We can't joke about Urban Meyer, anymore. All his drama queen antics in the late years at Florida, his *chest pains,* the retirement, the cold pizza bit. . .it was fun kicking him when he was down. . .but he ain't down, no more. He brought the Buckeyes out of nowhere, and completed an amazing three game run to win the National Title. . .with a third string QB, no less.
Ohio State crushed Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon, and left absolutely no doubt (if we kinda forget about TCU) who is the King of College Football.
The Buckeyes trashed Oregon. They beat them by 22. . .and if they hadn't turned the ball over 4 times, could have beat them by 42. It was no contest. The Buckeyes simple run game obliterated the Oregon defense. Ezekiel Elliott probably had harder practices leading up to the title game than the game itself.
While Alabama (and the whole SEC) and Nick Saban are in decline, Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes still haven't peaked. That's right, the Buckeyes will be even better next season. Only TCU looks like a possible challenger.
Urban Meyer back on top as the best football coach, pro or college. . .
Now about that third string QB, Cardale Jones. This guy is the ultimate negro monster QB. He could slap Lawrence Taylor to the ground, and then throw an 80 yard TD bomb. And now after playing just 3 games, he could opt for the NFL draft. Would he be any good? Is he just another Daunte Culpepper? I don't know. We won't find out about him in the college game. He can't be challenged on that level. He made Oregon, Alabama and Wisconsin look like girl's teams. He's certainly worth drafting, though. Unlike the midget, Jones has all the tools. Hell, I'd like to see the Lions take him, let him sit behind Stafford until Stafford's contract is up, and then see what he can do.
As for Marcus Mariotta, if I was a Tampa fan (or a Jets or Bills fan), I'd be praying my team don't take him. Mariotta is not a *franchise QB.* Mariotta is a Seahawks QB. . .
The Big 10 is set for some huge success next year. Ohio won the national championship and Harbaugh is HC at Michigan.
ReplyDeleteNow watch Nick Saban whine about how teams over-sign players. . . .
After missing out on Ryan, looks like the Falcons are going to do the right thing, and pass on the negro coordinators, and hold out for Quinn from Seattle. If he can find a reasonable facsimile of Lynch for the Falcons, he can turn Atlanta into Seattle South.
ReplyDeleteGreen Bay +7 at Seattle: Rodgers is too gimpy to beat Seattle by himself, and the Packers won't be able to stop the Seahawks run offense. I'll be shocked if the Packers lose by less than 14. SEATTLE.
ReplyDeleteIndianapolis +6.5 at New England: This should be an even bigger blowout. Long day of boring football while we wait for the greatest Super Bowl ever. NEW ENGLAND.
I've got Seattle over GB. Will be rooting for GB.
ReplyDeleteI've got NE winning the game but take Indy on pts.
Coaching gets the Pats through.
Russell Wilson is what we thought he was. . .
ReplyDeleteMan, I fell asleep in the middle of the game, woke up to what looked like a walk in the park for GB and then things changed.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how Seattle won. . .missed the last 3 quarters.
ReplyDeleteSome guy named Bostick needs to be put on suicide watch.
ReplyDeleteI just watched the Bostick video. . .poor bastard. That's all he'll ever be remembered for. Looks like it turned out to be a pretty good game, huh? Did Wilson finally do something? He was terrible early.
ReplyDeleteWilson came around in ot when it counted.
ReplyDeleteNE destroying Indy. Wow.
NE and Seattle. I pick NE by 13.
Something in my head I can't shake is how Belichick kept Brady in game as long as he did. NE was up by 28 or so and he still had Brady throwing down field. Brady took a hit after one of the passes and nearly tweaked a leg.
ReplyDeleteIf Brady got hurt, we'd be talking about Belichick in a very different way.
Yup. . .we were talking about that at the jail. . .stupid. . .no sense to it.
ReplyDeleteNew England definitely looked better than Seattle yesterday, but they were playing a real lightweight. . .the early part of the Seattle game, which was all I saw, Wilson looked horrible, so it's hard to pick him in the Super Bowl. . .but I believe Seattle is the better team. They can run the ball, and New England's defense had trouble with the Ravens run game. . .should be the greatest Super Bowl ever. . .what a match-up of coaches. . .if Carroll can beat Brady with Russell Wilson, I'll have to give him the nod as the best coach in the League.
Now the talk is about deflated balls. I've played football in the cold and the balls lose "air." They get flatter due to being inflated inside a heated building, where it's warm, and go outside and see some play.
ReplyDeleteThere is a contingent, and I don't really care about the Pats but am not in the anti-Pats camp, that is hellbent on picking them apart on little technicalities as if it explains an ass kicking.
All that said, I keep two footballs around. One an NFL reg ball and the other an NCAA reg ball. I prefer the NCAA football with a little give. It's a little bit "rounder" and shorter than the NFL ball. NFL balls are a little skinnier and longer.
ReplyDeleteI like the NFL ball inflated well so it can't be noticeably squeezed.
Either way, I don't see the balls being a factor in that ass kicking. It could explain maybe a TD. Hell, even two. Still, the Colts got slaughtered.
Yeah, this deflate-gate is absurd. How does the deflated ball make the Colts afraid to tackle Blount? When they can explain that, then maybe I'll take it serioulsy. . .
ReplyDeleteSome defensive player for the Colts (forget who specifically) said something like "the Pats could have played with soap-balls and we would have gotten trounced."
ReplyDeleteI almost wonder if this is some kind of psychological warfare by Belechick to make the other team think of little things like stealing signs or deflating balls while not concentrating on solid tackling, coverage assignments and the like.
Way back in baseball, Pete Rose brought Japanese baseballs to batting practice for the All Star game. The Japanese balls travel a little further apparently. He wanted the AL to see the NL batters hitting them out of the park before the real game to psyche them out.
The NL won that year.
"Pey-ton you should hang it up" - done to that cheesy insurance commercial Manning does.
ReplyDeletehttp://sports.cbslocal.com/2015/01/14/peyton-manning-career-over-broncos/
Manning's arm strength did look horrible. He was floating them out there. It's funny, Favre's arm strength never seemed to wane and he did that with a smaller body. Tarkenton, too.
I do have a theory. Guys around 6 feet tall tend to wear better. Nolan Ryan did it, so did Tom Seaver. They weren't huge guys but maintained their arms fairly well, Ryan really maintaining his arm well. Remember Tom Gordon, that little black guy pitcher? He was maybe 5'9" and kept his arm up very well.
I think the bigger guys don't always have the best mechanics or maybe, like big dogs, break down as time goes on faster.
Peyton at 6'5" or whatever. . . . I swear it's played a part.
Looks like Josh Gordon failed a drug test. . .gonna get banned again. Also been reading more shit about what a cancer the midget is. Browns stuck with two lemons. . .
ReplyDeleteGordon had booze in his system. I don't know how long booze is supposed to be in the system, but I'd say if you take a three day break from booze, it's out of your system.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fuck up.
Manlet is reportedly a major problem in Cleveland. He doesn't know the playbook for shit, doesn't practice hard, parties at night. We've got another Jamarcus Dipshit on our hands.
Let down of the football season. The Stupor Bowel.
ReplyDeleteI still have NE.
I'm actually looking forward to the halftime show, see what the preacher's daughter springs on us. . .gotta to be a little witchy, and a little slutty.
ReplyDeleteAh, shit, they just brought some faggot in. . .I'll probably miss the halftime show.
ReplyDeleteDamn, that chick is fat! I thought she was supposed to be hot. . .
ReplyDeleteHa. . .this faggot just told me his dad beats him up all the time, and he never calls the police, and this one time he fights back, he ends up in jail. The gay man's burden. . .
ReplyDeleteThat nickel-and-dime offense for New England has no chance of making a comeback. . .
ReplyDeleteGame finally got interesting. . .
ReplyDeleteHa. . .Carroll is gonna regret for years and years not giving the ball to Lynch on the goal line. . .stupid. Whoever the OC is, dumb fucking call. Lost the super bowl. No way the Patriots can keep Lynch outta the end zone.
ReplyDeleteTerrible call after excellent clock management. Strange shit.
ReplyDeleteEven at that, Wilson had to luck his way close to the end zone.
The Falcons can hire a coach now. . .
ReplyDeleteQUOTE: Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell says he made the play call that may have ultimately cost his team the Super Bowl with the game clock in mind.
ReplyDeleteThe Seahawks had second-and-goal at the New England 1 with 26 second to go Sunday, but instead of giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch, Seattle ran a slant route intended for Ricardo Lockette that was intercepted by Malcolm Butler in the 28-24 loss to the New England Patriots. "We were conscious of how much time was on the clock and we wanted to use it all," Bevell said. "It didn't turn out the way I hoped it would.END QUOTE
Huh?!?! Does that make any fucking sense? You want to use all the clock, so you call a pass??? Stupid.
This was my perspective before that quote but also may be plausible because OC's say shit just to say shit, particularly after a difficult loss.
ReplyDeleteI think the Hawks may have thought the Pats were looking for the run. They had something like 25 seconds left with two time outs. Pass the ball to catch them with their pants down.
If it worked, the headlines would be about how "outside the box" the Hawks coaches think, how it was genius, etc.
Some context: The Hawks should not have been at the goalline in the first place. That was a lucky catch - something the Hawks need to win. They need luck. They lucked into the SB.
They also should have gotten a roughing the kicker in the first quarter instead of running into the kicker. We can talk about pass interference, but all the rules there are vaguely interpreted. But one thing that is not vague is running into the plant foot of the kicker. That is a 15 yard penalty. No maybe about it. There is no such applied rule to pass interference (something the Hawks do more than any other NFL team but they change the psychology of the refs by continuously pushing the boundaries and exploiting the psychology on big games).
Back to the call. It was a simple pass. A little short slant. If it's incomplete, that's essentially a TO. Then run. The Hawks could plausibly think they didn't want to be forced into a 4th and goal pass situation after Lynch got stuffed at the line.
Do I think Lynch would have gotten stuffed three times? No. Do I think the clock would have run out after runs? No, not with two TO's. Do I think they should have put the game in Lynch's hands? Yes.
Seattle erred in putting the game in Wilson's hands. He's not that great. Plus, the Pats D was obviously gassing and Lynch was looking strong, imposing his will and falling forward.
Was it a bad call? It depends on the result. The result here was a game ending INT, so it was a bad call.
Had it been an incompletion, it would have been "trickery attempted." A TD? "Genius."
It reminds me of a Belechick 4th and nothing decision to go for the first down a few years back. He was ripped for it. Because it failed.
It was a good call. The Pats D was on its heels. It was get the first or go home time.
Winners in the Hawks decision to pass is obviously the SB win for the Pats, but also to take some air out of the deflate "gate" horseshit.
Deflate "gate" - evidence that social media has dumbed down people even more than before. The media is now driven by "clicks", "tweets", and "wall posts."
Stupid.
In short, the Pats got exactly what they wanted. The Seahawks to put the game in Wilson's hands.
ReplyDeleteHe's not that QB.
Rodgers? Yes. Brady? Yes. But not Wilson.
I like all this shit about the Seahawks wanting Wilson to be the hero, not Lynch. . .ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteAbsolute WORST commentary on the dumb Seahawks goal line pass/not run call:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O84Yl-wldpw
Can't stand these smug *9/11* priests. ..
Ugh. Of course these guys had to bring in a controversial subject matter into a conversation about the SB. . . . . . bizarre.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck happened to a football game being a football game?
I don't see any grand conspiracy with the play call. It was a play call that wound up being the wrong one. How many bad play calls turn good?
Also, the Hawks had one TO, not two as I stated above. . . .
I like what Marshawn Lynch said about the play call. Something along the lines of "It was the call to make, this is a team game. . . . " Something like that.
It still doesn't compare, in my eyes, to the SB loss Philly suffered, not running hurry-up, and all that. Forget which SB it was but McNabb was the QB.
That was some piss poor coaching.
Say this about the call, whether it was Carrol or the OC, it wasn't pussy football. They went for the win at least.
ReplyDeleteIs it the call I'd make? Probably not. I would have called Lynch up the middle, but that is not a forgone conclusion that he's in the endzone. I read somewhere that Lynch was 1 for 7 in pounding it in from the goalline. I don't know how true that is, though.
But I would have tried Lynch and have the TO ready and THEN tried a pass. But that's me Monday morning quarterbacking from the comfort of a chair, not under huge pressure to make a playcall, etc.
Man, of all the shitty new technology and info, particularly FB, Youtube is a major winner.
ReplyDeleteHere is the 1983 SB. . . . I'll try to look at it later tonight. Looks pretty awesome.