Howdy guys. Im Udalango.(Obviously but I need the word count cause this post is one question of not very many words.)

We are running a mock draft at BGN and I am the lucky titans rep.

To be completely one hundred with you guys, the last time I ever even thought about the Titans was a day where Kenny Britt signed his name in my "Sports Hate" book right beneath Tony Gonzalez. PS Kenny has girly hand writing but that is not the point of this.

The point is. Who do you guys think I should draft. What are your needs. Would you be way angry if I drafted Nick Toon just to hear "And you are watching Nick Toons" My brain adding the s.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Sorry for jumping the gun but that last one is unvisitable for my crappy laptop

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1.Dont be an asshole. We are all friends.....to varying degrees (See rule 3 for exceptions)

2. Pictures of Rosie O'Donnell, Mike Jones,feces, cat's anuses, etc., will end in shunning. And speaking of shunning...and more talk of shunning...and maybe even more speak of shunning

3. Shun Tebowism and bromosexual

4. Pics, gifs, titles. Got it?

5. Go f@cking crazy......But not to crazy

Please unrec the last one so we aint clogging up the rec'd section

And as an apology for jumping the gun here is your favorite lady

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Id like to know what you would have done differently to make our team so unstoppable.  You are all so eager to share your opinions and tell us how Reid/Marty/ whoever is in charge is wrong.  Go ahead and tell us whats right.

Id be willing to bet at some point in time Reid has done/will do exactly what you say and it will fail.  When that happens you will all say how awful it was for him to do that.

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Community Name is:  Bleedingreen

Community Password is: Eagles707

Alright Guys.  Im not sure how many of you got Madden but one of the features is an online community.  You can set up your own little communities with special rules and limit who is in them.  i havent looked into it all that much other than just that basic knowledge but I was wondering how many people would be interested in setting up a BGN community.

I have A play station 3.  Im sure there are enough of you to do this on the Xbox as well.  If the idea is well accepted that is.  I know everyone would rather play with people who arent douchebags.  and who wont leave mid game if they are losing.  

Im not sure if you want to set up custom rules or what Just thought I would shoot this idea out there for us to bat arround.   

This was adapted from SBNation's Music City Miracles, the Titans blog, by natidawg. Credit should be given to him.

Basically, each NFL team will be given a certain number of points. Each poster can choose to "Heal" a certain team (that they like) and they will be given a point, or "Kill" a team, and a point will be taken away. You can perform two actions every 24 hrs. You can even "Double Kill" a team if you really, really don't like them for your daily two actions or "Double Heal" a team if you really, really love them. Once a team is eliminated, obviously you can't vote for them anymore.

For example:

New York Giants: 8 points

St. Louis Rams: 14 points

Udalango: Save St. Louis and Kill New york

New York Giants: 7 points

St. Louis Rams: 15 points

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Hiya Baltimore Beatdown.  Im Udalango from Bleedinggreennation, and I chose to represent you guys in our mock draft.  Now Im going to go ahead and admit I know next to nothing about your team and your needs.  So im going to humbly ask for any advice you could give me here.  

So go ahead pimp out your Ravens knowledge I wont mind one bit.  If you guys wanna be greedy Im just going to go ahead and draft you a punter!!!!  Oh btw I cant trade picks so Im stuck right at 26.  

Thanks in advance guys

Hey guys this is a column that me and Wild_eagle are putting together and we will be posting hopefully once a week.  The basic premise of this is to take plays from the Eagles and break them down.  What the Eagles did and what the other team did and how we exploited it.

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Hey everyone I am Udalango from BGN here to answer any and all questions about the Iggles.  I know this is early but the MNF game doesnt have that big of an impact on either of our teams.  Feel free to ask just about anything.  But if I could ask a favor I would ask this not turn into a Pro Vick/Anti Vick discussion.  Thanks in advance.  Looking forward to this game should be a good one.

Go Eagles!

If I remember correctly most of us here at BGN were against an 18 game schedule.  Its been said numerous times since then that eighteen games is happening.  I was angry at this but also just kinda "Whatever" about it.  But after watching Collie laying there after a, in my opinion, clean hit.  My rage bubbled over.   Ill explain After the Jump.

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Alright guys, these are power rankings that I did as a sort of sub wager to the bet I made a few weeks back.  Its a fairly premature power rankings.  It was before the preseaon games that I had wrote this, but I didnt want to publish two different fanshots on here.   But the more I thought about it the more I thought.  I could do this weekly on BGN (If it is well received that is)  

But before I get into the Rankings I want to tell you a little interesting tid bit.  Every one knows about the popcorn stuff of the ceiling, bumpy stuff I think its called popcorn.  Well Im in the shower staring at the ceiling when I noticed that right there above me everyday the popcorn had fallen off in the shape of the Eagles logo.  

Rankings after the jump!

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Alright, I Figured that would be more attention grabbing than, "Uda's predictions"  So I work with this Cowboys fan, recently we have been having progressively more heated....."disagreements".  So tonight I decided to say, "So we are only gunna win like what two games right. well shucks at least let me know which they are.".  So he rights out his season predictions.  I laughed at them and said "Man I would put money against that!!"  So a bet was made.  We would both make season predictions for the Cowboys and Eagles.  Whomever (Whoever?) was the closest gets a hundred dollars.  Predictions after the leap.

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Hey guys in my league im trying to set a draft date.   Either way i wont be there because of a busy next two months.  Ill let you guys bicker amongst yourselves.

-Desean10

-TalonTalent

-RossyJr22

-ScottK

-Trippin Ballers (Dickmuffin youre hilarious....I assume this is you)

-BannerYear ( not sure who this is)

-TBA ( bigmeanie08)

-PierrEagles

-Goodfella46er

-Imp Imp

As I said I cant be at this but I can set the date.  Ill still kick your asses with the computer picks to.

If you guys cant decide on a date it will just be not this weekend but the next one.  If you cant make it you should have argued here better, and hope you know football enough to salvage your team ;)

Ok guys I am bored out of my mind so I have been re watching every season of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  After getting through the first two seasons I realized there are so many hilarious things I have learned from this show.  And since news is slow I figured I would give us something fun to talk about and make a list for 101 things I learned from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.  

1.Peanutbutter outside, chocolate inside! Butter inside, cheese outside!

2.There is no science to support hornets don't have honey.

Have fun!

So Yahoo has opened up the fantasy football leagues already.  Seems a little early.  But I figure as long as they are open maybe we should do a little better job of organizing it all.  I would set it up if thats what would be needed but we should discuss first.  The only problem I see is people getting discouraged that they are getting destroyed week after week and stop paying attention.  There is always at least one of those people in each league and it sucks.   So lets discuss.

UPDATE

I went ahead and made a league

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/Udalango

League Name: Uda BGN

Leagu ID#:31076 

Password: Eagles

Right now its a 12 person limit.  Might change.

No other settings are set in  stone we can decide on that later.  

Be sure to make sure your name is obvious so when I make a reminder post I can remind the correct people

In this post I will be looking at the production of the top four receiving threats for each team in the NFC East .  The top four is based of of numbers of yards earned during the regular season not # of receptions.  This idea was sparked by a post over on Big Blue View. 

Eagles top four WR (Jackson, Maclin, Avant, and Celek ) Combined for 3487 yards and 24 TDs

Jackson-1156 yards, 9 TDs
Maclin-773 yards, 4 TDs
Celek-971 yards, 8 TDs
Avant-587 yards, 3 TDs

Jackson is great, very explosive. However Maclin will end up being better than Jackson. Celek is a great TE and he was Kolbs primary target in Kolbs two starts. Avant may not have the same numbers as the better WR but he has amazing hands and when its third and long I am confident he will make the catch.

Dallas’ top four (Witten, Austin, Roy, and Crayton) combined for 3568 yards and 25 TDs

Witten-1030 yards,  2 TDs
Austin-1320 yards, 11 TDs
Roy-596 yards, 7 TDs

Crayton-622 yards, 5 TDs

Witten is an amazing tight end I hate that bastard but he is good. However , in my opinion, he is on the decline.   Roy Williams has the talent to be great, however he has yet to turn that talent into production.   Maybe the addition of Dez will be able to revitalize the passing attack to spread the ball to more than just Austin and Witten

Giants top four (Smith, Manningham, Nicks and Boss) Produced 3399 yards and 23 TDs

Smith-1220 yards, 7 TDs
Ham-822 yards, 5 TDs
Nicks-790 yards, 6 TDs
Boss-567 yards, 5 TDs

The Giants are putting a great fleet of receivers out this year.  Steve Smith gets the majority of the looks and has sure hands.   Manningham is also a solid player who has great speed.  Nicks is a great wide out who should produce better now that he has a season under his belt.  Boss is good tight end with good hands, however he isnt used as much as other Tight Ends in the league.

Redskins top four.(Moss, Randle El, Davis, and Cooley) combined for 2273 yards and 11 TDs

Moss-902 yards,3 TDs

Randle El-530 yards, 0 TDs

Davis-509 6 yards, 6 TDs

Cooley-332 yards, 2 TDs

The Redskins have decent wide outs.  However, they had to play with a Qb that was constantly in a rush from sub par O-line play.  If Shanahan can get his zone blocking scheme working at 100% by the season start, the numbers should be bolstered.

Looking at the numbers, all of the teams with the exception of the Redskins have upper tiered flights of catching threats.   Not many teams in this league have a top four that can put up over 3300 yards.  The Saints top four only put up 3169 yards.  The Packers put up 3290, so the barely missed the 3300 mark.  the Vikings also barely missed this mark with their top four putting up 3286 yards.  The Patriots put up 3272 yards.

The one factor all of the teams who just barely missed the mark is that they have an amazing number one WR.  But after the first two on the depth chart the talent level drops off.  It seems that the key to being able to have a top four put up over 3300 yards is too be consistent through all four  WRs.  

The Colts top four receiving put up an astounding 3811 yards.   

So of the five teams that put up over 3300 yards with just the top four, the NFC East has three of those teams.

1. Colts 3811 yards.

2.Chargers 3597

3.Cowboys 3568 yards

4. Eagles 3487 yards

5. Giants 3399 yards

The Giants and the Eagles have the youngest four.  The potential of both squads is astronomical.  It wouldnt surprise me if the Giants and Eagles have the best corps of WR within the next 3 years.

So many of you regulars here on BGN have recently complained by the level of posting around here has steadily been decreasing.  Yom Made a post about the guidelines from the Seahawks SBNation page.  While that post was met with varying degrees of agreement, I feel that it is something that still needs to be addressed.  

Just recently we have had many posts that have turned into huge fights/debates.  While I am not trying to instill any type of regulations like Yom was I do feel some things should be adressed

1.While I understand grammar is not everyones strong suit, a little will go a long way in making us want to read your post.  I am sure that even in this post I am making tons of grammatical errors.  However I am keeping it at a readable level of idiocy.  

2.Spelling is an issue that most people have a problem with.  However if you are writing a post here on BGN the spell check will light your post up with little strips of red that slightly resemble bacon.  While in most case Bacon is a gift from God, in this case it is bad.  So if you would do us all BGNers a favor please get rid of all the bacon strips in your post.

If you follow both of these steps it will go a long way in making people take your post seriously.  I cant speak for everyone here but I know that I personally tend to glaze over posts that look like this:  Hy evrrybdy i gotz me this idae whree we cloud make ths taem bettre.    Also even if your post is spelled correctly and has proper grammar it still needs to have facts which lead me to point 3.

3.If you have an idea for the Eagles or an observation to make, it makes your post infinity better to have data to back up your claim.  It may spark a good conversation if you just throw the idea out there, but it could also back fire on you.  You could potentially back yourself into a corner that you wont be able to argue yourself out of.  Also if you throw out one crazy idea without any facts to back it up its a permanent mark on your credibility.  If you suggest something ridiculous people will remember and automatically write you off.  A great example of this is JIBTA he suggests crazy things a lot.  But that doesnt mean that all of his ideas are so crazy.   In fact he actually has some very arguable points.  See his argument that Calvin Johnson could be the best WR in the league.   It surprises me how often people say, "Oh no im agreeing with JIBTA the world must be coming to an end."  Many of the people who say, this say this quite often.  However since JIBTA makes crazy remarks people think he cant ever be right.

Now we come to this, how do I know how to judge how well my post is being received.  The way provided by SBNATION is recs.  Recommendation of a post seems like it would be a good way to judge if you post is good.  However some of the users here on BGN like to rec garbage posts that generate funny conversation.  So that is a way that you have to look at your post and decide yourself, "Are they liking my post or laughing at me?".   Another way that you would think to judge your post is to look at number of comments.  However this is also misleading the posts that yeild the highest comments are game day threads, non football related threads, and threads making fun of the original posters lack of grammar and correct spelling.  

I have found the best way to judge a post is looking at the people who come to show up.   JasonB will always show up on good posts to comment.  Other regulars that show up to high quality posts are ByeDawk:( and D3Keith.  If these people show up to your post you are doing something right.  Other regulars will show up on everypost be it a game thread or soul crushing gang bang on the original poster.