VSN Countdown to Madden 10 Release

[MVP1991]

 

[Miami Flash15]

10 mooooore days!

 

[Derrville]

Eli Manning​

* 2003 Cotton Bowl Offensive MVP
* 2003 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Winner
* 2003 Maxwell Award
* 2× Conerly Trophy Winner (2001 & 2003)
* Pro Bowl selection (2008)
* Super Bowl XLII champion
* Super Bowl MVP (XLII)
* Other awards and honors​

 

[Poundtherock]

10 days and counting!!!!

#10 LB Brad Van Pelt - New York Giants (1973-1983)
Los Angeles Raiders (1984-1985)
Cleveland Browns (1986)
Career stats Sacks 24.5 Interceptions 20 Games played 184
5× Pro Bowl selections.
1972 Maxwell Award.
2× All-American.
College Michigan State.
College Football Hall of Fame
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As a member of the Giants, Van Pelt was a member of the Crunch Bunch.......

.......a team of fierce linebackers composed of Van Pelt, Brian Kelley, Lawrence Taylor, and Harry Carson. The group is widely considered one of the best linebacking combos in NFL history. He was also named the player of the decade for the 1970s by the Giants.

During his 11-year career with the franchise, the Giants posted a winning record only once, in 1981, when New York reached the playoffs for the only time in a 20-year stretch between 1964 and 1983. Van Pelt also has the unusual distinction of playing for the franchise in four different home stadiums: Yankee Stadium, the Yale Bowl, Shea Stadium, and Giants Stadium. He also played for five Giants head coaches: Alex Webster, Bill Arnsparger, John McVay, Ray Perkins, and Bill Parcells.

Van Pelt wore number 10 with the Giants, his college number, even though the NFL instituted a Jersey numbering system for the 1973 NFL season, which limited linebackers entering the league to numbers 50 through 59. He was allowed to wear 10 because he was the backup kicker in his rookie year. Van Pelt wore number 91 with the Raiders and Browns.

He was nominated for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, but was not elected.

On February 17, 2009, Van Pelt was found by his longterm fiance, slumped in a chair, dead from an apparent heart attack. He was 57.

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[Miami Flash15]

You would put a picture of Eli Manning without a shirt on, lmao.

 

[Rayman]

2 things.

That Eli picture disturbs me.


And JayDizzle, the name Jimmy Smith grates on my soul.

 

[Miami Flash15]

10 MORE DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!

 

[Rayman]

Would be nice to get that playoff monkey off his back this year.

 

[Rayman]

Did you hear about how he dumped Jessica the day before her birthday after she bought him a $100,000 boat? That's just cold...

I think I'd dump a girl too if she wanted to celebrate her 29th birthday with a "Barbie and Ken" themed party

 

[Poundtherock]

9 days and counting!!!!

#9 P Josh Bidwell - Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2004- Present)
College: Oregon
Green Bay Packers (1999-2003)
1× Pro Bowl selection (2005)
1× All-Pro selection (2005)
Career stats thru 2008:
Games, 144
Punts 727
Yards 31,085
Avg. 42.8
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Bidwell spent his first four professional seasons (2000-2003) with the Green Bay Packers as one of the NFC’s top punters despite often kicking in the NFL’s toughest weather conditions, and having his 1999 rookie campaign dashed by a testicular cancer diagnosis late in training camp.

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Bidwell showed marked improvement in only his second season in the league, raising his gross average by a full four yards, jumping from a 38.5-yard average in 2000 to the 42.5-yard mark in 2001. A remarkably consistent punter, Bidwell is considered one of the NFL’s finest athletes at his position. He possesses one of the NFL’s strongest legs and is equally adept at displaying the necessary accuracy to pin opponents deep inside their own territory.


He was signed by the Buccaneers as a free agent on March 13, 2004 and was selected to his first Pro Bowl following the 2005 season.

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*He owns the top four single-season gross punting averages in Buccaneers history (2005-2008)…
*Owns three of the top five single season net punting averages in team history (2005, 2007-2008)…
*His 414 punts with the Buccaneers are tied for the most in team history…
*30 punts placed inside the 20 in 2007 were a career high and tied the Buccaneers single-season record (Tom Tupa – 2002)…

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*His 124 punts placed inside the 20 as a Buccaneer rank first in team history…
*52.3-yard average vs. Seattle (12/31/06) was his highest single-game gross average as a member of the Buccaneers and the third highest of his career…
*His 45.6-yard gross average in 2005 was the best single-season performance in team history…

​

Bidwell’s first book,"When It’s Fourth and Long", was released on September 1st, 2007 by Harvest House Publishers. This book is an autobiography that takes the reader through the trials, fears and lessons that he learned while fighting cancer as a 23 year old kid. Within the book are stories of the people that helped me along the way and also gives the reader a glimpse of what life has been like for me in the NFL for these past several seasons. (joshbidwell.com)

He currently lives in Tampa, and in the off-season, Eugene, Oregon.

 

[Miami Flash15]

Fiedler had stints with the Philadelphia Eagles (1994-95), Minnesota Vikings (1998), and Jacksonville Jaguars (1999) before finding steady work with the Dolphins (2000-04) beginning in 2000. In between his time with the Eagles and Vikings, Fiedler served as a receivers coach at Hofstra University in 1997 before being signed as a free agent by Minnesota in 1998.

Fiedler's stint with the Miami Dolphins featured three 10+ win seasons in four years, two 11-5 seasons in 2000 and 2001, an AFC East title, and two postseason appearances including a victory for the Miami Dolphins. During these years, the Dolphins' offense lagged notably behind its defense, which featured perennial Pro-Bowlers in linebacker Zach Thomas, defensive end Jason Taylor, and cornerbacks Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain. He sat out for much of the 2003, 2004, and 2005 seasons with injuries.

Fiedler's stint with the Miami Dolphins featured mediocre regular season performances (66 touchdown passes to 63 interceptions) and poor post-season performances. He threw one touchdown and seven interceptions with a record of one win and two losses in post-season play while with the Dolphins.

Fiedler signed with the Jets as an unrestricted free agent on March 11, 2005, as a backup quarterback to Chad Pennington. He suffered an injury on his right shoulder in a game on September 25 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and as a result missed the rest of the season. Ironically, Pennington's injury earlier in that game would also turn out to be season-ending, despite the fact that Pennington came back into the game to relieve Fiedler.

Fiedler was released by the Jets on February 22, 2006, and signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who released him in August of that year due to injury as Fiedler had a nagging shoulder issue and was unable to practice. Fiedler sat out 2006 rehabilitating his throwing shoulder following his release from Tampa Bay.

Fiedler was set to work out for the Falcons in April 2007, according to his agent Bryan Levy.[2] In addition, the Giants considered signing him but eventually signed Anthony Wright instead.[3]

Fiedler played in 76 games with 60 starts and is a 58.7 percent career passer. He has thrown 69 touchdowns and 66 interceptions.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Its okay Tony, theres only 9 days left...

 

[JayDizzle]

Here's hoping David Garrard can pull the team together with a week and some change to go... if not, the Madden season will be a long one in 9 days.

 

[Poundtherock]

8 days and counting!!!!

“FS that made the safety blitz famous.”

#8 FS Larry “Wildcat” Wilson - St. Louis Cardinals - (1960- 1972)
College: Utah.
NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team.
NFL 1960s All-Decade Team.
NFL 1970s All-Decade Team.
8× Pro Bowl selections.
8× All-Pro selections.
Cardinals #8 Retired.
Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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From 1960 through 1972, all of the National Football League's great quarterbacks felt the sting of the St. Louis Cardinals' sterling free safety, Larry Wilson. If the league's passers weren't being smashed to the ground after a safety blitz, they were watching helplessly as Larry, far downfield, was picking off one of his 52 career interceptions.
It’s amazing now to ponder that this standout of the 1960s at one time had serious doubts if he would even make the team when he joined the Cardinals as their seventh-round draft choice in 1960. Wilson, a 6-0, 190-pound native of Rigby, Idaho, had been a two-way performer and a scoring leader at Utah but, in the NFL, he quickly found that offensive play was not for him. An early try at cornerback on defense also proved disastrous for the rookie. But in the final preseason game in 1960, Wilson got a chance to start at safety and he made the most of it. Except when sidelined briefly by injuries, Wilson anchored the Cardinals defenses for the rest of his career.

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Not long after Wilson made the team, defensive coordinator Chuck Drulis crafted a play that called for the free safety to take part in a blitz. The play was code-named "Wildcat", after Wilson's nickname. When the Cardinals first ran the safety blitz, the pressure was severe since most teams didn't expect a defensive back to take part in a pass rush. This single play also helped to set up today's defenses with the Blitz where the pass rush can come from anywhere.

Contrary to popular belief, however, he did not invent the safety blitz, but he did capitalize on the maneuver to a degree not reached by any other pro player of the decade. It was, in reality, the abilities that he demonstrated every time he tried the safety blitz that first attracted the attention of the St. Louis coaching staff and assured Larry a place on the team.

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Wilson eventually made All-Pro honors eight times in his career. Wilson represented the Cardinals on eight Pro Bowl teams. During the 1966 NFL season, Wilson had at least one interception in seven consecutive games, en route to a 10-pick season that led his league. Jerry Kramer, a guard for the Green Bay Packers and author of Instant Replay, called Wilson "the finest football player in the NFL." Kramer described Wilson's play during an October 30, 1967 game, "...he fired up their whole team ... his enthusiasm was infectious."

Wilson is renowned for not only playing, but intercepting a pass, with casts on both hands due to broken wrists. On the September 18, 2006 edition of SportsCenter, Mike Ditka challenged Terrell Owens' toughness by not playing for 2–4 weeks due to a broken finger. He citied Wilson's interception with casts on both hands as proof of a tougher football player. He ended his career with 52 career picks for 800 yards and five touchdowns.

Wilson served as the Cardinals' interim head coach in 1979 after the dismissal of Bud Wilkinson, and was the franchise's general manager from 1980 through 1993.

 

[stevsta]

Bo knows theirs 8 days left till madden

 

[Tengo Juego]

He was ours first Viqueen fans...

8 Days to go

 

[Goober]

 

[Derrville]

No introduction needed.

* TD-INT 165-141
* Yards 32,942
* QB Rating 81.6

* 6× Pro Bowl selection (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)
* 1× All-Pro selection (1993)
* 3× Super Bowl champion (XXVII, XXVIII, XXX)
* Super Bowl XXVII MVP
* 1997 Walter Payton Man of the Year
* 1988 Davey O'Brien Award
* Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor
* Pro Football Hall of Fame (2006 inductee)
* College Football Hall of Fame (2008 inductee)​

 

[Derrville]

What the heck.

Chad Hutchinson

*TD-INT 11-11
*Yards 2,466
*QB Rating 69.1​

 

[Derrville]

They both piss me off still to this day.