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Alright @YouTheReader,
Un-thinkable (I’m Ready) Remix is by Alicia Keys and features Drake. If you enjoy the beat or sound, well that was produced by Noah “40” Shebib, one of the best hip/hop producers ever to do it. This song came out in the Spring of ‘10.
I planned to use this song after the Super Bowl months ago and when I saw on Twitter Friday night that Alicia Keys was performing with Usher, I knew I was ready…That’s going to sound so corny, gosh darn it.
Age is just a number, but 30 feels like a big one. Been listening to this song since I was a teenager and this verse hits different. Growing up, I was a fan of Drake’s music because of verses like this one. Of course, like most rappers, he can brag with the best of them, but this is one of his verses where he says what’s real. They just didn’t get played on the radio as much.
This piggybacks off the last line about good women being rare for him. It’s how he still has a guard up when meeting women and uses seeking drugs at parties as a metaphor for not always seeking them out at shindigs. The only substance I’m searching for at every single bar in the Tri-State & Beyond is Guinness.
This is one of those songs that if you were on in the car with the Aux on shuffle with the fellas you’d immediately change, but then listen to it by yourself driving alone at night. Rescue me from my destiny, I’m tryna live right and give you whatever’s left of me you can find that in The Tortured Poets Department, fo’ real, fo’ real.
Very nice of Drake to offer to take the picture for his girl instead of making her take a selfie. We all know there is only one The City, I wonder if they got a pint of Guinness? They probably ordered champagne.
This is just the first Verse of the song which lasts only about 45 seconds, Alicia Keys and her great vocals belt out her verses for another 4 minutes.
Great tune, on to the sports…
Super Bowl LVIII Notes
5 PM (Pregame)
- The first Taylor Swift sighting is with Roger Goodell…interesting….also she made it on time.
- Paul Rudd is rocking a mustache. That was unexpected. Facial hair is so in it’s getting out of hand.
- The Bob Marley movie looks cool. Should be rated R though, I’d imagine there is a lot of reefer being smoked in it.
- CBS using Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” with the players’ families was touching. Shoutout Hoboken.
- Chris Stapleton should perform every Super Bowl National Anthem.
1st Quarter
- CBS has a very clean, new TV Scoreboard. I love it when they unveil a new one for the Super Bowl.
- Christian McCaffrey fumbles on the opening drive. The Chiefs go 3-N-Out followed by back-to-back Trent Williams flags.
- So far CBS has segwayed to OMG and Yeah!, obvious choices.
- Chase Young picks up the first sack of the game. The Kansas City screengame is not working whatsoever.
- The Niners are moving the ball. Brock Purdy had Brandon Aiyuk if he kept running the route for a TD.
- Scoreless 1st Quarter. 0-0 Tie.
- The Christopher Walken commercial was the best one so far.
2nd Quarter
- The quarter starts with a bang as Purdy takes a deep shot to Deebo Samuel in the endzone. Excellent coverage from Trent McDuffie.
- Niners’ Jake Moody drills a 55-yard Field Goal. The longest field goal make in Super Bowl history as the Niners go up 3-0.
- Patrick Mahomes finds Mecole Hardman on a 52-yard bomb. Taylor Swift was in awe. Great throw.
- Chiefs have the ball 1st & Goal, but Isiah Pacheco fumbles and is recovered by the Niners.
- After the Chiefs forced a punt, Dre Greenlaw tears his Achilles sprinting onto the field. Big loss.
- Chase Young generates an intentional grounding, would’ve been sack #2. Young has come to play.
- Jujuan Jennings throws a TD pass to Christian McCaffrey on a trick play. 10-0 SF
- Rookie Rashee Rice picks up consecutive 1st Downs. Arik Armstead picks up a huge sack. Forcing KC to settle for a FG. 10-3 SF
- Travis Kelce is trending on Twitter for verbally attacking Andy Reid.
Halftime
- Etsy’s Statue of Liberty commercial was solid. More of that.
- The whole time Usher was moonwalking I was worried he’d tear an Achilles on the turf. Respect it.
- Alicia Keys and Usher singing without auto-tune is cool.
- Yeah! to close it out was my favorite part but I’m biased.
- There was just a Scientology commercial, I’m thinking of doing a Stumblin’ Along their museum in the City. Has serious potential if Tom Cruise doesn’t try to off me.
3rd Quarter
- The Chiefs start off the 2nd half with Pacheco dropping a pitch. 2 plays later Mahomes throws an ugly interception. Niners can’t capitalize and punt.
- We got ourselves a defensive grudge match and a lot of terrible commercials.
- Mahomes gets loose for 2 first downs on runs. There was a streaker on the field. 10-6 SF after Butker makes FG from 57 yards out, new Super Bowl record broke Moody’s.
- Ray-Ray McCloud and the Niners gunner botch the punt. Mahomes finds MVS for a TD on the next play. 13-10 KC
4th Quarter
- Brock Purdy missed Deebo Samuel for a TD, he was pressured by Chris Jones. Shanahan goes for it on 4th Down and picks it up with Kittle.
- Jujuan Jennings scores another TD. Extra kick gets blocked 16-13 SF
- 3rd & 10 with 10 minutes to go, Kelce picks up back-to-back 1st Downs. The Niners make a goal-line stand. Tied up 16-16
- Jennings keeps making plays. The clock is ticking and Taylor Swift is biting her nails.
- 3rd & 5 the Chiefs get a stop. Moody drills FG to go up. 19-16 SF
- Mahomes drives down the field with 2 minutes to go like a madman who’s done it fifty times before. Kelce beats Fred Warner to get the ball inside the 10-yard line. The Niners hold the Chiefs to a Butker FG and we head to overtime. 19-19 Tie
Overtime
- Jujuan Jennings forces a holding call on the Chiefs’ defense on a 3rd Down that would have killed the drive. George Kittle is heading into the locker room, he’s got a shoulder.
- A lot is happening quickly as Brandon Aiyuk and Christian McCaffrey pick up huge chunks for 1st Downs. Kittle is back in there, must’ve rubbed some dirt on it.
- Kyle Juszczyk makes a huge 1st Down catch and thank goodness Goodell didn’t call down review that. It would’ve been chaos. Dez caught it.
- Chris Jones wrecks the Niners 3rd Down pass. Jake Moody hits from 27 yards out. 22-19 SF
- “Can the Super Bowl end in a tie?” Is being asked at Super Bowl parties in America right now.
- The Chiefs get the ball and it’s 4th & a foot. Mahomes on a read option with Kelce in the flat, picks it up.
- MVS loses 4 yards by not going down. Mahomes finds Rashee Rice on a crossing route for like 20 yards. “Tony Romo says the word ‘leverage’ more than anyone I’ve ever heard.” - Jets Fan Insider Text
- Mahomes gets KC down to the 13-yard line on another run. The Niners defense is exhausted. Kelce picks up a 1st Down on a screen pass.
- Former Jet legend Mecole Hardman scores.
- Week to Week Notes would like to congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs on winning Super Bowl LVIII.
- It’s officially Mock Draft SZN…
With the Super Bowl LVIII done and over with it, here is a full first-round mock draft with some notes for all the other football fans who’ve already turned the page into Mock Draft SZN.
I got 3 QBs going right off the board. This is one of those draft classes that has been labeled as a QB class. These are the best NFL Drafts to follow because if your team needs a QB, you may land your all-important Franchise QB, or if your team is already settled at QB, other elite players from other positions may fall deeper in the draft. All 3 of these QBs can make plays outside the pocket and have ideal potential as dual-threat guys who are pass-first instead of runners.
If the Cardinals are going to stick with Kyler Murray, getting Marvin Harrison would give him a certified stud WR1. Jim Harbaugh knows how important pass rushers in the NFL are, so I figure he’d get himself the best one from the SEC. I doubt the Giants want to eat $7.4 million to cut Darren Waller, so TE is necessarily a need, but Brock Bowers would be a tough guy to pass on after watching Kelce and Kittle in the Super Bowl. The Titans have hired former Bengals OC, Brian Callahan, so I’m assuming he’ll want to try his own version of Ja’Marr Chase/Tee Higgins down in Nashville. The Atlanta Falcons had a decent defense this past year but one category they’ll look to address is pass rusher, where Jared Verse comes in. Da Bears will want to pair Caleb Williams up with his new best friend Malik Nabers as his WR1.
The Jets need more reliable offensive line play. Joe Alt is the consensus top tackle in the draft and played in 34 straight games at South Bend. The Notre Dame tackle or any of the offensive players selected above would be an amazing get for the Jets at #10.
It is not yet clear if Kirk Cousins will be back in Minnesota. Justin Jefferson this week cleared things up with the media about whether a quote he had over the summer, "I'll really have to see if we really bring back Kirk or not, if we decide to want to draft, or want to pick up a quarterback”, he has since said, "It could be Kirk, it could not be Kirk. I have no idea, but it doesn't matter who's going to be throwing me that ball, you know I'm going to be that same type of player." (NFL Network's Super Bowl Live) Clearly, if Cousins is gone, they will be in the market for a QB, but we’ll assume here he stays and have the Vikings give him some protection. The Broncos are on the frits with Russell Wilson so maybe Michael Penix Jr. is their man, Sean Payton hasn’t had a problem with shorter QBs in the past. Las Vegas and JJ McCarthy would be such a random pick, but that’s usually how things work. AOC played serviceable for the Raiders, but I’m not sure they would pass up on a QB in this draft. The Saints LT Andrus Peat is set to be a free agent so if he walks, Mims could replace him. The Colts already have a good defense, but Cooper DeJean just seems like their kinda pick. He can play CB or S, very versatile weapon for their secondary.
The Seahawks are contemplating whether they should re-sign Leonard Williams to a long-term deal, I think they’d be better off letting him walk and taking Newton to replace him. Terrion Arnold or Kool-Aid McKinstry could be flip-flopped here. The Jaguars already have a young stud in Tyson Campbell but allowed the 7th most passing yards in football in ‘23. The Rams on the other hand have one of their starting CBs, Ahkello Witherspoon, set to be a free agent so it wouldn’t surprise me if they drafted a corner. The Bengals’ Tee Higgins is a free agent who has already openly said he wouldn’t mind uniting with his former Bengals OC Callahan down in Nashville. The Bengals probably can’t afford to keep both Chase and Higgins, but had a great thing going for a while with elite pass catchers for Joe Burrow so that’s where Troy Franklin comes in to play. The Steelers O-Line was atrocious this season and their LT Dan Moore Jr. was graded out as the 5th worst OT in ‘23, so Taliese Fuaga could step in to play. Phins fan insider likes Jackson Powers-Johnson and drafting the top center of this class at 21. is a good fit.
The Eagles already have young studs on their interior defensive line, but Chop Robinson could replace a veteran like Brandon Graham if he retires or walks as a free agent. Keon Coleman would fit right in with Nico Collins and Tank Dell to provide CJ Stroud with some extremely talented young pass catchers. That would make that offense very scary. The Cowboys could probably either go offensive or replace Stephon Gilmore at corner, I chose the latter with Nate Wiggins from Clemson.
Brian Thomas and Xavier Worthy close out an excellent first round of WRs. Thomas could replace Stefan Diggs, while the Worthy is certainly worthy enough to start for… Bralen Trice falling to 29 would be an excellent pick for Detroit to pair with Aiden Hutchinson. The rich Ravens’ defensive line gets restocked with some youth in Byron Murphy. To be honest, I wrote this Mock Draft before I knew about the Chiefs or Niners winning the Super Bowl, but think Kam Lassiter is a 1st Round CB, so I had to include him somewhere.
Upon Further Review
- Arrived at Mulligan’s at 9:15 AM. Just met Ethan, who is 2 years into his own EPL Sports Betting Website called PIP League. We exchanged business cards.
- No pints are served until 10 AM. Mulligan’s is by the book, a respectable institution of Hoboken.
Pint Count: I
- Josh is the bartender, he recommends watching Society of Snow.
- The rugby match is underway and Ireland goes up early on a Jack Crowley try. He misses the extra points, but it’s 5-0 IRE.
- 12-0 Ireland, I missed who scored the 2nd try because my mom shared a picture of Shane watching the match.
- Another try for Ireland, this time I was watching and it was Conan. 19-0 IRE.
Pint Count: II
- One of the bar patrons and I are talking to Josh about rugby fans. “Rugby drunk is a rare drunk.”
- Quick halftime notes: Ireland is dominating all phases of this match. It looks like the Italians would prefer to play a game of soccer.
- The Irish team goes up 24-0 after Crowley misses another extra points kick. Sheehan was the man who scored.
- The next bit of action is Robbie Henshaw. He scores a nice try….Whoops, no try for “crawling.” When will Shane start crawling? How much longer before I can have a catch with him for chrissakes?
Pint Count: III
- James Lowe with a great effort as the boys in green go up 29-0. Crowley struggling some with the kicks.
- I missed another try as the Irish won 36-0. The Italian play put Shane to sleep.
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