Matt Araiza AKA Punt God Needs To Be At The Top Of Every NFL Team's Big Board After He Launched 80 Yard Bombs At The Combine Along With His RIDICULOUS College Highlights And Stats
You guys know I'm serious when I use that gif
For as much as I love the NFL, I will admit that I'm about as casual a college football fan as there is at Barstool. I don't think Brandon Walker would assault me for my casual fandom stance, but he would definitely be disappointed. I loved college football as a kid but slowly fell out of it once I went to Siena College, which lost its college football team my sophomore year (even though it spawned the beautifully witty This Saint Fair campaign).
So please forgive my ignorance when it comes to Punt God hype. But those rockets landing inside the 5 are as much combine boner fuel to me as a 6'6", 341 pound superfreak running the 40 in 4.78 seconds since I consider Jeff Feagles to David Tyree to be a much better 1-2 combo in Giants history than Eli Manning to David Tyree, Helmet Catch be damned because games are won and lost on special teams so often. No this isn't a lesson that Coach Judge taught me while I ran a country mile for him every Sunday, even though I guarantee Judge would still be coaching the Giants if he had Punt God blast the football 80 yards on 3rd & 9 instead of running this abomination of a play.
Even if you don't get off on guys in their underwear doing combine workouts like 99% of NFL Twitter does, Punt God is still an absolute force, whether its pinning teams inside their 5 with rushers all up in his face.
Getting cocky and hitting goal posts during kickoffs because he can.
Greeting his worshipers since Punt God is a benevolent god.
Oh you want a good 40 time too? Well it turns out both of Punt God's legs were blessed by the Football Gods themselves after he outran big bad Jordan Davis by .06 seconds.
As for the stats, they are just as stupid as someone who got the nickname God for doing something really, really, ridiculously good.
Most importantly to those of us working for Barstool, the name Punt God alone makes him worthy of a first round pick simply due to all the t-shirts he could sell.
There is honestly a better than good chance the Pats draft Punt God because Bill Belichick appreciates special teams more than most, has had a hard-on for lefty punters forever, and doesn't give a fuck what anybody thinks of his draft picks. But if Joe Schoen can somehow deliver Punt God to Big Blue, I promise that I will never bitch and/or moan about him being Giants GM for his entire tenure.
Are we ending this blog with one of those highlight videos with crazy hype music that makes every college football player look like the greatest player to ever walk on the gridiron? You're goddamn right we are!