Don Diego.
Diego Pavia is 5'10". He's an American, not a Mexican. He's from Albuquerque, NM. He's a 24 yr old undrafted free agent QB for the Baltimore Ravens (a lot like Craig James was an undrafted free agent).
CJK5H.
Diego sued the NCAA over the NCAA's counting of JUCO years against Div I eligibility, saying it violated federal antitrust law, etc. He won. He got a sixth season in 2025.
He considered suing the NCAA for a seventh year of eligibility until he was signed by the Ravens at a significant pay cut from what he was getting from Vanderbilt.
He got his start at the New Mexico Military Institute, a Junior College modeled after a Mexican super-max prison.
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He played 2 years at NMMI. He led the Broncos to the National Junior college championship against Iowa Western. New Mexico State U HC Jerry Kill and Tim Beck (a QB coach at NMState) were down to wherever they play the NJCChampionsip game recruiting a guy named Nate Glantz, the Iowa Western QB. They were, legend has it, watching the game on a TV, in a local Hooters restaurant and titty bar, when Pavia lit up Iowa Western for a 31 - 13 drubbing and a JUCO national championship. At which point Kill and Beck dumped Gantz and recruited Pavia to NMState U, in Div I, where he played the next two years before tranferring to Vanderbilt and the SEC. He made a pretty big splash there. For two more years. Impressive stats. Upsets. Highlight reels. Heisman finalist. Finished, I don't know, not first, okay?
"Fuck the (Heisman) voters!" (or something) was all he had to say. Which was kind of enough.
Went undrafted in April.
"Fuck the NFL!" (or something to that effect). "Gonna' sue the NCAA for a seventh year and get to know my grandkids. Adelante!"
But then, yes, the Ravens came through. Not a big surprise.
You can murder people and play for the Ravens (looking at you, Ray-ray).
So, I ask you.
Is Diego Pavia going to suck and disappear or is he going to make Hagerman Barracks at the New Mexico Military Institue proud?
36 more days.
Lorne Malvo
Commissioner for Life
He'll be more Johnny Manziel than Craig James (CJK5H). I had the pleasure of not watching any of Carmen Diego's games but seemed to have gleaned enough knowledge of him to know he'll be a locker room cancer - which probably ensures he shouldn't make if out of training camp. Oh he will, don't get me wrong. I don't think the Raves will cut him this year but he'll be gone not soon enough.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Johnny Manziel, the one game I watched of his featured this one play where Manziel did textbook everything wrong play: scrambled around for at least 10 seconds, barely escaping a 25 yard loss when a gassed lineman just fell down - and still nearly sacked him, then he chucks it up for grabs, throwing late over the middle - not a rope but a feeble arm punt, that should have been intercepted and returned for a touchdown, but the DB couldn't believe how easy this interception was going to be and kind of forgot to catch the ball. His wide receiver pulled it in and Verne "Can i get more player dicks in my mouth" Lundquist jizzed himself, gushing, "Oh my! There's your Heisman moment!" I'm like, huh? That was the stupidist play ever. I'm guessing Diego's play will be similar in teh NFL.
Johnny Football was also short. It's not difficult to imagine that what a man-whore like Verne Lundquist sees as a Heisman moment is, in reality, just a desperate effort to see what the hell is going on beyond the line of scrimmage. Diminutive Don Diego is giving up probably an average of 6 inches to all the big fuckers up front. If he and Johnny Coked-up don't scramble around like there's a red hot butt plug in the anus then, for them, throwing it downfield is like just lobbing one over a storage container from 10 feet away and hoping something good happens.
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