Pro Football
- It's only 4 games now but something is truly amiss with the Colts. I can't put my finger on if it's an over-reaction to their second in division loss or to the continuing struggles of the defense or what...but they don't seem like the Colts who's biggest regular season issue has been when to sit it's veterans.
- I have to admit being very impressed by Sam Bradford. I'd like to say rookie QBs struggle but there's been now a rash of starters that result in immediate improvements for the team. It's not surprising as it's ultimately a QB league hence good QB play is the difference between winning and losing but for a QB that sat out last year with injury very impressive first few games for Bradford....
- On the other hand in limited opportunity a very disappointing job by Kevin Kolb. Kolb seems unwilling or unable to stretch the field, seems unable to read defenses, and slow on the trigger. Perhaps Philly can fleece someone to take Kolb (I assume it'll be the Browns) but at this stage Kolb does not look a starter.....
College Football
- I suppose like most of American society these days increasing returns dominates College Football. The top programs are miles above their peers. Alabama appears to have turned the vaunted SEC into its playground. In the past 2 games Alabama has beaten Florida 63-19. It has won 27 straight SEC regular season games. In a rebuilding defensive year for 'Bama (8 new starters) Alabama simply throttled Florida and turned Meyer's program into a question mark.
- Speaking of changing of the guard...Stanford and Oregon vied for the spot USC formerly claimed...King of the Pac 10. While Stanford led 21-3, Oregon eventually wore down Stanford outscoring them 49-10 over the final 3 quarters (including blanking the Trees
in the 2nd half). Last year Oregon stumbled after a huge win over USC, so it remains to be seen if they can avoid the letdown but you can see the ESPN hype machine revving up for Saban v. Oregon's offense. Oregon already leap frogged Boise so all that stands in ESPN's way are the Buckeyes (and those pesky remaining games) - With the Big 10 as deep as it is has been in years, the most significant development for the Big 10 was the quad injury to TP. tOSU's offense has evolved to join the spread age - which means QB reliant. Not just centric but reliant as in without a running QB...the tOSU offense is dead in the water. Quad's are like hamstrings in that they are typically lingering debilitating injuries. So TP can play but if the injury doesn't heal it's very unlikely tOSU can make a championship run......
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Before I make a comment, I have to put a disclaimer. I know that Michigan has played St. Marys School for the Blind so far, but we have to give an amazing amount of credit to the one man offense machine, Denard Robinson. Of course watching UM's defense play is like watching a Tecmo Bowl game against Bo Jackson or Barry Sanders but still IF he stays healthy and if he puts up half the numbers he is averaging, he is on pace to easily win the Heisman. Leading the league in Rushing, while having a 180 passer rating, with 1000 yards passing, just is unbelievable. He already has 2 games where he has run for 200 yards and passed for 200 yards, and he still has 7 more games to go. Vince Young is the only other player to have two games, and that was the total. Who knows what will be in store for this kid in the future, but I have certainly been enjoying watching one of the most electrifying players in the past 10 years of college football play the past 5 games.
Robinson's current pace of 2,000 yards rushing and 2,000 passing is frankly amazing regardless of competition. While comparison's to White are out there the better comparison is RichRod's first star QB Danzler (out of Clemson) who ran 22-25 odd times. I'm very much looking forward to seeing how he does against MSU and Iowa....
My big question is whether or not he is going to break down. That speed of an offense has gotta play a toll on him. I would imagine that teams in the Big 10 will start putting more guys in the box to stop the run, which will open up passing, which Denard has shown a capability for. They have both MSU and Iowa at home, so we shall see what happens. The good news for UM fans is that barring some catasphoric collapse (ie what happened last year), especially with games against IL and Purdue, they should be going to some bowl game for the first time in two years.
1) Denard's numbers have been fantastic... so I'm just really curious what will happen against some tougher Big 10 defenses. and Michigan State doesn't really have a good defense, but this week's game is suddenly the biggest Michigan-Mich St game in a long time.
2) The Colts pass defense has just been poor. I'm not sure what's happening.
3) Sam Bradford has been fantastic. For a team widely expected to scratch to a 1-15 season, to be 2-2 is quite an accomplishment! Let's not forget that their most well-known WR also suffered a season-ending injury, so they just traded for Baltimore's 6th WR (Mark clayton) who is suddenly the Rams' 1st WR. Amazing stuff.
4) Kolb's looked awful. Not sure why he kept checking down to the RB every play this weekend unless he has just been on a bender since getting demoted. Let's see if he starts this week.
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