Doubletake with Matt and Jake

There’s no sugarcoating that 2017 was a disappointing year for the Tar Heel Football team. After finishing 2016 with an 8-5 record they lost six players to the NFL draft, including star quarterback Mitch Trubisky. That is a lot of talent to replace in one season, and while UNC has had consistently good recruiting classes the last few years, the combination of the loss of talent and some losses that could have gone either way, the Tar Heels limped to a 3-9 record, including 1-7 in ACC play.             After missing a bowl game for the first time in his UNC tenure, Larry Fedora is obviously looking for a bounce back season. Quarterback Chazz Surratt has had a whole offseason to prepare as the presumed starter, which makes a huge difference going into the season. Last year there was competition between Surratt and LSU transfer Brandon Harris. Surratt is also going to have a ton of weapons to utilize around him on offe...

Every single NBA game you watch there will always be some dude who checks into the game, and you have no clue who he is. But then the game goes on for a while and that guy will start shooting free throws or something. So the camera zooms in on him and shows his name, and you do a double take with your chocolate milk because you realize you actually do know who that guy is. Maybe you saw him play in college but didn’t even know he made an NBA team, maybe he got drafted by Orlando and bounced around teams like Milwaukee and Detroit or something so you just forgot he existed. Whatever the case, it’s always fun to a player and ask your buddy if he knew that guy was still in the league. This NBA season had a lot of those double take moments for me, so I wrote up my list for “All NBA Double Take”  team. This isn’t based on talent, draft position, or literally anything other than my pure shock value that his person is still in the NBA. T.J. McConnell: Guard, Philadelphia ...

For the state of Utah, the BYU vs. Utah football game is one of the most important days of the year. Growing up in Salt Lake I looked forward to it every year. The week of the game, schools had activities where students dressed in their team’s colors, and everybody had watch parties for the game. It’s basically a holiday in Utah. But recently, the game has become less of an event, and more of a foregone conclusion. Utah fans have pre-typed tweets ready to mock their counterparts, while the Cougar faithful have their 1984 arguments in their back pocket, saved for occasions just like a Utah loss, (and really any other occasion you can possibly think of). While we’re all well aware that Ty Detmer won the Heisman Trophy in 1990, that doesn’t change the fact that in 2018 BYU is not a comparable football program to Utah. The most glaring indicator of Utah’s recent outperformance of BYU is that BYU hasn’t beaten Utah since 2009. A fellow named Max Hall was commanding the offense back...

NFL 2018 Mock Draft 2.0   Welcome to our second mock draft of the year. The NFL combine and free agency, plus multiple pre-draft trades really turned the draft outlook upside down. Both the Bills and the Jets packaged picks to move up to presumably draft a quarterback, the Seahawks seemingly gave up on having a top-tier defense, and surprisingly no Cowboy’s defensive lineman have been suspended as of this writing. So while there are still some quality players left on the free-agent market, here’s our current projections for the 2018 NFL draft. Reminder this is what we thin k will happen, not what we think the teams should do.   1. Cleveland Browns: Sam Darnold, Quarterback, USC No changes here for the Browns. While Darnold’s game isn’t perfect, he has I think the biggest upside out of every quarterback available. If you’re picking at number one you’re picking for upside, not highest floor.   2. New York Giants: Josh Rosen, Quarterback, UCLA Word ...