Every once in awhile, a video comes along that transcends sports.  This is definitely one of those videos.

        

"'I don't Twitter, My Face, or any of that stuff,' Belichick said."

-Bil Belichick remarking about Chad OchoCinco's propensity to employ social media (wanted to use as many big boy words as I could).

Best quote of the year.

My Face.  That's histerical.

You can say what you want about Bill, he cuts his shirts like a retard, he has the personality of a retirement home orderly, but he can be a funny motherfucker sometimes.

Four days 'til the season opener.  Can I get a hell yeah?!?!?!

        

I wake up this morning, and the Boston Herald is reporting that Tom Brady is close to signing a three-year, $58 million extension.  The problem there is that it was written by some baysh I've never heard of and plagiarism extraordinaire Ron Borges (although Borges is pretty good when not plagiarizing).

*Side note: I have to turn up the volume every time I watch Borges on Sports Tonight.  He talks so fucking lightly and it really annoys the shit out of me these days.  Anybody else feel that way?

Then Adam Schefter tweeted his little midget pants off with this, which prompted ESPN to come out with this report.

So the question is: who the hell is right?

Even though I believe Bob Kraft is close to getting Brady's autograph, it's hard to side with the Herald on this one considering it's the Herald and the other reports are from Adam Schefter, who knows his shit, and ESPNBoston.com, which is a pretty legit site.

So my take is that the Pats offered Brady a contract, but he hasn't accepted or declined yet.  But until I hear it from Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Bob Kraft, or Mike Reiss, I'm considering everything else speculation.

        

A couple weeks ago, I started Don't Haze Me Bro because Devin McCourty was looking good and Dez Bryant, who the Pats past on in the Draft, was injured and still not receptive to what I thought was mandatory hazing from his teammates.

So I figured I'd start a scoreboard that will last throughout the season pitting Devin McCourty's production and value versus Dez Bryant's.  It might be a risky move, but I'm going for it.

        

It's true.  Today, I learned that 3rd Round Bruins draft pick D Ryan Button is a fighter.  I knew he was an offensive talent and solid defensively, but having the ability to fight well instantly catapults him up the cool kid list.

Doug Flynn over at NESN.com is doing a Top 10 Bruins Prospects in 10 Days thing.  I gotta say, they have been pretty damn good.  I know I've been all over NESN.com's nuts lately, but it is a great site.  So check it out if you like learning more about the hockey skills of teenage boys.

        

In the wake of the joke that is the Red Sox season, I figured a decent SSI was in order.

The guy on the right is Red Sox 3Bagger Adrian Beltre.  We have all been endeared to Beltre this season.  Whether it be because he's hitting .324 with 25 bombs and 92 RBI, or just his crazy mannerisms (pointing to the first base umpire after a check swing, tap dancing in the batter's box, going down to one knee to kill a ball, freaking the fuck out when VMart touches his hair), Beltre has become one of the best low-risk, high-reward signings of Theo's career.

The guy on the right is Peyton Manning's boyfriend, a.k.a. WR Reggie Wayne.  Reggie is one of the top wide receivers in the game despite the fact that he has one of the worst hairlines in NFL history.

        

Fluto posted the roster for rookie camp later this month.  For those of you who are afraid of hyperlinks, here it is:

Forwards

Jamie Arniel
Patrice Bergeron
Gregory Campbell
Jordan Caron
Joe Colborne
Craig Cunningham
Zach Hamill
Nathan Horton
Jordan Knackstedt
Jared Knight
David Krejci
Jeff LoVecchio
Milan Lucic
Lane MacDermid
Kirk MacDonald
Brad Marchand
Levi Nelson
Daniel Paille
Tyler Randell
Mark Recchi
Jeremy Reich
Yannick Riendeau
Antoine Roussel
Michael Ryder
Max Sauve
Marc Savard
Tyler Seguin
Wyatt Smith
Ryan Spooner
Shawn Thornton
Blake Wheeler
Walker Wintoneak

Defensemen

Yury Alexandrov
Matt Bartkowski
Andrew Bodnarchuk
Johnny Boychuk
Ryan Button
Zdeno Chara
Matt Delahey
Ryan Donald
Andrew Ference
Alain Goulet
Matt Hunwick
Steve Kampfer
Nathan McIver
Adam McQuaid
Jeff Penner
Joe Rullier
Dennis Seidenberg
Mark Stuart
Cody Wild

Goaltenders

Adam Courchaine
Matt Dalton
Michael Hutchinson
Tuukka Rask
Nolan Schaefer
Tim Thomas

Underlined guys are guys that will play for the Bruins.

Italicized guys are guys that could see some time with the big club this year due to injuries or sucking.

Bold guys are guys that suck.

The best news about this list? Trent Whitfield isn't on it!  Booyah!

        

Giants - 20  Pats - 17

Overall, it was a pretty average game.  Even though Eli Manning reads at a 3rd grade level, he had a solid night against a Pats D that, again, looked very suspect.

Not a ton of thoughts this week, as the only people that care about the 4th preseason games are the players that might find themselves working at Shenanigan's next week (Farva shout out).  You men Shenanigan's?  You're talking about Shenanigan's, right?

Thoughts

- Rob Gronkowski is skyrocketing up the list of dude's I have a man crush on.  Right up there with Johnny Boychuk and Big Baby.  One play after f'ing up his route, Brady goes right back to him for a TD.  It's obviously preseason, but he looks like he's going to make many defenders his bitch in the red zone.

- Even when the D blitzes, it just looks poorly timed and slow in getting to the QB.  With virtually no pass rush, the Pats are going to have to blitz a lot, so that's not good.  Eli Manning made one blitz look like a joke last night.

- Brian Hoyer again looked like he could start in this league going 15/26 for 266 yards, 1 TD.  He did throw a pick to St. John's Prep's own Jon Goff though.

- Darnell Jenkins might have played his way on to the team last night.  he had 5 receptions for 93 yards and a TD.

- Taylor Price had 2 sick catches, but did not drag his feet to stay in bounds.  Step your shit up, Taylor.

- Rob Ninkovich beat the shit out of the Giants' 2's and 3's.  he had 7 tackles, 1 sack, and 3 tackles for loss.

- Zoltan Mesko put 2 of 4 punts inside the 20 and had 1 punt that was over 60 yards.


Worst Offensive and Defensive Performance
CBS

That was the most pathetic broadcast I've ever seen.  Literally every couple of minutes the video would get choppy and they would switch to regular definition.  Then they would go back to HD and the cycle would start again.  Terrible.

Anyways, the Pats ended up 2-2 in the preseason and now we're a little over a week away from the big boy games.  Can I get a hell yeah?!?!

        

According to Chris Forsberg, the Celtics are about to sign G Delonte West.  He says the deal is most likely for the vet's minimum, but no one knows if it is a guaranteed contract or not.  My guess is no because the Celts already have 14 guaranteed contracts, but we'll see.

Delonte was traded in the deal that brought Ray Allen to Boston, but certainly did a great job here.  I would suspect that most fans will be happy to see him back in the green.

In recent years since his departure from Boston, he has dealt with a wide array of problems from personal health issues to gun charges.  Hopefully, coming back to where his career started will do some good for him.

But as long as he stays away from Paul Pierce's mom, I think he should be good.

        

I gotta hand it to NESN.com.  While their flagship television station is recording promos on cell phones and giving John Henry's wife her own show, NESN.com is ruining lives.  It is the only website I have seen, including the big boy websites, that has new articles on Boston sports every day (except bostonsportsbuzz.com, I hear it's great).

For example, while Boston.com has had the "Savard Pact Under Review" story up on the B's page for about 3 weeks now, NESN.com has had like 3 or 4 new Bruins articles daily.  It's refreshing to say the least.  You should check it out if you don't like reading the same article 3 weeks straight.

One of the latest B's articles speaks to the serious depth in Providence and one guy in particular caught my eye: Lane MacDermid.  Drafted in the 4th round by the B's last year, the dude had 21 fighting majors in his first season with the Baby B's...21.  He will most likely be the heir-apparent to Shawn Thornton once Shawno fights off into the sunset.

But here are a few of his fights: