Okay, well my foot is in my mouth, and I have no problem taking it out of my mouth in front of the world or the several thousand fans that visit my website. Basically, I called Boise State a heartless team. I called them heartless, because I felt the team should have done something to Lagarrette Blount when he clocked their teammate. I mean they simply watched Blount swing, connect, back up, dare someone else to do something and he simply walked off the field scott free. My opinion hasn’t changed, I still think they should have done something, but that’s neither here nor there.
The matter at hand is this, to the 2009-2010 Boise State Bronco football team, I apologize for calling you heartless. You’ve always had my respect regardless of my remarks, but you gained even more of it with your play last night. You essentially clobbered a TCU team that everyone in America outside of Idaho expected to win. 17-10 doesn’t exactly sound like a clobbering, but given TCU’s athleticism, you all clobbered them. I still feel like TCU was the more athletic team, but Boise State hit them in the mouth, TCU tried to fight back, and Boise State just had more heart. You saw especially when the TCU offense and Boise State defense was on the field.
TCU’s offensive players were out of sink all game long. Their receivers were shook and dropping passes. Their offensive line was dominated and barely fought back. Andy Dalton rarely had anytime to throw. When he did have time to throw, his clear lack of arm strength showed. I had no clue how weak his arm was, and realized why people are so enamored with arm strength. If you can’t throw the deep out in the pros you are in trouble. Dalton can’t even throw the deep out at the college level. When Dalton was able to get the ball to this receivers they were covered and balls were broken up as well as the receiver’s morale.
The TCU defense didn’t back down, and virtually kept the prolific Boise State offense without a touchdown until the 4th quarter when Boise pulled another trick play in a BCS game. It was beautifully ran fake punt pass over the middle to the tight end. The momentum swing after that play killed the TCU defense for a brief moment and Boise got the go ahead score.
Bottom line, we all knew the TCU defense was going to come to play and they did. It was the much over hyped and newly invented TCU offense that everyone was praising. It seemed as if TCU wanted to out throw Boise State. Why would you want to out throw Boise State? You clearly have one of the best defenses in the nation and you throw the ball 44 times and run it only 8? I refuse to listen to “TCU couldn’t run the ball”. Running the ball is a “thing of will” from all people involved coaches included. Even if you are only getting two and three yards a clip, stick to the running game because your bigger and more athletic team will prevail. I feel like TCU panicked when Boise State’s defense fought back. Scratch that, not fought back, just bullied them took their lunch money and wasn’t given it back even if the principal told them too.
Boise State’s showed a lot of heart last night. More than TCU and more than I ever thought they had. I was wrong bottom line.
Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Here are my quick cuts and jukes from the holiday weekend…..
College
Yes, Colt McCoy did ball out against Texas A&M. Was that his “Heisman” game? No, it wasn’t. His tackle after his interception in the OU game was his “Heisman” moment if he wins the Heisman Trophy. I hope he doesn’t, I think Toby Gerhart or CJ Spiller is more deserving of the award.
Why can’t Texas A&M play every game like they did against Texas? It makes no sense, and don’t give me that rivalry game excuse bullshit. Rivalry games are based on pride, but isn’t every game? No excuses.
Auburn gave Bama everything they had. The better team won in the end, it also got exposed just in time for Florida to take notes going into this weekends SEC championship game. Also it helps that Florida virtually had a bye week this past weekend and Bama had to fight for their lives. Hope those bruises heal up quick for the Tide.
If Tony Pike doesn’t get hurt this season he wins the Heisman. 6TDs on Senior day. Anyone catch that one handed grab in the back of the end zone by Mardy Gilyard? Sick! On the other hand, I’ve never seen anyone fall harder than Juice Williams. What happened? No really, what happened with Juice over the past two seasons?
Nevada and Colin Kaepernick gave Boise St. all they could, but Boise St. is just the better team overall.
Backyard Brawl was a great game. Both Pitt and WVU played great, but as with all the rivalry games this weekend, the underdog prevailed. Noel Devine and Dion Lewis put on a freaking show!
Tim Tebow’s final home game. I didn’t tear up like the rest of the world, but I could feel the emotional moment. He never lost against FSU. Those new Nike Pro Combat uniforms were nice too (pics below).
I hope FSU doesn’t push out Bobby Bowden. The man has changed college football and has earned the right to leave on his own terms. Florida State! He helped make you who you are, you push him out and might very well face the curse of the Bowdeno. 62 years of losing ain’t cool.
I can’t wait to see TCU and Bama in the consolation championship game. Hope Bama learned their lesson from last year, those Mountain West conference teams come to play!
Rivalry weekend casualty #4, Georgia Bulldogs 30 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 24. I”m lost on these teams playing their hearts out for rivalry games. I mean, you should play like that every weekend!
unranked OU Sooners defeates #12 ranked OSU Cowboys. How? “rivalry weekend” (crock of shit? i wholeheartedly agree). It must also be known they shut out the Cowboys 27-0. BOOMER SOONER BABY!
Rivalry weekend was full fledged in the Carolinas. South Carolina upset Clemson and NC State upset UNC. Damn rivalry weekend. I don’t believe in it, but they make for good ass games especially during the holiday weekend.
The Holy War was just that. BYU’s, Max Hall, didn’t play a great game but when you toss the game winning touchdown in OT, nothing else really matters but the win. BYU 26 Utah 23.
The Battle for Los Angeles was normal. USC putting a beat down on UCLA. The funny and hypocritical thing was Pete Carroll calling a deep ball to Damien Williams after UCLA called a timeout when USC was trying to go into the victory formation. Pete was upset when Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh was running up the score on him, but he was doing the same thing to UCLA.
Oh Jevan Snead, Oh Jevan Snead. You made me look like an idiot. And to think I picked you for my dark horse Heisman candidate. Last year everyone wondered what would have happened if Snead stayed at Texas. Well buddy your making Mack Brown look like a genius for sticking with Colt. Ole Miss loses to Mississippi State in another rivalry game upset this weekend 41-27.
Bayou Bucket….Houston 73 to Rice’s 14 points. Ouch, Rice musta said something about somebody’s mama.
Best game of the college weekend was Notre Dame and Stanford. These two teams went back and forth. Michael Floyd who? It’s all about Golden Tate baby, that kid is a monster. Toby Gerhart needs to be in NYC for the Heisman. Oh well, at least Charlie Weis‘ last game was a thriller.
Here was the last installment of the Nike Pro Combat uniforms this weekend
Florida – “Finish the Mission”
Miami – “The U Knows”
LSU – “Cochon De Lait”
Texas – “Texas Fight/It Only Takes Eleven”
NFL
NFL Thanksgiving Day football….errr boring.
Charles Woodson, not Darren Sharper is the defensive player of the year. Hands down.
Of course the Cowboys looked good against the Raiders.
Darius Heyward-Bey caught his first touchdown pass of the year. I am not sure if we should be calling him out or calling out the Raiders quarterback play on Bey’s disappointing rookie season.
What has happened to the Giants….gahh lee.
Mattey Ice was ice cold at the end of the game yesterday to Roddy White to keep their playoff hopes alive.
Only in the NFL can a bottom cellar dweller of a team defeat a playoff team, i.e. Dolphins vs. Bills this weekend.
The Carolina Panthers want a quarterback for Christmas. Hell, I want one for them.
The Texans got on top of the Colts 17-0 yesterday. Why did the let off the gas. The started playing not to lose in the 2nd quarter, WTF! Well, you know what happens when you pussy foot with Peyton Manning, he wins, every single time leading his team to 28 unanswered points to win, 35-27. Colts are 10-0 and don’t look they are letting up anytime soon.
Brett Favre has 24 TDs and 3 Ints. Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.
Colin Cowherd isn’t buying any Vince Young stock, but I am. Matter of fact, I never sold any of my original stock, but I am buying some more. I”ve bought a little more each week and after that 99 yard drive, I’m stocking up for the winter so it can keep me warm.
Not sure what Hines Ward is talking about. Sure Ben Roethlisberger practiced all week long, because his injury heals overtime not overnight. So a smart team/coach/player will prepare for the best, which is for the doctors to deem Benny Roe good enough to play before the game. The doc didn’t do that so the Steelers rolled with Dennis Dixon. Hines might be tough, but if he keeps on being tough and plays with concussions he’ll be soft like the rest of the former NFL vegetable players. Hines Ward pulled a true T.O. He needs to go to his quarterback and apologize, point blank.
Yo what’s good. I’m going to run down a list of things that are still on my mind two days after the last week of football was played. Don’t worry next article will be about upcoming games this weekend.
First things is this, please get off of Bill Belichick’s back. He made the call point blank, bottom line. This man has three Super Bowl rings and should have had a fourth. He’s made countless risks before that have worked out just fine. In reality, he got a really bad spot. The only two bad decisions he made was calling a timeout before deciding to go for it on 4th and 2 giving the Colts a chance to get prepared for the play. The second mistake was not blitzing Peyton Manning after they didn’t get the didn’t get the conversion. I’d rather him blitz Manning and get burned early for the TD so they’ll have time to score rather than later with virtually no time left on the clock.
Maurice Jones-Drew’s coach influenced decision to not score the touchdown at the end of the game was a bad decision. They were down. Please stop saying it was a smart decision like Brian Westbrook made a few weeks ago. It was not, the Eagles were winning that game, the Jaguars were not winning. It is too big of a risk. The only reason Belichick gets a pass because he’s won three out of four Super Bowls in one decade.
Bob Stoops to Notre Dame? I don’t see it happening. I really don’t. He’s damn near a legend in Oklahoma. Granted, he’s not being fully appreciated as he once was, but he’s been in this position before in 2005 when they went 8-4. He’ll bounce back, I mean hell, look at all the injuries he’s had to deal with this season.
Now, these Mike Shanahan to the Chicago Bears rumors sound legit. They signed Jay Cutler to way too much money and gave up too much to get him last Summer, so Cutler is not going anywhere. Someone will be punished for all these loses the Bears are suffering. If it’s not the GM then it’s going to be head coach, Lovie Smith. Shanahan makes sense. Cutler played his best football for Shanahan in Denver last season throwing for over 4,500 yards and 25 TDs.
Why does this college football season suck so much? I knew something was up when highly touted true freshman Andre DeBose wasn’t going to play this year for Florida because of a hamstring injury, that was my omen. There are no clear cut stars. Jahvid Best was on his way, but his offensive line stopped blocking for him. Colt McCoy’s thrown too many interceptions. Jevan Snead is not who we thought he was. Tim Tebow has no one to throw the ball too. Jimmy Clausen plays for a Notre Dame team that has no defense, and Sam Bradford was done the first game. Cincinnati is undefeated and Mardy Gilyard is playing his ass off, why is he not getting any love. Yes C.J. Spiller is playing on a mediocre Clemson team, but he is by far the best player in the country and he should get some Heisman love as well. If only TCU or Boise State had a star, or Cincinnati marketing Mardy Gilyard.
LaGarrette Blount was reinstated to Oregon last week. Although he didn’t play, it was nice for his coach Chip Kelly to reinstate Blount. Now my confusion is this, Lane Kiffin boots Michael Edwards and Nu’Keese Richardson off the team for their role in an alleged attempted robbery with a pellet gun. It is similar to the Maurice Clarrett situation a few years back. Kelly didn’t ban Blount from the program and kick him off the team, he rehabilitated him. I wonder how Clarrett would have turned out if he had been given the opportunity to be rehabilitated and not left virtually naked in Columbus by Ohio State. I’m not condoning Clarrett’s actions, but you wonder how he would have turned out to be honest. I wonder what will happen with Richardson and Edwards. Both are only true freshman. Someone in the country will pick these two kids up. Kiffin’s reasons were that it would be hard for him to go into homes on recruiting trips and tell parents that their sons would be safe at Tennessee when he has players on the team robbing people. It is a very true statement from Kiffin, but I wonder what the coach that signs these two kids will say when he visits potential recruits. Do these kids get any slack for it only being a pellet gun? I’m not saying give them any, I’m just wondering because I am not a lawyer. Anyway, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what you think.
Last thing on my mind is the BCS rankings. Are they even necessary. BCS comes out in Week 7. I think we should push it back to Week 9, and start letting the AP and Coaches start voting at week 6. It usually takes about six weeks for a team’s true character to show. We can’t do away with the BCS anytime soon, so why not control the most important thing which is the rankings. Where a team starts in the preseason rankings is the most vital component of the BCS rankings if you ask me. Let’s be honest, say TCU didn’t start out #17 in the preseason polls, and they were not going to be ranked until week 6, I am positive that some voter would rank TCU better than Florida right now. Honestly, the BCS doesn’t screw teams, (please don’t say Texas got screwed by the BCS, Texas got screwed by its own conference three way division tie breaker rules) the voters and polls screw teams. So we might as well do away with the polls until mid-season. Sound good? Great. Thanks for listening.
“Enjoy each week of football as if it were you last.” – 6Magazine
Best Games
Texans vs. Titans
Hands down this was the best game of the NFL games yesterday. I’ll have people lobbying for the Giants vs. Cowboys, but it didn’t even come close to this game at all. The teams traded highlights like Jordan and ‘Nique in the ‘88 dunk contest. The Johnson brothers put on a show. Chris Johnson is making a claim to be known as the best running back in the league. “Every Coach’s Dream” had a record setting day and could not be stopped. In a losing effort, Johnson amassed 197 yards rushing on 16 carries and 2 tds, and 9 catches for 87 yards and another td catch. In all, Every Coach’s Dream had 284 all-purpose yards and 3 tds ranging from 57 yards, 69 yards, and 91 yards.
The Titans bottled second year budding star tailback, Steve Slaton, for just 34 yards on 17 carries. I’m guessing the Titans were thinking, we’ll stop Slaton and make QB Matt Schaub beat us since Schaub’s two wideouts, Kevin Walter and Andre Davis were held out of the game with injuries. The connection of Matt Schaub and Andre Johnson single handedly kept the Texans on the right side of the scoreboard. Schaub threw for 357 yards and 4tds. Two of the td strikes went to Andre “Rodney Dangerfield” Johnson, who grabbed 10 balls for 149 yards.
The two squads were barking at each other all game long and even got into a scrap which led to DT, Jason Jones of the Titans, being ejected. This game went back and forth and had 3 great performances and will easily be one of top games of 2009.
Boise State vs. Fresno State
Pat Hill and his anytime, anywhere team played the No. 10 Boise State “Heartless” Broncos. As you can tell, I’m a sucker for shootouts and this was certainly one of them. Fresno State, running back, Ryan Matthews ran his ass off with 234 yards on 19 carries and 3tds. In most games, Matthew’s performance, would have been enough, but not today. Boise State put up 51 points and were led by their talented running back duo of Jeremy Avery and Titus Young. The pair put up 356 all-purpose yards and 3 tds. But in the end, the Bronco defense was able to hold off the Fresno State defense just enough to keep their Bronco’s in front for the win.
Quick Cuts and Jukes
Can someone throw Jacory Harris into the Heisman race please.
Fresno State might have lost, but Ryan Matthews goes hard.
Tennessee’s defense is really good. Their team reminds me of the Baltimore Ravens pre- Joe Flacco days.
Texas Tech isn’t bad at all, and if they win a major bowl game, Leach needs to get Coach of the Year.
Washington beating USC isn’t a surprise. USC is on the rebound this year, and they always lose to an unranked Pac-10 opponent early in the season, duh!
Jake Locker is the Tim Tebow of the West.
There’s no way that was the same BYU team that beat OU on Saturday.
Either Cal is beginning their mid-season brain fart or Minnesota is not that bad.
Imagine if the Hokies opened up the playbook and let Tyrod Taylor play like he did in the final minutes against the Cornhuskers.
Where was “this” Cedric Benson in Chicago?
Drew Brees will break the single season td pass record.
The Rams and Skins should be kicked out of the NFL.
It’s something about the Patriots that’s missing.
Darrelle Revis has shut down Andre Johnson and Randy Moss in back to back weeks.
Did the Steelers lose the game or did the Bears win it.
I can put money on it T.O. had grin the size of Brazil on his face when the Boys lost.
Ray Lewis hit Darren Sproles so hard that, all of Sproles tattoos came off.
