Author Archives: Dylan Greening

About Dylan Greening

Born in The Year Of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Two in the sleepy town of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised fifty miles north at Anglin Lake. Grew up working in the family business as a waiter, fishing guide, lumberjack, front desk clerk, marketing director, website developer and general goon. Born and raised a Saskatchewan Roughriders (of the Canadian Football League) fan, which possibly prompted the later obsession with another Green and White, oft-maligned, underdog football team. Enjoys long walks on the beach, Mojitos, sports, music, movies, literature, history, videogames, wine, women and song. If I were to continue, I would have to start being serious, so let's call it a day.

Our friend from the north, Dylan Greening’s posts have become something of a lightning rod on the blog, and this week’s post is no exception. We here on the “Editorial Board” would like to point out that Greening’s views are not representative (Translation: we LOVE gravytraining the cheater angle!!) of ours. Still it doesn’t mean that the topic isn’t a good one to intelligently debate.

Alright, I’ll admit it was fun for awhile. The jokes, ditties and cartoons have been great for morale.

“Yeah, screw that Bill Belicheat and his morally ambiguous army of nogoodniks! We can take back every loss since 2002 at LEAST because of this BS!!”

But like every sweeping pop-culture phenomenon (Swing Dancing, Pogs, Wallet Chains) the time has come to face the fact that we never really bought into it in the first place, or at least we shouldn’t have. The sad truth is that the New England Patriots are no less impressive as a franchise than they were before Week 2 of the 2007 season, and their undefeated regular season should not be tarnished by this “Spygate” stuff. (more…)

Our friend from the north, Dylan Greening takes a look with his head and his heart at the Jets’ quarterback position and what could happen in 2008. Enjoy.

The article I started writing originally opened with the line: “Chad Pennington must be cut, or dealt for the New York Jets to move forward.”

I had two paragraphs on paper … I was rolling along.

The problem is my heart isn’t in it, and more importantly neither is my head.

Chad Pennington must compete for the starting quarterback job this season, and he must win. (more…)

If there’s one thing that TJB is, it’s international … internationale even.

Oh yeah, we also like diverse opinions.

It’s with this in mind that we welcome another new writer. Coming to you from the the nation that made Hoc-kee, rye whiskey and Tim Horton’s donuts famous, it’s Dylan Greening. A dyed in the wool Jets fan who is going to be espousing on his view of the Jets from the land of snow and ice. As Mr. McFadden is a wildly popular topic among readers, one which Mack kicked around last week, we thought going back to the well and continuing the discussion was a good idea … enjoy.

The Curious Case of Darren McFadden continues to complicate draft boards and confound prognosticators and fans alike. Highly touted as the probable #1 Overall draft pick as long ago as last October, he has slipped, slided, clawed, climbed and stumbled again, now possibly into the Jets laps at the #6 spot. It appears that both Chris and Jake Long may be taken in the top 3 picks, and although Atlanta or Oakland might take a run at McFadden, it’s just as likely that they will not. The other 3 teams ahead of the Jets are St. Louis, Miami and Herm “Terminal Verbosity” Edwards’ KC Chiefs, none of whom is likely to be interested in McFadden.

So let’s prepare. Picture yourself sitting in front of the television on draft day, counting down the seconds as the camera cuts back and forth from the Jets battle station to Darren McFadden’s nervous mug, and ask yourself: “Do I still think it’s a gamble to take a running back that high.”, “Do I still believe our running game is fine if we we can just a decent guard?”, “Do I still believe we have too many needs to waste the money on one skill player?” (more…)