4 Hard Downs: Fried Chicken, Drink The Kool-Aid, Leak Defense and I Guess I Have To Talk QBs
We'll kickoff the QB watches with notes starting with rankings, get into this new leak and Bama DB and explaining whole wheat flour fried chicken.
My dad was going through some old stuff and he sent me this:
That is me and Xavier Rainey at practice for the Continental Tire Bowl in December 2004. Here is the caption if you can’t read the wide:
Basically whoever did the profile on a very good quarterback, who had a great career in the CFL, Darian Durant, did not understand the concept of “Scout Team” baby!
I was not D-Block, as we called him, never have been and never will be. I was tasked for weeks for being Jazzmen Williams, a DB for BC, our opponent in the game. The other cool thing is that the headline is “Durant’s last dance” which is pre-Jordan doc and post “The Last Waltz” by The Band.
How this gets all the way through edit for The Charlotte Observer is wild. But that speaks to not understanding the sport and why guys have on orange jerseys vs blue vs white; so my work started here since this led to me making a joke in my bio a year later:
I wasn’t embarrassed for me but whew for whoever sent that out as the front of the sports page for the newspaper should be. I could actually breakdance though. Also grilled cheese was an inside joke about cafeteria theft and Clint Eastwood thing doesn’t age very well but I do love his films.
A lot to explain and guess what there is more, so let’s go ahead and SPOT THE BALL!!!
1st Down: Kool-Aid McKinstry Injury
I love Kool-Aid. The drink that I can’t have anymore because it is too much sugar; but in this case the player. He is my favorite DB in this draft, he is the best and is a plussed up Kelee Ringo. He’s big. He’s fast. He’s tough. He’s willing.
I think willing, after watching an unwilling Nehemiah Pritchett from Auburn, it is my favorite quality in a DB.
He was willing to workout at the combine and then they discovered his foot was broken.
He is still willing to workout at his pro day.
I was talking to folks about it and they kept going, “how does he not know his foot is fractured?” My only response is the classic Roadhouse:
This guy never missed a game in his years at Alabama. He shows up and shows out. He returns punts (we are going to talk about that this week because he did make me feel insane). He breaks up passes. He tackles.
He’s my favorite; I know his teammate Terrion Arnold will go before him but he is the guy I like watching the most out of this DB class.
So, this is Kool-Aid Week. Oh Yeah!
2nd Down: QBs Are Always The Stars
I love the DBs, however, I know, due to THIRST, QBs are the talk of the town and people think up to 6 QBs could go in the first round. Which feels wild and would change the entire complexion of round one between trades and the free agent market going forward and leading up to.
The Sinister Six: Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels, Michael Penix Jr., Bo Nix and JJ McCarthy
1-Jayden Daniels: already played for an NFL Coach and then was Brian Kelly’s best QB ever and is willing to take big hits as a dual threat to get a few more yards.
2(a)-Drake Maye: pedigree is there and can make every throw just needs to be in the right spot and that scares me in the teams drafting early.
2)b)-Caleb Williams: I know he will get picked first, I think there is more to explore with him, which we will do in the upcoming month and change pre-NFL Draft.
4-Michael Penix Jr: injuries are what make him not higher or 2c to me. He can make every play, plays within the structure of the offense well and delivers balls on time. If he didn’t have the injury history, which he is two years removed from, he would be higher because I love him
Bo Nix and JJ McCarthy getting picked in the first round feels wild. They will be, but I just do not understand. They’re better off like Will Levis. Getting picked in the first round for them is a race to be Zach Wilson or Daniel Jones or Mark Sanchez. A QB that you sell hard to your city and then realize they still have warts that you can’t just freeze off.
We’ll see, and I’m excited to talk with Mike Renner every week in April leading up to the draft on some B/R shows.
3rd Down: We Sprung A Dang Leak
My house on Saturday morning:
This sucks. But not as bad as it could suck.
It is caulk or grout and I can do caulk but I can’t do grout. Shout out to my dad for helping me problem, not on this project, just giving me the tools to problem solve this project from when I was growing up.
Running the shower by itself? No leak.
Running the shower to the wall and basically simulating water bouncing off a person? A big leak.
You see a problem, you solve a problem. Shout out to Celtic Pride.
Next step is to caulk that bad boy on Tuesday. Wednesday if that don’t work, gonna have to get someone to grout it because that is above my paygrade.
4th Down: Flour Power
Your boy makes traditional southern fried chicken:
Buttermilk Bath and Seasoned All Purpose Flour
I also make Korean Fried Chicken that is double fried with a blend of or either rice flour or whole wheat flour.
My kid was craving fried chicken, while I’m trying to figure out the aforementioned leak but I was not about to use my King Arthur APF for that; so, I said let’s try wheat flour.
Same buttermilk bath:
Seasoned the flour to go into the grease. Don’t you crowd it.
This is what you get:
Super crispy. One fry. Season that flour and you’re in business. Whole wheat flour might become the go to. Gotta serve this to my mom and dad before I make a hard declaration but, whew buddy they was hitting, hitting.
Or as the kids say, bussin’ bussin’.
Cheers!!!