellus just happens to be an incredibly talented athlete who is also blessed with a superior wit, and he uses it to make people laugh.

Taylor says he's sensitive about the civil rights movement because his parents told him about the struggle:

I'm sensitive to the issue because my parents grew up in Nashville, Tenn., during the height of the civil rights movement. I heard stories about water fountains marked "white" and "colored." I heard stories about movie theaters with segregated sections.

To me, the civil rights movement is real not something that happened 100 years ago, seen today only on black-and-white images inside a dusty picture frame on a fireplace mantle. To me, the civil rights movement is more than a PBS special or an HBO documentary.

To me, it's about real people.

Well, Jean-Jacques, my mother marched with Rev. Martin Luther King. She was in Memphis, TN the day he was assassinated. She wasn't just a spectator in the movement, she was an active participant. If I want to know about the civil rights movement, I don't need to go watch a documentary on HBO or a PBS special, I just need to ask my mother to tell me another story. If your parents' stories give you the right to criticize Martellus Bennett and call him disrespectful, I will say my mother's past gives me the right to say this to you: Lighten up. This isn't worth getting upset about, because this isn't a racial issue. This is two grown men fooling around on a video camera, and having fun.

If you want to find an issue to write about, continue championing Michael Vick's right to return to the NFL, because MartyB TV isn't for you. You lack the sense of humor needed to view it, and you take yourself too seriously. Worse yet, you are increasing the viewership of this video you find so offensive, because your column has caused more people to go looking for it.

Go find some other issue to be mock-outraged about, because MartyB TV is too low-brow for your pretentious sensibilities.

Morning Coffee Thinks It's Time To Beat the Aggies

GhostofBigRoy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:00:07 -0000

Riddle me this. Since the great writers here at BON have already laid out the case for Texas, analyzed the BCS, broken down the head-to-head debate, and refuted the arguments of rivals, there isn't much room left for analysis. But I do have one significant question. The Harris poll voters have both SEC teams, Alabama and Florida, ahead of Texas and Oklahoma. How does that happen? Alabama is fine at the top, that's to be expected. But Florida in front of Texas? The team that lost to Ole Miss at home? Against a team that lost on the road on the last play in the biggest game in the opposing program's history?

Florida's defining victory was their smashing of Georgia, but the best team the Bulldogs have beat is the increasingly pathetic LSU. Sure, Florida beat two teams that were in the top 10, but neither of those teams looks particularly worthy of those rankings now. Texas owns victories over three teams that are legitimately in the top 12 in the country. If voters are punishing Texas for the more recent loss, they should consider that it came after the toughest four-game stretch any team has played in college football for 60 years. I don't get it.

This is all a little ridiculous. Not just Florida being ranked in front of the Longhorns, which is certainly a debatable question. The whole system. Dan Wetzel's characterizes the absurdity of the voting system in the following way:

Should Texas get the nod because it beat Oklahoma? Should it be Oklahoma because it put together the most impressive performance of the season in blasting Tech 65-21? Should Tech be considered because a voter likes its coach? How about strength of schedule? Or margin of victory? Coolest mascot? Color scheme? Does it matter who's played the most recent TV game? What if a voter missed one team's impressive performance because he went fishing? A voter's alma mater has been known to come into play. And doesn't he owe the conference that got him a vote in the first place? What about the coach who's still bitter about losing a recruit to a certain school?

Wetzel's repeated rhetorical questions highlight a principle problem that writers and bloggers across the country are racing to address: What is the criteria for the polls? This isn't exaclty a new question, but having three of the six or seven best teams in the same country in the same conference division, that competely personal and nebulous set of criterion exposes the flaw in the current system. Then each team ends up with one loss, chaos results, and multiple teams get screwed. Think about it: UT, OU, and Tech are all deserving of BCS bids. But the current system could leave two on the outside looking in, while mediocre squads like Cincinnati and whatever team emerges from the mess that is the ACC, conferences that don't deserve bids this season.

As Wetzel goes on to note, the system also results in members of the Texas sports information department propagandizing sportswriters on Saturday before even Tech knew what had just happened. Didn't work, apparently, but it increasingly politicizes the game of college football. It's only a matter of time with this system before Sports Information departments around the country morph into sophisticated purveyors of propaganda. How long is it until sportswriters look up from their desks to see a beaming Matthew McConaughey asking them to do the right thing? Don't mess with Roger Clemens, he might have some leftover, uh, rage, you know. If the BCS is worth millions of dollars, the Joneses (yeah, I'm talking about Texas) can afford to employ professional lobbyists on their behalf, afford the relentless advertising, research advanced brainwashing mechanisms. Hell, what about out-and-out bribery. That's all about as unsavory as pretty much everything Scott Boras does. Gotta be time for a playoff.

Mack Brown's take on the BCS. Perhaps the most famous lobbyist in the history of college football, Mack Brown will decline to make the BCS case for the Longhorns until after the Aggie game. He spoke with the team about it on Sunday, before he and the team made the decision not to talk about it, telling the players that they have more impact on where they play at the end of the season than anyone else. Brown is correct in his assessment, especially considering the flat performances against A&M the last two seasons. If ever there is a time for "style points," it's Thanksgiving day against the Aggies.

As much emotion as may be present in the game coming from the maroon side of the field, this Longhorns team has shown all season that they play hard every week. It started after the loss in College Station last season and now the team has the chance to bring that edge full circle and unleash all that frustration on the poor Aggies. There will not be a flat performance on Thursday--the seniors and the junior leaders on the team like Colt McCoy will not allow that to happen. Will Muschamp will not allow that to happen. And Mack Brown, despite his Mr. Clappy side, will not allow that to happen. As if they need any more motivation after two straight losses, one former Aggie is providing some serious bulletin board material...

Martellus Bennett has diarrhea of the mouth. Martellus Bennett is running his mouth about the Longhorns, callilng Texas "yellowbellies" and noting that the Aggies "always beat Texas." Let's go to the all-time scoreboard, Martellus. Okay, let's see here. Oh yeah, Texas 73, TAMU 36, with 5 ties. That's the big-boy scoreboard (unless you want to talk about national championships, where Texas leads 4-1). So no, the Aggies don't always beat Texas. In fact, for the mathematically challenged (and Aggies), that means that Texas wins about twice for each Aggie victory. Even with victories in the last two meetings between the teams (as if Texas fans need a reminder), the Aggies would need to beat the Longhorns 37 years in a row to tie the series--it couldn't happen until 2044. Since Martellus no doubt couldn't shut his mouth long enough to learn anything in history class, let's take a step back in time: 2003, Texas wins 46-15, 2002, Texas wins 50-20, and 2000, 43-17. Bennett went on to predict an Aggie victory and some more hits on Colt McCoy (or Cart McCoy, quite poor taste there Martellus) by his brother, Michael. Considering that Michael Bennett only has two sacks on the season, that doesn't seem likely.

That massive vortex of suck? That would be the Aggie football program. Don't stand too close because you could get sucked in. There are few things more frustrating in life than Aggies who can call scoreboard. Even worse when they manage to lose to Arkansas State and get blown out by Baylor. How bad was the blowout to Baylor? The Bears lead 41-7 going into the fourth quarter, having allowed the Aggies 233 yards, while forcing five turnovers (including four picks by freshman quarterback Jerrod Johnson) and giving up third down conversions on only 2 of 9 attempts. And no one is likely to confuse Baylor's defense (94th in total defense and 110th in opponent's third down conversions, at 47.5%) with a good defense.

After a good start to the season, with 18 touchdowns to only four interceptions, Jerrod Johnson has struggled in the last two games, throwing six interceptions against two touchdown passes. The offensive line isn't helping things. They weren't any good to being with and injuries have further slowed the unit, resulting in 33 sacks on the season, three per game. On the other side of the ball, the Aggie defense has sacked opposing quarterbacks only 13 times. The inability to pressure the quarterback has lead to 36.4 points allowed per game, which ranks 113th in the country, right behind lowly Iowa State and 114th in total defense, giving up 455 yards per game. Even when they do manage to stop the opposing team on the first two downs, they allow opponents to convert on 52% of their third downs, edging only lowly SMU in that category. You have that going for you Aggies. In other words, the window for Aggies having scoreboard bragging rights is rapidly closing. Time for a beat down. No more scoreboard. The proper alignment for the universe.