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It was a good call.

Huh, Hughes needs to stick that in.

that's 3 drives in a row where Tennessee should've at least had field goals and came away with nothing. Sometimes you have to know when you're beat Lane and call something on 3rd and long to get some yardage. Although that was a horrible kick.

lol

They'll screw it up somehow.

I understand Tennessee needs to attack deep and was setting up a play action but I'm not sure a wheel route to the fullback is the right call there. And then you take a 10+ yard sack on the next play. Nice drive implosion, there.

Alabama should just go to the Dolphins offense full time. Get one or two plays in there to toss it to Jones. If McElroy doesn't touch the ball they may be unbeatable.

The problem is that they're giving up FGs. I don't see them putting many TDs on the board against Bama. They'd be in good shape if they just took away the dump off to Jones (the only pass McElroy is capable of completing) and stopped kicking it off to the 15-20 yard line.

I'm finding Game 6 of the 93 Finals on ESPN Classic much more enticing than the college football games on right now.

I actually would liken Bradford to Sanchez. Both are cerebral QBs who don't have great arms but came up in elite BCS programs. Mallett likely wouldn't have the quick success Flacco did, but those seem like good comparisons. How about Romo as a comp for Locker? Or a better version of Romo? Or maybe McNabb? Jake Locker is like Randall Cunningham without quite the same amount of escapability. He's probably faster in a straight line than Cunningham was. Both have huge arms.

Deadspin is probably planting attractive women to show up at stops on Bill Simmons' book tour hoping to get him embroiled in a public sex scandal. It's their dream scoop.

His TD:INT ratio is still a bit of a downer to me, but he's improved his completion percentage each year (47.3 to 53.8 to 57.2) and his rating has improved each year as well. His TD:INT this year is just 11:6, though, which is much better than two years ago (14:15). He has a prototypical NFL build with a strong arm and good mobility and I think some teams will fall in love with that. The scouts have to love that he plays in a pro style offense. Imagine if he were on Tennessee with actual weapons playing in the same system he is at UW, he'd be an unquestioned top prospect. The only reason he isn't a superstar is because of Willingham. Bad QB coaching combined with pretty dreadful talent around him. He really is the best athlete I've seen at QB whose throwing motion isn't all jacked up like VYs.

If everybody else is covering it it's kind of strange for the world wide leader to not cover it. Well they don't have the excuse of Steve Phillips being a participant on Shaq Versus this time.

Locker has really shot up. Is he really the top draft eligible quarterback though? Another year of coaching and separation from Willingham's poisonous influence could do him wonders.

Grit & Heart is meph? I might have suspected that a few weeks ago but I never thought about it much. G&H is a lot less petulant, that's for sure.

How did you glean that the SEC has a tougher non-conference OOC than those two conferences? I'd like to see those numbers. Does that include FCS opponents as well? Also, the SEC honks are usually the ones proclaiming that they're far and away the best conference so I think it would be incumbent on them to prove that their quarterbacks aren't total crap (which they are).

easy there captain hyperbole, all he said was that it would be a coin flip and laid out his reasons why. If SEC don't have good QB's this year, they DEFINITELY have good defenses. It's amazing how nutty SEC fans are about keeping up appearances. If you can actually sit down and watch LSU, UGA, UT, Ole Miss, S. Carolina, etc. and tell me that isn't garbage quarterback play you're completely delusional. Those guys are awful.

Iowa's a TD favorite over all of those teams except Arkansas maybe.

I normally like to rag on the Big 10 but any SEC honk that is going on about conference superiority this year is fooling themselves. The quarterback play in the SEC is unbelievably god awful. No way that they're blowing most conferences out of the water when the QBs suck that much.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/preview2009/news/story?page=Predictions0910-Bulls Most see the Bulls in the 5-7 range. Nothing surprising there. Jalen Rose is a fan.

Jay Glazer is the NFL's version of the over caffinated liquer sales rep who annoys the piss out of people during happy hour.

How is it a competitive advantage to tell the Vols they can't wear orange?

That's from Shoot 'Em Up.

Brady's 2007 was a historically great season. Anybody who expected him to repeat that is an idiot. He's also coming back from a knee injury and before the first game of this year, hadn't played in a real game (not preseason) since the Super Bowl loss to the Giants. The odds of him stepping back in and throwing for 300 yards and three TD's week in and week out right away were slim. Teams had already started to adjust to Brady in the 2007 season (e.g. the playoffs). It's not a knock on him it's just that teams learn how to defend things that terrorize the league. Now Orton is nowhere near the caliber of QB that Brady is but he'll fall from this level of performance. He's simply not that good a quarterback to maintain a 100+ passer rating. Remember when Grossman was lighting up the league in the first half of 2006? Orton has a much better cast around him now but he'll slip. So far the only game he's had to play catch up in was a miraculous fluke. His team simply hasn't given up points in the 2nd half of games this year and is denying an ungodly amount of 3rd down conversions. That stuff isn't sustainable. At some point Orton will have to perform coming from behind or will meet a team that can force him to attack downfield for an entire game. Denver could scrape by because of their D and running game but he's still not going to WIN the game for you in that situation. I guess my point is that Denver hasn't been in a situation where they absolutely had to be explosive in the passing game.