SpongeWorthy

Mustain has to be able to play better than this.

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Yeah, the continuous catch stuff is getting a little ridiculous.

STOP FUMBLING THE [expletive] BALL [expletive]

Not with Corp at QB. The WR group is pretty middling with RoJo out.

Horrible clock management by SC to end the half.

Worst roughing the QB call I've ever seen.

UT is just brutal in the red zone.

Eric Berry is a stud.

There's way too many games I want to watch going on right now.

How will Tedford ignore Best on this drive?

Cal cracking under the pressure of being a top 10 team against an inferior opponent? SHOCKING.

Well I've heard ND fans think Kelly isn't big enough of a name and that they'd prefer Gruden, Shanahan, or Cowher. My perspective is that Kelly will be about as big a name as Meyer was after he had that undefeated year at Utah and that I couldn't envision Shanahan or Cowher putting up with college football, especially recruiting. I could see Gruden at ND though.

I was just having a discussion about what coaches will be at the top of the wish list for big programs this coming offseason. I'm going to rule out the pipe dream guys which would be your Super Bowl winning head coaches (Shanahan, Cowher, Gruden, etc.) and the established guys at powerhouses (Carroll, Meyer, Stoops, Tressel, Saban, etc). I'm thinking Kelly, Petersen, and Mendenhall are probably at the top. And then I'd say guys like Leach or Tedford if they wanted to step up to a mega program.

Myles Brand is dead: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4478889

I was complaining about Cutler too. He blew.

Not a bad thought? It most certainly is a bad thought. The long snapper has no business counting bodies on the field. His job is to snap the ball to the kicker. Period. Any coach that gives a long snapper the power of decision making like a fake punt on their own 26 yard line should be fired immediately. And I'd still be pissed about that call even if there were 12 people on the field. The stunned look of our defensive players after that stupid play said all their really needed to be said about it. Here they are busting a hump to keep the team in the game even though the offense has turned the ball over 3 times, and you are giving the other team possession of the ball at the 30 yard line? You're right. It's not a bad thought. It's a horrendously horrible thought. I'd rather see WR's lining up offsides (Bennett) than watch long snappers trying their best to act like the special teams coach. Hmm, I think your conviction has swayed me on this topic. It was a dumb thought, especially in that situation. I guess I was thinking that Mannelly has seen literally thousands of punt formations in his career and knows almost implicitly when there are too many men on the field (kind of like the math genius who can look at a group of objects and know how many there are without counting). I would qualify what I said and say it's not a bad thought all of the time. If it worked in a 4th and less than 5 situation at a better position on the field we'd all be saying what a great move by Mannelly it was.

Delhomme should replace Jeter in the Tiger/Federer/Jeter Gillette commercials.

The bitter USC histrionics from a few pages back on this thread are pretty funny.

Yes....but Mannelly's thought was "free play"...see what the direct snap can do...and if nothing else, you can punt on after the 12 man penalty. I see what you're saying. It's not a bad thought but its one of those plays where you better make damn sure that you're going to get it in on time. Hawk was well off the field by the time of the snap.

12 men on the field is only a 5 yard penalty and not an auto first down right? Seems like a dumb risk to take when you're at 4th and 10+. And yeah, I don't think Wolfe ever saw the signal.

I'm pretty impressed that not only did Wolfe manage to catch a ball snapped to him that he wasn't ready for, but he had the presence of mind to actually make something out of it. If the Packers didn't make a pretty good play there, Wolfe might've been able to make something out of that. Still...stupid. Yeah, Wolfe looked like a viable backup running back which is a nice development. Most of last night was a disaster but I think you could look at Wolfe, the secondary play outside of Vasher, and the D line was silver linings.

So I was watching the game in a bar with no sound (bad decision) and never got the full picture on the fake punt. From what I gathered Mannelly made a decision at the line to snap the ball to Wolfe based on the formation the Packers were using and the coaching staff, Maynard, and Wolfe never knew about it? That sounds insane.

Sometimes I wish college football and the NFL would come to a uniform standard for rules but I guess that gives each game a little cache. I would probably tweak the college OT system so each team starts outside of field goal range and makes it so you can/should use more of its playbook to score (when you start at the 25 it takes away the deep passing game and potential gadget plays) and I do think the NFL OT system needs to be modified somehow. I wish the NFL would do away with making PI a spot foul and change it to a 15 yarder and I think college should adopt down by contact. I hate when some crappy PI call on a near uncatchable ball becomes a 40+ yard play in the NFL and I hate when a college receiver lays out for a ball and can't get up and run with it. The two feet in vs. one foot in difference is fine.

I veto this because the Dolphins would lose every OT game. Let's go with an XFL-style race for the ball instead. For a more serious proposal I like the bidding for field position idea the best, but the coaches would absolutely hate it. . I could live with that. Hester's gotta be up there too. I think Ginn could probably beat him though. Chris Johnson as well.