February 8, 2011 | 8:12 am

Jewish NFL Player of the Year

Posted by Jeremy Fine

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After much consideration of the 5 nominees we ranked their performances as follows:



#5 - Greg Camarillo

#4 - Taylor Mays

#3 - Adam Goldberg

#2 - Adam Podlesh

It was a very close call between Podlesh and Garay. But Garay had 6 sacks which ranked him 6th among DT/NT for most sacks during the season. Solid pressure all year round. Congrats to the big man in the middle. This is the second straight year a Defensive Lineman beat out Podlesh for PoY.



And Let Us Say…Amen.

-Jeremy Fine
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February 7, 2011 | 9:11 am

Jewish NFL Year in Review

Posted by Jeremy Fine

The Super Bowl is over (finally). My heart was broken weeks ago. So now it is time to look back at this year’s NFL season. For the Jews it was…okay. We gained a few new Jews, that is a huge positive. Unfortunately, no one really stood out. Our only real chance at a Pro Bowler was David Binn and he spent the year on IR. Here is how everyone did. Tomorrow we will announce this years Player of the Year.

The former Pro Bowler was out entire season. Not much to say except maybe he is the Chargers good luck charm as they failed to make the playoffs. Hopefully, Binn can recover from his season-ending hamstring injury.

We did not find out he was Jewish until mid-season, but we are super happy to have him aboard. He is a solid NFL receiver. Camarillo had 20 grabs and a TD for a team that had qb issues all season. His numbers are not great, but neither are anyone elses. He is a nominee for PoY.

We expected BIG things from Edelman. He was clutch in 2009, but not really in 2010. He only hauled in 7 receptions all year, 3 of them in the final week of the season. Not good for a pass happy offense. He also added 1 grab in the playoffs and 2 rushes for 14 yards in the regular season. His biggest contribution came on punt returns where he took back a punt for TD in 21 tries.

He big man had 38 solo tackles and 10 assists. More impressively he got to the QB 6 times for a sack. Solid season for a guy who has had trouble finding a home. Garay is nominee #2 for PoY.

Goldberg started all 16 games. Most importantly he helped with much needed protection for new QB Sam Bradford. Steven Jackson had a good amount of success this year as well. Goldberg was a big reason why. Nominee #3.

Kosier dealt with several QBs this season. Unfortunately, Tony Romo went down early on. Kosier started 13 of 16 games. Was solid again.

The biggest surprise of the season, simply because he got drafted. And this 7th rounder made the team. He moved from DE in college to FB in the pros. He played in 9 games and started 1. He only had 1 reception but it was for 10 yards and a first down. The FB didn’t get any carries, but we are excited about his potential.

Before the season all I did was praise Mays. And there were moments where the kid shined. But he did not get the playing time I thought he would. He had one of the top plays of the season, catching a ball in the back of the end zone on his tippy-toes. He had 31 tackles and 7 assists. Also, Mays forced a fumble and had a TD on the season. He is nominee #4. Once he gets consistent he will be scary. We predict he will live up to expectations…On a side note it is his birthday today.

Olshanky was last year’s PoY. His numbers were down. No sacks and only 17 solo tackles. He did have 21 assists. He still start all 16 games for a broken down Cowboys team, so that was impressive. But he won’t be repeating as TGR PoY.

Podlesh ranked 13th in the league with 43.8 yards per punt. He had 7 touchbacks, 15 fair catches, and 26 inside the 20 in a total of 57 punts. He played all 16 games and didn’t fumble once nor did he let up a TD. Podlesh is nominee #5.

Sage joined a new team but barely got any snaps (as QB). He was the field goal holder. He played in 12 games for the G-Men. He did not throw any pass attempts but saw a few snaps in week 9 but they were all kneel downs racking up 3 rushes for -3 yards. Poor Sage.

The Panthers flatout stunk up the place. It wasn’t Schwartz’s fault as he had a pretty solid season. It was not an easy task blocking for horrendus QBs. He started all 16 games and had 3 tackles (assuming his QB fumbled). Schwartz is one of the few players the Panthers don’t need to replace.



A reminder that tomorrow we will post the player of the year. The nominees are:

Greg Camarillo
Antonio Garay

Adam Goldberg

Taylor Mays

Adam Podlesh



And Let Us Say…Amen.

-Jeremy Fine



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February 4, 2011 | 5:57 am

Jewish Sports Jam

Posted by Jeremy Fine

Recently I tweeted an article by Dave Feldman about MLB Jam (Click HERE to read), a spinoff from NBA Jam the popular ‘90s video game. The article is awesome besides the fact that there is no mention of Mark Buehrle. Anyway, TGR decided to tackle the subject and show everyone some recent Jewish combos that would make our Jewish Sports Jam (All sports included).

Mike Cammalleri is coming off a dominating 2010 playoffs and currenly has 13 goals and 18 assists. While Jeff Halpern has 7 goals and 12 assists.

- Kyle Kosier started on the Cowboys O-Line and Igor Olshanky on the D-Line.

- Ian Kinsler joined the 30/30 club and batted .327 while Scott Feldman went 17-8 with a 4.08 Era.

- Andy Ram and Jonathon Erlich won the Australian Open.

- David Binn was a NFL Pro Bowl Long snapper and Olshanky had 35 tackles, 3.5 sacks, and 1 Int.

- Kevin Youkilis and Gabe Kapler were World Series Champs.

- While this is not too recent I thought it was cool to mention Ken Holtzman and Ron Blomber played for one season together on the Yankees. While Steve Stone and Holtzman missed each other by a year (for the “other” Chicago baseball team).



Feel free to comment with more tandems.



And Let Us Say…Amen.

- Jeremy Fine
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