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- 6'4 - 326lbs
- College: Southern Miss (Degree: Sports Admin)
- Other teams played for: Philly, Arizona, Carolina

Jeremy was drafted by the Eagles in the 6th round (2003), where he was inactive all season, and then picked up off waivers by the Cards. The Panthers picked him up as a Free Agent where he was released in February 2009. In the six years he's been in the NFL, out of the 62 games he's played, he has started in 39 of them.

The SB Nation Panthers' blog recently posted a story with some comical quotes from the new Redskin regarding his previous 2 brush-ins with the law:

  "Things happen and I can't blame nobody but myself. If I wouldn't even have been in that situation then I wouldn't have been in the situation."

There were "some unfortunate things I been through in Carolina, besides the good field play. I had a lot left. The thing about Carolina is they kind of frown on off-field incidents. I was unfortunate to have two of them when I was there."

Haha. Man. Every team frowns on off-field incidents, even little league teams. OK. Now the good stuff. The details on the run-ins with the law:

In December of 2008...the incident started when Bridges ordered a bottle of Dom Pérignon (wine) from the restaurant bar Saturday night and shook it up, causing the champagne to spew and get other patrons wet. The restaurant manager alleges that Bridges then got into a verbal confrontation with another patron and then a physical confrontation with the bouncer, at which time the police were called.

To Jeremy's defense, there is nothing more fun than spraying a bottle of bub all over the place. I've done it before and yes, to say people get furious is an understatement. I always pour the person a glass afterwards and invite them over, so pushing a bouncer and screaming at a patron is where the road splits there. 

The second black eye arose when Bridges was arrested prior to the start of training camp for the 2007 season and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly pointing a gun at a woman in a strip club parking lot in Charlotte, NC. What makes this story so comical is the trial:

Jeremy Bridges gets convicted of assault for pointing a gun at a stripper ("entertainer") who was arguing with one of his buddies. Bridges didn't want his pal talking to her, in part because, as she testified in court: "I don't even date men."

Then the entertainer's uncle takes the stand wearing a sleeveless black dress and high-heeled shoes -- looking like Tina Turner but sounding like Ike -- followed by her pregnant ex-girlfriend.

Was Bridges' lawyer Lionel Hutz? How do you lose a case when the lead prosecution witness is a drag queen?? Only in America folks.

Bridges was found guilty and given a 60-day suspended sentence and one year unsupervised probation; he was also ordered to pay a $500 fine and do 60 hours of community service. The Panthers suspended him for two games for the incident.

The guy definitely has the size, and it's worth a shot working him out. All I know is I'm bringing goggles with me for his 'I made the team' party at Josephine's.

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Lance Zierlein, a radio host in Houston, has blogged that the Skins are about to sign Haynesworth for a STAGGERING $100 million averaging $15 mil a year. Lord help us all if this is true. Lance has an inside contact with the NFL and supposedly called the Scott Pioli to KC deal before the major guys got wind. OH man.

The Titans can still one-up the deal, but let's be real. Since when does Dan Snyder not win these wallet battles?

From various sources comes an emerging and troubling potential Clinton Portis vs. John Riggins duel the likes of which have not been seen since, well, the last time Clinton Portis got into it with anoter former Redskin. Remember this?

Portis: What you go on TV and say, what you sit on your radio show and say, 'Portis need to shut up?' Portis gonna keep talking.
Mitchell: You keep talking. Keep talking, bro.
Portis: So the fools saying Portis need to shut up, they can kiss Portis's ass. I'm saying that. Ain't nothing gonna change, my man....
Mitchell: Clinton, I'm gonna tell you like this bro. I always talk. I'm an analyst. I analyze positive and negative. If you can't handle the negative....
Portis: You're a hater, that's what you are....
Host John Thompson: "Both of y'all are guys that we're both proud of, and when you see one another, eat a sausage sandwich, sit back and put your toes up and laugh about this crap."

That was just months ago and was widely reported as escalating dangerously towards a physical altercation. Now John Riggins is piling on though, thankfully, no one's pockets are losing their straightness as a result. Net yet, at least. Pro Football Weekly and Mark Maske provide the potentially offending quote:

"I don't think there's any turning back now because obviously to a certain extent Clinton Portis has the team over a barrel from my understanding of the amount of money that he's owed, guaranteed money that becomes really cost-prohibitive to get rid of him over a [salary] cap issue. There's not that many teams that would be interested in Clinton Portis, I don't think, and so they have a bad situation on their hands. [That's] my personal take on it."

We'll talk more about the salary implications in a moment, but what's all this noise about, anyways? Something like:

Redskins RB Clinton Portis spoke with a small group of media, including PFW, in Tampa before the Super Bowl and said he still isn’t sure if he’ll be a part of the team’s offseason workouts in the D.C. area or if he’ll work out in Miami, as he has become accustomed to doing — but something the coaching staff would rather he not do.

“I’m going to play it by ear,” he said. “I’m going to be taking my time. I know I’m winding down. I’m going to take my time and make the decision best for me to help carry this team.”

Part of me wants to know more about this "winding down" and wonders why it is that NFL employees get to "play it by ear" when it comes to what their employers want whereas the likes of me do what we're told. Part of me also recognizes that this is hardly business as unusual, and that Clinton Portis (and others) routinely trains outside of Washington in the off-season. So I'm somewhere between lamenting one of our best players effectively telling the staff that what they want may or may not matter, and really being disinterested in his off-season workout destination so long as he shows up healthy. (Mark Newgent correctly points out that perhaps John Riggins isn't the appropriate task-master for this, as he was hardly a boyscout.)

But about this being over a barrel business... Just start adding zeros. Although slightly dated, I don't think much of Portis' contract has changed since January 1st of this year, and Warpath's figures have Clinton as:

• The highest compensated player on the team through 2013, escalating dramatically in 2010 to over 10M a year.
• His release fees start at 13M in 2009 and go down about 2.5M-3M a year as additional guaranteed moneys are prorated out of his contract. Keep in mind this number is just as likely to increase as decrease, because the preferred solution for solving every Redskin salary cap problem is renegotiating formerly unguaranteed money into guaranteed money prorated over the course of the contract, thereby increasing the penalty for early release.
  
• Cursory examination shows that Portis is just above Chris Samuels and just below Chris Cooley in terms of release penalties over the next 3 years.
• Incredibly, the team is in the unenviable position of taking a 7 digit penalty for cutting Portis at any moment before 2013. I love Clinton Portis, he's one of my favorite players on the team. I am incapable, though, of defending our decision to tie so many funds into his contract necessarily. Fates change rapidly in the NFL and you're better off not marrying yourself to (virtually) any player for that much change. I think this is especially true of running backs, as the position is one of the more fungible ones in the game.
  
• Because he's set to cost the team an alarming 10+M in 2010, the team can actually save money by cutting him (with a penalty of around 8.5M) which would then give us the largest individual dead cap hit that I can recall seeing in Washington (for a nice comparison, we paid ~ 6M in total dead cap hit last year) though I could be wrong about that.
  

I harp on it too often and will forget the point for now, but briefly: I do not think restructuring unguaranteed moneys into guaranteed money is a wise strategy generally, and the sheer volume in dead cap hits that we'd suffer from cutting Clinton Portis at any time over the next 3 years is partial evidence of that, in my opinion. Having said that I urge everyone to fall back in love with Clinton Portis, because whatever happens he's either going to be here for a while, or haters should exercise caution over what they wish, as Portis cut and sent packing out of town represents (relatively) dire financial consequence for the team. In other words: Yea, over a barrel sounds about right.

Afterall, they have so much in common. They share spit, they talk:

After Terrell Owens spit in DeAngelo Hall's face in Saturday night's game, Hall insisted he'd have nothing to do with the Dallas receiver.

Owens, who was fined $35,000 by the NFL, kept trying to contact Hall, the Falcons' star cornerback. Former Atlanta and Dallas player Deion Sanders finally convinced Hall to take a three-way telephone call on Monday.

"We had a pretty good conversation," Hall said Wednesday. "As far as I'm concerned, it's over. We got it all out, cleared it all out. It's over."

They both face new depth chart challenges. In DeAngelo Hall's case, he joins a Redskins roster already set at CB and looks to be something like our 4th string guy (Leigh Torrence was cut to make room) behind Shawn Springs, Carlos Rogers, and Fred Smoot. Alternatively he could be 3rd CB if Springs is moved over to safety, a possibility voiced here. Terrell Owens probably isn't the #2 wide receiver just yet, but with Roy Williams about he's no longer the perpetually unquestioned alpha male of the Cowboys receiving unit.

And they're both having bad years. Hall was recently cut by the Raiders from a 7 year something like 70 million dollar contract to sign with Your Washington Redskins for a one year deal worth, ostensibly, much less cash. DeAngelo fell out of favor in Oakland in part because of his allegedly bad attitude, and in part because he flat out isn't playing very well:

"At the rate he's playing, I'm looking forward to a big day," Owens told the Associated Press at his book signing today in New York. "I'm no stranger to playing against him. I've had success against him just as much as everybody else has, so if he's out there, I'm looking forward to playing him."

T.O. speaks the truth. Hall, who was extremely overrated in Atlanta, has been horrible this season. Per Stats Inc., he gave up more yards (556 on 40-of-66 passing) than any other cornerback in the league during his brief stint as a Raider.

T.O. is apparently looking forward to playing against a corner that probably wouldn't be lined up against him anyways, as he's buried now much deeper on our depth chart than he would've been on the Raiders. As TORB points out:

This seems like an awfully roundabout way of saying “I hope the new guy is covering me, because the two guys they had on me last time really shut me down[.]”

And maybe that would be best for Owens, as he isn't having the best season of his career. While he's pretty square so far on touchdowns, with six in nine games, his yards are much lower than he's used to as are his yards per reception. If he maintains his 13.3 YPC throughout the rest of the year, that will end up being the third worst season of his career. He's averaging around 52 yards per game, which would be the lowest total of his career since his rookie year in 1996.

Football Outsiders is even meaner. They think he's just about the worst receiver in DYAR (only nine players with 30 or more passes are below him) with a miserable catch percentage of 48%. He has yet to gain 100 yards receiving this season.

And, finally, they'll be on the same field (though probably not often lining up against one another) this coming Sunday at FedEx Field. Given how the year is going for T.O., and his relatively (to his career, I mean, his 7 for 71 yards and a touchdown was probably one of the best games of this season) bad performance against us the last time around, in his house, I think Owens probably missed a perfect opportunity to shut up.

But we will see.

I was something like 16 years old when Jon Jansen was drafted and subsequently immediately thrust into the starting lineup of Your Washington Redskins. Over 1/3rd of my life has proceeded with at least the certainty, that barring injury, Jansen would remain starting at tackle. Even considering injury, someone else was always just renting. Yesterday that era ended:

Right tackle Jon Jansen, the longest serving player in the Washington Redskins' organization... was demoted to second string yesterday, and Stephon Heyer will take his spot in the season opener Thursday against the New York Giants.

Bloggers, predictably, had little to say on the subject. Starting with Sportz Assassin at AOL Fanhouse:

...like Zorn said, Heyer has shown a much better ability to protect Campbell. With Campbell's habit of fumbling the ball once he gets hit ... it is a big deal if you can be the guy that can prevent him from getting nailed.

Yes and no. Yes in the sense that Jansen didn't look too sharp this preseason and as a result Jason Campbell didn't look so sharp, either. No in the sense that if ever Jason Campbell revealed his proclivity for putting the ball on the ground after sacks, he did so last year, in 2007. Campbell claimed 7 lost fumbles last year which, I believe, was a league high. And though we certainly wouldn't want to return a right tackle into the lineup who is responsible for that ghastly number of protection breakdowns, it can hardly be blamed on Jansen. Because he only started one game last year, against Miami. And although current Redskin Jason Taylor did record a sack and a fumble, it wasn't against JC.

Stephon Heyer did start some games in 2007. For instance:

@ Tampa Bay: Campbell had 1 fumble, lost.

vs. Chicago: Campbell had 1 fumble, lost. Todd Collins copied him with one lost fumble.

I presume Heyer played quite well for the remainder of the season (which he started) because Todd Collins was so phenomenal during that period. What I know is that Jon Jansen certainly can't be blamed for Campbell's fumbling problem in 2007.

Ben says:

This is the way things work in the NFL, I suspect when we look back at this decision at the end of the 2008 season it may well be one of those Stephon took the job when Jon was a bit weakened and never gave it back situations...

A final thought on the changing of the guard tackle. When a guy like Jon Jansen who has played as solidly as he has for ten seasons gets displaced by a second year guy that was not even drafted, there is a problem in your organization. It is the natural progression of things that older players are supplanted by younger players, that is the way it works.

Ben also touches on the contractual stuff, which I'm going to address more below.

Yesterday I answered some questions from Big Blue View regarding "surprises" this offseason and which one stood out. My answer was:

Training camp is all about surprises as we've been sitting about ringing hands over the coming season long enough now where every event, no matter how trivial, is new and fascinating and worthy of excessive print. I could rail off 10 things about this team that I wouldn't have thought to actualize at the end of last season. Of those things, off the top of my head, word that undrafted free agent Stephon Heyer is actually pressuring starting tackle Jon Jansen for playing time is baffling to the extreme. Barring injury, Jansen has started every single game of his Redskin career since his rookie season in 1999. That Jon Jansen is now being troubled for his starting spot is simply not something Redskins fans have had much experience with over the last 10 years. Does not compute.

Per Redskins 360, Jansen is upset but utterly professional about the entire affair:

Said Jansen: "There were some reasons thrown around, nothing I felt was reason enough but they’re the coaches and I’m the player. I’ll go out there and do what I’m supposed to do."

Redskin Report:

Juding from what we saw in the pre-season, this is the right move.  Heyer may not be a top tier tackle at this point, but Jansen was getting run over by no-names in virtually every game this August.

Mark Newgent stays optimistic:

While I feel for Jansen, I am glad to see an elderly offensive line get a bit younger with Heyer. Heyer impressed last year as an undrafted free agent. In the near future he can be the anchor of a younger stronger offensive line with Chad Rhinehart and Justin Geisinger.

The bad news is that he might very well have to be. This moment was bound to happen because Jon Jansen couldn't simply play forever. The best case scenario is that he clung to his starting job for just a few more years (with no additional restructures) and managed to close out the lion's share of his contract as a player -- opposed to as a sitter, which is what backup linemen do most of the time.

The good news is, at least in March via Warpath Cap Summary: our starting right tackle will cost the team just 373K in 2008. Good on Stephon Heyer.

Uh, bad news... After restructuring his contract in February, Jansen went from an over 5.5M cap hit in 2008 to just an ~750K cap hit. Meaning he spread around a lot of his formerly unguaranteed salary (that we would not pay if, say, we cut him as a too-expensive backup right now) into guaranteed bonus money which was then prorated over the course of his contract.

The following release fees were taken from Warpath Cap Summary although they reflect his old 2008 cap hit of over 5.5M. That tells me that the numbers don't factor in the money since turned into guaranteed bonus, which would actually increase the release penalties. They are:

Over 14M if released this year

Over 9M if released next year

Over 6.5M if released in 2010

Around 3.3M if released in 2011

That should give you a pretty good idea of the future dead cap hit we're going to necessarily take from Jon Jansen. He's set to cost the team somewheres between 4.6M to 7.7M for the next three seasons after this one. That means his release fee exceeds his cap hit at least until 2010. Savings (admittedly this depends on how you cut him, since the cap is spread differently depending on what part of the year you do so) for cutting him won't happen for the next 2 football seasons. And by "savings" I mean it will cost us less to pay him than it will to suffer the dead cap hit from releasing him.

The problem with dead cap hits are that they cost money for no or little return on the investment. Incidentally, under ideal circumstances, that's also the problem with backups; if they see the field that means someone is injured. Typically you'd prefer your backups not be among the 10 highest paid players on the team for that precise reason. Suffice to say, Jansen is atypical in that regard.

The hidden danger of restructuring players with large contracts is that you wake up the next day, or, say, you wake up in September, and you realize the guy you thought had long-term value with the team... didn't. But you're still holding the bill that says "Amount Due" next to "2011" and there's lots of zeroes and you're wondering whether or not it wouldn't have just been better to take your cap licks in 2007 to better position yourself to make a roster decision without a proverbial salary cap gun poking right up against your temple. And when the trigger does activate it's gobs and gobs of green moneys spilling out the side of your head and there isn't a team doctor about (too busy fixing hamstrings, I 'spose) to stuff all that cash back where it belongs.

This is especially difficult because Jon Jansen is one of my favorite Redskins. I really couldn't have imagined a world where he wasn't the starting offensive linemen for the 'Skins. Neither did the front office, apparently.

 
Ok maybe not that young

Football is a sport of continuity, teams maintain the same core players from season to season, even after bad years, and the teams that do not have a succession plan at each position risk that continuity. Just plugging in players does not always work, see also Adam Archuleta and every pathetic attempt the Redskins made last season to find a third receiver (Keenan McCardell no wait Reche Caldwell no let's try Anthony Mix).

And no one can doubt that among all football positions, quarterback may be first among equals when it comes to continuity. QB has so many competing priorities and complicating factors that it can be difficult for a team manage them with only three roster spots. You need your starting guy, you need your cool hand off the bench, you need the guy of the future, you need the diamond in the rough to be developed etc etc and so on and so forth.

Watching the Redskins last season I was struck by something with the quarterbacks. While starter Jason Campbell was a spry 25, backup Todd Collins was 35 and backup Mark Brunell was a creaky 36. That's 71 years between the two of them.

And while Mark was never needed and Todd came through when the team needed him, the Redskins made no progress at the quarterback position with respect to the future. Yes they drafted a guy, seventh round pick Jordan Palmer, in last year's draft, Jordan was so bad in his only preseason action that he was cut two days later. They also cycled through Casey Bramlet again (op. cit.), a guy good enough to be the WLAF's NFL Europa's World Bowl 15 MVP but not good enough to make the Redskins roster.

Three roster spots for QBs. You got your starter, he is exempt from all age requirements. But the backups, together they are supposed to represent the present AND future at the position. Whether a team chooses to put their young gun at number two (like Aaron Rodgers behind Brett Favre) or a cagey veteran ready for a four game stretch (like our own Todd Collins) at number two, there should always be a youngster in the mix, a player that can be developed for the long term and possibly elevated to starter when the time comes.

This is not to say there is not a place for veteran quarterbacks, that is not what I am saying at all. What I am saying is that a team is not caring for the future when its two backups total 71 years of age.

And this is not about Jason Campbell either. As much as I love the guy, it was still a very open question as to whether Jason could run and be successful in a Joe Gibbs / Al Saunders style of offense, one suited to Jason's natual abilities and physique. Those questions will hold over this season and become more pointed if Jason does not look like he can run Jim Zorn's offense from day one.

So I am proposing a rule. The combined age of the Redskins' two backup quarterbacks should never tally more than 60 years of age. Update by Ben, perhaps 60 is too low, see comments below.

Likely configurations would break down this way:

1. Cagey older veteran at number two, ready for limited action but likely not an option for a full season much less the future, with young gun at number three, the guy to be groomed for the future.
   
2. Established young number two, waiting in the wings to take over while the wizened veteran QB coaches and helps the number two mature from the number three spot.
   
3. Two guys in mid career, fighting it out for position, or in a defined hierarchy.

With last season's backups, the Redskins were out of compliance with the rule. Keeping Todd Collins at number two and bringing in Colt Brennan at number three would satisfy condition number one above. With undrafted rookie Matt Moore stepping in for Jake Delhomme in Carolina and Vinny Testaverde at number three, the Panthers last season conformed to condition number two. The Bills, with 27 year old JP Losman at number two and and 27 year old Gibran Hamdan (himself a former Redskin) at number three would fit condition three.

New coach, new outlook, time to start stewarding the QB position into the future.



David Sills, the 11 year old phenom quarterback:  Mark Owens from here.

[Note by Skin Patrol, 07/09/08 7:26 PM EDT ] Ben, you've been missed brother. Reader(s) are encouraged to enjoy other posts by this author at The Curly R, in particular his current running series Redskins Now AND Later (in its 6th edition). I'm tagging this thing up.

This is a post about our kicker (hat tipped to Extreme Skins; if you are on the prowl for Redskins related news, you could do a lot worse than the ES Breaking News Forum).

Patrick Maloney at the London Free Press caught up with Suisham via email and got him to answer a few of the critical questions we've all been waiting for, such as:

SUISHAM SAYS

1) My all-time favourite movie is . . .

Tombstone

2) In the movie about my life, I will be played by . . .

Matt Damon -- according to my wife

3) My favourite food is . . .

Fresh fruit

4) I drive a . . .

F150 SuperCrew

5) I think the best player in the NFL is . . .

Ethan Albright (the Redskins' long snapper)

6) I could retire happy if . . .

Our family was healthy and I didn't have a mortgage.

I, too, appreciate Tombstone and would be played by Matt Damon (it's a looks thing) though I have to part ways with Shazzam on... fresh fruit? Oh really, Shaun? Well then I'm calling you out and demanding you take a giant delicious yikes bite out of a fresh durian which, per Wikipedia per some book can be described something like... this:

... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.

Mmmm, I'll have that.

Two other points worth noting from the LFP: First, he's running his second football camp for somewhere around the neighborhood of 200 kids kicking off (like my moves?) June 21st. I find the mere existence of kicker football camps especially worthwhile since God cursed me with no talent yet with the primal urge to see my offspring succeed where I fail. I won't be growing any Skin Patrol defensive ends anytime soon, but maybe, just maybe, if I raise him from day one to obsess, practice, breath, live, and learn everything kicker, my kid could one day be making bank in the NFL as a professional athlete. Kicking the ball. Probably not.

Speaking of making money, consider this a reminder that we resigned Shaun Suisham to a lucrative base salary contract amounts currently unknown, though speculated on in the range of 435K a year (the LFP article cites to "an unofficial fan site estimate"). My salary bible is PC's Contract Page and he puts the base salary at 520K. Who knows.

Ethan Albright is the greatest player in the NFL. I'm on the record.

As we obsess this offseason over those undrafted free agents who may or may not make the team, it's important to remember that some -- those brave few who weather the storms of practice squads and roster cuts -- end up not only making the team but sticking around for years to come. The short history of one such player, Ryan Boschetti, follows:

1. Undrafted in 2004 out of UCLA (already has a leg up, as this is no Eastern Washington Tech State University, Tappeyokapudding) gets signed by the Redskins.
2. It was great while it lasted; cut sometime prior to the regular season. His tenure started in April, but by September he'd been cut and then promoted (demoted?) to the practice squad.
3. Chin up, guy, he's promoted to active roster duty in November of that season.
4. December 12th of that season he has his first start, against the Eagles. One tackle later and hte game is over.
5. Has another start in 2005 and records time in a majority of our games. He is a part of Gregg Williams rotating defensive line scheme, that works to great effect... at least that year.
6. Maybe that's why it went so poorly? 2006 saw just two games with Boschetti on the field.
7. Uno game in 2007. Many, myself included, speculate that Boschetti's time with the team may be coming to an end because the d-line is simply in too much need of an upgrade, and he's the odd man out. However, history should inform us that Ryan Boschetti is made of tougher stuff than your average camp fodder, and has proven himself tenacious in keeping a roster spot with the greatest team in sports.

In case you were wondering, per his 'Skins bio:

Admires former NFL great Joe Montana.

 

Hobbies include playing video games and lifting weights.

 

Majored in Political Science at UCLA.

What he really meant was Sammy Baugh and lifting beers. In any event, paint me impressed that he majored not in Shapes Of Rocks For Adults in College, but rather in the august non-profession of Political Science. This was my minor in undergrad and I'm unashamed to admit that I too once dabbled in Political Scientism (not in 'Nam, of course). (I wasn't there.)

This tenacity carries off the field, apparently, or so we're told by Chris Cooley in describing the great tradition -- one I too enjoy -- that is excuse to drink poker night:

Enter Ryan Boschetti. As far as I'm concerned he is the best gambler I know. I’ve never seen anyone win as at a casino as consistently as he does. He could realistically make his living gambling. We spent a weekend in Atlantic City last year and I saw Boss hit six different slot machines, each for thousands of dollars including a slot payout of $13,000 dollars on a penny machine. Not to mention wins at every single table game in the casino. Needless to say he would be my “rules guy” for the tournament

Observation: Ryan Boschetti is a thousands of dollarsionaire that plays penny slots. Take note, camp fodder, those nickel slots are for high rollers only.

Chris goes on to note a beyond-passing understanding of the game of poker that suggests he's spent some time playing Texas Hold'em, probably pretty well. But on this day a Pro Bowler was felled by a tenacious political scientist, a role-playing, at best rotational defensive linemen who happens to know that Abraham Lincoln plays slots better than Thomas Jefferson:

It was 10 o’clock and I figured it was time to make my move or bounce. I drew my first two cards, a Jack/9. By this point in the night that seemed like the perfect go all-in before seeing anything else hand. I chose to belittle my concern when I found out the rest of the table wasn't scared of a conflict. Shoulda known better, but I was easily bounced from the game when Boschetti posted three tens.

Hogs Haven loves an underdog story. Hail to Ryan Boschetti.