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Five-Step Drop: Finally, It’s Here

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FanHouse’s college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day. FanHouse will do a Five-Step Drop several times a week during the summer and then daily once preseason practice starts.

1. It’s been nearly eight months since we saw a college football game, but the wait is over. When Presbyterian and Wake Forest hook it up at 6:30 p.m. ET, another season will be underway. It’s not just an ordinary night of Thursday football either, as there are 18 games involving FBS teams — including No. 2 Ohio State, No. 13 Miami, No. 14 USC and No. 15 Pitt.

Let’s also remember one of the greatest things about college football season beginning is that it represents another entire season of tailgating. Between the great food, the camaraderie, the partying, the chants and everything in between, tailgating truly is a great American pastime and makes the spectating more fun. Pictures like the one here (at Mississippi State) can be taken all over the nation every Saturday. Great times.

Oh yeah, no link in here because it was all me. Since Five-Step is predicated on linking, I’ll give one with a short take: if you’re going to complain about the Big Ten division alignment, please be smart enough to do so without saying you don’t like it because Ohio State and Michigan playing each other in the last regular season game “all but” eliminates a rematch the following week. It does nothing of the sort. The teams are in different divisions and when they play has no bearing on the standings — I don’t care what two teams you’re talking about.

 

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Five-Step Drop: Pryor a Bad Teammate?

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Terrelle PryorFanHouse’s college football staff provides you with a personal quarterback. We do the primary and secondary reads for you so you can properly start your day. FanHouse will do a Five-Step Drop several times a week during the summer and then daily once preseason practice starts.

1. Like any quarterback that gets loads of national attention, Terrelle Pryor is a polarizing player. You have the group of people who obviously enjoy watching him play and then the group who has to rain on the parade and remind everyone how much he “sucks.” Just read this post and the comments that follow for a perfect example.

In this case, though, some of the hatred might be warranted, according to … Pryor himself?

As told to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Pryor believes he’s been a bad teammate in the past at Ohio State:

“I think I was a little arrogant, to tell the truth,” Pryor said. “You think about it and I came in as a junior in high school and everybody was praising me, everyone was being around me and everybody was telling me how I great I am. It can be kind of … you lose your humbleness. And [now] I feel humble. I feel very humble, very appreciative.”

If he’s sincere — and why would he say this if he wasn’t? — this is bad news for Buckeyes’ opponents this year. And all the Pryor-haters. A quarterback wanting to be a better teammate is one ready to take his game, and team, to new heights.

 

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