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The Jimmy Clausen era is here -- sweet!
Welcome back to the Pregame Flyover, your source for aerial reconnaissance of each week's NFL games -- including those involving teams that played under a television blackout last week. We don't hold it against a team when its fans -- e.g.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Chargers supporters -- live in a region with many attractive alternatives and choose not to attend games. Like Tampa Bay fans -- who will have their game against the Steelers blacked out locally on Sunday -- San Diegans apparently prefer attending a baseball game. Tampa and San Diego: baseball towns first; football towns second.
Now, before we get to the Week 3 matchups -- and discuss which games are probably worth watching, which games are of questionable worth, which games are of doubtful worth and which games should only be watched if your son plays for the Raiders or Cardinals -- we humbly present ...
A suggested topic for your next NFL viewing party
Are you ready for the Jimmy Clausen era in Carolina?
Behold, it is descending. Thanks to his supposedly questionable attitude (and what one columnist called "his persnickety smirkness"), the former Notre Dame quarterback slid down the draft board in April like a fast-food pickle down a glass window. It was nearly a disservice to us all, but thankfully he landed with a team, Carolina, which had a quarterback with a tenuous hold on the starting gig. Matt Moore is now out, and this guy (seen here on the far right) is in.
Praise be. Imagine, though, if he'd been drafted by a quarterback-rich team like the Texans, who now have Matt Schaub (2009 NFL passing yardage leader), [link widoczny dla zalogowanych](presumptive No. 1 pick in 2005 who wisely stayed in school) and Dan Orlovsky (who in 2004 was one of only 42 college quarterbacks named to the Davey O'Brien Award watch list). If Clausen had gone to Houston, he'd have been buried on the depth chart, and we'd have been cheated of the opportunity to witness an entertainer of the first rank.
This, after all, is the guy who arrived at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind., in a stretch Hummer limo to announce his decision to commit to Notre Dame. During that initial news conference, he flashed his high school championship bling and said he was joining the Fighting Irish to "try and get four national championship rings." Yup, Jimmy goes large, and if you don't like it, well, he'll probably give you plenty to dislike.
In some ways, Clausen reminds us of another great, misunderstood Jimmy, seen here. If Clausen is half as entertaining as that Jimmy, his career will be an unqualified success.