Desean Jackson whups on Owen Schmitt...in NCAA 09

Last week I covered the news of Desean Jackson breaking onto the cover of the Playstation 2 version of NCAA Football 09. (For the record, yes I think a boatload of people will still end up buying the PS2 version. Look at the numbers folks...).

Well I stumbled across a fun video (albeit not the best quality as the footage is filmed off-screen) of Desean Jackson taking on Owen Schmitt, the fullback out of West Virginia who has bragging rights as the PSP cover star. Well that's about where the bragging stops, because our boy Desean whupped on Schmitty based on the footage. Now if it were a bench pressing contest...or twinkie-thon, Owen might have the edge.


NCAA Football 09 Owen Schmitt vs DeSean Jackson from Operation Sports on Vimeo.

After watching the footage, there were a lot of interesting takeaways:

• We got to see more footage of the new supposed Cal jersey designs that were revealed last week. What was even more interesting was that the golden yellow uniforms were shown as Cal's home gear. Sweetness. I've been waiting to see those in NCAA Football for a while now, and they look pretty good. We'll have to wait and see whether they're considered alternate jerseys, or if a blue version of the unis will pop up as Cal's home gear.

• Desean Jackson is pretty good at the game. You could tell he's been playing past iterations of either NCAA or Madden for a while now. And, is it sad that I recognized most of the plays he was calling?

• WVU fans will be quick to point out that Schmitt was probably spending more time in the weight room or perfecting his skills than getting good at some video game. And they're probably very correct. Schmitt's a freaking man. But he still sucks at that game.

• Not only is Nate Longshore the starter. But he's a freaking star player. I kid in how much worth put into that though. I mean c'mon. At this point if you were EA, and were considering the situation from a non Cal fan standpoint, working with a time crunch, why would you not have Nate be the starter in the game? The guy's won the starting job three years in row and is a going to be a Redshirt Senior. Oh, and no one watched the Armed Forces Bowl.
  

• Oh and speaking of Nate, apparently suffering two leg injuries in the last three years boosts your speed rating in the game, because they've given him a set of wheels in this year's version. Seriously, the guy looks like Noel Devine there in the pocket running around. I remember running the option with him in last year's version of the game was essentially using him to get clobbered by the LB before dumping it off to Forsett at the last possible second. This year, it looks like Nate's going to go all Pat White on us.

(The Real White Michael Vick baby)

• James Montgomery is listed as our starting running back. As a reminder, the guy's no longer on the team. He hasn't been since early March. I know EA's rushed for deadlines, and this version of the game is probably weeks old at this point, but man, it'd be awkward playing the game this fall with him still as our starting back.

• Apparently the folks at EA heard about Syd'Quan Thompson intercepting a pass pretty much every practice in Spring Ball and amped him up as well. The guy had two picks in the video from what I saw. Oh and Owen Schmitt sucks at the game. Have I mentioned that already?
  

• Favorite part of the video? When Desean caught a long bomb and instead of running for the 3rd straight TD to make it a 3 score game, decided to run backwards and across the field to a) show some mercy b) show he was just playing with Owen at that point and c) flaunt like Desean knows how to do. My guess is that wasn't the first time Desean pulled that on someone.
  

Fun stuff.