Rebels in the Pros: Week 7

by One Man To Beat on Oct 27, 2009 10:39 PM EDT Comment 19 comments

Line up, alumni, it's time for your weekly inspection.

Eli, whoa, what in the hell happened to you?

P-Willie, you continue to make us cry with joy with every bone-snapping tackle.

Mike Wallace, you sir, would be a worthy fantasy football addition for nearly any team. Could you be ramping up for a possible rookie of the year award?

Mo' info after the jump.

Derrick Burgess, DE, New England Patriots: victorious over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35-7. Notched two tackles, a sack and forced a fumble against the hapless Bucs. It was good to see Burgess play up to his potential at the highest level.

BenJarvus Green-Ellis, RB, New England Patriots: victorious over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35-7. Carried the ball seven times for six yards. The 0.9 ypc rate is slightly lower than last week's 9.6. Good to see BJGE continuing to get a chance to prove himself, however.

Eli Manning, QB, New York Giants: defeated by the Arizona Cardinals, 24-17. Our fearless #10 passed for 243 yards with one TD and three INTs. Ever since his run in with the ever lethal plantar fasciitis, he hasn't been the same.

Ashlee Palmer, LB, Buffalo Bills: victorious over the Carolina Panthers, 20-9. Grabbed two tackles bringing his season total to 14. When Palmer makes multiple tackles in a game, the Bills are 2-1.

Mike Wallace, WR, Pittsburgh Steelers: victorious over Brett Favre's old ass and the Minnesota Vikings, 27-17. Brought in three passes for 72 yards and carried the ball twice for 19 yards. Wallace is averaging 18 yards per catch and roughly 65 yards per game. He could become more of a target in the second half of the season and make it to 1,000 yards.

Patrick Willis, LB, San Francisco 49ers: defeated by the Houston Texans, 24-21. Collected 10 tackles and defended one pass against the Texans. SEC Defensive POY's Willis and Demeco Ryans went head-to-head with Willis having a four tackle edge against the 'Bama alum.

The old balls Rebel of the Week goes to Mike Wallace. He is becoming a big play threat for the Steelers, and they aren't hesitating to give him chances every week.

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Am I alone in thinking Wallace has improved significantly since going pro?

Don’t get me wrong; he was a beast for us last year, and his ability to stretch the field is hard to argue against, but he’s kicking ass at a level I wouldn’t have expected. In particular, his route running is looking better.

by RightRev on Oct 27, 2009 10:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

he only played one year with real coaches

the rest was with, well I cringe everytime I mention his name……

by RIPShea on Oct 27, 2009 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOL!!!

"Happiness is riches, complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner

by tlcreb17 on Oct 28, 2009 8:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

To bad..

We never used Mike to the best of his abilities. I remember watching one of the alabama games a couple years ago and he made some of the most spectacular catches i’ve ever seen in my life. The guy just didn’t have a QB. Now he has one and look what he’s doing.

-Play Hard, Stay Hard

by AustinPH on Oct 28, 2009 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He did not learn how to properly run routes until Nutt and company arrived.

That’s what you get when you hire a HS coaches for your position coaches.

Burned a redshirt for 6 snaps in game 10 as a true freshman in 05.

by Bruce Dickinson on Oct 28, 2009 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That was one of the most frustrating moves O ever made.

Mike Wallace would very likely still be a Rebel had he been able to keep his redshirt. He would have worked his way into the late-first early-second round as well. O’s stupididy cost us, as I see it, a more diverse offense for this season and a million bucks or so for Mad Mike.

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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Oct 28, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

However

As Mike Wallace’s RA his freshman year, I got to talk to him quite a bit. I am glad they wasted his redshirt for those snaps. Mike hated the coaching staff from the first couple of weeks he arrived; he even came into my room one night talking about how he wanted to transfer to Memphis. I didn’t know how good he would become or anything, I just thought that he was making absolutely no sense – who wants to transfer to Memphis State?

It very well might have been the little playing time he got and some unrealistic promises by O toward the end of his freshman year that kept him at Ole Miss. I am happy with what we got from him.

And I am not saying that it is not ok to bash O or wish we still had him this year. Lord knows we would only have one loss and maybe be undefeated with him. I’m just saying that we may never have had the season we had last year either.

by Role Player on Oct 28, 2009 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Players hating O

is pretty much a running theme, isn’t it? How he was able to convince people to follow him to campus and then immediately have them hate his guts will forever baffle me.

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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Oct 28, 2009 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Second that...

"Happiness is riches, complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner

by tlcreb17 on Oct 28, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hahaha my friends laughed at me

becuase in the 15th round of our fantasy draft I had one spot on my offensive bench left and I took Mike Wallace just to be a bad ass.

They were like who in the hell is that? Well I had a lot of players on bye this week so I plugged him in :) thank you Mike Wallace for being such a baller!

by RIPShea on Oct 27, 2009 11:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I got him as a free agent....

and started him this week because I also had several on buy.Damn right…

by rightwingconspirator on Oct 28, 2009 7:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

where's the Taye Biddle love?

7 catches for 107 yards and a touchdown.

by poweforheisman.com on Oct 28, 2009 9:21 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

In the UFL

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by Juco All-American on Oct 28, 2009 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's a joke, right?

I could play in the UFL if it weren’t for politics.

by Role Player on Oct 28, 2009 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

He’s the (other) league’s leading receiver. Just thought he could at least get a shout out.

by poweforheisman.com on Oct 28, 2009 9:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

I actually thought about making a sardonic Rebels in the Pros

involving the UFL. McKinley Boykin is also starting for the team Biddle is on. Nate Banks is also the best corndog salesman the league has seen since, well, its inception a few months ago.

And Role Player gets a +1 for the inside joke action.

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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Oct 28, 2009 10:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Explanation:

The USFL has no league limit on the number of day per week a player can be krunk. Taye Biddle has a krunk capacity of 3.5714 (or 25 days per week). This explains why he is doing so well in the USFL.

I’m not sure about the NFL’s krunk policy.

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by Ivory Tower on Oct 28, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs