Another week, another pick em.  I must admit, its getting a little old doing the pick ems.  This week, time ran short on me and I am putting them up late.  Thats the horrible thing about working a day job and having blogging be your night gig.  If you actually go to sleep at a reasonable time of night, you don’t get much blogging done.  So, basically, blame me having to meet my hours requirement for the year on not posting.  Nevertheless, I would be remiss if I missed a week’s worth of picks.

Who can forget the Seattle Seahawks coming out to the Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony at Super Bowl XL? You knew they were going to lose as soon as you heard the song. Who comes out to a song like that? They might as well have run out while Peabo Bryson blasted from the speakers. Yah Mo Be There, on the other hand, would have guaranteed victory.

The Seahawks and music fail go way back like BK’s and jheri curls. Check this disaster by the 1985 Seahawks called Locker Room Rock. It’s no Ram It but sweet baby jesus…

It’s nice to see that Mike Tice is as good at dancing as he is at scalping Super Bowl tickets. Off-brand Michael Jackson was down but where was Steve Largent? He was probably out slaying non-believers with Jim Zorn.

Needless to say, the Seahawks didn’t make the Super Bowl in 1985. The Super Bowl Shuffle came out on top while Locker Room Rock didn’t even warrant a shameful bronze.

…or Herm Edwards actually since he’s paraphrasing him at one point during his misguided guarantee of a win on Sunday vs the Cardinals in the video below. You’d think he would’ve learned from history that this sort of thing generally doesn’t end well. That most teams that win games let their play do the talking, rather than their mouths a week before. That usually you do not want to piss off your opponent a full week ahead of when you are going to play them. Ye Gods!

He actually says “I don’t want to give anybody bulletin board material, but…” then he goes ahead and give a TON OF BULLETIN BOARD MATERIAL. He actually says “We’re going to win the game!” Are you serious man? I mean, this is going to be a road game for the Seahawks, against a team that was in the Super Bowl last year, that is actually playing pretty well at times right now. Not exactly sure what Nate was thinking…or if he was thinking, for that matter. Nice job playboy. Watch the stupidity unfold below…unless they win…then it was brilliant.

From The News Tribune

Really? The Seahawks should be ready to go whenever the AAFL starts up.

Disappointing…that is definitely the word to describe the professional football career of one Peter Warrick. The 4th overall pick in the 2000 draft has just 275 receptions for 2,991 yards and 18 TDs in his six seasons of play in the NFL. He’s been out of the league since 2006 and now with the Arena league suspending play for the 2009, he has signed with the Bloomington Extreme of the 4 year old Indoor Football League for the 2009 season.

Yup…that’s about as low as you can get. I’m not sure how this league can be a jumping off point to getting back into the NFL, but I guess it is better than the alternative. I just hope the Extreme built in some explicit clauses in his contract telling him that he actually has to show up to the team since he’s had some trouble doing that in the past. In 2007 he signed with the Las Vegas Gladiators of the Arena Football League, but never showed up. In May of 2008 he was signed by the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League…he was released from the team on June 3rd.

The IFL is pretty psyched to have an ex NFL’er of such great expectations with nothing delivered in their league however

“He’s huge, not just for our organization, but for our league,”[Extreme coach Kenton] Carr said. “It’s an indication of where this league is going.”

“For us and the level that we’ve played at the last couple of years, it’s tremendous marketing-wise,” Extreme general manager Bart Rogers said. “He’s, for sure, a big-time player who we can market around.”

I’m not sure how huge it is to get a wide receiver that couldn’t hang on with the Bengals when even Chris Henry and all his baggage can get resigned with them or get signed by the Seahawks after their entire receiving corps was in the hospital…even the backups…or couldn’t even be bothered to show up to the AFL and CFL teams he signed with. Yea, huge.

I think Warrick said it best with this

“Warrick was unavailable for comment Monday.”

Smart move Peter…just blend in.

From Pantagraph.com