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Grackles · week 11 · 2006

J.P. Eastwick to Emmett Speight Jr., again

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Emmett Speight Jr. WR
Grackles

J.P. Eastwick threw 2 touchdowns to Emmett Speight Jr., who has now caught 29 from him. They have played 9 games together this season alone. It is the simplest thing this offence does and the hardest to stop.

He has 4,051 yards from scrimmage in five seasons, and twenty-nine touchdowns. His best was 1,129. This is not that, yet.

He turned twenty-six this year. He is from Reykjavik, Iceland. Ask anybody: he would rather be almost anywhere else on a Tuesday. Nobody planned any of it. He was a first-round pick out of Caldwell A&M, and everybody saw it coming.

Grackles are 6-4 through eleven weeks. Knuckles Yelverton is in year four of it.

One more thing: he does the crossword in the locker room before he dresses.

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