NFL
With the Saints torching of the Giants it's looking Brees and Co are best in the NFL. Unless you look slightly North at the Vikings or south to Atlanta. While its too early I will note that at the moment one superficial similiarity is that they are all dome teams - which might make it easier come playoff time for each as they can avoid the cold weather.
Drew Brees will take your pie
Lost in the Favre knob slobbing of the Vikings victory over the Ravens is the fact that both of these teams were considered to have good or at least competent defenses and yet both were scorched. Its hard to find any dominating defenses this year while the ranks of the best of the NFL are all offensive juggernauts. It might be that at least for this year, offense will win a championship.
With the Redskins loss to KC today I think we can safely say that Jim Zorn will be fired and another QB will be brought in to be sacrificed on the alter of Dan Snyder. While that's not surprising it is surprising how bad the bad teams QB play has been. Last year we can put the mendoza line of horrific QB play with Russel and his 77 QB rating. This year according to ESPN there have been at least 13 QBs who started at least 2 games with lower QB ratings. That's unwatchably bad.
There's a lot of fail in the NFL this year
College Football
With Texas' victory over OU it's looking save for the scrubs of the Big 12 (read nobody) Texas can waltz into Mythical Championship. It's hard to look at the sloppy (8 turnovers between the two) skin of their teeth win over a decimated OU squad and say with a straight face...yes Texas definitively looks the part of the best team in nation. However Texas is a prime example of why it doesn't pay to have a tough non-conference schedule if your considered a great program. The advantages of being a good team simply don't outweigh the risks of losing to actual nonconference hence why the trend has been for easier and easier schedules. It's hard to tell a program play tougher games and then reward Texas or Penn State with BCS bids.
For those wondering why I hadn't placed tOSU in a BCS bowl - Purdue was a prime example. Despite having a stellar defense, I had believed that tOSU's anemiac offense would evantually lead them to blow a game...it was simply a matter of time. While Pryor is an amazing athlete, he is a terrible QB. From decisions, to basic fundamental footwork, to arm strength, Pryor is simply a faster version of Juice Williams. This is not to excuse for the coaching staff...Senator Tressel was a great coach. However, unlike twinkees, college coaching staff's have shelf lifes. No different than what happened to Lloyd Carr, Phil Fulmore or Tommy Tuberville, or Mark Richt the game has passed Tressel and his offensive staff by. It remains to be seen if Tressel can change his staff to reverse the decline as JoePa did a number of years ago.
The Big 10 suckitude makes Mighty a sad panda
This is more of a site update but with about 1 week to go before the regular season look for Gutsy to continue his NBA preview. Of particular note begin the criticisms for what he does with Ok City Thunder. A team I don't have a clue what they'll do ....but I am interested
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