- Posted by Producer T-Bone

Free Agency is still a few weeks away in the NFL, but that doesn't mean we can't speculate. If your team (Browns, anyone?) is in need of some help at quarterback, here are five of the best players available. Would you want any of them?

(Please note, Drew Brees is leagues better than all of these guys combined. But there is no way I see him leaving New Orleans any time soon. Also note, if Peyton Manning becomes a free-agent, he jumps right to the top of this list.)

Matt Flynn

(AP / Jim Prisching)

After a mindnumbing performance against the Lions (31/44, 480 yards, 6 TDs, 1 INT) in week 17, Flynn is the hot choice for teams in need of a quarterback. But, is he set to be the 2012 version of Kevin Kolb? In four NFL seasons, Flynn has thrown just 132 passes. Is that enough of a sample size to bet the future of your franchise on? If so, it's reported that the initial buy-in for Flynn is in the neighborhood of $60 million.

Matt Flynn could be the next Packer to spend four years on the bench only to come into his own, a la the guy he backed up these last few years, Aaron Rodgers. Or he could be Kevin Kolb 2.0. Flynn is like a Broadway show to me: could be very good, but I wouldn't be willing to pay the money to find out.

The Flyers of Dayton and the Musketeers of Xavier are not fond of each other. Xavier is regularly the best team in the A-10, while UD tends to get in their licks on the Musketeers of late. Both schools have a religious affiliation, they are less than one hour's drive from each other's doorstep, and both schools have a proud basketball lineage.

None of that really matters for the purposes of this video, which shows CBS Sports announcer James Bates falling on his rear prior to that game over the weekend:

This is supposedly a real video from a Florida State sorority girl who wants to date the Giants football sensation she's been hearing about, "Jerry" Linn: 

This video has caused a great amount of debate amongst our staff here at The Fan. Many of us feel that this girl is acting dumb, trying to become an internet sensation. Some feel she really is this cluless, and that Miss Teen South Carolina has a new challenger for "dumbest co-ed on the internet."

Settle the debate for us - tell us what you think in the comments section below.

Upon first glance, the following commercial looks like your average "Hot Model Walks Into a Trailer and Shows Major League Baseball Players How to Play a Video Game She Probably Only Found Out About Five Minutes Ago" commercial. Ho-hum, see it all the time.

But look closely, and you'll see something shocking: a Cincinnati Reds player featured in a national commercial?

-posted by T-Bone

As you probably have heard, Kate Upton is on the cover of the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.  We do lists all of the time in sports radio - why not a list of some of the greatest SI Swimsuit covers ever?

In no particular order:

Betty Di Bugnano, 1955:

This is the first time a woman in a swimsuit graced the cover of Sports Illustrated.

But forget that for a second - the cost on this thing was just 28 cents! That alone makes it worthy of getting on the list.

The "Dream Team", 1994

From these humble beginnings, Rachel Hunter went on to marry Rod Stewart, Elle McPherson went on to star in movies, and Kathy Ireland went on to...work at K-Mart. Or something like that.

President Gee joined Scott Torgerson and WBNS 10TV's Beau Bishop (filling in for Mike Ricordati) to talk about a number of issues surrounding The ohio State University. The President gave his thoughts on the new compliance department at OSU, the Urban Meyer hiring, Athletic Director Gene Smith remaining on staff, and surprisingly, why he could possibly come around on the idea of a college playoff system. Very interesting stuff...

If you're like most sports fans, you completely ignored the Grammys. Apparently, amongst all of the sweeping tributes to Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson, there was a moment where a couple recent Super Bowl Champs stopped by to intriduce a category:

In other news, Mario Manningham needs to learn how to dance if he's going to do this again next year...

Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer called in to the show yesterday for his first interview with the Common Man and the Torg. Listen and enjoy.

Coach Meyer brought it strong on everything, but around the 4:30 mark when he was asked about other Big Ten coaches accusing him of illegal tactics, may have been the best moment of the interview.

Usually, we applaud people for hustling up court to get back on defense in a basketball game. Especially when it's a fairly meaningless mid-season NBA game, and the guy rushing back is a big man (in this case, JaVale McGee).

Unfortunately for McGee, when your team is currently still on OFFENSE, the good hustle will get overlooked in lieu of your enormous stupidty:

Did the Material Girl make the Worst of the Weekend? (Photo: Reuters)

5) I didn't consume any wings on Sunday.  The pizza was present and greasy, but I feel like I let the Football Gods down.  I'm sorry.  It won't happen again. 

Bielema has a sad. (Rick Wood - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Torgs Goat of the Week is all the Big Ten coaches not named Urban Meyer.

I am hearing way too many cry babies in the Big Ten complaining about Urban and recruiting. Just because you spent years working on this class and Urban comes in and within a month takes a class that was outside the top 20 and brings them to #3.

Hey Big Ten coaches not named Urban Meyer - Step up your game. Hire coaches that can get the job done. Wisconsin's recruiting class isn’t in the top 60. That’s because they have only 12 recruits but they swung and missed on a few losing a key recruit to Ohio State and more to Pitt and former coach Paul Christ.

If anything Urban Meyer will make schools step it up. If you pay 800k a year Minnesota for Jerry Kill you will get a 800k recruiting class and a bad team. Bret Bielema's direct quote was “We at the Big Ten don’t want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.” Bielema and anyone else who feels that way apparently doesn’t want to win championships then, because that is what the SEC does.

Don't worry, this isn't another column speculating / pleading with LeBron to come back to Believeland. "Come on home" is the phrase Charles Barkley uses to describe the act of shaving one's head to hide a receding hairline. And last night, the NBA on TNT crew spent a good portion of the Bulls - Knicks halftime show openly mocking LeBron James, and his gravity defying headband.

Naturally, leading the charge on the Choking One's receding hariline was none other than Chuck. The Not-So-Round Mound of Rebound had Kenny Smith, Ernie Johnson, Chris Webber, and Shaquille O'Neal rolling after he donned a headband to illustrate just how ineffectively King James was at covering up his balding scalp.

Things really get cranking around the :50 mark. At 1:28, Barkley breaks out the headband.

Each week during the rest of the NBA season, the guys will rank their top five teams. Hey, we have to find something to do now that football is winding down...

-by Scott Torgerson

The majority of NHL trade rumors online are BS but there is one floating out of Toronto that I find interesting. In the scenario I've heard, the Jackets would send Rick Nash and Kristian Huselius to Toronto for Mikhail Grabovski, Luke Schenn, Nazem Kadri and Mike Komisarek.

It has long been our contention that Super Bowl Media Day is worthless. Countless examples exist to prove this theory, but today's example comes from none other than former OSU lineman and current member of the New York Giants, Jim Cordle. Cordle was apaprently being taught how to salsa with some members of the gathered media in Indianapolis.Someone recorded it. The results are hillarious.

What has been seen cannot be unseen.

H/T to scoutingohio.com for the video.