Let's Just Throw Some Darts
by Akula Wolf on Jun 6, 2011 3:48 PM EDT
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PrintThis week in what's doin' at Bleacher Report: some guy takes a shot at some guesses at where Russell Wilson might end up this fall.
Let's see if we can make sense of this guy's candidates.
Nevada -- Same nickname but there's a space in the middle, which more strongly appeals to Russell Wilson's sense of symmetry. Plus he can buy Nevada gear with their ripoff Tuffy on it and live in a sort of surreal drug-like mind fuck haze the whole time, which would be interesting as a psychological exercise, he has to admit.
My favorite part of the whole slideshow: "Wilson's presence at Nevada this fall will be extremely unlikely but not impossible." I think Russell Wilson will be an astronaut next year; his presence at Kennedy Space Center is extremely unlikely but not impossible. I am on the internet.
Ole Miss -- Jeremiah Masoli transferred there, and he once stole some stuff or something. Russell Wilson once stole a lot of people's hearts. Further, Russell has no interest in winning big in boring fashion at Wisconsin, but rather prefers to lose in crazy entertaining Houston Nutt fashion.
Washington -- A husky is like a wolf, and limited by this mascot-related tunnel vision as he is, he has little choice but to ponder this and other wolfdog-associated programs. Also there's a big 'W' on the helmets so it's like everyone is a part of one big happy Wilson family.
If you can think of any other STONE COLD LOGICAL landing spots for Russell Wilson, let me know.
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Good God.
Just making it past the opening slide took Herculean reading skills. There were more typos and misused cliches and downright inaccurate assumptions on one small page of text than entire issues of most newspapers.
www.riddickandreynolds.com
by RiddickAndReynolds on Jun 6, 2011 3:54 PM EDT reply actions
By that logic
pretty much any school that wears red is in play… or white… or includes the word “State”… or has a two-word state name… oh no, Wilson could be going ANYWHERE
Oddly,
the one possibility he DIDN’T consider is Wilson sticking with baseball. Which, while highly unlikely, is FAR MORE likely than Wilson attending any of the schools he listed not named Wisc. or Auburn.
www.riddickandreynolds.com
by RiddickAndReynolds on Jun 6, 2011 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Following the logic
Rutgers! They have R’s on their helmets (for Russell), and they wear red.
by WolfpackSteelersFan on Jun 6, 2011 4:14 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
It's clear to me
that RW is going to switch teams on a week-by-week basis culminating in him playing QB for both teams in the BCS championship game.
Any scenario besides that is just silly.
Agree
They make money off of absolutely zero insight or knowledge. It’s pure crap, and an awful site.
by wolfonthehill on Jun 7, 2011 6:08 AM EDT up reply actions
Whoa
Can we really assume they make money? That’s a money pit of a sit if I’ve ever seen one.
Maybe a few hundred bucks a month off of Google ads, at the most.
www.riddickandreynolds.com
by RiddickAndReynolds on Jun 7, 2011 8:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Sit...Site
Same difference.
www.riddickandreynolds.com
by RiddickAndReynolds on Jun 7, 2011 8:43 AM EDT up reply actions
they do pretty well
From what I understand, they get a shit ton of page views because their SEO is great. They also got a big chunk of investment cash a while back.
Someone Should...
Make a Bleacher Report type list…of the worst websites for sports…starring the Bleacher Report
The evidence clearly suggests...
That Russell will be our next President. Consider:
1) Dennis Haysbert was in baseball (a baseball movie) and later became president (on TV)…
2) Russell Wilson was drafted by the Washington Nationals – coincidence? Hardly…
3) Distant relative of Woodrow Wilson
4) Bleacher Report articles are routinely written by 50 monkeys on 50 keyboards (It WAS indeed the “blurst” of times…)
I still feel bad for RW
Had he simply stuck with football, I truly believe he’d be set up for a pro career in the CFL, if not in the NFL.
And I simply see no pro future for him in baseball – never did.
Agreed
A guy that was not a regular starter on a middling college team does not scream “high potential” to me.
RW's problem
He wanted his cake and to eat it to. His freshman year he batted .296 with a .437 slugging and was on-base more than a 1/3 of the time. Played in 32 games and started half of them. That isn’t terrible for a first year player…but he could focus on baseball then. His numbers dipped every since. Make matters worse, Avent or Holliday dreamed up turning him into a pitcher. Great, he had a fastball, mid 80’s (I assuming) and little else. That didn’t help either.
When you look at RW, he had no future in the NFL. Exciting college player, but a less than likely subpar future in the NFL.
RW is an above-average fielder, has above-average speed and a good arm. Needed help hitting. The only way a bad/below average hitter gets better, is to see more pitches. He definitely had a future in baseball, but I think now he is wasting it. I hate to see it too, because the kid is too damn nice.
I really didn't see this turning into a serious thread
but I think your analysis is spot on. RW had a much better shot in baseball IMO and was a long shot to play at a premier level in baseball or football.
Thus, the question becomes, do you want to accept the big check the Rockies are cutting and give it a shot – worst case you make good money to bounce around the minors for a number of years, best case you get to the majors and make real money – or do you play both sports, throw away the money you’ve already gotten from baseball, and bounce around the CFL or arena league?
I will always be an RW fan but Drew Brees he ain’t…not nearly accurate enough… and at his size that is what he would need to be to get a shot in the NFL.
by ginger avenger on Jun 7, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
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