I completely agree that the fans were well within their rights to boo Rex like they did. I'm not expecting him to make every throw but when he sails 10 yard out pattners to wide oopen receivers it's grating. Maybe he'll hit the easy patterns this week.
Nowhere near a Super Bowl team? By that I assume you mean they have little chance to make the Super Bowl (because any team that makes the Super Bowl is ostensibly 'Super Bowl caliber')? What powerhouses in the AFC do you see standing in their way? Pittsburgh is the only reasonable argument you could make for an AFC team that is superior to them. They are a very complete ball club. They have arguably the best player in football in Haynesworth, one of the best cover corners in Finnegan, a good head coach, a great offensive line, and two solid backs. Chris Johnson certainly IS an offensive playmaker.
To help avoid a blowout and make the head coach look better. If you have any interest in actually winning the game it's totally indefensible. If I were a GM I would fire a head coach for that garbage decision.
I thought Texas Tech's OOC schedule was an absolute disgrace. But they've definitely passed the eyeball test for me the last couple of weeks. And if they make it through the rest of the season unbeaten they definitely deserve all the accolades they get. They are a complete ball club and they have the best player in the country (by a significant margin, IMO) in Crabtree.
If Lebron doesn't win several rings and several MVPs by the time his career has finished something has gone horribly awry. He is like Jim Brown in the way he is so athletically superior to his competition.
Les Miles, in his wildest dreams, could never do what Peterson and Mendenhall have done at Boise State or BYU. I'm a lot more confident that those coaches could replicate Miles' success at a program like LSU. They'll probably get their chance (although the circumstances won't be nearly as cushy as Miles' were where a superpower was already in place--more likely they'll have to take over a down program like Tennessee or Washington) eventually. Les Miles couldn't turn Oklahoma State into anything more than a Big XII also-ran (even with the Boone Pickens lavishing money on the program).
Saban turned LSU into a machine. The best I can say for Les Miles is that he didn't screw up the recruiting after Saban left. I'm not crazy about retaining Crowton as OC either--he was awful as the Bears OC and pretty bad at BYU and Oregon as well. He's like Larry Coker accept Coker seemed like a decent man and not an insufferable douche like Miles is.