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When the 2011 Heisman finalists came out all the talk was about the battle of future franchise QBs, Luck vs RG3.  They battled each other all year for the top player in college football but there was another name on that list that turned heads just as much.  Only a sophomore Tyrann Mathieu was already a legend.  The Honeybadger was much watch TV on Saturdays, he had all the talent and the charisma to go all with it.  Heading into his junior year Mathieu had it all in front on him, don’t screw up and another Heisman run was in Continue reading The Journey from the Honeybadger to Tyrann Mathieu→

We almost had our first undefeated Hot Soup week.  As we know almost doesn’t count in sports unless you write for this blog.  So congrats Angel Steve, perfection and a share of the lead. @AngelSteve89 New England (-4.5) @ New York Jets A big rivalry game on the road for New England.  I do not think they have a let down after their miraculous win over the Saints last week.  Brady walks into Giants Stadium (see what I did there) and shoves a foot in Rexs’ mouth (see I did it again). Chicago (+1.5) @ Washington The Bears struggled to Continue reading Hot Soup Week 7 Picks→

Aristotle, the ultimate thinking man.  Football, the ultimate sport of man.  When going through this past week’s NFL action, we wondered what better way to dissect the games than to have humanity’s ultimate authority on all things philosophy and logic chime in and help us?  At first this seemed like a stretch.  Why would Aristotle take tame out of his busy day of answering life’s biggest questions to comment on some NFL topics for AVS?  However, the more we asked and asked (and eventually begged),he finally agreed to help us with this column…with one stipulation.  Aristotle is a man of questions.  He does this as a learning tool for himself Continue reading Aristotle’s NFL→

Khalil Mack, OLB from Buffalo.  Next spring you’ll hear his name in the 2014 NFL draft before Johnny Manziel.  Well, at least according to noted NFL draft guru, Mel Kiper Jr. you will.  On his latest edition of the NFL draft “big board”, which details his top 25 prospects during the year for the upcoming draft, there were a lot of the big college names we’ve learned so far this season.  Usual suspects like Jadaveon Clowney, Teddy Bridgewater, and Marquise Lee litter the top half of the first round.  The more I looked, the more I noticed something was missing.  Continue reading Johnny Football is #rolling→

Week 1 is in the books and if there is one theory we preach at AVS, it is do not overreact to week 1 statistics.  In 2012, the week 1 hero was Kevin Ogletree, who we haven’t heard from since.  In 2011, it was Mark Sanchez who threw for almost 300 yards and 3 TDs and whose head is currently up his offensive lines butt somewhere. This theory is usually accurate and week 1 is merely one of many weeks of statistics. So what are we going to do after one week?  OVERREACT, of course.  The following are 10 players Continue reading Week 1 Overreactions→